The railroad crossing bell was ringing, the approaching train was signaling for the crossing, but the automobile on the highway did not slow down. A boy on the road, seeing the danger, shouted to the driver, “Hey, Mister, the train is coming!”
As the car flashed by, the driver yelled back, “Oh, I can make it!”
A moment later, screams, bell, train whistle and a grinding crash all mixed together—a sound that seemed to echo endlessly in the ears of witnesses. Eight lives were snuffed out—the result of one man’s inexcusable carelessness in his rush to save one minute.
We condemn—and rightly so—a man who would run such a risk. But isn’t it true that there are countless thousands today who are running a far worse risk than that? In the face of the clearest warnings of coming judgment upon this Christ-rejecting world, men and women carelessly disregard God’s voice and rush into “swift destruction.”
Do you know that this world is guilty of the murder of the Son of God? Do you know that God has never forgotten that tremendous crime?
Do you know that if you have never repented of your sins, you are exposed to the righteous anger of a holy God? “Because there is wrath, beware lest He take thee away with His stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee” (Job 36:1818Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. (Job 36:18)).
Turn at this very moment to the Lord Jesus Christ who in infinite mercy gave His life for yours on Calvary. He invites you with outstretched hands to come to Him for eternal rest and relief from your sins. He is ready now to remove every sin stain and place you forever beyond any possibility of judgment.