Back from the Brink! The limit - beyond which something happens or changes!

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Back from the

Brink!The limit - beyond which something happens or

changes!

LIFEon the

Brink!

Living

If you suffer from vertigo then don’t

look down!

It’s a scary place to be!

It’s a very scary place to be!

Right on the edge!

On the brink!!

It’s best to get back from there!

A World Cup Exit?

England on the brink of

The Chancellor

Ex Chancellor

of the Exchequer

Economically we have

stepped back from the

brink!

Politically we are warned that we are still on the brink and need to make huge cuts and savings!

Blatant immorality

Drink problems on a large scale

Children out of control

Drug Addiction

SOCIALLY we are living on a precipice!

Blatant immoralityLawlessness

Medically the experts tell us we are sitting on a ticking time bomb! On the brink of a health disaster! We need to step back!

Wrong Food!

Very little

exercise!

Scientifically we are warned that human existence is on the

brink!

Global

warming

Food

shortages

Comet collision

More natural disasters

Nuclear Meltdown

People gaze into their crystal balls and try to predict

what’s going to happen …….

Why try and guess when the Bible tells us

for sure?

LIFEon the

Brink!

Mankind is Living

But it’s SPIRITUAL disaster that many men and women

face!!

But they seem oblivious to the fact!

LIFE

Remember that there will be perilous times in the last

days. People will be selfish, greedy, boastful, and

conceited; they will be insulting, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful,

and irreligious;

2 Timothy chapter 3 verses 1-5

They will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent, and fierce;

they will hate the good; they will be treacherous,

reckless, and swollen with pride; they will love pleasure

rather than God; having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such peopleAvoid such people.

The Bible warns us that ….

It is a fearful It is a fearful thing to fall into thing to fall into the hands of the the hands of the

living God!living God!

The Bible says ….

Prepare Prepare to meet to meet

your God!your God!

By trusting in the crucified Christ!

How do we prepare to meet God?

There they crucified Him, and with Him two others, one on either side, and Jesus in the

middle. John 19:18

Two men on the brink!

Luke 23 v 33 - 43

•Two Rebels•Two

Responses•Two Results

Sinner

!Sinner!

Unrepentant! Repentant!

Perishe

d! Saved!

A famous high diver was feeling totally depressed.Fame and fortune had not satisfied him. He had

done many wrong things and was feeling so guilty!

He decided to do what he did best - to take his mind off things.

He climbed to the top of the high board!

champi

on

God has sent a Message too..

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For God so loved the world, For God so loved the world, that He gave His only that He gave His only

begotten Son, that whoever begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not believes in Him should not

perish, but have everlasting perish, but have everlasting lifelife

John 3 v 16

Have you

stepped back from

THE BRINK?

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