HELL, SIN, AND JUDGMENT

by: Dan C. 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" (Rev. 20:12). Forsake sin today!