Written by: Bob Flynn
1/18/2009 8:00 AM 

The seers of the splendid Gospel radiance are faced with a choice whether to enter into the obedience of its precepts and enjoy the affirmation of eternal life or remain outside its protective ramparts and be held captive in the darkness of eternal punishment (George Whitfield, Eternity of Hell — Torments; paraphrase mine).  For it was Jesus Christ who said, "And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will go into eternal life." (Matthew 25:46 NLT)

But what precepts are these that I must enter in?  By what gate do I travel?  The gate of Christ Himself!  In the verses that precede we see life given over in service of His brothers and sisters.  Lives presented as a living sacrifice (not for gain of the affirmation) but because of the gift of Christ Himself received within the vilest sin-darkened heart.

You would think that the promise of eternity alone would be sufficient to draw us near His bosom and sing the song of a soul set free!  But our inherited falseness like an anchor drags us to the depths where light is never seen.

I wish it were the comeliness of the Rose of Sharon that drew me to that lighted place where soul and mind are saved.  But it was the fear of the judgment and all their terrors pending for His sake kept longsuffering that caused my turning home.  Were it not for Grace pursuing me clothed in eternal hope, I would now be in the same chasm deep into which my paradisiacal parents fell.

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