There is religious truth, and there's the world's truth, and then there is Actual Truth (John 17:17; John 14:6). *Actual Truth* is found in one Perfect Book (the AV 1611) and in one Perfect Person who bled and died for you (the man Christ Jesus - I Timothy 2:5-6). The Lord Jesus Christ said, "If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins." This is the worst place you could ever die - IN YOUR SINS. If you do your best and follow your conscience, you'll end up in the Lake of Fire. You don't like that statement because you're self-righteous, and you adore yourself. You may think you're good enough to escape the judgment of your Maker without Jesus Christ's Righteousness alone, but you won't.
God was manifest in the flesh, crucified for sinners, risen from the dead, ascended on high, and is now set down at the right hand of His divine Father. Jesus is the everlasting and unchangeable "I AM", the self-existent Being, the true God, God over all, blessed for ever; which is, and was, and is to come; from whom all creatures receive their being, and are continued in it; and who is also JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Christ is the eternal Son of God, God manifest in the flesh, JEHOVAH Himself was made flesh and became incarnate - Immanuel was God and man in one person. He came into the world to seek and save sinners. Christ Jesus is the true Messiah, the only Saviour of sinners; the one and only Mediator between God and man; the Head of the church, and the Judge of the quick and the dead. The great work of full salvation and complete redemption was wrought out by Him alone on Calvary's tree; give Him all the praise and glory of it, which is due unto His holy name.
All you have to do to go to Heaven when you die is just be Perfect. But you can never be Perfect, because you're a sinner. Just one sin (a wicked lie, a vile desire, a greedy theft, a filthy thought, a selfish action, a proud attitude, an impure motive, or your neglect and rejection of Jesus Christ and His Righteousness) makes you imperfect in God's sight. If you put helium in a balloon, it goes up, but if you put water in a balloon it goes down. It's what you've got in you, that will take you up or down at death (Romans 8:9, 11; I Corinthians 3:16; 6:19). It's not what you've done, or didn't do. You need Jesus Christ's Spirit within you (John 1:12), or you will die in your sins. Your soul is within your body right now, and when you die your soul will immediately leave your body. And since you love this earth so well, your soul will go down and live in the middle of the earth - Hell Fire.
While you were at your very, very worst, Christ died for you (Romans 5:8). Human nature is prone to run from that truth. Your right standing before God will ever have anything to do with you, nothing. You can do nothing morally, nothing in regard to behavioral modification that give you right standing in front of the holy Creator of the universe. You can stand perfect and spotless befre God by no act of your own, but by the perfect and sinless act of Christ on Calvary's Cross. Your only hope and plea and confidence must be in the sinless shed blood of Jesus Christ (I John 1:7). The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from ALL sin, not our good works. Don't run from God and try to clean yourself up, but run to the Cross and let God's mercy lead you to faith and more repentance in Christ. You have nothing to rely on or to trust to but the merit of God in Christ Jesus. Trust Jesus' blood alone to redeem you, His merit to clothe you. The desire to stop sinning is stopped by looking to Jesus. Religion says Do, Do, Do; so that you can be forgiven, feel better, and not feel guilt. But only the Gospel can take your guilt away.
Evolution and Darwinism is nothing but one of many silly and ignorant and absurd superstitions that sinful man uses as an alibi to reject the one sinless person (Jesus Christ) who loved them and gave Himself for their sins. Now understand - God only saves bad people who are complete failures and in need of the Perfect Savior. God worked out a plan of free salvation that the pride of man naturally abhors. Darwinism is nothing but an absurd fable from the beginning to the end dreamed up by a godless wretch that *silly deluded dupes* believe in university classrooms all around the world. Nothing is more pleasing to *human nature* than to concoct and believe a cock-and-bull story, rather than to believe in the Invisible yet Incarnate God who bled and died to save sinners from the wrath of God. Unless a miracle from God happens (the New Birth - John 3:7), the old way of human nature will surely damn every atheist, that is, the old crowded road of rebellion against God, worldliness, selfishness, human reasoning, unbelief, indifference, self-righteousness, love of sin, pride, carelessness, sloth, procrastination, and thoughtlessness.
Atheism prefers Darwin over Jesus Christ - this hankering for nonsense simply reveals the innate hatred for actual Truth in every man's unregenerate heart. Christ Jesus is the sinner's Great Friend - think much of Him, trust only to Him, serve Him gratefully and consistently.
The Holy Bible contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners, and the happiness of believers. Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable. It is given to you in life, it will be open in the Judgment, and it will stand forever. Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe, practice it to be holy. It contains light to direct you, food to support you, and comfort to cheer you. It is the traveler's map, the pilgrim's staff, the pilot's compass, the soldier's sword. It should fill the memory, rule the heart and guide the feet. Read it slowly, frequently, prayerfully. It is a mine of wealth, a paradise of glory, a river of pleasure. It involves the highest responsibility, it rewards the greatest labor, and condemns all who trifle with its holy precepts. Christ Jesus is the Bible's grand subject, our good is its design, and the glory of God its end.
You cannot undo the sin you've committed against God, you can't do one single thing to atone for any of your past or future sins. Through God's grace, Christ Himself, the living Savior, must make you Perfect in God's sight through the imputation (free transfer) of His Righteousness to your sinful soul. Christ must make this transfer, not you. You must simply believe that He is Righteous, that He will do it, and then ask HIM for the Free Gift of His Righteousness. Remember, JEHOVAH God is holy and He is a consuming fire. If you plan to dwell in His presence when you die, you must be as Holy as He is. Only Christ's Righteousness can make you acceptable in God's sight. If you are not perfectly holy within through Christ's Righteousness when you die, you will have to endure God's wrath, the Lake of Fire forever. But you don't have to suffer, that's why Christ lived a sinless life, bled and died in your place, suffering the wrath you deserved on Calvary's tree.
Christ Jesus came into this world to seek and save lost sinners. God smote Him instead of us. Jesus took your sins upon Himself; God punished Christ for your sins instead of punishing you. Christ is the Great Substitute for human sin. If you trust Him, you shall live forever. If you will take Him this day to be your Savior and Lord, you shall never perish, for God has pledged His word for it, that if you believe in Him alone, you shall be saved. O that you would look to Christ, and live! Your good works are good for nothing, they all go for nothing as to merit, but if you look to the bleeding Incarnate God suffering and dying on the Cross, your soul shall live. If you will trust yourself with Him who is now risen from the dead and seated at the right hand of the eternal Father, your soul is redeemed forever. Only believe in Jesus, and you shall live; for this is the Gospel: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. We do not mince matters with you-damned you will be unless you trust Christ, damned you never shall be if you will come and cast your lost soul before Him. “Kiss the Son lest he be angry, and ye perish by the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little.”
Here are some things that *control* most people: money, belly, house, alcohol, pills, Darwin, learning, sex, human body, earthly success, religion, news media, music, career, intellectualism, tobacco, this earth, remote control, benefits, pornography, man's admiration, retirement plan, internet, clothes, sports, paycheck, materialism, pets, reputation, cell phone, personal insurance, newspaper, education, annual bonus, titles, TV, human instincts, nest egg, entertainment, mammon, automobile, technology, carnal comfort, pension, luxury, college degree, evolution.
Idolatry is the worship of something or someone, including yourself, rather than the true and living God. Whatever controls you besides God is an idol. The reason why a man goes to hell is because he wants his sins more than he wants the Savior. God gives the unbeliever his wish; he gets to keep his sin in the Lake of Fire. The unbeliever prefers a life of sin to the life of God in Christ. The unbeliever hates the presence of the Lord. Only thirsty and bankrupt sinners will come to Jesus for rest from their slavery to sin. Salvation is free to sinners, because Jesus Christ paid it all. There's absolutely nothing in you that can ever merit the favor of God. The invitation to the Cross is still open today. You're not qualified to handle your own salvation. The unbeliever doesn't want a life led by the Savior or to give his will over to Christ. Surrender your own sin, your own will, and your own way to Christ Himself. Accept the terms of surrender and sign your name to the peace treaty of everlasting life – in the name of Jesus Christ alone.
Now understand - you are what you spend your money and time on. The sinner works feverishly to remain thoughtless and careless. The sinner doesn't know God and he is not aware of the danger of his sin, because he loves sin. The foolish man selfishly leads his own family members away from Go and right off into hell with him. Every man is trusting in someone or something - the sinner insanely trusts in himself and/or his religion. Now understand - every sinner without Christ labors, serves, and worships, and tries to find confidence, significance, and meaning in his own miserable self, which is absolutely impossible. The lost sinner won't believe on Christ, and he WILL NOT see the truth in the Gospel, because he loves darkness (sin) rather light (Christ Himself).
