And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched.
Mark 9:45
Don't let anyone lead you to believe that hell isn't real. Proverbs 17:20 says hell is never full. It's as if the enemy is looking for candidates every single hour to fill it up. Isaiah 5:4 says hell has "enlarged herself and opened her mouth without measure." You see, there is this continual building project going on in the bowels of the earth. Every day -- every minute -- it is expanding, adding new cell blocks and openings for the souls that are taken off the planet. 2 Samuel 22:6 and Psalm 18:5 tell of how hell is filled with sorrow. Why would you want to go to any place filled with sorrow? That is unless you don't believe it's real.
Don't be deceived. Psalm 9:17 says the wicked go into hell and all nations that forget God go into hell. You know, our nation is at the point of forgetting God. You and I are among the last generation to know Him if we don't pass on the Good News of Jesus Christ.
But thankfully the story doesn't end here. There's hope! In Revelation 1:18, Jesus appears to John and says, "Behold, I have the keys to death and hell." Do you believe this for your life?
Aren't you glad He holds the keys? And those keys aren't the ones to lock people up; they are the keys to set people free! Isaiah 61:1 says, "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, for He has anointed me to preach the gospel, to bind up the broken-hearted, to set the captives free, to open up the prison door and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."
How wonderful to know that the Devil is not holding the keys any longer to lock you up. Jesus has wrestled them away -- on the cross -- to unlock the prison doors, to set our moms and dads, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, bosses and co-workers -- to set them free! For whom the Son sets free is free indeed (John 8:39). You only have two choices in life. Choose to be free in Jesus Christ today.
"Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen" (Jude 1:24-25).
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