When Jesus died on the cross it was the ultimate act of love. Many think someone who fights through pain and defeats an attacker to defend their friend is a noble act of love. Being able to fight through pain though is a blessing compared to being condemned to die on a cross. What Jesus did required being the greatest man who ever lived or ever will live, and He did it because He loves us.
Love is the most powerful thing imaginable. God is love. God is power. God showed His power by raising Jesus from death. Death and hell have no claim on Jesus. Death could not keep Jesus dead. Love is more powerful than death.
When Jesus ascended to Heaven, He went to sit in power. Jesus is LORD over all. Jesus is LORD of Heaven, Earth, and Hell. Jesus wants everyone to be good and loving. So woe to you who foolishly think they made a pact with death, the devil or evil spirits to have a good place in hell. There are no good places in hell! Also, evil beings love lying to you because they hate you.
If you are breathing, there is still time to accept Jesus, turn around from being evil, and avoid hell by obeying Jesus. Hell is worse than you can imagine. Heaven is better than you can wish for. Jesus wants you to be good and loving to all. How else can Heaven be Heaven unless we obey the commands to try and be good and loving to each other? If everyone is kind to their neighbor, everyone is kind to you.
You boast that you have made a treaty with death and reached an agreement with the world of the dead. You are certain that disaster will spare you when it comes, because you depend on lies and deceit to keep you safe. 16 This, now, is what the Sovereign Lord says: “I am placing in Zion a foundation that is firm and strong. In it I am putting a solid cornerstone on which are written the words, ‘Faith that is firm is also patient.’ 17 Justice will be the measuring line for the foundation, and honesty will be its plumb line.”Hailstorms will sweep away all the lies you depend on, and floods will destroy your security. 18 The treaty you have made with death will be abolished, and your agreement with the world of the dead will be canceled. When disaster sweeps down, you will be overcome. 19 It will strike you again and again, morning after morning. You will have to bear it day and night. Each new message from God will bring new terror! 20 You will be like the person in the proverb, who tries to sleep in a bed too short to stretch out on, with a blanket too narrow to wrap himself in. 21 The Lord will fight as he did at Mount Perazim and in the valley of Gibeon, in order to do what he intends to do—strange as his actions may seem. He will complete his work, his mysterious work.22 Don’t laugh at the warning I am giving you! If you do, it will be even harder for you to escape. I have heard the Lord Almighty’s decision to destroy the whole country.
Isaiah 28:15 (GNT).
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