The Reality of Hell

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And as we look at life on the other side in the eternal realm help us see it in a way we've never seen it before and so we commit this, Bible study to you now in Jesus name we pray. Amen to be seated. That song that the group does thing choose life exit was originally recorded by Big Ten revival of great Christian band that Steve Wiggins was the lead singer of an they would on a crusade without the men in the Philadelphia and I went up to him one night and I said Steve we need a new invitation song or when people are coming forward to accept Christ, and I'd like to see a song based on the passenger God's. As I said before you death and lifeblood scenes and curses. Choose life, that you might live in.

That was a result I like to say that it was my idea was really eroded. I certainly didn't get the royalties from it, but nor did I deserve them. And what a great song that is been and is been used by God is thousands of some, the price I just want to underscore what Pastor Paul was saying about being in prayer for say this next weekend and long island how we need your prayers and how we appreciate your prayers as we once again preach the gospel for an essential series and we are talking about eternal things together and I want to turn in your Bible to Luke chapter 16.

The title of my message is the reality of hell. Some of you are probably thinking should skip church today.

I shared with you the story before above man who was living in Chicago is very cold therein, he decided he wanted to take a break, so he went for a vacation to Florida now.

As it turns out his wife was on a business trip with planning the medium the next day and so when he arrived in Florida want to let his wife know that he arrived safely. So he shot off a quick email that she had just changed her email address and he had memorized the new one release he thought he had any set off the message to his wife of the problem was he had one letter wrong in her email address and the message did not go to her at all, but it went to a elderly woman whose husband weapon to be a pastor had just passed away the day before she was reading her emails and she shrieked and fainted. Her family came running into the room to see what had happened and they saw the screen and they saw the message from her husband on the computer screen in the message that there is life, just checked in. Everything is prepared for your arrival tomorrow, but it was a PS that got them PS it sure is hot down here so that all just a joke. We've been talking about heaven together and what a wonderful topic that is any need to know. Just as surely as there is a heaven, awaiting the follower of Jesus Christ. There is also a place called hell awaiting the nonbeliever I was interviewed last week to Christian television show and the interviewer asked me why I spoke so much on eternity. He said I've noticed when I watch you prefixing your TV programs and so forth of your crusades and it seems like whatever topic you're dealing with. You always come back to eternity and I never really noticed that before, and I suppose it's even more true today than it was, say, two years ago for obvious reasons.

So why do you do that, he said, why do you always come back to the eternal in your messages and I thought about for a moment and I said in response. You know, I guess the answer is when you get down to it, it's the most important thing the rent I mean as a pastor, I want to teach the word of God.

I want to help people grow in their faith as followers of Jesus. I want them to learn how to know God's will and resist temptation and have great marriages and all the things we talked about as pastors and teachers, but when it's all said and done. The biggest thing I want to see happen is people who are on their way to hell instead go to heaven. I want people to change their eternal address of that why I do what I do and really when you get down to it, is there anything more important than that we've been talking at length about heaven that the popular subject because most people believe in it. Most people believe there going there for every American believes that he's going to hell. There are 120 believe they're going to have so most people believe in a heaven most people think they're going to heaven.

And some believe in hell, but even lets it go go there but that is in direct contradiction to what Jesus said because he said brought as a way that leads to destruction, and many there are that go that way, but narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there are the wind, we believe the Bible. I hope you do most people today are not headed to heaven if we believe the Bible, we have to accept the simple fact most people are actually headed to hell. Why don't we like to hear that we don't even like to use the word in our culture today. In fact we use the word hell to punctuate our sentences.

Someone will say something like well hell just broke loose and that usually is way to say that it's a worst-case scenario. Another might say is situational so bad it's hellish or a certain person is really difficult to deal what men listen there hell on wheels and another person if there really a grief will say to one another, to give you a piece of my mind normally give you hell if you're really mad at someone you will say hope you won't say about someone else might said you just go to hell and phrases used alive and then the weird thing is if you use it to insult a person, but at the same time if someone had a great time somewhere. I met we had a hell of a good time together.

What is with this use of the word hell in so many different ways actually had a guy come up to me after a message on a Sunday morning and he shook my hand and said that was a hell of a speech. Rev. had to laugh. I didn't know what else to do this to me was, go II knew he was trying to complement the set exactly what it pastor wants to hear someone say I said well I was hoping it was kind of a heaven of a good talk, but I understood what he was saying. But this is a phrase that people use a lot.

It's funny how people say to another person, you can go to hell, but at the same time, the site I don't believe a place called hell actually exists, but is not as effective when you say that you just go place it doesn't exist why the summons to go to hell because deep down inside, even if your nonbeliever you know there's a hell that's that's why we say that for same reason a person will use the name above all names Jesus Christ in a form of cursing or to emphasize a point.

Jesus Christ, so that why do they say that why is it when the camera captured instead of the nail.

You say that instead of saying Hare Krishna is there's no power in the name of Christian but there is power in the name of Jesus, and it is the name above all names in the Bible says everyone will bow before him in that final day and acknowledge that he is the Lord to the glory of God the father listen. Hell is a real place, but because were uncomfortable with that idea will make jokes about it. You know there's actually a town I read about in Michigan called hell.

Hell, Michigan. Can you imagine it was founded in 1841 and George Reeves amended discover the Slow Sloppy Pl. in Southeast, MI. I didn't know what the name and summons and what you want to call it that. I don't care name and hell, if you want to. So they get held Michigan part, people will joke about it. Medium Woody Allen said hell is the future abode of all people who personally annoy me." Comedian Jim Carrey said maybe there is no actual place called hell maybe hell is just having the listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches." Hey Jim Woody, there is a hell, it's not a joke. Laugh it off if you choose to, but it really is there in the fact of the matter is, as Jesus Christ spoke more about hell than all the other preachers of the Bible put together the fact of the matter is, as most of the teaching we have on the topic of hell, was given to us by Christ himself know that surprises some people because they would say was in Jesus, the very personification of love and mercy and grace.

Why would he talk about hell for that very reason because he was the personification of love and grace and mercy. He doesn't want any man or woman uniquely made in his image to spend eternity in this place called hell and Jesus being God knows all about it because he is seen it with his own eyes and so he warns us about it.

It's been estimated that about 40 parables of Jesus told more than half of them dealt with God eternal judgment and hell. Make no mistake about it, there is a real hell for real people. JI Packer said and I quote, and endless hell can no more be removed from the New Testament in an endless heaven can it's there now. It's funny how hell becomes more or less popular on given what time were and I think believe in hell, probably went up after 9/11 because when something evil is done, or we could take place. People tend to believe in evil Moran and they also believe in our place of final retribution but with things are going this badly. I believe in hell actually starts to go down a recent Gallup poll revealed that belief in hell is down right now to me is so stupid that's like taking a fall and say what you know. More Americans today believe there's a place called California. Then those that believe there's a place called Arizona. So and I don't mean the Savior from Arizona itself IT IS VERY HOT.

