How to use the tract Paths toward God by faith to witness the gospel of Jesus Christ.

When sharing the drawing remember it is art and as art it is meant for open discussion. Focus the discussion 1st about the drawing’s desired meaning about the many paths of faith towards God. Sahare how they all will lead to Jesus Christ as God of judgment holding the book of life with the names of all who believed in him. Then explain this was confirmed to be true by the many hidden images revealed with in it. These hidden truths were not placed there intentionally by the artist, but later revealed by others while sharing the artwork. You will see that all the images work together to confirm the drawing’s intended meaning is the truth. Then begin reading the map which will lead to the sharing of the Christian faith. Simply focus on the drawing's desired meaning and it will tell the gospel message of judgment and grace, and then allow the images later to further confirm the message is true. Share how these images seem to bare witness to the truth of the gospel story confirming that Jesus is God.

Begin explaining the meaning of the art while giving a brief walk along the paths of faith starting where Adam is praying; begin travel as you view the drawing like a map. Show all paths of faith point to the heart of the cross the doctrine of the trinity, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. If you are familiar with the Bible stories or the doctrine of trinity you can share them as you travel on the path of the Jewish faith from Adam to Jesus and if familiar with pagan or Islamic teaching share also. Comparing the pagan faiths belief in many gods to the faith of the chosen from Adam to Moses the Jewish faith to the promised coming of Jesus Christ, in the many prophecies he fulfilled as the Jewish Messiah made known by the Christian faith; the belief in the one God accepted as truth later by the Muslim faith and to all the world’s many faiths truth is made known. There is only the one God, the God of Abraham he remains unchanged as he is made known to the world today in many nations. The truth that there is only 3 major faiths in the world that believe in one God - Jew, Christian and Islam all come to the heart of the cross that reveals the God of the trinity his presence, because of Abraham’s faith do they all come. (Genesis 26:4)(I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.) This promise from God is being fulfilled today by the call of Jesus Christ a Jew born in to the seed of Abraham is being heard in many nations a blessing today a saving message of grace by faith alone. A message that is only being proclaimed by followers of the Christian faith. Begin sharing the true meaning of a Christian is becoming born again beginning a new life of change that is afforded to all people coming from every faith.

To become a Christian is to starts a new at the foot of the cross going straight up welcoming all men to follow with love by 1st having faith in Jesus Christ life, death burial and resurrection as God and man. That this faith will produce instantly in all believers the new spiritually birth born again baptize by the Holy Spirit, God’s very presence begin living with in the believer. Will begin to produce a repented life; a change in our thinking about the world and our relationship to God; begins a new as our desiring to please him will grow. This is the grace of God the Father that we can be saved by faith in him alone by God the Son to be forever saved kept secure by God’s Holy Spirit who guides us ; as he does all the work in us so it is God who gets all the glory not the man. So no man can boast. All is done by God through faith in Jesus Christ alone.       

Then we can make clear that the gospel of Jesus Christ is a message of love from God the Father to all men of faith. That he desires none to be lost. So he has made a way for all to be saved made easier by faith alone in his Son to escape his righteous judgment for sin by the sacrifice of the Son who has taken the punishment of man’s sins upon Himself. So that we who believe can know we are saved and can have faith in his word and promises that because He rose from the grave we can know His words are the truth. So important is the doctrine of the trinity to understand the relationship of love God desires for all men as a Father to His children. Discovering life’s greatest purpose is in knowing Jesus Christ is God this truth is key for every man to know God. To discover that we all are born in to the world lost because of our sin nature at birth. It takes only one sin to keeps us separate from God’s heaven; because sinless is what we must become to be receive in to sinless home of a sinless God.

For this reason every man is in need of salvation; to be saved from God final judgment for our sins the eternal separation in hell because of our sinful nature that is alike a growing cancer needing to be put away rejected. Or it will kill the entire body so is sin. Why we must be made a new creation alive now in spirit born again children of God’s Holy Spirit then we are seen as Jesus is sin less because of God’s forgiveness His mercy we receive His grace His Spirit. Then show the direction of arrows will go down the cross for all who reject the word of God his gift of salvation and truth revealed by the Father, Son and Holy Spirit at the heart of the cross. They travel beyond the abyss in to the judgment of all who follow the lies of Satan’s call that there are many paths toward God. Now their new reality becomes a eternity in hell of no peace no forgiveness by there own choice by their faith to believe the many lies and to reject truth of the Father's call to all men to have life by Jesus Christ his Son. Then proclaim as a Christian you must believe that faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God is the only path towards God is by faith is in the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.

