By Pastor Mike Taylor
13 “Enter
ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the
gate, and broad is the
way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in there
at:
14Because
strait is the
gate, and narrow is the
way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
(Matthew 7:13-14)
14”Therefore
hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and
their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that
rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15And
the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be
humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16But
the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy
shall be sanctified in righteousness.” (Isaiah 5:14-16)
There
seems to be a great division on beliefs in the presence of what is
called in the Bible, 'Hell” and if it actually exist. Just as Satan
has propagated the supreme lie that he doesn't exist in the minds of
those who are in rebellion against a Holy God, so does the same arch
enemy of what is holy, tries to convince these same people that there
is no such thing as “hell”. Logically, they fool themselves
thinking if there is no Satan, and no hell...what do I need with God
anyways? Even some denominations and religious leaders diminish the
horror of what hell really is!
First, let me quote a minister that doesn’t believe in an eternal hell and that God is a God of Love,
“For centuries, many ministers have been preaching "hellfire and brimstone" sermons and promoting a religion of fear by teaching that the unsaved face an eternity of torture. The common teaching is that incorrigibly wicked people will be tormented forever in some fiery, macabre manner in a terrifying place called hell. This horrible fate usually conjures up in people's minds visions of an ever-burning hellfire where sinners are continually roasted on spits, and a devil with horns and a tail runs around sticking his captives with a pitchfork.”
Sadly,
even this minister can't wrap his mind around a place the bible calls
“HELL”. They
just can't believe that a God of love would banish anybody to such a
place.
It is hard to convince some folks that God is not only a God of love, but also the God of judgment. He is a God of justice, a God of consuming fire, and a God who will not allow sin into His presence. Are we talking about the same God who passed judgment on ancient people who rebelled against Him?. Do you mean the same God that told the Israelites when they entered Canaan to not spare man, woman, or child from the sword, but to slay them all? Do you mean that God?
It is hard to convince some folks that God is not only a God of love, but also the God of judgment. He is a God of justice, a God of consuming fire, and a God who will not allow sin into His presence. Are we talking about the same God who passed judgment on ancient people who rebelled against Him?. Do you mean the same God that told the Israelites when they entered Canaan to not spare man, woman, or child from the sword, but to slay them all? Do you mean that God?
2 “Ye
shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye
shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon
the hills, and under every green tree:
3 And
ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn
their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of
their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that
place.”(Deuteronomy 12:2-3)
God
gave the Canaanites 400 years to repent of their evil, but when it
came time, judgment fell upon them, and Israel was commanded to
destroy them all. God is patient, but when judgment in finally
arrives, no one wants to be in the way of God's wrath.
STRANGE
BELIEFS ABOUT HELL
Some
denomination and well meaning Christians believe that hell is a
synonym of the grave. They go to great lengths to prove that Hades,
the grave, and hell are all the same thing. Then why does so many Old
Testament and New Testament writers under the guidance of the Holy
Spirit make so much about the wages of sin and the eternal
destruction of the soul in hell? Let’s take a journey to look at
some of the scriptures that point to the fallacy of not believing
that the penalty for not having Jesus Christ cover your sins with His
own shed blood is an eternal home in hell’s unquenchable fire.
EXACTLY
WHAT IS HELL?
The
word “hell” appears 54 times in the Holy Bible. Hell is clearly
defined in your Bible as a place of torment and burning. Only a fool
who rejects what he reads would say hell is the grave or only
separation from God. But there are denominations that dismiss the
concept of an eternal living hell, and those who try to make it a
biblical metaphor and a loving God would not send anyone to such a
place. But is that true? True, God is a loving God and He desires
that all come to repentance and be saved. God does not send anyone to
hell, YOU do and God gives them what they wanted, (separation from
God for all eternity)
“ The
Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any
should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (2nd Peter
3:9)
But
God has a limit to His patience, as noted in many passages found in
your Bible.
But
what does some of the leading religious leaders in our modern times
believe about the concept of hell?
What
some have said about hell:
Billy
Graham – The fire is symbolic when Jesus talks about hell fire. He
does not believe it is literal fire, but rather he believes the fire
could possibly mean a burning thirst for God that is never quenched.
Pope
Benedict – Believes in literal hell fire that is eternal.
