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SUBJECT: No clear warnings about Hell.
Directly or indirectly the accusations have been, “Just because you got saved after hearing a fire and brimstone message about your eternal abode in the lake of dire, you are hung on the subject.”
I Plead guilty.
Since 24/7 caring for Joyce prevents us from worshiping three times most weeks at Park Ave Baptist Church like we did for over 25 years, I watch preachers on tv, a substandard substitute for gathering with Gods children. That includes watching DVD’s of Park Ave.
I only disagree on some interpretations of prophesy but not the fundamentals. Those prophesy points just motivate me to more intense study of God’s Word.
EXCEPT: They almost never even mention the lake of fire, hell.
It’s was so important to Jesus that He taught graphic descriptions of Hell more than heaven. The following is a study of some of His teachings about HELL.
HOW DID JESUS DESCRIBE HELL? No apology for redundance.
QUOTE BY UNKNOWN PREACHER. “When I was pastor of a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, "Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus." I said, "That's from whom I got my information about hell."
EVERLASTING TORMENT by fire, darkness and separation from God, the result of that ONE fatal Sin of CHOOSING to reject His love GIFT of salvation. He said: “And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness.” Matthew 25:30a “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.” And in Matthew 25:41b “…it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.” Mark 9:47b “I am tormented in this flame.” Luke 16:24b The punishment is so severe that it will only be clearly understood by the Lost-going-to-hell-Jesus-rejectors (study John 3:18) AFTER their physical death.
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT KINDS OF PUNISHMENT IN HELL?
In addition to the “Fire,” He described other forms of punishment:
THIRST: In hell the lost man prayed that the saved man would be permitted to: “…dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue…;” Luke 16:24b
EVERLASTING: Jesus teaches “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: Matthew 25:46a Children of satan will suffer forever.
Revelation confirms hell in 20:10: "And the devil … was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone… and they will be TORMENTED day and night forever and ever".
TORMENTS - Jesus teaches about hell in Luke 16:23a ….And in hell … being in TORMENTS.” Have you smelled burning sulphur (brimstone) burn? Jesus inspired John to write in Rev 4:11...shall be TORMENTED with fire and brimstone….forever and ever.”
MEMORY: “...remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst….” From Luke 16:25 It appears that the lost in hell will remember each time they CHOSE to reject Jesus. That in itself would be excruciating TORMENT as they lament, “If only I had trusted Jesus.”
DARKNESS: In Matthew 8:12 Jesus said, “But the children of the kingdom (unbelieving Jews) shall be cast out into outer darkness…” Imagine feeling fire in total darkness!!! In Jude 13, “...for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever." Jude 13 How can fire burn in total darkness? Only God knows. Human intelligence can’t explain.
WORM EATEN: “Where their worm dieth not.” Jesus said in Mark 9:48a Like a gnawing worm, a maggot, the conscience of the lost in hell will never rest.
CONSCIOUSNESS Jesus said in Luke 16:23 “….in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in TORMENTS, and seeth …Lazarus.”
SEPARATION FROM GOD: Many believe that “separation from God…from the presence of the Lord…” is the most severe punishment in hell since in 2 Thess 1:8 “In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not (reject) God… 1:9 Who shall be punished with EVERLASTING destruction from the presence of the Lord…” BUT, Revelation 14:10b-11a tells us that Jesus will be supervising the punishment of those that rejected His love gift of salvation who “… shall TORMENTED with fire and brimstone… in the presence of the Lamb (Jesus): The lost-Jesus-rejecters will be TORMENTED forever by the stench of burning sulfur. And since He is omnipresent, “...in the presence of the Lamb…”, Jesus.
True! Separation of our eternal spirits from God’s love, God’s Mercy and God’s Grace WILL be the most severe punishment PLUS those who choose to be lost-going-to-hell-Jesus-rejectors “...shall be TORMENTED with fire and brimstone ……in the presence of the Lamb (Jesus): who administers God’s wrath upon those who persisted in CHOOSING to reject Jesus’ love GIFT of salvation until physical death separated their outer-man of their physical body from their inner-man of their spirit. Jesus defined the physical and spiritual parts of a human in John 3:6 “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
DID JESUS TEACH ABOUT HELL - A PLACE OF ETERNAL TORMENT?
Yes. Jesus spoke more about hell than heaven. Hell IS a place of everlasting TORMENT, where those who chose to reject Jesus are TORMENTED in both their resurrected bodies and their minds only because of their one fatal Sin of choosing to reject Jesus’ love GIFT of salvation and choosing to defy God who will determine man’s reward in heaven or their degrees of punishment in hell as described in Romans 2:5-6 “After thy hardness and impenitent heart treasure up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgement of God who will render to every man according to his deeds.” You who have rejected Jesus are constantly choosing eternal punishment by your repeated rejection of His love GIFT of salvation. At His final judgment of the lost, at the Revelation 20 Great White Throne, Jesus will sentence all who have CHOSEN to be lost Jesus rejectors, “...according to his deeds…”, which will result in supplementary degrees of punishment in the hotter part of hell.
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT HOW THOSE WHO chose TO REJECT HIM WILL EXPRESS THEMSELVES FROM HELL DURING ETERNITY?
