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. So what do I mean by invoking the justice of God?

What I mean is this. It is unjust of God who is thrice holy to exact double penalties for the same infraction.

It is unjust, say it again, it is unjust, unrighteous, unfair for God is the judge of the living

and the dead, the righteous judge, the judge who shows no partiality, the judge who is fair, always fair,

never lenient, but also never harsh, it is unjust for that perfect judge to punish the same

crime twice. Hell is the wage for sin. The Bible is clear in the book of Romans that the wages of sin is death

and that is the eternal death all will die once Hebrew says it is appointed to man that he

should die once and then comes the judgment all will die physically at the end

of this life all will die once but some will die forever that they will go to the second death

that they will go to hell and what makes hell so terrible what makes it an eternal never-ending death, where the worm does not die,

and the flame is not quenched, what makes hell an eternal death, a terrible, miserable,

eternal death is not that God is absent.

It is not as though hell is so terrible because God is not there. Hell is so terrible

because God is there. God is present. King David underneath the inspiration of the Holy Spirit

and writing the Psalms, he says this, where can I go from your presence? That if I was thrown into the

depths of the sea, you would be there.

And we saw that with Jonah, that God is with him, even in the belly of the fish.

And David goes further and says that if I was even not just in the depths of the sea,

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