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Doug Batchelor: Hello, friends.
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Welcome back to
Prophecy Odyssey.
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In our last episode, we learned
that Sodom and Gomorrah were an
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example of how God is going to
ultimately destroy the wicked in
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the last days and that the fires
of hell are not burning yet.
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Today, we're going to continue
this eye-opening study of what
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will ultimately
happen in hellfire.
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We will also look at a few Bible
verses that have confused a lot
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of people about the reality and
nature of hell and what you need
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to know to avoid it.
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Doug: I went to Jewish schools.
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I went to two
different military schools.
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I went to public school.
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I went to two Catholic schools.
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And like everyone else, I heard:
"If you're a good boy and you
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believe in Jesus,
you go to heaven."
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I was really confused because my
mother was Jewish, but my father
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had been raised Baptist.
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They're both atheists.
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They send me to
a Catholic school.
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So you go figure.
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And when I went to New York
Military Academy, every week you
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have to go to a service.
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You could choose between the
Protestant service, the Catholic
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service, or the Jewish service.
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And I figured I just try--I
kept going, mixing them all up.
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But they all kind
of said the same thing.
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You're good, you go to heaven.
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But if you're bad,
you're going to go to hell.
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I said: "I need to know more
about that," because I figured
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that's where I was going.
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And they said: "Well, you're
going to--if it's fire, you
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know, and you'll be down there,
and you're going to burn."
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"Ooh, how long?"
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"Forever."
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What do you think that
did to my picture of God?
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I decided early in my life, I
said: "Not only do I not want to
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believe that, I can't afford to
believe that because if there is
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a God, He is the
meanest being in the cosmos."
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Here I am, you know, just a
crummy little kid, and I can't
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help my bad
behavior, and He made me.
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No one asked me to
vote on being made or not.
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And He made me, and He says: "If
you can't be good," and I found
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that very difficult, "so
I'm going to burn you forever."
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I could never love God.
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I thought: "If there
is a God, I hate Him."
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But when I learned the Bible
truth on this subject, it set me
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free where I was
able to finally love God.
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That's why it's important to me.
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You got two
options: life or death.
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Romans 6:23: "The
wages of sin is," what?
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"Eternal life in flames."
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It's not what Paul said.
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The wage, the penalty, the
reward for sin is death absence
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of life.
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What was the first
lie that was ever spoken?
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God told Eve: "If you eat
the forbidden fruit, you will
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surely die."
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He didn't just
say: "You'll die."
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He said: "You will surely die."
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That means like the wicked
witch, dead, dead, very dead.
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"And the serpent said
to the woman, 'You will not
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surely die.'"
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You'll either live forever in
heaven or you'll live forever in
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hell with me, and I'm in charge.
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Bible doesn't say that.
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The first lie: "Then the serpent
said to the woman, 'You'll not
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surely die.'"
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He lied.
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"What will happen to
the wicked in hellfire?"
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Answer, Psalm 37, let's find out
what does the Bible say is the
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reward of the wicked.
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Don't worry, we're going to
finish talking about the reward
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of the righteous.
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I want to end on a good note:
"Yet, a little while and the
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wicked will be no more."
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Does it say, he'll be in a
torture chamber somewhere or
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no more?
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"No more" means
you cease to exist.
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"The wicked will," what?
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"PERISH; into smoke they
will VANISH away," diffuse,
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disappear, gone.
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Again, you read in Malachi
chapter 4, verse 1 and 3: "The
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day is coming,
burning like an oven, and ...
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all," how many?
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"All who do
wickedly will be stubble."
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This is talking about what the
Jews used to do to the fields
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after harvest.
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They still do it in California,
the rice fields around us
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in Sacramento.
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They set them on fire.
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And they not only burn up
the stubble on top, but he says:
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"It's not just the stubble, it's
going to burn up the root in
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the branch."
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If you burn up the root of
a tree, it's not coming back.
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It says: "It will burn them up."
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When something's
burnt up, what's left?
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Nothing.
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"You will trample the wicked,
for they will be ashes under the
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soles of your feet."
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Doesn't say that
they're still burning.
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You're not going to be walking
around and then go, "Oh, that's
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hot, you know, like
you're a Fijian firewalker.
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They're gone.
