To hell, or not to hell, that is the question?

“There once was a rich man, expensively dressed in the latest fashions, wasting his days in conspicuous consumption. A poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, had been dumped on his doorstep. All he lived for was to get a meal from scraps off the rich man’s table. His best friends were the dogs who came and licked his sores. “Then he died, this poor man, and was taken up by the angels to the lap of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried. In hell and in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham in the distance and Lazarus in his lap. He called out, ‘Father Abraham, mercy! Have mercy! Send Lazarus to dip his finger in water to cool my tongue. I’m in agony in this fire.’ “But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you got the good things and Lazarus the bad things. It’s not like that here. Here he’s consoled and you’re tormented. Besides, in all these matters there is a huge chasm set between us so that no one can go from us to you even if he wanted to, nor can anyone cross over from you to us.’ “The rich man said, ‘Then let me ask you, Father: Send him to the house of my father where I have five brothers, so he can tell them the score and warn them so they won’t end up here in this place of torment.’ “Abraham answered, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets to tell them the score. Let them listen to them.’ “‘I know, Father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but they’re not listening. If someone came back to them from the dead, they would change their ways.’ “Abraham replied, ‘If they won’t listen to Moses and the Prophets, they’re not going to be convinced by someone who rises from the dead.’” (Luke 16:19-31 MSG)

I MET A YOUNG MAN ALONG LIFE’S JOURNEY ONE DAY,
“I AM FREE!, I AM FREE!” ARE THE WORDS I HEARD HIM SAY,

“I HAVE NO BOUNDARIES, NO LIMITS, NO RESTRAINTS,
I BOW TO NO GOD AS DO THOSE THEY CALL SAINTS.”

“I AM MY OWN MAN, I DO IT MY WAY,
I DO MY OWN THING, DAY AFTER EACH DAY.”

“I DON’T LISTEN TO OTHERS, I NEED NOT A TEACHER,
I KNOW WHAT TO DO! I TAKE NO ADVICE FROM AN ELDER!”

“COME ON AND GO WITH ME, I WILL SHOW YOU SOME FUN,
YOU WILL NEED NOT TO WORRY, FROM NO ONE WE RUN.”

“IF IT FEELS GOOD WE WILL DO IT, WE WILL LAUGH AND WILL PLAY,
WE WILL NOT LISTEN TO OTHERS, NO MATTER WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY.”

“THERE IS NOT A GOD WHO RULES HEAVEN AND EARTH,
MAN IS IN CONTROL, WE ARE OF THE HIGHEST WORTH.”

“WE WILL GAIN THIS WORLD’S TREASURE, MONEY, POWER AND GREAT FAME,
WE WILL MAKE FOR OURSELVES, A NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES.”

BUT I CHOSE NOT TO FOLLOW FOR I KNEW IN MY HEART,
THAT HERE WAS A MAN PLAYING A SIMPLE FOOL’S PART.

FOR DOES HE NOT KNOW THAT ONE DAY ON HIS DEATH BED,
HE WILL REGRET THE SELF PATH THAT HE CHOSE TO BE LED?

NO FORTUNE, NO POSSESSION, NO POWER, NO GREAT FAME,
WILL EVER PAY THE PRICE FOR THIS MAN’S GUILT AND SHAME.

FOR WHAT DOES IT PROFIT A MAN IF HE SHOULD GAIN THE WORLD AND LOSE HIS SOUL,
OR WHAT SHALL A MAN GIVE TO PURCHASE BACK HIS OWN SOUL?

NOTHING!, NOTHING!, NOTHING!, NO FORTUNE, DEEDS NOR FAME
HAS THE POWER OR ABILITY TO CLEAR HIS GUILTY NAME

IF THERE WAS SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE BLOOD OF JESUS TO CLAIM,
THEN WHY WOULD FATHER GOD PUT HIS ONLY SON THROUGH GREAT PAIN?

THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO FATHER, AND THAT IS THROUGH JESUS I TELL,
AND TODAY THERE ARE NO ATHEISTS, IN THE DEPTHS THEY CALL HELL!

Men will not find themselves in hell because God rejected them, but because they rejected Him!

“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. (John 3:16-18 MSG)