PRAYING for water: “And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am TORMENTED in this flame.” Luke 16:24 How much relief would a finger tip of water be? Not much but, ANY water, even one drop to “...cool my tongue…” would be welcome.
PRAYING for his brothers: “Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father [Abraham] [To late to pray to God], that thou wouldest send him (Lararus) to my father's house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of TORMENT.” Jesus constantly repeats, “TORMENT”. The occupants of hell constantly PRAY that no one else will join them there.
WEEPING: Jesus speaking of lost Jews, “But the children of the kingdom (Jews) shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 8:12 “And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 13:42 Then, Jesus repeated it for emphasis in Matthew 22:13b “...there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Suffering during eternity in hell is far beyond human comprehension.
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT DEGREES OF PUNISHMENT IN HELL!
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the GREATER damnation. Matthew 23:14 Those GREATER damnation words of Jesus were repeated in Mark 10 and Luke 20.
Teaching people who “repented not”, in Matthew 11 Jesus said, “22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.” The cities of Tyre and Sidon were destroyed because of their exceeding sinfulness. 24 "Nevertheless I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you." Matthew 11:24 Since a Holy God could not tolerate their homosexual and licentious lifestyles, He removed those cities from the earth. As wicked at they were, their degree of punishment will be more tolerable, a slightly lesser degree of punishment.
Speaking of Judas, the disciple who betrayed him, Jesus said, “…he that delivered Me unto thee hath the greater sin.” John 19:11b
Revelation 20:12b confirms that at Jesus’ White Throne Judgment the works of those that chose to be Jesus rejectors will be “…judged out of those things which were written in the (God’s record) books, according to their works.”
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT THE ACTIONS OF LOST-GOING-TO-HELL-JESUS-REJECTORS THAT REVEAL THEIR CONDITION TO THOSE WHO WATCH THEIR LIFESTYLE?
About lost-going-to-hell scribes, super-religionists, Jesus said, “Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; Which devour [steal] widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation .” Luke 20:46-47 “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:20 Speaking in Matthew 23:14 to “…scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer:” Jesus labeled them “serpents…vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” Matthew 23:33
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT “WHO ” WILL BE IN HELL?
Excerpts from Matthew 25: 32 “…before Him (Jesus) shall be gathered all nations and He shall separate 33 sheep on His right hand, but the goats (nations who reject Jesus) on the LEFT .” 41 “Then shall He say also unto them on the LEFT hand, Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.” Having trusted only his wealth, “The rich man also died and was buried. And in hell he lift up his eyes…” Luke 16:22b-23a All Jesus rejector s who CHOOSE to “…believeth NOT is condemned already…John 3:18b will populate hell.
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT “FIRE” IN HELL?
Jesus said: “…whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.” Matthew 5:22b “...cast into the fire” Matthew 7:19b “...to be cast into everlasting fire.” Matthew 18:8c “…to be cast into hell fire.” Matthew 18:9c “As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.” Matthew 13:40 “And shall cast them into a furnace of fire:” Matthew 13:42 “And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.” Jesus reiterated for emphasis in 13:50 “...rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.” Matthew 18:9b “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire…” Matthew 25:41b “….go into hell, into the fire that NEVER shall be quenched:” Mark 9:43 “...Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.” Matthew 5:44b “…be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:” 45b “Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.” 46 “…to be cast into hell fire: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.” Mark 9:47b-48 “And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.” Luke 16:24 Jesus explaining that story about real people concluded, “…in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 13:40a-42
Why did Jesus repeat it so many times? To prevent anyone from ignoring or diminishing the awfulness of the fire in hell, Jesus confirmed and reconfirmed that hell IS “fire”. He described hell fire so vividly that no one could read His words and fail to comprehend what hell is like.
In Rev 20:15, Jesus inspired John to write, “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” And in 21:8b “…shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Sulphur (brimstone) must be heated to 832 degrees for it to form a lake.
JESUS SAID THAT HELL IS REAL
“And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.” Matthew 5:29 -30
“And cast ye the unprofitable servant into (hell) outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 25:30 “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.” 25:41b “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the [all who accept Jesus’] righteous into life eternal.” Matthew 25:46 Here, Jesus uses three phrases to describe hell, outer darkness, everlasting fire, & everlasting punishment.
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT “HOW TO AVOID” HELL?
It has been said that, “In the next 24 hours 146,880 people will die with 141,984 (98%) going to hell. That is 99 every minute.”
What does a child-of-God, an agnostic (a person who questions if God exists) and an atheist (a person who says God does not exist) have in common? Immediately after physical death, each one will KNOW there IS a God.
First, Jesus gave us the formula for avoiding hell by defining WHO chooses to go to hell. John 3:18 “He that believeth (trusts) on Him is NOT condemned: but he that believeth not IS condemned already, (why) because he hath not believed in/trusted in/exercised faith in the name [saving authority] of the only begotten Son of God.” Paraphrased - There is no eternal doom awaiting those who trust Jesus to save them. But those going-to-hell-Jesus-rejectors have chosen to condemn themselves to hell by refusing to trust in the only Son of God.
