My brothers and sisters in Christ, God paid a high price for our freedom, so don’t be enslaved by the world. Choose! No one can serve two masters, either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You and I were bought at a price. We are not our own. We need to realize that our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and in me, and was given to us by God? Therefore, let us glorify God with your bodies.

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and I have scattered your offenses like the morning mist. Return to Me, for I have paid the price to set you free. Isaiah 44:22

Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. Isaiah 57:7

Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord God, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’ Ezekiel 33:11

“O the King is coming! The King is coming! I just heard the trumpets sounding, and now His face I see. Praise God, He’s coming for me. Happy faces line the hallways, those whose lives have been redeemed, broken homes that He has mended, those from prison He has freed, little children and the aged, hand in hand stand all aglow, who were crippled, broken, ruined, clad in garments white as snow. I can hear the chariots rumble, I can see the marching throng, the flurry of God’s trumpets, spells the end of sin and wrong, regal robes are now unfolding, heaven’s grandstand’s all in place, heaven’s choir now assembled, start to sing “Amazing Grace”.  I don’t about you, but I want to be a part of all this.”

“For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Therefore, keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come. My brothers and sisters in Christ, scripture reminds us, that, if the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So, keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. 1 Thessalonians 4-7

“But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them.”

“But the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. Make no mistake, the Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake and mine. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent. Consider also, that our Lord’s patience brings salvation.”

“Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them, and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them. I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places; I will do this, so you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, the one who calls you by name.” Praise the Lord!