The sermon on Sunday night was powerful. Not just because James was in a pink checked shirt ;) Not even because James is a compelling preacher – though he is and we’re blessed to have him.
It was powerful because we heard from God himself a terrible story. The verdict of God includes sending people to hell – a place where the terror and reality of the torment is too horrific to begin to imagine.
I was in my usual café in Newtown a while ago and the waiter said to me as he gave me my coffee, ‘Do you think I’m going to hell?’
The answer is simple. Yes. But what did I say? I did the cop out – ‘well in the Bible God says that people who don’t follow Jesus are…’ and then I hoped he would move on to the next table. What a coward I was.
It is love that compels us to tell people of the reality they’re facing. If I had my chance again I’d say – because I care about you I need to tell you, I think you are.
Have we become so lukewarm and apathetic and forgotten that the day is coming and will come like a thief in the night? This reality could happen anytime…
“Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.” Rev 20:14-15
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