Pope
John Paul II – Heaven is not a physical place nor an abstraction,
but that fullness with the communion with God. Hell is the ultimate
consequence of sin itself. He says hell is not a place, but rather
the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves
from God. Hell is symbolic. People that aren’t “recognized” say
it is separation from God, no fire. And then you have those
troublemakers that agree with Jesus and the rest of the testimony
contained in the book.
*Purgatory
– An intermediate state between heaven and hell. You burn there
until you are pure and then enter into heaven.
(Studies
in the book.com)(not found in the pages of your bible)
“The
people that are always trying to air condition hell are the ones that
are going there.” - Ruckman
As mentioned, God does not send us to this place that Jesus spoke of where the worm
dieth not, nor fire quenched. YOU DO, out of your own self will to
reject a free offer of salvation found only in Jesus Christ you
choose to live eternally in hell's torment.
'
43 “And
if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter
into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the
fire that never shall be quenched:
44Where
their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
45And
if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter
halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the
fire that never shall be quenched:
46Where
their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
47And
if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: 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:
48Where
their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.” (Mark 9:43-48)
Jesus
was obviously not advocated to cut off a member of your body and a
person that takes these verses literally, but making a point that if
you live like the devil, you will make your home with him in the end
of time. He speaks of fire unquenchable and where the worm that eats
your flesh, dies not. Jesus is quite literal here.
Jesus
speaks of a very descriptive place that our Lord does not wish to
send anyone to, as that is not His will, but it is our will, our
choice to reject the only provision of escaping such a place. See,
God hates sin and cannot be in its presence. God is love, and He
extends that love when He sent His only Begotten Son to die in our
place.
So
God's love is conditional in that He will only allow us into His
presence on one condition, that our sins be forgiven. More on that in
a minute. But let us explore. Is there a penalty, a torment and a
real place called hell? Jesus told His disciples concerning speaking
the truth of God:
27
“What
I tell you in darkness, that speak
ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach
ye upon the housetops.
28And
fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul:
but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in
hell.
29Are
not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall
on the ground without your Father.
30But
the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31Fear
ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
32Whosoever
therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before
my Father which is in heaven.
33But
whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my
Father which is in heaven.” (Matthew 10:27-33)
So
here I am speaking from the housetops using the internet to warn all
who will listen about a place so horrible that I wouldn't want my
worst enemy to endure. I am not here to scare you, but to warn those
of you who are listening with your spiritual ears......Realize that
you are a flawed individual with a sin filled past, and born to sin
as a nature of humanity...the only way to escape what I speak of is
found in this message.
Let
us give you more biblical support for the truth God warned us about.
WHERE
IS HELL LOCATED?
It
is below your feet right now, in the heart of the earth !!!
9 Hell
from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it
stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth;
it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10 All
they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we?
art thou become like unto us?”(Isaiah
14:9-10),
“ The
way of life is above
to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.” (Proverbs
15:24)
Jesus
spoke of this very fact in the lesson of the Rich man and Lazarus.
When
Jesus spoke of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus being
separated by a huge gulf and the rich man being in torment, was He
just telling a story? Was He stretching the truth, just to make a
point? Let’s look at the passage. This is Jesus speaking.
16:19 “There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
16:20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
16:24 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 1:19-24)
Notice
that those in Paradise have names, such as Abraham and Lazarus..but
the “rich man” is nameless, faceless and is anybody who rejects
the free gift of salvation found in Jesus Christ could be this
person. (could this be you?)
Our Lord was sinless and only told what is true, it would make sense that He would not tell a falsehood, just to make a point. Jesus spoke of things spiritual that were being played out in the natural realm. Do we think that He was just joking and He didn’t mean it as He spoke it, and exactly as we take it? This place of the abode of the dead, encompassed hell and paradise, as the above verses speak of, but Jesus emptied Paradise when He was raised from the dead.
8 “Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
9(Now
that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into
the lower parts of the earth?
10He
that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all
heavens, that he might fill all things).” (Ephesians 4:8-10)
Where
Jesus took those whose abode was Paradise, is for God to know, but we
know that since Jesus was crucified and descended into the lower
parts of the earth, to reveal Himself as the Messiah, to those who
entered into this temporary place of rest, were removed somewhere in
the third heaven.
But hell and it's torment is still there, as it has not been emptied as of yet.
