The Works of God, Judgment, Hell

The Works of God are seen in His Word in many places and today we explore His Work in Judgment. Truth and Judgment go hand in hand. As much as He loves us, He corrects us and there is Judgment to the one who rejects God’s Son. It is true we don’t often preach on the subject of Hell. Hell is a real place, it is hard to think about “burning” for ever. Some might dismiss it as a mental thing, or some other way, but as we look at Scripture we see it is a place of torment and a place of reality. The mention of Hell comes right at the beginning of God’s Word: Job mentions it in 26:6 – “Hell is naked before Him, and destruction hath no covering.” Again in Deut. 32:22 “For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.” I believe most of all humanity has heard of hell, as you know, to some, it is one of their favorite words in adverse conditions. Little do they know they are speaking of a real place, a place of God’s Judgment. A place of horrid torment … David in the Psalms has knowledge of Judgment and Hell, [Ch.9] There we read: “The Lord is known by Judgment which He executeth: and the wicked is snared by the work of their own hands … The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all the nations that forget God.”  David pauses at this thought with a “Selah.” A study of Judgment and Hell quickly causes us to understand the words of Jesus, when He said “I Am the Light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of life.”  [John 8:12] We need the Light of Christ because the darkness of our society has become wicked and corruption of humanity is an all time high. We only have to read the Account of the rich man and the beggar in Luke 16. “The rich man ended up in Hell and we read he said: “I am tormented in this flame and he begged Father Abraham to tell his family, lest they end up in this place of torment.” In II Peter 2 we again hear of the Judgment and damnation; Vs 4 is powerful: “For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to Hell …” In this Chapter we are reminded that God spares the righteous. Righteous meaning the one who is “right with God.” God delivered Noah out of the wickedness, He delivered Lot who was vexed with filthy conversation. Jesus is our deliverer, His Sacrifice is our Salvation! God is calling for His followers to come close and deliver the message of Judgment!  Loving you, Pastor