10/23/22
Remember to Like
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In today’s society
2 Ti 4:3–4 (ESV) — 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. -
We live in a world where people want to hear good things
from the word of God. They will reject God’s word when it is not to their liking and as Paul says they will turn away from the truth. People want to hear a feel-good message and they go to churches where they can hear positive and encouraging messages. Messages that tell them that they are okay. That everything will be all right. -
Preachers that preach messages like that
will gather around them large number of people because people want to hear what pleases them. Church pews can be filled with people wanting a release from the stresses of the week of troubles and trials. -
That is a part of what church should do; help people be able to make it through. The gospel is good news
for those who are willing to submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ but it is also a warning to those who do not submit to Christ.
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I will teach you
feel good messages too, but I will also teach you the whole Word of God and not apologize for it even if it makes you uncomfortable because I want you to have a rich inheritance in heaven rather than a rich life here on earth. -
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you present Because you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior -
I want you to remember this world is not your home and
God gave man one man
Today,
I must talk to you about hell
Today I’m going to talk you and get you to
I will be providing you with what the Lord has given me to give to you.
Please take notes!
If the stream goes down, I will repost it later this afternoon. Review the video!
Those of you that can,
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Summary
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BANISHMENT
FROM EDEN AND GOD’S PRESENCE REVEALS GOD DOES NOT TOLERATE DISOBEDIENCE -
HELL IS A REAL PLACE CREATED BY GOD FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS CHILDREN.
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JESUS WARNS HELL A REAL PLACE OF ETERNAL TERRIBLE PAIN AND SUFFERING.
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HELL IS WHERE GOD COMPLETELY UNLEASHES HIS TERRIBLE WRATH AND ANGER ON THOSE WHO HAVE DISRESPECTED HIM.
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Next week -
The pain and suffering of hell.
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HELL IS A REAL PLACE CREATED BY GOD THE FATHER
Mt 25:41 (ESV) —
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God created hell when he created the heavens and the earth
as a place for the devil and his angels. But, hell has enlarged its mouth to take in more than just the devil and his demons.
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GOD’S BANISHMENT OF MAN IN EDEN PROVES GOD DOES NOT TOLERATE DISOBEDIENCE!
Adam and Eve were banished
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Eden was
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Yet, because of man’s rebellion against the word of God, God banished man into a world where there was pain and suffering and death but with an opportunity for grace and mercy.
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In the last day
God will also banish man from Heaven to a place where there is only pain and suffering with no death or an opportunity for grace or mercy.
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The original sin was disobeying God’s Word. God told them not to eat of a specific tree. They disrespected his word which was a direct rebellion of God himself.
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God took that action personal. The result was banishment from his presence.
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Today the majority of the world is aggressively disrespecting and rebelling against the word of God, God did not compromise or hesitate to exact punishment on Adam and Eve.
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When the time comes he will not hesitate to punish those who have rebelled and disrespected him in this age.
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I will refresh your memory
to drive this point home:
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Ge 2:16–17 (ESV) —
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Then as a result of Adam’s disrespect of the word of God, God put him out of Eden into a cold cruel world.
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Ge 3:23–24 (ESV) —
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Mankind has continually disrespected the word of God, and sometimes ignored God entirely. Many people still ignore God. God has allowed this because of his grace and mercy. God is long-suffering, but not forever suffering.
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The time will come when the father says enough! He will stay his grace and his mercy and
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God will banish men and women from his eternal presence into an eternal hell; a place prepared for the devil, his angels and his children.
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There soul is eternal because God gave it to them and the gifts and callings of God are irrevocable. God gave man life as a living soul and he will not take the soul away but he will separate himself from those who have been disobedient to his living word.
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In every generation, God gives every man the opportunity to choose life or death just like he gave Adam. Everyone of us has an opportunity to decide whether we want to obey God or rebel against God.
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Every one of us has a choice of heaven or hell.
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Sin is a violation of the word of God. It is a failure to do what God said to do. God takes sin personal. He is the one that said it and you have disrespected him by not doing what he said. That is the reason no one else can forgive sins but God.
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God will punish people for the disrespect shown him.
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He is an eternal God and his punishment will be eternal.
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God will drive people
out of his presence into hell because he cannot have sin in his presence. People who have chosen to ignore God and not accept the death of Jesus as the blood sacrificed for their sin will be banished eternally from God. -
It is a choice every human being makes whether consciously or unconsciously. Their actions will reveal their choice.
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They will either reveal
their love of God by loving their brother and sister, or their indifference towards them.
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Jn 13:34–35 (ESV) —
A commandment like don’t eat of a certain tree!
Mt 25:41 (ESV) —
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Recognize
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we are also told there are others who will inhabit this place. Who are they? Those on the left.
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Mt 25:31–33 (ESV) —
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46 (ESV) —
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Those who are on his left. Who are they?
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vs32 tells us these are people of the nations
who will be cursed vs41 to live eternally with the devil and his demons. -
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people who did not show love to their fellow man! -
Mt 25:42–43 (ESV) —
42 For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ -
Banished to a
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The failure to produce the fruit of the spirit beginning with love!
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Now quickly and briefly take note of the following Scriptures regarding the necessity to love to avoid hell.
