Chapter I: WILL say to *my soul*, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up *for many

years*; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, *Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee*.

_Luke 12:19-20._

WHAT are you waiting for? To better yourself? This will be a waste of time, as we have learned that your trying and doing and working, will not even help to save you, but hinder you. Do you say, ‘there is time enough?’ How do you know it? God says:

*MY* spirit *shall not always* strive *with* man.

_Genesis 6:3._

PREPARE to meet thy God.

_Amos 4:12._

THEREFORE *be ye also ready*: for in such an hour as ye think not the *Son of man cometh*.

_Matthew 24:44._

WATCH therefore, *for ye know neither the day* nor *the hour* wherein *the Son of man cometh*.

_Matthew 25:13._

Illustration: Acts 24:24-27.

Excuses.
*There are Church members NO BETTER THAN I!*

That may be, but you can not save your soul by finding some church member who is failing to live as he or she ought to live. The more you look at them, the more you are apt to *be like them*, and if they are lost, and you are not saved, you *both will perish together*.

THEREFORE *thou art inexcusable,* O man, whosoever thou art that *judgest*: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; *for thou that judgest doest the same things*. But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. *And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest* them which do such things, and *doest the same, that thou* shalt escape the judgments of God?

_Romans 2:1-3._

*JUDGE not*, that ye not judged. For *with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged*: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. *And why beholdest thou the mote* that is in thy brother’s eye, but *considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye*? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let *me pull* out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? *Thou hypocrite*, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt *thou see clearly* to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

_Matthew 7:1-5._

SO then every one of us shall give an account of *himself to God*.

_Romans 14:12._

Account of “*himself*”, not his neighbor.

FOR we must *all appear before the judgment seat of Christ*; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

_II Corinthians 5:10._

You had better *save your own soul*, and try to help others than criticise them. If you know how, they ought to like, be a Christian and show them how the counterfeit christian proves the genuine, just and the counterfeit dollar proves the genuine.

You may as well argue “Don’t deposit money in a bank, there are men in the banking business that have embezzled. Don’t join the lodge or trades unions." There are hypocrites in every lodge and union in America. There are hypocrites everywhere.

*Remember*—When the Church goes through the Pearly Gates, those hyporites will be left on the *outside of the gate*, on *your* side, unless you repent, and you will have to spend *all eternity with them*. Would it not be better to repent, and live with them a few years in the Church, than to spend *all eternity* with them elsewhere? You must spend some time with those hypocrites, somewhere. Where shall it be?

SO then every one of us shall give *account of himself to God*.

_Romans 14:12._

FOR it is written, as I live, saith the Lord, *every knee shall bow to me*, and *every tongue shall confess to God.*

_Romans 14:11._

AND whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into *the lake of fire*.

_Revelation 20:15._

Take Christ as Your Saviour, a perfect example, and do not lose your soul through looking at inconsistent christians.

HE that *believeth* and is *baptized shall be saved; but* he that *believeth not shall be damned*.

_Mark 16:16._

*FOR by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves*; it is the *gift of God*; not of works, lest any man should boast.

_Ephesians 2:8, 9._

Illustration: John 21:19-22.

Excuses.
*My companions, Keep me from Christ.*

Great blessing awaits those who will *turn from bad associates*, but the curse of God is upon those who refuse to do so—Read for yourself and see—

BLESSED is the man that *walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly*, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth *in* the seat of the scornful.

_Psalms 1:1._

HE that walketh with wise men shall be wise: *but a companion of fools shall be destroyed*.

_Proverbs 13:20._

ENTER not into the *path of the wicked*, and go not in the *way of evil men*. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and *pass away*.

_Proverbs 4:14—15._

*MY son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not*. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: . . . Cast in thy lot among us, let us all have one purse: *My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path*.

_Proverbs 1:10—12, 14—15._

YE adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the *friendship of the* world *is enmity with God*?

_James 4:4._

BE ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness!

_II Corinthians 6:14._

By the help of God you can cut loose from the old crowd, and live a clean life—Begin now.

WHEREFORE *come out from among them*, and be ye *separate*, saith the Lord.

_II Corinthians 6:17._

Read: Proverbs 29:25; Mark 8:38; Matthew 5:11,12.

Excuses.
*I can not give up my EVIL WAYS!*

If you seek to know the Lord and trust In Him, He *will* give you power to overcome your evil ways. He has done this for others, *why not for you*?”