THERE, BUT IT'S CERTAINLY NOT HELL THAT THAT'S IN MICHIGAN RIGHT NOW, BUT YOU IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU BELIEVE IN IT OR NOT, IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER IF IT'S POPULAR OR NOT.

WHAT IS YEARS AGO. JOHN LENNON FAMOUSLY SAYING IMAGINE THERE'S NO HEAVEN IT'S EASY IF YOU TRY NO HELL BELOW US ABOVE US ONLY SKY IMAGINE ALL YOU WANTS. THERE IS A HEAVEN AND THERE IS A HELL. SO IN THIS MESSAGE TO GIVE YOU HELL.

BETTER YET, I HOPE IN THIS MESSAGE.

I SCARE THE HELL OUT OF YOU. I KNOW SOME OF YOU CUSSING IF YOU LISTEN TO THE CONTACT. EVERYTHING I SAID, YOU REALIZE THAT THE CASE, THE BIBLE ACTUALLY TEACHES THAT THERE ARE TWO DEATHS. ONE IS PHYSICAL DEATH AND THE OTHER IS SPIRITUAL DEATH. JESUS WARNED THAT WE ARE TO FEAR THE SECOND DEATH MORE THAN THE FIRST DEATH (REVELATION 20 WE READ DEATH AND HADES WERE CAST IN THE LAKE OF FIRE. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH.

ALSO REVELATION 21 WE READ THAT COWERED TO TURN AWAY FROM GOD AND NONBELIEVERS IN THE CORRUPTED MURDERERS IN THE IMMORAL AND THOSE OF PRACTICE WITCHCRAFT AND IDOL WORSHIPERS AND LIARS, THEIR DOOM IS IN THE LAKE THAT BURNS WITH FIRE. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH.

THE SECOND DEATH IS HELL, WHICH IS ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD. LAST FOREVER. ONE COMMENTATOR WROTE ETERNITY TO THE GODLY VISIT DAY THAT HAS NO SUNSET ETERNITY TO THE WICKED IS A NIGHT THAT HAS NO SON. WHY NOW THERE ARE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT THE BIBLE DESCRIBES HELL ONE PICTURE WE HAVE OF HELL IN THE BIBLE IS HELL IS LIKE A GARBAGE DUMP, BUT IT'S ONLY GETTING GARBAGE DUMP WE'VE EVER SEEN. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER TAKEN YOUR OWN TRASH. THE DUMP AND LOOKED AROUND, BUT USUALLY YOU'LL FIND ALL KINDS OF AMAZING STUFF. THEIR RUBBISH AND AND THINGS CAST OFF AND THEN YOU'LL SEE THERE'S AN OLD REFRIGERATOR IN A TELEVISION SET PART OF A CAR STICKING OUT AND AND YOU THINK HARD PEOPLE MAY HAVE WORK TO OBTAIN THOSE ITEMS AND NOW HERE THEY ARE SITTING IN THE DUMP BUT THE DUMP IN THIS DAY ALSO KNOWN AS GEHENNA WAS FAR WORSE THAN THAT YOU WOULD NORMALLY THROW YOUR TRASH AND RUBBISH.

THERE WAS A PLACE WHERE ALSO YOU WOULD THROW DEAD BODIES AND IT WOULD CONSTANTLY BE BURNING AND YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT A HORRIFIC PLACES WAS SO JESUS TAKES THIS PICTURE.

GEHENNA JOB IF YOU WILL, AND USES IT TO DESCRIBE HOW NUMBER TWO COLORS DESCRIBE LIKE A PRISON.

ONE OF THE CLEAREST PICTURES CHRIST GAVE UP HELL WAS THAT OF BEING INCARCERATED. HE TOLD A PARABLE OF THE KING SERVANT WAS SENT TO JAIL.

CRUEL AND UNFORGIVING BEHAVIOR THEN OUT OF THIS MORNING. THIS IS ALL MY HEAVENLY FATHER WILL TREAT EACH OF YOU IF YOU DO NOT FORGIVE YOUR BROTHER FROM YOUR HEART. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN TO PRISON I WOULD BE RELUCTANT TO ASK HOW MANY OF YOU SERVE TIME BECAUSE I THINK IT WOULD MAKE THE PEOPLE. NEXT YOU VERY NERVOUS IF YOU WERE HERE TO RECEIVE LETTERS ON OCCASION.

I THINK ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE PRESENT WHEN THE FIRST SERVICE ANYWAY BUT JUST KIDDING THERE ACTUALLY IN THE THIRD KNOW I'M JUST I DON'T REALLY KNOW BUT I DO GET LETTERS FROM TIME TO TIME FROM PEOPLE IN PRISON THAT LIST NOR RADIO BROADCAST WHERE IN SOUTH DAKOTA DURING OUR CRUSADE I THE HONOR OF RECEIVING A SPECIAL BLANKET FROM THE NATIVE AMERICANS THEREIN. I WAS MADE IN A BRAVE AND SO THE MAN WHO GAVE ME THIS BLANKET ACTUALLY HEARD THE GOSPEL ON A RADIO BROADCAST IN PRISON CAME TO CHRIST AND NOW HE'S SERVING THE LORD IN HIS PREACHING THE GOSPEL AND SO I WAS A GREAT THING HEREIN. YOU REMEMBER WHAT WE HAVE. MICHAEL FRENZIES HERE ARE NOT TOO LONG AGO AND HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE MOB OF THE MAFIA, AND HE TALKED ABOUT HOW WE WOULD PUT IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE HOLE AS THEY CALL IT AND THEY WOULD LEARN ABOUT ONE HOUR A DAY AND SOMETIMES IT WOULD BE 3 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING AND YOU'D BE ALLOWED TO WALK AROUND IN THE YARD A LITTLE BIT AND HE WOULD BE PUT BACK IN THIS TINY CELL BUT UNFORTUNATELY FOR MICHAEL, GET A COPY OF THE BIBLE AND WAS ABLE TO TURN TO GOD, AND THAT TIME BUT IN THIS PLACE CALLED HELL. THIS ETERNAL PRISON YOU DON'T HAVE TIME IN THE YARD AND YOU CERTAINLY DON'T HAVE A BIBLE IT'S TOO LATE FOR THAT. BUT THE MOST WELL-KNOWN PICTURE GIVEN TO US IN HELL OF HELL IN SCRIPTURE IS WHERE HELL IS LIKENED UNTO A FIRE THAT NEVER STOPS BURNING AND THAT BRINGS US TO OUR TEXT THAT WERE GOING TO LOOK TOGETHER AT NOW AND THAT'S LUKE CHAPTER 16, WHERE HELL IS DESCRIBED AS AN UNQUENCHABLE FIRE AND WE READ THESE WORDS OF JESUS AND BY THE WAY, BEFORE WE READ THEM. LET ME SAY THIS AT THE OUTSET WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO READ IS TRUE. AND BY THAT I MEAN IT'S NOT A PARABLE JESUS WOULD TELL PARABLE PARABLES WHICH IS ANOTHER WORD FOR AN ILLUSTRATION TO MAKE A POINT LEARN A PARABLE. THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER, AND SO FORTH. THIS WAS AN ACTUAL EVENT. REASON BEING THAT ACTUAL NAMES ARE USED IN THIS STORY, SO YOU MIGHT DESCRIBE THIS IS A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK INTO THE INVISIBLE WORLD. IF YOU'LL WONDERED WHAT HAPPENS ON THE OTHER SIDE WHEN BELIEVERS AND NONBELIEVERS PASSING ETERNITY INTO ETERNITY. HERE IS A GLIMPSE INTO THAT, GIVEN BY CHRIST HIMSELF. LUKE 16 VERSE 19. THERE WAS A CERTAIN RICH MAN WHO WAS CLOTHED IN PURPLE AND FINE LINEN, LINEN, AND FARED SUMPTUOUSLY EVERY DAY AND THERE WAS A CERTAIN BEGGAR NAMED LAZARUS, FULL OF SORES WAS LAID AT HIS GATE, DESIRING TO BE FED WITH THE CRUMBS WHICH FELL FROM THE RICH MAN STABLE. MOREOVER THE DOGS CAME AND LICKED HIS SORES. SO IT WAS THAT THE BEGGAR DIED AND WAS CARRIED BY THE ANGELS TO ABRAHAM'S BOSOM. THE RICH MAN ALSO DIED AND WAS BURIED. SO HERE IS THIS TRUE STORY. WE HAVE THE NAME OF ONE OF THE MEN LAZARUS AND THE OTHER MAN THE WEALTHY MAN IS DESCRIBED AS A CERTAIN MAN ONE MAN OWNED EVERYTHING YET HE POSSESSED NOTHING.

