Question: Does a loving God really send people to
the Lake of fire?
Answer: This is like asking, “Does having policemen cause banks to be robbed?” The answer is, of course not. Man is a free moral agent. If he decides he wants to end up in the Lake of Fire he will, but he will do so after breaking down the barricades that a loving, gracious, merciful God has erected to stop him. Some of these barricades are:
The love of God demonstrated at Calvary – Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
One day I walked into the kitchen belonging to very dear friends of mine. Sitting there in her high chair, covered from head to toe with chocolate cake and icing was one of their children. She held her arms out to me, wanting me to pick her up… when I hesitated to do so the above verse came to mind. God did not love us because we are such wonderful, moral, loving people. He loved us while we were yet sinners! This is the difference between religion (religion here is to be defined as doing something that God never asked you to do) and grace. The grace of God accepts us just as we are. If you are going to go to the lake of fire you will have to do so in spite of the love of God demonstrated at Calvary for YOU! …… And yes, I did pick her up… mess and all!
Full forgiveness of sin right now – 2 Cor 5:18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
If you go to the Lake of Fire you will have to bust through this barricade of grace! (we have only listed a few of them) God is not, in this current dispensation of the grace of God, charging you for your sins! He offers to you and me eternal life as a free gift. All you need do is believe it and receive it.
Notice: 2 Tim 1:12 … for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Does a loving God really send people to the Lake of fire? – Unequivocally NO! The sinner must willingly choose to break through the barricades of God’s mercy and grace to plummet into that horrible pit.
Question: Why was it created, who will be there?
VERSE: Mat 25:41… Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: – Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. – Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Answer: It is clear from scripture that eternal judgement was prepared for the devil and his angels. Who will be there? Satan, the fallen angels, the beast, the false prophet and YOU if you have never believed the gospel of salvation.
And what is the gospel that saves when believed? It is Paul’s gospel, where he says in 1 Cor. 15:3, 4 that Christ died FOR our sins according to the scriptures and that he was buried and rose again the third day according to the scriptures.
Can you believe the bible when it says that you are a sinner? This simply means you are not perfect you are not like God – that’s what sin is.. the lack of perfection.
Can you believe that Christ died FOR your sins according to the scriptures? He did not pay for his own sins, he didn’t have any. And the fact that the perfect, sinless, holy son of God had to die is indicative of our inability to save ourselves. Christ died FOR you. He died in your place. He paid for your sins. And he did it freely and willingly so that you could miss eternal judgement and gain eternal life.
Can you agree with the scriptures when it says that Christ rose again the third day? He rose as the author and finisher of eternal life. He rose again to prove that he had paid for all sin for all men for all time.
Do you desire to have eternal life and miss eternal judgement? Then why not tell God that right now? Why not thank Him who loved you enough to provide eternal life for you as a free gift?
The RIGHTEOUSNESS that God REQUIRES is the RIGHTEOUSNESS he SUPPLIES.
~ Conclusion ~
Is there really a place of eternal torments? Yes! Does God send the lost there? No.. they choose to go there, but you do not have to. Believe the word of God today. Eternal life is unto all and upon all that believe.
The love of God demonstrated at Calvary – Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
One day I walked into the kitchen belonging to very dear friends of mine. Sitting there in her high chair, covered from head to toe with chocolate cake and icing was one of their children. She held her arms out to me, wanting me to pick her up… when I hesitated to do so the above verse came to mind. God did not love us because we are such wonderful, moral, loving people. He loved us while we were yet sinners! This is the difference between religion (religion here is to be defined as doing something that God never asked you to do) and grace. The grace of God accepts us just as we are. If you are going to go to the lake of fire you will have to do so in spite of the love of God demonstrated at Calvary for YOU! …… And yes, I did pick her up… mess and all!
Full forgiveness of sin right now – 2 Cor 5:18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
If you go to the Lake of Fire you will have to bust through this barricade of grace! (we have only listed a few of them) God is not, in this current dispensation of the grace of God, charging you for your sins! He offers to you and me eternal life as a free gift. All you need do is believe it and receive it.
Notice: 2 Tim 1:12 … for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Does a loving God really send people to the Lake of fire? – Unequivocally NO! The sinner must willingly choose to break through the barricades of God’s mercy and grace to plummet into that horrible pit.
Question: Why was it created, who will be there?
VERSE: Mat 25:41… Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: – Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. – Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Answer: It is clear from scripture that eternal judgement was prepared for the devil and his angels. Who will be there? Satan, the fallen angels, the beast, the false prophet and YOU if you have never believed the gospel of salvation.
And what is the gospel that saves when believed? It is Paul’s gospel, where he says in 1 Cor. 15:3, 4 that Christ died FOR our sins according to the scriptures and that he was buried and rose again the third day according to the scriptures.
Can you believe the bible when it says that you are a sinner? This simply means you are not perfect you are not like God – that’s what sin is.. the lack of perfection.
Can you believe that Christ died FOR your sins according to the scriptures? He did not pay for his own sins, he didn’t have any. And the fact that the perfect, sinless, holy son of God had to die is indicative of our inability to save ourselves. Christ died FOR you. He died in your place. He paid for your sins. And he did it freely and willingly so that you could miss eternal judgement and gain eternal life.
Can you agree with the scriptures when it says that Christ rose again the third day? He rose as the author and finisher of eternal life. He rose again to prove that he had paid for all sin for all men for all time.
Do you desire to have eternal life and miss eternal judgement? Then why not tell God that right now? Why not thank Him who loved you enough to provide eternal life for you as a free gift?
The RIGHTEOUSNESS that God REQUIRES is the RIGHTEOUSNESS he SUPPLIES.
~ Conclusion ~
Is there really a place of eternal torments? Yes! Does God send the lost there? No.. they choose to go there, but you do not have to. Believe the word of God today. Eternal life is unto all and upon all that believe.
