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His Nature Demands a Final Judgment

There are those who look at the amazing love God has for mankind and simply deny that there will be an eternal hell for the disobedient. While it is true that God is love (1 John 4:8, 16), it is also true that God is just. No man has the right to decide the nature of God. Every man has the obligation to discover what He is like.

To deny the final judgment of all mankind is to deny the very nature of God. When we think only of God’s goodness, loving kindness, mercy and grace we can easily overlook the fact that God is just. One truth taught repeatedly in the Bible is that we are responsible to our Creator, and we will all someday appear before Him to give an account to Him as to how we have lived (2 Cor. 5:10).

There are many times that God has revealed His nature to us, but take time to consider Galatians 6:7-8. “For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” We are responsible for how we live. The final judgment is a truth that any honest seeker will find as he reads the scripture.

However, look again at verse seven. It begins, “Do not be deceived…” God was aware that Satan would seek to capture the souls of men by a denial of the judgment. The very fact that God introduces this passage with a warning of the danger of being deceived demands we open our hearts to receiving this truth.

Read the passage again. “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked…” Think of how we react when others mock us, and then imagine how God will react to those who mock Him. Those who deny the final judgment will stand at the judgment and face the One whom they have mocked.

When the Old Testament age was completed, the writer of Hebrews looked back to all that was written in those first 39 books and said, “Every transgression and disobedience received the just recompense of reward” (Heb. 2:2, KJV). How can anyone read those books and not see this?

The writer of Hebrews then looks at those of us living under the New Testament and asks, “How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?” As the book ends these words are found. He first goes back to the time God was on the earth at Mt. Sinai. “For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on the earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven” (Heb. 12:25). To deny the final judgment and an eternal hell ignores a fundament truth found throughout all 66 books of the Bible. There is no escape—think about this.