THE OTHER ON NOTHING BUT INHERITED EVERYTHING ONE WENT TO COMFORT THE OTHER WENT TO TORMENT THE BELIEVING MEN LAZARUS WAS USHERED BY THE ANGELS INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD INTO A PLACE CALLED PARADISE AND BY THE WAY, PRIOR TO THE ARRIVAL OF JESUS AND HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION. WHEN A PERSON WOULD DIE IN FAITH. THEY WENT TO PARADISE OR TO ABRAHAM'S BOSOM AS THE KING JAMES VERSION DESCRIBES YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED AND THAT MAN NEXT TO HIM CAME TO HIS SENSES WHEN HE HEARD THE LORD SAY FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO. THE MEN SAID TO JESUS, LORD, REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU COME IN YOUR KINGDOM AND JESUS SAID, VERILY, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, TODAY YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN WHAT PARADISE SO THAT MAN WENT INTO THIS PLACE OF LIST. THIS PLACE CALLED PARADISE THAT WAS BEFORE JESUS DIED AND ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD. BUT THE BIBLE SAYS THAT AFTER HIS SUDDEN DEATH HE PREACH TO THOSE THAT WERE IN THIS WAITING PLACE.

IF YOU WILL THAT WERE READING ABOUT YOUR LUKE SO NOW WHEN A BELIEVER DIES THEY GO STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN RIGHT IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD. THE BIBLE SAYS TO BE ABSENT FROM THE BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD. ONE OTHER THING ABOUT THAT THIEF ON THE CROSS, YOU MIGHT DESCRIBE WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM AS A DEATHBED CONVERSION, AND I HOPE THIS GIVES A MEASURABLE TO YOU THAT MAYBE HAVE GIVEN UP ON CERTAIN PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO NEED FOR GOD. OR AT LEAST THEY DON'T THINK THEY HAVE A NEED FOR GOD AND YOU WONDER IF THEY'LL OVERCOME THE CHRIST.

DON'T STOP PRAYING FOR THEM BECAUSE WE HEAR GLORIOUS STORIES OF PEOPLE COMING TO THE LORD RIGHT BEFORE THEIR DEATH.

MY OWN MOTHER DID NOT REALLY COME TO CHRIST UNTIL ABOUT A MONTH BEFORE SHE WENT TO HEAVEN AND I PRAYED FOR HER FOR ALL OF MY LIFE AS A CHRISTIAN. SO MAYBE YOU KNOW SOMEONE RIGHT NOW IN YOUR FILE. MICHAEL NEVER COME AROUND. THEY MAY LISTEN. SOMETIMES WE KNOW SOMEONE THAT DIED, AND WE FEAR THERE IN HELL RIGHT NOW EVEN THAT PEOPLE THINK THEY'RE IN HELL YOU DON'T KNOW WHO'S IN HELL. OKAY, YOU'RE NOT IN A POSITION TO SAY WHO'S IN HELL NO, I DO THINK I CAN AFFORDABLY SAY IS IN HEAVEN BECAUSE OF A PERSON IS PUT THEIR FAITH IN CHRIST.

I CAN SAY THERE IN HEAVEN. THE BIBLE ASSURES US OF THAT. BUT I DON'T KNOW IF A PERSON DID NOT PLACE THEIR FAITH IN CHRIST. MOTHER WAS UNLESS YOU WERE WITH THE PERSON WHEN THEY PASS INTO ETERNITY IN THEIR FINAL MOMENT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT PERSON YOU KNOW YOU SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH THE PERSON THAT YOU TOLD ABOUT JESUS. IT MAY BE IN THE LAST FEW MOMENTS OF THEIR LIFE.

THEY CALLED ON THE LORD AND YOU KNOW THAT THEY DID, HE WOULD FORGIVE THEM AND ACCEPT THEM IN THE HEAVEN. SO YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO SEE HIM IN GLORY. STILL, AS I'VE OFTEN SAID THAT WE THREE SURPRISES ONLY GETS A HEAVEN NUMBER ONE. A LOT OF THE PEOPLE WE NEVER THOUGHT WE WOULD SEE THERE WILL BE THERE.

NUMBER TWO.

SOME OF THE PEOPLE WE WERE SURE WE WOULD SEE THERE WILL NOT BE THERE. AND NUMBER THREE.

WE WILL BE THERE BUT WE ALL EXPECT TO BE THERE, BUT I THINK WILL BE SOME SURPRISES IN HEAVEN.

QUITE FRANKLY, SO DON'T GIVE UP ON THAT PERSON AND REMEMBER THAT NO ONE WANTS TO SAVE A PERSON MORE THAN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND IF THERE WAS ANY MOVEMENT ON THEIR PART TOWARD GOD. YOU CAN BE SURE THAT HE WOULD FORGIVE AND ACCEPT THEM, EVEN IF IT WAS ON THEIR VERY DEATHBED. SO A BELIEVER GOES TO HEAVEN. BUT WHAT HAPPENS TO THE NONBELIEVER. THEY PASS OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE TO BUT IT'S A PRETTY BLEAK SCENARIO.

