>> COMING UP NEXT ON 00:00:00.26\00:00:08.80 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:00:09.46\00:00:11.66 >> I MEAN, FEAR IS NOT ALL BAD. 00:00:11.66\00:00:14.00 AND THE BIBLE DOES SAY SOME THINGS THAT SHOULD 00:00:14.00\00:00:15.63 SOBER US UP. 00:00:15.63\00:00:17.86 I THINK IF A PERSON IS ON THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION, 00:00:17.86\00:00:19.73 THEY SHOULD NOT BE AT PEACE. 00:00:19.73\00:00:21.66 I HOPE YOU'RE AFRAID. 00:00:21.66\00:00:23.56 [MUSIC] >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, 00:00:23.56\00:00:28.70 "AMAZING FACTS" HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD 00:00:28.70\00:00:31.83 THROUGH MEDIA. 00:00:31.83\00:00:33.66 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR 00:00:33.66\00:00:35.80 BEST TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:00:35.80\00:00:39.20 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:00:39.20\00:00:42.16 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:00:42.16\00:00:46.70 >> TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE 00:00:46.70\00:00:48.60 "HERE WE STAND" SERIES. 00:00:48.60\00:00:52.40 >> I REMEMBER JUST THIS LAST YEAR, WE HAD A VERY BIG FIRE 00:00:56.06\00:00:59.30 IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 00:00:59.30\00:01:01.50 AND I WAS DRIVING AROUND IN THE HILLS UP THERE BY MYSELF IN 00:01:01.50\00:01:04.56 A PICKUP TRUCK AND I NEARLY GOT CUT OFF BY THIS FIRE. 00:01:04.56\00:01:07.56 IT LOOKED LIKE A NUCLEAR BOMB HAD BEEN DROPPED 00:01:07.56\00:01:09.36 IN THE MENDOCINO FOREST. 00:01:09.36\00:01:10.93 IT WAS CALLED THE HUNTER FIRE, THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS 00:01:10.93\00:01:12.93 OF ACRES. 00:01:12.93\00:01:13.96 AND IT'S PRETTY INTIMIDATING, YOU GET RIGHT UP WHERE I COULD 00:01:13.96\00:01:17.56 LOOK AND SEE THE FOREST FIRE RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF ME. 00:01:17.56\00:01:21.33 AND IT SCARES YOU A LITTLE BIT, IT PUTS A FEAR IN YOU. 00:01:21.33\00:01:25.33 THIS WHOLE WORLD IS GONNA BE CONSUMED, GOD IS GONNA USE 00:01:25.33\00:01:28.20 THAT FIRE TO PURIFY. 00:01:28.20\00:01:31.30 REVELATION 20:14-15, IT ULTIMATELY SAYS, "DEATH 00:01:31.30\00:01:35.50 AND HADES," OR HELL, "WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE." 00:01:35.50\00:01:40.63 THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH. 00:01:40.63\00:01:42.06 NOT ONLY IS--ARE THE WICKED GONNA BE BURNED UP IN HELL, 00:01:42.06\00:01:45.30 HELL IS GOING TO HELL TOO; ACCORDING TO WHAT 00:01:45.30\00:01:49.00 THE BIBLE SAYS. 00:01:49.00\00:01:49.66 HELL, THAT'S THE WORD IT USES IN THE KING JAMES, IS CAST 00:01:49.66\00:01:51.80 INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. 00:01:51.80\00:01:53.16 THAT MEANS THE GRAVE. 00:01:53.16\00:01:56.06 "AND ANYONE WHO IS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE IS 00:01:56.06\00:01:58.56 CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE." 00:01:58.56\00:02:00.83 NUMBER 8, HOW LONG WILL THE WICKED SUFFER IN THE FIRE? 00:02:00.83\00:02:06.26 NOW, THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE THIS IDEA 00:02:06.26\00:02:08.96 OF THE EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT. 00:02:08.96\00:02:10.60 LET'S LOOK AT SOME VERSES HERE. 00:02:10.60\00:02:12.23 REVELATION 22:12, "JESUS SAID, "BEHOLD I COME QUICKLY, 00:02:12.23\00:02:17.63 AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME, TO GIVE TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING 00:02:17.63\00:02:22.03 AS HIS WORK SHALL BE." 00:02:22.03\00:02:24.23 NOW, DO DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT WORKS? 00:02:24.23\00:02:27.50 ARE THERE VARYING REWARDS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS? 00:02:27.50\00:02:31.83 YES, AMONG THE SAVED, CHRIST SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S 00:02:31.83\00:02:34.00 GONNA BE VARYING REWARDS. 00:02:34.00\00:02:34.90 SOME ARE GONNA SIT ON TWELVE THRONES AROUND HIS KINGDOM. 00:02:34.90\00:02:37.80 IT DOESN'T MEAN--SOME PEOPLE SAY, "I'M GONNA BE IN THE THIRD 00:02:37.80\00:02:39.90 HEAVEN, YOU'RE GONNA BE IN THE SEVENTH HEAVEN." 00:02:39.90\00:02:41.53 THAT'S NOT TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE, GOD'S NOT GONNA HAVE THESE KIND 00:02:41.53\00:02:44.83 OF ELEVATORS IN HEAVEN. 00:02:44.83\00:02:45.96 BUT THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES OF REWARDS AND PEOPLE MAY HAVE 00:02:45.96\00:02:48.20 VARYING NUMBERS OF STARS IN THEIR CROWN. 00:02:48.20\00:02:50.80 YOU'VE HEARD THE SONG, THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES 00:02:50.80\00:02:53.70 OF PUNISHMENT. 