The Most Dangerous and Costly Thing You Can Do
I just read several articles on the Internet about the most dangerous things you can do. Some listed as little as eight dangerous things, while some listed as many as 50. One article I read listed humans as the most dangerous thing in the world. Nearly half a million people have been murdered in a year worldwide, but they are wrong; in 2021, there were 5,472,566 people dead from Covid-19 worldwide, making it far more dangerous than humans. Not one of the articles I read mentioned what I’m telling you today. However, according to statistics, of those reading this article, only 1 out of 11 will take it seriously and avoid “The Most Dangerous and Costly Thing You Can Do.”
There is something even more dangerous and more costly than Covid-19: The Most Dangerous and Costly Thing You Can Do iscoming to the end of life and not receiving Jesus as your Lord and savior. I hope you will take the time to hear me out on this before you decide. Dr. Adrian Rogers once said, “A time is coming when all the dreams and schemes men have sold their souls for will turn to rust, mold, and corruption. God will put the final period upon the final sentence, upon the final chapter in history. Then we will stand before the Lord,” –The most critical question you will ever hear is, are you ready to stand one day before the Lord in judgment?
What will be your excuse when you stand before Jesus in Judgement if you have not received the salvation of the Lord? Perhaps you will say, “I was not a bad person.” Your excuse is not acceptable: The only righteousness acceptable to God is perfect, and no one is perfect. “I just didn’t have time with my work and everything.” You had time to die. “But I didn’t know about salvation.” You had the Bible, churches everywhere, and the Gospel preached on the radio and television. You, my friend, have two choices; either you accept God’s salvation, or you reject it and trust in your way of thinking and beliefs.
I read this true story from a message preached by Dr. Adrin Rogers: “I heard of a young minister one time who came to a village town to be the pastor. In that village, there was a man who was a skeptic, a scorner, an agnostic, a pseudo intellectual. His favorite sport was baiting preachers, teasing preachers, arguing with preachers, ridiculing the Gospel. He could hardly wait ’til the new minister came to town. One day they met in the town square. This man, whose name was Burt Alney, met the new minister and he said to him, I understand you’re the new minister in town. Is that correct? He said, yes sir, I am. He said, Well I want to tell you something, my name is Burt Alney, and I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe the Bible is the Word of God. I believe that heaven is mere sentimentality. To believe in hell is a blunder and foolishness. I believe that you’re a pious fraud and an imposter, and I believe that all of the people who go there to hear you preach are hypocrites. The young minister looked at him and quoted a verse of Scripture. He said, ‘It is appointed unto man once to die, and after this the Judgment.’ Alney said, don’t quote the Bible to me. He said, I don’t believe the Bible. What do you have to say to that? The young minister said, ‘It is appointed unto man once to die, and after this the Judgment.’ He said, that’s no argument, don’t give me that, I said I don’t believe that. He said, ‘It is appointed unto man once to die, and after this the Judgment.’ He said, That’s stupid. I don’t think you know enough to argue. He said, ‘It is appointed unto man once to die, after this the Judgment.’ It so infuriated Burt Alney that he wheeled around, turned and walked away in disgust. But later on, Burt Alney gave this testimony. He said, as I walked home that night, I walked over a bridge, and the creek was beneath me, the frogs in that creek were saying, Judgment, Judgment, Judgment, Judgment, Judgment. And what that man had said so reverberated through my soul. ‘It is appointed unto man once to die, and after this the judgment.’ I could not get it out of my heart and my mind until I gave my heart to Jesus Christ. I pray God that this will etch itself upon your consciousness and reverberate through your soul.”
According to John 3:16-21, “…God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.19And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.”
These verses tell us the blessing of believing in Jesus, but they also tell us the danger and the cost of not believing. Those who believe not will perish, are condemned already, will not see life but will suffer the wrath of God. Jesus gave the danger and the cost of rejecting God’s salvation: “…cast into a fiery furnace into outer darkness,” “a lake of fire,” “an everlasting fire where there will be weeping, gnashing of teeth unto everlasting destruction,” Matthew13:50 (KJV).
Those are things we don’t hear too often even in the church today, but they are the teachings of Jesus. They indicate that God is not unconditionally going to accept everyone into heaven even though, according to Scripture, He desires that all be saved. Nevertheless, He leaves it up to each person to decide. Remember, we are not saved by good works, baptism, born into a Christian family, or anything else. There is only one way to God. Jesus was talking to Thomas, one of His disciples: “Jesus saith unto him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me,’” John 14:6 (KJV).
Many Scriptures show God’s will for people to be saved: “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God and there is none else,” Isaiah:45:22; “Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?” Ezekiel:18:23
God left heaven and became a man through the virgin birth. He suffered, was mocked, persecuted, hated, accused falsely, and ultimately nailed to a cross. He did that to pay the price for our sins that we may be forgiven.
The greatest danger and a tremendous cost is rejecting Jesus as your Lord and savior. You may gain the whole world, be the most famous person on earth, but if you die without the Lord, the cost is beyond your wildest imagination: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 37Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Mark 8:36-37 (KJV). Your soul is of infinite value. According to the verse above, your soul is more valuable than the whole world with its silver, gold, real estate, and everything else put together. How foolish it is to exchange the things of this world, which are passing away, for your eternal soul.
I read the other day a long list of movie stars that did not believe there is a God. They could be called “Hollywood’s Hall of fools.” I did not call them that. King David of the Bible did. Under inspiration, he said, “The fool has said in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good,” Psalm 14:1 (KJV).
The Bible also says, “For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God,” Romans 14:11 (KJV). Everyone will bow to God and confess Jesus one day, but it will be too late for many. If it takes you 10 minutes to read this article, that means during that time, 1,100 people will have departed this life without Christ and without any hope to face eternity. One hundred five people die each minute; 6,316 people die each hour; 151,600 people die each day: 55.3 million people die each year, all without Christ and without any hope. Why not Confess Jesus now while there is time and avoid the danger and eternal cost of not doing so? I was saved at 13 years of age and have not regretted it for one second. I want to show you how easy it is to come to Jesus for His salvation from the Bible. Please don’t put it off another minute: CLICK HERE.