IF WE NEVER MEET AGAIN

On November 5, 1994, Ronald Reagan, a former president of the United States of America, in his last public appearance wrote a farewell address to the nation, informing the people that he had been diagnosed with an incurable neurological disorder disease, in which the death of brain cells causes memory loss and reasoning decline. In the address he wrote, “I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life.” Reagan gave his parting message earlier, because he felt he would not have another chance to say goodbye.
Like President Reagan, I have the necessity of saying what has to be said urgently, because of the uncertainties that filled our society today. So to you all listening to me this evening, if we never get to me again on this side of eternity, if we never get the chance to say goodbye to each other because it’s very possible that our paths may never cross again, then consider and remember these as our parting words to you:“The time is short: It remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And thay that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not, And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away” (1Corinthians 7:29-31). Time is short, whether you realize it or not; it speed on, and every passing moment tells us so.
Since this is a fact and reality of life, permit me then to ask you these questions: Is there a chance we will meet on the other side of life, in the city of gold where there’s no day or night, a city where there will be no crying, sorrow, pain, disappointments or any form of hardship? Are you living your life according to the dictates of God’s Word or of the world? As you go through this fast-moving world, where love of many Christians is reducing; sinners are growing worse and going deeper into sin; children are becoming hardened and rebellious; famine, diseases, wars and rumours of war filled the air; anarchy and oppression are becoming the other of the day; terrorism, kidnapping, ritual killing and all kinds of atrocities are everywhere, are you making plans for the hereafter?Let me tell you this truth, Jesus will soon come to take His saints home, and thereafter jugde the rest of the world. Are you prepared to go home with Him, or are you waiting for His judgement? The decision is yours to make; Christ is calling you to repent of your sins and believe the Gospel (Mark 1:15). It is not the will of God that anyone, including you, should perish but that everyone should come to repentance. Can I tell you that there is no sin too much or too small for God to forgive. He says in Isaiah 1:18, “Come now, and let us reason together…..though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Come to Him by repenting of your sins, and He will accept you, cleanse you with His atoning blood, and make you ready for His return. Please don’t delay or procrastinate! Repent now when you still have the chance to do so.