EXCERCISE YOUR RIGHT

Daily Devotional, Jan. 13, 2022 Daily Devotional: Jan. 13, 2022 Exercise Your Rights He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:5 Jesus came to earth and gave Himself as a sacrifice for sin in order to buy back for you everything that Adam lost. He came to destroy all the works of the devil...sickness and disease included. Once you receive Him as Lord of your life, all the rights and privileges God originally intended you to have (the right to things like fellowship with God, health and prosperity) are restored. But you are the one who has to exercise those rights! You see, the devil is an outlaw and even though Jesus has taken away his authority in the earth, even though he has no legal right to kill or steal from the children of God, he’ll do it anyway...as long as you’ll let him get away with it. You must enforce his defeat by speaking the Word of God in faith. Act on His Word now. Demand that sickness and disease leave you in the Name of Jesus. Then refuse to back off that demand. Resist the devil with all you’ve got. He might fight you for a while, but sooner or later, he will have to flee from you! Scripture Reading: Matthew 8:1-17

HOW TO SEE IN THE SPIRIT!

 I'd like to share with you a dynamic truth that will absolutely revolutionize your life. For over 45 years I have been divinely led and guided by the Holy Ghost. Yes, many times I have fallen short, yet many times my life and my family's lives have been saved by divine guidance and intervention.

Now the word declares that we as believers hear his voice, and we follow. Yet I run into many believers who are not hearing the voice of God. I do think many people hear his voice and simply ignore him.

I want you to know that you can hear the voice of God, and be led by him in very precise ways. Let me give you an example of divine guidance within the last three days. Saturday night I was at a wonderful gathering of believers. The guest speaker on Saturday night (9/29/18) finished ministering and encouraged all of us to minister to those who were around us.

There is a sister in Christ who was standing right in front of me. Immediately the Holy Ghost drew my attention to her. As I looked at her from behind I had a mental image that came to my mind. I saw by the spirit that she had a problem with her left leg and hip. I also heard the Lord say she has heart problems. Now when it came to the heart I was not sure if it meant a broken heart emotionally, or physical problems.

I simply responded to what I believe the Lord was telling me. I tapped her on the shoulder and I said to her: do you have a problem with your left hip, and something is going on with your heart. I'm not sure if it's physical or emotional. I said to her, either way, God will heal it. Tears filled her eyes and she acknowledged she needed God to touch those areas in her life.

In almost every situation when the Lord shows me something, and unless it's the gift of faith in operation in me at that time, I will ask them, and not tell them.

She allowed me to pray for her. As I did the Holy Ghost moved upon her in a wonderful way. When I was done praying, as I looked at her face, I saw it into the spirit. I call this the second level of visions. The first level was when the Lord showed me her hip and her heart with a mental image. This time it was like a transparency over her face. I saw that the left and right side of her nose had major issues. I also saw what I thought was an invisible lump on the top of her nose.

I said to her: what is going on with your nose. You realize this was not something that you could visibly see with the natural eyes. I was looking into the spirit by the Holy Ghost. She responded immediately that she had had cancer in her nose, and on top of it. That they had operated on her, but she was still having issues. I asked her if I could pray? She gave me permission. Make sure you always get permission! Do not be pushy or arrogant in the operating of these gifts.

I prayed for her in the name of Jesus Christ. Once again God moved wonderfully.

Last night at our Monday night prayer meeting there was just a small group of us gathered. Three of us brothers and a sister in Christ. As one of the brothers was standing there (Sam by name) I was about 7 feet away from him. As I looked at him I saw in the spirit what I call the second level of vision. His whole stomach area was all twisted in knots, disrupted. I also saw that something was going on in his intestines.

I asked him: Sam is there something going on with your stomach, your digestive system in your intestines. Now, this was a progressive conversation. He told us: yes God has touched me in those areas, but I still have major problems. I asked him if we could lay hands on him and pray over him. He said yes. The minute I put my hand on his lower stomach, I perceived immediately that he also had a hernia. I did not mention this to him. After we got done praying, he mentioned also that he had a hernia.