We may not understand at first the Christian faith or the doctrine of the trinity but we are saved by faith upon hearing then believing and not by our full understanding. Now all believers will go in to heaven instantly upon their death. One at a time called by Jesus who knows personally all the names of those who have faith in Him written in the book of life. Using the map will assist in tells the total gospel message from Adam to Jesus and with the images being revealed further will confirms the message is true. The message is judgment and grace not about religion but about the truth of how all the follower’s of the world’s major faith will bow down towards God in Jesus Christ on judgment day. With Bible verse to prove this is true by the deeper meaning behind the images being revealed. That leads to open discussion about the simple yet peculiar art while not forcing or imposing our own Christian view. It becomes an honest and subtle discussion about a peculiar piece of Christian art that gives the full gospel message. Ideal for any honest discussion about the art that reveal with in it self the Christian faith is the truth about who God is. That to know Him is to have a relationship with him as a Father and friend and not a religion or faith created by men. Now give the tract to the friend and begin sharing the images. Allowing them to handle the art work and begin revealing in order the first images revealed and reading of the Bible verse with them; making the drawing come alive in a unique way as the images will proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord and God.

The 1st images revealed was a fish, the symbol of the fish was 1st used by Christians before the cross to identify that you where a Christian; 1st they were called followers of the way, and then called Christian in mockery to Jesus Christ who’s teachings they followed.(Acts 11:26 )Also in secret at times of persecution was the fish symbol used. To identify your self as a Christian. This was said because Jesus told his disciples they would be fishers of men. Today the image of the fish is use to openly proclaim the Christian faith alike the cross.  Jeremiah 16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.  Matt. 4:19 And he saith unto them, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

The 2nd image was a large head of a snake or dragon a top of the lake of fire that represents hell where no peace no forgiveness becomes the reality of every lost man and lost angel of God who follows Satan’s lies, will end. To willfully rebel against the will of God is the beginning of all sin and this is the definition of sin to rebel against God’s word and his will. Satan was 1st seen by Adam and Eve as a large dragon or serpent and the battle begins with a lie for he is the father of all lies. He hates all of mankind the saved and the lost because he knows we all are greatly loved and favored by God. The war is real and our enemy is the snake. That represents evil, rebellion sins and eternal death. Whose image reveals his single bite is death the final judgment for all sin, the bite has already been taken upon every child at our birth for we all will die because of sin’s fist bite because of Eve and Adam.

Genesis:3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?( Gen. 3:6) And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desire to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. Revelation:12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

The 3rd image revealed was a large fish or whale where Adam was praying now look likes a man in side the fish’s belly praying. This is perceived to be Jonah the Old Testament prophet in the Bible. The story briefly says that he was swallowed by a large fish for disobeying God; he was believed to be dead then receive mercy and life again 3days later once he repented for his sin of disobedience. He returned to preach the gospel of repentance and the mercy of God to a city that was condemned by God.  The people believed his words and the city of gentiles were saved. Jesus Christ said alike Jonah was a sign to the city so will he be to this generation. Now to day all the world  can be saved by faith in Jesus Christ’s call his teachings and believing that his life death and 3 day burial in the grave only to be resurrection on the 3^rd day from the grave to be alive  today is true. Fulfilling the many prophesies about his life and death. So that we can believe in his words and know that they are true. As the condemned city was saved by faith upon hearing the words of Jonah to believe in the warning about God’s judgments.

So do all men today receive the salvation call by Jesus that lead them to faith and repentance to be saved by Jesus Christ the God of mercy and judgment now as he was then. The truth is being made known to all generation of men about a God of mercy and judgment.

