Outer Darkness
It seems that many Christians today feel that they can do whatever they want, and go wherever they want, that they can live essentially for themselves, knowing that they are "God's workmanship" and that "God will finish what He started," Him eventually bringing them unto perfection. I believe that this kind of mindset is a product of misunderstanding though, in that this mindset seems to focus upon the end result of salvation but misses THE MEANS to the end. Sure, God will probably bring all Christians unto perfection (maturity) eventually, some of them by way of their willingness to fellowship in Christ's sufferings and in this way them learning to yield to His will now, and others brought by way of a rather uncomfortable place (position) in the "afterlife."
With regard to this, I have heard it said that there is no hell whose flames (difficult dealings) are not fueled by self-will. If this is true (and I think it is), might it be that there is a portion of the hellish realms (for lack of a better way to put it) allotted to self-willed and self-serving Christians? I suspect that there is. I think that if you do a study into what Jesus said about "outer darkness," you'll find that He was always referring to "believers" going there, not unbelievers,"outer darkness" describing a place "outside of the Kingdom" which are the spirit realms OUTSIDE OF (below) Paradise, New Jerusalem, and Mt. Zion.
Anyway, I know that this is not exactly fluffy, feel-good stuff. I suspect that this is because many of us have had way too much of that already. Time is short, beloved, and because of this, WE ARE BEING GIVEN WHAT WE NEED TO HEAR, not what we want to hear.
May you all be given an ear to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church in this day.
Be blessed in that way.