00:02:53.70\00:02:56.70 BUT IF EVERYBODY BURNS FOREVER AND EVER THEN IT WOULD SEEM 00:02:56.70\00:03:00.93 THAT EVERYBODY GETS THE SAME PUNISHMENT. 00:03:00.93\00:03:04.00 AND THAT WOULD HYPOTHETICALLY MEAN THAT CAIN WHO LIVED 00:03:04.00\00:03:07.20 6,000 YEARS AGO AND KILLED HIS BROTHER, ONE PERSON THAT WE 00:03:07.20\00:03:10.56 KNOW OF HE KILLED. 00:03:10.56\00:03:12.33 IF HE DIED AND HE WENT RIGHT TO HELL WHERE HE'S BEEN BURNING 00:03:12.33\00:03:14.90 FOR THE LAST 6,000 YEARS, HE'S BEEN BURNING 6,000 YEARS 00:03:14.90\00:03:17.63 LONGER THAN SADDAM HUSSEIN OR ADOLPH HITLER. 00:03:17.63\00:03:21.00 THAT'S NOT VERY FAIR. 00:03:21.00\00:03:24.86 MATTHEW 16:27, SAYS, "HE'LL REWARD EVERY MAN 00:03:24.86\00:03:28.33 ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS." 00:03:28.33\00:03:31.33 AGAIN, AND LUKE 12:47, "THE SERVANT WHICH KNEW HIS LORD'S 00:03:31.33\00:03:35.76 WILL AND NEITHER DID ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, WILL BE BEATEN 00:03:35.76\00:03:39.16 WITH MANY STRIPES." 00:03:39.16\00:03:40.46 IN OTHER WORDS, STRIPES, WHEN SOMEONE GOT WHIPPED, IT LEFT 00:03:40.46\00:03:42.80 A STRIPE ON THEIR BACK; AND THAT WAS THE WORD THEY USED FOR 00:03:42.80\00:03:44.90 WHIPPING OR FLOGGING, THAT'S HOW THEY PUNISHED PEOPLE. 00:03:44.90\00:03:47.20 THOSE WHO KNEW GOD'S WILL AND DID NOT DO IT, THEY'LL BE 00:03:47.20\00:03:50.33 PUNISHED MORE SEVERELY THAN THOSE WHO DID NOT KNOW. 00:03:50.33\00:03:53.16 THAT'S THE OTHER VERSE, HE THAT DID NOT KNOW, AND HE COMMITS 00:03:53.16\00:03:56.26 THINGS WORTHY OF STRIPES, HE IS BEATEN WITH FEW STRIPES. 00:03:56.26\00:03:59.60 SO, AREN'T YOU HEARING THE LORD SAY THERE ARE VARYING 00:03:59.60\00:04:01.96 DEGREES OF PUNISHMENT. 00:04:01.96\00:04:03.66 IF EVERYONE'S BEING REWARDED ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS, AND 00:04:03.66\00:04:05.70 EVERYONE'S GOT DIFFERENT WORKS. 00:04:05.70\00:04:06.90 I MEAN, SUPPOSE THAT SOME POOR TEENAGER, THEY'VE REACHED 00:04:06.90\00:04:10.73 THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY, THEY SQUANDER THEIR LIFE, THEY 00:04:10.73\00:04:13.53 DIE IN SOME LOST CONDITION. 00:04:13.53\00:04:17.86 TO PUNISH THEM THE SAME WAY, THE SAME DEGREE AS 00:04:17.86\00:04:20.76 ADOLPH HITLER; THERE'S NO JUSTICE IN THAT. 00:04:20.76\00:04:26.36 AND THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD IS JUST. 00:04:26.36\00:04:28.46 NUMBER 9, IS HELL GONNA BURN FOREVER? 00:04:28.46\00:04:32.26 WILL THE FIRE EVENTUALLY GO OUT? 00:04:32.26\00:04:35.40 JUDE VERSE 7, THERE'S ONLY ONE CHAPTER IN JUDE. 00:04:35.40\00:04:38.76 "EVEN AS SODOM AND GOMORRAH, ARE SET FORTH AS AN EXAMPLE, 00:04:38.76\00:04:45.33 SUFFERING THE VENGEANCE OF ETERNAL FIRE. 00:04:45.33\00:04:48.16 NOW, HERE IT'S TELLING US IN JUDE 7, "SODOM AND GOMORRAH 00:04:48.16\00:04:51.00 WERE BURNT WITH ETERNAL FIRE." 00:04:51.00\00:04:53.63 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 00:04:53.63\00:04:55.00 WELL, WE BETTER GO BACK IN THE BIBLE, TAKE A FRESH LOOK 00:04:55.00\00:04:56.73 AT SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND WHAT HAPPENED THERE 00:04:56.73\00:04:58.70 TO UNDERSTAND IT. 00:04:58.70\00:04:59.80 YOU CAN READ IN GENESIS 13:13 THAT "THE MEN OF SODOM WERE 00:04:59.80\00:05:04.86 EXCEEDINGLY WICKED AND SINFUL AGAINST THE LORD." 00:05:04.86\00:05:08.96 IT WAS A WICKED, SINFUL CITY. 00:05:08.96\00:05:11.93 GOD TOLD ABRAHAM HE WAS GOING TO JUDGE THE CITY, HE COULDN'T 00:05:11.93\00:05:14.86 EVEN WAIT UNTIL THEY EXPIRED NATURALLY. 00:05:14.86\00:05:17.13 THEY WERE GONNA GET EARLY JUDGMENT, BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH 00:05:17.13\00:05:20.13 AN ABOMINATION. 00:05:20.13\00:05:21.73 YOU REMEMBER THAT THE ANGELS THAT CAME TO DELIVER LOT AND 00:05:21.73\00:05:24.76 HIS FAMILY, THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY ESSENTIALLY TRIED TO RAPE 00:05:24.76\00:05:28.86 THE ANGELS. 00:05:28.86\00:05:31.63 AND FINALLY, THE ANGELS TOLD LOT WHEN HE WAS LINGERING, 00:05:31.63\00:05:34.03 TRYING TO GET HIS CHILDREN OUT OF THE CITY, THEY SAID, 00:05:34.03\00:05:37.23 ESCAPE--THIS IS GENESIS 19:17, "ESCAPE FOR YOUR LIFE, LOOK NOT 00:05:37.23\00:05:42.60 BEHIND YOU, ESCAPE TO THE MOUNTAIN LEST YOU BE CONSUMED." 00:05:42.60\00:05:48.50 WHAT DOES CONSUMED MEAN? 00:05:48.50\00:05:51.36 CONSUMED MEANS TO BE DEVOURED. 00:05:51.36\00:05:54.16 WHAT DOES CONSUME AND DEVOURED MEAN? 00:05:54.16\00:05:57.70 COOK MEXICAN FOOD, INVITE ME OVER, I'LL DEMONSTRATE. 00:05:57.70\00:06:02.43 MEANS ALL GONE. 00:06:02.43\00:06:05.86 GENESIS 19:17, "ESCAPE FOR YOUR LIFE, LEST YOU BE 00:06:05.86\00:06:09.36 CONSUMED." 