Have You Repented Or Are You Playing With Death?

In our day the people have raised up teachers to tickle their ears...to please themselves. The teachers preach another gospel. One without repentance, turning from sin. They do not warn about continuing in sin and the subsequent separation from God. Paul warns of this in the following passages.

2 Timothy ISV
1In the presence of God and the Messiaha Jesus, who is going to judge those who are living and those who are dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly appeal to you 2to proclaim the message. 

• Be ready to do thisb whether or not the time is convenient.
• Refute, warn, and encourage with the utmost patience when you teach. 
• 3For the time will come when people will not tolerate healthy doctrine,
• but with itching ears will surround themselves with teachers who cater to their people’s own desires. 
• 4They will refuse to listen to the truth and will turn to myths. 

Romans 6 ISV

1What should we say, then? Should we go on sinning so that grace may increase?2Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it?

3Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into union with the MessiahaJesus were baptized into his death? 4Therefore, 

• through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as the Messiahb was raised from the dead by the Father’s glory, we too may live an entirely new life. 
• 5For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 
• 6We know that our old natures were crucified with him so that our sin-laden bodies might be rendered powerless and we might no longer be slaves to sin. 
• 7For the person who has died has been freed from sin.

8Now if we have died with the Messiah,c we believe that we will also live with him,9for we know that the Messiah,d who was raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 

10For when he died, he died once and for all as far as sin is concerned. But now that he is alive, he lives for God. 11In the same way, you too must continuously consider yourselves dead as far as sin is concerned, but living for God through the Messiahe Jesus.f

12Therefore, do not let sin rule your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires.

• 13Stop offeringg the parts of your bodyh to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. 
• Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your bodyi as instruments of righteousness to God. 
• 14For sin will not have mastery over you, because you are not under Law but under grace.

15What, then, does this mean?j Should we go on sinning because we are not under Law but under grace? Of course not! 16Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—

• either of sin, which leads to death, 
• or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Friends, if we cannot obey these passages what will we do when tribulation comes to our nation? Do we really think we will be able to stand when torture and death are to be our fate if we do not deny Christ? Today is the day of salvation. We must repent and follow Jesus.

What if you face what the believers in this video faced and were tortured, raped and murdered? I hear preachers and people say "God will give the grace at that time". This is true for those who are following Christ in obedience, but if we are not currently doing that why would we die for such a faith that is so unimportant to us today? Even today we could find ourselves in eternity. Either heaven for those who were obedient to Christ or hell for the rebellious.