He seeks to keep them in blindness and darkness to the reality of the fact that eternal hell awaits all who do not repent and believe in Jesus Christ. A believing child of God stirs up his mind over the subject of hell. He sees the reality, not the myth, of the place Jesus called outer darkness, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. We see the seriousness of our sins. And we understand that sin is not a plaything, sin is not an excusable thing.
Sin is a horrendous thing that deserves eternal punishment in hell.
Still more, we see the wonder of belonging to Jesus Christ who has delivered us from hell. The sober reality of hell is used of God to bring His children to the wonderful reality of belonging to the Savior Jesus Christ. If heaven were the only eternal state that God tells us of in His Word, we could stop our series on heaven. But the Word of God makes very plain that there is not only a heaven but also a hell. But the Word of God speaks very solemnly of the truth of eternal hell.