00:06:09.36\00:06:11.50 AND THEN THE BIBLE SAYS IN VERSE 24, "THEN THE LORD 00:06:11.50\00:06:14.46 RAINED BRIMSTONE AND FIRE ON SODOM AND GOMORRAH, 00:06:14.46\00:06:18.80 FROM THE LORD OUT OF HEAVEN." 00:06:18.80\00:06:20.80 NOW, THE QUESTION IS, THE BIBLE SAYS, "SODOM AND GOMORRAH WERE 00:06:20.80\00:06:24.10 BURNT WITH ETERNAL FIRE;" WE JUST READ THAT. 00:06:24.10\00:06:26.83 ARE THEY STILL BURNING TODAY? 00:06:26.83\00:06:29.80 WERE THE RESULTS OF THE FIRE ETERNAL? 00:06:29.80\00:06:33.40 HAVE THERE BEEN ANY CITIES BUILT WHERE SODOM 00:06:33.40\00:06:35.26 AND GOMORRAH IS? 00:06:35.26\00:06:36.26 HAVE THEY BEEN REBUILT? 00:06:36.26\00:06:37.73 THERE'S NOTHING, IT IS DESOLATE DOWN THERE; THEY WERE BURNT 00:06:37.73\00:06:40.73 WITH ETERNAL FIRE. 00:06:40.73\00:06:42.90 PSALM 37:10, "FOR YET A LITTLE WHILE, AND THE WICKED SHALL NOT 00:06:42.90\00:06:47.43 BE, THE WICKED SHALL PERISH." 00:06:47.43\00:06:50.60 VERSE 20, "THE ENEMIES OF THE LORD SHALL CONSUME, INTO SMOKE 00:06:50.60\00:06:53.80 THEY'LL CONSUME AWAY. 00:06:53.80\00:06:54.96 I THINK I ALREADY SHARED THIS ONE WITH YOU. 00:06:54.96\00:06:56.50 ISAIAH 47:14, "BEHOLD THEY'LL BE STUBBLE, THE FIRE WILL BURN 00:06:56.50\00:07:02.20 THEM, THEY WILL NOT DELIVER THEMSELVES FROM THE POWER OF 00:07:02.20\00:07:05.76 THE FLAME. 00:07:05.76\00:07:07.10 THERE'LL NOT BE A COAL TO WARM AT, NOR FIRE TO SIT BEFORE." 00:07:07.10\00:07:12.63 DOES IT BURN FOREVER? 00:07:12.63\00:07:13.40 DOES IT SAY THAT IT FINALLY GOES OUT? 00:07:13.40\00:07:16.00 FIRE FINALLY GOES OUT. 00:07:16.00\00:07:17.86 WHAT ABOUT THOSE VERSES, FOR INSTANCE IN REVELATION 14:11? 00:07:17.86\00:07:22.26 IT SAYS, "THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT ASCENDS UP FOREVER 00:07:22.26\00:07:25.06 AND EVER." 00:07:25.06\00:07:26.36 WELL, WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THAT, IT'S JUST SAYING THAT 00:07:26.36\00:07:28.43 WHEN THE WICKED ARE DESTROYED, THEIR SMOKE ASCENDS UP OUT OF 00:07:28.43\00:07:31.73 SIGHT. 00:07:31.73\00:07:33.86 ARE WE GONNA SIT IN THE CITY OF GOD? 00:07:33.86\00:07:36.23 'CAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THE NEW JERUSALEM COMES DOWN TO WHAT? 00:07:36.23\00:07:38.43 EARTH. 00:07:38.43\00:07:39.46 WE GONNA BE SITTIN' THERE ON THE WALLS EATIN' POPCORN, 00:07:39.46\00:07:41.20 WATCHIN' THE WICKED BURN? 00:07:41.20\00:07:43.93 WATCHING THE SMOKE ASCEND UP? 00:07:43.93\00:07:46.10 WHAT DOES IT MEAN, FOREVER AND EVER? 00:07:46.10\00:07:49.36 THESE VERSES HAVE BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD. 00:07:49.36\00:07:52.40 NOW, YOU'VE GOTTA READ A VERSE IN ITS CONTEXT OTHERWISE YOU 00:07:52.40\00:07:57.00 CAN TWIST IT. 00:07:57.00\00:07:58.66 JONAH 2:6, FOR INSTANCE, HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THE STORY 00:07:58.66\00:08:02.93 JONAH? 00:08:02.93\00:08:03.66 SWALLOWED BY THIS SEA MONSTER, HE'S IN THE BELLY OF THIS 00:08:03.66\00:08:06.30 GREAT FISH THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS, RIGHT? 00:08:06.30\00:08:09.70 IN JONAH'S PRAYER FROM THE BELLY OF THE FISH, IT RECORDS, 00:08:09.70\00:08:13.86 "THE EARTH WITH HER BARS WAS ABOUT ME FOR EVER." 00:08:13.86\00:08:20.00 NOW, I EXPECT, HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT IT MUST HAVE 00:08:20.00\00:08:22.70 BEEN LIKE TO BE JONAH? 00:08:22.70\00:08:25.66 YOU'RE IN THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF THIS SEA MONSTER, DOWN AT 00:08:25.66\00:08:30.40 THE BOTTOM OF THE MOUNTAINS AND IT OCCURRED TO ME ONE DAY THAT 00:08:30.40\00:08:33.16 IF JONAH WAS STILL ALIVE IN THERE, THAT SEA MONSTER COULD 00:08:33.16\00:08:38.26 HAVE BEEN DINING ON OTHER THINGS BEFORE HE SWALLOWED 00:08:38.26\00:08:40.40 JONAH. 00:08:40.40\00:08:42.06 THERE COULD HAVE BEEN OTHER CRITTERS IN THERE SQUIRMIN' 00:08:42.06\00:08:43.70 AND SPOOKIN' AROUND. 00:08:43.70\00:08:47.50 AND I'VE SEEN SOME OF THESE DEEP SEA PROGRAMS, I'VE GONE 00:08:47.50\00:08:50.00 DIVING AT NIGHT WHERE SOME OF THESE SEA CREATURES HAVE 00:08:50.00\00:08:52.10 BIOLUMINESCENCE AND THEY CAN FLASH. 00:08:52.10\00:08:54.80 COULD BE IN THERE WITH THEM JELLY FISH AND SHRIMP, SQUID. 00:08:54.80\00:08:59.76 DO YOU THINK IT FELT LIKE HE WAS IN HADES? 00:08:59.76\00:09:04.73 DO YOU THINK IT FELT LIKE FOREVER? 00:09:04.73\00:09:06.83 THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS OF THAT. 00:09:06.83\00:09:09.36 BUT WAS IT? 00:09:09.36\00:09:10.20 IS HE STILL THERE? 00:09:10.20\00:09:11.86 NO, BUT HE USED THE WORD FOREVER. 