Jesus Christ came into World for the sole purpose of saving all humans from their going-to-hell Sin of rejecting Him. The angel said of His mother: “And she shall bring forth a Son, and thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their Sin.” Matthew 1:21
“As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons-of-God, even to them that believe on His name:” Yes to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right (to choose) to become children-of-God-- John 1:12niv Comment: When we (choose to) trust in/believe in/ exercise faith in Jesus, we immediately receive His love GIFT of eternal salvation and by His power ... become the sons-of-God.
“Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” John 8:12 My light of life is my Father/son relationship with my Savior.
“I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am He, ye shall (choose to) die in your Sins. John 8:24 Trusting Jesus saves our spirit, our inner-person that differs us from Gorillas. That prevents His children from going to hell and is the ONLY qualification for heaven.
In John 10 “Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye (you who are lost since you Chose to) believed NOT: the works that I do in my Father's name, 25 But ye believe NOT, because ye are NOT of my sheep [a child of God], as I said unto you. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 26 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they (Chose to) follow me. 27 And I GIVE unto them eternal life; and they shall NEVER perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. 28 My Father, which gave them Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. John 10:29 I believed in/trusted in/exercised faith in Jesus and became his follower so that “...no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.” What security!!!
In John 11, “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in Me, though he were (lost) dead, yet shall he live (eternally in heaven): 25 And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.” When we (choose to) believe in/trust in/exercise faith in Jesus, we will never die spiritually as we enjoy worshipping Jesus the Son and God the Father in heaven.
John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am THE way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Not A way, not one of many ways but THE way to salvation that rescues from hell every person who CHOOSES to trust Him.
In John 3:15-16 Jesus said: “That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world [lost population], that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” He loved us so much that He sacrificed His life to save every one who CHOOSES heaven over hell.
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT HOW TO AVOID HELL?
INVITATION
When ________ dies will ________see them again?
Fill in the name of that special person that you WANT to see again after you die. Then fill in your name.
After that person gets to heaven and sees Jesus, they will be eagerly waiting for you.
Are you “qualified” to see ______, that special person, in heaven when you die and you WILL die?
Can you qualify by being “good?” ____
Can you qualify by going to church? ____
Can you qualify if your parents are truly-born-again-children-of-God (study John 3)? ____.
YOU and only you can CHOOSE be a spiritually born-again-child-of-God like Jesus told that man in John 3.
After telling that highly religious man, “Your physical body was born of your flesh mother. Your spirit must be born again of God’s Holy Spirit.” Jesus said, “Don’t be amazed that I said, You (your spirit) MUST be born again.” John 3:7 paraphrased
When you trust Jesus, He makes you born-again. He said, “If you trust Jesus by believing in Him, you will not perish in hell but you will have eternal life in heaven.” Paraphrase of John 3:15
So, what will make you eligible to see ________ in heaven after you die? “God did NOT send Jesus into the world to condemn anyone to hell but that every person could be saved by believing in/trusting in/exercising faith in Jesus and go to heaven.” paraphrase of John 3:17
How can we KNOW if we are going to heaven or hell?
You must CHOOSE to accept Jesus’ love GIFT of salvation. Jesus said in John 3:18 “….He that refuses to believe on Me is on the way to hell BECAUSE he has NOT believed in/trusted in/exercised faith in Jesus, the only begotten Son of God.” Paraphrase of John 3:18
What does “believing in/trusting in/exercising faith in Jesus ” Jesus mean ? Example: An apartment building was engulfed in flames, much like hell. There seemed to be no escape. A terrified 3 year old girl stood on a 3rd floor window ledge as firemen begged her to jump into their arms but her fear of falling overrode her fear of the fire. Then her father arrived and much like Jesus, said, “I love you. I want to save you. You believe that I will catch you. Now trust me and jump.” She believed her father. She trusted him to catch her. In faith (belief in action), she jumped into her father’s arms and was saved from the flames.
My salvation comes NOT from mere knowledge about Jesus but from trust IN Him by taking that “leap of faith” into His waiting arms.
Have you trusted Jesus for salvation?
77 years ago, I believed!!! I WILL see ______ in heaven.
Salvation is NOT complicated!!
Before salvation: Being a direct descendant of Adam, I inherited his natural propensity to commit a multitude of transgressions of God’s rules. I was “doing what comes naturally.” Until I matured enough to understand the Gospel of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection, I was a lost-going-to-hell-Sinner.
Going to the lake-of-fire (hell) is easy. Just CHOOSE to call Jesus a liar by rejecting His love gift of salvation. If you “…believeth NOT (the only fatal Sin) God hath made Him a LIAR; because he believed NOT the record that God gave of His Son.” 1 John 5:10b
The most vital question of your life, “When you die, do you KNOW that you will go to heaven?” If you say “No,” this is for you.
If you say “Yes!!” Praise God then share this with all of your acquaintances that are lost-going-to-hell-Jesus-rejecters like Jesus clearly defined in John 3:18 when He said “He that believeth is NOT condemned…” It could result in some of them going to heaven with us.
I do not consider myself a “Christian” (Christ-like) or even “religious,” just an incredibly grateful truly-born-again-child-of-God that Jesus clearly defined in John 3. In verse 6, Jesus defined our fleshly body in which our spirit resides and our spiritual inward man which will go to heaven or hell, our choice, when He told a super-religious man, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the (God’s Holy) Spirit is spirit.” You are now the mortal flesh in which your eternal spirit lives.