Did
you know that below your feet are millions and millions and millions
of souls crying, screaming, weeping, wailing, and gnashing on their
teeth, and begging for a drop of water for their tongue because they
are tormented without rest with fire and brimstone and they know they
are not getting out? Did you know the only consolation one can find
in hell is to think about (which I assume is hard to do because of
the torture) one’s life on earth (Luke 16:24-25)? It's not like it
is here on the surface, but those who died without Jesus Christ as
Savior, or looked for Him coming in the future, ended up here in a
spiritual realm of separation from God and are in torment...
WHAT
HELL IS LIKE
The
Party in Hell has been canceled due to fire …..
11 “And
I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and
shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of
heaven.
12 But
the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness:
there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.(Matthew
8:12),
Jesus
speaks of this awful place further in Matthew 22:13, 24:51, 25:30,
13:28). IN fact, Jesus spoke more of the dangers of hellfire than He
did about the coming Kingdom of God. Some impudent people speak of
joining their friends for a party in hell, but there will be no joy,
no happiness, no light, no love, no friendships, and no party in
hell........only torment! Scripture gives us details about hell.
There
is darkness, weeping and gashing of teeth (2 Samuel 22:6, Psalm 18:5)
There are sorrows in hell (Job 11:8 )
Hell
is deep (Psalm 86:13) Lowest hell (Psalm 116:3 )
There
is pain in hell (James 3:6)
Your
tongue is set on fire in hell (Isaiah 33:10-17 )
There
is a devouring fire, and everlasting burnings (Matthew 25:41 )
Everlasting
Fire (Revelation 14:9-12, 20:10) You are tormented with fire and
brimstone in God’s presence (Revelation 21:8)
It
is a lake of fire and that is the second death
Who
goes to hell? (Psalm 9:17, Psalm 55:15) All the wicked and all
the nations that forget God (Proverbs 27:20) Hell is never full
(Isaiah 5:14) Hell has enlarged herself to make room
(Isaiah
14:15 )The Devil will go there – he is not there yet, but he will
be.
(Revelation
20:10 Ezekiel 31:16-17) Cast into hell (2 Peter 2:4)
The
angels that sinned have been cast down to hell, and are chained there
until the day of judgment (Revelation 20:11-15, Isaiah 24:17-23 )
The
angels that have yet to sin and rebel will be shut up in hell
(Revelation 11:7, 17:8) The Antichrist is right now in the bottomless
pit and will descend out of the bottomless pit, but will be thrown
into the Lake of Fire when Jesus comes to put down all rebellion and
sets up His Kingdom. The Anti-Christ will be possessed by Satan, but
for now, the AC is not revealed until the timing is right in God's
plan for mankind.
AND
finally........
Whoever
is not found in the book of life,
15And
whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the
lake of fire.” (Revelation 20:14-15)
That's
just a quick glimpse of the huge amount of scriptural support and I
encourage you to take a bible in hand and look at each verse, the
surrounding context and prove to yourself the concept of a devil's
hell waiting for those who reject the only provision of escaping this
eternal doom and everlasting destruction.
THE
MAJORITY OF MANKIND WILL GO TO HELL
But
with all these biblical verses to support the truth of the concept of
hell spoken in your Bibles, a majority of mankind will end up going
to this awful place. Why? Free will and being deceived by Satan the
devil. Men revel in their wickedness and the lust of the
flesh. Those
who reject God's provision will have to face the consequence of their
own choice. We can accept His offer of salvation, or reject it.
Unfortunately, most human beings will reject Jesus
the Messiah.
They will not obey Him. In this generation, more than 90 per cent of
the worlds population are outright idol worshipers, godless, secular
or atheists.
Remember
when God destroyed the world by a devastating flood in the
Antediluvian age of Noah? He only saved 8 souls and some animals (2
by 2 of unclean and 7 each of clean animals) to repopulate the earth.
So when God judges this earth again by fire, sadly only a remnant of
all the people who have ever lived will find their way to heaven and
the goal of salvation.
SOME
BELIEVE THE SOUL OF MAN WILL BE ANNIHILATED?
There
are some Christian fundamental churches that believe that when God
sends those who have not accepted His free pardon and offer of His
grace and mercy, found in His only Son, they will cease to exist and
be destroyed. They don't believe that men will be tormented for all
eternity in a devil's hell. They believe they will be annihilated and
will be no more, either in body or in spirit. But what is the truth
found in your Bible?
