Life Saving

There's a stretch of the Outer Banks of North Carolina that's known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." That's because hundreds of ships have been lost there over the centuries. It was there that something called the United States Life-Saving Service was born. They established these white frame buildings called life-saving stations every seven miles along the very treacherous coast. The Life-Saving Service was a spawning ground really for heroes.  Never in the history of the Life-Saving Service did a drowning person ever come to the door of a station and ask to be rescued. In every single rescue, the rescuers had to leave the comfort zone of the life-saving station and go out into the storm to keep someone from dying.  Do you think that Jesus was teaching the same thing?

Luke 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Jesus did what? He came and went seeking to reach and save those that are lost. Jesus knew that there were people in this world that had no hope

Ephesians 2:12....   having no hope, and without God in the world: If you and I are going to help those that are in trouble then we are going to have to leave the comfort of our life saving stations. Simply because those that are need of rescue, sometimes don't realize it until it's too late. Back in the days of Noah while he was building the Ark there were those who saw him and also asked him questions about what he was doing. It looked like it was a crazy thing to be doing; I mean building such a large ship with no water around. I imagine there were those who laughed at him, called him names as well as made fun and light of what he was doing.  Noah kept building and telling those around him that they needed to be on board for God was going to cause a flood to come. When asked when was all this to take place he would say I don't know the hour or the day but I do know according to God's Word it is going to happen. When the big day came Noah and his family went aboard and a whole week went by and every day and night the door of that Ark was open welcoming anyone that wanted to come aboard; but no one came aboard. Then God shut the door. 

Genesis 7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. Here is what is happening in this day that you and I are living in there are those around us telling us we need to get our lives right with the Lord; that is kind of like Noah telling everyone to get aboard the Ark. Now there are those around you that may think you are kind of strange; they had the same thoughts about Noah. Now the day that the flood came and took everyone that wasn't on the Ark away; this is what is said about that.

Matthew 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  Knew not what? How important it was for them to be on that Ark. Now they all had a chance, so what kept them from going aboard? Could it have been peer pressure? They will laugh at me too, I will lose my friends. Maybe pride? What will others think; others might think I am becoming weak. They knew not...Noah may have looked like an old fool, that didn't know much, but when the day came Noah knew he had made the right choice to follow what the Lord had said. We must be careful that we don't make the same mistake for not one of those people expected to end up that way. There are many today that will end up the same way for they think that I'll just wait for I have plenty of time. Do you how much time you have left? You don't know do you? Don't gamble your life away!

Matthew 16:26....what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?