LET'S READ ABOUT THAT NOW BACK TO LUKE 16 DROP DOWN TO VERSE 22 THE RICH MAN ALSO DIED AND WAS BURIED IN BEING IN TORMENT IN HADES OR HELL, HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES AND SAW ABRAHAM AFAR OFF LAZARUS IN HIS BOSOM AND HE CRIED AND SAID FATHER ABRAHAM, HAVE MERCY ON ME AND SEND LAZARUS THEY NEED TO THE TIP OF HIS FINGER IN WATER AND COOL MY TONGUE FRIED TORMENTED IN THIS FLAME. THEN ABRAHAM SAID, SON, REMEMBER THAT IN YOUR LIFETIME YOU RECEIVED THE GOOD THINGS, AND LIKEWISE LAZARUS EVIL THINGS, AND NOW HE IS COMFORTED AND YOU ARE TORMENTED BESIDE ALL OF THIS BESIDE BETWEEN US.

THERE IS A GREAT GOLF FIX. SO THOSE THAT WANT TO PASS FROM HERE TO THERE CANNOT AND YOU CANNOT PASS OVER TO WHAT THEN HE SAID I BET YOU THEREFORE, FATHER YOU WOULD SEND THEM TO MY FATHER'S HOUSE RIGHT BY BROTHERS AND ME TESTIFIED TO THEM THAT THEY WILL NOT COME TO THIS PLACE OF TORMENT. ABRAHAM SAID TO THEM, THEY HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, LET THEM HEAR THEM.

NO FATHER ABRAHAM, HE SAYS, BUT IF ONE GOES TO THEM FROM THE DEAD, THEY WILL REPENT AND HE SAID TO THEM IF THEY DO NOT HEAR MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, NEITHER WILL THEY BE PERSUADED, THOUGH ONE RISE FROM THE DEAD ELLISON THE SIN OF THIS MAN WAS NOT AS WELL. THE SIN OF THIS MAN WAS HE HAD NO TIME FOR GOD. HE WAS POSSESSED BY HIS POSSESSIONS. THE BIBLE SAYS HE FARED SUMPTUOUSLY AND HE WAS CLOTHED IN PURPLE AND FINE LINEN ANYTHING BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN MEANS A LOT BECAUSE BACK IN THIS CULTURE. PURPLE WAS THE COLOR OF ROYALTY. THEY WOULD CRUSH A SPECIAL WORM AND USE THE DIE TO PRODUCE THIS LUXURIOUS GARMENT ONLY WORN BY THE RICHEST OF THE RICH. THIS MAN WAS CLOTHED IN PURPLE FROM HEAD TO FOOT, AND FIND LINEN ALSO TELLS US THAT THIS MAN MADE MARY WHICH IS ANOTHER WAY TO SAY THAT HE HAD BANQUETS EVERY DAY. THE SKY WAS IN THE FOOD BIG TIME.

YOU KNOW YOU HAVE UNLIMITED RESOURCES TO GETTING WHATEVER HE WANTED. YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE NEED TO LIVE OTHER PEOPLE LIVE TO EAT.

THEY WATCH THE FOOD CHANNEL ALL DAY LONG THERE POSTERS OF BOBBY FLAY AND RACHAEL RAY AMARAL ON THE WALL.

YOU CAN TELL I WATCHED THE USE THE WORD GRANDMOTHER CONVERSATIONS A LOT, YOU KNOW THAT'S THAT'S WHAT EMERALD DOES, BUT THEY'RE ALL ABOUT FOOD.

BIG TALK ABOUT FOOD DATE DREAM ABOUT FOOD DATE MAGAZINES ABOUT FOOD, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT. I'VE NEVER UNDERSTOOD CERTAIN KINDS OF FOODS PEOPLE EAT YOU KNOW SOME PEOPLE WANT TO HAVE THE FINEST YOU KNOW CAVIAR FISHING DAY OKAY JOHN WHAT YOU LIKE. THAT'S WHAT YOU CATCH FISH WITH. AND THEN THE ONE THAT REALLY PERPLEXES ME IS ESCARGOT THAT SOUNDS SO ESCARGOT, WHICH IS FRENCH FOR STINKING SNAIL THAT'S WHAT IT YOU CHANGE ANYTHING IN GARLIC. I THINK IT WILL TASTE PRETTY GOOD, BUT I'VE NEVER EATEN AND ESCARGOT BEFORE BUT SOME PEOPLE DO IT AND THEN THERE ARE THESE PEOPLE THE WINE CONNOISSEURS OF EVER BEEN IN A RESTAURANT WHERE THEY BRING OVER THE FINE WINE YOU KNOW AND AND IN THE COME THING AROUND THE NECK.

YOU KNOW, AND THEY HOLD THERE'S A CERTAIN WAY TO HOLD THE BOTTLE AND THEN THEY PULL OUT THE CORK AND THE GUY SMELLS.

IT MOVES VERY NICE COURT. THIS IS A GOOD CORTICAL CERTAIN WINDOW*YES AND THEN THE POOR LITTLE OF THE WINE OF THE GLASS. HE GOT A HOLD OF YOU KNOW LIKE THIS AND SWIRL IT AROUND AND IN THE KNOW WOULD'VE BEEN ABOUT THAT SINCE ALL STILL BET I'M THINKING THAT PROBABLY GIVEN YOU LIKE THUNDERBIRD RIGHT NOW OR I YOU THINK YOU'RE A WINE CONNOISSEUR. THIS IS OKAY.

I'M SORRY TO BE THE WHOLE THING IS JOE ALL THE FINE THINGS YOU KNOW I LIKE FOOD THAT JUST GOOD FOOD. YOU IN AND OUT BURGER. OKAY, NO PROBLEM, AS I LIKE ALL THE WRONG FOOD YOU KNOW I LIKE PIZZA HAMBURGERS. YEAH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A GOOD STUFF TO ME BUT ANYWAY SO THIS GUY YOU KNOW HE WAS LIVING HIGH ON THE HOG. HE WAS THE OKAY HE WAS LIVING THE GOOD LIFE AND MEANWHILE, HERE WAS A MAN NAMED LAZARUS, COVERED IN SORES IMPOVERISHED AND LIVING OFF THE SCRAPS FROM THE RICH MAN'S TABLE. BACK IN THESE DAYS THEY DID MEET WITH A FORK AND KNIFE CUTLERY. AS YOU MIGHT CALL IT OR CHOPSTICKS THAT THEY DIDN'T USE UTENSILS. THEY WOULD TAKE THE FOOD UP WITH HER HANDS USE BITS OF BREAD AND THEN THEY WOULD WIPE THEIR HANDS ON PIECES OF BREAD AND THROW THEM ON THE FLOOR AND THE DOGS WOULD EAT THE DISCARDED BREAD. THAT WAS THE DIET OF LAZARUS AND THERE WERE ALSO TOLD THAT HE WAS CARRIED TO THE RICH MAN'S ESTATE AND RELATED HIS GAIT, WHICH WOULD IMPLY THAT HE PERHAPS WAS DISABLED.