00:09:11.86\00:09:14.26 MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN FIND MANY, MANY TIMES IN THE BIBLE 00:09:14.26\00:09:16.10 WHEN THEY'VE USED THE VERY SAME PHRASE, FOREVER AND IT 00:09:16.10\00:09:18.56 DESCRIBES SOMETHING THAT DID HAVE AN END. 00:09:18.56\00:09:21.83 FOR EXAMPLE, EXODUS 21:6, SPEAKING OF A SERVANT WHO 00:09:21.83\00:09:27.00 COMMITTED HIS LIFE TO HIS MASTER, HE'D GO THROUGH 00:09:27.00\00:09:29.06 THIS RITUAL AND IT SAID, "HE WILL SERVE HIM FOREVER." 00:09:29.06\00:09:32.60 WELL, WHAT DID THAT MEAN? 00:09:32.60\00:09:33.66 EVEN IN HEAVEN OR UNTIL HE DIED? 00:09:33.66\00:09:36.30 IT MEANT HE'D SERVE HIM 'TIL HE DIED. 00:09:36.30\00:09:37.70 WHEN HANNAH BROUGHT SAMUEL TO THE TEMPLE AND DEDICATED HER 00:09:37.70\00:09:40.50 SON TO THE LORD'S SERVICE. 00:09:40.50\00:09:42.70 "HE'LL REMAIN THERE AT THE TEMPLE FOREVER." 00:09:42.70\00:09:46.06 QUESTION: IS SAMUEL STILL THERE TODAY? 00:09:46.06\00:09:49.53 NO, IT MEANT FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE UNTIL HE DIED. 00:09:49.53\00:09:52.86 AND AGAIN, 1 SAMUEL 1:28, AS "LONG AS HE LIVES." 00:09:52.86\00:09:56.23 HOW LONG WOULD SAMUEL BE THERE? 00:09:56.23\00:09:58.03 HOW LONG WAS THAT FOREVER? 00:09:58.03\00:09:59.16 AS LONG AS HE LIVED. 00:09:59.16\00:10:00.93 THE WORD FOREVER, IN GREEK IT COMES FROM THE WORD EON. 00:10:00.93\00:10:04.66 AND YOU EVER HEARD SOMEONE SAY, "I HAVEN'T SEEN THEM IN EONS?" 00:10:04.66\00:10:08.20 IT MEANS FOREVER, IT'S BEEN FOREVER. 00:10:08.20\00:10:10.63 IT'S OFTEN USED THAT WAY AND YOU DON'T REALLY MEAN 00:10:10.63\00:10:12.46 A BILLION YEARS FROM NOW. 00:10:12.46\00:10:16.33 AND YET, PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN THAT AND APPLIED IT TO THE TEACHING 00:10:16.33\00:10:18.16 OF THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED AND THEY'VE TURNED GOD INTO 00:10:18.16\00:10:21.73 A TYRANT AND A SADIST FROM TWISTING THE SCRIPTURES. 00:10:21.73\00:10:25.73 MATTER OF FACT, DONALD BARNHOUSE 00:10:25.73\00:10:27.63 ON HIS COMMENTARY TALKING ABOUT SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS. 00:10:27.63\00:10:30.13 HE SAID, "WE CANNOT FAULT SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS FOR 00:10:30.13\00:10:32.23 BELIEVING THIS, BECAUSE AFTER ALL, MANY OF FOUNDERS OF THE 00:10:32.23\00:10:35.13 CHURCH BELIEVE THIS WAY AS WELL. 00:10:35.13\00:10:38.86 NUMBER TEN, WHAT WILL BE LEFT WHEN THE FIRE GOES OUT? 00:10:38.86\00:10:45.26 DOES IT CONTINUE TO BURN? 00:10:45.26\00:10:47.26 ANSWER, MALACHI 4:3, IT SAYS, "'THEY'LL TREAD DOWN THE WICKED 00:10:47.26\00:10:52.63 FOR THEY SHALL BE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET 00:10:52.63\00:10:58.70 IN THE DAY THAT I DO THIS,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS." 00:10:58.70\00:11:01.13 IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN THE REDEEMED GO FORTH FROM 00:11:01.13\00:11:03.90 THE NEW JERUSALEM, AFTER GOD'S CREATED THIS 00:11:03.90\00:11:05.83 NEW HEAVENS AND THIS NEW EARTH. 00:11:05.83\00:11:07.16 THERE'S GRASS GROWING ON THE GROUND AND UNDER THE GRASS IS 00:11:07.16\00:11:10.23 THE WICKED. 00:11:10.23\00:11:13.86 THE WICKED WHO OPPRESSED AND PERSECUTED THE CHRISTIANS 00:11:13.86\00:11:15.63 WILL ULTIMATELY BE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES OF OUR FEET. 00:11:15.63\00:11:19.53 AND THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE SCREAMING, OUCH. 00:11:19.53\00:11:21.70 AND YOU KNOW, THAT HURTS, AS YOU WALK AROUND. 00:11:21.70\00:11:24.50 THEY'RE NOT CONSCIOUS. 00:11:24.50\00:11:26.80 ISAIAH 47:14, THERE WILL NOT BE A COAL TO WARM AT NOR A FIRE 00:11:26.80\00:11:31.60 TO SIT BEFORE. 00:11:31.60\00:11:32.80 SPEAKING OF THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED, "THEY'LL BE BURNT 00:11:32.80\00:11:35.00 UP AND IT GOES OUT." 00:11:35.00\00:11:37.20 2 PETER 2:6, TURNING SODOM-- THIS IS ANOTHER VERSE 00:11:37.20\00:11:41.10 ON SODOM AND GOMORRAH. 00:11:41.10\00:11:43.33 "TURNING SODOM AND GOMORRAH," INTO WHAT? 00:11:43.33\00:11:46.73 "ASHES CONDEMNED THEM WITH AN OVERTHROW, MAKING THEM 00:11:46.73\00:11:51.60 AN EXAMPLE UNTO THOSE THAT AFTERWARD LIVE UNGODLY." 00:11:51.60\00:11:55.83 SO, IF WE'RE WONDERING WHAT IS GONNA HAPPEN TO THE WICKED, 00:11:55.83\00:11:58.13 SODOM AND GOMORRAH ARE SET FORTH AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT'S 00:11:58.13\00:12:02.60 GONNA HAPPEN TO THE WICKED SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND THIS." 00:12:02.60\00:12:04.83 I MEAN, FEAR IS NOT ALL BAD AND THE BIBLE DOES SAY SOME 00:12:04.83\00:12:09.06 THINGS THAT SHOULD SOBER US UP. 00:12:09.06\00:12:12.13 I THINK IF A PERSON IS ON THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION, 00:12:12.13\00:12:13.90 THEY SHOULD NOT BE AT PEACE. 