I saw a news article from California where they are taking down "No U Turn" signs because the residents feel they are "homophobic". To some people this is "satire". But what hit me is these people who are living in sin are so bothered by seeing these street signs they are demanding they be taken down. Their conscience is convicting them and yet they are so obstinate about ignoring their conscience it has come to this.
Are you ready?
Henry Gruver shares this story of a philosopher which taught that if God is love He would not send people to hell so there is no reason why he needed to repent and receive the gospel. When this man died his soul began to plunge into hell and he screamed "see, I was right, there is no God of love". Just at that moment God sent two angels and caught him up to the gates of heaven and he saw how beautiful and lovely it was and said "I knew it, I knew if there was a God of love I would not need to repent of sins". But as soon as he entered the gates he immediately was overwhelmed by his sins. All those unrepented sins covered him, he was acutely aware of them and it was torture, so he fled out from heaven off the edge and plunged into hell shouting "unclean, I'm unclean".
There are two sides of heaven, on the one hand we will be free and clear of the stumbling blocks, but on the other hand are your clothes white as snow? If your conscience is convicting you, listen to it!
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