“HELL, where’s hell?” This place of which the Bible speaks, where is it? It is not on earth, though some would have us believe it; no, it is not on earth. Then, where is it? That’s the question. This was the question asked by a scoffer in a North of Scotland town. A servant of Christ was proclaiming the gospel, and warning sinners of the reality of hell, when his remarks were interrupted by this question, “Hell, where’s hell?”
The preacher faced the questioner, and replied, “Hell, sir, is at the close of a Christ-rejecting life.” Ah! yes, this is the truth, hell lies at the close of a Christ-rejecting, God-forgetting life.
Then look out, my unsaved reader, for hell must be at the close of the road you are traveling, for up to this time you have rejected Christ and forgotten God. Is this true? Then it were well for you to come to a dead stand.
There is one thing very certain, and that is that God will not let you go to hell without warning you. He desires your blessing. His love was so great that He gave His only-begotten Son, that sinners might be saved from hell and brought to an eternal heaven.
Yes, you may be blessed and saved, you may know without a doubt that heaven is yours, you may be able to say truthfully―
“There is no condemnation,
There is no hell for me;
The torment and the fire
Mine eyes shall never see.”
But all this blessing comes to sinners through Christ. He died upon the cross to make it possible, and the only way of salvation is through Him. Christ-rejecters miss it and land themselves in hell; but those who will trust in Jesus, those who will take Him as their Saviour, receive salvation, and at the end eternal glory.
How gracious of our God it is to warn men of the consequences of turning from Christ, and we who have been saved would take up God’s warnings and reiterate them in your hearing, “Knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.” As we would persuade a man not to steal, by bringing before him the consequences of so doing, so we would persuade you to fly to Christ for salvation because of the awful consequences of rejecting Him. “HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT SHALL BE DAMNED.”
But God gives men their last warning—this may be yours—the man of whom I have written got his. It was on Saturday night that he asked the question, “Where’s hell?” On Monday morning he dropped dead, and it is to be greatly feared that he found out for himself where hell was, long before he desired.
Beloved reader, turn to Christ, He can save you, and He alone.
J. T. M.