A drunkard husband, spending the evening with his associates at a tavern, boasted that if he took a group of his friend’s home with him at midnight and ask his Christian wife to get up and cook supper for them, she would do it without complaint.

The men considered it a hopeless boast and dared him to try it by a considerable wager. So the drunken crowd went home with him and he made the unreasonable demands of his wife. She obeyed, dressed, came down, and prepared a very nice supper just as quickly as possible and served it as cheerfully as if she had been expecting them.

After supper one of the men, a little more sober than the others, asked how she could be so kind when they had been so unreasonable, and, too, they knew she did not approve of their conduct. Her reply was: “Sir, when my husband and I were married, we were both sinners. It has pleased God to call me out of that dangerous condition. My husband continues in it. I tremble for his future state. Were he to die as he is, he would be miserable forever; I think it my duty to make his present existence as comfortable as possible.”

WOW! Hell isn’t something we discuss often; we try to play it off as though it were a place created in the imagination to scare little boys and girls into being good.  However, Jesus spoke of hell and its eternal punishment often, and said in Matthew 13:41-42, “The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, ⁴² and will cast them into the furnace of fire.” Therefore, if my Jesus taught of a hell fire don’t you think it must be a place as real as where you sit this very moment? My question to you is simple: Do you have your fire insurance paid through the precious blood of King Jesus? Friend’s, He is the only One who can quench the eternal flames of the awful place!