He that is not with me is against me. . .Matt.12:30
Satan doesn’t care whether you go to hell from a bar-stool or a church pew. In fact, sometimes it is easier to get there from the church pew than it is from the bar-stool. A person must realize they are lost before they can be saved and it’s usually easier to get a drunk to admit he is a sinner than it is for the church member. A. W. Tozer addressed this problem like this:
“Persons out of Christ often try to comfort themselves with the remembrance that they have never in their lives committed any really great sin. Little trifling acts of wrongdoing perhaps, but nothing of any consequence, so surely God will overlook their rather insignificant transgressions when He settles their accounts.
In the first place, a man’s status before God is decided not by the number and enormity of his sins but by whether those sins have or have not been forgiven, whether he is on God’s side or the side of the devil.
The soldier who mutinies is held responsible for his mutiny even if he does nothing more than stand up and let himself be counted among the rebels. His crime lies in his break with his superiors and his willingness to go along with the enemies of his country. That he performs no extraordinary feats of violence may mean no more than that he is an ordinary fellow incapable of great deeds of any sort for or against his country.”
