AMAZING GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS

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-The Message God Calls His Redeemed To Preach to those yet unredeemed

“But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord God, “ and not that he should turn from his ways and live? ...For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” says the Lord God. “Therefore turn and live!” " ~Ezekiel 18:21-23 & 32

One of the chief, grievous things about the life of the deceased Jeffrey Epstein, is not just his many years of extorting, trafficking, and molesting young women and children...but also that he did not accept the truth that God (up till his final breath) had not charged his sins against him. [see 2 Corinthians 5:19]

Jeffrey Epstein lived his entire life despising the "riches of God's goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering" not knowing that "the goodness of God" was to "lead him to repentance" [see Romans 2:4-9]
Brothers and sisters, this is the message that you and I must be preaching. God has called us to judge fellow Christians, [see 1 Corinthians 5:9-12, 11:31-32] to offer God's message of reconciliation to non-Christians, [see 2 Corinthians 5:18-21, Acts 14:14-17], and to longsuffer with both as He does. [see Galatians 6:1-2, Romans 9:22-24]

Particularly, our message to an unbelieving, deceived world ought not to be "Repent or Perish", for did Christ and His apostles preach, "repent for the gates of hell are at hand" ? Do we see them using that formula with a world that doesn't know any better? [see Jonah 4:10-11, 2 Corinthians 4:3-6] Our message, in accordance with God's statutes, ought to be: Repent, for you have been forgiven; Repent, for Someone paid a dear and costly price for your debts; Repent, for God has poured out the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering that is to lead you to it; Repent...not because God is wrathful now but...because God is good to you now. His wrath comes after a life of complacent, careless, hardened, rebellious, prideful, unrepentant, is lived out...yet while there is still life, He remains merciful and longsuffering, "not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance" and "who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge kd the truth." [see 2 Peter 3:9 & 1 Timothy 2:4-5]

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