Our pastor has been
teaching from John 1 for the past few weeks, one week we were looking at John
the Baptist in the wilderness. The one who would come before Jesus, who would baptize
people in water unto repentance. He was warning people, he was telling them to
repent, and he was telling them that the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of
the world had come. He pointed people to Jesus, who was and still is, the only
way to the Father.
Each one of us who knows
the Lord Jesus as our Saviour, should be a voice, warning people of the return
of Jesus, not this time as the Saviour, but as King and Judge. We should warn
of the judgement to come, that no man can escape from, aside from the cross.
John the Baptist knew how urgent it was to warn people, even so in these days
the urgency is more so. For those who repent and believe there is eternal life,
for those who refuse the offer of grace they must face judgement.
We are so much at ease
here in the West, we take everything for granted, even our salvation. But we
are to tell it out, warn people. If you saw someone walking toward a bog, you
wouldn't just say nothing because that was their choice, you would use your
voice and warn them of the danger, you wouldn't watch them drown. Christian, why
then are we standing by watching people head toward hell?
Jude 23
