“Boast not thyself of tomorrow for thou knowest not what day may bring forth. What is your life? It is a vapor that appeareth for a while and then vanisheth away. My spirit shall not always strive with man. Seek ye the LORD while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. See that ye refuse not Him who speaketh from Heaven. How shall you escape if you neglect so great salvation? He that believeth not shall not see life, but the WRATH OF GOD abideth on him. What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? You have nothing worth going to Hell over, and you cannot escape God’s judgment in your own righteousness. What do you suppose God will allow to happen to a sinner who deliberately substitutes his own good works/self-righteousness for God’s Righteousness, Jesus Christ, and claims it has more merit than the righteousness of the only sinless Man who ever lived? If God let a sinless Man be tortured to death, what do you suppose will happen to YOU?
“Whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the Lake of Fire. The smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever, and they have no rest day or night.” Jesus will say: “Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels.” And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, pain, torment, shame, and contempt. They shall be “punished from the presence of the Lord” and the glory of His power with everlasting fire; where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched. In Hell, the rich man (Luke 16) lifted up his eyes in torment and cried, “send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame!” All the nations that forget God shall be turned into Hell; wherefore hell hath enlarged herself. Jesus commands: “Bind him hand and foot and cast him into outer darkness!” There shall be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. If God lives forever, how long will it take to pay for a sin committed against HIM?
Jesus said, “Ye will not come unto me that ye might have eternal life.” How often He would have gathered you as a hen gathers her chickens under her wing, but YOU would not! What will you say in the Day of Judgment when you see Him as a righteous Judge, when you have accepted him as a loving Saviour? What excuse will stand before the eyes of injured love, when you try to explain why you turned down a perfect Man, who loved you enough to die in your place? Will ANY excuse do? Pilate said, “What shall I do with Jesus which is called Christ? You can do anything you want to with Him, but five seconds after your soul has departed from your corpse, He will do anything with YOU that He desires, and you will be powerless to stop Him or influence Him. You will “die in your sins” and where He went, heaven, you will not be able to go! Why not bow your head this minute and receive Him as your Saviour? As many as RECEIVED Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe ON HIS NAME.”
You must willingly receive Him [Jesus] and His Righteousness. You say “How do I do that?” It is very simple. Wherever you are this minute (it doesn’t make any difference where), bow your head and pray this simple prayer: “Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner, and unless you save me I am lost forever. I come to you now, the best way I know how, and ask you to save me. I receive you as my Sin-Bearer, and trust you to justify me and present me faultless and righteous before God’s throne in the day of Judgment.” You say, “It can’t be that simple!” “But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise…” (1 Corinthians 1.27). The Lord has made salvation simple enough to be understood by a little child. “Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
(Matthew 18.3). IT IS that simple. If you pray like that, with a simple, childlike faith, meaning it from the heart, you will have made the greatest decision of your life – to choose God’s gift of eternal life! If you now receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour, don’t be ashamed, tell someone: “…Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.” (Romans 10.11).
