ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY - PART 44

                                          ONE HEARTBEAT
     AWAY

  PART 44


(Mark Cahill's Book)


As we read in Psalms 139:8 
"If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there: 
 if I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art 
there. " 

There is a saying, "you made your bed, now 
lie in it!"  So, "making our bed," is a 
preparation for lying in it.  That is, our actions determine our future - like it or not.

While we spend our time preparing to go to 
hell, God is with us. We can turn to Him at any moment and say, " God, I am sorry I offended 
You. Please get me out of this mess and put me 
on the right track,"  and He will help us. But 
once we are dead and in hell, it is too late to 
ask for help.

In the Matthew passage above, we learned 
that hell wasn't originally created  with people 
in mind. Heaven was:

Then shall the King say unto them on His 
right hand, "Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from 
the foundation of the world."
(Matthew 25:34)

The Bible is very explicit  about the fact that 
God takes no pleasure in the death of the 
wicked: He says:

"As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no 
pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that 
the wicked turn from his way and live...."  (Ezekiel 33:11)

The Lord is not slack concerning His 
promise, as some men count slackness; but 
is longsuffering to usward, not willing that 
any should perish, but that all should come 
to repentance. (2nd Peter 3:9)

It is not a happy day 

for Him when someone  dies and goes to hell. 

Will it be a bad day
for God when you die?

Many people believe it is unfair for God to send individuals to hell for eternity. God is being perfectly fair based on 
their rejection of Him. 

If people do not want anything to do with Him here on earth, why would we think they would want anything to do with Him on the other 
side?

If they hate the thought of God in this life, they will hate being with Him in the next.

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