Hell, Sin, and Judgment

Dan Bailey

I suppose that the least talked about subject today is the subject of hell. Many politicians are more concerned about being re-elected than about the eternal destiny of their souls. Many grocery store owners would rather sell alcohol and filthy magazines than to face the fact that someday they will have to answer for helping to pervert and destroy the minds of millions. Many lawyers are concerned about winning cases for money, and not about what is just or unjust. There are groups everywhere which are rallying behind the banner of sin. According to some the Sodomite is no longer a sinner, he's just "living a different lifestyle" The drunkard is not a sinner; he has "a disease" The adulterer simply "made the wrong choice the first time," The infant that is aborted is just "a fetus." And the doctor who performs the abortion is "just helping to keep the birthrate down."

No, my dear Friend, there are not too many people today who are discussing the subject of hell. But it's still in the Bible. Jesus said, "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell" (Matthew 5:29-30).

Someday there will be a lot of people who will be cast into hell. "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God" (Psalm 9:17). The wages of sin will be reaped! God will settle all accounts. The books will be opened on the last day, and my Friend, we are all going to be judged. "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. And 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. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire" (Revelation 20:12-15).

"He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." Revelation 21:7-8