The Time is Now

God has given His people an unbelievable message, and “…how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard…” (Hebrews 2:3 NASB).  The time for faith and repentance is now:  “…for He says, ‘AT THE ACCEPTABLE TIME I LISTENED TO YOU, AND ON THE DAY OF SALVATION I HELPED YOU.’  Behold, now is ‘THE ACCEPTABLE TIME,’ behold, now is ‘THE DAY OF SALVATION…’”  (2 Corinthians 6:2 NASB).  Life is but a vapor:  “Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away”  (James 4:14 NASB).  Repent and believe:  “and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel’” (Mark 1:15 NASB).  Will it be you, who the angels in heaven rejoice because of faithful life-long repentance (see Luke 15:10)?  A truly regenerate person, will truly have faithful repentance through Christ crucified.  Regenerate sinners will truly preserve in Christ in the faith through life.  If someone claimed to believe once, and falls away, they never had true faith to begin with for Scripture says, “They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us” (1 John 2:19 NASB).  The elect sinner will continue to repent of particular sins, particularly.  And will it be you who the Lord Jesus says on the last day, “…Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world…” (Matthew 25:34 NASB)?  Or will He say to you “…Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels…” (Matthew 25:41)?  If a person is truly regenerate, that person will truly preserve in the true grace of God not using His grace as a cover-up for evil (see 1 Peter 2:16):  “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me…My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand” (John 10:27, 29 cf. Philippians 1:6 NASB).  There is an elect, and only they will be saved (2 Timothy 2:10).  Will it be you?  “They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household” (Acts 16:31 cf. Romans 4:24; 10:9 NASB).  Looking back on how Paul became right with God, he says: “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ…”  (Romans 5:1 NASB).