How could a loving God send anyone to hell?
One of the classic problems that people bring up is: How can a God of love send anybody to Hell? Well, there are several answers to that.
One of course is that God doesn't send anyone to Hell. You send yourself there. God has done everything He possibly can to keep you out of Hell and still leave you as a person with free will and not just a robot. That's the way He made us--after His image, after His likeness, the power to say "yes" or the power to say "no," the power to reject our own Creator, and of course to take the consequences.
In one sense you can say He doesn't send anybody to Hell, because across the road to Hell he has placed the cross of Christ. There are also the prayers of parents, pastors and Sunday school teachers, and all the other things that God brings into our lives to stop us on our selfish way and to bring us to the Savior. We have to go wandering on past it all and put ourselves in Hell.
Sometimes you hear people say, "God wouldn't send His children to Hell." God certainly doesn't send His children to Hell because when we're His children we're in the family of God. We're born again and part of our salvation includes deliverance from judgment. We're not all children of God except through faith in Christ Jesus.
Can a God of love send anyone to Hell? You might as well ask some other question to make just as much sense. Does God allow disease in the world? Does God allow jails and prisons for some people? Does God allow the electric chair sometimes? Does God allow sin to break homes and hearts? Does God allow war? All of these things are the consequences of sin entering into the world, and in some cases the direct result of man's rebellion, and the result of greed and pride and egotism and hunger for power that doesn't have any use for people--only the desire to get ahead.
This is the incredible fruit of sin. Sin brings suffering into the world. There's no way of getting around it. And the greatest sin in the world is to reject the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior.
We have our catalog of sins. We have rape and incest and murder ; and we have them all cataloged and classified--but there isn't one of them (or even put them all together in one big hunk) that comes close to the sin of keeping Jesus Christ out of your life. Did Jesus say, "I'm going to send the Holy Spirit to convict the world of sin because they rob banks"-- or, "because they believe not on me"?
It is folly to expect that you or I can trifle with the Lord Jesus and not have a penalty attached to it. What ridiculous thinking people have in this area! We expect penalties for doing much less. Life is just built that way.
You jump off a high building, the law of gravity will take care of you. You might say, "God is love," all the way down, but you're still going to get splattered when you hit the bottom! You break the law of gravity, and it breaks you! You may love your little child, but if he puts his finger up on that hot burner on the gas stove or the electric stove, he's going to get burned!
Fire burns. Gravity kills. Water drowns. And you can say, "God is love, God is love, God is love," until you're blue in the face. But water will still drown you, fire will burn you, and gravity will kill you, and sin will damn you no matter how much you say about a loving God.
God just set up life that way. He set up the rules. He set up the laws by which we are to live. And if we break those laws, they break us, and we pay the consequences.
Source:
www.christiananswers.net/q-grace/hell-and-god.html
One of course is that God doesn't send anyone to Hell. You send yourself there. God has done everything He possibly can to keep you out of Hell and still leave you as a person with free will and not just a robot. That's the way He made us--after His image, after His likeness, the power to say "yes" or the power to say "no," the power to reject our own Creator, and of course to take the consequences.
In one sense you can say He doesn't send anybody to Hell, because across the road to Hell he has placed the cross of Christ. There are also the prayers of parents, pastors and Sunday school teachers, and all the other things that God brings into our lives to stop us on our selfish way and to bring us to the Savior. We have to go wandering on past it all and put ourselves in Hell.
Sometimes you hear people say, "God wouldn't send His children to Hell." God certainly doesn't send His children to Hell because when we're His children we're in the family of God. We're born again and part of our salvation includes deliverance from judgment. We're not all children of God except through faith in Christ Jesus.
Can a God of love send anyone to Hell? You might as well ask some other question to make just as much sense. Does God allow disease in the world? Does God allow jails and prisons for some people? Does God allow the electric chair sometimes? Does God allow sin to break homes and hearts? Does God allow war? All of these things are the consequences of sin entering into the world, and in some cases the direct result of man's rebellion, and the result of greed and pride and egotism and hunger for power that doesn't have any use for people--only the desire to get ahead.