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Mt 5:22 (ESV) —
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Notice this because of a failure to love.
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Jn 13:34–35 (ESV) —
Why the importance of love! Because God is love.
Jn 3:36 (ESV) —
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Hell was not meant for people to be there.
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It is important that you see
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Hell was prepared for the devil and his angels!
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Get it in your mind now,
hell is a real place prepared for the devil and his angels, but God will also send Satan’s children there. Those people who are disobedient to the word of God just like Satan and his demons are disobedient. -
Who are Satan’s children? Those who have rejected the offer of sonship of Almighty God.
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You were given the privilege to become a child of God, many of you have rejected
his offer and preferred to be known as children of the world.
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Jn 1:12–13 (ESV) —
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There are people who have chosen not to be known as children of God by accepting Jesus as their Lord. They reject him preferring to cling to groups established by man!
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Jn 8:44 (ESV) —
44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. -
We will discuss more about who these people are next week.
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Today, this is a discussion to prove that
our God, a God who is full of loving kindness and mercy, is also a God of fierce anger and wrath and has created hell for those who are disobedient to his word. -
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his love is eternal, his wrath is also eternal! -
God created hell
as a special for satan and his angels who have rebelled against his authority! -
But he will let people go there
who by their actions prove they want to go there! -
Our lives are
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We will experience eternity
in heaven or hell according to the choice we make.
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You may not believe that
God could create hell and sentence people to eternal torment but… -
People did not believe that God would destroy
everybody in the world by a flood in Noah’s day; but he did. -
The people of Sodom and Gomorrah
did not believe that God would destroy their city because of their sexual preference; but he did. -
People did not believe that Jesus
would come back from the dead; but he did. -
You may not think
that God has created hell and that he will condemn people to eternal damnation; but he said he will. -
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that he would lie.
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If you believe in heaven, the same one that says you can spend eternity with him in heaven
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It does not matter what you think, see, hear or feel. All that matters is what God says.
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Jesus said there is a heaven and a hell…
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And that’s all that matters.
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HELL IS REAL BECAUSE JESUS SPOKE OF HELL AS A REAL PLACE.
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There are over 160 references in the New Testament giving warning about hell and over 70 of these are spoken by Jesus himself.
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Let’s look at one reference here:
Lk 16:19–31 (ESV) — 19 “There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. 24 And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ 27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’ ”
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Jesus also said
that hell would be a terrible place:
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Living in
Hell with the devil and his demons is so terrible that Jesus said this:
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Mk 9:43–50 (ESV) —
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Side note: This
reminds us that the true indication of a child of God is one that loves others as Christ has loved us.
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Jn 13:35 (ESV) —
Mt 25:40 (ESV) —
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Mt 7:13–14 (ESV) —
13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. -
The majority of human beings
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They are under the wrath of God!
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Those who do not
have faith in Christ remain in their sins and will be subject to God’s wrath, whereas those who believe in him are delivered from God’s wrath (Eph 2:3; 1 Thes 1:10). -
Eph 2:3 (ESV) —
3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. -
1 Th 1:10 (ESV) —
10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
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God is a God of righteousness and justice. Those who have disobeyed him will ultimately have to pay the price for their rebellion.
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HELL IS
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Just like there is heaven for the righteous,
there must be a place for the unrighteous. There must be in place for justice to be rendered to those who have disregarded the Almighty eternal God. -
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is the place for the unrighteous to pay for their sins and injustice against God and his children. -
Hell is a
place for the wrath of God to be administered on Satan, his demons and his children who also chose to rebel against God. -
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Like we sentence people for life
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God
gets vengeance for all the evil done to those he loved, and the injustices done to them throughout all the generations.
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Hell is for all the hell satan has perpetrated on the world since it’s beginning
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Jesus will get vengeance
on those who have disrespected him.
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2 Th 1:7–9 (ESV) —
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the last days, our time, there will be great deception by the servants of Satan Mt 24:24 (ESV) — 24 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. -
False prophets meaning people teaching things contrary to the word of God. Justifying all forms of abominations and wickedness
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Dt 11:16–17 (ESV) —
16 Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them; 17 then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.
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HELL IS REAL AND IT IS FOR THE DEVIL AND UNBELIEVERS!
Jn 3:36 (ESV) —
What is the
THE WRATH OF GOD IS WHEN HE GETS VENGEANCE ON THE DEVIL AND ALL WHO HAVE IGNORED HIS DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY.
God’s Wrath is where he totally loses it! He unleashes his pent up anger on
Na 1:2 (ESV) —
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Dt 32:22 (ESV) —
22 For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
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Is 66:15–16 (ESV) —
15 “For behold, the Lord will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire will the Lord enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the Lord shall be many.
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All of this will come to pass very soon!
Re 14:9–11 (ESV) —
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Re 20:10 (ESV) — 10 and the
Re 20:14–15 (ESV) — 14 Then
15 And if anyone’s
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Summary
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Hell is a real place created by God the father for the devil and his children.
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Expulsion from Eden and God’s presence reveals God does not tolerate disobedience.
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Jesus declared hell a real place of eternal terrible pain and suffering.
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Hell is where God completely unleashes his terrible wrath and anger on those who have disrespected him.
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Next week - The pain and suffering of hell.
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To Be continued Next Week!
