so he said to him, "Because you have disobeyed the LORD's command, a lion will kill you as soon as you leave me." And as soon as he left, a lion came along and killed him.

Elisha turned around, glared at them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys to pieces.

Lazy people stay at home; they say a lion might get them if they go outside.

Why don't lazy people ever get out of the house? What are they afraid of ? Lions?

It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear! Or like someone who comes home and puts his hand on the wall---only to be bitten by a snake!

If we would examine ourselves first, we would not come under God's judgment.

But we are judged and punished by the Lord, so that we shall not be condemned together with the world.

The time has come for judgment to begin, and God's own people are the first to be judged. If it starts with us, how will it end with those who do not believe the Good News from God?

As the scripture says, "It is difficult for good people to be saved; what, then, will become of godless sinners?"