Now that we are into a new year, I have a challenge for you.  There is a question that I'll wager that you have probably never given much consideration, and that question is, Why would anyone want to go to Hell?  After all, there are only two choices we have, Heaven or Hell.  There is absolutely nothing in between.  We will either face God's glory or God's wrath one day.  A real challenge, huh?
Perhaps II Timothy 3: 1 - 5  may shed some light on the answer.  It says:  "But mark this:  There will be terrible times in the last days.  People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self control, brutal, not lovers of good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God - having a form a godliness but denying it's power.  Have nothing to do with them."  (That's pretty strong!)

I am bothered when I hear someone say that "he doesn't talk about that" (God), or "I don't what to offend anyone", or "that only causes division."  I am amazed when I hear a christian say that he is looking for the return of the Lord but....   In other words he is telling me that there is something more important to him than the coming of the Lord.

Jesus said in John 3: 18:  "Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe (that he is God) stands condemned already because he has not believed in God's one and only Son."  Jesus also said in John 3: 20 - 21:  "Everyone who does evil hates the light and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.  But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."

But Jesus said in John 3: 16:  "For God so loved the world that he gave us his one and only son,  that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."  We are not saved by works or anything, or anyone else,  only Jesus Christ!

I have made a new year's resolution and that is, if someone is bound and determined to go to hell, then I will step aside and let them have the desire of their heart.  That, after all, is what God does.  It isn't God who condemns a person to hell, but the person who condemns himself by his choice.  What choice have you made?

Wes K.