Friday, May 9, 2008

Infinite Punishment in Hell: A WAKE UP Call to those in Rebellion Toward God

I want to warn everyone reading this that is not a follower of Jesus Christ, that there is a JUST and HOLY God who's wrath abides upon you. You anger God with your sin, He is angry with you everyday (Psalm 7:11).

"The
bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood. Thus all you that never passed under a great change of heart, by the mighty power of the Spirit of God upon your souls; all you that were never born again, and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a state of new, and before altogether unexperienced light and life, are in the hands of an angry God."

You must be warned that if you die in your sins, never having came to that place of repentance (turning from your sins) and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, then you will face God on Judgment Day and have to bear the penalty for those sins. That penalty is eternity in the lake of fire... HELL!

You may think I'm trying to scare you... I say to you, YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'M TRYING TO SCARE YOU!!! Hell is a REAL place! Jesus Christ spoke much more of the horrors of Hell in the Bible than He did of the joys of Heaven... and without Jesus Christ, you are destined for Hell! Jesus Christ paid our sins FOR us so we wouldn't have too... it was the ultimate gift, the ultimate sacrifice and all we have to do to step up and receive that gift! You do that by confessing your sins in prayer to Jesus Christ, not a priest, or a statue... to Jesus Christ Himself! The Bible says in Acts 4:12 - "There is none other name, under Heaven, given among men, whereby you must be saved!" Confess your sins. If you're not sure what sin actually is, the Bible says, "Sin is transgression of the law". Just look at God's Law... if you've broken even one of the 10 Commandments, then the pushment is eternity in the lake of fire. If you've ever lied, stolen, looked with lust... any of these, ever in your life, then God's wrath abides upon you. Now that you have a better picture of how exceedingly sinful we are as human beings, you should confess your sins through prayer to Jesus Christ, confess your need for a Savior, repent of our sins (turn from them) and put your trust in Jesus! Once you do that you will be born again! That means you will be given a new nature, with new desires because the Holy Spirit will dwell within you! If this seems foolish to you, here's what the Bible says about it in 1 Corinthians 1:18 - "the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness!" If this does seem foolish, then you need to pray that God will soften and open your heart, because no one can come to Christ unless the Father first draws him! (
John 6:44)

People... regardless how good of a person you think you are, how religous you think you are, how generous you think you are.... without the righteousness of Christ, you'll perish on the Day of Wrath.


God's Wrath

It is everlasting wrath. It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God one moment; but you must suffer it to all eternity. There will be no end to this exquisite horrible misery. When you look forward, you shall see a long for ever, a boundless duration before you, which will swallow up your thoughts, and amaze your soul; and you will absolutely despair of ever having any deliverance, any end, any mitigation, any rest at all. You will know certainly that you must wear out long ages, millions of millions of ages, in wrestling and conflicting with this almighty merciless vengeance; and then when you have so done, when so many ages have actually been spent by you in this manner, you will know that all is but a point to what remains. So that your punishment will indeed be infinite. Oh, who can express what the state of a soul in such circumstances is! All that we can possibly say about it, gives but a very feeble, faint representation of it; it is inexpressible and inconceivable: For "who knows the power of God's anger?"



Italics are from Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. LISTEN | READ

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