I'll Get Saved Later

Proverbs 27:1, “Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.”

While witnessing the Gospel, I have heard some people delay getting saved until a later time. Oftentimes when you ask somebody if they would like to be saved, they don't want to be rude or mean, so they'll just say: “I'll have to think about it some more, maybe at some other time!” I am always respectful and honor their decision, but I do encourage them to please get saved while they still can. Our text Bible passage from Proverbs 27:1 admonishes us that there may not be a tomorrow for us on earth, so we ought not take anything for granted. Life is full of surprises, both pleasant and unpleasant! 

Dear reader, if you are not a born-again Christian, you have NO FUTURE except burning in the fires of Hell! I hear fools talking about the inspired Word of God with utter contempt, doubt and speculation. You really have no idea what you're missing! Oh, it is wonderful to be a Christian! It is wonderful to be God's child! 

Have you ever seen someone die? I have. I'll never forget one summer evening in Chicago at Olive Park, downtown by Lake Michigan. I was fishing and saw a rescue helicopter flying above. I saw a team of citizen volunteers swimming through the lake, looking for something. I asked what was going on and someone said a man had drowned. They were looking for his body. After about 30 minutes a police Scuba team arrived and entered into the water, near the overhang platform above the water, where the man had jumped in. Minutes later they pulled his lifeless body from Lake Michigan. He was a middle-aged man, I'd say about 35. He was barefoot and his feet were puffed up in size. His body was swollen with water. Evidently the man had been drinking booze, jumped into the lake, couldn't think enough to swim, so he drowned! Paramedics tried to revive him, but couldn't. As all this was going on, I heard people laughing and having a good time, to my dismay! I wonder if that man was saved. I guarantee he didn't know when he woke up that morning, that it would be the last day of his earthly life! 

I remember reading a horrifying news story from Colorado in 2009, about an 18-year-old woman named Whitney Hendrickson, who stopped to fuel her minivan. She was just minding her own business when another vehicle crashed into hers, pinning her between the gas pump and her minivan. The gas ignited! As the flames moved toward her, trapped beneath the weight of her vehicle, she screaming: “HELP ME! HELP ME! I'M GOING TO DIE!” She did die, and I think about her horrifying fate with a saddened heart. It was just a freak accident, that could happen to anybody. That is how my neck got all messed up, from a freak accident, that left me with radiculopathy and stenosis. When I consider poor Whitney, I have nothing to complain about! She was young and beautiful, with her whole life ahead of her, but death came suddenly without warning! That is what Jesus meant when He warned in Luke 13:5, “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” Are you ready to meet your Creator friend? 

I have often heard people say, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life!” Yes, and today could also be the last day of your life!!! Today could be the first day of the last day of your earthly life!!! James 4:14,  “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” Just like a vapor from a steam kettle that appears briefly and then vanishes, so also is our time here on earth. If you're going to get married young lady, you had better do it soon, because you'll be an old maid before you know it. If you married couples desire to have children, please don't delay, because time won't wait for you. If you plan to lay up treasures in Heaven Oh believer, now is the time to get started, because life goes very quickly! 

And if you have never been born-again dear reader, Oh please don't out it off another moment, now is the time of salvation! It is easy, free and simple to be saved. Simply come as a needy sinner to the blessed Savior, and completely rest in Him, receiving His sacrifice on the cross as payment for your sins, believing that He raised up the third day from the dead. This is 'The Gospel' by which we are saved, to them that believe (1st Corinthians 15:1-4; Romans 1:16; Philippians 3:9; 1st Thessalonians 4:14; 1st Corinthians 1:21). 

Eternal Security is not a separate doctrine from Eternal Life. They are one and the same truth. The only kind of life that God offers is Eternal Life, not Temporary Life, not Probationary Life. For the Christian believer who now has Eternal Life, he also has Eternal Security! Assurance of salvation is based upon the promise of God (and not upon human effort or performance). I KNOW I am saved because God PROMISED to save anyone who believes (relies) upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ (John 20:31; Acts 10:43; 1st John 5:13). Titus 1:2, “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;”

“The ones who disappoint you, need you the most.” —Dr. Jack Hyles