Far Too Many Are Living On The Edge Of Hell

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FAR TOO MANY ARE LIVING ON THE EDGE OF HELL

Sunday May 20 2007

The edge of hell is not the best place in the world to be living.

And yet that is where we find a lot of the people of this old world are living.

They have become so busy with all of the things that they are doing that they just don’t seem to care or much less realize how and where they are.

That is satans job to keep you busy and make you think that you are happy what you are doing.

My hope this morning is that you will see where satan has you and you will realize that it is time to draw closer to the Lord Jesus Christ!

Draw close, and stay close, for no one knows the day or the hour of His return.

Our text this morning we will be reading in,

2 Peter 3:9-16 (NLT)

9 The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think.

No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.

10 But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.

11 Since everything around us is going to be destroyed like this, what holy and godly lives you should live,

12 looking forward to the day of God and hurrying it along. On that day, he will set the heavens on fire, and the elements will melt away in the flames.

13 But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness.

14 And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to be found living peaceful lives that are pure and blameless in his sight.

15 And remember, the Lord’s patience gives people time to be saved. This is what our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you with the wisdom God gave him—

16 speaking of these things in all of his letters. Some of his comments are hard to understand, and those who are ignorant and unstable have twisted his letters to mean something quite different, just as they do with other parts of Scripture. And this will result in their destruction.

If there is one thing that I know, it is this: that God delivers men and women from the clutches of sin and shame.

Everyone comes to Christ in the same way, thru true repentance of his sins.

It has been said that the foot of the Cross of Christ puts every one of us, rich and poor, old and young, or educated and uneducated, on a level ground.

The Bible says in Romans 3:10-18 (NLT)

10 As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous

not even one.

11 No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God.

12 All have turned away; all have become useless.

No one does good, not a single one.”

13 “Their talk is foul, like the stench from an open grave.

Their tongues are filled with lies.”“Snake venom drips from their lips.”

14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

15 They rush to commit murder.

16 Destruction and misery always follow them.