Realizing that each person has a different although similar experience, my specific purpose is to share what I was like Before and After trusting Jesus.
Before, I was a lost-going-to-hell-Jesus-rejecting-unbeliever, a-son-of-satan. After, I am a truly-born-again-child-of-God who is eager for Jesus to take me to heaven.
In John 3:18, Jesus clearly defined “saved” and “lost”: SAVED: He that believeth in (trusts in, exercises faith in Jesus) Him is not condemned. LOST: He that believeth not (rejects Jesus) IS condemned already (why) because he hath (CHOSEN) not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. For emphasis, it is repeated in verse 36
BEFORE I got saved, I heard but had not understood more than 1,000 lessons about how to be saved from the lake-of-fire (hell) to heaven. But, the Holy Spirit of God did not draw me toward salvation by convicting me of that one-fatal-going-to-hell Sin of rejecting Jesus’ love GIFT of salvation. In spite of all the Gospel messages that had been preached in my presence, He had not drawn me to Him. Jesus emphasized that, “No man can come to Me (Jesus), except the Father which hath sent Me draw him.” John 6:44a After children mature enough to understand the Gospel, they become eligible for the “drawing,” conviction by God’s Holy Spirit. At age 13, I matured to spiritual understanding later than some and earlier than some.
Finally, God’s Holy Spirit convinced me that if I died while choosing to persist in ignoring and rejecting Jesus’ love gift of salvation, I was guaranteed to go to hell if I died that day. Consequently, that realization was so disturbing that it activated my memory of the details of many of those lessons. Recalling them enhanced my misery and fear especially since I had attempted to delete them from my memory.
Long after I got saved, I realized that God’s Holy Spirit had drawn me by “cultivating” those memories as he “watered and fertilized” them until they grew into major agitation.
Once I finally understood, I became extremely agitated, anxious, miserable and so fearful of going to hell that I could not sleep. I constantly botched my farm work.
I did not know where to turn until a Christ-like lady who thought enough of me to ask me if I was being convicted by God’s Holy Spirit for rejecting Jesus’ love GIFT of salvation. To truthfully answer her question, I had to recognize that God’s Holy Spirit was convicting me, drawing me to Christ!!
Then, she reminded me of Jesus illustration that I had read in Luke 16 about Jesus telling of the man in hell who had depended upon his riches who was praying to Abraham first for one drop of water then for his lost brothers.
That totally shook me as I began visualizing myself in the torments of the lake-of-fire (hell) described in Revelation 20 begging for one drop of water but never receiving it.
I did not know how to pray but that sweet lady reminded me of Jesus revealing two very simple prayers that resulted in both lost people receiving His love gift of salvation.
In Luke 23:42-43, while hanging on the cross, one thief prayed “…unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, today thou shalt be with Me in paradise.” That simple prayer resulted in that thief going to heaven with Jesus.
In Luke 18:13-14, a hated Jew who had turned against his countrymen. Working as tax collector for the Romans, he added the offense of extortion. He knew that he was lost, was feeling so exceedingly convicted that, acting upon a local custom, “…smote himself upon his breast.” He was “…standing afar off…,” that is, he felt totally unworthy to approach God, so unworthy that he “…would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven…” He prayed an uncomplicated prayer, “… God be merciful to me a sinner.” In his prayer, he confessed that he was a lost-going-to-hell- sinner. He recognized that only God could save him and that He is a merciful God.
He experienced the same cycle that every child-of-satan goes through to become a child-of-God. Conviction, drawing by God’s Holy Spirit until he finally understood that he was a lost-going-to-hell sinner followed by recognizing that a merciful God was his only hope, provoked him to cry out to God for forgiveness. Jesus confirmed his salvation, “I tell you, this man went down to his house Justified (saved!!).
Neither one of those lost persons were required to know how to pray an elaborate prayer for salvation.
What was his simple prayer? “God be merciful to me a sinner.” Luke 18:13b
First, he recognized that “God” was the only One capable of answering his prayer.
Second, he begged for the kind of “mercy” that could only be extended by a “merciful” God.
Third, he acknowledged that God deals one-on-one with “me.”
Fourth, he admitted that he was a lost-going-to-hell “Sinner.”
“God be merciful to me a sinner,” seven simple words that resulted in Jesus testifying to his salvation, “this man went down to his house (saved) justified…”
Both sinners asked forgiveness for their one fatal going-to-hell-Sin-of-rejecting-Jesus’ love GIFT of salvation and immediately became forgiven and an on-the-way-to-heaven-truly-born-again-child-of-God.
When God’s Holy Spirit convinces you that you are not saved, please sincerely pray that uncomplicated prayer and meet me in heaven.
If you are saved, please pray that Jesus will Rapture us to Him today!! 1 Thes 4:16 “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up (Raptured) together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.”
If you are not thrilled and eager to enjoy heaven when you read that, it is essential that you get right with God by choosing to accept His love GIFT of salvation.
If you are a truly-born-again-child-of-God, by repenting of your daily sinS and return to your to sweet fellowship with your Savior.
What are you Promised?
“8 If we claim, “We don’t have any sin,” we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 But if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from everything we’ve done wrong. 10 If we claim, “We have never sinned,” we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.” 1 John 1
SUBJECT: No clear warnings about Hell.
