KEY SCRIPTURE: Joh 15:22 KJV” If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.”

In our study for today, the Lord said He had given every word that He had to give to these religious leaders yet they hated Him and wanted to kill Him. He said they had heard the whole truth and were without excuse. They had not received His word to repent from their wicked ways. In the epistles, we have the following warning as well, Heb 2:3 KJV “How 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;” Please note that this scripture (Heb 2:3) was not spoken, to non-Christians but to Christians.

The prelude to this warning from the Spirit of the Lord was about the fact that the children of God hold fast to the truths that have been revealed or taught them, lest they lose it. The church in this modern era has received so much. We have the experiences of the early Church as cases to study, as well as the very present times. We have the benefit of the Internet and that uncommon privilege to travel into any meeting at any time, day or night, and at any location, without using a plane or ship, but from our mobile phone, laptop, or any other device. There is also a daily barrage of messages dished to us from countless sources. If in the light of all that we are been told, any of us should fail then we have no excuse. No one can also say, although all these means and sources of encountering the word of God were available, they still, did not hear anything. This would have been an unimaginable irresponsibility. If you fail to live right, then please know that you shall not escape.

In 1 Peter 4:17, apostle Peter also cautions us as follows” For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?” Now the serious part of this following scripture is if the righteous be scarcely saved….”  This verse implies that there is a standard of life that qualifies a man to be saved. What kind of life are you living as a child of God? One may ask, what is the essence of grace? The grace of God has brought us into forgiveness, and acceptance in the beloved, participation in the Holy Ghost with His illumination of the scriptures to us. All these and many more are to give us a platform to live excellently. If we neglect all these divine provisions and live like ordinary men, then, we have wasted the grace of God. The apostle will then say that the tendency for such righteous people to be saved is very slim. My brethren all that I seek to put across in this study is, in the midst of these abundant provisions, if you fail then you have no excuse.

THOUGHT: PROVISIONS NOT USED EQUALS REPROACH

FURTHER STUDIES

Luke 21:36 KJV “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.”

1Cor 9:27 KJV “But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”