I Deserve to Go to Hell (Colossians 1:12-14)
Gary McManus, 04/06/2014Part of the Why Hell? series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
Life with Jesus is WAY BETTER than life without Jesus.
If we believe that, then we have a mission to let others
know that.
Pastor deserves to go to hell. Bible says so.
Adam and Eve = human, Pastor = human
Pastor tried doing things his own way.
Pastor can’t live with God THAT way:
Romans 5:12. So Pastor needs help.
The phrase “Lord, rescue” occurs in scripture forty times.
Our God is a rescuer. Hear the Apostles: Romans 7:24
Galatians 1:4, Colossians 1:13, 1 Thessalonians 1:10
If someone doesn’t need to be rescued,
the Lord won’t rescue them.
Jesus thought we needed rescuing.
Jesus died rescuing us.
There are several books by Corrie ten Boom
and all are good. See Jesus is Victor.
Corrie’s family were helping Jews escape the Nazis
of Europe during World War 2. The family were all
Corrie lost her Father, her nephew and her brother
in the hands of the Nazis. Corrie survived the camp.
Corrie realized her life was a gift from God, and she
needed to share "There is no pit so deep that God's love
is not deeper still,"
Corrie worked to help the victims of the Nazi camps AND
to help those who helped the Nazis! All needed healing.
Corrie’s judge said “Darkness? There is no light at all in my life. . .”
The judge also later said:
“I am a very good man and I have never committed sins.”
Corrie responded, “You cannot have salvation.”
Look again to Jesus’ story of the Father with two sons.
Obviously, the younger son left the Father.
Not so obviously, the older son’s heart was
far from the Father.
.Jesus wanted two groups of people to hear this story:
--younger brothers
--older brothers
Either way, Pastor needs to be rescued from the mess
he is in. And Jesus died to rescue.
But if Pastor DESERVES hell, why does Pastor believe
that he will not go there?
Pastor is forgiven and healing. He is looking to the mind of
Christ [ Romans 15:5, 1 Corinthians 2:16, Philippians 2:5 ff. , Romans 12:2]
Corrie’s judge figured it out.
Will we say yes to the Father’s offer to truly be his children?
Will we be rescued by the one who came to rescue us?
Every sermon on hell needs to communicate that God not
only cares about us but that God has not given up on us.
The Lord continues to offer us a new way to be human
--not human like Adam and Eve who didn’t trust God
but to be human like Jesus and trust the Heavenly Father.
Sermons about hell are ACTUALLY about hope.
Because to talk about hell is to always say, no one has
to go to hell if they don’t want to.
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