Jesus Died For You
You Don't have to go to hell for your sins!
Jesus said, "Repent ye and believe the gospel" (Mark 3:15)
To REPENT means to change your mind so that you agree with God that he is holy and you are a sinner deserving divine justice in eternal hell.
The GOSPEL is the good news that Jesus died for sinners and then rose from the grave, defeating death, sin and evil.
We did the crime, but the perfect Son of God, Jesus Christ (God in human form) paid the fine!
A Loving God
God says in his word
"I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked"
(Ezekiel 33:11)
The Bible also says that
God is, "not willing that any shold perish"
(2 Peter 3:9)
SO WHY HELL?
It doesn't make sense!
Would a loving God send you to hell? How? How can can a God of love send anybody to hell? If God loves you, how can he send people, even you, to be tormented in a real hell of fire - forever? Surely a God of love would not send people to suffer forever in hell!
Well, before answering the question about whether a God of love would send you to hell, there is one thing we need to make crystal clear:
GOD LOVES YOU! And if you are serious in finding answers to the question of whether a loving God would send YOU to be tormented forever in hell, and whether you're on the way now, you will need to read this whole page or you will miss out of some vital information, you may even miss out on heaven.
First, please take a moment to consider God's great love for YOU.
The Bible speaks of God's love for mankind being so great, that for the sake of divine justice, he himself was prepared to come to earth in human form to suffer and die for our sin. We have all offended God with our sin. We have lied, cheated, lusted and hated. We have been greedy, selfish, bitter, jealous.... You don't even need to read the Bible to know that Because God has given light to every person through their conscience. But lets just go to one verse in the Bible to be absolutely clear about this.
The Bible says in Romans 3:23, "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." "ALL", does not leave anyone out. That means the pope, Mary the mother of Jesus, the people who put this site together, your own mother, and yes, even you, have sinned and falled short of the glory of God. So...
IF YOU WERE TO DIE TONIGHT, WHERE WOULD YOU GO? HEAVEN OR HELL?
DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A GOOD PERSON, GOOD ENOUGH 4 HEAVEN?
DO THE GOOD PERSON TEST AND FIND OUT NOW!
(or after you've finished reading this page).
As a result of our sin, we come under God's judgement. Romans 6:23 tells us that the wages of sin is death. This is the second death in the lake of fire, eternal hell (Revelation 20:14).
HOWEVER...
In his great love, God's love for you, he did something amazing.
While YOU did the crime, GOD paid the fine.
It's as if someone said to God, "How much to you love me?"
And God stretched out his hands and said...
"This much!"
If you think hell is awesome, it is nothing compared to God's love for you.
Please take a moment to read the Bible verses below and think about how important you must be to God that he would do this for you to save you from his jusice against your sin - eternal hell in the lake of fire, the second death of Revelation 20, verse 14. That is what you deserve but it is not what God is offering you. May he open your heart to see this.
JESUS CROSS, was like many other crosses people died on.
But Jesus was not like the people who died on them.
He was perfect - the perfect sacrifice for sin.
He was sent from God to die for sinners.
And he himself was and is... God!
He died for you because...
He loves you.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16
"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." Romans 5:6-10
"Hereby perceive we the love [of God], because he laid down his life for us:..." 1John 3:16
For those who repent and put their faith in Jesus Christ and his death to save them from the penalty for their sin, the Bible says...
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:35-9 [written to Christians in the first century]
To find out more about the crucifixion of Jesus, the suffering he endured and why, CLICK HERE
Would a Loving God torment you in Hell Forever?
Some think God is unjust in creating such a terrible punishment for sinners. And it is terrible. Maybe you think that you deserve much less for just a few lies and the occasional cheating, and lusting and greed and spiteful anger, and ignoring God and what he has done for you all your life. If you do, you are probably like the majority of people on the planet.
One of the main reasons people think this is because they have such a small view of the HOLINNESS of God, and the SINFULNESS of humanity.
But please, take a moment to consider these 4 things.
1. As sinners who have broken God's moral laws and offended him, we are in no position to tell a Holy God how to punish sin!
2. Despite our sin and rebellion against our creator, God himself has paid the debt for all sin by the death of Jesus (God in the flesh) on a cross. If anything is unfair, that's unfair. We did the crime but God paid the fine!
3. Hell is a choice! Your sins have been paid for, if you choose to ignore such a great gift from God (there is no greater gift) then you have chosen to go to hell. You have no one to blame but yourself. Why would you want to turn down such amazing love.
4. If you would humble yourself, repent (change your attitude to the things God calls sin, and therefore you behaviour) and believe the good news (put your trust in Jesus who died for your sin) then not only will God save you from hell, the day you die, he will welcome you into heaven to share the glory and pleasures of heaven forever.
How can this be said to be unfair? God loves you. More than you really know. He went to extreme lengths to save your from the just penalty for your sin. So, ultimately, Hell is a choice. Hell is your choice. So is heaven. What will you choose?
Is God an Unjust Judge?
Imagine that a murderer stands before the judge and says, "Your honour, people tell me that you're a good person. I appeal to you goodness. I am truly sorry and remorseful for what I did. It was really bad and I know I hurt a lot of people. But sir, most of my life I've been good person most of the time. Please, forgive me and don't put me in prison." The judge is likely to say, "You're right. I am a good judge. And because I'm a good judge I'm going to see that justice is served and your crime is paid for."
The very thing that the murderer thought would get him off paying the penalty for his crime, the judges goodness, was the very thing that caused the judge to make sure he paid for his crime. A good judge will also make sure that rapists, drug pushers and users, arsonists, burglars, theives will pay for their crimes.
God who is holy, perfect and pure says that all sin must be punished. If a human court will not let the guilty away with their crime, then how much more will the courtroom of divine justice ensure that the guilty are punished. God says that no theif will enter the kingdom of heaven and that "all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone" (Revelation 21:8).
God's justice demands your sins be paid for. If you are not sure that you are a sinner and that you are guilty before God, do the good test.
Just one more thing... God is not only just, he is also merciful. In fact, his mercy triumphs over his judgement... if you see your need for it, believe and receive it (James 2:13).
A Merciful God
Psalm 103:8-18
The LORD [is] merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
[No one can say God never gave them a chance]
He will not always chide: neither will he keep [his anger] for ever.
He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
[ie. if God gave you justice, you would be in hell now!]
For as the heaven is high above the earth, [so] great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
[no one has been able to measure how high the heavens (universe) is as we look up from earth]
As far as the east is from the west, [so] far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
[You cannot get further apart than that - It could be north and south but the result is the same]
Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.
[God made the universe, we are a speck of dust on a speck of dust in a speck of dust...]
[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
[God is God and we are not - something to be remembered at all times]
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
But the mercy of the LORD [is] from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
[fear is a GOOD thing. Fear stops you from crossing the road in front of a car. It should stop you from crossing over from this life to the next with out getting right with God first. Otherwise, you will get run over by the wrath of God.]
To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
[keeping God's commandments won't get you into heaven. However, God loves to reward and bless those who honour him be they know he is God and they are not]
