>>THE FOLLOWING IS A PAID PRESENTATION BROUGHT TO YOU 00:00:00.86\00:00:03.33 BY AMAZING FACTS, INCORPORATED. 00:00:03.33\00:00:11.80 >>WHAT IS GOD'S REAL PURPOSE IN HELL FIRE? 00:00:11.80\00:00:14.30 HE'S GETTING EVEN WITH THESE REBELLIOUS CHILDREN SO HE'S 00:00:14.30\00:00:16.63 GOING TO TORTURE THEM THROUGH ETERNITY. 00:00:16.63\00:00:18.96 IS THAT HIS PURPOSE? 00:00:18.96\00:00:22.93 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 00:00:22.93\00:00:25.93 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:00:25.93\00:00:28.76 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:00:28.76\00:00:31.70 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:00:31.70\00:00:33.56 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:00:33.56\00:00:36.43 AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 00:00:36.43\00:00:43.30 >>THE STUDY TODAY IS DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF REVELATION'S 00:00:43.30\00:00:46.63 LAKE OF FIRE. 00:00:46.63\00:00:47.86 NOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BIBLE PROPHECY AND THERE'S 00:00:47.86\00:00:50.16 A LOT OF MISUNDERSTANDINGS ON THIS SUBJECT. 00:00:50.16\00:00:53.33 ACTUALLY, WHAT I'M GOING TO SHARE WITH YOU IS GOOD NEWS. 00:00:53.33\00:00:56.20 NOW THIS IS THE MAIN THING I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND IN THIS 00:00:56.20\00:00:59.46 PRESENTATION - NOT ONLY ARE THERE NO PEOPLE BURNING 00:00:59.46\00:01:02.66 IN THE LAKE OF FIRE YET, BUT THE LAKE OF FIRE IS NOT ETERNAL. 00:01:02.66\00:01:12.03 PEOPLE ARE PUNISHED. 00:01:12.03\00:01:13.30 THERE IS HELL FIRE. 00:01:13.30\00:01:14.43 DO YOU ALL HEAR ME? 00:01:14.43\00:01:15.80 I BELIEVE THAT. 00:01:15.80\00:01:17.03 SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG DOESN'T BELIEVE IN HELL FIRE.' 00:01:17.03\00:01:18.83 YES I DO. 00:01:18.83\00:01:19.80 THE BIBLE DOES NOT TEACH IT BURNS THROUGH ENDLESS AGES. 00:01:19.80\00:01:23.60 WHAT DID JESUS SAY THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS? 00:01:23.60\00:01:28.03 SIN, WHEN IT IS FINISHED, BRINGS FORTH DEATH. 00:01:28.03\00:01:33.20 QUESTION #1 - HOW LONG WILL THE WICKED SUFFER 00:01:33.20\00:01:36.50 IN THE FIRES OF HELL? 00:01:36.50\00:01:39.00 THIS IS WHERE I REALLY WANT TO NAIL A POINT DOWN. 00:01:39.00\00:01:41.50 JESUS SAID, 'AND BEHOLD I COME QUICKLY AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME 00:01:41.50\00:01:45.66 TO GIVE TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING AS HIS WORK SHALL BE.' 00:01:45.66\00:01:49.63 NOW IF, ACCORDING TO THE POPULAR MYTH - YOU'RE SAVED YOU GO TO 00:01:49.63\00:01:54.16 HEAVEN, YOU'RE LOST YOU GO TO HELL AND YOU BURN THERE THROUGH 00:01:54.16\00:01:57.66 ETERNITY - IF EVERYBODY BURNS THROUGH ETERNITY THEN EVERYBODY 00:01:57.66\00:02:01.96 GETS THE SAME DURATION, DON'T THEY? 00:02:01.96\00:02:05.53 JESUS SAID PEOPLE GET DIFFERENT REWARDS. 