Scarcely Saved

"And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?"  I Peter 4:18.  In the eyes of God, only two classes of people exist.  Those two groups are the righteous and the ungodly.  The righteous seek to obey God and become godly.  Godliness becomes the way of life for the righteous.  The other class, the ungodly, do not seek the way of God.  They have no thought of God.  Their interest lies in sinfulness.  The righteous are saved by grace through faith.  This salvation is a gift of God.  The righteous are not saved because of their own works.  Their salvation is completely dependent upon God and the mercy that He has offered through Jesus Christ.  The ungodly have no salvation.  Since they are sinners, God does not know them and does not own them as His.  Where shall they appear?  The righteous are always within the presence of God.  The sinner is not.  The sinner, or ungodly, is without hope.  Their fate is sealed because of their rejection of God.  They refuse His grace and His pardon from sin.  They are without Him in this world, and will be without Him in the world to come.