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They're burned up, and He's
going to create a new heavens
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and a new earth on that.
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Number 6: "Where
will hellfire be located?"
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Now this surprises people.
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A lot of folks are taught
to believe--now, I should pause
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here, and you'll understand why.
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There are four words in
the Bible that are translated
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as hell.
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The most common word in the Old
Testament is the word "Sheol."
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Sheol, that
simply means the grave.
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It's a Hebrew word
that means the grave.
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He will go down--people
think that hell is the burning
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volcanic cavern down there
somewhere because it says: "Down
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in Sheol," because the Jews
buried their dead where some of
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the pagans cremated their
dead, some even above ground.
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But the Jews buried them,
so they always said: "Down
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in Sheol."
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Then you've got
the word "Hades,"
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which is from Greek mythology.
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Hades was a place that was ruled
by the god Pluto, who was in
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charge of the Hounds of Hell,
and a lot of our myths about the
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devil come from
this concept of Pluto.
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Then you had
the word "Tartarus."
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Tartarus just means
a place of darkness.
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It's only used
one time in the Bible.
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Then you've got
the word "Gehenna."
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Now this is one that has mixed
people up because outside of
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Jerusalem, they've got something
called the Valley of Hinnom.
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It's also Gehenna,
same word, same place.
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It was the city dump.
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And it was a very steep
valley, rocky, not a good place
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to build.
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It wasn't far
from the city gates.
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People would take the refuse out
of the city, they'd dump it in
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the Valley of Hinnom.
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Now one reason they--the Valley
of Hinnom was the city dump is
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because some of the earlier
kings of Israel had turned from
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God, and they had set up pagan
idols there and made it a holy
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place to idols and pagan gods.
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And so the godly kings came
along and they said: "We are
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going to desecrate
it and make it a dump."
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Remember Nebuchadnezzar said
that "whoever doesn't worship
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the God of Daniel, his house is
going to be torn down and turned
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into a dump."
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That was one of the things
they did to desecrate a place.
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And so it was full of worms
'cause, you know, they'd throw
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the dead animals that were
unclean in there, and they'd
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have baskets
that were smoldering.
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They'd burn it to
keep the gasses down.
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And so Jesus said: "You're
better cutting off your hand or
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plucking out an eye and going to
heaven maimed than having your
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eye and your hand and your foot
and going to Gehenna where the
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worm does not die and
the fire is not quenched."
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What Jesus was saying is you're
better than--does everyone
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understand what
hyperbole is, a metaphor?
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Does anyone here believe
that we're going to go to heaven
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missing an
eyeball, a foot, or a hand?
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Jesus is saying: "If you've got
a sin that is as close as your
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hand, your foot, or your eye,
and it's going to make you be
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lost, cut it off.
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As hard as that might be, you're
better off entering heaven
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maimed than going with a full
body to Gehenna, the dump where
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the wicked will be punished."
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And He points to the valley
right there outside the city
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where it's smoldering, and it's
full of worms that do not die,
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maggots that are eating.
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It's not talking about the
people are always going to be
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eaten by worms
forever and ever and ever.
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It's a metaphor.
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So where will hell burn?
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Is it in a cavern way
down yonder somewhere?
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The Bible says, you can read
2 Peter chapter 3: "The elements
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will melt with fervent heat:
and both the EARTH and the works
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that are in it will be," what?
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"Burned up."
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It's going to be right here.
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Again, you can read where it
tells us in Revelation 20, verse
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9: "They went up on the breadth
of the EARTH and surrounded the
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camp of the saints, the beloved
city," that's the new Jerusalem.
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"And FIRE comes down from God
out of heaven and devours them."
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I don't want to get too close to
this virtual reality because I
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don't want to--see here, ow.
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So where is hell going to burn?
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The fire comes
down on the earth.
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God is going to purify
this world with fire and on the
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purified ashes.
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That's why it says: "You'll
go forth from the New Jerusalem,
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you'll tread upon the wicked for
they are ashes under the soles
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of your feet because blessed
are the meek 'cause they will
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inherit," what?
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"The earth," but it's
okay because God's making a
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new heaven.
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The word "heaven" there
doesn't mean where he lives.
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It means a new
atmosphere and a new earth.
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Our atmosphere is polluted.
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Our earth is polluted.
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He's going to
recreate this planet.
