If Jesus Christ is not your Lord and Savior, if you have not accepted His authority over your life and His forgiveness for your sins, then all you have to do to spend eternity in hell, is die. That’s it! You simply have to choke the next time you’re eating, wreck the next time you’re driving, slip and hit your head, or die in any other way, and you will spend all of eternity suffering in the pitch black sulfuric fires of hell.
Here is why.
* We have all sinned. I have sinned! You have sinned!
. . . for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, . . . Romans 3:23
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 1 John 1:8
* The result of sin is physical death. This is the first death.
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned— . . . Romans 5:12
* The justly required punishment for sin is being condemned to eternal torment in the lake of fire. This is the second death.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23
Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life. Revelation 21:27
The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone’s name was not found written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:14,15
And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulphur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Revelation 20:10
* Jesus came and died on the cross, taking upon Himself the punishment for our sins.
He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification. Romans 4:25
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of you sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. Colossians 2:13,14
* By accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we are forgiven for our sins.
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send the Christ, who has been appointed for you—even Jesus. Acts 3:19,20
All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name. Acts 10:43
* If we do not accept Him as Lord and Savior, we remain condemned.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him. John 3:36
* There is no other way to be forgiven.
He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 1 John 5:12
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6