You have a soul and it will never burn up. If you *die in your sins* without trusting Jesus Christ's shed blood to wash you clean within, you'll have to burn for your sins as long as God lives - forever and ever. Why is this? Because your sins and your soul are ONE until you are pardoned and ransomed from sin by the Crucified and Living Creator Himself. ALL have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Christ is the authority on Eternity, not you, or Darwin, or your professor. The Lord Jesus Christ mentioned Hell 18 times in the four Gospels - Hell is an absolute fact. And the best you can do will land you in Hell. Self-righteousness hates that truth of the Gospel.
The self-loving atheist has his mind made up, he's going to think what he's been taught in a godless classroom till the day he dies, no matter if it costs him his own soul, and nobody's going to tell him anything to change his mind. The *actual truth* goes off the back of an atheist just like water off a duck's back. They try to brush off, duck, deflect, redirect, ignore, marginalize, and mock the Biblical facts of life, death, and Eternity. But Frailty, Mortality, Reality, and Eternity are just around the corner, soberness and truth are just over the hilltop. It's just a matter of time. Simply put - atheists believe what Darwin says and go to Hell, and born-again Christians believe Christ Jesus' words and go to New Jerusalem.
Hell really exists, it is a real place of torment (Luke 16:28) - you hear it mentioned by unsaved people every day at work and maybe even in your own home (they say, "Ah go to hell, it's hot as hell out here, that's funny as hell, as sure as hell"). Just listen closely each day to the unregenerate man's words - he'll preach to you about hell more than most preachers, and he doesn't even know he's doing it. Hell's not just for bad folks, and Heaven is definitely not for good folks. Hell is not the grave or just separation from God, it is literal fire and flames (Matthew 13:42; 18:8; 25:41; Luke 16:24; Jude 1:7). Everlasting fire or Everlasting life -- it's your choice.
Life is but a vapor, death is inevitable, you have broken God's law, but Christ died to save guilty sinners from the hell they deserve. What goes around, comes around. You reap what you sow, and you get what you grow. The wrath of God presently abides on every Christ-rejecting sinner (John 3:36). You have made light of God, heaven, hell, sin and Jesus Christ - they have meant nothing to you at all. But your time here on earth is running out fast. Your damnation will be Just if you die in your sins without the Savior. You cannot undo all of your sinful deeds of the past, present, and future. There are many skeletons in your closet that you don't want anyone to find out about. But God knows about them all - He has the black record of all your sins waiting for you. Someone has to pay for your sins. With you there are sins, and God must in justice punish you if you do not find a Substitute to take your place. Look to the eternal interests of your own soul - look to your own soul's salvation. Only the Holy Ghost can make the lost sinner wise. You are a spiritual fugitive running scared from Reality and Truth. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good. The ghosts of your secret sins haunt your memory from time to time. The demons of your sinful habits (filthy mind, dishonesty, unclean thoughts, thefts, cheating, bitterness, vile imaginations, pride, greed, selfishness) have you enslaved. Your wicked past will hunt you down one day, and will tell on you in the presence of the Judge of all the earth. Every dog has his day, and all of your vile secrets will come out at the Judgment of the Great Day of God Almighty. You can't hide from your guilt behind your silly notions of atheism. Unsaved soul, All of your poor alibis and vain argument will be like a spider's web at the Judgment, they won't hold you up. The way of the transgressor is hard, and life is long row to hoe without God, and Eternity in the Lake of Fire will nothing but misery and destruction forever and ever. All of your sins are currently attached to your soul, and will condemn you at the Judgment. Be sure your sins will find you out. A homeless person is an awful thing, but a homeless soul is far worse. Unpardoned sinner, your soul is currently out in the cold and heat of sin; you are starving and feeding on the garbage that the devil feeds you. You are in a very desperate situation without Jesus Christ as your personal Savior from the wrath of God to come on sin. Christ is the sinless Substitute for sinners. Jesus Christ gave Himself to die on the Cross for sinners - believe on Him and receive everlasting life freely.
