This weekend, I was offered with several opportunities to share the truly good news of the gospel of God with some very close friends of mine. Even though it shouldn't, it always suprises me when peoples response is ... "Well, why would anyone serve God if there wasn't a hell?"
For me I was so grateful to learn this truth... but even know I seek and pray to confirm/establish my electiosn so that I will not have to take part in the lake of fire in the age to come. To be honest, even though I have come to understand and appreciate the chastisment of God on all flesh, I still greatly fear it.
I just wanted to offer a few verses that I found on my lunch break today as encourgament to others here who are seeking to endure to the end!
Hope this is an encourgament!
Josh
James 1:18 (NKJV)
Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
Revelation 14:4
These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among men and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb.
Leviticus 2:12
As for the offering of the first fruits, you shall offer them to the LORD, but they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet aroma.
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,