Carpenter’s Tools - Eternal Tickets . . . . .

By Pastor Wallace Phillips – June 7th, 2007

A lady in Phoenix, Arizona, has racked up 70 speeding tickets in the last five months. According to a Scottsdale police spokesman, Mark Clark, the driver did not pay any of them but instead just threw the tickets away. She told arresting officers she was speeding because she seemed to be late for client meetings all the time. Clark summarized, “I guess she’s got some time management issues.” She has worse issues than that. When asked why she had not paid any of the 70 tickets, the woman replied she thought nothing could happen to her if she didn’t pay them. She faces $11,000 in fines alone, and maybe some prison time. AOL news polled 33,000 subscribers on the story, and 95% of them thought the woman should lose her license.

How can any rational person think he or she could get away with failure to pay speeding tickets? They are all noted on the police books. They are not just going to vanish. But that makes me think, how can any sane person believe he or she can neglect so great salvation without paying the ultimate price for it? The Bible clearly states that all people everywhere are commanded by God to repent, and asks “how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?” The Creator warns that His Spirit will not always strive with mankind. Yet, like that Arizona lady, most folks just ignore all the warnings - thinking somehow that no accounting before the Throne will ever be necessary.

I imagine it is wake-up time for that Arizona driver. And one day it will be eternal wake-up for lots of folks who threw their eternal tickets away.

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