Directly or indirectly the accusations have been, “Just because you got saved after hearing a fire and brimstone message about your eternal abode in the lake of dire, you are hung on the subject.”
I Plead guilty.
Since 24/7 caring for Joyce prevents us from worshiping three times most weeks at Park Ave Baptist Church like we did for over 25 years, I watch preachers on tv, a substandard substitute for gathering with Gods children. That includes watching DVD’s of Park Ave.
I only disagree on some interpretations of prophesy but not the fundamentals. Those prophesy points just motivate me to more intense study of God’s Word.
EXCEPT: They almost never even mention the lake of fire, hell.
It’s was so important to Jesus that He taught graphic descriptions of Hell more than heaven. The following is a study of some of His teachings about HELL.
HOW DID JESUS DESCRIBE HELL? No apology for redundance.
QUOTE BY UNKNOWN PREACHER. “When I was pastor of a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, "Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus." I said, "That's from whom I got my information about hell."
EVERLASTING TORMENT by fire, darkness and separation from God, the result of that ONE fatal Sin of CHOOSING to reject His love GIFT of salvation. He said: “And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness.” Matthew 25:30a “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.” And in Matthew 25:41b “…it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.” Mark 9:47b “I am tormented in this flame.” Luke 16:24b The punishment is so severe that it will only be clearly understood by the Lost-going-to-hell-Jesus-rejectors (study John 3:18) AFTER their physical death.
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT KINDS OF PUNISHMENT IN HELL?
In addition to the “Fire,” He described other forms of punishment:
THIRST: In hell the lost man prayed that the saved man would be permitted to: “…dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue…;” Luke 16:24b
EVERLASTING: Jesus teaches “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: Matthew 25:46a Children of satan will suffer forever.
Revelation confirms hell in 20:10: "And the devil … was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone… and they will be TORMENTED day and night forever and ever".
TORMENTS - Jesus teaches about hell in Luke 16:23a ….And in hell … being in TORMENTS.” Have you smelled burning sulphur (brimstone) burn? Jesus inspired John to write in Rev 4:11...shall be TORMENTED with fire and brimstone….forever and ever.”
MEMORY: “...remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst….” From Luke 16:25 It appears that the lost in hell will remember each time they CHOSE to reject Jesus. That in itself would be excruciating TORMENT as they lament, “If only I had trusted Jesus.”
DARKNESS: In Matthew 8:12 Jesus said, “But the children of the kingdom (unbelieving Jews) shall be cast out into outer darkness…” Imagine feeling fire in total darkness!!! In Jude 13, “...for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever." Jude 13 How can fire burn in total darkness? Only God knows. Human intelligence can’t explain.
WORM EATEN: “Where their worm dieth not.” Jesus said in Mark 9:48a Like a gnawing worm, a maggot, the conscience of the lost in hell will never rest.
CONSCIOUSNESS Jesus said in Luke 16:23 “….in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in TORMENTS, and seeth …Lazarus.”
SEPARATION FROM GOD: Many believe that “separation from God…from the presence of the Lord…” is the most severe punishment in hell since in 2 Thess 1:8 “In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not (reject) God… 1:9 Who shall be punished with EVERLASTING destruction from the presence of the Lord…” BUT, Revelation 14:10b-11a tells us that Jesus will be supervising the punishment of those that rejected His love gift of salvation who “… shall TORMENTED with fire and brimstone… in the presence of the Lamb (Jesus): The lost-Jesus-rejecters will be TORMENTED forever by the stench of burning sulfur. And since He is omnipresent, “...in the presence of the Lamb…”, Jesus.
True! Separation of our eternal spirits from God’s love, God’s Mercy and God’s Grace WILL be the most severe punishment PLUS those who choose to be lost-going-to-hell-Jesus-rejectors “...shall be TORMENTED with fire and brimstone ……in the presence of the Lamb (Jesus): who administers God’s wrath upon those who persisted in CHOOSING to reject Jesus’ love GIFT of salvation until physical death separated their outer-man of their physical body from their inner-man of their spirit. Jesus defined the physical and spiritual parts of a human in John 3:6 “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
DID JESUS TEACH ABOUT HELL - A PLACE OF ETERNAL TORMENT?
Yes. Jesus spoke more about hell than heaven. Hell IS a place of everlasting TORMENT, where those who chose to reject Jesus are TORMENTED in both their resurrected bodies and their minds only because of their one fatal Sin of choosing to reject Jesus’ love GIFT of salvation and choosing to defy God who will determine man’s reward in heaven or their degrees of punishment in hell as described in Romans 2:5-6 “After thy hardness and impenitent heart treasure up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgement of God who will render to every man according to his deeds.” You who have rejected Jesus are constantly choosing eternal punishment by your repeated rejection of His love GIFT of salvation. At His final judgment of the lost, at the Revelation 20 Great White Throne, Jesus will sentence all who have CHOSEN to be lost Jesus rejectors, “...according to his deeds…”, which will result in supplementary degrees of punishment in the hotter part of hell.
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT HOW THOSE WHO chose TO REJECT HIM WILL EXPRESS THEMSELVES FROM HELL DURING ETERNITY?
