IT IS THE LAST HOUR

LAST HOUR LOGIC TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: “Let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1). DAILY FIRE! The gospel is eternal: but we do not have eternity to preach it. The gospel is eternal: but we do not have eternity to preach it.  One would think that we had, when we view the leisurely operations of the church. We have only as long as we live to reach those who live as long as we live.  Today, over five billion souls are alive: alive in our present world, not in an indefinite future age that needs to be evangelized.  “It is the last hour” (1 John 2:18) To make sure that the prodigal son was welcomed home properly, the father ran! I also have wanted to run since the Holy Spirit charged me with this:  “It is the last hour.”  The world’s airlines have found me to be a good customer! One of Paul’s favorite Greek words was spoude, meaning “to stretch out the neck as a man running to get to the finish line.” It is translated as “study, be diligent, be earnest, hasten, be zealous, be forward.”  Many churches are very active: doing what?  To bring the gospel to a dying world is the true relevance!  Giving all our thoughts to our personal spirituality when the fires of hell have broken out is like members of the fire brigade having a shave before answering a fire call.  The command to evangelize is all that matters, snatching men from the flames of an eternal hell.  That divine command was not given in a passing mood of the Lord. God Himself is driven by the peril in which human beings stand without Christ. Calvary was His imperative!  “Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd” (John 10:16).  Run to be a soul-winner! Taken from Daily Fire Devotional: 365 Days in God’s Word by Reinhard Bonnke. Copyright © 2016 by Reinhard Bonnke. Use by permission of Whitaker House. www.whitakerhouse.com

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