Don't You Want To Go To Hell!!

(The Equal time Rule originated in The Radio Act of 1927 ,later the Communication Act, stated U.S. radio and television broadcast stations must provide an equivalent opportunity to any opposing political candidates who request it. Though this not required of preacher’s blogs, I thought in fairness I might give equal time to the other side with this post!).

Why wouldn’t you want to go to hell?

Oh sure, there are a lot of thing people like Jesus saying bad things about hell but what the great traits? Do we ever consider them?

For example, Hell is quite the popular destination (Mathew 7:13-14). Many of your friends and family will be there (Luke 13:23). It not hard to get into Hell, you don’t have to do anything to get there. You don’t have to listen and do anything anybody tells you to do (Matthew 7:21).

On earth, you always have God looking over your shoulder (Jeremiah 23:23-24) but in Hell, you won’t have to worry about that anymore (2^nd Thessalonians 1:9). You won’t have to worry about being surrounded by a bunch of goodie goodies there either (Galatians 5:21). No more folks pressuring you to attend worship, to give, to live rightly, in fact, there will be no such encouragement at all. No one will be there to judge you, since the time of judgment will be over (Hebrews 9:27). You won’t have to worry about Christ coming at all (Hebrews 9:28).

I know for lots of folks they despise that things don’t last but you won’t have to worry about that in Hell, it’s everlasting (Matthew 25:46). Hate Change? Things are not ever going to change in Hell (Mark 9:48). There won’t be a lot of coming and going in Hell (Luke 16:26).

Ok, maybe you’re not sold on Hell. Do you really want to go to all that effort for something else? Learn About Jesus (Romans 10:14)? Make a choice about who he is (John 8:24)? That sounds like a lot of work to me. Do that and you might have to give up sin and forgo its wages (Romans 6:23). You will even have to go underwater and get your hair wet (Mark 16:16). Seems pretty silly!

And then on top of that then you would then have to be surrounded by people that love you and want to encourage and edify you (Hebrews 10:24-25). That sounds like a waste some of this temporary time on earth for few measly moments in eternity . Are we even sure God wants us in heaven (John 3:16, 1^st Timothy 2:4)?

Look, I don’t have to conceive you to choose hell (2^nd Thessalonians 1:7-8), it's the default choice. So set back don’t worry about eternity and let someone else take care of it. There is plenty of room for you in Hell

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