"Why is it that with all of our history we learn little is anything from history?
CONSIDER OUR NATION!
The people go from CHAINS to spiritual faith; from SPIRITUAL FAITH to courage; from COURAGE to liberty; from LIBERTY to abundance; from ABUNDANCE to selfishness; from SELFISHNESS to complacency(self satisfaction); from COMPLACENTCY to apathy (lack of interest); from APETHY to despondency; from DESPONDECY back again to BONDAGE.
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people (Proverbs 14:34).
CONSIDER YOURSELF!
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Solomon, King of Israel, sums up the world and human affairs when Almighty God is left out: "A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it" (Eccl 3:1-11).
People are held accountable to Almighty God for how they act and how they react as they travel through time. Our attempts to rightly outwork the realities found in time without GOD’S PERSON and WORD leave us BOUND and BOTHERED, gaining little if any profit. So it is with mankind’s profit and lose account. To every plus (being born, getting, etc.) there si an equal and opposite minus (dying, losing, etc.); so the sum total is of no profit, only loss.
CONSIDER THE PROFIT AND THE LOSS!
The Lord Jesus said, “For what shall it PROFIT a man, if he shall GAIN the WHOLE WORLD, and LOSE his own SOUL? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels” (Mark 36-38).
CONSIDER THE LIVING GOD!
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“For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; GOD HIMSELF that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. LOOK UNTO ME, and BE YE SAVED, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else” (Isaiah 45:18, 22). “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be SAVED” (John 3:17). “SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES; for in them ye think ye have ETERNAL LIFE: and they are they which testify of ME” (John 5:39).
The Lord Jesus said, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have LIFE, and that they might have it more ABUNDENTLY. And this is LIFE ETERNAL, that they might KNOW thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (John 10:10, 17:3).
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"ALMIGHTY GOD DOES NOT CHANGE!
HE REMAINS TRUE AND FAITHFUL TO HIS WORD!"
It is not TOO LATE for you to receive the Lord Jesus Christ – who is GOD’S PERSONAL AND COMPLETE ANSWER FOR YOUR SOUL and for the good of society. The realities of time and eternity are unavoidable and are to be wonderfully PROFITABLE for the believing heart. May you place your sole trust in HIM today!
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
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