There is no better time to be saved than right now as you read this message. To hesitate or procrastinate could mean your soul’s damnation. Procrastination is the thief of time and remember your decision will determine your destiny for all eternity!

There was another man that Paul spoke to about the Lord Jesus Christ while is Caesarea. This man as Felix the Governor - the scripture gives us the exact account of this meeting. "And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning his faith in Christ. And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season I will call for thee." (Acts 24:24-25)

The scripture tells us that the Governor actually trembled with conviction for his sins when Paul preached to him. Notice Paul did not give him a sweet bedtime story, but he literally rocked Governor Felix into conviction by preaching to him about righteousness, temperance and judgment to come. Oh God - today give us preachers who are not afraid to preach the truth as found in God’s Word.

Here is the said part of this story, however. Even though Governor Felix was so moved by the spirit of God - he did not repent of his sins and accept Jesus Christ as his personal Savior. Foolishly he said, "When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee."

There is no record that he ever accepted Christ. Oh how said - and now over 1900 years later, he is still in Hell, a lost soul forever! No doubt both Felix and King Agrippa have talked together throughout the long years in their Eternal Home of Doom about the utter, absolute and ridiculous stupidity of their rejection of Jesus Christ and the way they gambled with their souls.

Oh sinner, there is no better time than right now to be saved for all time and eternity.

During the last few years, the liquor consumed that rapidly increased with more and more alcoholics dying each year. These people begin by social drinking and years later end up as hopeless drunkards. The world has dressed up the word drunkards to alcoholics, but the Bible is plain when it speaks of drunkards and their place in a Devil’s Hell throughout eternity unless they repent and turn to God. (1 Corinthians 6:9:10) (Galatians 5:21)

Millions of others gamble with cigarettes and end up as hopeless tobacco slaves with chronic coughs, tuberculosis, heart trouble and lung cancer. Thousands die each year from lung cancer because they gambled with cigarettes and lost.

What a tragedy that millions of enlightened, educated and civilized people should become slaves to such hazardous, body destroying and soul damning habits as these. My warning to every tobacco, narcotic and liquor user is this:

Repent of your evil and obnoxious ways, call upon the Name of the Lord for forgiveness and pardon. In return the Lord will liberate you from the powers of these evil practices. If you continue in your sin and are gambling with your life and soul, you will lose in the end.

Many years ago the late George Truitt, who was a great soul winner for Jesus and an outstanding Evangelist, told the following story.

When he was a young lad of about 14 years of age, George attended a revival meeting one night with a young friend of about the same age. When the alter call was given, a number of people went forward to the mourners bench to give their hearts to Jesus. George Truitt was one of those who went forward to accept Christ.

The next night, George urged his friend, Jim to also come to the alter to be saved. Jim was deeply under conviction, but he didn’t respond to the invitation. The third night the Holy Spirit worked in a wonderful way again, and a great conviction came on Jim as the alter call was given. He sat there with tears in his eyes and wept as George sat right next to him, urging him to go forward.

Jim did not go forward and as he got up to leave he turned to George and whispered, "Not tonight George, tomorrow night; not tonight, tomorrow night I’ll give my life to Jesus."

The next day in school George Truitt noticed that his friend Jim was absent. After school George ran to Jim’s house to see him. Jim’s mother met George at the door with the sad news. Jim was delirious and the doctor had given orders for him to be in a quiet dark room until he got better. As George tiptoed into the room, he heard Jim moaning over and over again in his delirious state, "Not tonight George, tomorrow night; not tonight George, tomorrow night I’ll get saved."

For 9 days Jim lived in this delirious state until he slipped into eternity and went out to meet his Maker. many times during those 9 days before his death, Jim would moan out the words, "Not tonight George, tomorrow night, not tonight; I’ll get saved tomorrow night."

On the night of Jim’s death, as George kneeled at his side praying for him, Jim repeated those same words and died. This event shock George Truitt so badly that it helped shape his life into becoming an evangelist for Jesus Christ and becoming a soul winner for Jesus. George Truitt used this story to win countless souls to Jesus, but at the same time his friend Jim is a lost soul in eternity forever.

Dear sinner, backslider and hypocrite, please take this opportunity to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour today. Please kneel by your bedside or chair and pray this prayer to God, from your heart right now:

Dear God Almighty, in the name of Jesus Christ thy son, I come to Thee now and ask for your mercy in my life. I am sorry for all my sins which I have committed against Thee and my fellowman. Please forgive me and wash my sins away with the Precious Blood of Jesus. I believe that the Bible is God’s Word and that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God. I believe Jesus Christ died on the cross for me and rose again from the dead and is alive forevermore. Be merciful to be a sinner, Oh God, please save my lost soul right now. In Jesus Name, Amen.

Now - lift your hands towards heaven in praise and thanksgiving - than God for His forgiveness and free salvation. Go out as a living testimony to a dying world and tell your family, your friends, co-workers about Jesus Christ and his wonderful love. Make sure to join a full Gospel church where they believe all of God’s Word. Join a church where they believe in the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues, a church where they believe in Water Baptism, by immersion for believers. Surround yourselves with people who live a Godly life, a clean and separated life of Holiness unto God and are zealous to win souls for Jesus Christ out Lord. Don’t ever be ashamed of Jesus, but confess His Name to those you deal with in your daily life. Amen.

"And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whatsoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever shall save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the world , and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and 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 and the holy angels." (Mark 8:34-38)