"I want none of your preaching," said a young skeptic to a preacher of the gospel who sought to convince him of sin. "I am not going to die; and if I were, I would die as I have lived."
Later on, when the physician informed him that there was no hope of his recovery, he exclaimed, "Oh, tell me I'm not dying; I will not die!"
"My poor friend, I cannot lie to you; your soul will, before long, be with your God."
"My God?" he exclaimed. "I have no God except the world. I have stifled conviction; I have fought against God; I have resisted my mother's pleadings; and now you tell me that I must die! Do you know," he added in a tone of despair, "all that this means? If. I die today I will go to hell! Take it back; tell me I'm not going to die."
To his father who was standing near his bed he said: "Father, you taught me; you led me on this way, and now you say I'm going to die. No!" he shrieked, "I will not die!"
A torrent of cursing followed these words. His poor mother had to be led out of the room while his father stood by his son's bed in agony.
How must that atheistic father's heart have ached as, in the midst of such cursings, his gifted son fell back dead!
Death leads the unbeliever to a place where there are no atheists. When hell is entered "atheism" is gone; there, too late, all believe and know that there is a God.
Be wise, and recognize the truth in time. God is, and your eternal interests depend on your relationship with Him. By nature and through actual sin you are His enemy, and there is only one way to be reconciled to Him.
God is infinitely holy, and sin is utterly obnoxious to Him.
Why not take Christ as your Savior now before it is too late!