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Sermon on Hell (page eight)

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"This earthly life

is where we choose

our eternal

destiny."
 

It’s consistent. It’s logical. It makes sense, doesn’t it? What you plant is what you reap. Plant in this life. Reap in the next.

  How can we escape hell? It is contained in that famous verse, John 3:16: “whoever believes on [the One God has provided, Jesus] shall not perish.” Repentance is how we escape hell. Repentance is casting ourself upon Christ and believing on Him with all our heart and following Him as our Lord. Repentance means the full surrender to Christ of everything we have and are. There can be nothing half hearted about it.

  Festo Kivengere was the Anglican bishop of Uganda. He tells of his first experience in the underground subway in London, England. Within a few minutes he was completely lost and very scared. So this is what he says, in his own words.

  “I wondered if I would ever see daylight again. Then I saw a sign that said, ‘Way Out.’ I followed this sign to another sign that said, ‘Way Out.’ I began to feel more confident. Then just when I thought I was about to leave the subway behind I came face to face, for the first time in my life, with an escalator.”

  So he says, “I had never seen an escalator before in my life. I didn’t know what to do. The sign pointed right to the escalator. ‘This way out.’ There was no other way out. So I screwed up my courage, and with pounding heart, very gingerly put one foot on the escalator, being very careful to keep the other foot firmly planted on the subway platform.”

  You can imagine the result! He says, “What I learned that day in the subway in London was a great spiritual lesson. I learned that to get out of the subway, I had to commit myself with both feet to the escalator if I wanted to reach daylight. And I realized afresh that only by committing myself completely to Christ was there any hope of escaping the darkness and despair of life ‘underground’ in the kingdom of sin.”

  What bishop Kivengere did, we also must do. We must put both feet on the escalator of Christ. Then death will be the doorway into heaven.

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