The reality of Hell
Notes
Transcript
Sermon Tone Analysis
A
D
F
J
S
Emotion
A
C
T
Language
O
C
E
A
E
Social
The Second Step on the Roman Road
The Second Step on the Roman Road
Lat week we saw what step 1 was:
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Everyone is a sinner, everyone is a law breaker, no-one is righteous. God uses the Law to strip man of his self-righteousness inorder to show him in his sinful state.
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
So the next step is to ask: So what? So what if people are sinful? What is God going to do with sinners?
The Second Step
The Second Step
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
What is meant by death? Is it just dying and then ceasing to exit? No, this death is officially called the second death:
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
The Place so bad its Name is a Swear Word.
The Place so bad its Name is a Swear Word.
Lets set the record straight: The Devil is not in charge of Hell, Hell is not the Devils home where he rules from. Hell is God’s creation. God is in charge of Hell, actually more specifically Jesus is in charge of Hell.
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Hell is the name given by God to the Prison He built to punish Evil.
Hell was not made for you or me, it was not made for people. Hell was specifically made for Satn and the Fallen Angels.
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
We are not meant for hell, God did not create us for Hell, God created man to have everlasting fellowship with himself, to be with Him in eternal glory.
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
God has not appointed us to wrath, but salvation. Hell was made to house and punish fallen angelic beings. Beings inconceivably more powerful than man.
This makes the reality of Hell absolutely terrifying and tragic when people choose to go there in ignorance.
Hell is made for being way more powerful and resilient than you, how do you think your fragile soul will cope for eternity?
Why do people go to Hell?
Why do people go to Hell?
Because they are sinners (as we all are - Step 1) who then reject the free offer of salvation offered by Jesus Christ.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
A trampeling of the precious blood of Jesus, a mocking and spitting and rejecting of the only one who possesses the key to let you out.
You don’t like God? You don’t like Jesus? You don’t like His command? you don’t like Church? You don’t like Christians?
Don’t worry, God will not make you send eternity with Him or Us, If you avoid His presence on earth, he will cast you from His presence for eternity.
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
What is Hell like?
What is Hell like?
Well for starters its not a party. Those who call Hell a party are no different than those who call an electric chair “old sparky” or a gas chamber a “smoking room”. It is a unless attempt to make light of the thing that terrifies their soul to the point of delusion and hypocrisy.
What Hell is is Torment.
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
Not only is it torment, it is eternal torment.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them, in like manner giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
But you wont to know the best thing about Hell as it were…?
The best thing about Hell is that it should scare the Hell right out of you!
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
What is the strait gate? Its not trying to be a good person. The strait gate is a Person:
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.