Things are beginning to heat up in the political race for next years big Presidential election. People are choosing sides, and choosing a favorite candidate that they would like to see in the Oval Office January of 2013. Every candidate has his/her plan to save the country, fix our failing economy, and create jobs.
In the meantime, the present leader of the nation is doing everything he can to destroy the economy, and destroy the job market, why he claims to be fixing it. Everyone is wondering if there is going to be an America left by the time election season comes around.
God is the one who appoints leaders to office, and any authority the Government has comes from him. Every dictator throughout history was allowed to be in power for a season, and most of them did evil things that were against the Holy nature of God, but were allowed for a reason. NO God did approve of Hitlers mass murder of the Jews in the gas chambers, anymore than he approves of the mass murder of the unborn here in America.
God has allowed evil men to take control of the United States of America for a season, they are doing horrible things to this country, and most Americans are helpless to stop them. You and I ask why this is? Why would God allow such things to happen here in America? I think the answer is easier to find than what you think it is. Just consider how sexual immorality has become commonplace in our culture. How what once was considered wrong is now looked at as being right, and how the media is saturated with sexual images of every kind, and we sheep just sit back and take it all in.
We have become desensitized to sin! Desensitized to the point that we don't care to even raise a finger in protest anymore, we just let ourselves soak it up not realizing the danger we are putting ourselves in. The Devil knows what it takes to dumb down a culture, and destroy her from within, and he has gotten away with it, almost!
What hope is there then for America?
Surely American is on the brink of it's own destruction! The enemies are within our borders, even within our own homes, it is us, we have become our own worst enemies. Why is this you say? Because we have to some degree bought into the corruption ourselves, and allowed Satan room to work his evil, and water us down spiritually as a nation.
We have allowed the opposing religions of this world to challenge our minds and hearts for dominion. Humanism, Islam, Buddhism, and others have invaded and sought to tear down Christianity, and destroy the witness of Jesus Christ in our culture. Laws are passed that favor those who are full of hatred for the Gospel of Christ. Their places of worship have taken route in our cities, and their intentions are not as pure as they would like us to believe. Their ultimate goal is our annihilation! The death of the west, and the death of every Christian, non-Christian, and Jew who refuses to convert to Islam.
This is the system of Anti-Christ, alive and well in the world today, and growing in power everyday. It could be that America's present leadership is in place in order to take America down in order to allow the enemies of faith and freedom to overtake our country. It seems by the times that we are living in, and the signs that we are living on the verge of the coming of Jesus Christ for his Church. If that is the case, then everything is happening for a reason, and there is not much time left for men to repent, and turn to Christ before the door of the Ark of Salvation is closed!
Evil has reproduced freely in our culture at an alarming rate, as we Americans just get fatter and lazier, and farther from our Creator God. Yes we have fallen into a deep trap set for us, and the only way out is too look up, too God for a rescue. Even in Conservative circles many refuse Christ, and his way in exchange for political fix instead.
Let me make this clear to you my friend! American's Saving Grace is NOT Political! It is Spiritual!
The Bible makes it very clear that Satan has blinded the minds of the masses, so that they cannot understand the Gospel of Christ, and cannot find their way to the cross to find redemption, and forgiveness for sin.
2 Corinthians 4:4 -"Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who
don't believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good
News. They don't understand this message about the glory of Christ, who
is the exact likeness of God."
Let me make this clear to you, Satan wants to take your soul straight to Hell! Those who refuse Jesus Christ are his trophies! I heard a minister talking many years ago saying that he visited the medical examiners office in L.A county, California. He said the place wreaked of death as dead bodies lined the hallways, as the refrigeration rooms were too full to accommodate all of them. Many of the dead there were young people, and he stated that he heard Satan whisper in his ear, "See, these are my trophies". What a sad, and horrible thing to realize that so many die everyday without Jesus Christ, and find themselves lost in a place of virtual torment, apart from God for eternity.
Will you make yourself listen to the voice of reason? or will you turn your ears away from what could be your last chance too change? America's only hope is Jesus Christ! There is NO other way to save this nation then you and I falling on our faces before God in repentance, first for our personal sins, and then for our national sins.
