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Your Choice Will Be Honored - Sue Johnson - 10-11-2005 YOUR CHOICE WILL BE HONORED by Max Lucado We don’t like to talk about hell, do we? In intellectual circles the topic of hell is regarded as primitive and foolish. It’s not logical. “A loving God wouldn’t send people to hell.” So we dismiss it. But to dismiss it is to dismiss a core teaching of Jesus. The doctrine of hell is not one developed by Paul, Peter, or John. It is taught by Jesus himself. We are free either to love God or not. He invites us to love him. He urges us to love him. He came that we might love him. But, in the end, the choice is yours and mine. To take that choice from each of us, for him to force us to love him, would be less than love. God explains the benefits, outlines the promises, and articulates very clearly the consequences. And then, in the end, he leaves the choice to us. Hell was not prepared for people. Hell “was prepared for the devil and his angels.” (Matthew 25:41) For a person to go to hell, then, is for a person to go against God’s intended destiny. Hell is man’s choice, not God’s choice. Consider, then, this explanation of hell: Hell is the chosen place of the person who loves self more than God, who loves sin more than his Savior, who loves this world more than God’s world. Judgment is that moment when God looks at the rebellious and says, “Your choice will be honored.” To say there is no hell is to say God condones the rebellious, unrepentant heart. To say there is no hell is to portray God with eyes blind to the hunger and evil in the world. To say there is no hell is to say that God doesn’t care that people are beaten and massacred, that he doesn’t care that women are raped or families wrecked. To say there is no hell is to say God has no justice, no sense of right and wrong, and eventually to say God has no love. For true love hates what is evil. Hell is the ultimate expression of a just Creator. Your Choice Will Be Honored - Joan - 10-11-2005 Sue, it is so good to read the truth on GB Thanks for this posting. We have the freedom of choice and by using that wonderful freedom, we can be set free forever! Joan :daisy: :daisy: :daisy: