Hell & Judgment

Runaway Jonah and the Convenient Ship

Jonah 1:3

… If you have done the right thing before God and are not afraid of His great judgment seat, fear nothing, but go forward! I think that there was …

Psalm 109

Psalm 109

… From Ps 109:6-20, filled with a prophetic fervour, which carries him entirely beyond himself, he denounces judgment upon his foes, and then from Ps 109:21 …

A Helpful Survey of Christ’s Work

… He went to Pilate’s hall, and Herod’s judgment-seat, and there drank draughts of pain and scorn in our room and place. Last of all, they …

The Strait Gate

Luke 13:24

… Between Heaven and Hell there is no traffic! None ever passed from Hell to Heaven— "There are no acts of pardon passed In the cold grave to which …

Spring In The Heart

Psalm 65:10

… will not quench, till He brings forth judgment unto victory." There shall be victory for you, even before the Judgment Seat of God, though as yet you are …

Spring in the Heart

… It is written, “A bruised reed he will not break, and the smoking flax he will not quench, till he bring forth judgment unto victory.” There shall be …

Election

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

… There are other woes beside the open judgment of heaven— take heed that these fall not on your head. Lay aside your prejudices: listen calmly, listen dispassionately: hear …

Lecture 2: On Commenting

… sound judgment will forbid your thus marring the word of God. Better far never to comment than to cut and carve the utterances of inspiration, and obscure their …

The Great Supreme

Deuteronomy 32:3

… We look forward to the Day of Judgment, wherein He shall hold the great Assize of nations. And for these reasons, believing Him to be God, we ascribe …

Psalm 136

Psalm 136

… He is slow to anger, and judgment is his strange work; but when mercy to men demands severe punishments he will not hold back his hand from the …

The Ploughman

… if you never warn them of hell fire. We must tell the sinner what God has revealed about sin, righteousness, and judgment to come. Still, brethren, we must …

Dec. 31 — NO STRANGER IN HEAVEN

Ps. 73:24

… The counsel of the infallible God I seek in preference to my own judgment or the advice of friends. Glorious Jehovah, thou shalt guide me! Soon the end …

A New School of the Prophets

… A sinner deserves hell, yea, the hottest place in hell ; and if he be saved, it must be entirely by unmerited mercy. Now, if you are such a …

The Question of Fear and the Answer of Faith

Job 23:6

… But God, with ease, hurled Satan and the rebel angels out of heaven, and drove them down to hell.” “Sir,” saith the sinner, “is he not mighty?” And …

Just and the Justifier

… It was not so much that I feared hell, but that I feared sin. I knew myself to be so horribly guilty that I remember feeling that if …

Psalm 17

Psalm 17

… With Jesus as our complete and all-glorious righteousness we need not fear, though the day of judgment should commence at once, and hell open her mouth at …

Psalm 14

Psalm 14

… To deny there is a God, is a sort of atheism that is not to be found in hell. "On earth are atheists many, In hell there is …

The Comforter

John 14:26

… the sword brandished, and hell burning, and fiends howling, and the damned shrieking forever? And did he not convince you of the judgment to come? He is a …

The Sweet Uses of Adversity

Job 10:2

… The Lord shows the world—“See what faith can do! “Well does Hart sing of faith— “It treads on the world and on hell; It vanquishes death and …

The Sympathy of the Two Worlds

… My first head will be the sympathy of the world above with the world below; the second, the judgment of the angels —they rejoice over repenting sinners; we …

The Plea of Faith

2 Samuel 7:25

… Do you think, my brethren, that if we all read the Scriptures with judgment, and desired to know them rightly, there would be so many sects as there …

Repentance Unto Life

Acts 11:18

… Is it not true, O sinner, that you are trembling at hell? It is not the soul’s state that troubles you, but hell. If hell were extinguished …

Psalm 67

Psalm 67

… The Psalmist may here seem to contradict himself; for if mercy make men rejoice, then judgment occasions men to tremble. Answer is made, that all such as have …

The Work of the Holy Spirit

Galatians 3:3

… The uncreated cannot create. “Nay,” but you say, “that man can create.” Yes, can hell create heaven? Then sin may create grace. What! will you tell me that …

Psalm 55

Psalm 55

… death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell, announces the awful judgment of Jehovah, as once it was shown upon Dathan and Abiram; a …

Justice Satisfied

Romans 3:26

… And direst of all, let hell’s bottomless lake declare what is the awful vengeance of God against the sins of man. Let the sighs, and groans, and …

Christ Before Annas

John 18:12

… He was one of those who handed over our Lord to Pilate and he is included in the judgment, "he that delivered Me unto you has the greater …

The Bed and Its Covering

Isaiah 28:20

… And then, O Christian! march boldly to the river of death, march calmly up to the throne of judgment, enter placidly and joyfully into the inheritance of thy …

Christ—Our Substitute

2 Corinthians 5:21

… Even sin and hell are but old words employed henceforth in a new and altered sense. Those are old-fashioned notions, and we poor souls who go on …

Our Magnificent Savior

Isaiah 53:11

… He bore our sins, next, at the judgment seat of Pilate and of Herod. I beg you to follow the words of the text, "He was oppressed, and …

Noah's Flood

Matthew 24:39

… and everywhere, in the very presence of the coming judgment and between the very jaws of death and Hell, the whole human race remains indifferent, unbelieving, worldly, and …

Jehovah Tsidkenu: The Lord Our Righteousness

Jeremiah 23:6

… In his understanding was no defect; in his judgment no error. In his miracles there was no ostentation. In him there was indeed no guile. His powers being …

Regeneration

John 3:3

… be strong, when thy judgment will be enlightened, and when thou wilt think very differently from what thou dost now. Sinners in hell are not the fools they …

Fragrant Spices From the Mountains of Myrrh

… The words are true, and He means us to understand them as the honest expression of His unbiassed judgment, after having patiently examined her in every part. He …

The Redeemer's Prayer

John 17:24

… A thousand years shall run their golden cycle, and then shall come the judgment Christ, with sound of trumpet, in pomp terrific, shall descend from heaven—Angels shall …

A Willing People and an Immutable Leader

Psalm 110:3

… I tell you of hell; I bid you flee from it; I tell you of Christ; I bid you look to him, but you are unwilling to do …

The New Song

Psalm 98:1

… This is judgment’s greatest terror, “Hide us from the Lamb;” and this shall be hell’s greatest horror, “Hide us from the Lamb; let us not behold …

Daniel Facing the Lions' Den

Daniel 6:10

… In after days he showed his dauntless courage when he interpreted the memorable dream of Nebuchadnezzar, in which the king's pride was threatened with a terrible judgment …

Voices from the Excellent Glory

Matthew 3:16

… But he was not to follow his own judgment—he was to receive a token from God Himself—and till that token came he could not act as …

An Urgent Necessity

Hosea 10:12

… We might almost sing, or quite sing— "Lord, and am I yet alive? Not in torment, not in Hell? Still does Your good Spirit strive With the chief …