Tag: Hell

Where am I bound for?

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Samuel Daviesby Samuel Davies

“A New Year’s Gift” January 1, 1760

“Knowing the TIME, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep!” Romans 13:11

Consider the SHORTNESS of your time! That part of time which is parceled out to you, is not only uncertain–but extremely short! It is uncertain when it will end, but it is absolutely certain that it will end very soon!

In a short time death will convey you from this world–to Heaven or Hell. Is it not high time then for you to awake out of sleep! Your work is great–and your time is short! You have no time to spare–none to trifle away!

Methinks it would shock a man to enter upon a new year, without knowing whether he will be in Heaven or Hell before the end of it! We are all standing upon the slippery brink of eternity!

This day let us put this question to our hearts: “What really am I? Am I a humble, dutiful servant of God? Or am I a disobedient, impenitent sinner? Am I a disciple of Christ in reality? Or do I only wear His name, and make an empty profession of His religion? Where am I bound for? For Heaven–or for Hell? Which am I most fit for in my disposition? For the region of perfect holiness–or for that region of sin and impurity? Shall I stupidly delay the determination, until it is passed by the irrevocable sentence of the Supreme Judge, before whom I may stand before this year is at a close? Alas, if it should then be against me–then my doom will be remediless!”

There is none of this salvation work in Hell! They no sooner enter into the eternal world–than their state will be unchangeably and eternally fixed!

by Samuel Davies

Give God the Control

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A.W. Tozerby A.W. Tozer

Make me to go in the path of thy commandments, for therein do I delight. Psalm 119:35

I know that I am being repetitious, but this needs to be said again and again: our Lord will not save those whom He cannot command! The lifetime God has given us down here is a lifetime of decisions. Each person makes his own decisions as to the eternal world he is going to inhabit. We must decide to take Jesus for what He is—the anointed Savior and Lord who is King of kings and Lord of all lords! He would not be who He is if He saved us and called us without the understanding that He can also guide us and control our lives.

The root of sin is rebellion against God, and hell is the Alcatraz for the unconstituted rebels who refuse to surrender to the will of God. There are many arguments about the reality of hell. A man might endure fire and brimstone and worm, but the essence of hell and judgment for a moral creature is to know and be conscious that he is where he is because he is a rebel! Hell will be the eternal domain of all the disobedient rebels who have said, “I owe God nothing!”

by A.W. Tozer