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And God had a
plan in the beginning.
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He is going to
finish his perfect plan.
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Do you believe it, friends?
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"They went upon the breadth
of the EARTH They surrounded the
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camp of the
saints, the beloved city.
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And FIRE came down from God out
of heaven and devoured them."
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So it's coming down to where?
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On the earth.
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So another big myth about hell.
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Who is large and
in charge of hell?
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Is it the devil?
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How many of you have heard jokes
about, you know, Saint Peter's
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in charge of the Golden Gate,
and everybody's got to go by
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Saint Peter to get in?
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And I've heard some really funny
jokes about Saint Peter checking
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people out as they're
on their way into heaven.
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And then they got the
devil is in charge of hell.
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How many of you
have heard that before?
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And that's why he ostensibly has
got this big pitchfork, trident.
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It's like a big
barbecue down there.
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He makes sure people cooked
evenly, he flips them every now
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and then.
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I don't know what he's doing.
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But is that what
the Bible teaches?
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The devil's in charge of hell.
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And, of course, we've
learned the devil doesn't look
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like that.
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No, Bible says: "The
devil is as afraid of hell.
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Hell was prepared for him.
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The devil, who deceived them,
WAS CAST into the lake of fire
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and brimstone."
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Now, why does it call it a lake?
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It's not like, you know, Lake
Genezareth or the Great Lakes or
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anything like that.
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At the end of the 1000 years,
we have a lesson on this, New
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Jerusalem comes down from
God out of heaven, settles on
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the earth.
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All the wicked who've
ever lived are resurrected.
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Satan sees all the
wicked who've ever lived.
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They're sometimes called Gog
and Magog, and he rallies them
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against a final assault
against the City of God.
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They are judged,
Great White Throne Judgment.
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The devil shows
he hasn't changed.
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And it says: "God
then rains fire down."
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And in the same way God rained
water down to destroy the wicked
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during the time of Noah until it
floated the boat, God is going
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to rain fire down
outside the New Jerusalem.
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Only those in the ark were
saved, only those in the city
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are saved, and it is
going to form a lake.
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Don't worry, the walls are
big, and you'll be protected.
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Because Jesus is
Noah, and he built the city.
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I mean, he's our
Noah, so-to-speak.
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And everybody on the
outside is destroyed.
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It's going to form a lake,
and that lake, just like the old
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flood purified the world,
that fire is going to purify
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the planet.
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And then God will create a
new heavens and a new earth.
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Satan is not in charge of hell.
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He is afraid of it.
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He has come down with great
wrath because he knows his time
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is short.
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You read in the book of 2 Peter
and Jude: "The devils are kept
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in everlasting
chains of darkness."
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When Jesus was casting out
devils, the demons would speak
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and they'd say: "We know
who you are, Jesus, Son of God.
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Have you come to
torment us before the time?"
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"Will the fires
of hell ever go out?"
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Or, here's a big
question, does it burn forever?
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That's what we want to know.
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Isaiah 47, verse 14: "It shall
NOT be a COAL to be warmed by,
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nor a fire to sit before!"
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Not even a warm coal left.
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"You will trample the wicked,"
Malachi 4:3: "for their ashes
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under the soles of your feet
in the day that I do this,' says
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the Lord of hosts."
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It's burnt up.
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Now, some of you are thinking,
wait, Pastor Doug, doesn't the
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Bible say: "unquenchable fire?"
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It does, and it
means exactly what it says.
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When you see something in the
Bible, you know what the key is
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to understand any
mystery in the Bible?
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Let the Bible interpret itself.
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God is the author.
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He knows what He
means by the words He uses.
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Does that sound reasonable?
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So what does the
Bible mean by this?
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Let's find out.
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It uses the word
"unquenchable fire."
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Matthew 3, verse 12, Jesus said:
"He will thoroughly clean out
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the threshing floor and gather
His wheat into the barn: but He
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will BURN UP the chaff
with unquenchable fire."
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What does
unquenchable fire mean?
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Quench is a verb.
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It means to extinguish.
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There is nobody that is going
to be putting out the fires
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of hell.
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There are no firemen in hell.
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That would be putting it out.
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There's nothing that
can be done to put it out.
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Let me prove it to you.
