04/09/14 I CARE, BUT NOT ENOUGH TO TURN BACK

04/09/14 I CARE, BUT NOT ENOUGH TO TURN BACK

Enoch had a wife and children (Methuselah, for instance). I wonder how they viewed Enoch? I wonder if they listened to Enoch's message or agreed with Enoch's faith? Remember, Methuselah is the oldest lived person in history, and he died in the year of the flood (uh oh). Did he die in the flood? If he died before the flood, did he die in the faith?

Noah had other family members besides his wife, three sons and three daughters-in-law. Were any of them living at the time of the flood? Probably. Which means that they died in the flood because of unbelief. I wonder what they thought of Noah for those many hundreds of years that he trusted God and preached righteousness? I wonder what they thought when the water started to rise?

Lot probably had other children living in Sodom (sons, daughters, grandchildren(?) and in-laws), when the angels came to destroy the region. I wonder what they thought of Lot during those days of moral and spiritual degradation that vexed Lot (2 Pe. 2:7)? I wonder what they thought of him as the earth shook and the fire fell and they were vaporized, as if by an atomic bomb?

Do I care what people think about me? Sure I do, but I care more if people are lost. And I care more about my own salvation. After night falls in a person's life and after the final curtain falls on the drama of this age, it will be everlastingly too late to change one's mind. Remember, it is not about me, but about the salvation I proclaim.