Once again we laid hands on him, and I began to command that hernia to be sucked back in. Back in 1975 as a young Christian, I prayed for a man who had a hernia. When suddenly miraculously that hernia literally was sucked back inside of this brothers stomach lining, and he was healed instantly.

Now at this prayer meeting, this precious sister asked me how is it that you see into the spirit. I want to know the five different levels of the Spirit. I told her the SIMPLE TRUTH! Yes, the simple truth. I said the four most important things in your life is God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost who lives inside of you.

The next major important truth is GODS WORD HID IN YOUR HEART! Then, of course, the next would be your prayer life built and based upon nothing but the Truth of God's Word. Peter and the apostles had a revelation of this. That is why they boldly declared this truth discovered in the book of acts.

Acts 6:4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

-SMITH WIGGLESWORTH

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Armando P. Mariano

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"THE DRAWING & COMPELLING OF GOD"

 

"Here is the truth: God has spread the feast but the fact is that NOBODY is hungry, and NOBODY wants to come to the feast, and EVERYBODY makes an excuse to keep away from the feast. and when they are bidden to come they say, “No, we do not want to”, or “We are not ready yet.”

Now God knew that from the beginning, and if God had done nothing more than spread the feast every seat at His table would have been vacant for all eternity! I have no hesitation in saying there is not one man or woman in this church tonight, but who made excuses time after time before you first came to Christ.

You are just like the rest. You made excuses, so did I, and if God had done nothing more than just spread the feast every chair would have been vacant, therefore what do you read in that parable in Luke 14? Because the feast was not furnished with guests God sent forth His “servants”. Oh, put your glasses on. It does not say “servants”, it says God sent forth His “servant” and told Him to “COMPEL” them to come in that His feast might be furnished with guests. And there is not a man or a woman in this church tonight or in any other church that would ever sit down at the marriage-supper of the Lamb unless you had been COMPELLED TO COME IN, and COMPELLED BY GOD!

Well, you say, what do you mean by “compelled?” I mean this, that God had to overcome the resistance of your will, God had to overcome the reluctance of your heart, God had to overcome your loving of pleasure more than loving of God, your love of the things of this world more than Christ. I mean that God had to put forth His power and draw you, and if any of you know anything of the Greek or have a Strong’s Concordance, look up that Greek verb for “draw” in John 6:44, “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him” —

It means “use violence”. It means to drag by force. There is not a Greek scholar on earth that can challenge that statement—I mean—and back it up with proof. It’s the same Greek word that is used in John 21 when they drew the net to the land full of fishes. They had to pull with all their might for it was full of fishes. They had to drag it!

Yes, my friend, and THAT is how you were brought to Christ. You may not have been conscious of it. You may not have known inside yourself what was taking place, but every last one of us was a rebel against God, fighting against Christ, resisting His Holy Spirit, and God had to put forth almighty power and overcome that resistance and bring us to our knees, and if any of you object to that strong language, then I am here to tell you, you do not believe in the teaching of this Book on the ABSOLUTE DEPRAVITY OF MAN.

Man is lost, and man is dead in trespasses and sins by nature. Listen, it is not simply that man is sick and needs a little medicine: it is not simply that man is ignorant and needs a little teaching: it is not simply that man is weak and needs a little hope: man is dead, dead in trespasses and sins, and only almighty power from heaven can ever resurrect him and bring him from death unto life.

THAT is the gospel I believe in and I do not preach the gospel because I believe the sinner has power in himself to respond to it. Well, you say, then what is the use of preaching the gospel if men are dead? What is the use of preaching it? I will tell you. Listen! Here was a man with a withered hand, paralyzed, and Christ says. “Stretch forth thine hand!” It was the one thing that he could not do! Christ told him to do a thing that was impossible in himself. Well then you say why did Christ tell him to stretch forth his hand? Because Divine power went with the very word that commanded him to do it! Divine power enabled him to. The man could not do it of himself. If you think that he could you are ready for the lunatic asylum, I don’t not care who you are. Any man or woman here who thinks that that man was able to stretch forth his paralyzed arm by an effort of his own will is ready for the lunatic asylum! How can paralysis move?