00:02:05.53\00:02:09.16 THAT WOULD MEAN THAT ADOLF HITLER WHO - 00:02:09.16\00:02:12.30 I'M ASSUMING HE'S LOST. 00:02:12.30\00:02:13.76 I HOPE THAT DOESN'T OFFEND ANYBODY - BUT THAT WOULD MEAN 00:02:13.76\00:02:16.73 THAT ADOLPH HITLER, HE'S GOING TO BURN THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME 00:02:16.73\00:02:20.80 - RESPONSIBLE FOR MILLIONS OF DEATHS - MANIACAL EVIL MAN - 00:02:20.80\00:02:24.53 HE'S GOING TO BURN THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME AS SOME POOR LOST 00:02:24.53\00:02:27.10 TEENAGER THAT COMMITS SUICIDE. 00:02:27.10\00:02:29.90 DOES THAT SOUND JUST? 00:02:29.90\00:02:31.50 BOTH GET EVERLASTING TORTURE? 00:02:31.50\00:02:34.50 JESUS SAID EVERYONE IS REWARDED ACCORDING TO WHAT HE DESERVES. 00:02:34.50\00:02:37.06 THERE'S VARYING DEGREES OF REWARDS, VARYING DEGREES 00:02:37.06\00:02:40.00 OF PUNISHMENT. 00:02:40.00\00:02:41.96 AND HE'LL REWARD EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS. 00:02:41.96\00:02:44.46 ANOTHER VERSE THAT ILLUSTRATES THIS IN LUKE CHAPTER 12, VERSES 00:02:44.46\00:02:47.60 47 AND 48, "THAT SERVANT THAT KNEW HIS LORD'S WILL AND NEITHER 00:02:47.60\00:02:53.00 DID ACCORDING TO HIS WILL SHALL BE BEATEN WITH MANY STRIPES." 00:02:53.00\00:02:58.23 SO, ONE WHO KNOWS AND DOES NOT OBEY, HE'S BEATEN WITH MANY. 00:02:58.23\00:03:02.43 THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW THEY'RE BEATEN WITH FEW JESUS SAID - 00:03:02.43\00:03:05.23 VARYING DEGREES. 00:03:05.23\00:03:07.53 "FEAR NOT THEM THAT KILL THE BODY AND ARE NOT ABLE 00:03:07.53\00:03:09.53 TO KILL THE SOUL." 00:03:09.53\00:03:11.96 'SEE THAT PASTOR DOUG, THE SOUL LIVES ON.' 00:03:11.96\00:03:15.10 NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT JESUS SAYS. 00:03:15.10\00:03:16.46 JESUS SAYS, 'FEAR HIM WHO DESTROYS SOUL AND BODY IN HELL.' 00:03:16.46\00:03:22.46 WILL THE FIRES OF HELL EVENTUALLY GO OUT? 00:03:22.46\00:03:25.50 HERE'S THE POINT THAT YOU ESPECIALLY WANT TO CATCH. 00:03:25.50\00:03:27.90 'FOR YET A LITTLE WHILE AND THE WICKED SHALL NOT BE. 00:03:27.90\00:03:31.56 THE WICKED WILL PERISH. 00:03:31.56\00:03:33.73 THE ENEMIES OF THE LORD WILL CONSUME INTO SMOKE - 00:03:33.73\00:03:36.73 THEY WILL CONSUME AWAY. 00:03:36.73\00:03:39.10 BEHOLD, THERE WILL BE A STUBBLE - THE FIRE WILL BURN THEM, 00:03:39.10\00:03:42.36 LIKE THAT STUBBLE IN THE FIELD WE TALKED ABOUT. 00:03:42.36\00:03:44.50 JUST BURN UP. 00:03:44.50\00:03:46.40 IT SAYS, 'THEY SHALL NOT DELIVER THEMSELVES FROM 00:03:46.40\00:03:49.10 THE POWER OF THE FLAME. 