We MUST cry out to God for mercy! We must recognize how we have offended him by taking him out of our schools, and out of public view. We have disgraced his Holy Name! We deserve to be slaves under a socialist dictator! We deserve to lose our liberty, and freedoms that we have used for evil instead of good. We have made a mockery of him in our churches by allowing the world to invade and change our doctrines, and replace them with socialized doctrines of demons.
We deserve nothing more than to be judged as a nation, and that is why Obama is in office. This is not the fault of white Americans, but all Americans. The heart and soul of this nation is now in moral danger. Will you begin to pray unto God for mercy? or continue in your pride and arrogance?
GOD HAVE MERCY ON HIS NATION!
Friday, October 7, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The Law, Salvation, and the Fear of the Lord
Proverbs 9:10 - "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
God exhorts each of us through his Holy Word that if we want to be wise we must first fear the Lord, the Holy and Righteous King of the universe. To fear God is to reverently respect who he is, the True and Living God!
How many times have we disrespected God, made a mockery of his Grace, and dishonored his Holy Name? How many times have we as professing Christians used his Holy name in vain, or made a fool of him by our words and actions? How many times have we trampled his amazing grace after he so graciously gave to us when we clearly deserved his wrath.
If we were to stop and truly consider just how Holy and Righteous God, our lifestyles would change, wouldn’t they. We need to realize that we are but measly human beings that deserve to burn in Hell forever, but God in his love and mercy came down and shouldered our punishment, the wrath we deserved so that we would not have to suffer the consequences of our own sin.
We go on living day in, and day out as though God is some kind of distant cosmic cousin, way out in outer space, watching us from far off. We seem to lack a true understanding of what HOLY means. God’s holiness is his absolute moral perfection that will not tolerate ANY sin in his presence, at all!
His Righteousness stands hand in hand with his Holiness, and his Justice is perfectly just in every way. Our puny minds can not really comprehend the awesomeness of God. How great and mighty he is, and how much he deserves our respect, and our worship.
Do we even understand the concept of sin? Sin is anything that violates the law of God, which is contained in what we know as the Ten Commandments. Ten laws once etched in stone, now written on the hearts of believers by the Holy Spirit of God. Ten Laws by which God will judge all of humanity by at the last judgment of the Living and the Dead!
The Law that Moses carried down from that mountain on stone tablets was the absolute written moral standards of a Holy God! The knowledge of this Holy God is written on the subconscious mind of every person, so that no one has an excuse on judgment day. Yes, even wicked, evil men who vehemently deny the existence of God have the knowledge of God imprinted on their subconscious’s. The believer has the Law of God written on their hearts and minds by the Holy Spirit.
God and His Law are inseparable! God is the Judge of all mankind, and bound to his law. The just judge of all eternity will render his judgment with all fairness and equity, no one will escape his judgment no matter who they are. God’s law is perfect, an picture of absolute morality, righteousness, and holiness. How then should we men who fear God live? In reverence, purity, and holiness before God, that’s how!
Men who gleefully wallow in their sin and corruption cannot stand to look at the Law of God because it causes them to be convicted of their sin. This is why we have seen the Ten Commandments removed from our schools, and other public places. The ungodly do not like to be reminded of their sinfulness, they tend to become irate when confronted with the Law of God, for it pricks their conscious minds, like a big needle stick, it causes them pain because they know inside they are guilty before God.
The world watched as men removed a large stone monument from a courthouse in Alabama because people could not stand too see the monument as they came and went from the building. Simply seeing a representation of the Law of God makes them squirm, they are uncomfortable all of a sudden, and are conscious of their sinfulness. So the only remedy they can find is to remove it from view, but they are still under the Law of God, and still just as guilty before God.
If a states that he does not believe in the law of gravity, and too demonstrate his utter stupidity, the man jumps off of a ten story building. Does his stating that he does not believe in the law of gravity change the outcome of his jump? Not at all! He still goes splat of the sidewalk below regardless of what he claims to believe. As it is with God and his Law. A man may state that he does not believe in God, or the Law of God, but that will not change the outcome one bit. He/she will still stand before God someday and be judged according to the very Law of God they claimed not to believe in.
