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“I’M NOT AFRAID OF THE DEVIL!”

Boys and Girls, our story today is about a boy named Joey who boldly claimed, “I’m not afraid of the Devil!” He was a born leader and often times he liked to impress the younger boys that he played around with, so one day he said, “I’m not afraid of the Devil…and I’m not afraid of Hell either!” “In fact, I’m not too sure there is one,” he said. Joey’s parents were Christians, and they were deeply grieved when they heard about Joey and what he had said. But not long after Joey had made his proud boast, late one night, Joey was out looking for some stray cows. It was during a thunder storm and where should he find them but in an old cemetery behind a church. It was hard to round up those cows in a dark place like that! Why, he couldn’t tell a cow from a tombstone in the dark, so he was glad when it lightened once in a while so he could see where the cows were. But there was one cow that was more contrary than the others, and she tool off in another direction and Joey swore as he had to run and chase her to head her off. And suddenly it happened…he felt like the ground just disappeared under his feet and he was launched into mid air! Then he started to go down and as he did, he thought, and a terrible horror gripped hold of him as he thought, “I’m falling right down into Hell!” He remembered that he had just swore before that, and he remembered the proud boasts he had made before the other boys…why, he thought that God was opening the very mouth of Hell and that he was going down into that bottomless pit! It all happened so quickly, but soon his feet struck bottom and the fear of Satan himself being there just added to it. But then he started to scramble out of that hole as fast as he had gotten into it. The next day he discovered that it was a freshly dug grave that he had fallen into! But it was a sobering experience for Joey and it woke him up and it really troubled him, for he really was afraid of the devil and he really did believe in a Hell, but he wasn’t willing to go there, so he said, “I’m going to trust in my mother’s Saviour and I’m going to be saved because I don’t want to die and go to Hell!” How happy his mother and father were when he told them that he had trusted the Lord Jesus as his own personal Saviour! Today boys and girls, if you will hear His voice, and harden not your hearts, but trust Him as your Saviour, then you too can be saved like Joey…the boy who once said, “I’m not afraid of the Devil!” If you don’t know Jesus as your own Personal Saviour, why not trust Him TODAY!!