TOO LATE? Why is it that with all of our history we learn little if anything from history? CONSIDER THE NATION! The people go from CHAINS to spiritual faith; from SPIRITUAL FAITH to courage; from COURAGE to liberty; from LIBERTY to abundance; from ABUNDANCE to selfishness; from SELFISHNESS to complacency (self-satisfaction); from COMPLACENCY to apathy (lack of interest); from APATHY to despondency; from DESPONDENCY back again to BONDAGE. "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people" (Proverbs 14:34). CONSIDER YOURSELF! Solomon, King of Israel, sums up the world and human affairs when God is left out: "A time to be born, and a time to die.a time to get, and a time to lose.a time of war, and a time of peace. WHAT PROFIT hath he who worketh in that wherein he laboureth? I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it" (Ecclesiastes 3:1-11). People are held accountable to God for how they act and how they react as they travel through time. Our attempts to rightly outwork the realities found in time without GOD'S PERSON and WORD leave us BOUND and BOTHERED, gaining little if any profit. So it is with mankind's profit and loss account. To every plus (being bom, getting, etc.) there is an equal and opposite minus (dying, losing, etc.); so the sum total is of no profit, only loss. CONSIDER THE PROFIT AND THE LOSS! The Lord Jesus said, "For what shall it PROFIT a man, if he shall GAIN the WHOLE WORLD, and LOSE his own SOUL? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his own soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of Me and of My Words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when He cometh in the glory of His Father with the holy angels" (Mark 8:36-38). CONSIDER THE LIVING GOD! "For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; GOD HIMSELF that formed the earth and made it; He hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. LOOK UNTO ME, and BE YE SAVED, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else" (Isaiah 45:18,22), "For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be SAVED" (John 3:17). "SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES; for in them ye think ye have ETERNAL LIFE: and they are they which testify of ME" (John 5:39). The Lord Jesus said, "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have LIFE, and that they might have it more ABUNDANTLY. And this is LIFE ETERNAL, that they might KNOW Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent" (John 10:10;17:3). GOD DOES NOT CHANGE. HE REMAINS TRUE AND FAITHFUL TO HIS WORD. It is not TOO LATE for you to receive the Lord Jesus Christ Who is GOD'S PERSONAL AND COMPLETE ANSWER FOR YOUR SOUL and for the good of society. The realities of time are unavoidable and are to be wonderfully PROFTABLE for the believing heart. Middletown Bible Church 860-346-0907 349 East Street, Middletown, CT 06457 Route 217 (East Street, Westfield) midway between Routes 66 and 372 SUNDAY: 9:30 am Sunday School - all ages 10:45 am Morning Worship 7:00 pm Evening Worship www.middletownbiblechurch.org Independent Bible Centered Christ Exalting Contact us if you are interested in a free Bible correspondence course. WEDNESDAY: 7:30 pm Prayer Meeting and Bible Study BIBLE LINE: Call 860-346-0021 for a timely message 24 hours a day. BIBLE LINE for CHILDREN: Call 1-800-368-1115 TOO LATE? Why is it that with all of our history we learn little if anything from history? CONSIDER THE NATION! The people go from CHAINS to spiritual faith; from SPIRITUAL FAITH to courage; from COURAGE to liberty; from LIBERTY to abundance; from ABUNDANCE to selfishness; from SELFISHNESS to complacency (self-satisfaction); from COMPLACENCY to apathy (lack of interest); from APATHY to despondency; from DESPONDENCY back again to BONDAGE. "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people" (Proverbs 14:34). CONSIDER YOURSELF! Solomon, King of Israel, sums up the world and human affairs when God is left out: "A time to be born, and a time to die.a time to get, and a time to lose.a time of war, and a time of peace. WHAT PROFIT hath he who worketh in that wherein he laboureth? I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it" (Ecclesiastes 3:1-11). People are held accountable to God for how they act and how they react as they travel through time. Our attempts to rightly outwork the realities found in time without GOD'S PERSON and WORD leave us BOUND and BOTHERED, gaining little if any profit. So it is with mankind's profit and loss account. To every plus (being bom, getting, etc.) there is an equal and opposite minus (dying, losing, etc.); so the sum total is of no profit, only loss. CONSIDER THE PROFIT AND THE LOSS! The Lord Jesus said, "For what shall it PROFIT a man, if he shall GAIN the WHOLE WORLD, and LOSE his own SOUL? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his own soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of Me and of My Words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when He cometh in the glory of His Father with the holy angels" (Mark 8:36-38). CONSIDER THE LIVING GOD! "For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; GOD HIMSELF that formed the earth and made it; He hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. LOOK UNTO ME, and BE YE SAVED, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else" (Isaiah 45:18,22), "For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be SAVED" (John 3:17). "SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES; for in them ye think ye have ETERNAL LIFE: and they are they which testify of ME" (John 5:39). The Lord Jesus said, "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have LIFE, and that they might have it more ABUNDANTLY. And this is LIFE ETERNAL, that they might KNOW Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent" (John 10:10;17:3). GOD DOES NOT CHANGE. HE REMAINS TRUE AND FAITHFUL TO HIS WORD. It is not TOO LATE for you to receive the Lord Jesus Christ Who is GOD'S PERSONAL AND COMPLETE ANSWER FOR YOUR SOUL and for the good of society. The realities of time are unavoidable and are to be wonderfully PROFTABLE for the believing heart. Middletown Bible Church 860-346-0907 349 East Street, Middletown, CT 06457 Route 217 (East Street, Westfield) midway between Routes 66 and 372 SUNDAY: 9:30 am Sunday School - all ages 10:45 am Morning Worship 7:00 pm Evening Worship www.middletownbiblechurch.org Independent Bible Centered Christ Exalting Contact us if you are interested in a free Bible correspondence course. WEDNESDAY: 7:30 pm Prayer Meeting and Bible Study BIBLE LINE: Call 860-346-0021 for a timely message 24 hours a day. BIBLE LINE for CHILDREN: Call 1-800-368-1115