Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Killer Storm - #8145

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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I’ve been in a couple of hurricanes, and I’ve heard a lot of hurricane warnings and evacuation orders before in the media. I never heard them say this before, “If you don’t leave, you will face certain death.” Well, that got my attention! That’s what they told the residents of Galveston Island as Hurricane Ike was bearing down a few weeks ago. Gail Ettenger was one who decided to stay. She moved from New Jersey to Galveston and she bought a house she loved with birds-of-paradise as pets (of all things). Well, her house had weathered Hurricane Rita in ’05, and so she thought she’d make it through this storm, too. The neighbors pleaded with her to leave; she refused. In her last phone call to a friend she said, “I really messed up this time.” She was one of 33 people who died that day.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and most of my life I have been trying to be a messenger of a warning that God has given to all of us—a killer storm that we cannot escape. ”Man is destined to die once,” the Bible says, “and after that to face judgment” (Hebrews 9:27 ). Because we’ve all broken God’s laws and we’ve hijacked the running of our lives. We all face the storm of God’s judgment—certain spiritual death—unless we get out in time through the escape route God Himself provided.

It wasn’t cheap. The Bible says, “God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish…” There it is. “…but have eternal life” (John 3:16 ). No wonder God asks this haunting question: “How shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation?” (Hebrews 2:3 )

Refusing Jesus is truly the greatest mistake we could ever make. We’d love to help you get to know Him. Our website is there for you. It’s ALifeThatMatters.org because God put you here to live a life that matters.

This radio program references: Hebrews 2:3 , 9:27; John 3:16