Some days I wake up and my heart feels heavy. Then I say with Paul:
Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. Romans 10:1
Just like Paul, I have lots of family and friends and loved ones who refuse to obey the gospel. The devil has so blinded them that they have become complacent to the death sentence hanging over their heads. “Because, really, they remind themselves, there’s nothing I can do.”
If we reject God’s promises and refuse to obey the gospel, who is to blame?
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1 Peter 4:17
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 Thes 1:8
Proverbs 1:22-33
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn you at My reproof: behold, I will pour out My spirit unto you, I will make known My words unto you.
24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But ye have set at nought all My counsel, and would none of My reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon Me, but I will not answer; they shall seek Me early, but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
30 They would none of My counsel: they despised all My reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkeneth unto Me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Don’t be simple, don’t be a fool, listen to God, obey His Word, believe the gospel and live!
And don’t just take my word for it. Be like the people of Berea, who received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily, to see if these things were so.
And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Acts 17:10-11
There is no time to waste, your eternal destiny is at stake.
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