Where's Hell?

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A young Christian was sounding forth the "old, old story" in a northern town. Suddenly he was rudely interrupted by someone on the outside of the crowd who hurled the question at him: "Where's hell?”
"At the end of the broad road that unbelievers tread," was the reply.
After the speaker had finished, the interrupter asked if he could have a word with him. Again he asked a question. This time it was very personal.
"Am I on the road to hell?”
The answer was not, "Do you go to church?" or "Do you read your Bible?" but, "Do you know the Savior?" "I don't," he said.
"Then according to God's Word you are on the broad road that leads to everlasting destruction.”
"God moves in a mysterious way"; so it was in this case. These two men, as youngsters, had lived in the same street in the same town, and knew all the old familiar places. But how different were their paths!
The preacher had started early in life on the road of sin and sorrow. But he had learned while still a youth in years that Jesus is the Savior of sinners. He was led to trust Him, and was saved and satisfied for time and eternity.
The other had continued on the downward road, and had ignored the tender voice of the Shepherd calling the lost ones home. As a young lad he had been left an orphan, and had chosen his own paths and gone his own way. His liberty became license and made him as he was that day—a poor, miserable, self-convicted sinner. He was tired and sick of all that the devil and the world had to offer, a poor slave of sin and Satan, seeking peace and liberty.
The preacher told him simply and earnestly what the Lord had done for himself—how he had been "plucked as a brand from the burning" and that Jesus was waiting to save him too. Tenderly he told him the sweet story of God's love; and there on the street this weary, way worn, tempest-tossed soul found a haven of rest in the blessed Savior.
Dear reader, no matter who you are, what you are, or where you are, God says: "All we like sheep have gone astray." Isa. 53:66All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:6). "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Rom. 3:2323For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (Romans 3:23).
That "ALL" takes you in, whether you realize it or not! If unsaved, you are on the broad road that leads to "everlasting destruction." But hear the Savior's voice!
"God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16).
God's blessed "whosoever" takes in every lost one. Come to the Savior now, and trust Him for your soul's eternal welfare.