OR MAYBE HE WAS SO WEAK HE COULD NOT EVEN WALK IN SO SURELY THE RICH MAN SAW THIS MAN'S SITUATION, HE COULD'VE INVITED HIM TO A TABLE AT THE VERY LEAST SEND A PROPER MEAL OUT TO HE WOULDN'T GIVE THIS MAN THE TIME OF DAY, BUT THEN JEFF CAME IN DEPTH IS THE GREAT EQUALIZER. I'M SURE WHEN THAT WEALTHY MAN DIED. IT WAS ON ALL THE TELEVISION STATIONS AND WAS A BIG DEAL, BUT MAN, YOU KNOW. THEN COMES ETERNITY, THE BEGGAR DIED, NO ONE CARED AT ALL, BUT HE WAS USHERED BY THE ANGELS INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD. NOW THIS MAN WHO HAD NO TIME FOR GOD'S CONNECTED FACE THE REPERCUSSIONS OF THAT HE WAS GOING TO FIND OUT IT WASN'T SO GLAMOROUS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD'S WEALTHIEST MEN. MALCOLM FORBES SAID SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH, AND I QUOTE THE THING I DREAD MOST ABOUT DEATH IS THAT I KNOW I WILL NOT BE AS COMFORTABLE IN THE NEXT LIFE AS I WAS IN THIS ONE." THAT'S THE UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE CENTURY. I DON'T KNOW WHERE MR. FORBES WAS THAT SPIRITUALLY, SO I WOULD NOT PRESUME HE'S IN JUDGMENT BUT FOR THE SAKE OF A POINT IF YOU DON'T KNOW GOD, YOU CAN BE SURE IT WON'T BE AS COMFORTABLE ON THE OTHER SIDE TO WHAT WE LEARN FROM THIS STORY NUMBER ONE WE DISCOVER THAT PEOPLE IN HELL SUFFER THE FACT THAT THIS MAN SPOKE OF TORMENT INDICATES SUFFERING IS A VERY REAL THING IN THE HEREAFTER AFFECT THE WORD TORMENT IS USED FOUR TIMES IN THE TEXT OF THE STORY. PEOPLE IN HELL ARE FULLY CONSCIOUS IN THERE AND PAY IT DOESN'T SAY THAT THIS MAN WENT TO PURGATORY.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS PURGATORY, NOR WAS HE REINCARNATED AS A HIGHER OR LOWER LIFE FORM. ONCE YOU PASS FROM THIS LIFE, YOU PASS INTO ETERNITY INTO EITHER HEAVEN OR HELL THIS MAN WAS IN HELL NUMBER 212 ARE IN HELL. YOU CANNOT CROSS OVER TO HEAVEN.

SOMETIMES PEOPLE SAY WILL YOU KNOW BEFORE GOD GOT THE GIFT TO GET ME ON THE MAN UPSTAIRS WILL SORT THIS OUT.

YOU KNOW WHAT IT WILL BE TOO LATE FOR THAT ONE SURE IN ETERNITY.

THERE IS NO CHANGING THINGS OUT THERE CHANGING THOSE THINGS NOW THERE ARE NO CHANCES AFTER DEATH, BUT THOUSANDS BEFORE BUT ONCE YOU'VE PASSED OVER. IT'S TOO LATE TO POINTED AND WERE MEN ONCE TO DIE. THE BIBLE SAYS AND THEN COMES THE JUDGMENT.

PHYSICAL DEATH IS A SEPARATION OF THE SOUL FROM THE BODY AND CONSTITUTES A TRANSITION FROM THE VISIBLE WORLD TO THE INVISIBLE WORLD FOR THE BELIEVER IT'S ENTRANCE INTO PARADISE IN THE PRESENCE OF JESUS. FOR THE NONBELIEVER THAT MARKED HIS ENTRANCE INTO HADES. PHYSICAL DEATH IS NOT THE END OF EXISTENCE THAT ONLY A CHANGE IN THE STATE OF EXISTENCE, BRINGING US THE POINT NUMBER THREE. WHEN YOU'RE IN HELL. YOUR CONSCIOUS AND FULLY AWARE OF WHERE YOU ARE. YOU'RE ALSO AWARE OF WHERE YOU WERE.

NOW WE POINTED THIS OUT WHEN WE LOOK AT HEAVEN, THAT IN HEAVEN YOU WILL STILL BE YOU.

YOU WILL STILL KNOW WHAT YOU KNEW.

ON EARTH, BUT FAR MORE.

YOU'LL BE AWARE OF WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND YOU'LL BE AWARE WHERE YOU ARE IN THE SAME WAY IN HELL YOU BE AWARE OF WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND WHERE YOU ARE IS THIS MAN IS AS HE TALKED ABOUT HIS FIVE BROTHERS IN VERSE 28.

I AM FIVE BROTHERS. HE SAID AND SOMEONE NEEDS TO TESTIFY TO THEM SO THEY DON'T COME TO THIS PLACE OF TORMENT IN A WAY THIS MAN WAS BLAME SHIFTING HEY I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS. NO ONE WARNED ME ABOUT THIS ABRAHAM CORRECTS THE MEMBERS. 29. THEY HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, LET THEM HEAR THEM IN THE MAN SAYS WILL KNOW SOMEONE NEEDS TO GO BACK FROM THE DEAD DO NOT BELIEVE REALLY LIKES HIM AND THEN COME BACK FROM THE DEAD'S NAME WAS LAZARUS, NOT THE SAME LAZARUS IN THE STORY, BUT YOU REMEMBER JESUS RAISE LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD AND WE READ ABOUT A TIME WITH HER ALTOGETHER HAVING A MEAL THERE WAS JESUS AND LAZARUS AND MARY AND MARTHA TO I WISH I COULD'VE BEEN AT THAT PARTY. WHAT A CONVERSATION SO LAZARUS WAS LIKE WHAT HAPPENED. YOU KNOW HOW YOU FEEL RIGHT NOW BUT YOU KNOW THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS WERE PLOTTING AND HOW THEY MIGHT KILL LAZARUS BECAUSE HE WAS LIVING EVIDENCE OF THE POWER OF GOD. LAZARUS WAS THE RESURRECTION.

YOU WOULD THINK THAT EVERYONE I MET HIM AT SIX.

I BELIEVE I REMEMBER YOU WERE DEAD OR ALIVE AGAIN.

