PART 108
(copied from Mark Cahill's Book)
The Bible records (Acts 25 and 26) that Paul
was trying to persuade King Agrippa of the truth
of Jesus Christ. King Agrippa told Paul that he
almost persuaded him to become a Christian.
King Agrippa almost became a Christian that night.
You almost got a 4.0. You almost scored the
last-second shot in that basket-ball game. You
almost got that job. You almost won the lottery. There are a lot of "almosts" in this lifetime - but
no "almosts" in the next. You won't almost make
it to heaven. You won't almost commit your life
to Jesus Christ. You either make that decision or
you don't. One or the other. Your choice.
On the subject of "almosts" Charles Spurgeon said:
"There was a man who was almost saved in a fire, but he was burned. There was another who was
almost healed of a disease but he died. There was one who was almost reprieved but he was hanged.
And there are many in hell who were almost saved."
In 1st Kings 18:21 we read "and Elijah came
unto all the people, and said, 'How long have
ye been between two opinions? If the Lord be
God, follow Him, but if Baal, then follow him.'
And the people answered him not a word.
Who are you going
or Satan? Jesus wants
you to forsake all and
follow Him. Don't do what the people did when Elijah challenged them to come down on one side or the other. "They answered him not a word." They said nothing.
However indecision is an answer. It means that you will not follow the Lord. Please be a follower of Jesus - for your eternal sake.
Spurgeon also said: "We are lost willfully and willingly, lost perversely and utterly, but still
lost of our own accord, which is the worst kind
of being lost."
We are lost to God Who has lost our heart's love, confidence and obedience, lost to the church which we cannot serve, lost to truth, which we will not see, lost to right whose cause we do not uphold, lost to heaven into whose sacred precincts we can never come, lost, so lost, that unless almighty mercy shall intervene, we shall be cast into the bottomless pit to stink forever.
Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and
the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost.
next post 9th April
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