This is the incredible fruit of sin. Sin brings suffering into the world. There's no way of getting around it. And the greatest sin in the world is to reject the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior.
We have our catalog of sins. We have rape and incest and murder ; and we have them all cataloged and classified--but there isn't one of them (or even put them all together in one big hunk) that comes close to the sin of keeping Jesus Christ out of your life. Did Jesus say, "I'm going to send the Holy Spirit to convict the world of sin because they rob banks"-- or, "because they believe not on me"?
It is folly to expect that you or I can trifle with the Lord Jesus and not have a penalty attached to it. What ridiculous thinking people have in this area! We expect penalties for doing much less. Life is just built that way.
You jump off a high building, the law of gravity will take care of you. You might say, "God is love," all the way down, but you're still going to get splattered when you hit the bottom! You break the law of gravity, and it breaks you! You may love your little child, but if he puts his finger up on that hot burner on the gas stove or the electric stove, he's going to get burned!
Fire burns. Gravity kills. Water drowns. And you can say, "God is love, God is love, God is love," until you're blue in the face. But water will still drown you, fire will burn you, and gravity will kill you, and sin will damn you no matter how much you say about a loving God.
God just set up life that way. He set up the rules. He set up the laws by which we are to live. And if we break those laws, they break us, and we pay the consequences.
Source:
www.christiananswers.net/q-grace/hell-and-god.html
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~ He So Loved - We So Love ~
When one is truly loved,
We strive to do better.
It just makes you feel good,
Enlivened within.
A never dying desire, Lights.
This happens when we experience the love of Christ -
Holy Spirit dwelling within, Turning,fanning the coals.
When love is pure - God like and undefiled.
It produces the same results.
It brings the dead to life.
This love is the only reason we will fight.
Never give up.
Love conquers all- Heals all;
Can be felt by all.
This deep compassion-
Passion for life, exploding within.
Enabled for the impossible.
Love, the strength to rise from the pain.
Love, says yes I will remain.
I will stand -
I vow to never give up on love.
Never stop loving God.
Love, Love the people.
I love this hope, staying power of love.
Thank You Jesus for teaching us love -
The only reason you gave yourself for us.
For God so loved the world.
FOR HE SO LOVED -
WE SO LOVE.
heavenbound5511
5-20-15
We strive to do better.
It just makes you feel good,
Enlivened within.
A never dying desire, Lights.
This happens when we experience the love of Christ -
Holy Spirit dwelling within, Turning,fanning the coals.
When love is pure - God like and undefiled.
It produces the same results.
It brings the dead to life.
This love is the only reason we will fight.
Never give up.
Love conquers all- Heals all;
Can be felt by all.
This deep compassion-
Passion for life, exploding within.
Enabled for the impossible.
Love, the strength to rise from the pain.
Love, says yes I will remain.
I will stand -
I vow to never give up on love.
Never stop loving God.
Love, Love the people.
I love this hope, staying power of love.
Thank You Jesus for teaching us love -
The only reason you gave yourself for us.
For God so loved the world.
FOR HE SO LOVED -
WE SO LOVE.
heavenbound5511
5-20-15
Binding Prayer 5-1-15
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This is the prayer we (they) use at least once a day to bind demonic opposition before going into worship and dwelling prayer. We have found the substance in this prayer to cover just about every open door and every affect the enemy tries to use to stop our prayers.
This is the latest revision of the binding prayer.
The Binding Prayer Before Our Time Alone with God
Revised on: 5-1-15
Before we go into prayer it is good to ask Holy Spirit to reveal any misdeeds or neglects, and seriously repent asking for strength so we won't repeat them. Then you can go through the list as you are repenting and call out the things you know you are guilty of.
