Showing posts with label Hell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hell. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

The Condemned Heart and Hell


The spiritual heart is an organic living machine, opening windows to creation and time, a residence for our Eternal soul, able to infinitely amplify and receive words that can destroy or bring life, and a throne room for a judge. Only God can control this magnificent machine, and only when you surrender and become One with The Crucified and Merciful Christ
Refuse this Salvation, and at Judgement you will condemn yourself. Your heart will sever all connections with Joy and Life, fuse itself to the infinite suffering Hell, and amplify your words of self condemnation Eternally.
At Judgement Day, only One can save you, but He will not, for if you refused His Salvation while you faced men, He will refuse to save you when you face Eternity.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Hell and Infinity





To understand Hell, we have unplug from the finite and begin to stretch our minds around the Infinite.
In this world All punishments are finite. It may be painful, devastating, limiting, crippling, but in this life it is always FINITE. The punishment will end, either by the length of the sentence, or by death.
Punishments are also limited in capacity. Go so far into pain, and the human mind overloads, and we sink into unconsciousness. Our human bodies have only so many nerve endings, and there is only so much time.
But in the spiritual world, because we have INFINITE potential, to be punished in Hell means an ever growing capacity for pain, not limited by our physical being, and not limited by time.
The pain of those we injured or mislead becomes our pain. The rich man was fearful of his brothers coming to Hell because he knew he was being held accountable for their lack of salvation.
God always pays back more than was paid in. For the giver, this is great news, for God has promised reaping 30, 60, and 100 times what we have given to others.
But He has also promised to double the punishment of the unbeliever. Double, quadruple, and even 7 fold are the terms of His payback. Every pain that the lost sinner has inflicted by intent or neglect will be heaped onto the already infinite punishment for turning his back on God's great Gift.
The spirit, soul, heart, and even the resurrected body of the lost sinner will continue to grow, to make connections, to begin to realize it's infinite potential. Even the number of nerve endings will grow.
But there will be no grace and beauty in Hell. Instead, there will be an infinitely growing realization of the pain the sinner has cause to others by neglecting his or her duty to share the good news of Salvation.
The pain of others will become the pain of the lost sinner, not in some fuzzy sense of regret, but in a FEARFUL total compassion that will never end, or lessen. but increase moment by moment throughout ETERNITY.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Why Good People go to Hell: A Report



It is obvious to me that there is a hunger to know about hell. My sermon, Why Good People Go to Hell, has been viewed 1870 times,  21 times as much as my most popular post.
I uses Google Analytics to analyze my blog, and one of the things I keep track of is how many searches are used to find the blog. A search for a subject that I have written about can mean that the person has heard of the subject I have written about from someone else and then did a Google search to find my blog by topic.
It was encouraging to me when I first starting having people do searches to find my blog. It meant that the word was spreading. I would get excited if 1 or 2 searches were done in a week.
Since I wrote the blog on Hell, a little over seven months ago, there have been 478 searches for hell on Google.
This topic may seem intellectual, but it reveals the terrifying and tragic truth that those friends of ours that reject the Lordship of Christ either openly or through indifference are headed for an eternity of infinitely expanding suffering.
One other thought. Most non Christians are apathetic to any revelation of the Word or the fear of the Lord, an awareness of God's Presence. But according to Solomon, they hunger to understand the nature of the spiritual heart.
It is not a coincidence that there is a hunger to hear about Hell and this same quality that Solomon mentioned. To understand about the tragedy of Hell is to understand the spiritual heart. The two truths go hand in hand.
For example, the heart has the ability to amplify an emotion, like a radio beacon. If that emotion is condemnation, which is all that will be left in Hell, imagine that message amplified to  and through infinity.
I am convinced that the unsaved world wants to hear about Hell, because it also helps them to understand about their biggest question. Why does the spiritual heart have an infinite yearning? 
That infinite yearning can only be filled with an Infinite Holy God.