Friends In Hell

So this isn’t your typical message that will make some feeble attempt to try and explain what hell will be like and why you will see nobody there if you choose to go there. It isn’t going to be like, “hey bro what’s up?” Now we can do whatever we want now that we are in this place. Nope, Bud Light isn’t going to give to a life time, oh wait, you will be there for all of eternity, so we know that no way is Bud Light going to give you a party trailer full of free beer. Nope, No confetti. No piñata, and but also and it is what makes this place absolutely fully of terrible terrors is the fact that it has no back door. One way in, your choosing to go there, and no way out….ever. No back door, no second chance, no hoping God might change His mind about how much you expressed hatred for His unending love.

And but hey now allow me to enlighten you before I get to the getting’, I was heading to this “no way Hollywood could ever come close to reproducing what hell will be like, place by choice for 34-years of my life. Then one day I realized that, not only were people really messed up with little to hope for finding someone or even an organization to provide a sustainable and lasting solution, but that I was also in unsolvable problems.

In the movie Battleship there was a line that went something like this, “It time for a new plan of action.” Yup it was definitely time for a complete overhaul. Alcohol would whisper in my ear, “everything is just fine; right as rain”, but then the next morning the same voice would whisper back and condemn me for my actions, and my body would cry out in hang over agony, not again.

When I understood that just because the devil is silent and appears, by all human accounts, to be a fable, doesn’t mean he is not behind every addiction, good or bad deed done for the wrong reasons and under the wrong motivation, doesn’t mean he doesn’t exist, but in fact was hoping, in your spiritual ignorance, that you would actually believe that he is non-existent. Ha, imagine having an enemy that hoped you would just believe that you disregarded their intents:

1 Peter 5:8 - Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Sound like the voices you hear in the night under the influence of drugs, alcohol, or the sounds in the corridors of a miss-spent youth?

John 10:10 - 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Every wonder who is behind stealing your stuff, dreams, or purpose? Yup no person comes up with such evil on their own, satan is back of it. Who is behind suicides and murder? Satan influencing the very people that God created who because they reject God have no protection from the influence and results of satan’s diabolical schemes. The destructor might make for a cool Hasbro superhero but this is actually a real demonic strategy and many people unknowingly have had a part of or most all of their life destroyed. Now in all these groups the spiritually ignorant, that is those who are make-believers, fake-believers, non-believers, or those who are stuck in the valley of indecision always blame other people who are also in one way or the other going through something similar because the devil loves to destroy human relationships by using those groups of people:

1 Cor 4:4 - 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.