HIGHWAY TO HELL

By Rick Mathes

Matthew 5:5-11 (NASB77) ⁵ “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. ⁶ “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. ⁷ “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. ⁸ “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. ⁹ “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. ¹⁰ “Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

The Beatitudes are to be tackled progressively; that is the first one must precede the second and the second the third and so on. They build upon each other step by step, precept by precept they lift you up to the image and likeness of God.

The ultimate but naturally unattainable goal of godly perfection as enumerated here cannot be accomplished until the Lord returns. This does not excuse us from striving to rise to our Lord’s level of excellency instead of falling short to our level of incompetency.

A curious turn of outcome occurs when the stairs are reversed and lead downward to hell. The antithesis of these steps to glory, this stairway to heaven becomes the fast-lane to hell.

1. Cursed are the arrogant that hold lesser beings in contempt.
2. Cursed are those that smirk in derision at the broken-hearted.
3. Cursed are the brutal bullies that advantage themselves over the weak.
4. Cursed are the sin-seekers who mock those striving for holy ground
5. Cursed are the cold-blooded whose hearts are dead and lifeless.
6. Cursed are the black-hearted, demon possessed carnal Christians.
7. Cursed are the war-makers who thirst for the blood and plunder of the innocent.
8. Cursed are those that persecute the souls our Lord died for on the Cross.

Each step increases the temperature of the furnace; each step brings closer the flames and blistering inferno that is the wages of sin.

Oh how the demons enjoy the demise of the innocent that dip their toes into the alluring temptations that ultimately lead to eternal damnation. One step at a time like the increasing heat ever so slowl and unnoticed until the shock of finality finally sears its bottom of bottoms and the soul is destroyed.

Hell and all its fury is a choice you make with every sin and transgression against the holiness of our Savior.

Burn baby burn!