The Prophetic Warnings

A B C Part

By Bill Goetz CRF Team

What should you do to avoid making the eternally fatal mistake of failing to heed the prophetic warnings God has given? Ho w do you ensure your eternal salvation? What action should you take? The answers to those questions, which are the most important anyone could possibly face in a lifetime, can be summarized from the Bible in ABC fashion.

In order to accept the offer of God’s grace and His salvation you must take the steps of:

1. Agreeing

2. Believing

3. Calling

FIRST: AGREE

First, agree with God in all that He says in His Word, the Bible, about the fact that you are separated from God by your sin. Admit that you are a sinner who has broken God’s righteous laws.

Agree with God that sin deserves His punishment, because He is a just, holy, righteous God. Admit that you are properly under that sentence and that you fully deserve it in all its awesomeness.

The Bible makes these facts very clear:

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong. Habakkuk 1:13a

Nothing impure will ever enter it (heaven) nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful. Revelation 21:27a

All wrongdoing is sin. I John 5:17a

For the wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23a

The Bible describes three kinds of death; physical death (the state experienced when life leaves our bodies); spiritual death (spiritual separation from a holy God caused by our sin. A person can be alive physically but dead spiritually Ephesians 2:1; and eternal death (the fixed state entered into by the individual who dies physically while he is dead spiritually).

It is eternal death, in particular, which is the horrible result of receiving the wages of sin. The Lord Jesus Christ frequently described such a death as being eternal (without end) in a destiny which He called hell. He described hell as a literal place of judgment Matthew 13:42; a place of everlasting fire Matthew 18:8; a place of torment Luke 16:24, 28; a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth Matthew 13:50; a place of remorse Mark (;44-48; of bitter memory Luke 16:25,and a place originally prepared for the Devil and his angels Matthew 25:41. In fact, Jesus more often warned about hell than He spoke about heaven. It is not God’s will to desire that any person should be consigned to perish in hell 2 Peter 3:9, but rather that all should come to repentance.

But God’s justice requires that “the soul who sins is the one who will die Ezekiel 18:4.

So, agree with God, admitting that you are a sinner under God’s just condemnation for that sin and that you are in need of His salvation.

Bill Goetz CRF Team fro his book APOCALYPSE NEXT p 371-72