Repent and believe in the Gospel!

(Mark 1:15) "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel."

Pain is an everyday reality we need to contend with. My knee now throbs and unless something is done about it, it will continue to ache. It is impossible to ignore! Heaven and hell will be no different in reality, impossible to ignore! Pain should help us understand the concept of hell as we are told there will be a wailing and gnashing of teeth; “In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.” (Luke 13:28) 

We must accept the fact that hell will be a place of agony, a place that at all cost must be avoided. Very few welcome pains, nevertheless deception has so twisted the perception of some, as they look to pain in stimulating pleasure, they are known as masochists (the condition in which sexual or other gratification depends on one's suffering physical pain or humiliation). This sect of individual’s endeavors to make a statement that pain is and can be pleasurable. But even if a mind was so twisted to find itself so far gone, entering into such practices, what they fail to tell you is that pain is only manageable if relief is administered. Let us use a simple example like my knee, the pain is bearable for a time, but before long I am looking for pain-killers to ease the pain. And as it has continued over time it forced me to see a doctor yesterday and I have now booked a knee operation for next week Wednesday. Many different manageable outs and hopefully an operation will do the trick. The hope of relief!

But hell will not be like that; there will be no relief whatsoever and it will not be a place of spurts of pain and then relief, but constant eternal torment and hurt.

The writer of proverbs teachers us that to fear God is the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God and His sentence on all those who reject His offer of Salvation, in and through His Son the Lord Jesus Christ is a true reality. We must align ourselves with His terms, conditions and not our own cleverly thought-out plots to excuse ourselves for His judgment, as it will fail. We will nose-dive if we ignore His instruction, and be sure of this one truth it will be without exception!

So many opinionated voices out there, with their own idea of who God is and what will happen to us in eternity. If one seeks accurate answers on any topic, it is best to go to the source to find answers. It is God who has created the heavens and the earth; “For there is nothing hid, save that it should be manifested; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.” (Mark 4:22): - I now speak the truth in love about a topic that so many look to ignore, but ignore it at your own peril. I will use the Bible (the Holy Scriptures) to teach us about this treacherous but very real place.

It is the teachings of the bible I will use as the final authority, and if you chose to ignore its warnings as heresy then you do it at your own risk. Firstly let us look at some of the warnings given; “And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Matthew 10:28):- So then there is one who is able to sentence a person to hell, this person must excuse an individual from this particular sentence and it will be left up to Him to pass His judgment and not the suppositions of others. God will have the final say!

Some history on hell and those who now live there; “For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment.” (2Peter 2:4-9)

Do not be mistaken, hell is a very real place and its mouth is open to receive as many as will not repent and turn to God seeking forgiveness for their sins. Denial of such a place will not excuse anyone from such an abode.

How will we avoid such a place and what must one do to escape its torment? It is not about us trying to attain to some level of righteousness within our own character, to keep God’s laws is an impossible feat. We need to be covered by the blood of the only One who has accomplished this feat, there has only ever been one who has lived as a man and lived a life without sin, thereby excusing us (those who repent and believe) from the sentence of hell, praise the name of Jesus Christ the Lord! The law in itself has proved to us all that it is impossible to keep God’s commandments; therefore we need a champion to excuse us of our sin, in type, like David killed Goliath, so too did the Lord Jesus kill sin once and for all. It was a supreme sacrifice; in fact it cost the Lord Jesus His life as He paid the price for our sin. It is hard to comprehend how severe this actually was, as God the Father actual turn His face from His only begotten Son as He hung upon that cruel Roman cross; “And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"” (Mark 15:34): - God the Son was for a time separated from God the Father, why? Because of mankind’s sin!  

The sole purpose of this account was to once again make a way for sinful men to find repentance in and through the blood of the lamb. Although Adam sinned in the garden separating mankind from a relationship with God, it was the act of Calvary, the Lord Jesus’ sacrifice that once again open away for men and woman to re-establish communication between them and God the Father. Every other religion and suggestions made on how we can make it to heaven is a lie from the pit of hell and Satan is behind it! Do not believe it!

What then is a man to do? It is simple; "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel." As nothing else will keep a soul from the clutches of hell!

Turn to the Lord Jesus Christ and find life and heaven will be your final destination; hell will have no claim on your life!

(Romans 10:13)  “For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."”

Signing off

Tyrone