Jonah 2:1 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish’s belly,
Jonah 2:6  I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever; yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God. Jonah 3:10 and God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Luke 11:30 For as Jonah was a sign unto the Nin’e-vites so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

The 4th images was a woman pregnant ,lying on her back with hope written across her fore head as she screams ,it seems she is about to give birth and Jesus the word is written on the path comes from between her legs on the Jewish path to faith. This is perceive to be Mary  she was the mother of Jesus and by faith Christians believe the angel Gabriel told her she was chosen to give birth to the Son of God. She believed upon only hearing by faith. Since man’s beginning (Genesis 3:15) God promise to Eve that a child would be born to her to crush the head of Satan. It was always the only hope for the world was in the womb of a woman that by God’s promise one day a child would come. The war of sin will be won by God himself over Satan’s rule over men in the world, Satan beaten by the Son of God the Word is made flesh name Jesus and to God goes all the glory.

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Im-manuel. (which means God is with us)
Luke:1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall over shadow thee; therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.  
Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall  save his people from their sins.

The 5th image is a woman who just gave birth once you draw 3 lines through all the pagan faith you have the out line of a woman’s body. Adam now looks like a baby in the fetal position. With the mother and child about to be attacked by Satan the dragon. Here it is perceived that this is Eve mother of flesh that symbolizes all man kind is attacked by Satan beginning with the woman and child. But Jesus who Father is not Adam but; God our Father who is a Spirit being; will always have victory over Satan’s attack .Reason why the women are perceive to be separate. Mary mother of faith up high and Eve mother of the flesh down low. Everyone is born of the flesh in sin subject to Satan attack but only the children of God has victory beyond his attack, once we are born again  his children by faith and Spirit. God the Holy Spirit is now living with in us. We are like Jesus Christ now able to call God our father and friend, able to fulfill the promise made by God for man to have victory over Satan and crush him beneath or feet like Jesus our brother and God. And Satan trembles at this truth being made known to men so he hates every child born and unborn children of men. Who could grow to defeat him by knowing the truth so he attacks all of man kind saved and lost beginning with the woman and child.

Genesis: 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

The 6th image revealed looks like two hands on a mound of clay clasp together with clay between the fingers you don’t see the thumbs because they are pushed in side of the clay. This represents the hands of God (Genies 2:7) says man was made by the dust of the earth into the image of God. The original size of the drawing was 14x17 but now shrunken to a 8x11 standard copy paper you can trace your hand even to your wrist on top of the drawing. Making it interactive and seems to be purposefully design to be shrunken and used in this way. The image now seems to say to every thing seen and unseen are made by the hands of God through Jesus Christ Son of God.

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Job 10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
John 1:3 All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.
Colossians 1:16 For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all things were created by Him for Him.

The 7th image is the Father; most peculiar it is the side profile of a man even his Adam apple is visible. He has three locks of hair, as if in agreement with the trinity doctrine. As He speaks the Father’s word become living flesh Jesus Christ comes out. This is the meaning of the Son being equal to God being the word of God. Speaking for God because He is God. (This is the foundational belief of the Christian faith.) This image surly symbolizes the Father that as he speaks Jesus comes out the Word made flesh. Truth of the trinity doctrine revealed. Again all 7 of the images seem to proclaim in unity the truth of the Christian faith. The doctrine of the trinity and that Jesus Christ is the Word of God to be made flesh. Reasons why we can call him the Son of God; and that only by faith in Him is a man able to be saved on the paths towards God by faith. The Holy Spirit is revealed to be present in the artist and in the strangers and friends that revealed these 7 images unknown to the artist but are clearly visible now. By now most people are engage by the many images as they have slowly revealed the truth of the Christian faith; but still many will question the truth of the gospel message of judgment and grace . That’s when you are able to show them # 8 the most amazing  discovery as it further confirm the gospel message is true and the doctrine of the trinity evidence moves beyond the Bible pages.

