WE ARE NOT FAR FROM THE BEACHES: And I love the many beaches.

The BIBLE says in Ephesians 5:8,

“FOR YOU WERE ONCE DARKNESS, BUT NOW YOU ARE LIGHT IN THE LORD.” Here we are reading about a “once” and a “now”.

The BIBLE is dividing mankind into two groups.

D M Lloyd-Jones says in his book “God’s Ultimate Purpose,” an exposition of Ephesians one,

“There are those who belong to God, and there are those who do not belong to God;

there are God’s people, and there are those who are outside his covenant;

there are the good and the bad,

the saved and the lost,

those who go to everlasting bliss, and those who go to everlasting perdition.”

And we can know now if we are going to everlasting bliss, or if we are going to everlasting perdition.

Let us also remember that we find those two groups in churches.

Many years ago I remember hearing a pastor calling into his congregation, “Here in front of me are sitting lost people!”

Does it take courage to say that?