Provision to Escape Hell!

A little over six years ago, on Sunday, January 31, 2016, about an hour after getting home from church, my telephone rang, and it will be a call that I will never forget in my life. When I answered the phone, on the other end was my cousin. She had been listening to a message through my podcast ministry, and she said the Holy Spirit of God had inspired her to call to ask me the question, "How can I get saved?" My cousin realized she was lost, and she had reached a point in her life where she wanted to know Jesus.

Friend, we must realize that we are lost to be saved. The good news for every kindred and every tribe provision has been made to escape a real place called hell. Jesus said in Luke 19:10, "For the Son of man is come to seek and save that which was lost."

Someone might say, well, Pastor, do you believe in hell, and if you do, how can you know there is a real hell? The most significant proof of that is the life of Jesus Christ. He walked on earth, and he suffered the humiliation of incarnation, and then on the Cross, He bled and died and gave His very life. Calvary is proof that there is a place called hell.

When we realize that hell is real and that real people go there, we also need to recognize that the most significant thing we can do in our own individual lives is point people to the Savior so that they are not spending eternity in that place called the Savior hell. I pray that God will help us speak the truth and not be afraid to express it as we go through this week. We need to get the message of Jesus to people and lead them to the Savior to avoid hell. AMEN!