I USED TO THINK ALL PEOPLE COULD come to God anytime: believe, repent, bend their knee to this great God of the universe and thus, be saved. I used to believe this: the worst of sinners could be born again, born from above, right up to the very time they draw their very last breath on Earth. Not true…  Be careful here: they can be saved, all can be saved, if they choose according to God’s requirements and His alone…

Selah.

Beloved: we must remember sinners choose to be out of covenant with the very God who created them. They are not in agreement with Him, nor are they covered by grace. Sinners, my friends, will be judged by the Law.

Selah.

 

Hebrews 10:28
Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

 

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

 

Grace comes to those only who have humbled themselves; choosing meekness like that beautiful stallion being commanded from the tiny bit their master has deliberately tamed him with. We all are thankful that the thief on the cross confessed his need for Christ during his last painful breaths! That day he accompanied his chosen Savior and Lord to Paradise.

We must also think back to the ark… and be thankful God also gave them the choice.

Noah did not shut the door. God did… Can you imagine the pain and sorrow Noah felt as those outside saw rain coming from the skies for the first time as they began to see and feel Noah was right? Doubtless, they ran for that well-planned ark, scratching, clawing, screaming and begging for entrance! Did they get it? No! Why? It was too late for them…

IF THE WICKED MAN PUTS OFF CHRIST today
does he have the ability to know he will be living tomorrow? Who gives him his breath?

 

Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

 

Isaiah 42:5
This is what God the Lord says—the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it:

 

Acts 17:24-28
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.  ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

 

THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS!

PUT ON CHRIST!

Because: The Day Is Near

Romans 13:11-14
And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.

 

AND THESE SCRIPTURES IN ROMANS..
REFER TO THOSE WHO ARE ALREADY BELIEVERS!

SELAH!

PUTTING OFF CHRIST is the most evil of acts. The hardened man who sees the truth of his Creator and yet puts it off into the future may very likely die in his sins and so evermore be separated from the God he chose to put off…

 

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

 

John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.

 

DON’T DO IT! DON’T PUT OFF CHRIST!

 

2 Corinthians 6:2
For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.

 

And to my family, The Church, don’t take the gift of God, His Son, for granted! Cherish the blood, the body and all the many ways Christ Jesus bled for you and thank Him continually – as Apostle Paul tells us to pray without ceasing – thank Him and glorify the same! I want all to be with me in Heaven, knowing as God and I both want this, it won’t happen. But: it should have!

And, Beloved, I urge you to cherish this Truth that set you free – stay in the faith!

TRULY, TRULY: PUTTING OFF CHRIST ALSO COMES IN THIS MANNER: because it is not “…once saved, always saved.”

 

Hebrews 6:4-6
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age  and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.