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Sermon on Hell (page four)

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In our day,

God is on trial.

And we are the judge

He must answer to.

My grandfather also lived into his nineties. But unlike my grandmother, he did not believe in life after death. He was very clear on this. He believed quite firmly that at his death he would simply cease to exist. I respect my grandfather. But I have to say this: He was no expert on what happens after death. But Jesus is!

  Is it not striking in its simplicity, the parable of the rich man and Lazarus? Both of them die, and there is a destination for each of them after death. Lazarus is in heaven, and the rich man is in hell.

  Everything you know about the culture you’re living in today is based on the presupposition that there is nothing after death and that what you experience now in this life before death is all there is. So you have to get as much as you can out of life. You have to keep your health as long as you can, because no one can enjoy life without health. You have to make as much money as you can, because after all, money makes it possible to enjoy the good things of life.

  Like the rich man —he lived in luxury every day. He had it all. But then he died and entered hell. After death there is a destination! And according to Jesus, it is either heaven or hell.

  Don’t make the mistake of thinking that the things that people tell you last forever, really do. Culture? It doesn’t last forever. Civilizations? They don’t last forever. Nations? They don’t last forever. But we do last forever! We will spend eternity in one place or the other. After death it is either heaven or hell for every one of us.

  C. S. Lewis writes this: “It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare...There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations —these are mortal...But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit —immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”   Look at the parables Jesus told. Compare them. Line them all up in a row and start looking at the similarities. What do they all say about final destinations after death? That these two —heaven and hell— are the only two options. Death does not end our existence. We continue after death in one place or the other.

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