DEATH-UNBELIEVER
[It] will
[not] be possible to transfer from one region to another. No matter how endless
the ages, no matter how heartfelt the cries, no matter how intense the
suffering, your travel plans are limited to your present abode. Those who find
themselves in the lower gloomy regions shall never enter the gates that lead to
endless light and ecstasy. They will discover that the beautiful words spoken
in their eulogy bear no resemblance to the reality that now confronts them. If
only their friends could see them now!
Erwin Lutzer
Taken
from One Minute After You Die by Erwin Lutzer, Moody Publishers, 1997, p. 10.
Let them fear
death who do not fear sin.
A Puritan
Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by
permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 71.
O Christless man! You
too will hear that voice. Your soul will hear it in hell, your body will hear
it in the grave; and death and hell will give up the dead which are in them.
You will not hear His voice now, but you must hear it then. You will come
forth, like Lazarus, and stand before God. Perhaps you would like to lie still
in the grave. Oh! Let the rocks fall on
me, and the mountains cover me. Perhaps you will cling to the sides of the
grave, and clasp your frail coffin in your arms. Perhaps your soul would wish
to lie still in hell. Oh! Let me
alone! Let the burning wave go over
forever, let the worm gnaw and never die. But you must come forth to the
resurrection of damnation. You must rise to shame and everlasting contempt.
Robert Murray McCheyne
Comfort and Sorrow, Christian Focus
Publishers, 2002, p. 134-135, Used by Permission.