#1. GOD IS GOD. REMEMBER GOD'S ANSWER TO JOB?

Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Job 38:6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 38:12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place?

Job 38:17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Job 38:18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

Job 38:19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

Job 38:22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

Job 38:23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

God answered Job's question "Why?" with "Who!" Who are you oh man (with a mind darkened by sin) to question the Eternal Self Existent One, the One who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man can see and live?

Do not misunderstand God's tone here. God is not on an ego trip in not answering Job's question directly. He is saying, for a mortal mind to comprehend this mystery you would need the mind of God. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so are His ways above ours. Secondly, God wants us to trust Him like a child trusts it's mother when she feeds you. Does a one year old ask it's mother, "How do I know that's not poison?"

#2. IT IS BECAUSE GOD IS HOLY, AND JUST, HE MUST PUNISH SIN.

A. If God is good, why doesn't He take all the evil people away? Are you suggesting that if God removed all the evil people, you would still be here?

B. If a judge were to let you off after committing even one crime, He would be unjust. God cannot change. If God were to change He would either have to get better or worse. That is impossible - He is perfect!

#3. HE DIDN'T REJECT YOU, YOU REJECTED HIM!

2 Peter 3:9 says: "The Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."

Romans 2:4-6 says: "Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to every man according to his deeds."

#4. WITH EVERY WILLFUL ACT OF DISOBEDIENCE YOU SAID IN EFFECT, "I WILL EXALT MYSELF ABOVE THE THRONE OF GOD."

High treason even in man's world has always been punishable by death. But for man to exalt his will above God's will is usurp the throne of God. That is what Lucifer did when he became Satan. He said, "I will exalt my self above the throne of God.

#5. BECAUSE OF THE PRICE THAT WAS PAID.

John 3:16 says: "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life."

Romans 5:8 says: "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

2 Cor. 5:21 says: "He made Him who knew no sin {to be} sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."

#6. BECAUSE YOU MURDERED THE SON OF GOD.

In our world, it is one thing to murder a skid row bum, it is another thing all together to murder the President of the United States.

In this world, because of man's sinful state, it is possible to murder someone, especially if they are not very important and get away with it, and if you have the money for a "good" lawyer. But, if you murder the President of the United States, the United States government will bring all of it's power and all of it's authority against you in order to see to it that you are prosecuted to receive the maximum penalty allowed by law.

When you stand before the judgment bar of God you will be charged with murder in the first degree. You will be charged with murdering the Son of God. This is what Peter preached in Acts chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, Gal. 3 and 1 Peter 2:24. It was your sins and mine that nailed Jesus to the cross. But, it wasn't the nails that held Him there, it was His love for you and me!

To reject so great a salvation is to condemn yourself.

Who goes to hell?

Rev 21:7-8 "He who overcomes shall inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son. "But for the cowardly (fearful) and unbelieving (unfaithful and faithless) abominable (detestable, abhor able, to turn away because of the stench) and murderers and immoral persons (word used is pornos, outside of marriage) and sorcerers (pharmakeus- one who prepares or uses magical remedies, or drugs) and idolaters (covetous men who love the world and things in the world like money and the praise of men, more than the God who created the world and the praise that comes for the only God.) and all liars (deceitful people), their part {will be} in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."