Well, I will give you something stronger than that. You need something strong today, you need something more than SKIM-MILK, you need STRONG MEAT if ever you are going to be built up and grow and become strong in the Lord and the power of His might—

Here is a man who is dead and buried and his body has already begun to corrupt so that it stank. There he was in the grave and someone came to that graveside and said, “Lazarus. come forth”, and if that someone had been anyone else than God Himself manifest in flesh. He might have stood there till now calling, “Come forth”. What on earth was the use of telling a dead man to come forth? None at all, unless the One Who spoke that word had the power to make that word good.

Now then my friends, I preach the gospel to sinners, not because I believe the sinner has any power at all in himself to respond to it: I do not believe that any sinner has any capacity in himself whatever. But Christ said, “the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life”, and by God’s grace I go forth preaching this Word because it is a word of power, a word of spirit, a word of life.

THE POWER IS NOT IN THE SINNER, IT IS IN THE WORD WHEN GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT IS PLEASED TO USE IT.

And my friends, I say in all reverence; if God told me in this Book to go out and preach to the trees. I would go! Yes sir. God once told one of His servants to go and preach to bones and he went. I wonder if YOU would have gone! Yes, that has a local application as well as a future interpretation prophetically."

[From a sermon Arthur Pink preached in Sydney, during his Australian ministry in the 1920’s.]

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Armando P. Mariano

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HOW TO BE LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT

Excerpt from "How You can Be Led by the Holy Spirit"

by Kenneth E. Hagin

Number One: The Inward Witness

The Spirit itself [Himself] beareth witness with our spirit.... —Romans 8:16. You will find that being led by the inward witness is the number one way, or the primary way, that God leads all of His children. Let me go back—I said I would in the preface of this book—to what Jesus said to me in February 1959 in El Paso, Texas. It was 6:30 in the evening. I was sitting up in bed studying. My eyes were wide open. (There are three types of visions. The highest type is an open vision. In an open vision, one's physical senses are not suspended, and his physical eyes are not closed. He possesses all of his physical capabilities, yet sees into the realm of the spirit.) I heard footsteps. The door to my room was ajar twelve to fourteen inches, so I looked to see who was coming into my room. I expected to see some literal, physical person. But as I looked to see who it was, I saw Jesus. It seemed as if the hair on my neck and head stood straight up on end. Chill bumps popped out all over my body. I saw Him. He had on a white robe. He wore Roman sandals. (Jesus has appeared to me eight times. Every time, except this time, His feet were bare. This time He had on sandals; that's what I had heard as He approached my door.) He seemed to be about 5 feet 11 inches tall. He looked as if He weighed about 180 pounds. He came through the door and pushed it back until it was almost shut. He walked around the foot of my bed. I followed Him with my eyes—almost spellbound.

He took a hold of a straight chair and pushed it up close to my bed. Then He sat down on it, folded His hands, and began His conversation with me by saying, "I told you in the automobile the other night...." The automobile had been full. My wife and I and others were driving along within two blocks of where I now was, as Jesus sat by my bedside talking to me. In the car, I had heard the Spirit of God speak to me. I thought everyone in the car had heard it and I said, "Did you all hear that?" They said, "No, we didn't hear anything." In the Old Testament the prophets would say, "And the Word of the Lord came unto me saying...." Did you ever wonder how it came? It could not have been literally audible. If it had been audible everyone present would have heard it—the prophet would not have had to tell the people what the Spirit said. The Word of the Lord came to the prophet's spirit from the Spirit of God. It is so real that it seems audible at the time. The Word of the Lord was so real to me, I thought everyone in the car with me had heard it too. As Jesus sat at my bedside, He said, "I spoke to you the night before last in the automobile and told you certain things. I told you, by my Spirit, that later I would talk to you further. So now I have come to talk to you about this..." It was concerning the ministry of the prophet. Jesus sat there in that chair and talked to me for an hour and a half. And I talked to Him. I asked questions in reference to what He was saying. He answered them. I will not go into all He said about the prophet's ministry; that is another message. But I will get into some of it.