Why did God give us his law? What does the Law do? The Law of God has two basic jobs it does. Number one it shows men that they have sinned before God, and secondly it closes the mouths of those who are trying to justify their sin.
Romans 3:19-20 “Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.”
The Law of God brings the consciousness of sin!
The Law of God is a teacher that brings us too Christ, leading us to repentance, and faith that justifies us before God. It’s through faith that we are saved by the Grace of God. It is the law that leads to conversion of the soul, and changed heart and life.
Galatians 3:24 - “So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith.”
Psalm 19:7 - “The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul:….”
There is NO Fear of God until a person is exposed to the Law of God. Once exposed to the Law of God, the Law brings with it the knowledge of sin, and with it the fear of the Lord that cause the conversion of the soul, or a person to repent and receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Using the Law of God correctly we pass over a persons intellect, and go straight for their conscious where the Spirit of God works to bring about repentance in their lives.
The law brings with it the knowledge of God’s wrath upon the ungodly. The law results in the punishment of all who violate it, without exception, except for those justified by faith in Christ.
Romans 4:15 - “for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation.”
If there were no law of any kind to adhere too, a person could not be held accountable for breaking it, but the law does exist, and mankind has broken it. Breaking the Law of God results in punishment just as breaking the Laws of men results in punishment. Some may argue that because they do not believe in God, or the Bible that they then are not accountable. Oh Contraire! Yes they are accountable because they are under the Law of God whether they like it or not, God still exists, and so does his Law.
Remember what the Scripture say’s!
Roman’s 1:20 - “For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.”
Professing Atheists claim that God does not exist, but their subconscious minds bear witness otherwise. Men have the free will given them by God to reject the Lord Jesus Christ if they please, but with that rejection comes the wrath of God for their sin because God’s law still stands in judgment over them.
Our society has lost the essence of the fear (respect) for God and his Word that used to exist in our culture. Therefore we as a society are doomed to suffer the consequences of allowing evil to reign in the place of righteousness.
A great American wrote many years ago that a Word of God should permeate every city and town, or else sinful and evil literature would surely take it’s place. America’s founding fathers knew the value of the Bible, the Law of God, and the effect it has on a nation. The Word of God, and the fear of God are sustaining forces that America needs desperately in order to preserve her as a nation.
Without God, His Law, and the Bible - America is doomed to self destruction!
Why should we then expect God to save America when we have allowed him to be trampled, and removed from the important places within our society? Why should God not just sit back and laugh at us as this nation, and it’s people crumble into oblivion?
Proverbs 1:26-29 “I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your dread comes, When your dread comes like a storm, And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but they will not find me, Because they hated Knowledge, And did not choose the fear of the LORD.
Consider the scene at the Calvary, there are two thieves crucified on either side of Jesus, who deserve the punishment are getting. One mocks the Savior, the other cries out for forgiveness for his sins, and Jesus responds to him with love even though his body is full of terrible suffering. You noticed the one thief yells at the other one “Do you not even fear God?” One man believed and was spared eternal torment, the other died and went into eternal darkness apart from God.
Luke 23:40-41 - “But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.”
Let us fear the true the living God! Let us learn to use the Law of God to lead others into the righteous fear of God, so that they may be saved from the wrath of God that is coming upon all men who have rejected the free gift of God. Let us pray then for the salvation of those who are lost, even those who hate us as Christ instructed us too do.
Let us always reverence (fear) God, and live grace filled lives so that others will be drawn to the Christ who died for them, who showed his love to us all when we were all still sinners in need of saving.
Let us always use the Law of God the way Jesus used it to bring conviction upon the sin sick souls of the lost, so that they might see their lost condition, and desire the cure God offers them.
God exhorts each of us through his Holy Word that if we want to be wise we must first fear the Lord, the Holy and Righteous King of the universe. To fear God is to reverently respect who he is, the True and Living God!
How many times have we disrespected God, made a mockery of his Grace, and dishonored his Holy Name? How many times have we as professing Christians used his Holy name in vain, or made a fool of him by our words and actions? How many times have we trampled his amazing grace after he so graciously gave to us when we clearly deserved his wrath.
