Hell
November 23, 2008
I live in a world formed by Truth. Not by how everyone else does things or by what is normal on television or even from when I grew up. I am eager and willing to lay down everything I’ve ever known and things that are comfortable and familiar to me as soon as I find out they’re not True. Truth. There are other people made like me. They live in a world where things are either right or they’re wrong. Before meeting Christ and understanding that he the holder of and is Truth, people like me consider themselves the carriers of truth. Their way is the right way and why can’t the other people see that their way is wrong? We’re not the easiest people to work with but regenerated by the Spirit of Christ there is yet hope and purpose for those of us who dwell in the army camp of Truth.
There is a small sword given to Frodo in the lord of the rings. When orcs are near is glows blue. When I come face to face with lies in the body of christ is like my spirit glows orange. I haven’t quite figured out the best execution of a response in those moments yet. But below is an outpouring of one of those interactions.
Lie: I don’t know if I really think hell exists. I don’t think hell is a real place. I don’t think people stay in hell forever. Hell isn’t all that bad. I don’t like to think about Hell, it’s uncomfortable. God is good, God is love he can’t create that bad of a place. Etc, Etc, Etc.
Truth: Mind this, I’m not expounding on these things to scare people. These arn’t opinions or reasonings. These are simply the words of Jesus the Christ. Truth. Truth. Truth. The first commandment involves loving God with all of our minds…
It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.
Doom to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
How will you escape being condemned to hell?
But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
(By Peter the disciple) For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeonsto be held for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, … if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; … then the Lord knows how …to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
Hell is a place. God sends people there. He is just. Those people choose it by their life here on earth. He will sentence humans that follow the ways of the world to the same sentence of satan, the ruler of this world. One must be born again of the spirit of God as a citizen and a follower of his kingdom in this life to stay a part of it for eternity. Not everyone who says ‘Lord’ means it, that Jesus own their life and it is now submitted to his Lordship and direction.
If you entertain anything but truth in regards to the idea of hell you are in bed with deception by friend and the truth will one day find you whether or not you denied it.
November 25, 2008 at 4:49 am
9″Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker,
to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,
‘What are you making?’
Does your work say,
‘He has no hands’?
10 Woe to him who says to his father,
‘What have you begotten?’
or to his mother,
‘What have you brought to birth?’
11 “This is what the LORD says—
the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker:
Concerning things to come,
do you question me about my children,
or give me orders about the work of my hands?
12 It is I who made the earth
and created mankind upon it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;
I marshaled their starry hosts.
November 25, 2008 at 4:56 am
For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 7Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”[b] 8In other words, it is not the natural children who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. 9For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”[c]
10Not only that, but Rebekah’s children had one and the same father, our father Isaac. 11Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: 12not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”[d] 13Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[e]
14What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15For he says to Moses,
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”[f] 16It does not, therefore, depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. 17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”[g] 18Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
19One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?” 20But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ “[h] 21Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?
22What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? 23What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— 24even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? 25As he says in Hosea:
“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”[i] 26and,
“It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them,
‘You are not my people,’
they will be called ’sons of the living God.’ “[j]
27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
only the remnant will be saved.