Does
the spirit of man live on even after death? Some believe that they do
not...they point to what Solomon said:
“ For
the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing,
neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is
forgotten.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5)
They
call this soul sleep, meaning the mortal man is forgotten and knows
nothing, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. True, the mortal
body dies and goes to dust, but does that mean that the spirit is not
still alive and fully conscious? Let me refer you to these websites that
supports what I have believed and gives many more scriptures that
prove that man at his creation, each of us, are created in the image
of God and at that moment will live forever, either in a glorious
state, or a eternally damned state of separation from God.
“Without
a doubt the human soul is immortal. This is clearly seen in many
Scriptures in both the Old and New Testaments: Psalm
22:26; 23:6; 49:7-9; Ecclesiastes
12:7; Daniel
12:2-3; Matthew
25:46;
and 1
Corinthians 15:12-19. Daniel
12:2 says,
“Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to
everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.”
Similarly, Jesus Himself said referring to the sheep and goat
judgment:
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:
43 I
was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not:
sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then
shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an
hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison,
and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then
shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye
did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And
these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous
into life eternal.(Matthew
25:46).
With
the same Greek word used to refer to both “punishment” and
“life,” it is clear that both the wicked and the righteous have
an eternal/immortal soul.
The
unmistakable teaching of the Bible is that all people, whether they
are saved or lost, will exist eternally, in either heaven or hell.
True life or spiritual life does not cease when our fleshly bodies
pass away in death. Our souls will live forever, either in the
presence of God in heaven if we are saved, or in punishment in hell
if we reject God’s gift of salvation. In fact, the promise of the
Bible is that not only will our souls live forever, but also that our
bodies will be resurrected. This hope of a bodily resurrection is at
the very heart of the Christian faith.
12 “Now
if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among
you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
15 Yea,
and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of
God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that
the dead rise not.
19 If
in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most
miserable.”(1
Corinthians 15:12-19).
“While all souls are immortal, it is important to remember that we are not eternal in the same way that God is. God is the only truly eternal being in that He alone is without a beginning or end. God has always existed and will always continue to exist. All other sentient creatures, whether they are human or angelic, are finite in that they had a beginning. While our souls will live forever once we come into being, the Bible does not support the concept that our souls have always existed. Our souls are immortal, as that is how God created them, but they did have a beginning; there was a time they did not exist.” (Gotquestions.org)
“While all souls are immortal, it is important to remember that we are not eternal in the same way that God is. God is the only truly eternal being in that He alone is without a beginning or end. God has always existed and will always continue to exist. All other sentient creatures, whether they are human or angelic, are finite in that they had a beginning. While our souls will live forever once we come into being, the Bible does not support the concept that our souls have always existed. Our souls are immortal, as that is how God created them, but they did have a beginning; there was a time they did not exist.” (Gotquestions.org)
So
taking that thought further, if we are to always live after creation
in some form, whether physical or spirit, then each man and woman
must decide where they wish to spend eternity. Remember, the reason
any of us were born is to make a decision of what we will do
concerning the Man/God Jesus Christ...will we accept His gift of
salvation bought in His own blood, or by our own free will and
rebellion, refuse that gift and exclude our sins being forgiven?
7For
scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a
good man some would even dare to die.
8But
God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
9Much
more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from
wrath through him.” (Romans 5:6-9)
BOOK
OF REVELATION DESCRIBES MANKIND'S ETERNAL HOME
Prophecy
in your bible consist of 26-27% of fulfilled and unfilled prophecy.
Many of the Old Testament prophecies have been fulfilled, some are
waiting to be fulfilled. But Revelation past the 3rd chapter is
prophecy of the future. But the end result of the whole of the book
of the Revelation of Jesus Christ is where men choose to spend
eternity...either in glory with God the Father and His Son, Jesus
Christ, or banished to outer darkness and cast alive into what the
Bible calls the “Lake of Fire”.
4
“And
I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto
them: and I
saw the
souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for
the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his
image, neither had received his mark
upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned
with Christ a thousand years.
5But
the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were
finished. This is the
first resurrection.” (Revelation 20:4-5)
A
glorious picture of those who have overcome this world by the blood
of the Lamb. It speaks of the first resurrection that began with
Jesus resurrection and will end when He comes to set up His Kingdom
for a 1000 years. Fast forward from Revelation chapter 4 of the 24
elders sitting on thrones, a clear picture of the Church rewarded and
sitting on thrones, now we sit in judgment of men and angels as Paul
spoke of in 1st Corinthians:
2
“Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the
world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest
matters?
