05/09/25 DON'T WAIT, ACT NOW

05/09/25 DON'T WAIT, ACT NOW

Hope in Christ is the anchor of the soul.
Faith (obedient trust) is the cable that secures that hope.
Love (agape [ag-ah-pay] love) is the evidence of our connection with God. Remember, God said, love is the fulfilling of the law, and if we love Him, we will keep His commandments.
1 Corinthians 13:13
13 And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

God's word also tells us to build ourselves up in our holy faith, and to keep ourselves in the love of God.
Jude 1:20-21
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

We build ourselves up and keep ourselves by reading and praying, trusting and obeying, worshiping and praising, and by following Christ fully and communing with God and His people.
Hebrews 10:19-31
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Here are some of the steps Christians take in moving away from God.
They slip their spiritual moorings, which are, reading, praying, fellowship [with God and His people], walking in God's light, following God's leading [whether direct from His Spirit, His word, or His appointed leadership].
Ephesians 4:11-16
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

2 Timothy 3:16-17
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

They experience remorse and regret and sorrow for failure to do the right thing.
If their sorrow is not godly sorrow, they reject God's call to repentance.
They deny personal responsibility, accountability and guilt.

They drift further from Christ.
They begin to yield to contrary currents.
They resist and reject spiritual authority.
Their remorse and regret for failure increases.
They shift their guilt to others'

They reset their course adjust their sails.
They settle for, and then choose failure, darkness.

Even if they eventually come to their senses, and return to the Father, their life was mis-spent, and wasted in the pigsty of sin, self and Satan's will.

I have heard people actually say that God has specific time for people to get saved. They have the audacity and ignorance to claim that God does not want a person to get saved before a "hidden agenda" of a so-called sovereign. NONSENSE. the Bible says, NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME, TODAY IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.

Regardless of how much time you have wasted or lost, NOW IS THE TIME. The Bible also says, REDEEM THE TIME.

For one thing, you may wait your way to hell. Also, the sooner you return to Him, the more you will glorify Him, and the more blessed you remaining life will be. Don't waste, don't throw away your life. SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND, CALL UPON HIM WHILE HE IS NEAR.