Jesus said to me, "The prophet of the New Testament is very similar to the prophet of the Old Testament in that the prophet of the Old Testament was called a 'seer' because he saw and knew things supernaturally. The prophet of the New Testament also sees and knows things supernaturally. But the prophet of the New Testament does not have the same status as the prophet of the Old Testament, in that I did not set prophets in the Church to guide the Church. A Christian under the New Testament need not seek guidance through prophets. He might receive guidance through prophets, but he should not seek it. It is unscriptural to do so. The ministry of the New Testament prophet in this area is only to confirm what people already have in their own spirits. "Under the Old Covenant, only the priest, the prophet, and the king were anointed by the Holy Spirit to stand in those offices. What you would call the laity did not have the Spirit of God upon them or in them. Therefore, under the Old Covenant, people would seek guidance through the prophet because he had the Spirit of God." Under the New Testament, thanks be to God, we not only have the Spirit of God upon us—we have Him in us! Jesus also said to me, "Under the New Covenant, it does not say, 'As many as are led by prophets, they are the sons of God.' The New Testament says, 'For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God'" (Rom. 8:14). Then He said, "The number one way, the primary way, that I lead all of My children is by the inward witness. I am going to show you how that works so you won't make the mistakes you have made in the past."

 Then He called my attention to something that had been happening to me for the previous three days. For the past three days, I had sat down to write a letter to a pastor confirming a date to hold a meeting for him. Somehow, the first day, I got about half a page written, then I tore it up and threw it into the wastebasket. The next day I did the same thing. The third day I did the same thing. Then it was the day that the Lord was here in the room talking to me.

Jesus said, "You see Me sitting here talking to you. This is a manifestation of the Spirit called discerning of spirits. (Discerning of spirits is seeing into the spirit realm.) This is the prophet's ministry in operation. You are seeing into the realm of the spirit. You see Me. You hear Me talking. I am bringing you, through the vision, a word of knowledge and also a word of wisdom. I am telling you not to go to that church. The pastor would not accept the way you would minister when you got there. But I am never going to lead you this way again. (He never has, and that was many years ago.) From now on, I'm going to lead you by the inward witness. You had the inward witness all the time. You had a check in your spirit. That's the reason you tore up the letter three times. You had something on the inside, a check, a red light, a stop signal. It wasn't even a voice that said, 'Don't go.' It was just an inward intuition."

Then Jesus reminded me of another invitation. I had preached a convention for one of the Full Gospel denominations the previous year. Nearly every pastor there asked me if I would come and hold a meeting. I had hundreds of calls, I suppose. One fellow came up to me and said, "Brother Hagin, do you ever go to small churches?" I said, "I go anywhere the Lord says to go." "Well, we only run seventy to ninety in Sunday School. But if God ever speaks to you, we want you to come." I dismissed that conversation along with many others. Several months later, however, while praying in the church one day about my services that night, that conversation came back to me. Then every day it continued to come back to me. Finally, after about thirty or forty days, I said, "Lord, do You want me to go to that little church for a meeting?" The more I would pray about it and the more I would think about it, as we say, the better I would feel about it on the inside of me. It wasn't a physical feeling, but it was a feeling in my spirit. Sitting by my bedside, Jesus referred to this: "The more you thought about it, the better you felt about it. You had a velvety-like feeling in your spirit. That's the green light. That's the go-ahead signal That's the witness of the Spirit to go. Now you see Me sitting here, you hear Me talking to you, and I am telling you to go to that church. But I am never going to lead you to go anywhere like this again. (He never has.) From now on, I am going to lead you just like I do every other Christian—by the inward witness."

Then the Lord said this to me, which is not just for my benefit, but also for yours: "If you will learn to follow that inward witness, I will make you rich. I will guide you in all the affairs of life, financial as well as spiritual. [Some think God is only interested in their spiritual well-being, and nothing else. But He is interested in everything we are interested in.] I am not opposed to My children being rich; I am opposed to their being covetous." I have followed that inward witness and He has done just what He said He would do. He has made me rich. Someone asked, "Are you a millionaire?" I didn't say that. Some people fail to realize what the Word "rich" means. It means a full supply. It means abundant provision. I have more than a full supply. I have more than an abundant provision. It is because I learned to follow the leading of the Spirit by the inward witness. What He did for me, He will do for you. It won't come overnight, or by next Saturday night. But as you learn to develop your spirit and follow that inward witness, He will guide you in every area of your life. I knew a man down in Texas. He had never worn a pair of shoes until he was 12 years old. He only had a fifth grade education. But way back when money was money, he was a millionaire. Two different people, one from California and the other from Minnesota who had been frequent house guests in his home, told me that this man told each of them the same thing. He said to them both, "In all these years and in all these investments [that's how he made his money], I have never lost a dime." That beats my record. How about yours? "Everything I have ever invested in, has made money,"