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Jeremiah 17, verse 27,
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here's a prophecy of Jeremiah.
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He lived before the
Babylonian captivity:
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"But if you will not heed
me to hallow the Sabbath day,
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such as not carrying a burden
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when entering the gates of
Jerusalem on the Sabbath day,
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then I will kindle a fire in its
gates, and it will devour the
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palaces of Jerusalem,
and they will not be," what?
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"Quenched."
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Now, do you know what happened?
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They didn't listen.
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They did not repent.
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Nebuchadnezzar came.
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He destroyed the city.
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He burnt the city.
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The gates were burned.
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No firemen showed up.
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It was unquenchable fire.
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The temple was
burnt, unquenchable fire.
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It was destroyed.
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That just simply means
that there's no active problem,
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there's no active party
involved in extinguishing it.
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The work that the fire
of hell does is eternal.
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Doesn't come back again.
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That's our next question.
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"Doesn't the phrase
'eternal fire' mean unending?"
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Well, you got to read
things in their context.
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Let's look at some examples.
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"Sodom and Gomorrah," in Jude 1,
verse 7, what does God mean by
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eternal fire?
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"Sodom and Gomorrah," and the
cities around them, "they are
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set forth as an example,
suffering the vengeance of,"
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what kind of fire?
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"ETERNAL FIRE."
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Now here's the question.
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Are Sodom and
Gomorrah still burning today?
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Were the cities ever rebuilt?
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Was the result
of the fire eternal?
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There was no forgiveness,
no resurrection, no rebuilding.
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This is what's going to
happen to the fate of the loss.
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It means the results
of this fire is eternal.
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I've got this plexiglas
pulpit, ostensibly, hot enough,
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it'll melt.
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I know that because Pastor Doug
was once in a juvenile hall, and
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I wanted to escape.
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And I got some matches, and I
was able to burn the plexiglas
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hinges so that I could
get out of the juvenile hall.
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So Plexiglas burns.
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I know that.
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So that's a very nice pulpit.
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If we should toss that pulpit
in a bonfire and burn it up, you
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can say it was burnt with
eternal fire because you will
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never see that pulpit again.
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See what I'm saying?
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God is saying, the
results of the fire are eternal.
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He emphasizes that because
right now, if you die and you're
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saved, don't lose hope.
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There's a resurrection.
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But you know what God calls
the destruction of the wicked?
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The second death.
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There is no resurrection.
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Number 11: "When Revelation 20,
verse 10 states that the wicked
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will be tormented 'for ever.'"
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Now this is probably
the most difficult verse.
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It says forever, Pastor Doug.
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Doesn't that mean
they're burnt forever?
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Let the Bible interpret itself.
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Sometimes God uses these terms,
like I said in hyperbole, you've
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got to use it in its context.
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Can you find other examples
in the Bible where God uses the
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word "forever," but it
obviously meant until they died?
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Look at the story of Jonah.
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How many know about Jonah?
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How long was Jonah in
the belly of the fish?
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Three days and three nights.
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We're going to
read that in a second.
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In Jonah chapter 2, when he
prays, what does he say: "The
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earth with its bars
closed behind me FOREVER."
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Now, if you were swallowed by a
whale--by the way, it happened,
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oh, about six months ago.
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It's actually on YouTube.
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You can see a guy was kayaking
and a big whale came up, didn't
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know he was there in the
kayak, and swallowed him.
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Spit him out again.
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He was okay, shook up.
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He's probably getting therapy
right now, but it happened, and
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you can see it for yourself.
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So Jonah, now he was not
swallowed by a Baleen whale, but
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maybe a Humpback or Sperm whale
that has the--they actually eat
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squid, who knows?
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Might not have been a whale.
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God prepared a fish, it
could have been anything.
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And he--but how
long was he there?
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You read in Jonah chapter 1,
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it says: "And Jonah was in
the belly of the fish three days
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and three nights," a type
of the sufferings of Christ.
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Jesus said: "No sign will be
given to this generation, but
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the sign of Jonah," Matthew
chapter 12: "For as Jonah was in
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the belly of the great fish for
three days and three nights, so
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the Son of Man will be in the
heart of the earth three days
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and three nights."
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The heart of the earth is
describing the sufferings of
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Christ that began
Thursday night in the tomb.