Psalm 33:6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the word and the word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we believed his glory, the glory as only the begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of my self; but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

The 8th image is the very map of the old city of Jerusalem was found inside the drawing. You can out line the city’s walls that are just like the image of the Father’s profile. Even the drawing being separated in four quarters by faith at the heart of the cross is just like a present day map of Jerusalem’s old city. Also where the trinity is at the heart of the cross so is the holiest site in Jerusalem old city for the Christian faith, it mark the church of the Holy Sepulcher were the Crucifixion, death and resurrection of Christ is proclaimed. The map was seen as a match to the drawing on 12-27-98 by the artist while reading the Atlanta Journal Constitution Sunday paper seeing it he notice how it lined up with the drawing’s profile of the Father. It could easily be trace with in the drawing as if purposefully designed to do so. Now that the art is shrunken to 8x11 standard paper the map matches perfectly. This will really challenge everyone thinking about the truth of the drawing’s message. The truth that God has revealed about himself in such a simple drawing, that the very city of old Jerusalem can be seen is true. Once you have seen the match you will always see the city’s walls as the Father’s head. The definition for a temple is a place of worship by organized religions; Jesus says it is the body of a man when God the Holy Spirit dwells with in him. The temple also is called the region of a man’s head. The location of the now destroyed old city’s temple in the city of old Jerusalem was in the correct region of a man’s head located in the temple region, when this is seen you realized the old city must have been meant to be shaped like a man’s head. But  may have been forgotten over time but there is a sense of purpose with in the drawing design  to make this Known .Once seen as a man’s head the city seems to  speaks and out comes Jesus the Word and Son of God.

The 9th image revealed was when sharing the drawing with a pastor the pastor told the artist that the city is much larger now and not the same. That when the artist went to the internet satellite view on 6-9-2008 and was further amazed that the old city can be clearly seen and the Father’s image is even clearer from space.  Even the crack in the mountain of olive where Jesus is to split in two upon his return in the drawing is seen from the satellite view. Now the drawing not only has the map with in it to confirm the truth of the message but also the very old city as seen today can be seen from above earth by satellite view much like the drawing. Even the crack is shape the same as the drawing’s mountain of olive crack can be seen from space. With so many images all proclaiming in union that the drawing message is true even if some are still doubt full about who God is they have to agree that the drawing seems to come alive and should be shared. And that the gospel message that is proclaimed about Jesus Christ should be taken seriously.

The 10th images revealed I believe is for the still doubt full. Often some may say you have your faith and I have mine and I chose not to believe. When seeing their doubt always reply it is ok for even one of the original 12 Disciples of Christ was made known by his doubt. His name was Thomas it is where the phrase; doubting Thomas came from. Thomas said John 20:25 The other disciples said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. Jesus would later appear to him and show him the nail print and wound in his side. And once seeing it he would say; John 20:28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, “My Lord and my God”.

Now lay your hand on the drawing trace the left hand as the image #6 revealed, see how the wrist is clearly out line then point; to were the nail would go if a man was to be truly crucified in the wrist just under the hand. Not in the hand alike much of Christian art displays. Then remove your hand and see the nail print is in the drawing is were it should be were one God Allah Salvation is written which Allah means (Supreme Being) salvation is where the nail would go shaped like a nail print in the wrist of a hand.  Now begin sharing with them how God loves the doubter and unbelievers. Because some who 1st called him master and teacher also doubted, who walked with him and later many more who would fight against Him; all came to believe in Him. Realizing He was alive but had indeed died and shed His blood so that we who believe would be saved by faith in a man not seen.

John 20:29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed; blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

Tell them to be encourage for God loves all the believer and unbelieving. After showing this you can give them the tract as a gift and encourage them to examine it with the many Bible verse. There is also the Paths towards God by faith booklet design small to fit in pocket, it is ideal for witnessing tool to give as a gift and use because you have the images and Bible verse handy. Each of the 3 tracts where design with images and verse to make easier revealing the images when sharing the Gospel message.  And of course tell all you meet about the web site. That has more information about the Christian faith.  Begin sharing your own personnel experience with God and how your success in this life is all because of him. Being a witness of gospel of Christ is pleasing to God; helping him to spread the call of love to come to him through his Son. Now after sharing the drawing you can rejoice knowing that you have given the full gospel message in a simple discussion about art. Helping to full fill the great commission Jesus Christ gave to the faithful.  Mathew: 28:19 Go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. I encouraged all to share their faith. To the witness Jesus Christ as God so that no man will be lost, once he has heard the truth. Better to know that no religion will ever save any man only the truth does and all truth is God not religion. There is a joy in sharing the gospel message I hope this simple drawing will help other to take apart in this joy; by the ease that you can share the truth about a simple art work as truth is revealed.

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.