If we were to stop and truly consider just how Holy and Righteous God, our lifestyles would change, wouldn’t they. We need to realize that we are but measly human beings that deserve to burn in Hell forever, but God in his love and mercy came down and shouldered our punishment, the wrath we deserved so that we would not have to suffer the consequences of our own sin.
We go on living day in, and day out as though God is some kind of distant cosmic cousin, way out in outer space, watching us from far off. We seem to lack a true understanding of what HOLY means. God’s holiness is his absolute moral perfection that will not tolerate ANY sin in his presence, at all!
His Righteousness stands hand in hand with his Holiness, and his Justice is perfectly just in every way. Our puny minds can not really comprehend the awesomeness of God. How great and mighty he is, and how much he deserves our respect, and our worship.
Do we even understand the concept of sin? Sin is anything that violates the law of God, which is contained in what we know as the Ten Commandments. Ten laws once etched in stone, now written on the hearts of believers by the Holy Spirit of God. Ten Laws by which God will judge all of humanity by at the last judgment of the Living and the Dead!
The Law that Moses carried down from that mountain on stone tablets was the absolute written moral standards of a Holy God! The knowledge of this Holy God is written on the subconscious mind of every person, so that no one has an excuse on judgment day. Yes, even wicked, evil men who vehemently deny the existence of God have the knowledge of God imprinted on their subconscious’s. The believer has the Law of God written on their hearts and minds by the Holy Spirit.
God and His Law are inseparable! God is the Judge of all mankind, and bound to his law. The just judge of all eternity will render his judgment with all fairness and equity, no one will escape his judgment no matter who they are. God’s law is perfect, an picture of absolute morality, righteousness, and holiness. How then should we men who fear God live? In reverence, purity, and holiness before God, that’s how!
Men who gleefully wallow in their sin and corruption cannot stand to look at the Law of God because it causes them to be convicted of their sin. This is why we have seen the Ten Commandments removed from our schools, and other public places. The ungodly do not like to be reminded of their sinfulness, they tend to become irate when confronted with the Law of God, for it pricks their conscious minds, like a big needle stick, it causes them pain because they know inside they are guilty before God.
The world watched as men removed a large stone monument from a courthouse in Alabama because people could not stand too see the monument as they came and went from the building. Simply seeing a representation of the Law of God makes them squirm, they are uncomfortable all of a sudden, and are conscious of their sinfulness. So the only remedy they can find is to remove it from view, but they are still under the Law of God, and still just as guilty before God.
If a states that he does not believe in the law of gravity, and too demonstrate his utter stupidity, the man jumps off of a ten story building. Does his stating that he does not believe in the law of gravity change the outcome of his jump? Not at all! He still goes splat of the sidewalk below regardless of what he claims to believe. As it is with God and his Law. A man may state that he does not believe in God, or the Law of God, but that will not change the outcome one bit. He/she will still stand before God someday and be judged according to the very Law of God they claimed not to believe in.
Why did God give us his law? What does the Law do? The Law of God has two basic jobs it does. Number one it shows men that they have sinned before God, and secondly it closes the mouths of those who are trying to justify their sin.
Romans 3:19-20 “Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.”
The Law of God brings the consciousness of sin!
The Law of God is a teacher that brings us too Christ, leading us to repentance, and faith that justifies us before God. It’s through faith that we are saved by the Grace of God. It is the law that leads to conversion of the soul, and changed heart and life.
Galatians 3:24 - “So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith.”
Psalm 19:7 - “The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul:….”
There is NO Fear of God until a person is exposed to the Law of God. Once exposed to the Law of God, the Law brings with it the knowledge of sin, and with it the fear of the Lord that cause the conversion of the soul, or a person to repent and receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Using the Law of God correctly we pass over a persons intellect, and go straight for their conscious where the Spirit of God works to bring about repentance in their lives.
The law brings with it the knowledge of God’s wrath upon the ungodly. The law results in the punishment of all who violate it, without exception, except for those justified by faith in Christ.
Romans 4:15 - “for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation.”
If there were no law of any kind to adhere too, a person could not be held accountable for breaking it, but the law does exist, and mankind has broken it. Breaking the Law of God results in punishment just as breaking the Laws of men results in punishment. Some may argue that because they do not believe in God, or the Bible that they then are not accountable. Oh Contraire! Yes they are accountable because they are under the Law of God whether they like it or not, God still exists, and so does his Law.
