Get Out Of My Sight!

 Get Out Of My Sight!

Many today say that there is no hell. Multitudes thing that all that is spoken of hell in Scripture is false and mythical. They will not believe that there is a hell.... until they come to feel themselves in hell, until they find everlasting flames about their ears, until they are sentenced to the fire, until they are doomed to everlasting fire!

The last words that Christ will ever speak to the ungodly will be the most tormenting and horrifying, the most killing and damning, the most stinging and wounding! "Then He will also say to those on the left: Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons!" (Matthew 25:41).

This terrible sentence breathes out nothing but fire and brimstone, terror and horror, dread and woe!

"Depart from Me!" Here is utter rejection: "Pack! Be gone! Get out of My sight! Let Me never see your face again!"

"You who are cursed!" Here is malediction. You shall be cursed in your bodies and cursed in your souls! You shall be cursed of God, and cursed of angels, and cursed of saints, and cursed of devils, and cursed of your companions! Yes, you shall curse your very selves, your very souls. All your former curses, all your maledictions - shall at last recoil upon your own souls!

Now you curse every man and thing which stands in the way of your lusts, and which cross your designs! But at last all the curses of Heaven and hell shall meet in their full power and force upon you! There is the vengeance and everlasting fie, which will neither consume itself, nor consume you! Eternity of exterme punishment is the hell of hells.

"I am afraid of hell," says one, "because the worm there never dies, and the fire never goes out!" It is called "unquenchable fire," and "eternal fire." The torments of the damned are very grievous for the bitterness of them, and more grievous for the diversity of them, but most of all grievous for the eternity of them!

Wronged justice can never be satisfied, and therefore the sinner must be forever tormented. The sinner in hell will sin forever, and therefore must be punished forever. It will not stand with the unspotted justice and righteousness of God to cease punishing - while the sinner ceases not sinning.

"But, Lord, if I must go into fire, into everlasting fire - then oh, let me have some good company in my misery!"

"No! The devil and his demons shall be your companions!" Ah! who can conceive or express the misery of living with devils and damned spirits and hellish fiends and furies forever!

"For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath, but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ!" (1 Thessalonians 5:9).

~Thomas Brooks~