Some people feel that God is so merciful that everyone will go to heaven. Have you ever been to a funeral were it was said that this person went to hell? No, they talk about their rest in heaven or, if they are an atheist, resting as a pile compost.
D. L. Moody has this illustration to show the irrationality of this belief. Suppose the Governor of a State should pardon every person that the courts ever convicted, and are now lying in its jails and penitentiaries; suppose he should let them all loose because he is so merciful that he could not bear to have men punished; I think he would not be Of the Governor of that State long. These men who are talking about God being so full of mercy, that He is going to spare, and take all men to heaven, would be the very men to say that such a Governor as that ought to be impeached--that he ought not to be Governor. Let us bear in mind that the Scripture says there is a certain class of people who “shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Now, I will give you the Scripture; it is a good deal better to just give the Scripture for these things, and then if you do not like it you can quarrel with Scripture, and not with me. Let no man say that I have been saying who is going to heaven and who is not: I will let the Scripture speak for itself: “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?” 1 Corinthians 6:9.
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