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Jesus began suffering for
our sins after the last supper,
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Thursday night,
Friday night, Saturday night.
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He rose Sunday morning, amen?
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So Jonah, three days, three
nights, he calls it "forever."
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You know, Jesus suffered
the way the lost will suffer.
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It feels like an eternity.
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Can you imagine being in a sea
monster in the darkness three
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days and three nights?
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That whale might have had
jellyfish for lunch, and then
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you're in there with all
that sushi in the darkness.
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Can you--probably would
have seemed like forever, amen?
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How many of you
have used that term?
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You said: "Man, I
haven't eaten in forever.
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I haven't seen them in forever."
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So, you look at the context.
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Now when God promises us eternal
life, we know from the context,
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it's unending 'cause
there's so many other passages.
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Here's another one.
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Hannah brings her son to the
temple, and she says: "If you
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give me a boy, I'll bring him
to the Lord, that he might serve
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before the Lord there
in the temple forever."
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Well, did she keep her promise?
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Did Samuel go to the temple?
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How long did he serve?
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Rest of his life until he died.
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Forever was when?
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Until he died.
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The Hebrews had a law that if
you had a servant, after seven
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years, you could let
your Hebrew servant go free.
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But if your Hebrew servant says:
"You know, I love serving you.
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I want to stay your servant."
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He would go through a ritual,
and it says: "And he will be
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your servant forever."
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What did that mean?
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Till he dies, right?
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So when it's talking about the
wicked being destroyed in the
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lake of fire, the reason it
says: "day and night" is because
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the devil is going to
probably burn day and night.
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But, you know, even ultimately
the devil is burned up.
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Read Ezekiel 28, it says: "Never
shall you be any more forever."
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He's going to destroy him.
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"You will not be anymore," is
the way that it actually reads.
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He's gone, cease to exist.
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Number 12: "Are both soul
and body destroyed in hell?"
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Now this is one, you got to
hear this friends, people think,
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well, yeah, Pastor, it's pretty
clear the body burns up, but the
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soul is tormented forever.
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What did Jesus say?
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It is so clear.
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Are soul and body
both destroyed in hell?
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Christ said in Matthew chapter
10, verse 28: "Do not fear those
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who kill the body, but
they cannot kill the soul.
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Rather fear him," meaning God,
"who is able to destroy SOUL and
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BODY in hell."
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How much is destroyed in hell?
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What did Jesus say?
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"Soul and body," you're gone.
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Remember he said:
"You sin, you die.
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Believe in me, you
don't perish, you live.
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You will be punished."
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Everyone is punished
according to what he deserves.
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Do you know there are
varying amounts of reward?
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Sometimes Jesus said: "Great is
your reward in heaven if you're
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suffered, if you're persecuted
for righteousness sake."
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And Jesus concerning Judas, He
said to Pilate: "It would have
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been better for that man
if he had not been born."
00:22:04.09\00:22:07.19
How'd you like to be Judas
in the judgment and know you
00:22:07.22\00:22:09.46
betrayed Jesus or be Hitler or
Pol Pot or some of these despots
00:22:09.49\00:22:15.23
of history?
00:22:15.26\00:22:16.87
There are varying
degrees of reward.
00:22:16.90\00:22:18.93
I not only want to get to
heaven, I want to have Him say:
00:22:18.97\00:22:21.34
"Great is your reward," amen?
00:22:21.37\00:22:23.51
Some of you are thinking:
"I just want to get there."
00:22:23.54\00:22:26.37
Some of you are thinking: be
honest: "How much sin can I have
00:22:26.41\00:22:30.05
and still get there?"
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Wrong attitude.
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You want to see how far away
from the edge you can be, amen?
00:22:34.55\00:22:38.19
One more verse in Ezekiel.
00:22:38.22\00:22:39.52
It says: "The soul
that sins, it will die."
00:22:39.55\00:22:42.92
That's like a
dictionary definition.
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Not just the body, "the
soul that sins will die."
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"For whom will
hellfire be kindled?"
00:22:49.63\00:22:53.10
"Depart," Matthew 25:41: "Depart
from Me, you cursed, into
00:22:53.13\00:22:57.31
everlasting fire
prepared for," who?
00:22:57.34\00:23:01.38
"The DEVIL."
