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Q. What kind of a question is that? Anyone who can read sees signs, tracts, booklets and bumper stickers saying, "God Loves You." Isn't that true?A. It's true that God offers His love to the whole world, as we read in one of the most quoted verses in the Bible: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have ever lasting life." John 3:16 However, God's love is qualified, as we read in the Bible: "The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord; but He loveth him that followeth after righteousness." Proverb 15:9 "For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish." Psalms 1:6 Q. But I am not wicked. I am a decent moral person. Surely the good I have done in my life far outweighs whatever bad I have done. How can these verses apply to me? A. By God's standards of righteousness even the most moral person is looked upon by God as a desperate sinner on his way to Hell. The Bible teaches that no one good enough in himself to go to Heaven. On the contrary we are all sinners and are guilty before God. "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one; There is none that understand, there is non
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him. Hebrews 2:3 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. I Thessalonians 4:1617 Q. Are you saying that, if I trust in Christ as my substitute who was already punished for my sins, then I will not have to worry about Hell anymore? A. Yes. God wants us to come to Him in total humility, acknowledging our sinfulness and our helplessness, trusting totally in Him. Q. Oh, come on now! Hell isn't real, is it? Surely things aren't that bad. e that seeketh after God." Romans 3:10,11. Q. Does that mean that at the end of the world everyone will be brought to life again to be judged and then be sent to Hell? In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. Psalm 62:78 "Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities." Acts 3:26 A. Yes! It is near. God gives much information in the Bible which tells us that we are very near the end of the world. Because we are sinners we love our sins. Therefore we must begin to pray to God for an intense hatred for our sins. And if we sincerely desire salvation, we will also begin to turn from our sins as God strengthens us. We know that it is our sins that are sending us to Hell.
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