Why not a deathbed confession?

Q: Why not wait until your deathbed to turn to God?

A: Well first of all God calls us all to repent and obey the Gospel "today". So its rebellion to not obey the Creators command. 

But also...

1. When will you die? You dont know. You could be among the 160,000 who die today. 

2. Is eternal damnation worth the gamble that you'll live longer/long enough to have that opportunity? What if your wrong about your death timing?

3. If you hear the Gospel and understand the expense, great lengths God went to to make you right with Him, restoring you, and giving you a righteous nature to live right... if you understand the cost of redeeming you and the love of God towards you... why would anyone in their right mind put that off? You could live a life of love & joy in fellowship with God, have God walk with you in life and through hard times. You would have your Creator on your side and always doing what is best & resulting good for you vs being your enemy and being against you?

4. Living in sin harms you, and delaying means Jesus had to bear (your) those additional sins punishment on the cross...are you a sickophant? How could you let Jesus go through more for you than he had to. If you loved him you wouldnt do that. No one in their right mind would.

5. Plus, why live broken from the design for a human when you can be restored? Wouldnt it be better for you to just get right with God, today? It isnt like you wont do what you desire to do, (since) once redeemed you in your new nature will desire to love God and live rightly. 

6. Scripture is clear that God does good works through the believer... so He cant do good works through you until you are saved. And you cant do any either. Any supposed good works you think you do (now/unsaved) are just done in sin. Scripture says the unrighteous only always continually do evil and all they produce is wickedness and dirty deeds. Which is... only fit to burn. There is no value in it other than tossing into the fire. 

7. You are of no use or value to God in an unsaved state but also you are not storing up treasure in Heaven for yourself...if you remain as a sinner until your "deathbed".

That is important, as Scripture speaks of eternal rewards and your eternal position there "based on what you do/how you live" in Christ on earth. You want to enter Heaven as a broke pauper or do you want to live as lavish a life as possible there? It's eternal... so of course you would want to be way better off than a pauper! So get saved today (right now) and go live rightly. 

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