Remember what the Scripture say’s!
Roman’s 1:20 - “For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.”
Professing Atheists claim that God does not exist, but their subconscious minds bear witness otherwise. Men have the free will given them by God to reject the Lord Jesus Christ if they please, but with that rejection comes the wrath of God for their sin because God’s law still stands in judgment over them.
Our society has lost the essence of the fear (respect) for God and his Word that used to exist in our culture. Therefore we as a society are doomed to suffer the consequences of allowing evil to reign in the place of righteousness.
A great American wrote many years ago that a Word of God should permeate every city and town, or else sinful and evil literature would surely take it’s place. America’s founding fathers knew the value of the Bible, the Law of God, and the effect it has on a nation. The Word of God, and the fear of God are sustaining forces that America needs desperately in order to preserve her as a nation.
Without God, His Law, and the Bible - America is doomed to self destruction!
Why should we then expect God to save America when we have allowed him to be trampled, and removed from the important places within our society? Why should God not just sit back and laugh at us as this nation, and it’s people crumble into oblivion?
Proverbs 1:26-29 “I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your dread comes, When your dread comes like a storm, And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but they will not find me, Because they hated Knowledge, And did not choose the fear of the LORD.
Consider the scene at the Calvary, there are two thieves crucified on either side of Jesus, who deserve the punishment are getting. One mocks the Savior, the other cries out for forgiveness for his sins, and Jesus responds to him with love even though his body is full of terrible suffering. You noticed the one thief yells at the other one “Do you not even fear God?” One man believed and was spared eternal torment, the other died and went into eternal darkness apart from God.
Luke 23:40-41 - “But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.”
Let us fear the true the living God! Let us learn to use the Law of God to lead others into the righteous fear of God, so that they may be saved from the wrath of God that is coming upon all men who have rejected the free gift of God. Let us pray then for the salvation of those who are lost, even those who hate us as Christ instructed us too do.
Let us always reverence (fear) God, and live grace filled lives so that others will be drawn to the Christ who died for them, who showed his love to us all when we were all still sinners in need of saving.
Let us always use the Law of God the way Jesus used it to bring conviction upon the sin sick souls of the lost, so that they might see their lost condition, and desire the cure God offers them.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
HELL? YES!
In this age of so-called enlightenment, many have turned away from the sound doctrine taught in Scripture, and have reinvented their own version of scripture to fit their own apostate beliefs. I’ve heard comments from by many dealing with the subject of Hell, people don’t want to believe in an eternal place of punishment because it’s not a pleasant subject, but they all want to believe in heaven.
The Bible say’s in 2 Timothy 4:3 “For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but to gratify their own evil desires will surround themselves with teachers who teach to gratify their own evil desires, because their ears are itching so to be tickled,”
In many churches they preach about how God is only about love, and kindness. People have forgotten that above all else, God is Holy, and intolerant of sin. Therefore, those who reject the true Gospel of Christ, will never enter into the Kingdom of God.
People say, that’s not fair! How could a loving God throw anyone into a place of eternal torment? In God’s perspective, it is perfectly fair however, because he has given every person a lifetime here on earth to make a decision on where you want to spend eternity, Smoking, or Non-Smoking!
Were living in a day in ago prophesied about in Scripture, where men no longer will tolerate sound Biblical doctrine, nor will they repent, and seek the true Messiah. Pluralism, Universalism, and other heretical doctrines have crept into Christian churches. Some pastors have fallen for a batch of lies, and are now leading many down the wide road to Hell teaching things that are contrary to the Word of God. Questioning the very core of the Gospel message, and causing many others to believe the same lies.
There are those within our churches in America that now teach that people from other faiths can gain access to heaven, even without Christ, or his Blood. That friends is pure heresy! These that teach such heresy need to be harshly dealt with They are telling people that a Jesus will save everyone, even those who never accept him as their Savior. There is a preacher of a very large mega-church in Texas that will NOT preach about sin, or Hell because these two topics are negative, and in his opinion may turn people off (Joel Osteen).
