Now Listen Carefully

People in America today are so distracted by the devil's amusements, philosophies, religions and other deadly distractions and damnable delusions.  Now listen carefully - your eternal destiny is at stake.  You need to face the issue of your soul's salvation.  There are only two classes of people in this world today, saved and lost, righteous and wicked, blessed and cursed.  Which is your crowd?  There is no middle ground.  The lost worldling lives only for his next paycheck, promotion, partner, or party.  Jesus said, "He that is not with Me is against Me." It is impossible to be neutral with Jesus Christ, God Incarnate.  You are either His friend or His enemy.  God won't just keep putting up with anything from you; recompense is coming, His longsuffering will soon run out for you.  Sin is a dark and crooked path which sinners take of their own choosing which leads to ruin and destruction.  Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you far more than you ever want to pay.

Religion makes you feel decent while you're on your way to Hell; the Gospel makes you feel sinful and miserable and then shows your need of a bleeding Incarnate God. Repent or perish, receive Christ Jesus, or you'll have to go to the Lake of Fire. The world laughs at the word - Sin, but sin is no laughing matter.  Fools make a mock at sin.  Evil human nature doesn't want to be bothered in its darkness and love of sin.  What have you done personally with Jesus Christ?  His blood is on your hands until you trust Him.  If you reject Jesus Christ, you are a deliberate rebel against God Almighty, and God will only put up with so much from you.  There are some insults that love won't stand, and you've insulted a holy God all of your life by rejecting His Son.  You better tread carefully as you insult God's Son and do despite to the Holy Ghost.  Sinfulness, self-righteousness and sluggishness keep men from coming to Christ.

While you remain lost, all of the cards of the universe are stacked against you.  If you go to Hell, don't blame anybody, because God warned you.  If you wake up in Hell, take it like a man, because you knew better, you didn't have to go.  You have to intentionally kick over God's warnings and barriers to go to Hell.  You better watch how you act toward God and His Spirit.  The Bible is a holy book, and you are naturally bad and have a bent toward evil, and that's why you don't read or enjoy the Bible. You are against the Bible, because the Bible is against you and your sinning.  Rebel sinners don't like being told how to think and act.

You are either on the road to Heaven right now, or on the road to Hell.  That is a hard thing to get sinners to face today.  You can be as good as you can be, and yet still go to Hell.  Going to Heaven depends on how good Jesus is, not how good you are.  You don't want to take any chances with your immortal soul.  You will be not be here on Earth much longer.  You are only a heartbeat away from Eternity, and you have to live somewhere as long as God lives.  It is a terrible thing to be unsaved, and to be lined up against Almighty God.  If you haven't been born again by the Spirit of God, you are lost right now.  You can't clean yourself up; you must look to Jesus by faith to clean you up inwardly with His own Blood.  Education, religion, money or culture will not make any difference when it comes to your sin.

A man may be a kind, modest, refined, cultured, religious and respectable gentleman, but if he is not born again from above, the only thing between him and Hell is a heartbeat.  You need the Cross and the Lamb of God between you and Hell.  You had better not take any chances, and above everything else, you better play it safe with your soul. You don't have plenty of time.  Your chances of being saved are passing by every day you live. If you have the Lord Jesus Christ, you have everything that is worth having in time and Eternity.

You must die and face God, and a wise man prepares for the inevitable.  If you die unprepared and unregenerated, all your sinning, wasted years, and every wrong you've ever committed in secret will be brought up at the Judgment.  All you can do to prepare to meet God is to trust your soul wholly with the Lord Jesus Christ.  You don't have to die and face God all alone. It is the saddest thing in the world for a man to have a chance to be saved from his sins, and then turn away from it.  If you live this life and die without Jesus Christ, you will be an absolute failure for all Eternity.

Jesus was so misunderstood while He was here on Earth, and He is still understood.  Jesus was the Friend of sinners; He was so approachable; anyone could get to Him. You can get to Him today by faith in His atoning blood.  He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. *John 1:10*  But one day He was nailed to a Cross to pay for our sins.  The modest and pure Savior hung on the Cross naked in shame and disgrace, with a howling mob all around Him cursing and mocking Him till His last breath.  The soldiers that nailed Him were at the foot of the Cross gambling for His garments. Jesus died in naked shame, so you could have a spotless robe of Righteousness to wear in Heaven at the Judgment.  If you live in sin, love your sins, reject Christ, and then die in your sins, you will have to pay for your sins for all Eternity.

Every day you are gaining momentum on the downward road of your sinful ways, and it is getting harder and harder for you to put the brakes on.  You are wasting your short life on the devil and sin.  Don't put trusting Jesus Christ off any longer, stop playing around with your sins.  Stop messing around with God, Eternity, the Judgment, and the eternal destiny of your soul.  If you were to die today, would you go to Heaven or Hell?  If you die an atheist or a religionist, you will go to straight to Hell like a bullet.  Salvation is priceless; Salvation cost Jesus Christ His life; you cannot earn the forgiveness of your sins.

God is Love, but He is also Holy and Just.  God's Holiness and Justice demand punishment for every sin ever committed by you.  But God's divine Love provided a way out of the eternal punishment that your sins deserve without violating divine justice.  The LORD will never do wrong or overlook your sins in order to keep you out of the Lake of Fire.  God may have been merciful and longsuffering to you for many years while you have been sinning against Him and rejecting His Son, but you still remain condemned until you come to the Cross as a sinner.  God's Love is only found in Christ's Atoning Blood, and apart from that you are alienated from God, a child of wrath, and God is angry with you every day.

It was the Love of God that sent Christ Jesus, God manifest in the flesh, to the Cross to suffer the vengeance and retribution due to your transgressions. In order for you to be saved, and to be given the Righteousness of Christ; the Son of God had to bear your sins in His own body, and become the personification of Sin itself. *II Corinthians 5:21* All the curse and wrath of God that should have fallen upon you as a sinner, fell upon Jesus instead.  He suffered the punishment due to your sins on your behalf.

If you will come to God as a lost sinner under the condemnation of God, turning from your sins to Jesus, forsaking your own self-righteousness, and simply receiving Christ Jesus and trusting to His Precious Blood as the payment for your sins, you can be saved from the wrath to come.  If you are in Christ, you are under God's Love; if you are without Christ, you are under God's wrath.  *John 3:36* The Love of God sent Jesus to Calvary's Cross to die for your sins, so that God's divine wrath could be eternally satisfied.  Repent and look to the Lamb of God before death surprises you.

Now listen carefully - The Gospel is so simple that most people stumble over its simplicity and freeness.  Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ (God manifest in the flesh bled and died for your sins, He was buried, and rose again the third day), and you shall be saved from the love of sin and the wrath to come.  Ask the Lord Jesus Christ to cover your soul with His Precious Blood, and He will take all your sins away.  Oh, be saved today!