He told each of them on different occasions. Then he told them how he did it. "I always do this. When someone comes along with an idea, wanting me to invest in something, my first reaction is mental. Now I know when Jesus said, 'When you pray, enter into your closet,' that He didn't necessarily mean you have to get into a closet to pray. I know He meant for us to shut things out. But I have a large closet in my bedroom where I go to pray. I pray about it. I wait long enough— until I hear what my spirit says. Sometimes I wait three days. Now I don't mean that I stay in there 24 hours a day. I might come out and eat one meal. Usually I miss a few. I come out and sleep a little bit. But the majority of the time I am waiting, just by myself, until I know inside by an inward witness what I am to do. "Sometimes my head says, 'Boy, you would be a fool to put your money in that. You'll lose your shirt.' But my heart says, 'Go ahead and invest in it.' So I do. And in all these years, I have never lost a dime. "Then again, someone comes along with a deal and my head says, 'Boy, you had better get in on that one.' But I don't pay any attention to my head. I get in that closet and wait. Sometimes all night long I wait. I'll pray and read my Bible, but a lot of the time I just wait. I just get quiet until I can hear inside what my heart says. When my heart says, 'No, don't do it,' and my head says, 'Yes, you'd better get in on it,' I don't do it." What had this man done? He had learned to follow the inward witness and God had guided him in his business, until in the late 1930's and the early 1940's he was already worth two million dollars. That doesn't sound big now, but it was big then. Do you think God loved him more than He loves you? No, but this man took time to listen to God. He took steps and means and measures to wait upon God.

 I was with a group of ministers and we were talking personally, and conversing with one another. Someone asked a certain individual who is a very successful minister, "Now we know that God called you and that the anointing of God's Spirit is upon you. But from your standpoint, is there any one thing you do that you would say has contributed more to your success than any other one thing?" That man said, "I always follow my deepest premonitions." What was he saying? He was simply saying, "I always listen to my spirit. I do what my spirit tells me to do. I follow that inward witness." The inward witness is just as supernatural as guidance through visions and so on; it is just not as spectacular. Many people are looking for the spectacular and missing the supernatural that is right there all the time.

MISCONCEPTION OF A “GOOD PERSON”

It is not enough to be what we term “a good person.” We must have an intimate, on-going relationship with the Lord Jesus.

   This is brought out in the testimony of another Colombian youth taken by the Lord into hell (recorded by the international ministry, Light for the Nations):

    We continued with Jesus, holding His hand even tighter. We came to a section that really made an impression on me. We saw a young man, 23 years old, suspended waist-high in the middle of a fire. We couldn’t see exactly what his torment was, but the number 666 was engraved on him. He also had a metal plate on his chest that read, “I am here for being normal.” When he saw Jesus, he extended his hand towards Jesus begging for mercy. The Word of God says in Prov. 14:12, “There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way of death.” When we read the plate that said, “I am here for being normal,” we asked the Lord, “Lord, how come? Is this possible that a person can come to this place for this reason?” So Jesus asked him, “Andrew, why are you here in this place?” He answered, “Jesus, when I was on earth, I thought that just killing and stealing were sins, and that is why I never tried to get close to you.” In Psalm 9:17 it says, “The wicked shall be turned into Hell, all the nations that forget God.”

   In hell, as we have seen, there are all kinds of people. There are philanthropists who think that they will change the world by good works. There was a Filipino doctor, who was kind, compassionate, and competent. He loved his profession and his patients, but was unable to believe in life after death. Then the time came for him to on his own deathbed. An uncertainty came over his soul, and he became troubled. What if his Christian friends were right, and he was totally unprepared for eternity? He sank lower and lower, and eventually slipped away, surrounded by loving friends and relatives. Then suddenly he came back, and he revived. A look of terror distorted his face and he said, “ I have been to hell and I don’t want to go.”  He then proceeded to describe some of the terrible agonies and sufferings of those in that place of doom. Loving friends led him to accept Christ as his Saviour and Friend. After a time, he was able to give them the assurance that he was truly saved, and that he had that joy and peace of Jesus in his heart. With a face enlightened by heaven’s glory, he then went to be forever with the Lord. Being a kind, compassionate, and loving doctor was not the door to heaven. It was his acceptance of Christ as his Saviour that was his assurance.