Rob Bell Pastor of a large evangelical church is Grandville Michigan, recently published a book entitled "Love Wins" in which he questions several key areas of Christian doctrine, namely the subject of Hell. Bell draws out his idea that "Jesus came to save us from God" and he basically says that even people who end up in Hell will have the opportunity to accept Christ, and maybe get out of Hell. He also states in his book that Jesus has a plan to redeem all people regardless of what they believe in this life. These teachings are not consistent with the Scripture, or with any Bible doctrine for that matter.
What is Hell anyway? according to Scripture it's a place of torment where the souls of people go who reject Jesus as their Savior. We see an example given in Scripture of a rich man who died, and found himself in Hell.
Luke 16:23-24 'In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. “And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’
So Hell is very hot with real fire, and non-stop torment, and there is no relief of any kind. What else are we told in this passage?
Luke 16:26 - "And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us."
There is a chasm, or a great canyon between the place where God's people were held in peace and comfort, while the rich man was roasting in the flames of Hell. Hell had at least two separate compartments in it, one was for evil men to be tormented in, and the other was for the souls of the Old Testament saints to live in for a time. When Christ died the Scripture tells us that he descended into Hell, and retrieved the souls of the Old Testament saints that were kept safe in Abraham's bosom.
We see that Hell is only a temporary home for the unregenerate souls, that a more permanent place in forthcoming, as we are shown in Revelation.
Revelation 20:13-15 - "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire."
The dead are resurrected one last time unto eternal judgment, and we see that even Hell (Hades), and death itself is cast into a much greater place of torment for all of eternity. We also see that individuals are cast into this horrible place of eternal separation as well, why you ask? Because they did not accept their pardon from God for their sin, and so they are not justified by Christ, and cannot enter the Holy place reserved for those who have trusted Jesus Christ as Savior.
Here is an explanation of the Gospel of Christ, and an invitation to receive the free gift of eternal life that only Christ can give you.
You must receive Yeshua (Jesus) as your Messiah to be freely justified by faith in order to enter heaven. God poured out the wrath he was saving for you on His precious Son Jesus at Calvary, Christ endured it all on our behalf, you must believe this is true and accept Him as Lord and Savior. If you refuse God’s free offer, one of these day’s find yourself in Hell, it will be all your fault, not his. Ask yourself this question; can I really afford to risk my eternal soul?
What is your soul really worth anyway? What could you possibly offer God in payment for your eternal soul? The answer is: NADA! NOTHING! There is nothing you or I can give, or do for God in order to secure our way to heaven. There are churches and whole denominations that teach good works unto salvation, but that is NOT what God teaches us in His Holy Word. The Holy Scripture clearly teaches that all that is required to secure a man’s Salvation is simple faith, faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross, nothing more, and nothing less.
It is your choice to make, and it is all based upon your own decision to believe and respond to the Gospel message, or not. It will be based upon what you did in your life with Jesus Christ, whether you choose him as personal Lord and Savior, or you did not, and if you did not then you will experience the mighty wrath of a Holy God all by yourself, there will be no place to run, and no place for you to hide.
Dear Friend, Christ alone shouldered all of God’s wrath against you and I at the cross, he was the ultimate sacrificial lamb, sacrificed once and for all your behalf. God’s Son still waits for you today with his arms open wide, he wants to hug you and welcome you into God’s family even today. Why do you wait? Why do you fail to respond to such a great expression of love? Receive him today!
The Bible say’s in 2 Timothy 4:3 “For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but to gratify their own evil desires will surround themselves with teachers who teach to gratify their own evil desires, because their ears are itching so to be tickled,”
In many churches they preach about how God is only about love, and kindness. People have forgotten that above all else, God is Holy, and intolerant of sin. Therefore, those who reject the true Gospel of Christ, will never enter into the Kingdom of God.
People say, that’s not fair! How could a loving God throw anyone into a place of eternal torment? In God’s perspective, it is perfectly fair however, because he has given every person a lifetime here on earth to make a decision on where you want to spend eternity, Smoking, or Non-Smoking!
