In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000

downloads. What made the difference? You leaving us a five-star review. The more positive reviews,

the more the algorithm picks us up. And more people are confronted by the law and gospel of Jesus

Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a five-star

review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. And there are many in the world today, and sadly,

even many who would actively participate in churches. They would think of something such as hell,

and they would wrestle with the concept of hell.

They would wrestle and think how in the world could a good and loving God punish people

in such a severe way?

And the reason for this disconnect, this confusion is quite simple.

It's because we do not fully understand the holiness of God,

and by way of consequence, we fail to grasp the fullness of man's depravity.

But God doesn't send people to hell to be cruel.

God sends people to hell in order to uphold his justice.

That if God punished people in some lighter capacity,

then he would be compromising his own character.

He would be compromising his own justice.

Part of what it is to be a good king is to uphold equal weights and measures.

To exact judgment and punishment in proportion to the crime.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, life for life.

And what is the only appropriate judgment for someone who has sinned against an infinitely kind and good God, an infinitely holy God?

We misunderstand. We fail to grasp the fullness of God's holiness and by way of consequence, the severity of our sin. You know,

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