00:12:13.90\00:12:15.96 I HOPE YOU'RE AFRAID. 00:12:15.96\00:12:18.50 YOU EVER READ THE BOOK "PILGRIM'S PROGRESS." 00:12:18.50\00:12:20.23 THERE IS PART OF THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE IS TO GET UP AND FLEE 00:12:20.23\00:12:22.53 FROM THE WRATH TO COME. 00:12:22.53\00:12:25.36 WE NEED TO FLEE TO THAT CITY OF REFUGE. 00:12:25.36\00:12:28.86 BUT YOU'RE RUNNING FROM WHAT YOU'RE AFRAID OF, YOU'RE GOING 00:12:28.86\00:12:31.80 TO THE ONE YOU LOVE. 00:12:31.80\00:12:35.40 AND THOSE WHO GO TO CHURCH EVERY WEEK AND THEY'RE AFRAID 00:12:35.40\00:12:37.36 OF GOD AND THEY RESENT HIM, THAT'S THE WRONG KIND OF FEAR. 00:12:37.36\00:12:43.63 AND YET SO MANY PEOPLE ARE BEING MANIPULATED BY RELIGIOUS 00:12:43.63\00:12:46.26 LEADERS BECAUSE OF THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS ON THIS 00:12:46.26\00:12:48.40 TEACHING. 00:12:48.40\00:12:49.83 I HOPE YOU GO TO THAT WEBSITE, HELLTRUTH.COM. 00:12:49.83\00:12:52.66 I'M JUST COVERING THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF SCRIPTURES 00:12:52.66\00:12:55.36 THAT ARE THERE. 00:12:55.36\00:12:56.76 THIS IS VOLUMES AND VOLUMES OF INFORMATION. 00:12:56.76\00:13:00.23 NUMBER 11, WILL THE WICKED ENTER HELL IN BODILY FORM 00:13:00.23\00:13:04.86 AND BE DESTROYED BOTH SOUL AND BODY? 00:13:04.86\00:13:06.66 SOME PEOPLE SAY, "YEAH, IT'S TRUE THAT THE BODIES ARE BURNT 00:13:06.66\00:13:10.10 UP BUT THE SOULS BURN FOREVER AND EVER." 00:13:10.10\00:13:13.36 OR PEOPLE SAY, "ONLY THE SOULS ARE PUT IN HELL." 00:13:13.36\00:13:15.76 WHAT DID JESUS SAY? 00:13:15.76\00:13:16.83 MATTHEW 10:28, CATCH THIS. 00:13:16.83\00:13:20.23 HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE JESUS? 00:13:20.23\00:13:23.33 IF YOU FORGET EVERYTHING I SAID TONIGHT AND YOU BELIEVE THIS 00:13:23.33\00:13:25.13 ONE VERSE FROM JESUS, IT IS SO PLAIN IT CAN NOT BE 00:13:25.13\00:13:27.33 MISUNDERSTOOD. 00:13:27.33\00:13:29.40 JESUS SAID, "FEAR NOT THEM WHICH KILL THE BODY BUT ARE NOT 00:13:29.40\00:13:32.40 ABLE TO KILL THE SOUL." 00:13:32.40\00:13:33.70 A LOT OF CHRISTIANS WERE PERSECUTED THROUGH THE AGES. 00:13:33.70\00:13:35.70 JESUS SAID, "DON'T BE AFRAID OF WHAT THEY MIGHT DO TO YOUR 00:13:35.70\00:13:37.70 BODY, STAND FOR THE TRUTH." 00:13:37.70\00:13:39.66 AMEN. 00:13:39.66\00:13:40.60 SAY, "HERE I STAND ON THE WORD OF GOD, YOU MIGHT BE 00:13:40.60\00:13:43.00 PERSECUTED." 00:13:43.00\00:13:43.76 DON'T BE AFRAID IF THEY EVEN TORTURE YOUR BODY, "BUT RATHER 00:13:43.76\00:13:47.73 FEAR HIM, MEANING THE FATHER, WHO IS ABLE TO DESTROY SOUL 00:13:47.73\00:13:53.20 AND BODY IN HELL." 00:13:53.20\00:13:56.43 SOME PEOPLE SAY, "WELL, IT'S JUST THE BODY THAT BURNS UP, 00:13:56.43\00:13:58.53 BUT THE SOUL BURNS THROUGH EVER AND EVER" AND THAT'S NOT WHAT 00:13:58.53\00:14:01.83 IT SAYS. 00:14:01.83\00:14:03.20 IT SAYS, "SOUL AND BODY ARE BURNT UP; THEY'RE DESTROYED." 00:14:03.20\00:14:07.23 IF YOU WERE GOD, AND YOU WERE TRYING IT COMMUNICATE TO HUMANS 00:14:07.23\00:14:09.90 WHAT THE FATE OF THE WICKED IS, WHAT WORDS COULD YOU USE 00:14:09.90\00:14:12.86 OTHER THAN WHAT I'VE ALREADY USED? 00:14:12.86\00:14:15.96 BURN UP, DESTROYED, SECOND DEATH, PERISH, CONSUME, INTO 00:14:15.96\00:14:20.30 SMOKE, NOT EVEN WARM, ANYMORE, SHALL NOT BE. 00:14:20.30\00:14:24.10 I MEAN, HOW MUCH--IF YOU'RE GOD AND YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE IT 00:14:24.10\00:14:27.03 CLEARER THAN THAT, WHAT MORE COULD YOU SAY? 00:14:27.03\00:14:31.50 MARK 9:47 AND 48, AGAIN, JESUS, "AND IF YOUR EYE CAUSES YOU TO 00:14:31.50\00:14:37.26 SIN, PLUCK IT OUT, FOR IT'S BETTER FOR YOU TO ENTER 00:14:37.26\00:14:39.56 THE KINGDOM OF GOD WITH ONE EYE THAN HAVING TWO EYES TO BE 00:14:39.56\00:14:43.26 CAST INTO HELL FIRE." 00:14:43.26\00:14:44.53 IT SAYS, YOU'VE GOT YOUR BODY IN TACT, THE WICKED ARE THROWN 00:14:44.53\00:14:46.86 INTO HELL FIRE WITH THEIR BODIES. 00:14:46.86\00:14:48.90 HAVING TWO EYES BE CAST INTO HELL WHERE THEIR WORM 00:14:48.90\00:14:51.26 DOES NOT DIE AND THE FIRE'S NOT QUENCHED. 00:14:51.26\00:14:54.90 NOW, I PROBABLY NEED TO STOP AT THIS POINT AND EXPLAIN THAT. 00:14:54.90\00:14:59.90 "WAIT, PASTOR DOUG, IT SAYS, 'THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.' 00:14:59.90\00:15:02.53 " THE WORD THAT JESUS USED THERE FOR HELL, WHERE HE SAYS 00:15:02.53\00:15:05.76 THAT IT'S BETTER TO GO INTO HEAVEN MISSING AN EYE OR 00:15:05.76\00:15:09.16 MISSING A HAND OR A FOOT THAN TO GO INTO GEHENNA. 