Were living in a day in ago prophesied about in Scripture, where men no longer will tolerate sound Biblical doctrine, nor will they repent, and seek the true Messiah. Pluralism, Universalism, and other heretical doctrines have crept into Christian churches. Some pastors have fallen for a batch of lies, and are now leading many down the wide road to Hell teaching things that are contrary to the Word of God. Questioning the very core of the Gospel message, and causing many others to believe the same lies.
There are those within our churches in America that now teach that people from other faiths can gain access to heaven, even without Christ, or his Blood. That friends is pure heresy! These that teach such heresy need to be harshly dealt with They are telling people that a Jesus will save everyone, even those who never accept him as their Savior. There is a preacher of a very large mega-church in Texas that will NOT preach about sin, or Hell because these two topics are negative, and in his opinion may turn people off (Joel Osteen).
Rob Bell Pastor of a large evangelical church is Grandville Michigan, recently published a book entitled "Love Wins" in which he questions several key areas of Christian doctrine, namely the subject of Hell. Bell draws out his idea that "Jesus came to save us from God" and he basically says that even people who end up in Hell will have the opportunity to accept Christ, and maybe get out of Hell. He also states in his book that Jesus has a plan to redeem all people regardless of what they believe in this life. These teachings are not consistent with the Scripture, or with any Bible doctrine for that matter.
What is Hell anyway? according to Scripture it's a place of torment where the souls of people go who reject Jesus as their Savior. We see an example given in Scripture of a rich man who died, and found himself in Hell.
Luke 16:23-24 'In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. “And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’
So Hell is very hot with real fire, and non-stop torment, and there is no relief of any kind. What else are we told in this passage?
Luke 16:26 - "And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us."
There is a chasm, or a great canyon between the place where God's people were held in peace and comfort, while the rich man was roasting in the flames of Hell. Hell had at least two separate compartments in it, one was for evil men to be tormented in, and the other was for the souls of the Old Testament saints to live in for a time. When Christ died the Scripture tells us that he descended into Hell, and retrieved the souls of the Old Testament saints that were kept safe in Abraham's bosom.
We see that Hell is only a temporary home for the unregenerate souls, that a more permanent place in forthcoming, as we are shown in Revelation.
Revelation 20:13-15 - "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire."
The dead are resurrected one last time unto eternal judgment, and we see that even Hell (Hades), and death itself is cast into a much greater place of torment for all of eternity. We also see that individuals are cast into this horrible place of eternal separation as well, why you ask? Because they did not accept their pardon from God for their sin, and so they are not justified by Christ, and cannot enter the Holy place reserved for those who have trusted Jesus Christ as Savior.
Here is an explanation of the Gospel of Christ, and an invitation to receive the free gift of eternal life that only Christ can give you.
You must receive Yeshua (Jesus) as your Messiah to be freely justified by faith in order to enter heaven. God poured out the wrath he was saving for you on His precious Son Jesus at Calvary, Christ endured it all on our behalf, you must believe this is true and accept Him as Lord and Savior. If you refuse God’s free offer, one of these day’s find yourself in Hell, it will be all your fault, not his. Ask yourself this question; can I really afford to risk my eternal soul?
What is your soul really worth anyway? What could you possibly offer God in payment for your eternal soul? The answer is: NADA! NOTHING! There is nothing you or I can give, or do for God in order to secure our way to heaven. There are churches and whole denominations that teach good works unto salvation, but that is NOT what God teaches us in His Holy Word. The Holy Scripture clearly teaches that all that is required to secure a man’s Salvation is simple faith, faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross, nothing more, and nothing less.
It is your choice to make, and it is all based upon your own decision to believe and respond to the Gospel message, or not. It will be based upon what you did in your life with Jesus Christ, whether you choose him as personal Lord and Savior, or you did not, and if you did not then you will experience the mighty wrath of a Holy God all by yourself, there will be no place to run, and no place for you to hide.
Dear Friend, Christ alone shouldered all of God’s wrath against you and I at the cross, he was the ultimate sacrificial lamb, sacrificed once and for all your behalf. God’s Son still waits for you today with his arms open wide, he wants to hug you and welcome you into God’s family even today. Why do you wait? Why do you fail to respond to such a great expression of love? Receive him today!
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