Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. If one reads patristic sermons for the Sunday of the Last Judgment, they contain many of these same themes. While we tend to emphasize the love and mercy of God in the Orthodox Church, we never forget the consequences of rejecting that mercy.
Our pre-Lenten season is made up of a sequence of 4 Sundays. The first is the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee in which we learn that none of us are worthy and none of us should judge others, but rather implore God for his mercy.
The second is the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, in which we learn of the infinite love and condescension of God, and that it is never too late to repent and accept God's mercy.
The third is the Sunday of the Last Judgement, where we hear about the sheep and the goats, and about the everlasting fire into which Christ will tell the goats to depart. Very frightening.
The fourth and final is the Sunday of Forgiveness, which also commemorates the casting out of Adam and Eve from Eden. We learn where we were meant to be, how we cannot be there because of our sins, and that the way back is through forgiveness of others (for in like manner, Christ will forgive us.)
As one can see, the emphasis is on love, mercy, and forgiveness, but the Fathers point out that the Sunday of the Last Judgement is put where it is precisely so that the message of the first two Sundays doesn't lull us into a false sense of security, thinking that we can relax and take it easy, and that all will simply be well because of God's goodness.
This passage from Bp. Ryle, which some minor stylistic changes, could have been lifted directly from one of the patristic sermons to which I refer:
"If you would ever be a healthy scriptural Christian, I entreat you to give hell a place in your theology. Establish it in your mind as a fixed principle that God is a God of judgment, as well as of mercy, and that the same everlasting counsels which laid the foundation of the bliss of heaven have also laid the foundation of the misery of hell.
Keep in full view of your mind that all who die unpardoned and unrenewed are utterly unfit for the presence of God and must be lost forever. They are not capable of enjoying heaven; they could not be happy there. They must go to their own place: and that place is hell. Oh, it is a great thing in these days of unbelief to believe the whole Bible!"