00:15:09.16\00:15:13.66 THE WORD HE USED IS GEHENNA, WHERE THE WORM DOESN'T DIE 00:15:13.66\00:15:17.13 AND THE FIRE'S NOT QUENCHED. 00:15:17.13\00:15:18.50 ALSO USES THAT SAME TERMINOLOGY IN ISAIAH. 00:15:18.50\00:15:21.80 OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM--FIRST OF ALL, IS ANYBODY GOING TO HEAVEN 00:15:21.80\00:15:25.93 WITHOUT AN EYE, A FOOT OR A HAND? 00:15:25.93\00:15:28.96 OKAY, SO RIGHT AWAY WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU ABOUT WHAT JESUS 00:15:28.96\00:15:30.56 IS SAYING THERE? 00:15:30.56\00:15:32.60 HE'S ILLUSTRATING SOMETHING. 00:15:32.60\00:15:34.90 RIGHT OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM IS A VALLEY CALLED THE VALLEY OF 00:15:34.90\00:15:37.53 HENNA, THAT'S THE EXACT WORD THAT JESUS USED THERE. 00:15:37.53\00:15:40.30 BETTER TO GO INTO HEAVEN MISSING A EYE, HAND OR A FOOT 00:15:40.30\00:15:42.90 THAN TO GO INTO GEHENNA WITH YOUR WHOLE BODY. 00:15:42.90\00:15:46.76 IT WAS THE DUMP, IT WAS A DEEP, VERY STEEP AREA, IT WASN'T 00:15:46.76\00:15:51.03 CONVENIENT FOR BUILDING, 'CAUSE IT WAS SO STEEP. 00:15:51.03\00:15:53.30 OUTSIDE JERUSALEM, STILL THERE TODAY, THEY FILLED IN IT OVER 00:15:53.30\00:15:55.70 THE YEARS, IT'S NOT QUITE AS STEEP NOW. 00:15:55.70\00:15:57.66 AND THEY USED TO THROW ALL OF THE UNCLEAN ANIMALS THAT DIED 00:15:57.66\00:16:00.66 AND THE BROKEN BASKETS AND THE POTTERY AND THE GARBAGE AND IT 00:16:00.66\00:16:05.56 WAS FULL OF DEAD CARCASSES AND OF ANIMALS AND THINGS THEY 00:16:05.56\00:16:12.40 DIDN'T WANNA BURY. 00:16:12.40\00:16:13.16 IT WAS PUTREFYING, SO THEY TRIED TO KEEP IT BURNING. 00:16:13.16\00:16:16.23 IT WAS FULL WORMS AND IT WAS SMOLDERING, IT WAS THE MOST 00:16:16.23\00:16:19.10 OBJECTIONABLE PLACE AROUND THE CITY, THE CITY DUMP. 00:16:19.10\00:16:23.50 I REMEMBER I USED TO DRIVE AROUND TEXAS AND EVERY 00:16:23.50\00:16:26.56 10 MILES THEY HAVE A CITY AND EVERY CITY HAD THEIR OWN DUMP 00:16:26.56\00:16:30.36 AND PEOPLE USED TO BURN THEIR TRASH AND THEY'D GO OUT AND 00:16:30.36\00:16:32.83 SOMETIMES THE TRASH WASN'T COMPLETELY--THE FIRE WASN'T OUT 00:16:32.83\00:16:35.50 AND THEY'D DUMP THEIR TRASH IN THE DUMP AND THEY WERE ALWAYS 00:16:35.50\00:16:38.03 SMOLDERING, ALWAYS BURNING. 00:16:38.03\00:16:41.13 YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT? 00:16:41.13\00:16:42.50 SOME OF YOU WHO'VE LIVED BY THESE TOWN DUMPS. 00:16:42.50\00:16:44.36 THAT'S WHAT JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT, THAT'S THE EXACT WORD 00:16:44.36\00:16:46.93 HE USED. 00:16:46.93\00:16:48.10 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PHRASE WHERE IT SAYS UNQUENCHABLE? 00:16:48.10\00:16:51.06 MATTHEW 3:12, "HE WILL THOROUGHLY PURGE HIS FLOOR 00:16:51.06\00:16:55.03 AND GATHER HIS WHEAT INTO THE GARNER, BUT HE'LL BURN UP THE 00:16:55.03\00:16:58.70 CHAFF WITH UNQUENCHABLE FIRE." 00:16:58.70\00:17:00.73 PEOPLE SAY, "SEE, FIRE NEVER GOES OUT." 00:17:00.73\00:17:02.90 ALL THAT MEANS IS THAT THERE'S NOBODY EXTINGUISHING. 00:17:02.90\00:17:06.23 TO QUENCH MEANS TO EXTINGUISH; IT'S A VERB FOR THAT. 00:17:06.23\00:17:09.86 NO ONE'S GOING TO BE EXTINGUISHING THE FIRES 00:17:09.86\00:17:11.70 OF HELL. 00:17:11.70\00:17:12.86 JEREMIAH 17:27 IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS, "IF YOU WILL 00:17:12.86\00:17:16.83 NOT HARKEN UNTO ME, TO HALLOW THE SABBATH DAY AND TO BEAR, 00:17:16.83\00:17:20.76 NOT TO BEAR A BURDEN, EVEN ENTERING IN AT THE GATES OF 00:17:20.76\00:17:24.60 JERUSALEM AT THE SABBATH DAY, THEN I'M GOING TO KINDLE A FIRE 00:17:24.60\00:17:27.56 IN THE GATES THEREOF, AND IT WILL DEVOUR THE PALACES OF 00:17:27.56\00:17:31.70 JERUSALEM, AND IT SHALL NOT BE QUENCHED." 00:17:31.70\00:17:34.03 JEREMIAH FORETOLD THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY 00:17:34.03\00:17:36.86 NEBUCHADNEZZAR. 00:17:36.86\00:17:37.73 AND PART OF THEIR--ONE OF THEIR SINS WAS THEY WERE BEING 00:17:37.73\00:17:40.00 SLOPPY ABOUT SABBATH KEEPING. 00:17:40.00\00:17:42.36 DID IT HAPPEN? 00:17:42.36\00:17:43.86 IT DID HAPPEN. 00:17:43.86\00:17:44.53 WAS JERUSALEM DESTROYED? 00:17:44.53\00:17:45.53 YES. 00:17:45.53\00:17:46.16 DID THEY BURN IT? 00:17:46.16\00:17:46.96 YES. 00:17:46.96\00:17:47.66 HE SAYS IT WAS GONNA BE BURNT WITH FIRE THAT WAS NOT 00:17:47.66\00:17:49.63 QUENCHABLE. 00:17:49.63\00:17:50.93 DID ANYBODY QUENCH IT? 00:17:50.93\00:17:52.80 NO, IT BURNT UNTIL IT BURNT IT UP. 00:17:52.80\00:17:54.83 IS IT STILL BURNING TODAY? 00:17:54.83\00:17:56.20 NO. 00:17:56.20\00:17:57.76 IS THAT CLEAR, FRIENDS? 00:17:57.76\00:17:59.50 IT JUST MEANS THERE'S NO FIREMEN RUNNING AROUND IN THE 00:17:59.50\00:18:01.26 LAKE OF FIRE EXTINGUISHING THINGS. 