  

Another unbelieving doctor was attending to a patient who was in the throes of death. The patient kept fading in and out of consciousness. But every time he was resuscitated, his face contorted with terror and he would scream, “Get me out! I am in hell. Help me! Get me out!” The doctor could not save his life, but his patient left such a great impression upon him that he went to find friends who could lead him to accept Christ as his own personal Saviour. He remarked that no one would had witnessed the screams of his patient could be left in doubt in hell, and its horrendous torments very, very real.

  In a November 1995 interview on PBS with David Frost, Bill Gates (one of the richest men in the world) was asked if he believed in the Sermon on the Mount. “I’m not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis,” he said. “The specific elements of Christianity are not something I’m a huge believer in. There’s a lot of merit in the moral aspects of religion. I think it can have a very, very positive impact…In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don’t know if there’s a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.”

  In a cover story for the January 13, 1996 issue of Time magazine with Bill Gates:  Gates was asked if there isn’t something divine about the human soul. He replied tonelessly, “I don’t have any evidence on that…I don’t have any evidence of that.” He later added, “Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”

   So the wealthiest man in the world (at the time of going to press) has no witness of eternity. This supports the words of Christ in Luke 18:24-25, “…How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eyes, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”

(excerpt from Heaven's Glories and The Untold Horrors of Hell by Dr. Brian Bailey). 

ARMANDO P. MARIANO

WHO'S WHO IN HELL

Differentiations in Hell

The eternity of those who have known the truth and turned aside is far worse than that of those who did not know the truth. This fact is borne out by the testimony of another Colombian youth who was taken by the Lord into hell (recorded by the International ministry, Light for the nations):

"We came to the most terrible section of hell, where the worse torments happen--the centre of hell. There we saw the most concentrated forms of torment; such torments that a human being could never express them. The only people here were those who knew Jesus and had known the Word of God. There were pastors, evangelists, missionaries, and all type of people who had once accepted Jesus and knew the truth, but had lived a double life."

   There were also backsliders; their suffering was a thousand times worse than any one else. They were shouting and begging the Lord for mercy, but the Word of the Lord says in the book of Heb. 10:26-27, "For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses."

Those souls were there because they had preached, fasted, sung, and lifted their hands in the church, but in the streets and at home they committing adultery, fornication, lying , or robbery. We cannot lie to God. The Bible say that to whom much has been given much also will be required (Lk. 12:48). 

   God then allowed us to see women who had once been Christian sisters while on the arth, but they didn't live a righteous life before the Lord. One said to the other, 'You cursed wretch! It's your fault that I am in this place! You didn't preach to me a holy gospel! And because you didn't tell me about the truth, I am now here in hell.' They would say these things to each other in the midst of the flames; and they hated each other because there is no love, mercy or forgiveness in hell. 

   There were thousands of souls who had known the Word of God, but their lives weren't clean before the holy presence of the Lord. The Lord said, 'You cannot play with God or with the flames of hell either!' He also told us, 'My sons, all the suffering on the earth concentrated in just one another is nothing, NOTHING compared with the suffering that a person has in the best parts of hell.' If it is that terrible for those who suffer least in hell, how much worse must it be for those in the centre of hell, who once knew the Word of the Lord and walked away from it."

    The Lord makes that very clear in Luke 12:47-48, "...And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.48 But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more."

    We need to understand that all have sinned, and the wages of sin is death, and by the consequence, is an eternity to be spent in the terrors of hell. Whilst there are degrees of suffering in hell, any aspect of hell has been said to be 1,000 times more painful than any pain experienced here on earth. 


(excerpt from Heaven's Glories and The Untold Horrors of Hell by Dr. Brian Bailey).