Personal, Painful, Perpetual Misery

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 19—especially explaining how loss of communion with God is what makes miserable all the miseries of this life, death itself, and the eternal pain of hell.

Q19. What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell? All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under His wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.