00:18:01.26\00:18:05.26 NOBODY'S QUENCHING IT. 00:18:05.26\00:18:07.46 MATTHEW 5:30, AGAIN JESUS SAID, "IT IS PROFITABLE FOR THEE THAT 00:18:07.46\00:18:11.70 ONE OF THY MEMBERS SHOULD PERISH, AND NOT THAT THY WHOLE 00:18:11.70\00:18:14.03 BODY SHOULD BE CAST INTO HELL." 00:18:14.03\00:18:16.80 SO, IT IS THE WHOLE BODY CAST IN HELL. 00:18:16.80\00:18:19.03 EZEKIEL 18:20, NOT ONLY DOES THE BODY DIE, BUT IT SAYS 00:18:19.03\00:18:23.76 "THE SOUL THAT SINNETH, IT SHALL DIE." 00:18:23.76\00:18:28.53 IS THAT CLEAR? 00:18:28.53\00:18:29.46 SOUL AND BODY DYING. 00:18:29.46\00:18:31.70 NUMBER 12, WILL THE DEVIL BE IN CHARGE OF HELL? 00:18:31.70\00:18:35.96 HA! 00:18:35.96\00:18:37.23 THERE IS SO MUCH MYTHOLOGY ON THIS SUBJECT. 00:18:37.23\00:18:39.80 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD THESE STORIES BEFORE 00:18:39.80\00:18:43.00 ABOUT THE DEVIL? 00:18:43.00\00:18:44.30 YOU KNOW, HE'S IN CHARGE OF HELL. 00:18:44.30\00:18:45.70 HE'S GOT THE HORNS, HE'S RED, HE'S GOT THE RED LEOTARDS, THE 00:18:45.70\00:18:50.70 TAIL WITH A POINT ON THE END, AND HE'S HOLDING A PITCH FORK 00:18:50.70\00:18:54.13 OR A TRIDENT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 00:18:54.13\00:18:56.03 AND HE'S IN CHARGE OF HELL AND USES THE PITCH FORK TO MAKE 00:18:56.03\00:18:58.76 SURE PEOPLE ARE COOKING EVENLY ON BOTH SIDES, I GUESS. 00:18:58.76\00:19:02.00 I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT'S FOR. 00:19:02.00\00:19:03.63 CAN YOU TRUST THE DEVIL TO BE IN CHARGE OF HELL TO MAKE SURE 00:19:03.63\00:19:06.76 PEOPLE GET FAIR PUNISHMENT, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PUNISHMENT? 00:19:06.76\00:19:10.93 THAT'S LIKE PUTTING THE FOX IN CHARGE OF THE CHICKEN COOP; 00:19:10.93\00:19:14.63 YOU CAN'T DO THAT. 00:19:14.63\00:19:15.93 IN ALL OF THESE MEDIEVAL IDEAS ABOUT THE DEVIL THEY CAME FROM 00:19:15.93\00:19:18.63 PLUTO AND GREEK MYTHOLOGY. 00:19:18.63\00:19:20.93 YOU DON'T FIND ONE PLACE IN THE BIBLE THAT SAYS THAT HE'S GOT 00:19:20.93\00:19:23.10 A PITCH FORK AND HORNS AND LEOTARDS AND BAT WINGS 00:19:23.10\00:19:25.56 AND A GOATEE. 00:19:25.56\00:19:27.50 AND SO THERE'S ALL THIS MYTHOLOGY AND THE SAME 00:19:27.50\00:19:29.30 MYTHOLOGY ABOUT THE DEVIL HAS STUCK WITH HELL. 00:19:29.30\00:19:33.36 IT'S STILL IN THE CHURCH TODAY, BECAUSE RELIGIOUS LEADERS CAN 00:19:33.36\00:19:37.23 EXPLOIT IT TO GET A LITTLE MORE OFFERING OR TO PAY FOR 00:19:37.23\00:19:41.00 SOMEONE TO GET OUT OF PURGATORY, YOU LISTENING TO 00:19:41.00\00:19:42.90 ME? 00:19:42.90\00:19:44.63 IT'S NOT TRUE. 00:19:44.63\00:19:46.26 REVELATION 20:10, DEVIL'S NOT IN CHARGE OF HELL, THAT'S WHERE 00:19:46.26\00:19:49.43 HE'S GOING. 00:19:49.43\00:19:51.50 "AND THE DEVIL THAT DECEIVED THEM WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF 00:19:51.50\00:19:53.86 FIRE AND BRIMSTONE." 00:19:53.86\00:19:56.46 EZEKIEL 28:18-19, IT SAYS, SPEAKING OF THE DEVIL, 00:19:56.46\00:20:00.66 "I'LL BRING THEE TO ASHES ON THE EARTH AND THE SIGHT OF THEM 00:20:00.66\00:20:03.26 THAT BEHOLD THEE. 00:20:03.26\00:20:04.46 ...AND NEVER SHALL THOU BE ANYMORE." 00:20:04.46\00:20:07.33 IF ANYBODY DESERVES TO BURN FOREVER, WHO IS IT? 00:20:07.33\00:20:10.46 IT'S THE DEVIL. 00:20:10.46\00:20:11.90 BUT EVEN SATAN IS GOING TO BE BURNT UP. 00:20:11.90\00:20:15.23 AND IT SAYS, "HE'S GONNA BURN DAY AND NIGHT." 00:20:15.23\00:20:18.60 I MEAN, HE'LL BURN LONGER THAN ANYONE ELSE. 00:20:18.60\00:20:20.10 IF EVERYONE IS REWARDED ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS, 00:20:20.10\00:20:21.70 WHO DESERVES THE WORST? 00:20:21.70\00:20:23.33 THE ONE WHO INSTIGATED THE WHOLE REBELLION, RIGHT? 00:20:23.33\00:20:25.96 SO, WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG SATAN'S GONNA BURN, BUT IT'S 00:20:25.96\00:20:27.56 GONNA BE LONGER THAN JONAH WAS IN THE BELLY OF THE FISH. 00:20:27.56\00:20:31.40 REVELATION 20:15, "AND WHOEVER WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN 00:20:31.40\00:20:35.36 IN THE BOOK OF LIFE IS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE." 00:20:35.36\00:20:38.43 DO WE BELIEVE IN HELL FIRE? 00:20:38.43\00:20:40.46 YES. 00:20:40.46\00:20:41.10 HERE IT IS. 00:20:41.10\00:20:42.10 IT'S GOING TO BURN ON THE EARTH AFTER JESUS COMES AND JUDGES 00:20:42.10\00:20:46.26 THE WICKED, AND WE'VE GOT A SUBJECT ON THIS. 00:20:46.26\00:20:49.20 THE WORD HELL HAS OFTEN BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD. 00:20:49.20\00:20:52.30 YOU FIND THE WORD HELL EIGHT TIMES IN THE BIBLE. 00:20:52.30\00:20:54.56 WHAT IS THE REAL PURPOSE? 