00:03:49.10\00:03:51.03 THERE'LL NOT BE A COAL TO WARM AT NOR FIRE TO SIT BEFORE.' 00:03:51.03\00:03:55.96 THERE'S NOT EVEN A LITTLE COAL. 00:03:55.96\00:03:58.03 THERE'S NOT EVEN A LITTLE FLAME. 00:03:58.03\00:03:59.73 THERE'S NO HEAT COMING OFF. 00:03:59.73\00:04:02.10 EVEN AS SODOM AND GOMORRAH ARE SET FORTH AS AN EXAMPLE, 00:04:02.10\00:04:06.16 SUFFERING THE VENGEANCE OF' - WHAT KIND OF FIRE? - 00:04:06.16\00:04:09.13 ETERNAL FIRE. 00:04:09.13\00:04:10.26 NOW, THE WICKED ARE BURNT WITH ETERNAL FIRE. 00:04:10.26\00:04:13.33 THIS IS WHAT MESSES PEOPLE UP. 00:04:13.33\00:04:15.13 THE WICKED ARE BURNT WITH ETERNAL FIRE. 00:04:15.13\00:04:19.00 'PASTOR DOUG, THERE IT IS. 00:04:19.00\00:04:20.03 THEY'RE GOING TO BURN FOREVER AND EVER.' 00:04:20.03\00:04:21.63 WAIT A SECOND, IT SAYS SODOM AND GOMORRAH ARE SET FORTH SUFFERING 00:04:21.63\00:04:24.90 THE VENGEANCE OF ETERNAL FIRE. 00:04:24.90\00:04:27.23 ARE SODOM AND GOMORRAH STILL BURNING TODAY? 00:04:27.23\00:04:30.86 THEY WERE BURNT WITH ETERNAL FIRE BUT THEY'RE 00:04:30.86\00:04:32.36 NOT STILL BURNING. 00:04:32.36\00:04:33.66 I DON'T KNOW, BUT I THINK MAYBE WHAT I'M STANDING ON HERE 00:04:33.66\00:04:36.80 IS WOOD COVERED WITH FELT. 00:04:36.80\00:04:38.73 LET'S SUPPOSE THAT THIS PLATFORM - I HAVE MATCHES AND KEROSENE - 00:04:38.73\00:04:42.26 I WON'T DO THIS IN A THEATER, TRUST ME. 00:04:42.26\00:04:44.93 BUT IF I WERE TO SET THIS ON FIRE AND WE WEREN'T 00:04:44.93\00:04:46.70 TO DO ANYTHING TO STOP IT AND WE'D JUST WATCH IT BURN - 00:04:46.70\00:04:52.03 FIRST I'D GET OFF OF IT. 00:04:52.03\00:04:54.06 THIS PLATFORM WOULD BURN UP AND IT WOULD NEVER EXIST AGAIN. 00:04:54.06\00:05:00.23 YOU MIGHT BUILD ANOTHER PLATFORM BUT IT'S NOT THIS PLATFORM. 00:05:00.23\00:05:03.13 THIS PLATFORM IS BURNT WITH ETERNAL FIRE. 00:05:03.13\00:05:05.76 THAT MEANS THE RESULTS OF THAT FIRE ARE ETERNAL. 00:05:05.76\00:05:08.23 IT'S NEVER GOING TO BE REASSEMBLED. 00:05:08.23\00:05:10.03 IT'S GONE FOREVER. 00:05:10.03\00:05:11.46 THE RESULTS OF THE FIRES OF HELL ARE ETERNAL. 00:05:11.46\00:05:15.03 SEE, GOD IS SO MERCIFUL AND PATIENT AND THERE'S EVEN A 00:05:15.03\00:05:17.40 RESURRECTION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS, THERE'S EVEN A RESURRECTION FOR 00:05:17.40\00:05:19.86 THE WICKED, BUT WHEN THE WICKED GO INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE, IT IS 00:05:19.86\00:05:23.93 ETERNAL FIRE, IT IS THE SECOND DEATH, THERE IS NO RESURRECTION. 00:05:23.93\00:05:27.30 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 00:05:27.30\00:05:28.93 THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS. 00:05:28.93\00:05:29.83 THEY DON'T BURN THERE FOREVER AND EVER. 00:05:29.83\00:05:34.53 'AND THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT' - SOMEONE'S GOING TO SAY 'WHAT 00:05:34.53\00:05:36.83 ABOUT THIS VERSE, PASTOR DOUG?' 'THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT 00:05:36.83\00:05:39.76 ASCENDS UP FOREVER AND EVER.' DOES THAT MEAN THAT THEY'RE 00:05:39.76\00:05:42.20 TORMENTED FOREVER AND EVER? 00:05:42.20\00:05:44.10 FIRST OF ALL, IT SAYS 'THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT'. 00:05:44.10\00:05:46.33 WELL, FIRST OF ALL, TWO THINGS. 00:05:46.33\00:05:48.83 YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT IN BIBLE 00:05:48.83\00:05:52.06 TIMES AND THE CONTEXT OF WHAT THEY'RE SAYING AND THEN 00:05:52.06\00:05:54.60 UNDERSTAND THE WORD 'FOREVER' THE WAY IT'S USED SOMETIMES. 00:05:54.60\00:05:57.03 FIRST OF ALL, JONAH, WHILE IN THE BELLY OF THE GREAT FISH, 00:05:57.03\00:06:01.80 CHAPTER 2, VERSE 6, HE PRAYS AND HE SAYS, "THE EARTH WITH HER 00:06:01.80\00:06:05.66 BARS WAS ABOUT ME FOREVER." 00:06:05.66\00:06:07.60 HE SAYS, 'I WAS IMPRISONED IN THIS FISH - 00:06:07.60\00:06:09.33 IT WAS LIKE HADES DOWN HERE.' IT'S KIND OF COMPARED TO DEATH. 00:06:09.33\00:06:14.00 HOW LONG WAS JONAH IN THE FISH? 00:06:14.00\00:06:17.20 "AND JONAH WAS IN THE BELLY OF THE GREAT FISH THREE DAYS 00:06:17.20\00:06:20.30 AND THREE NIGHTS." 00:06:20.30\00:06:21.26 IT PROBABLY SEEMED LIKE FOREVER. 00:06:21.26\00:06:23.30 CAN YOU IMAGINE? 00:06:23.30\00:06:23.96 THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THAT? 00:06:23.96\00:06:27.06 OH MAN, SMELLED BAD, FELT BAD, LOOKED BAD. 00:06:27.06\00:06:32.30 LITTLE BIOLUMINESCENT FISH FLASHING - JELLY FISH 00:06:32.30\00:06:35.90 AND THINGS IN THERE. 00:06:35.90\00:06:37.63 THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS. 00:06:37.63\00:06:39.30 WELL, I WOULD PROBABLY SAY IT WAS FOREVER. 00:06:39.30\00:06:42.20 HAVE YOU EVER HAD TO, YOU KNOW, GET A TOOTH WORKED ON AND 00:06:42.20\00:06:45.26 DIDN'T HAVE PROPER ANESTHETIC? 00:06:45.26\00:06:47.70 HOW LONG DOES IT LAST? 00:06:47.70\00:06:48.63 'OH, IT TOOK FOREVER.' FEELS LIKE THAT. 00:06:48.63\00:06:51.80 SO THE WORD IS USED THAT WAY. 00:06:51.80\00:06:52.80 LET ME PROVE IT - I'LL GIVE YOU THREE VERSES IN THE BIBLE. 00:06:52.80\00:06:54.76 I WANT YOU TO GO BY THE BIBLE. 00:06:54.76\00:06:57.00 WHEN A SERVANT DECIDED THAT HE LOVED HIS MASTER - EVEN THOUGH 00:06:57.00\00:07:01.06 HE WAS ALLOWED TO GO FREE - BUT HE SAID, 'I WANT TO STAY WITH MY 00:07:01.06\00:07:03.50 MASTER' - THEY WENT THROUGH A RITUAL AND IT SAYS, 00:07:03.50\00:07:06.66 HE WILL SERVE HIM FOREVER. 