Jesus Saves From Lake of Fire

As Christians, at one point in our lives we were told we were sinners and that we needed to accept Jesus Christ as our personal Savior. The reason given to most of us for our need of a Savior was "so you can go to Heaven after you die".

Well, is that what "saviors" do? Is that the job description of a "savior"? Do they take you some place really nice? To me, firemen are "saviors", rescuing people from dying in fires. Lifeguards are "saviors", rescuing people from dying in deep water. Policemen are "saviors", rescuing people from death by criminals. Doctors are "saviors" when they rescue people from dying by diseases, etc.

It seems to me that "saviors" rescue you from something horrible that is going to happen to you. It's NOT their job to make life fun for you and to take you somewhere "wonderful", which most of the ministers in our churches are preaching in today's pulpits. So why are we allowing ourselves to be taught falsely that we need Jesus as our Savior so we can go to Heaven when we die? That just is not what "saviors" do!!

The fact is that we need Jesus as our Savior to save us from the wrath of God to come (Romans 2:5), and from a fiery death in Hell. Notice the word "from" in the previous sentence. Jesus came to earth to save us from something horrible that is going to happen to every single person on earth if they don't believe in Him and give their hearts and lives to Him. In John 3:16 it says, "....that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish...." Perish how? Perish in a lake of fire called Hell. This is a big part of the Gospel message, and it is totally being ignored in today's churches.

However, when the Ten Commandments - God's Law is not preached any longer (because it has supposedly been "done away with"), then people have no way of understanding what sin is. And, if there is no sin, then there is no penalty for sin (death by fire in Hell). Then, our ministers who believe that we are "no longer under law but under grace", must start preaching a "different"
gospel than what Paul and Jesus taught. Today's message is now a Gospel of Happiness instead of THE Gospel of Righteousness!

My little granddaughter spent the night with us this past weekend. She's 5 years old and "accepted Jesus into her heart" a few months ago. Before I put her to bed, I read her a little cartoon tract. In the tract, it mentioned people going to Hell. She proceeded to ask me what Hell was. I explained to her sin is when people disobey God by breaking the Ten Commandments. God will punish them for their disobedience by sending them to Hell, a place of fire, if they don't accept Jesus as their Savior.

She got quiet, and then asked me, "But Grandma, that is only for people who don't have Jesus in their hearts, right?" I said, "That's right." She then said, "Well, I accepted Jesus into my heart." I said that was great, but explained when she did that - she was also making a promise to Jesus to always live for Him for the rest of her life. As an example I said it was like when her mommy and daddy got married and made a promise to love each other for all of their lives.

I was thrilled to get to have this conversation with my little granddaughter, but it really made me wonder what is being taught in our fundamental churches and seminaries these days that people in our churches don't even know what Hell is!! So that brings me to this question: "Is it possible to have a Savior without first having a Hell?" When there is no "fear of God before their eyes", then why should people think they need a Savior? I think this is the very reason so many of the salvation conversions in our churches are short-lived. They were never real conversions in the first place because 1) sin was never explained to them (remember the false teaching that the law has been "done away with"), and 2) they were never told the truth about the punishment for their sin. Revelation 20:15 says, "And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire."