I DONT WANT TO HEAR ANYMORE ABOUT HELL! Part 7

https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/42-136/a-warning-to-the-indifferent

As a believer I am here to tell you that God will forgive sinners; that God desires to be reconciled to sinners through that forgiveness.

* He will forgive those who repent of their sin and believe in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ:

* Those who believe that He died in their place and rose from the dead.

* For those who believe, God promises the forgiveness of all their sins and a place in the joy and bliss of His eternal heaven.

That’s the gospel. So here we are in the world with good news. However, there is an element of the good news that is very, very bad news. In fact, the good news is predicated on an understanding of the bad news.

The news about salvation is only good if one understands the bad news about what happens to those who don’t possess that salvation. In fact, part of our proclamation of the gospel is to tell people the worst news they’ve ever heard, the worst news there is, that God has created a hell, a place of eternal punishment for those who reject Him.

And those who do not repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ will spend forever punished in that place called hell. That is the bad news that is foundational to the good news being good news.

True evangelism then, an accurate presentation of the gospel, must include the strongest negative reality as part of the motivation of the sinner,

* not just the attractiveness of heaven,

* not just the attractiveness of the love of God, but the fear of hell and the dread of the wrath of God.

*All faithful endeavors in giving the good news must clearly convey the bad news.

* It is not just the promise of heaven; it is the threat of hell.