KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Hell
JESUS, THE GREATEST preacher of all time, spoke often of hell...
Never man spake as Jesus ( John 7:46) -- yet He spoke of hell (Matt. 5:22; 23:33; 25:41; 13:49-50). Jesus used the word in his first sermon (as recorded by Matthew). In fact, the first time the word is used in the New Testament it was Jesus who said it (Matt. 5:21-22). The same lips that spoke the tender words, "Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not" (Matt. 19:14) also said to the worldly-wise, self-righteous scribes and Pharisees, "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how shall ye escape the damnation of Hell?" (Matt. 23:33). The most solemn utterances about the eternal woe of the lost came from the lips of Him who died that men might not perish. He taught the doctrine of hell in more terrible language than they had ever heard it stated in the Old Testament.
He spoke of:
. "The broad way that leadeth to destruction" (Matt. 7:13).
. "Lose his own soul" (Matt. 16:26; cf. 19:23).
. "Eternal punishment" (Matt. 25:46).
. "Outer darkness" (Matt. 8:12; 22:13; 25:30).
. "Unquenchable fire" ( Mark 9:43-44).
. "Wailing and gnashing of teeth" (Matt. 13:42, 50).
. "Thy who body cast into hell" (Matt. 5:29-30).
. "Everlasting fire" (Matt. 25:41, 46).
. "Where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched" ( Mark 9:46-48).
. "Eternal sin" ( Mark 3:29). (Allen Webster)
THOUGHT: Since Jesus, the greatest preacher of all time, spoke on hell, shouldn't gospel preachers being doing the same today?
KneEmail: "Be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell" (Matt. 10:28).