Talking About Heaven, or Going There

“Rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” Matthew 10:28 NKJV

While the flood clearly points us to the grace of God, it also points us to the judgment of God. There is increasingly less fear of judgment in our society. Fewer and fewer people will acknowledge that there is a hell. Those who do often think it is the here and now for the suffering of this world or that judgment is simply annihilation of the unbelieving. The vast majority, however, have bought into the lie of universalism, that God will just save everybody no matter what they did or how they believed. Jesus said in our verse today that this is foolish thinking.

As God destroyed all mankind, except Noah and his family, during the flood, He will also be able to punish to the uttermost those who reject the death of His Son as their Savior. His grace is offered in this life only and then the judgment. Genesis teaches us that God will indeed judge. He judged the great and the small, the weak and the powerful, the poor and the rich. He judged old men and children. All were swept away in His righteous judgment. We have one season of grace alone and that is in this season of life. As the author of Hebrews states quite clearly, “How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?” and then again states, “It is appointed on to man once to die and after that the judgment.”

Dear Father, Thank You for providing us such great salvation as is found only through faith in the death and resurrection of Your Son. Amen.

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