The Choice That Determines The Course Of Life

Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.
Matthew 25:46

Everlasting punishment is the penalty for failing to do what is right in the sight of God. It is the result of—not the remedy for—falling short of God’s glory.

But God has provided a path to peace through personal faith in his Son, Jesus Christ. But only you can choose that path, as Jonathan Edwards explains.

WALK WITH JONATHAN EDWARDS
“That you may escape the dreadful and eternal torments, you must embrace him who came into the world for the purpose of saving sinners from such torments. He alone has paid the whole debt due to the divine law, and has exhausted eternal sufferings.

“What great encouragement it is that you are exposed to eternal punishment, that there is a Savior provided who offers to save you from that punishment, and that he will do it in a way which is perfectly in keeping with the glory of God. In fact it is more to the glory of God than it would be if you should suffer the eternal punishment of hell.

“Those who are sent to hell will never pay the whole of the debt which they owe to God. Justice can never be actually satisfied in their damnation; but it is satisfied in Christ. Therefore he is accepted of the Father, and all who believe are accepted and justified in him.”

WALK CLOSER TO GOD
The course of your life is determined by the choice you make in life—a choice centering around the person of Jesus Christ.

You can ignore him or embrace him. But you cannot avoid him … or the consequences of your choice.

Jonathan Edwards preached eloquently of the horrors of hell because he realized what was at stake in the lives of his listeners.

If you haven’t as yet realized what is at stake—the “dreadful and eternal torments”—” embrace him who came into the world for the purpose of saving sinners from such torments.”