PRAYING for water: “And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am TORMENTED in this flame.” Luke 16:24 How much relief would a finger tip of water be? Not much but, ANY water, even one drop to “...cool my tongue…” would be welcome.
PRAYING for his brothers: “Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father [Abraham] [To late to pray to God], that thou wouldest send him (Lararus) to my father's house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of TORMENT.” Jesus constantly repeats, “TORMENT”. The occupants of hell constantly PRAY that no one else will join them there.
WEEPING: Jesus speaking of lost Jews, “But the children of the kingdom (Jews) shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 8:12 “And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 13:42 Then, Jesus repeated it for emphasis in Matthew 22:13b “...there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Suffering during eternity in hell is far beyond human comprehension.
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT DEGREES OF PUNISHMENT IN HELL!
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the GREATER damnation. Matthew 23:14 Those GREATER damnation words of Jesus were repeated in Mark 10 and Luke 20.
Teaching people who “repented not”, in Matthew 11 Jesus said, “22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.” The cities of Tyre and Sidon were destroyed because of their exceeding sinfulness. 24 "Nevertheless I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you." Matthew 11:24 Since a Holy God could not tolerate their homosexual and licentious lifestyles, He removed those cities from the earth. As wicked at they were, their degree of punishment will be more tolerable, a slightly lesser degree of punishment.
Speaking of Judas, the disciple who betrayed him, Jesus said, “…he that delivered Me unto thee hath the greater sin.” John 19:11b
Revelation 20:12b confirms that at Jesus’ White Throne Judgment the works of those that chose to be Jesus rejectors will be “…judged out of those things which were written in the (God’s record) books, according to their works.”
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT THE ACTIONS OF LOST-GOING-TO-HELL-JESUS-REJECTORS THAT REVEAL THEIR CONDITION TO THOSE WHO WATCH THEIR LIFESTYLE?
About lost-going-to-hell scribes, super-religionists, Jesus said, “Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; Which devour [steal] widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation .” Luke 20:46-47 “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:20 Speaking in Matthew 23:14 to “…scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer:” Jesus labeled them “serpents…vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” Matthew 23:33
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT “WHO ” WILL BE IN HELL?
Excerpts from Matthew 25: 32 “…before Him (Jesus) shall be gathered all nations and He shall separate 33 sheep on His right hand, but the goats (nations who reject Jesus) on the LEFT .” 41 “Then shall He say also unto them on the LEFT hand, Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.” Having trusted only his wealth, “The rich man also died and was buried. And in hell he lift up his eyes…” Luke 16:22b-23a All Jesus rejector s who CHOOSE to “…believeth NOT is condemned already…John 3:18b will populate hell.
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT “FIRE” IN HELL?
Jesus said: “…whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.” Matthew 5:22b “...cast into the fire” Matthew 7:19b “...to be cast into everlasting fire.” Matthew 18:8c “…to be cast into hell fire.” Matthew 18:9c “As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.” Matthew 13:40 “And shall cast them into a furnace of fire:” Matthew 13:42 “And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.” Jesus reiterated for emphasis in 13:50 “...rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.” Matthew 18:9b “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire…” Matthew 25:41b “….go into hell, into the fire that NEVER shall be quenched:” Mark 9:43 “...Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.” Matthew 5:44b “…be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:” 45b “Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.” 46 “…to be cast into hell fire: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.” Mark 9:47b-48 “And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.” Luke 16:24 Jesus explaining that story about real people concluded, “…in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 13:40a-42
Why did Jesus repeat it so many times? To prevent anyone from ignoring or diminishing the awfulness of the fire in hell, Jesus confirmed and reconfirmed that hell IS “fire”. He described hell fire so vividly that no one could read His words and fail to comprehend what hell is like.
In Rev 20:15, Jesus inspired John to write, “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” And in 21:8b “…shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Sulphur (brimstone) must be heated to 832 degrees for it to form a lake.
JESUS SAID THAT HELL IS REAL
“And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.” Matthew 5:29 -30
“And cast ye the unprofitable servant into (hell) outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 25:30 “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.” 25:41b “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the [all who accept Jesus’] righteous into life eternal.” Matthew 25:46 Here, Jesus uses three phrases to describe hell, outer darkness, everlasting fire, & everlasting punishment.
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT “HOW TO AVOID” HELL?
It has been said that, “In the next 24 hours 146,880 people will die with 141,984 (98%) going to hell. That is 99 every minute.”
What does a child-of-God, an agnostic (a person who questions if God exists) and an atheist (a person who says God does not exist) have in common? Immediately after physical death, each one will KNOW there IS a God.
First, Jesus gave us the formula for avoiding hell by defining WHO chooses to go to hell. John 3:18 “He that believeth (trusts) on Him is NOT condemned: but he that believeth not IS condemned already, (why) because he hath not believed in/trusted in/exercised faith in the name [saving authority] of the only begotten Son of God.” Paraphrased - There is no eternal doom awaiting those who trust Jesus to save them. But those going-to-hell-Jesus-rejectors have chosen to condemn themselves to hell by refusing to trust in the only Son of God.
