#TheSinUntoDeath

Yes, sweet cheeks, there is a real place called Heaven and there is a real place called Hell. Yes, dear ones, just as life is real and death is real, also, Heaven and Hell are real. And, because God, the source of life, is Holy, Righteous, Completely Pure, it follows that He has to be Just and it also follows that justice will be meted out by Him and each one us will come to trial and face this just Judge.

The magnificent thing for those who have realized that fact and, while they were alive on this earth, believed that God provided their own personal requirement for justice in the death of Christ is that they have an advocate before the court. Jesus, The Christ, will represent them. Guilty will be the plea for all of us, but, for some, Jesus will say, "I paid for each and every broken law that this one was responsible for, on the cross, and they are free to go."

That is in the future, for sure, but, in the here and now lesser judgments are taking place. John tells us in his first letter that there is a sin leading unto death. This letter was written to followers of Jesus who understood that they were eternally alive, could not ever die, spiritually. Their body would die. Their spirit would be separated from their body when they breathed their last breath and the house they had lived in would begin decaying, but their real being, their spirit, would continue on forever. John was cautioning believers that we will sin because we are human and we should check ourselves regularly to nip-in-the-bud those thoughts, words and actions that go against the principles of God.

A believer can continue to rebel against God's principles and quench and grieve God's Spirit and sooner or later, even through chastisement, go willfully on their own way and God, because He loves so fiercely, will bring death to their body. He has His reputation at stake and that believer isn't representing Him properly and, perhaps, influencing others away from God. This, too, is justice satisfied.

 The greatest sin we can commit is the sin of unbelief. An unbeliever is called an "unbeliever" because he doesn't believe God. He is in actuality calling God a liar. That is the one sin that will send him to Hell. That is the one sin that cannot be paid for. At the final trial, and it will be a short one, because only one sin will be brought up and that is the question, "Did you believe what God said about Jesus?"

Since they didn't believe while alive here on this earth, justice will condemn them and the condemned will spend forever away from the God they wouldn't trust. They will be forever separated from God while believers will be forever in God's presence. Heaven and Hell, justice satisfied.