{"id":7115,"date":"2021-06-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=7115"},"modified":"2021-06-06T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T19:31:56","slug":"god-gives-you-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/god-gives-you-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"God Gives You Freedom!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"God Gives You Freedom! 6\/8\/21\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=itnpb-10580cb-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;download=1&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There are many things we don\u2019t know about hell. But Jesus and the New Testament writers used every image in their power to tell us that hell is real, it\u2019s terrible, it\u2019s something to be feared, and something to&nbsp;avoid.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his description of the last judgment, Jesus taught that some would go to eternal punishment and some to eternal life (Matt. 25:46). In other words, hell will be as real and as lasting as heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The horror of hell is not physical pain. After all, the Bible tells us hell was \u201cprepared for the devil and his angels\u201d  (Matt. 25:41), and they\u2019re not physical beings. Rather the fire and outer darkness and the thirst depict spiritual separation from God, moral remorse, the consciousness that one deserves what he\u2019s getting.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Hell is disintegration&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;the eternal loss of being a real person. In hell the mathematician who lived for his science can\u2019t add two and two. The concert pianist who worshiped himself through his art can\u2019t play a simple scale. The man who lived for sex goes on in eternal lust, with no body to exploit. The woman who made a god out of fashion has a thousand dresses but no mirror! Hell is the eternal desire, eternally unfulfilled.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there\u2019s another side of hell to think about. G.K. Chesterton once remarked,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cHell is God\u2019s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of the human personality.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hell, a compliment? Yes, because God is saying to us,\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cYou are significant. I take you seriously. Choose to reject me and you are choosing hell. You are free and I will let you go.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Lieghton Ford<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Do YOU believe there is a hell beyond this world?&nbsp;&nbsp;What is the nature of hell to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IT IS BETTER TO GO WITH DIFFICULTY TO HEAVEN THAN WITH EASE TO HELL!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many things we don\u2019t know about hell. 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