My wife had an interesting experience while playing with a 4-year-old boy the other day. He was down on the floor with his battleship. There were “people” lying on the carpet all around the ship. Keeping his eyes on his toys, our little friend explained that the people in the water were dead. “They’re in heaven…unless they were bad. Then they’re in hell,” he casually informed Karen. Then he looked up at her and asked very seriously, “Do you know about hell?”

The way many people are living today, you would think that they didn’t know about hell. They should know about it. Jesus teaches that hell is an awful place that is to be avoided at all cost.

Some religious leaders are questioning what Jesus says about hell. Authors are giving their own opinions about what happens to those who go into eternity having rejected the grace that God has given them through his Son Jesus Christ.

The Bible is consistent in its teaching that hell is a real place where people who have rejected God will spend eternity shut out from his presence. It is a place of terrible punishment. The agony experienced there is unimaginable.

God is a perfectly loving God, but he is also perfectly just. He will not allow for anyone who has opposed him to go unpunished. Believe it; teach it.

Do you know about hell?