In the new Kenneth Branagh film Belfast there is a preacher. He is a bit of a caricature but he is based on ones that Branagh heard as a child. Perhaps they were rather austere those preachers then but what the preacher actually says in the film is essentially true.
And where will YOU go? When you shuffle off this pestilential mortal coil. WHERE? ... I will tell you where. Picture the scene. A fork in the road. In one direction, a straight and narrow highway. In the other, a long and winding road which stretches down and away, into an unknowable distance. One will take you to the bosom of the Lord’s grace for ever and a day and caress you with beatific love, and the other will spew you into an eternal pit of sulphurous, suffering, pustulating pain, from which you will never, ever, through the seven circles of hell, escape. And I ask you here and now, which road will you take?
There is a broad road that leads to destruction. Evil will slay the wicked; the foes of the righteous will be condemned.
On the other hand, there is a narrow road that leads to heaven. The LORD will rescue his servants and bring them safely there.
Take refuge in Christ, therefore, and escape condemnation.
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