3,
Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that
pertain to this life?” (1st Corinthians
6:2-3)
The
book speaks of a glorious future for those who have accepted Jesus as
personal Savior, but it also gives a damning description of those who
reject Him.
GREAT
WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT OF GOD
This
is found at the Great White Throne judgment that brings all the lost
of all the generations of mankind, from the beginning of creation
till the last person born human on earth.
12 “And
I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were
opened: and another book was opened, which is the
book of
life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written
in the books, according to their works.
13And
the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell
delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were
judged every man according to their works.
14And
death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second
death.
15And
whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the
lake of fire.” (Revelation 20:12-15)
What
are these books that are opened that God will judge all of mankind
that have rejected His free offer of mercy and grace? My discernment
on that is they are the books of your Bible...God's Word. It was
designed and written as a love letter telling about God's love for
mankind, sending His only Begotten Son to die in our place and to
save them from their sins. But now, they are opened as their judge.
They have committed the “unpardonable sin” that cannot be
forgiven. They have rejected the only way to enter into the presence
of God Almighty, Jesus Christ and refused the call of God's Holy
Spirit that was drawing them to a knowledge of their condition and
need for a Savior.
16 “For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.
17For
God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that
the world through him might be saved.
18He
that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is
condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the
only begotten Son of God.
19 And
this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men
loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”
(John 3:16-19)
If
anything is certain about the future, there is a judgment according
to whether they accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior or reject that
message, for all who ever lived and died. How can anyone who reads
the words of his bible and ask God to give him discernment of what
those words mean, take their own “immortal” soul and risk
spending eternity away from all source of goodness, love, joy, peace
and happiness and spend in a devil's hell?
I've
often wondered when I read these words, when God talks about the
“Lake of Fire”, what could be the source or synonymous of that
everlasting punishment?.Obviously, it is very hot and causing
excruciating torment for those who are so unfortunate to receive this
for their banishment from the presence of a Holy God. The Bible is
clear of its eternal destruction of the soul's of men. I don't know,
but theorize it would be something along the lines of our own sun. It
is thermo-nuclear and we don't know what the interior of that ball of
exploding gases are comprised of....but think of it, how would a
person endure being at the center of something like our sun? Would
you even want to know?
JESUS
SHOWED US THE WAY
But
take heart, my reader. You don't have to spend eternity in a devil's
hell and be cast into a “lake of Fire” to endure torment and
separation from God for all eternity. For at the end of the Book of
your bible, there is an invitation to all who will listen to the call
of the Holy Spirit:
16 “I
Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the
churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the
bright and morning star.
17And
the Spirit and the bride (the redeemed church) say, Come. And let him
that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And
whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” (Revelation
22:16-17)
How
can we know the way?
6Jesus
saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man
cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7If
ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from
henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.” (John 14:6-7)
I
beseech all who read this message, to open your heart and your mind,
and let the Holy Spirit who is calling all who will listen to repent
of their sins, and change their mind about the life they have been
living, to embrace Jesus, the Son of the Living God who died for your
sins and mine.
8 “But
what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy
heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That
if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved.
10 For
with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.
12 For
there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same
Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
2 “(For
he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of
salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time;
behold, now is the day of salvation.)” (2nd
Corinthians 6:2)
Make
no mistake, to do otherwise will bring you to the edge of hell, as
the mouth of hell has opened it's mouth wide to receive you.
This
is Pastor Mike Taylor, praying for your redemption through the only
way to enter heaven's glory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. If you
need counseling, prayer, or just a listening ear, email me
at pastormiketaylor@yahoo.com, God bless you all until
hopefully,
WE
MEET AT JESUS FEET
I used to believe as you do in an eternal punishment in the Lake of Fire for satan, his fallen angels and all unbelievers. But after careful study & prayer, I have come to believe in Universal Reconciliation.
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10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Except that is NOT what the Bible tells us....there is no Universal Reconcilliation, as there IS A GREAT WHITE THRONE judgment of all who have rejected Jesus Christ...read the last chapters in Revelation...and not in chapter Revelation chp. 14......Revelation 14:11And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name."....so it is not universal as some, such as the Church of God believe, as some will reject Christ and there is NO second chance...this life is your chance to be either in heaven or in hell...you choose wisely.
DeleteIm call Jonah . Glory be be God for such a sound minded preacher of which, you are. I been thinking that do we still have a man of God to clearly give you the message PURR TRUTH ? I'm so happy that I came accrose you. Thanks be to GOD !!!
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