FINALLY, PEOPLE, AND BELIEVE SOME DEAD BUT MANY DID NOT AND MORE TO THE POINT.

JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD. HE WAS SEEN HERE. HE WAS SEEN THERE. HE WAS SEEN BY 500 PEOPLE AT ONE TIME DID EVERYONE BELIEVE NO. SO EVEN IF A MAN WERE RAISED FROM THE DEAD, PEOPLE WOULD NOT BELIEVE THAT POINT IS MADE HERE IN THE TEXT SO THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS NOW TO A NONBELIEVER TO GO TO THIS PLACE OF TORMENT, BUT THIS IS NOT THE END, THERE IS STILL A JUDGMENT YET TO COME.

KNOWN AS THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT KNOWN HER LAST MESSAGE ON HEAVEN. WE TALKED ABOUT THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST. REMEMBER, THE BELIEVERS WILL STAND BEFORE OR REWARDS ARE GIVEN OUT, AND SO FORTH.

THIS JUDGMENT WERE ABOUT TO READ ABOUT IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT. THIS IS THE FINAL JUDGMENT FOR NONBELIEVERS ONLY. LET'S READ ABOUT IT TOGETHER IF YOU WOULD GO TO REVELATION 20.

YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT IS JUST HANG A RIGHT AND KEEP GOING. REVELATION 20. THIS IS NOW A DESCRIPTION OF THE FINAL JUDGMENT STARTING IN VERSE 11 OF REVELATION 20. THEN I SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE AND HIM THAT SAT ON IT, FROM WHOSE FACE THE EARTH AND THE HEAVEN FLED AWAY. THERE WAS FOUND NO PLACE FOR THEM. REVELATION 20 VERSE 12 AND I SAW THE DEAD, SMALL AND GREAT, STANDING BEFORE GOD, AND BOOKS WERE OPEN. YOU MIGHT UNDERLINE OR CIRCLE THE WORD BOOKS IN ANOTHER BOOK WAS OPENED, NOTICE AS SINGULAR. YOU MIGHT UNDERLINE THAT WORD AS WELL, WHICH IS THE BOOK OF LIFE AND THE DEAD WERE JUDGED ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS, BY THE THINGS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD THAT WERE IN THEM. DEATH AND HELL WHICH ARE READING ABOUT RIGHT NOW. I DELIVERED UP THE DEAD THAT WERE IN THEM. THEY WERE JUDGE EACH ONE ACCORDING TO HIS WORDS AND DEATH AND HELL WERE CAST IN THE LAKE OF FIRE IS THE SECOND DEATH. AND ANYONE NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST IN THE LAKE OF FIRE. THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT WHO WILL BE THERE ANSWER.

EVERYONE WAS REJECTED GOD'S OFFER OF FORGIVENESS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. NOTICE THAT THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS. VERSE 12 I SAW THE DEAD, SMALL AND GREAT, STANDING BEFORE GOD, AND THE BOOKS WERE OPENED. LISTEN, GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSON.

THE FACT THAT A PERSON MAY BEEN A KING OR QUEEN OR AN EMPEROR OR A PRESIDENT OR PRIME MINISTER OR A ROCK STAR OR A BILLIONAIRE OR AN ACTOR. IT DOESN'T MATTER. EVERYONE'S EQUAL OKAY NOW YOU HAVE TO STAND BEFORE GOD GIVEN ACCOUNT OF YOUR LIFE ACTOR ROBERT DE NIRO ASKED THE QUESTION IF THERE ARE PEARLY GATES AND YOU STAND BEFORE GOD. ONE DAY, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO GOD.

DINERO'S RESPONSE WAS, I WILL SAY THAT GOD AND IF HEAVEN EXISTS, HE HAS A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO. NO, I DON'T THINK SO.

I THINK ROBERT DE NIRO WILL HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO, AND I DON'T MEAN TO PICK ON HIM.

ANY PERSON STANDING BEFORE GOD. YOU'LL MOST WONDERFUL LORD WILL LOOK AT THE INERRANCY. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING TO ME. I DOUBT THAT'S A QUOTE FROM A DINERO MOVIE.

BY THE WAY, BUT SOME THE POINT IS, EVERYONE WILL HAVE TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR LIFE AND LISTEN. THE BIG ISSUE IN THIS FINAL DATE IS NOT A SIN ISSUE IS MUCH AS IT IS A SIGN THAT YOU SON BECAUSE EVERYONE IS THIN AND FALLEN SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD. WE HAVE TO PUT TO BED ONCE AND FOR ALL THIS CONCEPT THAT SOMETIMES EVEN CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT IF YOU DO ENOUGH GOOD WORDS YOU WILL GET. THEY HAVEN'T, IT'S NOT TRUE. GOOD PEOPLE DON'T GO TO HEAVEN, FORGIVING PEOPLE DO. THAT SAID, BECAUSE NO ONE IS GOOD ENOUGH. SO WHY ARE WE THERE NUMBER TWO. WHY IS A PERSON THAT THIS GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT ANSWER THERE BECAUSE HE DID NOT BELIEVE IN JESUS. JOHN 318 HE THAT BELIEVES IN ME IS NOT CONDEMN BUT HE THAT DOES NOT BELIEVE IN ME IS CONDEMNED ALREADY BY BECAUSE HE HAS NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD. IF THE NONBELIEVER IS ALREADY CONDEMNED AND WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE LAST JUDGMENT. THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION.

THE PURPOSE OF THE FINAL CONFRONTATION BETWEEN GOD AND MAN IS TO CLEARLY DEMONSTRATE TO THE NONBELIEVER WHY HE IS ALREADY CONDEMNED OR PUT THIS UP ON THE SCREEN. IF YOU'RE TAKING NOTES AND THINK OF IT FOR A MOMENT THINK ABOUT IT FOR A MOMENT. THE PURPOSE OF THIS FINAL CONFRONTATION BETWEEN GOD AND MAN IS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATE TO THE NONBELIEVER WHY HE IS ALREADY CONDEMNED BECAUSE THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING I WOULD SAY I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THIS. THE BOOKS ARE OPEN VERSE 12 NOTICE IT'S MORE THAN ONE BOOKS. WHAT ARE THESE BOOKS WE DON'T KNOW FOR CERTAIN. ONE OF THEM MAY BE A BOOK OF GOD'S LAW. EVERYONE WAS BEEN EXPOSED TO THE TRUTH OF GOD'S LAW IS HELD RESPONSIBLE.

ROMANS 319 SAYS THAT EVERY MOUTH MAY BE STOPPED, AND ALL THE WORLD MAY BE GUILTY BEFORE GOD. I BRING THIS UP BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE SAY YOU KNOW I DON'T NEED JESUS CHRIST. I LIVE BY THE 10 COMMANDMENTS THAT JOE WHITE DUE TO REALLY, LET'S START BY ASKING IF YOU CAN NAME THE 10 COMPOUND SOCIAL RECYCLE. NO HAVE YOU BROKEN ANY OF THEM. WELL YOU KNOW I DON'T. OKAY.

