In 2008 Sam became Lead Pastor for Preaching and Vision at Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Sam Storms is an Amillennial, Calvinistic, charismatic, credo-baptistic, complementarian, Christian Hedonist who loves his wife of 44 years, his two daughters, his four grandchildren, books, baseball, movies, and all things Oklahoma University. The fact that he has given us mercy instead, and forgiveness instead of condemnation, ought to awaken in us the most heartfelt and passionate gratitude and praise.Īrticle originally published on. Every single one of us deserves damnation. In mercy he has poured out his wrath on Jesus in my place, a wrath and judgment that Jesus lovingly and willingly embraced and endured. But in mercy he has drawn me to faith in his Son. God would have been perfectly just and righteous had he chosen to consign me to eternal torment. When I read about hell in a passage like Revelation 14:9-11 I’m reading about what I deserve. My second reaction is one of unfathomable gratitude. Hell should provoke unfathomable gratitude. Third, again by God’s grace I have come to understand the immeasurable horror and ugliness and self-centeredness of humanity’s sin and depravity and wickedness. Second, by God’s grace I have come to understand, at least to some degree, the immeasurable magnitude and majesty of God’s holiness and beauty and authority and the honor that is due to him from all of his creatures, including you and me. I believe, as the Apostle Paul said in 2 Timothy 3:16, that “all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” When I’m asked why I believe in hell, my response is three-fold.įirst, I have such unshakable and robust confidence in the inerrant truth of every word in the Bible that the matter is already settled before I even read the text. Part of the problem is that the nature of hell has been horribly distorted in our culture and portrayed as an experience that is far from what we read in the NT. The reality of hell and eternal punishment is not a popular topic, even among Christians.
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