Far Too Many Are Living On The Edge Of Hell

Perhaps it was only missing church a little more than usual.

Then it was the neglect of Bible study and prayer.

In fact, they went for weeks or even months and never even talked to God.

Then they would begin to hang around their old friends and sooner or later, they would be smoking again, cursing again, and finally they would turn their backs on the Lord and go back to their old life completely.

These folks are living so close to the Edge of Hell that they could probably hear the screams of the damned souls if they would only slow down enough to listen closely.

But that is not the way things go, satan, keeps you so busy that you don’t have time to slow down.

How quickly we forget the warnings from the lips of Jesus that are recorded in His word…

Luke 11:23-26 (NLT)

23 “Anyone who isn’t with me opposes me, and anyone who isn’t working with me is actually working against me.

24 “When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, searching for rest. But when it finds none, it says, ‘I will return to the person I came from.’

25 So it returns and finds that its former home is all swept and in order.

26 Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before.”

Matthew 12:43-45 (NLT)

43 “When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, seeking rest but finding none.

44 Then it says, ‘I will return to the person I came from.’ So it returns and finds its former home empty, swept, and in order.

45 Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before. That will be the experience of this evil generation.”

Those warnings should act as huge STOP SIGNS for any Christian who begins to slip away from their relationship with Christ!

Many of us were caught up in lives that were hell on earth!

Some of you were into alcohol, or drugs, or sexual immorality.

God lifted you out of that slimy pit of sin that you were powerless to leave.

He set your feet on the solid rock and saved your soul from certain death, and yet we neglect Him and think that we can still make it on our own.

I don’t think that any of us really choose to not follow Christ.

Satan begins to come to us in our moments of weakness.

In those times of trouble, heartache, sorrow, or sickness, when we are hurting and need help, that’s when Satan will bring your old friends around.

That’s the time when he knows that you are most likely to stumble and fall and do something that you would not do at any other time.

The old desires begin to come back as temptation enters into your heart to convince you that just one puff, just one fix, just one drink and I will feel better.

Little do we realize just how far that one little thing can take us.

Sin will always take us further than we want to go and then leave us in the pits of despair again.

If we continue down that road, our whole life, that Jesus has been blessing, now begins to come unraveled.