The Bethlehem College and Seminary Pastors Conference begins today on Monday, here in Minneapolis.

Your prayers are appreciated for the conference.

Pastor John delivers the first plenary session tonight at 7pm Central, addressing the topic

of Christian hedonism and what it is, really looking forward to that.

And of course, earlier in January, Pastor John traveled to Louisville to speak at the annual

cross-conference a gathering of 7,500 young men and women who are seeking clarity on their

call to international missions and to life evangelism.

One of the sessions was a panel discussion hosted by David Platt, with Pastor John, International

Evangelist, Mech Stiles, and Pastors Thibidianyu Abuelay, and Kevin D. Young.

In that discussion was a very important clip I wanted to share here on the podcast about

one, one very unpopular truth that drives gospel sacrifice, namely the doctrine, the reality

of the eternal judgment of sinners under the just and holy wrath of God.

As uncomfortable as this doctrine is, we cannot ignore it.

Our friend, Mech Stiles, picks up the conversation.

We can't air-condition hell.

Hell is real, it is eternal suffering, and people are really going there.

And we want to make sure that the world hears the saving knowledge of Christ so that they

can be saved from hell.

It's easy to be overwhelmed when you stand in places in India or China and look over these

vast numbers of people and realize that without the word, without the word of God, these

people are lost and without hope in the world and are facing eternal suffering.

It's hard to take that sometimes, but it's the reality that we face.

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