There is a dreadful hell, and everlasting pains, where lost sinners must with devils dwell, in darkness, fire, and chains. The flames of hell will pierce your unredeemed soul, yet death will flee away, and though in flames you'll ever burn, you'll never burn away. There in hell fire you'll weep and wail and gnash your teeth, with bitter groans and sighs; No rest you'll have, night or day, and you'll never shut your eyes. The Lake of Fire will be the cursed end of every sinful wretch if he does not trust his soul with Jesus Christ alone. Every lost, unregenerate, self-righteous, sin-loving wretch cannot tolerate the fact, that when a man dies, if he is not Perfect and Holy through Christ's Righteousness, he will burn forever and ever in his sins. No earthly religion can tolerate that truth, a Hindu, or Buddhist, or Muslim, or Jew will never believe that. No religion teaches that the best you can do will land you on your back in hell fire, except one, and that is Biblical Christianity. One day if you die unconverted and unprepared to meet God, you will go and help fill Satan's dark dwelling in the fiery prison beneath your feet, where you'll be weeping, wailing, and gnashing your teeth for the ceaseless ages of Eternity. All because you you loved your sin and were too proud to come to Jesus' feet for free forgiveness.
The reason you'll wind up in Hell, is because you want your way, instead of God's way. You are resisting the Holy Spirit. You've made up your mind to go to Hell. When you go into Hell one day, you're going to make it there without Jesus Christ. This is why - you think you're smarter than your Maker, you think you know more about life, death, and eternity than God your Creator; you think you're Somebody. You think you know something that God doesn't know, so you'll have to endure torment forever and you won't be able to blame God, or your mother, or your friends, or your wife for it. You'll go to Hell because of your own stinking pride and self-righteousness. You've been truly warned about Hell. But you're stuck on yourself, and you think you're going to outsmart your Creator, but you're not. Mark it down - your fancy smart-aleck arguments won't save from death and the judgment to come.
Real Christians are not good enough to make it to heaven, Christians can't do one thing to get to Heaven. Jesus Christ did everything for me to get to Heaven - that is all. My eternal hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' precious Blood and perfect Righteousness. There's absolutely nothing I can do to get past the Judgment of God (Titus 3:5). You must stop trusting what you are doing, and simply trust what Christ Jesus has already done for you, or your eternal destiny will be outer darkness with the devil and his angels.
The torments and flames of hell and the lake of fire will never end. Why is that? Well, if you sin against a man, you can pay for it here in TIME, but you've sinned against the immortal Being that lives forever - you've sinned against the One that made you. And you will have to pay for your sins against God in Eternity until He dies. If God doesn't die, you've had it. You will want mercy and water in the lake of fire, but there won't be any there. And you'll hate yourself forever for going to hell. Are you saved and pardoned from eternal punishment - the lake of fire (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:15)?
You main problem is that you believe in yourself, and not in your Creator. Take some wise advice - Don't ever put any trust in yourself. The Bible says in Proverbs 28:26 - "He that trusteth in his own heart is a FOOL." The Proverbs also say, "Fools hate knowledge, fools make a mock at sin, the mouth of the foolish is near destruction, fools die for want of wisdom, the way of a fool is right in his own eyes, the heart of fools proclaim foolishness, a fool lays open his folly, it is abomination to fools to depart from evil, a companion of fools shall be destroyed, the folly of fools is deceit, the fool rages on and is confident, the mouth of fools pour out and feed on foolishness, wisdom is too high for a fool to understand, as a dog returns to his vomit so a fool returns to his sin, and the fool walks in darkness." Without Jesus Christ, you are alone in this world, without hope and without God, and you are separated from God right now, and condemned already.
If a man is an atheist, he is an egotist, he's stuck on himself. You love sin and hate Jesus Christ, you're headed for hell where you really belong, and you've got your mind made up to go, and you're going to trust in Darwin or your religion right up to the bitter end. There will never be any Bibles or Christians in Hell to bother you, there's no babies or little children in hell, there's no fresh water or good food in hell, there'll be no sunny days or blue skies or cool breezes in hell, and there will be no mountains, rivers, lakes, or beaches in hell. That's what men like to see and enjoy; Hell will only be darkness, fire, screaming, and smoke.
It's simple to get to Heaven without Jesus Christ, just be perfect and live a sinless life. There's nothing to it, right, just don't ever make any mistakes in thought, word, or deed all the days of your existence here on earth. But there is no difference in any of us, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There are no sinless people, no exceptions, including you. There's no difference, human nature thinks there's a difference between certain men and women when it comes to SIN, but there's not. The Bible says "THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE" (Romans 3:22). The reason a man goes to hell is because he thinks his opinion is more important than the Holy Bible, God's Book.
