YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE!

Imagine driving home about midnight, and as you turn onto your street you see the neighbor’s house ablaze! It’s a 2-story wood frame house. The entire front of the house is covered in flames! You realize your neighbors are asleep upstairs and you run shouting “Wake up! Wake up!” You’re pounding on the siding.

As you run to the locked glass doors at the back of the house, Angry voices from upstairs bedrooms shout, “Go away! Leave us alone!” You shout louder, “NO! Your house is on fire! Get out!” You hear footsteps pounding down the stairs. They make it to the heavy glass doors. Black smoke covers them from the ceiling down to their knees. Neither you nor the people inside can get the doors opened. They are jammed! As you desperately search for a big rock or pipe to break the glass, you cry out, “ Help Lord! These people will burn to death!”

Your prayer is answered! Just then, you hear a “PUMPHP!” The doors pop open a couple of inches. You are able to drag the doors open about 18 inches, enough for the 2 coughing, sputtering residents to squeeze out the back door. They scream that a 3rd person is trapped upstairs! You try, but absolutely cannot break through the heat and foul-smelling black smoke to get the trapped man. He and the house pets perish in the heat and smoke and fumes.

This actually happened last year. My son Caleb was the rescuer. It still disturbs him that all his warnings and effort could not save that 3rd soul.

If you do not obey Jesus, and have a real love for Him, YOUR house is burning and you don’t know it! LISTEN to the warnings all around you! Jesus says, “Run to me quickly before you are trapped in your burning house…forever”.