So Is Hell
I understand people get confused, that people struggle in their faith. I’m not belittling this. But to continue to live and conduct one’s life day after day against the very word of God, doing things one’s own way, is a dangerous game to play with one’s eternal soul.
In God’s word, He Himself left us the teachings and examples of what happens to people who live for themselves, where God has a place in their life just as long as He doesn’t interfere with what they do or believe. If God’s word objects, then they try to explain it off as old-time stuff not pertaining to today’s ways. Or they try and twist it so it will mean something else.
Why do people have a problem with a real Christian when they meet them? Because there is a conviction of the sin nature, and so people quickly lash. They feel a weight of what they’re doing, knowing it is not right somehow. But they would rather attack those and say they’re racist and label them to cover their own sinful nature.
God has given us His word to teach us in how to grow in His Son Jesus’ likeness, the four gospels, the writings of Paul, Timothy, Peter, and James. They all help guide us. But why is it when we get John’s writing to us in Revelation that we don’t care to know any more? Some avoid this last book of the Bible like it wasn’t even there sometimes. Revelation challenges us and makes us look at what is coming to pass in the final days; unpleasant things that have and will happen- and yes, it talks about hell.
Many can say it in a cuss word or make jokes about it or pretend it doesn’t really exist or watch TV shows or listen to songs mentioning it or making it like it is a fairytale place. But when a preacher begins to talk on the subject of hell and its judgements, we get a little uneasy. We want to hear about God’s love and His kindness. God is love, but He also is just and righteous- holy- and more concerned with most people’s eternal wellbeing than they are.
Heaven is for real, but so is hell. God has given us His word and Jesus to save us from sin. Jesus has given us the Holy Spirit to help us combat Satan, and if we follow Jesus, we will have our victory over Satan and stay out of hell.