It's Not Easy Telling Someone They Are Going To Hell

# 54 – Today's Du-votional comes from 1Sa 3:15 So Samuel lay down until morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel was afraid to tell Eli the vision. (1 Sam 3:15) God has spoken to Samuel. He did not give him any specific instructions, He just told Samuel what He was going to do to Eli and his sons by way of judgment because of the vile behavior of his sons and his failure to restrain them. It's not easy to tell someone they are going to hell is it? How much more difficult for the boy Samuel to tell his mentor. Samuel's personal fear puts us in good company when we tremble at the thought of telling someone about the realities of God's judgment. “But,” we may say. “God hasn't appeared to me in a vision like Samuel with details of judgment” No need my friend, God has left us with His Word, and like it or not it has much to say about the realities of hell, and those who are in danger of punching their ticket to this final destination, where the “worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.” (Mr 9:44) Most are not called to stand on a street corner and preach about the possibility of damnation, but it certainly is a message that needs to be relayed from the pulpits of our land, and when the opportunity presents itself, we, like Samuel, must be prepared to announce what God's Word says about the matter. We, the church, have a responsibility to warn of the realities of God's judgment, listen to these words from Ezekiel: Eze 3:18 "When I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. 19 "Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul. Tell of God's judgment, and tell of His way of escape!