SAVED

By Rick Mathes

Romans 10:13 for ” WHOEVER WILL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.”

Those that are helpless are hopeless. It is a lonely place to be when no one cares and there is no place to turn. I know; I’ve been there. I came to a place where suicide was the only option I thought was left open to me. I can’t describe what I call my dark side. It is terrifying to be in the midnight of self-destruction and the seconds are counting down.

Guilty! Guilty says the world. Innocent echoes the heavens. “I said Guilty!” shrieks the devil, “Innocent!” insists the Son of God. “I paid the price on the Cross; they are mine and mine alone.” Death stung Jesus and died never more to have a claim on anyone who confesses Jesus is Lord and live their life as though Jesus were Lord. It takes both our head and heart.

Sin is the venom of the Serpent that killed God’s Son and boy is God angry! The wrath of God has been building up for a long, long time and when He unleashes hit, you will beg for Him to have mercy on your greatest enemy. It will be more horrible that your worst drug infested nightmare for those who give Jesus the finger.

The misery and pain of the final solution in hell will be blistering burning, smoldering flesh that never ends with no hope or relief. It is not a good idea to refuse our Lord’s offer of salvation and confess that Satan is your lord. I would strongly advise against that position.

So many needless souls that are captives of alcohol, drugs and self; Can’t you see the depairing lives of those who waste their lives by struggling in the sinking sands of temporary thrills and counterfeit fun. The smell of stale bear and urine, the 3am leftover date, the blackouts and the shamed loneliness of the morning after pays the toll on that highway to hell.

The lost have no other name to be found but the name of Jesus. It is both the messenger and the message that resonates through the entire known universe. Neither Pope; Imam nor the devil can claim to be the way, only Jesus. There will be a hotter place in hell for all three by Paul’s very words when he said, “If anyone teaches you anything but that which we have taught, let them be anathema (go to hell)!

I’m sorry Rome, Mecca and Jerusalem but that is what the Bible teaches.