I renounce and repent of pride and vain glory and all prideful thoughts, unforgiveness, judgment, jealousy, greed, anger, lust, rebellion and disobedience, unbelief, laziness, self pity, self indulgence and gluttony, selfishness, unrepentance, and listening to lying accusations against Your character and the promises you've made to me. Oh Lord you are kind, merciful, faithful and true. I love You. Forgive me Lord for having ever offended You and my neighbor, give me strength to sin no more, especially in the hidden places of my heart.
I present my contrite spirit to You Jesus, and call upon your faithfulness and Mercy to forgive my sins, restore and protect that which you wish to do with and through me for others.
"Lord, You hear the desire of the poor: Your ear has heard the preparation of our hearts. We cling to your promise, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God and He shall dwell in their hearts."
I speak to those who promote evil including demons and their cohorts of oppression and deception assigned to hinder Godliness and God's work in our lives and in our immediate circle, and those who come to us or will come to us in the future for ministry. In Jesus name I bind you Lying and Beguiling spirits and all demons that come against us with their weapons in thought, word, deed, effigy, incantation, curses, and ceremonies, or any other kind of method to oppose, confuse, distract, or cause: sickness, tiredness, lying symptoms, doubt, false guilt, self hatred, unbelief, mental, emotional and spiritual: depression, restlessness, anxiety, deafness, dumbness, blindness, fear, fog, judgment and condemnation and gossip against ourselves or others, deceiving voices, miscommunication, division, separation, alienation, divorce, confusion and all instruments of Oppression.
In the Name of Jesus, I bind and disable you and your backup pools and those who sent you, and command you to take your lies and devices with you, to return to the abyss until Jesus deals with you. I expose every lie, I break every curse, hex, evil wish, spell, assignment, seal, link, chain or tie, and stronghold as well as any evil substance and decommission every egg sack and weapon, in Jesus Name, for it is written, no weapon formed against us will prosper. x3
Thank you Jesus for the use of Your Name and the power it has over every evil, please cover and sanctify us, with Your Blood, to be conformed to You in Humility and Charity. I pray Holy Spirit that you would pass over my whole being, body, soul, and spirit and restore purity and wholeness to the places the enemy has touched. I bless our enemies and pray that your love would heal them.
Jesus, I trust in You. Jesus, I trust in You. Jesus, I trust in You.
This is the prayer we (they) use at least once a day to bind demonic opposition before going into worship and dwelling prayer. We have found the substance in this prayer to cover just about every open door and every affect the enemy tries to use to stop our prayers.
This is the latest revision of the binding prayer.
The Binding Prayer Before Our Time Alone with God
Revised on: 5-1-15
Before we go into prayer it is good to ask Holy Spirit to reveal any misdeeds or neglects, and seriously repent asking for strength so we won't repeat them. Then you can go through the list as you are repenting and call out the things you know you are guilty of.
I renounce and repent of pride and vain glory and all prideful thoughts, unforgiveness, judgment, jealousy, greed, anger, lust, rebellion and disobedience, unbelief, laziness, self pity, self indulgence and gluttony, selfishness, unrepentance, and listening to lying accusations against Your character and the promises you've made to me. Oh Lord you are kind, merciful, faithful and true. I love You. Forgive me Lord for having ever offended You and my neighbor, give me strength to sin no more, especially in the hidden places of my heart.
I present my contrite spirit to You Jesus, and call upon your faithfulness and Mercy to forgive my sins, restore and protect that which you wish to do with and through me for others.
"Lord, You hear the desire of the poor: Your ear has heard the preparation of our hearts. We cling to your promise, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God and He shall dwell in their hearts."
I speak to those who promote evil including demons and their cohorts of oppression and deception assigned to hinder Godliness and God's work in our lives and in our immediate circle, and those who come to us or will come to us in the future for ministry. In Jesus name I bind you Lying and Beguiling spirits and all demons that come against us with their weapons in thought, word, deed, effigy, incantation, curses, and ceremonies, or any other kind of method to oppose, confuse, distract, or cause: sickness, tiredness, lying symptoms, doubt, false guilt, self hatred, unbelief, mental, emotional and spiritual: depression, restlessness, anxiety, deafness, dumbness, blindness, fear, fog, judgment and condemnation and gossip against ourselves or others, deceiving voices, miscommunication, division, separation, alienation, divorce, confusion and all instruments of Oppression.