00:20:54.56\00:20:56.23 NUMBER 14, WHAT'S THE REAL PURPOSE FOR HELLFIRE? 00:20:56.23\00:20:59.33 IS IT SO GOD CAN GET EVEN WITH PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T ACCEPT HIM? 00:20:59.33\00:21:02.70 YOU BETTER LOVE ME OR YOU'RE GONNA GET IT. 00:21:02.70\00:21:05.53 IS THAT HOW GOD GETS OUR LOVE? 00:21:05.53\00:21:08.33 NO, THAT'S NOT HOW YOU GET LOVE. 00:21:08.33\00:21:10.76 IT'S PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL. 00:21:10.76\00:21:13.43 MATTHEW 25:41, DEPART FROM ME, YE CURSED INTO EVERLASTING 00:21:13.43\00:21:17.60 FIRE. 00:21:17.60\00:21:18.40 WHO IS IT PREPARED FOR? 00:21:18.40\00:21:19.46 FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS. 00:21:19.46\00:21:23.20 REVELATION 20:9, SAYS, "THEY GO UP ON THE BREADTH OF THE EARTH 00:21:23.20\00:21:27.13 AND THEY COMPASSED THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS ABOUT, AND FIRE 00:21:27.13\00:21:30.70 COMES DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, AND IT DEVOURS THE 00:21:30.70\00:21:33.93 WICKED," IT CONSUMES THEM, THEY'RE BURNT UP. 00:21:33.93\00:21:38.20 IT'S THE SECOND DEATH. 00:21:38.20\00:21:39.23 DOES THE LORD ENJOY THE WORK OF PUNISHING THE WICKED? 00:21:39.23\00:21:44.10 NO, IT'S ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS IN THE WORLD FOR HIM 00:21:44.10\00:21:46.13 TO DO, IT'S BREAKS HIS HEART. 00:21:46.13\00:21:48.10 NUMBER 15, ISN'T THE WORK OF DESTROYING SINNERS FOREIGN 00:21:48.10\00:21:51.66 TO GOD'S NATURE? 00:21:51.66\00:21:53.36 THE SON OF MAN DID NOT COME TO DESTROY, BUT TO SAVE. 00:21:53.36\00:21:57.56 2 PETER 3:9, THE LORD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH. 00:21:57.56\00:22:03.23 HE DOESN'T WANT ANYONE TO PERISH, BUT HE WANTS ALL TO 00:22:03.23\00:22:06.03 COME TO REPENTANCE. 00:22:06.03\00:22:09.33 THE LORD WANTS TO SAVE AS MANY AS HE CAN. 00:22:09.33\00:22:11.76 ISAIAH 28:21, "THE LORD SHALL BE WROTH THAT HE MIGHT DO HIS 00:22:11.76\00:22:16.73 WORK, HIS STRANGE WORK AND BRING TO PASS HIS ACT, HIS 00:22:16.73\00:22:21.03 STRANGE ACT." 00:22:21.03\00:22:23.86 IT'S A STRANGE ACT. 00:22:23.86\00:22:25.50 THERE'S CERTAINLY NO JUSTICE IN THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE ARE 00:22:25.50\00:22:28.90 GONNA BE TORTURED THROUGH ALL ETERNITY IN HELLFIRE. 00:22:28.90\00:22:34.60 WHEN I LIVED UP IN THE MOUNTAINS IN THE CAVE, 00:22:34.60\00:22:36.70 MY CAT CAUGHT A MOUSE ONE DAY, I WAS COOKIN' MY DINNER. 00:22:36.70\00:22:40.00 AND YOU KNOW, CATS ARE SORTA SADISTIC, AREN'T THEY? 00:22:40.00\00:22:43.06 AND THEY DON'T JUST KILL IT AND EAT IT, THEY LIKE TO PLAY WITH 00:22:43.06\00:22:46.13 THEIR FOOD. 00:22:46.13\00:22:48.20 AND THEY CAUGHT A LITTLE KANGAROO RAT, THE POOR THING 00:22:48.20\00:22:50.63 WAS SO DAZED, HE'D CATCH IT, LET IT GO, CATCH IT, LET IT GO, 00:22:50.63\00:22:52.70 IN ONE DESPERATE, FINAL ATTEMPT TO BOLT FOR FREEDOM, THE THING 00:22:52.70\00:22:56.36 HOPPED INTO THE FIRE. 00:22:56.36\00:23:00.70 LISTEN TO YOU, YOU ALL GO, "OH." 00:23:00.70\00:23:04.30 AND REMEMBER I'M TALKIN' ABOUT A RAT. 00:23:04.30\00:23:08.26 THERE'S NOT A PERSON HERE THAT CAN BEAR TO THINK OF A RAT 00:23:08.26\00:23:11.26 BURNING FOR 3 SECONDS. 00:23:11.26\00:23:14.66 AND YET, WHAT DO WE PUT ON GOD WHEN WE SAY THAT HE'S GONNA DO 00:23:14.66\00:23:18.53 THIS TO HIS REBELLIOUS CHILDREN THROUGH ETERNITY? 00:23:18.53\00:23:22.80 EZEKIEL 33:11, THE BIBLE SAYS, "AS I LIVE SAYS THE LORD GOD, 00:23:22.80\00:23:27.86 I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN--" THE WHAT OF THE WICKED? 00:23:27.86\00:23:30.86 "THE DEATH OF THE WICKED." 00:23:30.86\00:23:32.66 WHAT ARE THE TWO OPTIONS WE ALL HAVE, FRIENDS? 00:23:32.66\00:23:35.90 LIFE AND DEATH. 00:23:35.90\00:23:38.60 WE DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER OPTIONS. 00:23:38.60\00:23:40.93 IT'S COME TO JESUS AND GET EVERLASTING LIFE. 00:23:40.93\00:23:44.20 IF WE NEGLECT THAT OPPORTUNITY OUR OPTION IS DEATH. 00:23:44.20\00:23:47.80 LUKE 9:56, JESUS SAID, "FOR THE SON OF MAN IS NOT COME TO 00:23:47.80\00:23:53.36 DESTROY MEN'S LIVES, BUT TO SAVE THEM." 00:23:53.36\00:23:57.70 IF HE JUST WANTED PEOPLE TO BE DESTROYED, HE DIDN'T NEED TO 00:23:57.70\00:23:59.53 COME AT ALL. 00:23:59.53\00:24:00.43 WE'RE ALL UNDER A DEATH SENTENCE, HE CAME TO SAVE US 00:24:00.43\00:24:02.43 FROM THAT. 00:24:02.43\00:24:05.50 YOU WOULDN'T DO IT TO YOUR DOG, YOU WOULDN'T DO IT TO A 00:24:05.50\00:24:08.03 RAT, AND JOB ASKS THIS PENETRATING QUESTION, "SHALL 00:24:08.03\00:24:12.00 MORTAL MAN BE MORE JUST THAN GOD?" 00:24:12.00\00:24:15.03 ARE YOU MORE LOVING? 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