firm conviction of immortality, no,t because of what we think "a trustworthy God" would or would not do in regard to our future but because of what He Himself has revealed to us that He has already done and will yet do. Our belief in immortality is based solely and entirely upon the re vealed Word of God. God, in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, said, "I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself ; that where I am, there ye may be also" (John 14:2-3). And God, the Holy Spirit, speaking through the Apostle Paul, said, "The dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord" (I Thess. 4:16-17). Furthermore, our Lord declared in the best-known verse of the Bible, John 3:16, concerning Him self as Saviour: "That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Again, He said, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life ; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life ; but the wrath of God abideth on him" (John 3:36). It is disconcerting to note that the natural man always conceives God to be a kindly disposed "grandfatherly type" who is going to receive everybody to Himself regardless of the manner of life that has been lived upon this earth. Nothing could be farther from the truth. As a matter of fact, there are two destinations awaiting mankind. One destination is heaven, described throughout Scripture as a place resplendent beyond compare where all of those re deemed through the precious blood of Christ will be forever in the presence of their Lord. The other destination is a place for the unredeemed, referred to in the Scripture as hell. It is described in the Bible in terms that cause one to shudder in horror as he reads of its nature. It is a place prepared for the devil and his angels, but, alas, any human being who chooses to go there may do so. But God in His love has prepared a way so that men need not go to hell at all. They must by-pass the cross of Calvary in order to do so. Yet, if they choose their own way rather than the way God has provided, they must accept the results. "Marvel not at this," we read in John 5:28-29, "for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." It is wonderful, beyond words, to be able to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as our own personal Lord and Saviour. And it is also wonderful beyond words to know that we have immor tality because He has told us so. We have never-dying spirits which will live either in heaven or hell forever and forever, and that destiny must be decided here and now by our personal answer to the question Pilate asked over nineteen hundred years ago: "What then shall I do with Jesus who is called the Christ?" (Matthew 27:22).
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