Smith, Harold: Great For Kids-How Hudson Taylor Got Saved

My story today is about a great missionary to China, Hudson Taylor. That's not about him going to China, but it's about when he was a little, when he was a boy, how he got saved. There was a time when he was about eleven years old that he, he grew more careless and careless about his soul salvation. He seemed to have to want fun and money and whatever it could get him. And, uh, when he was fifteen, he met some men who didn't believe the Bible were... was true, and he quickly accepted their teachings, and he was thankful to get away from the idea, the haunting idea, that he might die and go to hell. He thought, like so many other people, if he could forget about hell, it might not be so real. But, you know, forgetting about it and pretending that it was not real didn't make it that way. But God answered prayer. He had a mother and a father and a sister who had vowed they were going to pray for young Hudson until he got saved. One day he went home and he picked up a book that was lying around, and he started to read it, and before he finished reading that little booklet, he was saved because he read in that little book how that we were all sinners and how that the Lord Jesus had finished the work on Calvary's cross for our sins. He thought, what did the Lord Jesus finish? He knew he had suffered for sins, but what did he finish? Ah, it was the debt for his sin that he had paid. What else could Hudson Doeler, uh, Taylor do? The Lord Jesus had finished the work. He had paid the debt. There's nothing left for me to do, he said, but trust him and accept him as my savior. About two years later, he wrote a letter saying, I'm a poor, helpless, hell-deserving sinner, but I'm praising the Lord because I'm a sinner saved by the grace of God. He later grew up to go to China and, and preach the gospel and see many, many boys and girls saved. He was saved because he believed in the finished work of the Lord Jesus, and he trusted him as his personal savior. What about you? Have you done that? Have you seen yourself as a sinner, hell-deserving sinner, and seen the Lord Jesus as your Savior? And have you trusted him as your personal Savior and been saved? If not, why not do it today and be saved? Thanks.