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 THE TIME IS NOW

It is written in God's Word that, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." To paraphrase Tim Keller, fearing God is not being terrified of Him, but being taken up into joyful awe and reverence before the inestimable magnificence of God where our hearts tremble with wonder that we can actually know Him, being known by Him and to realize that in believing Him, He has taken us out of spiritual death into His very own eternal Life. He actually and eternally becomes LIFE in the believer.

"Sin merely shrugs at God (wrote Tim Keller). Sin's essence is failing to believe not that He exists, but that He matters. That attitude is deadly. The fear of the Lord and true self-understanding grow or diminish together. Indifference towards God is a form of self-conceit and self-deception. To feel no need for God is to be out of touch with reality -- such people have 'ceased to be wise.'"

The nature of sin is "claustrophobic and self-absorbed. (Tim Keller again)." It has been said that refusing to believe in God is a delusion that not even fallen angels, no demons ever embraced. Atheism is the ultimate cheat, the mindless arrogance of the finite who refuses to believe because he or she is too in love with their own particular idolatry and sinful lifestyle.

Time's ending will soon be upon us when the Lord Jesus Christ returns to judge the living and the dead. At that juncture, when time ceases to be, there will be no "time" to turn, believe and be born again as a new creation in Christ Jesus. Please listen. You cannot wait to the last moment on this. Turn to Him, turn from sin, receive what Jesus has already accomplished for you that you might receive forgiveness and new Life.

Please.

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