The Gospel is the good news of salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ,

but it is only good news to those who hear it.

Every believer is to go with the Gospel.

Today, we study with Scott Pauling what God's Word teaches about becoming a more

effective witness for Christ.

Through the years, I remember certain contest and competitions and sometimes even taking a test, and the scorekeeper

or the person supervising that particular event would say, time's up. And at that moment,

you had to stop whatever you were doing. At that moment, all the points were done. The score was

complete. In other words, you had your opportunity and now it's gone.

When you come to Revelation 22, the Lord Jesus said there's coming a day that time is going to be up.

The last time we studied, we talked about a number of things that will be no more when Jesus comes.

Lots of evil, wicked things will be no more.

That's pretty exciting to think about. But could I challenge you to think about the reverse of that

today? And not only will lots of bad things be no more, but lots of good things like the God-given

opportunities we have today will also be no more.

What are some of those things?

Listen to Revelation chapter 22, verses 10 and 11.

He saith unto me, seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

For the time is at hand.

He that is unjust, let him be unjust still. And he which is filthy, let him be filthy

still. And he that is righteous, let him be righteous still. And he that is holy, let him be holy

still. It's really a strange passage when you first glance at it because you think, wait a minute,

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