Hell Is Real

I don’t want y’all to think that I’ve lost my mind but I have to write this week’s E-Votional on the reality of hell.  I believe that there is someone reading this that either believes that hell isn’t real or that it’s not as bad as it is made out to be.  God wants you to know that hell is real and it is really as bad as the bible describes.  He doesn’t want you to end up there separated from Him forever.  The one thing that most non believers and some Christians fail to realize is this: God is and always has been a righteous God.  He is loving, merciful and long suffering but He does judge righteously.  For the past two days it has been on my heart to write about this.  I am sure it’s the Holy Spirit and I pray that these words will open someone’s eyes and they will be saved from eternity in what the bible describes as a fiery lake of burning sulphur. 

Just as being a good person won’t save us from eternity in flames and torment neither will believing hell doesn’t exist.   Believing that hell isn’t real doesn’t change the fact that it is.  Heaven and hell are as real as the planet we live on.   Some people think that a loving God wouldn’t send “good” people to hell but the bible is clear that it is only because of our faith in Christ that we will be saved from eternal damnation.  There is no other way to heaven.  It is through Christ alone.    

Heaven and hell are real.  Heaven is paradise where tears fall no more.  Where we are all made whole and we walk on streets of gold with God forever.  Hell is a lonely place full of gloom and torment where one is separated from everyone and everything for eternity.  The choice is ours to make and from where I’m standing the choice is clear!  “But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”.  Joshua 24:15

Scripture

"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it”.  Matthew 7:13

So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come forth, separate the wicked from among the just, and cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth."  Matthew 13:49-50

The 12 gates are 12 pearls; each individual gate was made of a single pearl. The broad street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.  Revelation 21:21