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“To become a Christian is to accept an extra dimension in life. From the Christians point of view, the notable thing about the unbelievers life is that his world is so much smaller. The unbeliever is imprisoned in a decaying universe. Imagine if you will taking a small child to a theater to see some tragedy such as Hamlet performed. And at the end the stage is littered with corpses and suppose you had difficulty comforting the child afterwards, so distressed was he at the spectacle of all the deaths on the stage. But you say to him, the man who played Hamlet is not really dead you explain, he is an actor, he also lives outside the theater, he has a wife and family, and far from being dead, he is probably now at home with them enjoying a late supper. If there is one word Blamires writes that the Christian secretly wants to use to describe the unbelievers outlook, it is “literal”—like the child who takes the play for reality, that’s where the unbeliever is. He is in a temporary world that is full of death and difficulty and when the play is over it’s over, there is nothing else. How much different is our life with the Lord? We have an attitude which anticipates the changes and joys of heaven.”

1. As a Christian, you have been seized by Christ

2. As a Christian, you can measure your maturity

3. As an unbeliever, there is no prize, but a price to pay