Into Jesus's Plan

By Earnest Jones

Into Jesus's Plan is a short and straight-to-the-point book about a young man growing up and wondering about the mysteries of the heaven and the unknown. This journey takes him from his childhood and teenage years to seeking the whole truth in Jesus Christ way into his young adulthood. He starts his search for the whole truth in righteousness, which he is most familiar with. When he has an overwhelming spiritual experience, it leads him to ask more questions and carries him through several religious experiences until he finds the whole truth in righteousness in Jesus Christ into his adulthood. Earnest and his family's drives to church in the country would soon fade away, and Earnest began to face some challenges during his teenage years. He began to hang out with the wrong crowd and began to smoke cigarettes, use illegal drugs, and drink alcohol. Earnest began to break in and began to take things that did not belong to him and began to get in trouble with law enforcement. While his mother and sisters decided to start over and he began a new life for himself, trouble would follow. Along with the personal challenges that he faced during his teenage years, Earnest had questions about religion and a true Christian way of life, but would he find it?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638746119

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Into Jesus's Plan

Earnest Jones Jr.

Copyright © 2021 by Earnest Jones Jr.

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Table of Contents

The Days of My Youth

My Early Adulthood

A Brief Discussion on Prayer

Sing to the Lord Jesus and God and to One Another

Giving In to the Church of Christ Treasury Where One Is a Member, and Giving

A Brief Summary of the Unleavened Bread and the Fruit of the Vine, Not Wine

All Preaching Is Teaching, but Not All Teaching Is Preaching

A Brief Summary on the Second Coming of Jesus the Christ

Chapter 1

The Days of My Youth

Gazing into the heavens is what I would often do during my childhood, oftentimes wondering what heaven is like and what it is like to live there for an eternity. I often wondered as a child, who is Jesus, who shall come back one day from heaven and judge the world in his righteousness, and what is the Antichrist that is against him and his kingdom? I was brought up in the denominational religion, and it always brought joy to me to travel with my family out into the country to the church building. I would often get the chance to see a cargo train travel across the countryside or a crop duster swoop low overhead. After traveling several miles out from our small college and retirement town into the country, the church building would appear out across the rice, corn, or cotton field apart from any other building structure. A few more miles of paved highway onto a gravel road was a small farming community. Going over some railroad tracks and down through a dirt road would complete our journey to the building. The building was slightly elevated on a piece of land above the dirt road. There were some oak, sycamore, or cedar trees with bushes accompanying them, but other than that, it was mostly farmland as far as the eye can see. There were two outhouses on the church grounds and a small graveyard where some of the first members of the church and their families and friends were buried. I can recall going to a couple of sing-outs once, a revival, and some church dinners. Every year on Easter, all of us children would be dressed in our new attire and would perform what we called an Easter speech, which we had practiced on a week or two before, an d after the program, we would have what is called an Easter-egg hunt.

I always enjoyed hearing the sound of everyone’s shoe heels stomping against the hardwood floor when the choir sang. It would sound as if soldiers were marching into battle. Every now and then, my grandmother and some of the other elderly women would get what we called happy, and someone would have to fan them and hold them down. My grandpa was the superintendent of the congregation and was a short fellow who was sometimes stern in his speech. We assembled together for what is normally called Sunday school two or three Sundays out of a month, and for every other Sunday, we assembled for an entire service. It was a small congregation where everybody knew everybody, and if someone was missing, you would know it. Whenever I could during the programs, I would ease my way to one of the back pews, kick my shoes off, and stare out of the window at a cargo train or a crop duster in the distance. Many times, I found myself in a daze thinking about the mysteries of heaven and the unknown. If there is anything that I can remember hearing the preacher say, it was when I heard him say We are living in the last days! I took those words to heart, and they were stuck in me. And I asked myself, What does he mean, ‘the last days’? I wanted to block those words out of my mind and forget about them and forget about what I had heard, but I would have recollections of those words for years to come. Before this knowledge came into my hearing, I thought the world, as I knew it, would go on and on for ever and ever without anything bad to come into it (Ecclesiastes 12:1–6). Then came the thought that, whether I believed the truth to be the truth or not, the inevitable will still happen, and there is nothing anybody can do to change it (Psalm 117:2). The Lord God has given those to us who are at the age of accountability the choice to come or not to come into the knowledge of his truths. He has given us the choices to repent and be baptized or the choice not to repent and be baptized. He has given us the choice to obey the gospel of his only begotten son, Jesus Christ, and stay righteous throughout our lives or not to stay righteous. He has given us the choice to choose to worship him in spirit and truth and keep his holy word daily or not to worship him in spirit and truth, or not to keep his