Image of the Beast (1981)

Wenda Shereos: Leslie

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• Billy : [about Heaven]  What's it like there?

  Leslie : Well, I made a little storybook for you. It doesn't have any pictures and it doesn't have any words, but it's the most wonderful story in the whole world.

  Billy : How can it be any, a good story if it doesn't have any pictures?

  Leslie : Let's see how it ends first. This gold page tells us all about Heaven. It's God's home, filled with brightness and glory. The Bible says that Heaven has streets made of pure gold like glass. No one is ever sick and no one dies and everybody's happy.

  Billy : Does everybody go there?

  Leslie : Well, God would like everybody to go there but there's one thing that can never be in Heaven.

  Billy : What's that?

  Leslie : Sin.

  Billy : Sin? What's sin?

  Leslie : It's when you and I do things our way instead of God's way. It's doing, thinking or saying bad things, anything that makes God unhappy. That's what this black page reminds us of; sin in our lives. When it's dark we stumble and can't find our way. And sin, Billy, is what separates us from God.

  Billy : What's on the next page?

  Leslie : This red page shows us the way God made for you and me to have our sins forgiven, or taken away. God sent His son Jesus from Heaven to take our punishment for sin. Wicked men nailed Jesus to a cross, and God put all our sins on Him.

  Billy : You mean all our naughty stuff?

  Leslie : That's right, our lies, our meanness. And the Bible it says the blood of Jesus is what cleanses us from sin.

  Billy : What color's the next page?

  Leslie : The next page is white. You know what that means?

  Billy : No.

  Leslie : It means we can be made cleaned from our sin.

  Billy : You mean everybody; my mom, me and David?

  Leslie : If they believe that Jesus died for them, they can.

• Kathy : How'd you get that uniform?

  David Michaels : Somewhere out there, ladies, lies a soldier in the mud, his only earthly possessions being his government issued underwear, and his RFD code in his right hand.

  Leslie : Did you kill him?

  David Michaels : I'm not sure. If I did, it was self defense.

• Kathy : But I went to church, I even taught Sunday school.

  Leslie : I know. I worked with handicapped kids. And all that's alright, but when we say 'I', 'I did this' and 'I did that' like I did. It proves we left out the only thing that really matters.

  Kathy : What's that?

  David Michaels : Jesus Christ.

  Leslie : That's right. You and I and millions of others like us tried to work our way to Heaven our way.

  David Michaels : Jesus said in John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth and the Life, and no man cometh to the Father, but by Me."

  Leslie : The Bible says it's a gift.

  Kathy : What's a gift?

  Leslie : Eternal life.