HAVE YOU EVER TAKEN THE LORD'S NAME IN VAIN ABOUT THE WAY THAT MEANS USE THE LORD'S NAME IN AN EMPTY AND INSINCERE OR FRIVOLOUS WAY WILL KNOW REALLY OKAY.

HAVE YOU EVER STOLEN ANYTHING, NO HAVE YOU EVER LIED KNOW YOUR LIEN NOW. OKAY, YOU LIE IF YOU WANT TO LIVE BY THE LAW, YOU'RE IN FOR TROUBLE, BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS IF YOU OFFEND IN ONE POINT OF THE LAW, YOU'RE GUILTY OF ALL OF THE LAW WAS NEVER GIVEN THE MAKE A MAN OR A WOMAN RIGHTEOUS THE LAW IS A MORAL MIRROR THAT SHOWS US OUR REAL STATE BEFORE GOD TO DRIVE US INTO THE OPEN ARMS OF JESUS. THE LAW SAYS YOU'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH YOU NEED GODSELF.

IT'S INTERESTING THE BIBLE COMPARES THE LAW TO AMIR YOU KNOW MAYORS ARE HELPFUL BECAUSE THEY REVEAL TRUTH TO US. YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOU'RE OUT WITH YOUR FRIENDS HAVING LUNCH AND THEY DON'T TELL YOU SOMETHING THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.

YOU KNOW, FOR INSTANCE, YOU'RE TALKING AND NOTICED HER LAUGHING A LOT AS YOU'RE TALKING YOU DON'T KNOW WHY YOU GO TO THE RESTROOM AND AND YOU REALIZE THAT YOU KNOW YOU PUT YOUR LIPSTICK YOU MISSED YOUR LIPS BECAUSE IT WAS DARK IN THE MORNING IT'S OVER HERE IN THE SAD THING IS, YOU'RE A MAN, WHICH IS REALLY WHERE THE SAD THING IS IT'S HAPPENED TO ME YESTERDAY.

NO, THE POINT IS IS THAT YOUR FRIENDS AND TELL YOU THE TRUTH ABOUT YOURSELF WITH THE MYRIAD NOMAD TO SO THE LAW WAS NOT GIVEN TO MAKE YOU RIGHTEOUS.

MAYBE ONE OF THESE BOOKS WOULD BE THE LAWS SHOWING YOU FALLEN SHORT OF IT. NUMBER TWO. MAYBE ANOTHER BOOK WOULD BE A RECORD OF EVERYTHING YOU SAID OR NOT EVERYTHING IS RECORDED TODAY EVERYWHERE WE GO.

IT'S BEEN RECORDED.

YOU CAN RUN ALIKE TODAY AND A CAMERA WILL TAKE YOUR PICTURE AND THERE'S NO GETTING OUT OF THAT TICKET AND THEN EVERYBODY HAS VIDEO CAMERAS AND CAMERAS ON THEIR PHONES TODAY AND EVERYTHING IS BEING RECORDED. WHEREVER YOU GO. IF YOU THINK THAT MANKIND CAN DO THIS, DON'T YOU THINK THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE HAS SOME PRETTY TRICKED OUT AND SOPHISTICATED RECORDING EQUIPMENT. YOU CAN BE SURE OF IT BECAUSE THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT EVERYTHING THAT WE DO, WHETHER IT BE GOOD OR BAD IS RECORDED AND WE WILL BE JUDGED FOR ECCLESIASTES 1214 EVERY IDLE WORD, THE BIBLE SAYS, A MAN SPEAKS OF GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT MAYBE ANOTHER ONE OF THESE BOOKS COULD BE A RECORD OF THE FACT THAT YOU DIDN'T LIVE UP TO YOUR OWN STANDARDS.

THIS IS FOR THE PERSON THAT IS ALL I DON'T NEED ORGANIZED RELIGION. I LIVE BY MY OWN RULES MY OWN VALUE I SUGGEST YOU DON'T EVEN LIVE BY YOUR OWN RULE, I SUGGEST YOU EVEN BREAK THOSE ANOTHER BOOK OR SCROLL YOUR RECORD OF EVERY TIME YOU'VE HEARD THE GOSPEL BECAUSE NO DOUBT THERE WOULD BE SOME LIKE THIS MAN IN OUR STORY IN LUKE 16 THAT WAS IT. I NEVER HEARD ABOUT JESUS.

NO ONE EVER TOLD ME JESUS WAS THE ONLY WAY TO THE FATHER AND SO THE LORD MIGHT ALL RIGHT, GABRIEL, ROLLO, BIG SCREEN. THIS IS YOUR LOT YOU KNOW A RECORD OF EVERY TIME YOU HEARD THE GOSPEL AND THEN YOU DISCOVER IT WASN'T. ONCE IT WASN'T TWICE. IT WAS HUNDREDS OF TIMES YOU HEARD IT AND BLEW IT OFF AND REJECTED IT AND WERE PREOCCUPIED WERE PAYING ATTENTION OR WHATEVER IT WAS, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU'VE HEARD, BIBLE SAYS IF YOUR NAME IS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE ARE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.

I KNOW SOME PEOPLE SAY ALL THAT.

THAT'S JUST NOT RIGHT YOU KNOW HOW COULD A GOD OF LOVE CREATE A PLACE CALLED HELL.

LISTEN BECAUSE HE'S A GOD OF LOVE, HE CREATED A PLACE CALLED HELL. IT MAKES COMPLETE SENSE BECAUSE THERE ARE INJUSTICES IN THIS LIFE THERE ARE WRONGS THAT ARE DONE, PEOPLE GET AWAY WITH THINGS THEY SHOULD NEVER GET AWAY WITH AND THEY ESCAPE THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW, SO TO SPEAK, BUT I'LL NEVER ESCAPE THE LONG ARM OF GOD. THERE IS A FINAL COURT OF ARBITRATION. QUITE FRANKLY, THERE ARE CERTAIN PEOPLE WE SAY I'M GLAD THERE'S A HELL BECAUSE OF YOU KNOW THERE WILL BE JUDGED TOGETHER IS A HELL, BUT LISTEN HELL WAS NOT MADE FOR PEOPLE. JESUS SAID HOW WAS CREATED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS. IT WAS NEVER GOD'S INTENTION TO SEND A PERSON THE HELL HE DOES EVERYTHING HE CAN TO KEEP YOU OUT OF HELL. BUT GOD HAS GIVEN TO YOU IN THE ME FREE WILL.