Jesus Christ came into World for the sole purpose of saving all humans from their going-to-hell Sin of rejecting Him. The angel said of His mother: “And she shall bring forth a Son, and thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their Sin.” Matthew 1:21
“As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons-of-God, even to them that believe on His name:” Yes to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right (to choose) to become children-of-God-- John 1:12niv Comment: When we (choose to) trust in/believe in/ exercise faith in Jesus, we immediately receive His love GIFT of eternal salvation and by His power ... become the sons-of-God.
“Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” John 8:12 My light of life is my Father/son relationship with my Savior.
“I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am He, ye shall (choose to) die in your Sins. John 8:24 Trusting Jesus saves our spirit, our inner-person that differs us from Gorillas. That prevents His children from going to hell and is the ONLY qualification for heaven.
In John 10 “Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye (you who are lost since you Chose to) believed NOT: the works that I do in my Father's name, 25 But ye believe NOT, because ye are NOT of my sheep [a child of God], as I said unto you. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 26 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they (Chose to) follow me. 27 And I GIVE unto them eternal life; and they shall NEVER perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. 28 My Father, which gave them Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. John 10:29 I believed in/trusted in/exercised faith in Jesus and became his follower so that “...no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.” What security!!!
In John 11, “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in Me, though he were (lost) dead, yet shall he live (eternally in heaven): 25 And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.” When we (choose to) believe in/trust in/exercise faith in Jesus, we will never die spiritually as we enjoy worshipping Jesus the Son and God the Father in heaven.
John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am THE way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Not A way, not one of many ways but THE way to salvation that rescues from hell every person who CHOOSES to trust Him.
In John 3:15-16 Jesus said: “That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world [lost population], that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” He loved us so much that He sacrificed His life to save every one who CHOOSES heaven over hell.
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT HOW TO AVOID HELL?
INVITATION
When ________ dies will ________see them again?
Fill in the name of that special person that you WANT to see again after you die. Then fill in your name.
After that person gets to heaven and sees Jesus, they will be eagerly waiting for you.
Are you “qualified” to see ______, that special person, in heaven when you die and you WILL die?
Can you qualify by being “good?” ____
Can you qualify by going to church? ____
Can you qualify if your parents are truly-born-again-children-of-God (study John 3)? ____.
YOU and only you can CHOOSE be a spiritually born-again-child-of-God like Jesus told that man in John 3.
After telling that highly religious man, “Your physical body was born of your flesh mother. Your spirit must be born again of God’s Holy Spirit.” Jesus said, “Don’t be amazed that I said, You (your spirit) MUST be born again.” John 3:7 paraphrased
When you trust Jesus, He makes you born-again. He said, “If you trust Jesus by believing in Him, you will not perish in hell but you will have eternal life in heaven.” Paraphrase of John 3:15
So, what will make you eligible to see ________ in heaven after you die? “God did NOT send Jesus into the world to condemn anyone to hell but that every person could be saved by believing in/trusting in/exercising faith in Jesus and go to heaven.” paraphrase of John 3:17
How can we KNOW if we are going to heaven or hell?
You must CHOOSE to accept Jesus’ love GIFT of salvation. Jesus said in John 3:18 “….He that refuses to believe on Me is on the way to hell BECAUSE he has NOT believed in/trusted in/exercised faith in Jesus, the only begotten Son of God.” Paraphrase of John 3:18
What does “believing in/trusting in/exercising faith in Jesus ” Jesus mean ? Example: An apartment building was engulfed in flames, much like hell. There seemed to be no escape. A terrified 3 year old girl stood on a 3rd floor window ledge as firemen begged her to jump into their arms but her fear of falling overrode her fear of the fire. Then her father arrived and much like Jesus, said, “I love you. I want to save you. You believe that I will catch you. Now trust me and jump.” She believed her father. She trusted him to catch her. In faith (belief in action), she jumped into her father’s arms and was saved from the flames.
My salvation comes NOT from mere knowledge about Jesus but from trust IN Him by taking that “leap of faith” into His waiting arms.
Have you trusted Jesus for salvation?
77 years ago, I believed!!! I WILL see ______ in heaven.
Salvation is NOT complicated!!
Before salvation: Being a direct descendant of Adam, I inherited his natural propensity to commit a multitude of transgressions of God’s rules. I was “doing what comes naturally.” Until I matured enough to understand the Gospel of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection, I was a lost-going-to-hell-Sinner.
Going to the lake-of-fire (hell) is easy. Just CHOOSE to call Jesus a liar by rejecting His love gift of salvation. If you “…believeth NOT (the only fatal Sin) God hath made Him a LIAR; because he believed NOT the record that God gave of His Son.” 1 John 5:10b
The most vital question of your life, “When you die, do you KNOW that you will go to heaven?” If you say “No,” this is for you.
If you say “Yes!!” Praise God then share this with all of your acquaintances that are lost-going-to-hell-Jesus-rejecters like Jesus clearly defined in John 3:18 when He said “He that believeth is NOT condemned…” It could result in some of them going to heaven with us.
I do not consider myself a “Christian” (Christ-like) or even “religious,” just an incredibly grateful truly-born-again-child-of-God that Jesus clearly defined in John 3. In verse 6, Jesus defined our fleshly body in which our spirit resides and our spiritual inward man which will go to heaven or hell, our choice, when He told a super-religious man, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the (God’s Holy) Spirit is spirit.” You are now the mortal flesh in which your eternal spirit lives.
