Hell is a real place to avoid!

“The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matt. 24:41-42 ESV)

You don’t hear many sermons about hell these days

There is a move among some prominent religious leaders (not mentioning names here) who say,  “hell is not real and a loving God would never send people to a place like hell.” But, Jesus warned us about hell and spoke about it more than He did about heaven. He warned that hell is a place to be avoided and He died on the cross to prevent people from going there.

Hell is a place of everlasting destruction shut out from the presence of God

“They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.” (2 Thes. 1:9 NIV)

Hell is a place of punishment and eternal fire  

“In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.” (Jude 1:7 NIV)

Hell is a terrible place with weeping and gnashing of teeth

“They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matt. 13:42 NIV)

Hell is for the wicked and those who have forgotten God

“The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God.” (Psalm 9:17 NIV)

Hell is for those who are cursed, the devil and his angels

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” (Matt. 25:41 NIV)

“But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” (Rev. 21:8 NIV)

There are two paths, choose life!

“The path of life leads upward for the prudent to keep them from going down to the realm of the dead.” (Prov. 15:24 NIV)

“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” (Matt. 25:46 NIV)

Only those whose names are written in the book of life are saved from hell

“And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.” (Rev. 20:15 ESV)

God sent Jesus as a free gift to keep you from perishing

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16 NIV)

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Rom. 6:23 ESV)

Avoid hell, receive Jesus and believe in His Name

“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name.”

Confess Him with your mouth

“…that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Rom. 10:9 NKJV)