Can You Be Saved Too Soon?

From: Echoes of Grace: 1944

• 1 min. read • grade level: 5

Can you be saved too son? Can you be happy too soon? Certainly, you cannot be out of danger of hell too soon; and therefore why should not your closing with Christ upon His own terms be your very next act?

If the main business of everyone's life be, to flee from the wrath to come, as indeed it is (Matt. 3:7⁷But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? (Matthew 3:7)); and to flee for refuge to Jesus Christ, as indeed it is (Heb. 6:18¹⁸That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: (Hebrews 6:18)); then all delays are highly dangerous.

The manslayer, when fleeing to the city of refuge before the avenger of blood, did not think he could reach the city too soon.

Think over this matter; put the case as it really is: I am to flee from the wrath to come; then is it reasonable that I should sit down in the way to gather flowers, or play with trifles? for such are all other concerns in this world, compared with our soul's salvation.

"God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Rom. 5:8⁸But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8).

"How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?" Heb. 2:3³How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; (Hebrews 2:3).

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