Dave’s Monday Blast – January 31, 2022
As the news constantly reminds us, any of us could die at any time. And yet, studies show that Americans are more afraid of how they might die than death itself. One has to ask: Why are we mortals not more afraid of our mortality?
The answer is tragically not that we are prepared to meet God. Only 35 % of American adults believe salvation comes through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. And yet, 54 percent believe they will go to heaven, many of them because they think they have earned their place in paradise through their good works. But what of the rest? (Don’t do the math as it doesn’t add up)
15 % say they don’t know what will happen after they die
13 % say there is no life after death
8 % expect to be reincarnated
8 % believe they will go to a place of purification prior to entering heaven
2 % believe they will go to hell
There was a time when Americans had an intense fear of hell. Evangelists and pastors could present the “plan of salvation” in the knowledge that most who heard the Good News might very well follow the “plan”.
However, one of the many ways Satan is using the postmodern denial of objective truth is to convince millions that their opinion of the afterlife determines the afterlife they will experience. I have heard many say over the years that they “don’t believe in hell” as if that changed the existence of hell.
Pastor Jim Denison comments: “‘The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned’ (1 Corinthians 2:14). This is because ‘the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God'” (2 Corinthians 4:4).
Unlike those who are directionally lost and stop for directions, most who are spiritually lost don’t know they are lost. If Satan has his way, they will persist in this condition until it is too late.
Next week I want to share with you FOUR EMPOWERING PRAYERS from the Denison Forum that answer the question: What can we do to help those who are blind receive their sight?
