When People Deny Hell
“A Good God will not send people to Hell!”
In speech class at Temple University we were assigned to speak to a hostile audience. I complained to the instructor, he replied, “Do you believe in Hell?” My response was that I did. He said, “Then you have a hostile audience.”
I began my speech with a story that I had read of a modern public building which opened without even one “restroom”. My question to the class was what city planner would you hire if he did not plan for a “City Dump” or garbage disposal.
When God began His creation he planned for a place to put broken things. All contagious disease must be quarantined. Sin is a very contagious disease. God planned to quarantine sin in a place called hell.
You may ask, “why would a good God send people to hell?’ I would answer, “He doesn’t” It is because He is good that people go to Hell. To keep them in the general population would be evil for it would spread the disease of sin thus polluting and defeating God’s will.
He does not need to send them there. Psalm 9:17 indicates that people who want to get away from God begin to stampede so that all God does is turn them in the direction where God is not worshipped. He did not prepare hell for man but he prepared it as a prison for the devil and his followers.*
To not choose God is to choose His enemy. Today choose to make the Lord Jesus you savior and serve Him.
In that day when men shall flee
Just to get away from Thee
May I be found near Your Throne
To be with Thee and Thee alone.
Psalm 9:17 (King James Version) 17The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Matthew 25:41
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:*(The class had no questions to ask when I had finished) -- Pastor Van is a frequent contributor to Freedom Fighter and will serve again this summer as Campus Pastor at America’s Keswick
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:*(The class had no questions to ask when I had finished) -- Pastor Van is a frequent contributor to Freedom Fighter and will serve again this summer as Campus Pastor at America’s Keswick
Compass Pointers: Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them, the more of them we will see. Blessings brighten when we count them. Maltbie Davenport (Mattie D) Babcock
Anchored to the Rock: Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.”
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