I HAVE THE ABILITY TO CHOOSE GOD WILL NOT VIOLATE THAT IF YOU WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN. MY FRIEND, YOU WILL IF YOU PUT YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST. IF YOU WANT TO GO TO HELL YOU WILL THAT'S REALLY YOUR CHOICE. JI PACKER WRITES AND I QUOTE SCRIPTURE SEES HELL ITSELF CHOSEN HELL APPEARS AS GOD'S GESTURE OF RESPECT FOR HUMAN CHOICE. ALL RECEIVE WHAT THEY ACTUALLY CHOOSE EITHER TO BE WITH GOD FOREVER WORSHIPING HIM OR WITHOUT GOD FOREVER WORSHIPING HIMSELF. CS LEWIS SAID AND I QUOTE THERE ARE ONLY TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE END THOSE WHO SAY TO GOD BY WILL BE DONE AND THOSE TO WHOM GOD SAYS IN THE END THOUGH I WILL BE DONE ALL THAT ARE IN HELL.

CHOOSE IT WITHOUT THAT SELF CHOICE THERE COULD BE NO HELP, TIMOTHY KELLER SAID AND I QUOTE PEOPLE ONLY GET IN THE AFTERLIFE. WHAT THEY MOST WANTED EITHER TO HAVE GOD AS SAVIOR AND MASTER TO BE THEIR OWN SENIORS AND MASTERS HELL IS SIMPLY ONE FREELY CHOSEN PATH GOING ON FOREVER HELL IS SIMPLY ONE FREELY CHOSEN PATH GOING ON FOREVER. THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT. THAT'S WHAT YOU GET. YOU WANT HEAVEN. THAT'S WHAT YOU GET IT YOUR CHOICE SO DON'T BLAME GOD FOR GOD SENT PEOPLE TO SEND ANYONE ANYWHERE. GOD WANT YOU TO GO TO HEAVEN CAN AFFORD TO. HE GIVES YOU A CHOICE AND IT'S UP TO YOU WHAT YOU GOING TO DO WITH THAT CHOICE, SO I'M SURE PEOPLE PROTESTED IN THE FINAL DAY AND SAY LORD, LORD, DID WE NOT PROPHESY IN YOUR NAME AND CAST OUT DEMONS IN YOUR NAME AND DO WONDERFUL WORKS IN YOUR NAME AND JESUS WILL SADLY BUT FIRMLY SAY APART FOR ME. I NEVER KNEW YOU YOU WORKER OF INIQUITY. IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO JUST SAY YOU BELIEVE IN GOD. THESE PEOPLE SOME RELIGIOUS DEMEANOR DO MIRACLES IN YOUR NAME IN A SEMI-SAFE WAY. THEN I GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY AND WHEN I RECEIVE COMMUNION AND WHEN I WAS I WAS BAPTIZED AND YEAH OKAY JESUS IS, BUT I NEVER KNEW YOU. WE NEVER HAD A RELATIONSHIP.

IT WAS JUST THE THING YOU DID. AND ANYONE BROKE MY COMMANDMENTS LEFT AND RIGHT WITH NO CONCERN. THIS IS YOUR OWN CHOICE THAT YOU'RE FACING, IS THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE OUTSIDE THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT ENOUGH TO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE GOD EXIST.

YOU NEED TO TURN FROM YOUR SIN AND PUT YOUR FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST AND HIM ALONE AS SAVIOR AND LORD, YOU KNOW NOBODY LIKES TO PREACH ON HELEN. IF THEY DO THEIR LITTLE TWIST IS HARD FOR ME TO WRITE THIS MESSAGE. IT'S NOT FUN MESSAGE FOR ME TO DELIVER.

BUT IF I DON'T TELL YOU THESE THINGS. I'M NOT GIVING YOU THE WHOLE GOSPEL TRUTH.

FINALLY, TALK ABOUT HEAVEN THAT I DON'T TALK ABOUT HELL I'M DOING YOU ALL A DISSERVICE. BUT I HOPE THAT SOMETHING LIKE THIS WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO REDOUBLE YOUR EFFORTS TO REACH PEOPLE WITH THE GOSPEL BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS SOME SAY WITH FEAR REPEATING THE VERY GARMENT THAT IS SPOTTED BY THE FLESH, AND HERE'S WHAT I THINK SOMETIMES WE DON'T WARN PEOPLE ABOUT HELL BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO OFFEND THEM OR JUST TALK ABOUT THE GLORIES OF WALKING WITH CHRIST GIVES US PEACE AND JOY AND PURPOSE IN A PERSON BLOWS IS OFTEN SAID I DON'T NEED THAT THESE IMPROVEMENTS ARE PRETTY HAPPY AS I AM OKAY WILL. THAT'S 1 Thing Way over at the 27th. There's hell if you reject Christ you will go to hell you doing what's right.

Just set you know that answer that it's actually God poured all of his judgment on Jesus 2000 years ago at the cross, so you would not have to go to a place called hell if you'll forgive you of every wrong you've ever done. If your turn to him right now.

She sometimes we will need to just be told you're going to hell you better stop what you're doing real and that there and got offers you pardon and forgiveness. We got it be direct with people because that's the full message of the gospel gospel means good beers and I can fully appreciate the good until I first know the bad news and the bad news is I'm separated from God and I am headed the judgment. The good news is, Christ paid the price for my sin about turning him. I can be forgiven and go to heaven so in closing, there might be someone here listening to me right now is afraid they will go to hell when they die. I know you're here at church and probably the people sitting around you think that your a Christian, but you know deep down in your heart, you're not, you know that you're doing things you should not be doing and you have the fear of hell on telling you right now you can get rid of that fear today by putting your faith in Christ. If you turn from your sin and believe in him you can know with assurance. You will go to heaven when you die if you don't have that assurance right now, to give you an opportunity to change your eternal address from a place called hell to a place called heaven. As we pray let's all bow our heads if you would father I pray not for any here that may not yet know you people who literally are headed for destruction. Lord help them to see their need. Help them to change your direction.

Help them to come to Jesus. Now we pray our heads about their eyes are closed and were praying.

How many of you would say today Greg, I'm afraid I am going to hell. I don't want to want to go to heaven. I want to know God in a personal way. I want my sin forgiven. I'm ready to say yes to Jesus that your desire.

If you don't want to go to hell if you want to go to heaven when you die if you're ready to ask Christ to come in your life. I want to lift your hand up forever.

You are to pray for you. I bless you, and you just look at your hand up I can see it. You want God's forgiveness today. God bless you and you up there in the balcony. God bless you. You want to change your eternal address with her hand up to pray for you now accomplish anybody else.

You remove your sin, you remove your guilt that accompanies it give you the hope of heaven, but you must reach out to him anybody else. You want Christ to come in your life today.

Lift your hand up. Father, I thank you for each one of these that have taken the step of faith. Help them to take the next one now and receive all that you have for them, for we ask it in Jesus name, amen