there is a hell

A man told me once if you don't believe in hell then you don't believe in the God of the bible.  I believe that is very true because God is just and God is righteous and Holy.  He does not allow the wicked to go unpunished.

O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. Psalm 95:1-2

Since even back in the day the people of God have been looking for justice. What if a man commits murder and is never found out? Where is his judgement? What if a man steels a person's wallet and never gets caught?  Those are laws against men and they should be prosecuted by the court.  How about if a man sleeps with many women and causes emotional damage to them?  Or a women is a gossip and ruins the lives of people around her?  These are against God's laws.  Is there no punishment for these?

And He shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yeah, the LORD our God shall cut them off. Psalm 95:23

My answer to these questions are the Lord shall cut them off.  What then shall he cut them off from?  The glorious kingdom of God.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?  Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

But not only that but they shall receive a payment for what is due, for there is life after this one.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: Hebrews 9:27 

And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.  Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire.  This is the second death, the lake of fire. Revelations 20:13-15 ESV

How great it is to be redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ who has saved us from our former selves.  For we all were living in this path but a transformation through Jesus's sacrifice on the cross is the only reason that salvation is here now. And how great it is to know that the wicked shall not go unpunished.  But we must all remember that tho we get hurt in these lives that it is our duty as Christians to forgive and to reconcile others to Christ, for we too were in the same place yet we are washed by His blood, made whole by His sacrifice and been redeemed by his grace.

 

struggleing with sin

In this life I must choose wheather to go doing Gods will or to follow my flesh.  Sin is a terrible thing and when started the chain will contine more and more sins will occur.  How am I to break this cycle?  How am I to overcome the torture of the two spirits within me?  First I begin with the consequences.  I know if I do right there are blessings and wrong consequences.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.  For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. Galations 6:7-8

My body is being destroyed because of my sin nature, however; through living in Christ I can have eternal rewards. And life will be everlasting with Him. Then I find out what does it take to do things which are in the Spirit. The Bible says it will be tough.

Therfore since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin. 1Peter 4:1

Sometimes it is physically painful to stop from doing the sins that are desired in the flesh.  In many of the things the flesh, world, and Satan offer are pleasing to the eye or to the touch.  They are desired by the flesh because they are desirable.  However, if I am to serve the risen Savior I must suffer in these things.  But when I do suffer it says I shall have "...ceased from sin."

If it is a struggle then who can help me with these desires that I might strive to stop sinning?  Who can give me the strength to do so?  I must live by the Spirit of God.  I must allow Him to direct my path and my thoughts.  I must make a choice not to push back the direction of the Spirt.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not cary out the desire of the flesh. Galatians 5:16

I must note that it says desire not desires, because there is one thing that my flesh wants.  It is to sin against the almighty Creator.  Sin is born in me and can only be defeated by the power of the risen Savior.  Therefor if sin is born in me the only way for me to stop sin is to follow a Spirit that is not of me, the Spirit which God gives all of His children.  The Comforter Holy Spirit.

I write this with ease, but to live these principles are difficult, however; that does not give me the reason to sin.  If I have the directions to fix a machine that I have broken but do not use them because they are difficult and continue to handle the machine in its current state and I get injured.  Then the manufacturer is not at fault I am because a plan to make the machine perfect again was in place. I was just to lazy to do it.