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Something to think about...

I just have this little thought that has been spinning around in my brain since church this morning. The pastor at the little Baptist church we visited today said something interesting; he was talking about how people tend to not take hell seriously, and he said, "How terrible is hell? It's so terrible, Jesus died to keep you from going there. Jesus said, 'You'll go to hell over My dead body .'" (emphasis added) Over My dead body! Well, my little brain spun off like it does on occasion, all caught up in that phrase (I have notes from the rest of the sermon, but I couldn't tell you much about it *sheepish grin*). I've heard the idea before, just never heard it expressed like that, and something about the way he put it gripped me. Jesus Christ did, and is doing, everything possible, everything necessary to give us eternal life. He doesn't want one single person to die in their sins, to suffer eternal punishment. So He died. And rose again. And even ...