If your pastor teaches that it's not enough to see yourself as a guilty sinner in God's holy eyes to be saved (Romans 3:19); but also, he says you MUST turn away from sinful living and forsake the sinful bad habits in your life, and surrender all to Jesus to live for Him, then you are in a CULT!!! You DON'T have to invite Jesus into your life to be saved. You can do that and go straight to Hell when you die. You DON'T get saved by turning over a new leaf, nor do you get saved by ceasing from bad works to do good works. The world's churches are saturated with religious hypocrites, who are doing their best to abstain from sinning because they love God; yet they are going to split Hell wide open the very second they die and BURN FOREVER AND EVER!!!

Why you ask? It is because no amount of good works or human effort can erase the sins we've committed throughout life. I am a horrible sinner! You are a horrible sinner! We are all sinners by nature and by choice! We all commit wickedness!!! We all deserve to go straight to Hell—Do not pass go, do not collect $200, go directly to jail (remember the fun board game Monopoly?). Well, Hell isn't a game, and it won't be fun. There are no parties in Hell. You won't be with your friends in Hell. You don't have any power over your horrific conditions. In Hell, you are in God's torture prison, where there is no rest day nor night, no mercy and the smoke of your torment rises up forever from the fiery furnace (Revelation 14:11). Why would you want to go there? There are no winners in Hell, only big time losers for all eternity. If you choose to go to Hell by rejecting Christ Jesus as your personal Savior, then you will be the eternal loser.

Only a complete fool would reject God's free gift of eternal life (Ephesians 2:8-10). Tragically, most people won't come to Jesus to be saved, either because they feel safe while blinded in their false religion (like Roman Catholicism, Judaism and Mormonism); or else because they love their sins and don't want anything to do with the Holy Spirit who convicts people of their sins (John 3:20). If you go to Hell, you won't just be the lonesome loser, you'll also be the loneliest loser for all eternity!!! The choice is yours alone to make.

Revelation 21:8 lists a group of people who will be cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, which is the Second Death. The first person listed is those who are timid, fearful. Hell will be filled with people who wanted answers but were too afraid to ask. God won't allow you to slide on Judgment Day.