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Transcript 328B — Praying in a Doomed Airplane
HC: Good evening. Welcome to Open Forum.
CALLER: Good evening. If a person is on an airplane that is about to crash, and he prays to God because he's in fear, what would happen to him?
HC: Well, if the plane crashed, the likelihood is that he would die in the crash. Since he is unsaved, he will be resurrected on the last day to stand before the judgment throne, to give an account of his life. All of his sins will be examined, and for each sin he will be condemned to hell.
The fact that a man prays does not in itself prove anything. All kinds of people pray. The more important question is, have I abandoned myself to God? Have I placed my trust altogether in Him as Savior and Lord? That's what's important.
It's pretty risky, you know, to wait until the plane is going to crash to start praying. It's pretty risky to wait until I'm old or until I have been told I have a terminal illness, to start praying. Ordinarily, in those situations we're so busy with dying, we're so busy with our terminal illness, that we find it's impossible to concentrate on this matter of my sins and my relationship to God.
It's far better to follow the Biblical mandate, "How shall ye escape if ye neglect so great salvation?" "Now is the day of salvation," the Bible says. Now is the time to get right with God.