The rich man desired that Lazarus  should be sent to his brothers lest they come to hell also.   Abraham told him that even if someone rises from the dead they would not believe.   I would suspect that the rich man and his brothers had been rather godless folk.

Well here we are!   Look at us preach day n night.  Look how we strive to explain.  And where are the godless folk?  Do we see them rushing to listen?  No their feet are set in the same path as their brothers.

Apparently someone is telling them that all souls will be saved.   If this is true why did God send His Son to die on a cross for our sins? 

Listen you godless folk.  Hell is real!  It is the destiny of those who spurn the living God.  And we know there is at least one of your number that desires you to stay away from his new home.  All you need to do is humble yourself and ask God to teach you.

All day long and into the wee hours of the night men complain about the place where they live.  They say with a whiny nasal inflection, ” I have to work tomorrow”.  Or they may complain that they don’t like the taste of a certain food.  But it seems to me complaining drives society.

With that in mind I have only one question.

Are we there yet?

Each day is carved into 24 sections.  Each section is carved 60 times more.  Those 60 more sections are carved again 60 times.   Of those 86400 sections, how many do you let God have?

If you are 40 years old you have lived through over 3.5 million seconds.  How many of those did you let God own?

If you live to be 80 you will have passed through nearly 7 million seconds.  Did God own more then 400,000?

We gladly receive eternity from him what do we give thanks?

Man invented paints so he could capture his own image and make it last for centuries.  God has clothed eternity with his own majesty which never fails or fades.  Vibrant colors with living shades adorn all of heaven.  While man perfected acrylic on some gravity ridden surface.

Man works to invent robots.  All the while the living God is surrounded by creatures too beautiful for words.  Man has learned to mutate sounds so that his ear might hear things never heard before.  While the voice of God is like the sound of many rushing rivers.

Man worries himself nearly to death over fighting diseases and sickness of every kind.  His boasting can be heard from sea to shining sea for every grain of progress he makes.

Meanwhile, all of heaven is inhabited by creatures whose bodies have never even known decay.  And if boasting is ever heard it is to boast of the glory of the God who made them.

What should you expect to gain, you who try to bring down God to your level.  How is God like us?  He is all together unlike us.  Yet men rail against him all day long; making jokes in endless stream.

You will receive your proper do on the day when he brings you before his throne.  There you will give account for every idle word you have ever spoken.  Every evil thought you possess is like fuel for the fire that will consume you.

We are all deserving of eternal punishment because we have treated the Holy One with disdain.  We have been violent and have hated him for no reason.  Look how he has even prepared salvation for us, his enemy.  We have taunted  him by using his Holy Son’s name in vain.  But the living God intends a different meaning to that name.

Come away from the stench that is man.  Approach the living God with confidence for this is the day of salvation.  Confess your evil before him and accept His loving forgiveness. 

I stopped for fuel at Beaver Dam.  I went inside to get coffee and there was a state trooper  in there.

I asked him if he wanted to trade hats.  He said I would get a lot of questions if I had his.  I told him people would run away if he had mine.  We decided not to trade