Warning of Helll!

Week after week I stand before you and present the Gospel. What is the Gospel? The word Gospel means “good news”. 

The “good news” is that God loves you, He sent his son Jesus to die on a cross for your sins, after three days in the grave he arose again, walked around before many witnesses, and he now sits at the right hand of the father. In the “good news we find the formula to have a secured eternity in that “if we believe in him we shall have eternal life” (John 3:16).  That’s the condensed version of the Gospel. 

Now unfortunately for us to have a “good news” with must inevitably have a “bad news”.  The “bad news” is that satan hates you, he wants to destroy you, he wants you to join him in the ground, and be totally separated from the Father. 

Today we are going to focus on the “bad news” not because I want to but because it the Word and we must accept the whole word. 

Satan hates you and wants to destroy you. His purpose in life is to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10). 

Satan wants you to join him in hell totally separated from the father. Satan’s objective in life is to cause you to not receive the good news. He wants to deceive you into believing that you can live however you’d like and still enter in heaven and God’s presence. This just isn’t so! 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and Galatians 5:19-21 gives us a list and tells us that those who do these things “SHALL NOT” inherit the kingdom. 

Satan even tempted Jesus in the wilderness to try to separate the son from the father (Matthew 4). 

Revelation 20:15 says that “whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”

Hell is a real place that is designed to be a prison of sorts. Jesus speaking in Matthew (25:41) says it is a place that was designed for Satan and all the demons (fallen angels). It isn’t a place that was designed for you and I. But because of sin and an unrepentant heart it is a place where we (mankind) to will spend eternity. How do I know it wasn’t designed for mankind? Because 2 Peter 3:9 says that God wishes “that none should perish but that all should come to repentance”.  So why would he had made it for mankind if he wished that we all would repent. 

Hells is described in Luke 16:19-31. It talks about an unnamed rich man and a beggar named Lazarus. They both die and the rich man enters hell. Lazarus enters into Abraham’s bosom. The rich man was in pure torment and was crying out for Lazarus to drop his finger in water and drip it on the rich man’s tongue.

It also describes the great separation between heaven and hell; “And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.” (Luke 16:26)

Hell is also described in Revelation 20:10 as a place of torment. It is called a lake of fire and brimstone. 

People at the moment of our death our eternal destiny will be forever sealed! There will be no second chances! 

I want to close with the “good news”. 

As a child of God you won’t have to ever worry about hell or an eternity separated from God. 

Romans 10:9-10 says “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” And verse 13 say “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” 

I ask you “will you receive Jesus as you Savior and lord today”?