In the Name of Jesus, I bind and disable you and your backup pools and those who sent you, and command you to take your lies and devices with you, to return to the abyss until Jesus deals with you. I expose every lie, I break every curse, hex, evil wish, spell, assignment, seal, link, chain or tie, and stronghold as well as any evil substance and decommission every egg sack and weapon, in Jesus Name, for it is written, no weapon formed against us will prosper. x3
Thank you Jesus for the use of Your Name and the power it has over every evil, please cover and sanctify us, with Your Blood, to be conformed to You in Humility and Charity. I pray Holy Spirit that you would pass over my whole being, body, soul, and spirit and restore purity and wholeness to the places the enemy has touched. I bless our enemies and pray that your love would heal them.
Jesus, I trust in You. Jesus, I trust in You. Jesus, I trust in You.
Jesus Asks Us To Have Uncommon Respect
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Jesus is Asking His Bride to Have Uncommon Respect for Others
This was a rather funny dialogue with the Lord to begin our conversation tonight. Truly I came into worship pretty tired and He cheered me up by chiding me. And I chided back. It was a fun exchange.
Then He began the message about showing uncommon respect to all men and how that would reveal that we are His servants, people will feel the difference when we communicate with Him. That will help to draw them to Jesus.
He also set the standard for the worth a any man, woman or child, the worth of anyone is the price of His suffering on the cross. Strip away all of man's ideas of what a person is worth, and apply this one standard because He died for every man, woman and child.
Jesus is Asking His Bride to Have Uncommon Respect for Others
This was a rather funny dialogue with the Lord to begin our conversation tonight. Truly I came into worship pretty tired and He cheered me up by chiding me. And I chided back. It was a fun exchange.
Then He began the message about showing uncommon respect to all men and how that would reveal that we are His servants, people will feel the difference when we communicate with Him. That will help to draw them to Jesus.
He also set the standard for the worth a any man, woman or child, the worth of anyone is the price of His suffering on the cross. Strip away all of man's ideas of what a person is worth, and apply this one standard because He died for every man, woman and child.
- You Have Not Left Me -
Sunless yet not without the Son
Awaiting - the demonstration of liberty
or is it for the unveiling?
Where I am - Only you can recover me
Others just don't get this - try so hard as they may
Shine your grace on me and lift me up
My enemies are staggering
Even I feel disarrayed
Let no man-
devil or even me stop your plans ..
Let me not suffer as one that is a rebellious fool that seems to have forgot your love, power, strength ..
All the times you've touched me, led me and worked through me.
I am strong and courageous in Jesus!
You haven't left me so don't let me act like it.
*But Jesus said to him, "No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." Luke 6:62
*Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. Micah 7:8
*But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isaiah 40:31
Awaiting - the demonstration of liberty
or is it for the unveiling?
Where I am - Only you can recover me
Others just don't get this - try so hard as they may
Shine your grace on me and lift me up
My enemies are staggering
Even I feel disarrayed
Let no man-
devil or even me stop your plans ..
Let me not suffer as one that is a rebellious fool that seems to have forgot your love, power, strength ..
All the times you've touched me, led me and worked through me.
I am strong and courageous in Jesus!
You haven't left me so don't let me act like it.
*But Jesus said to him, "No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." Luke 6:62
*Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. Micah 7:8
*But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isaiah 40:31
The most beautiful people are those who have known
The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. --C.S. Lewis
If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ? --Thomas à Kempis
*In this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world. --Jesus Christ
You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have. --Corrie Ten Boom
But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. --C.S. Lewis
If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ? --Thomas à Kempis
*In this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world. --Jesus Christ
You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have. --Corrie Ten Boom