Why Repentance Should Not Be Delayed
* The Impending Consequence Of Sin
You could die any moment and face a Christless eternity separated from God. Don't be a fool. The uncertainty of life should teach you to prepare for eternity. The impending consequence of sin (death) could happen to you any time.
* The Hardening Effect Of Sin
Ac 24:25 Felix was afraid and answered, "Go away for now; WHEN I HAVE A CONVENIENT TIME I WILL CALL FOR YOU."
But the convenient time never came. Like Pharaoh, sin hardened his heart.
Heb 3:13 "...exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin."
Sin is deceitful. It makes you delay repentance to another future time while all the time, it secretly and insidiously, hardens your heart to repentance. The conscience becomes so dead, the heart becomes so hardened and the point of no return is reached.
* The Deluding Outcome Of Sin
2Th 2:10 "...because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Persistence in sin and rejection of God's truth brings a delusion. Any moment conviction of sin may pass away and God may stop speaking to your soul by the Holy Spirit through His Word leaving you in spiritual darkness and opening you up to delusions that will damn your soul.
Many cult members are not victims. The false cults that they are deeply involved with are the very punishment of God Himself for rejecting His call of repentance.
