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Satan continues his efforts to make sin less offensive, Heaven less appealing, Hell less horrific and the Gospel less urgent.

But the wage that sin pays is death and separation from any and all goodness for all eternity. Hell is a place of indescribable torment and isolation where you are alone in your worst imagined day with the prospect of your only becoming more desolate in agony of loss each moment.

Whereas Heaven is a real place of eternal goodness. It's where redeemed humanity ever lives on to become all it was ever intended by God. It's not sitting on clouds with harps. It's where people in new eternal and indestructible bodies live on in everlastingly creative, growing, relational wholeness with myriads of others from every race, language and ethne. There will be eternal community and joy with all others who have believed what God alone could do to rescue them from sin, death, Hell and the grave. They are those who put no confidence in human efforts of self-reclamation, but thrust solely in the Life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ. They have been given Eternal life by God's grace and mercy. Heaven is indescribably joyful, meaningful and purposeful.

The Gospel, the Good News, is that God has made a way for anyone to become fully human again, forgiven, reconciled to Him, living in a covenant relationship given through Jesus Christ that nothing in all creation can separate them from.

The urgency of the Gospel is that there is an end to time, and it is now on the nearer horizon of human history, closer than ever before. Today is the day of salvation for you do not know the day or the hour the Lord Jesus will return. When He does return, there will no longer be an opportunity to turn from self and sin and surrender all of life to Him that you might be born anew by God's Power and grace to become a new person with a new heart and spirit, alive at last to the Lord of Life, Himself, forever.

Sin can never save you. Rebellion will never satisfy. Hell is horrific torment, not some eternal drinking party with idolized rock stars. The satanic lies that you don't need the God Who created you to make life whole are damning. The time is short.

Turn to Jesus Christ, turn from sin and self. Receive forgiveness and a new life. You can't save yourself, but He has done everything needed for you to be saved.



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