Dear friends,

Our ancient and constant nemesis lord Satan of this fading world is forever chipping away at the integrity of the gospel of the kingdom. His infernal majesty scored a direct hit by using Rob Bell in his book Love Wins. Rank heresy it is. Rob has such a low view of the holy scriptures that have been preserved by the blood of faithful brethren like Hus, Tyndale, etc who were burned at the stake to give us the precious Word of God, I wonder what in the world he’s smoking. I really do. He better repent…

This piece by brother Gilbert is a classic. Don’t fall for the modern notion that Satan perpetrates that God is nice and can’t stand to see anyone in torment. That is not justice. In Revelation chapter 14 we read a main passage:

…”If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,  he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”

Spread the word: God is full of wrath for injustice and those misrepresenting His identity, and He pleasures in tormenting His unfaithful enemies. In the eternal presence of His Lamb, the Son of God, our Lord and Master, King of Kings.

Is this your view of God? If not, repent and follow the God who is, not the God you want. He’ll not make any allowances for you or me. He is the great I AM.

Why Hell Is Integral To The Gospel

-by Greg Gilbert.

For some, the horror of the Christian doctrine of hell—that it is a place of eternal, conscious torment where God’s enemies are punished—has led them not just to avert their eyes and minds, but to deny it entirely. “Surely,” they say, “hell is a fictional construct used to oppress people with fear; a God of love would never allow such a place to really exist.” There’s an emotional power to this argument, to be sure. No one, certainly no Christian, likes the idea of hell.

At the same time, this doctrine isn’t just drapery on the side of the Christian worldview, something with no relevance to the structure of the faith itself. Nor is the doctrine of hell an embarrassing, unnecessary, primitive wart that we believe just because we’re told we have to.

On the contrary, the doctrine and reality of hell actually throws the glory of the gospel into sharp relief for us. It helps us to understand just how great God really is, how sinfully wretched we really are, and how unutterably amazing it is that he would show us grace at all. Moreover, the reality of hell—if we don’t push it out of our minds—will focus us, above all, on the task of proclaiming the gospel to those who are in danger of spending eternity there.

With that in mind, here are five biblical statements about hell which, taken as a whole, demonstrate why hell is integral to the gospel.

1. Scripture teaches that there is a real place called hell.

I won’t belabor this point. Others have made this case with crystal clarity. Suffice it to say that medieval bishops didn’t invent the doctrine of hell as a way to scare the serfs; they got it from the apostles. And the apostles didn’t invent it to scare the pagans; they got it from Jesus… At the most basic level, therefore, if we claim to be Christians and to believe that the Bible is the word of God, we have to recognize that the Bible teaches the reality of hell. But there’s more.

2. Hell shows us how heinous our sin really is. [Read more…]