There is a place that nearly everyone is going to, your friends, some of your family members, most of the people that you have met in this life, they have made a decision against Jesus Christ, they have crowned someone else as king in their life, and so they will not be going to heaven. This is not just a made-up claim I am stating, the facts are clear in the Scriptures, few find the narrow way, few find the strait gate. (Matt. 7:14)
I know it doesn’t seem right to some of you, it doesn’t feel fair, for lack of a better word, but if you can recall the price that was paid for you, then those thoughts would not enter into your mind. Jesus brought up the subject of hell almost more than any other thing, one does not speak about something on a regular basis unless they have a serious point to get across, and very little is more serious than where souls will spend eternity at. This place we speak of is no temporary holding cell, there is not a time served clause involved, no reprieves, no mercy, no pity, no second chance, and you know people that are more than likely going to end up there.
We could spend the entirety of this letter to you discussing what the Lake of Fire is like, both in its physical, mental, and spiritual aspects, but I would hope that you have searched the Scriptures adequately enough yourself to understand as best as the Holy Spirit has allowed you to the eternal suffering that is in store for a very large portion of the human race. But that really isn’t going to do them any good, is it, once they arrive, there will be no leaving. The question is, what are you doing about them, have you explained in detail to those that you know that are lost the dwelling place for all eternity that awaits them if they continue to deny Christ as Lord.
I do not expect all to accomplish this, few will tell the lost about the love of Christ, the redemption of sin that is available only through His precious blood, much less those who will not speak of the eternal damnation that awaits the lost to those they meet. But my friends, if you don’t, who is expected to, are you just hoping that someone else will come around and use the Words of Scripture to convince them, are you hoping that if they finally accept your invitation to attend a Sunday morning service that the preacher will give a fire and brimstone convicting sermon and they will finally see even in the smallest way the horror that awaits those who will die in their sins, who are you expecting to come to speak to them.
If there is one thing that far too many who profess the name of Christ do not want to do in this age it is to use the Words of God around the lost, and rarely if ever will they speak of the unspeakable suffering that is awaiting those who will not call Jesus Christ Lord. Those who attempt to do so only with the “Brighter side” of Scripture will rarely venture into the parts of the Word that speaks of the punishment that awaits the lost, and so they will not love them fully, they will in a sense, love them to death, eternal death. Their souls are not in your hands any more than yours is, “Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.” (Eze. 18:4) But if you will not warn them when you know it is your responsibility to do so, you will be held accountable for the consequences of your own inactions. (Romans 14:12)
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” (2 Tim. 3:16) Did you notice two of those items in that verse, or have you gone along with the majority of the Christians today who also like to skip over that part. Reproof and correction, those words mean you have to take the chance of hurting someone’s feelings, you are to speak words of truth to people who will more than likely hate you for doing so, you are to warn them of what awaits the lost. I cannot stress this point enough, for it is a subject that is rarely brought up anymore, religious organizations have manufactured man made ideas of how to pray people out of this place, works based institutions claim it is not real, even some of the so-called evangelical foundations have been moved from this topic of their own free will. Hell, the Lake of Fire, eternal damnation is a real place, what awaits is eternal suffering, all loss of any hope, an eternal existence without pity, and you know people that if they die in their sins today that is where they are going to spend their forever at.
Words cannot describe the anguish of this place of torment, but have you tried, have you put forth any effort to let these you know, know about their end without Christ, have you spoken to your friends who are still trapped in that religious organization, are you trying to save those who will not listen to one side of the story of love, with the other side of that love. Some of your family and friends are going to burn forever in the Lake of Fire, that is not your fault, it is theirs, “For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.” (Romans 1:20) What is your fault, what you will be held accountable for, will be the times you know you were supposed to speak, the times you temporarily quenched the Holy Spirit of God, and because of your own petty fears you did not open your mouth and speak the truth to them, you did not warn them.
Those we love we speak truth to, we are commanded to love our neighbor, and so all we meet we are to speak the truth in love to, no matter how difficult and frightening it may be to do so.