00:23:01.41\00:23:02.71
Hell is not designed for you.
00:23:02.74\00:23:04.08
If you go to hell, it's because
you followed the wrong leader,
00:23:04.11\00:23:08.58
prepared for the
devil and his angels.
00:23:08.62\00:23:10.05
There are good angels, and there
are bad angels that are kept in
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everlasting chains.
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Number 14: "How does the Bible
refer to God's destruction of
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the wicked?"
00:23:20.50\00:23:22.03
The Bible tells
us: "For the Lord ...
00:23:22.06\00:23:24.17
will be angry ...
00:23:24.20\00:23:25.50
that He might do His work, His
awesome work, and bring to pass
00:23:25.53\00:23:28.94
His act, His UNUSUAL ACT."
00:23:28.97\00:23:32.77
God is a God of love and
creation and life and blessing
00:23:32.81\00:23:35.58
and good.
00:23:35.61\00:23:36.95
He doesn't want
anything to suffer.
00:23:36.98\00:23:38.88
Who here wants to
see anything suffer?
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But the Bible's pretty
clear what the faith is.
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Listen to the words.
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What's going to
happen to the wicked?
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They are
devoured, they are consumed.
00:23:49.39\00:23:53.03
They perish.
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They are dead.
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They are no more.
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The second death,
they're destroyed.
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These are the
terms the Bible uses.
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There are no words in the
English language, or even Hebrew
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or Greek, that God can use
it could be more definitive to
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explain sin will not
rise up again a second time.
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God is not going to
immortalize sinners.
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Sinners do not have immortality.
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God, the Bible says: "And
God only has immortality," amen?
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So this idea that sinners are
immortalized, and they'll burn
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through eternity comes from
mythology and the church often
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use it to manipulate and scare
people and getting money and
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getting them to do
what they wanted to do.
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But our God is a
God of mercy and love.
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"After sin and sinners are
destroyed, what will we have to
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look forward to?"
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"Nevertheless we, according
to His promise, look for a new
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heavens and a," what?
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"A NEW EARTH wherein
dwells righteousness."
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It tells us that all
things are going to be made new.
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Revelation 21, verse 4, the
Bible says: "God will wipe away
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every tear from their eyes;
there will be no more death."
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How much death?
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"There will be NO more crying,"
and I want you to say this
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with me.
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Do y'all see it on the screen?
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"There will be NO more PAIN."
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How many--how much
pain will there be?
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No more pain.
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God is not going to immortalize
sinners, and God is not going to
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have a torture chamber off
in the cosmos somewhere forever
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and ever.
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You're going to say: "I'm really
sorry that my husband or my
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family or my one of my kids is
there burning forever and ever,
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but I just don't care anymore,
you know, because God just made
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me feel good about it.
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No, it says: "After the wicked
are punished, he wipes away the
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tears from our eyes."
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There is a time following the
1000 years when we're going to
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see the judgment of the wicked,
and we're going to have natural
00:25:55.05\00:25:57.79
affection just like God.
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It'll be heartbreaking.
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But then it's going to take God,
you might say, how could I ever
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forget God will wipe away
all the tears from our eyes,
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friends, amen?
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No more pain,
suffering, or sorrow.
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"Will the sin
problem ever rise again?"
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Nahum 1:9: "Affliction will
NOT RISE up the second time.
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'I create a new heavens and a
new earth; the former will not
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be REMEMBERED.'"
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As the years of eternity roll,
we'll never have anything to be
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afraid of, friends.
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Two choices you
have: life or death.
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Choose life.
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The Bible says: "Whosoever
will, let him take the water of
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life freely."
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How many of you say you
want that water of life?
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In the book of Job, it says,
"Can a man be more RIGHTEOUS
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than God?"
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If--God wouldn't do that to His
creatures, if we wouldn't do it,
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why would God do it?
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Doug: Friends, I hope you've
been blessed by today's message.
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But, really, the reason we
do this is so that people might
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know Christ.
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You know, information
is not going to save us.
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It's a relationship with Jesus,
the one who died on the cross
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for your sins.
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You must personally accept Him.
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And that's the most
important thing and why we do
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these programs.
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If you've not asked Him
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encourage you
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His arms are open wide,
just come to Him as you are, and
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ask Him.
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Doug: Hi, friends.
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