Realizing that each person has a different although similar experience, my specific purpose is to share what I was like Before and After trusting Jesus.
Before, I was a lost-going-to-hell-Jesus-rejecting-unbeliever, a-son-of-satan. After, I am a truly-born-again-child-of-God who is eager for Jesus to take me to heaven.
In John 3:18, Jesus clearly defined “saved” and “lost”: SAVED: He that believeth in (trusts in, exercises faith in Jesus) Him is not condemned. LOST: He that believeth not (rejects Jesus) IS condemned already (why) because he hath (CHOSEN) not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. For emphasis, it is repeated in verse 36
BEFORE I got saved, I heard but had not understood more than 1,000 lessons about how to be saved from the lake-of-fire (hell) to heaven. But, the Holy Spirit of God did not draw me toward salvation by convicting me of that one-fatal-going-to-hell Sin of rejecting Jesus’ love GIFT of salvation. In spite of all the Gospel messages that had been preached in my presence, He had not drawn me to Him. Jesus emphasized that, “No man can come to Me (Jesus), except the Father which hath sent Me draw him.” John 6:44a After children mature enough to understand the Gospel, they become eligible for the “drawing,” conviction by God’s Holy Spirit. At age 13, I matured to spiritual understanding later than some and earlier than some.
Finally, God’s Holy Spirit convinced me that if I died while choosing to persist in ignoring and rejecting Jesus’ love gift of salvation, I was guaranteed to go to hell if I died that day. Consequently, that realization was so disturbing that it activated my memory of the details of many of those lessons. Recalling them enhanced my misery and fear especially since I had attempted to delete them from my memory.
Long after I got saved, I realized that God’s Holy Spirit had drawn me by “cultivating” those memories as he “watered and fertilized” them until they grew into major agitation.
Once I finally understood, I became extremely agitated, anxious, miserable and so fearful of going to hell that I could not sleep. I constantly botched my farm work.
I did not know where to turn until a Christ-like lady who thought enough of me to ask me if I was being convicted by God’s Holy Spirit for rejecting Jesus’ love GIFT of salvation. To truthfully answer her question, I had to recognize that God’s Holy Spirit was convicting me, drawing me to Christ!!
Then, she reminded me of Jesus illustration that I had read in Luke 16 about Jesus telling of the man in hell who had depended upon his riches who was praying to Abraham first for one drop of water then for his lost brothers.
That totally shook me as I began visualizing myself in the torments of the lake-of-fire (hell) described in Revelation 20 begging for one drop of water but never receiving it.
I did not know how to pray but that sweet lady reminded me of Jesus revealing two very simple prayers that resulted in both lost people receiving His love gift of salvation.
In Luke 23:42-43, while hanging on the cross, one thief prayed “…unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, today thou shalt be with Me in paradise.” That simple prayer resulted in that thief going to heaven with Jesus.
In Luke 18:13-14, a hated Jew who had turned against his countrymen. Working as tax collector for the Romans, he added the offense of extortion. He knew that he was lost, was feeling so exceedingly convicted that, acting upon a local custom, “…smote himself upon his breast.” He was “…standing afar off…,” that is, he felt totally unworthy to approach God, so unworthy that he “…would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven…” He prayed an uncomplicated prayer, “… God be merciful to me a sinner.” In his prayer, he confessed that he was a lost-going-to-hell- sinner. He recognized that only God could save him and that He is a merciful God.
He experienced the same cycle that every child-of-satan goes through to become a child-of-God. Conviction, drawing by God’s Holy Spirit until he finally understood that he was a lost-going-to-hell sinner followed by recognizing that a merciful God was his only hope, provoked him to cry out to God for forgiveness. Jesus confirmed his salvation, “I tell you, this man went down to his house Justified (saved!!).
Neither one of those lost persons were required to know how to pray an elaborate prayer for salvation.
What was his simple prayer? “God be merciful to me a sinner.” Luke 18:13b
First, he recognized that “God” was the only One capable of answering his prayer.
Second, he begged for the kind of “mercy” that could only be extended by a “merciful” God.
Third, he acknowledged that God deals one-on-one with “me.”
Fourth, he admitted that he was a lost-going-to-hell “Sinner.”
“God be merciful to me a sinner,” seven simple words that resulted in Jesus testifying to his salvation, “this man went down to his house (saved) justified…”
Both sinners asked forgiveness for their one fatal going-to-hell-Sin-of-rejecting-Jesus’ love GIFT of salvation and immediately became forgiven and an on-the-way-to-heaven-truly-born-again-child-of-God.
When God’s Holy Spirit convinces you that you are not saved, please sincerely pray that uncomplicated prayer and meet me in heaven.
If you are saved, please pray that Jesus will Rapture us to Him today!! 1 Thes 4:16 “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up (Raptured) together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.”
If you are not thrilled and eager to enjoy heaven when you read that, it is essential that you get right with God by choosing to accept His love GIFT of salvation.
If you are a truly-born-again-child-of-God, by repenting of your daily sinS and return to your to sweet fellowship with your Savior.
What are you Promised?
“8 If we claim, “We don’t have any sin,” we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 But if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from everything we’ve done wrong. 10 If we claim, “We have never sinned,” we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.” 1 John 1
