How does someone get to Hell?

The mountain in front of Hell

John 3:16 KJV  For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

I might preach a little today, so y’all bare with me.  I was listening to one of my favorite pastors on the radio the other day, and heard an awesome message on God’s love.  Some of my ideas came from his message just to let you all know.

OK.  I hear people talking about how “ if there was a God, why would all of these bad things happen”?  I get angry too sometimes, but we have to realize that God doesn’t make everything bad happen.  Most things happen simply because we live in a sin filled world.  All that being said, let me get to today’s message.

God gave us the easiest way possible to salvation, but we have to make the first step and ask for God to save us.  He can save us because of the wonderful sacrifice of His Son Jesus.  No one has to go to Hell.  God doesn’t want anyone to go to Hell.  If he didn’t care about us, do you really think He would have sent Jesus to die.  This was His one and only Son.  If He didn’t love us, would He really have sent His son to be tortured, spit on, and cursed at.  I can’t imagine having to watch my son be tortured by the very folks he was here to save. 

I get frustrated sometimes dealing with lost people.  I mean it’s like they are drowning, and I’ve got a rope throwing it to them, and all they have to do is grab on.  If they would just give up the worldly things in there hands and use them to grab on to the rope (Jesus) , they would be saved.  I worry that these same people one day are going to look up and be in eternal torment.  The sad thing is that God has done soo much to keep us out of Hell, if you end up there it’s only because you climbed over Mount Calvary to get there.  In other words, lost people have to try harder to get to Hell, than they would to get to Heaven.  Grace is a free gift of God.  He can offer it to us because His Son, was a sacrifice to God for all of our sins.  As soon as the first drop of blood fell from Jesus on the cross, Satan was defeated.  Praise God!!!  Just got chills!!!!  One drop of Jesus’ blood kicked Satan’s butt.  That’s how powerful a God we serve.  Satan hates to deal with Jesus’ blood becuase it was at that point he got defeated.

Ok, so we know Satan has been defeated, we know that if you end up in Hell it will be because you climbed and treaded all over Mt Calvary, so why is it soo hard for people to see the truth?  “ The World blocks the view of Jesus”  “ Religion also blocks the view of Jesus”  Don’t get soo caught up in what denomination you are in, focus more on whether you are saved or not and I promise God will send you to where you need to be.

Sorry I was all over the place today, but sometimes I have soo many things going on in my head, that I just have to get them all out before I forget.  Remember this, Jesus is the one who saves, not us.  All we can do is tell people the truth about what Jesus did on the cross for us.  If they refuse to listen they will have to deal with the consequences.  Just don’t be scared to tell them the truth about Grace and Hell.   

The Other Side of Desperation

The Other Side of Desperation

²⁸ And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.

Romans 8:28

New Living Translation (NLT)

8) ³³ I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 16:33 (ESV)

Quick thoughts today.........

After about a year or two of continuous trials and tribulations, I can finally start to see the other side of all this junk.  PRAISE!  I'm still trying to figure out what all I need to have learned from the past few years, but regardless I am doing better.  Thanks for all of your prayers.  

When you are in the midst of trials, it's very hard to focus on these types of verses because they probably will just anger you or depress you.  In the first verse, we see that God promises to the Christian that anything that happens to us will be used by God for His will.  That is comforting if you think about it.  Even if we said and did things during our trials that we aren't proud of, have no fear because something good will come from it!

In John 16:33 we see that we are promised tribulation, so for those of you who may believe that as long as you live your life right then you won't have to deal with spiritual and personal trials......Please read the above verse again.  The great thing is that even though we are promised tribulations.....we are also promised peace!  Now this peace might just be spiritual peace about where you will spend eternity.....but like Forrest Gump said....."It's one less thing"   I'm not making light of eternal salvation just saying that as a Christian we are promised peace....not peace in our world, but peace in our heart about our eternity no matter what Satan or the world throws at us.

The important thing that I have learned is to stay the course no matter what.....I haven't written as much as I used to, but I've written!  I haven't prayed as much as I should have through all this....but I did pray!  During your trials just remember to keep on course.  Don't let go of your relationship with God because it took His Son dying on the cross for you to be able to have that relationship.

God Bless!