If someone charges that such preaching is old-fashioned, we gladly admit it. I have delivered only what I have received. If any be blessed through the messages, then the credit properly belongs to the Christ who shed the blood, to the God who gave the Book, and to the Holy Spirit who moves upon the hearts of men. - John R. Rice [What Must I Do to Be Saved?, pg. 7-8]
The great gulf between hell and paradise or heaven is fixed, that is, permanent. No one ever can pass from one to the other! There is no limbo, no purgatory, no middle ground! Beyond this life there remains only an eternal hell and an eternal heaven, eternally separated! - John R. Rice [What Must I Do to Be Saved?, pg. 72-73]
Those who encourage men to reject Christ sometimes say that hell is only the grave. How foolish that is when you hear the rich man cry out in hell, "I am tormented in this flame!" He was not simply in the grave! He wanted his brother to repent "lest they also come into this place of torment." Repenting would not have kept them from the grave; it would keep them from hell. - John R. Rice [What Must I Do to Be Saved?, pg. 70]
The Scriptures about hell are so definite that any man who says hell is the grave is either an ignoramus or a deliberate deceiver. - John R. Rice [What Must I Do to Be Saved?, pg. 70]
Judgment will be on the basis of what men deserve. People go to hell because they deserve to go; some have a worse hell because they deserve a worse hell. They will be judged accurately according to God's records of their work and punished in hell accordingly. - John R. Rice [What Must I Do to Be Saved?, pg. 88]
Hell will certainly be hotter for some than for others. God always does right. We may be certain that a man who rejects Christ fifty years and with great enlightenment still resists God, will be punished more than a younger person. We may be certain that one who is reared in this enlightened land and hears the gospel all his life and then dies without Christ will find hell more terrible than a heathen savage who had only the enlightenment of the law written in his heart, that is, his conscience, and the evidence of nature around him that there is a God. Hell is the result of men's sins. Greater sin makes a more terrible hell for the sinner. - John R. Rice [What Must I Do to Be Saved?, pg. 89]
Repentance means to change your mind and heart; to turn from sin in the heart toward Christ. To repent includes trusting Christ. Trusting in Christ includes repentance. You could not truly turn from sin in the heart without turning toward Christ, without trusting Him. - John R. Rice [What Must I Do to Be Saved?, pg. 108-109]
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