Here is the one Good News: God became a Jewish man, His name was Jesus of Nazareth, He came down to this sinful earth and lived a sinless life, and He suffered, bled, died and paid for your sin on Calvary's Cross, so you could get to Heaven freely on His Righteousness instead of your own (Romans 10:3-4). Hell is filled with good people that did good deeds on this earth, but their own righteousness cannot save them from the White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20). Darwin and/or religion has conditioned your mind, and this *actual truth* really upsets you. Verily every man at his *best state* is altogether vanity (Psalm 39:5). Only God in the person of Jesus Christ can give you a divine nature that can dwell in His presence safely and enjoy His holy nature forever.
When you die, you will get to Hell really quick. You may ask, "How far down is hell?" Just a step. There is but a step between you and eternal death and darkness in hell fire (Jude 1:6). If you die without Jesus Christ, you'll go to hell like a bullet. Hell is at the end of a Christ-rejecting life. By nature, you're lost and going to hell. Here are Eight roadblocks to keep you from going to Hell: The Holy Spirit, The Holy Bible, a Christian's witness, Calvary's Cross, someone's prayers for you, sermons on Sin-Christ's Blood Atonement-Death-Recompense-Judgment-Hell, your conscience, and the Creation you see every day. If you get to Hell, you will have to work at it like a dog. You can't go to Hell without stomping right over the Blood of Jesus Christ.
Now understand - A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. You may have the best intentions and be very sincere, but if you turn up your nose at Jesus Christ and His Righteousness, and refuse what the Scriptures say, you'll cut your soul's jugular vein with the knife of your Unbelief. In the Holy Bible, there is only one escape hatch from Hell, and it is not a religion or a church, it is not good works, meditation, prayers, keeping the golden rule, or doing good to your fellow man. The Bible says that says that Jesus Christ Himself is the Way to Heaven (John 14:6; Romans 10:3-4). And right now, you are either a saved sinner because you have trusted Christ's sinless Blood Atonement to pay for your sins, or you are a lost sinner, because you are trying to work your own way to Heaven. God help you to trust your soul with Jesus Christ before it's too late.
The greatest sins of the atheist are his willful alienation from God and his enmity with God. The most damning of iniquities is to neglect and refuse the free salvation of Christ Jesus. This is a direct personal insult to the loving God. The evolutionist has said in his heart, "There is no God," and in his life he labors to escape from the divine presence of his Maker. He hurries into rebellion, darkness, delusion, despair, and hardness of heart. The darwinist will look in all directions rather than than look to Christ Jesus, his Best Friend and Sustainer. He leans hard upon the arm of the flesh, and counts it foolishness to rely upon the Almighty God. He shifts his trust often, now he depends on this, and tomorrow on that. He is again and again deceived by his false confidences, he feeds on his secret sins like a dog does to his vomit. He chooses his own delusions. He spends his mental strength on vanity, he schemes, frets, and worries himself, and wastes his life. He meditates upon some new thing which promises him temporal hope. He desires to be duped and is very willing to be deluded. He would rather perish than confess his sinfulness, his sin against heaven, and turn to Christ and begin to live by faith in God. His carnal mind is enmity against God. He needs something to rely upon which he can see with his eyes and touch with his hands, but the invisible JEHOVAH he absolutely refuses to trust. He struggles hard to get away from the God who made him and died for him.
The atheist will never admit it, but from time to time he is overthrown with a sense of guilt and the fear of death and eternal punishment, he is liable to God's righteous wrath, dreads His name and shrinks from His presence. There is only one way to escape from sin's power and consequences. Christ Jesus Himself alone can pardon and erase your sins. Turn your face to God in repentance, look with the eye of faith to Christ Jesus, or you will die in your sins. Don't look at yourself or your sin, look only to Christ Jesus and be saved. Judgment is quickly approaching; you will soon confront your Maker. You need a pardon bought with God's divine blood, freely given to all who trust their soul to the Savior. God delights in mercy, come to Christ now. You don't have to do anything to make the Savior forgiving and merciful.
What is your confidence for eternal life? What are you relying upon to keep you out of the hell deserve? What will support your soul in death? Flee from all carnal confidence as from a filthy thing, abhor your self-trust. Flee from vain confidence in man or self. You have no worse enemy than your self-righteousness. Set all your confidence on the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. Trust your all with Him who died on Calvary. Go with all your heart to the Savior and call upon His name in truth.