00:07:06.66\00:07:09.23 WELL, WHAT DID FOREVER MEAN? 00:07:09.23\00:07:10.16 OH, UNTIL HE DIED - THE REST OF HIS LIFE - UNTIL HE DIED. 00:07:10.16\00:07:15.16 WHEN HANNAH BROUGHT HER SON SAMUEL TO THE TEMPLE - THIS IS 00:07:15.16\00:07:17.96 1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 1, VERSE 22 SHE SAID, 'I'M LEAVING HIM HERE 00:07:17.96\00:07:21.06 TO BE A PRIEST TO SERVE BEFORE THE LORD FOREVER." 00:07:21.06\00:07:25.16 IS HE STILL THERE TODAY? 00:07:25.16\00:07:27.06 NO, HE'S DEAD AND BURIED. 00:07:27.06\00:07:29.33 IT MEANT UNTIL HE DIES. 00:07:29.33\00:07:31.53 AGAIN, 1 SAMUEL 1:28, SHE SAID, 'HE WILL STAY THERE AS LONG 00:07:31.53\00:07:36.03 AS HE LIVES." 00:07:36.03\00:07:36.73 SO THE WORD 'FOREVER' WAS USED AND LATER SHE CLARIFIES IT MEANS 00:07:36.73\00:07:38.93 'AS LONG AS HE LIVES.' SO FOREVER AND EVER - 00:07:38.93\00:07:41.60 IN THE BIBLE IT'S AN EXPRESSION THAT MEANS 'UNTIL THE END 00:07:41.60\00:07:43.93 OF THE AGE' - IT MEANS FROM EON - 00:07:43.93\00:07:46.73 HAVE YOU EVER HEARD - THE GREEK WORD THAT'S USED THERE IS EON - 00:07:46.73\00:07:49.96 HAVE YOU EVER HEARD SOMEONE SAY, 'I HAVEN'T SEEN THEM IN EONS.' 00:07:49.96\00:07:52.86 THAT'S THE SAME WORD THAT'S USED. 00:07:52.86\00:07:54.16 IT JUST MEANS A LONG TIME. 00:07:54.16\00:07:55.80 NOW, WHAT I'M SHARING WITH YOU - SOMEONE SAYS, 'PASTOR DOUG, 00:07:55.80\00:07:58.26 YOU'RE SHARING THE PHILOSOPHY OF YOUR PARTICULAR DENOMINATION. 00:07:58.26\00:08:02.43 WELL, THAT MIGHT BE, BUT IT'S ALSO THE TEACHING OF A LOT OF 00:08:02.43\00:08:04.96 GREAT CHURCH REFORMERS LIKE WILLIAM TYNDALE - 00:08:04.96\00:08:08.10 HE BELIEVED EXACTLY WHAT I'M TEACHING YOU TODAY. 00:08:08.10\00:08:10.76 MARTIN LUTHER - A LOT OF PROTESTANT CHURCHES WERE FOUNDED 00:08:10.76\00:08:13.70 BELIEVING THIS. 00:08:13.70\00:08:14.93 A FAMOUS PENTECOSTAL MINISTER NAMED WILLIAM FUDGE - HE WROTE 00:08:14.93\00:08:18.80 A BOOK CALLED 'THE FIRE THAT CONSUMES' - HE TOLD ALL THE 00:08:18.80\00:08:21.03 PENTECOSTALS IN THE ASSEMBLY OF GOD THAT - HE SAID, 'WE'RE NOT 00:08:21.03\00:08:24.53 GOING BY THE BIBLE.' HE SAYS, 'IF YOU GO BY THE BIBLE, 00:08:24.53\00:08:26.90 THE LAKE OF FIRE DOES BURN UP.' IT KIND OF TURNED THEM UPSIDE 00:08:26.90\00:08:29.60 DOWN THEOLOGICALLY. 00:08:29.60\00:08:31.20 AND YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE GREAT THEOLOGIAN JOHN STOTT - 00:08:31.20\00:08:35.53 HE BELIEVES EXACTLY WHAT I'M TEACHING YOU TODAY ABOUT 00:08:35.53\00:08:38.43 THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED. 00:08:38.43\00:08:39.36 SO, A LOT OF GOOD THEOLOGIANS OUT THERE UNDERSTAND IF YOU'RE 00:08:39.36\00:08:42.43 GOING TO GO BY THE BIBLE, THIS IS WHAT IT TEACHES. 00:08:42.43\00:08:45.93 WHAT IS LEFT WHEN THIS FIRE OF HELL GOES OUT? 00:08:45.93\00:08:49.66 AND IT SAYS, 'THEY WILL TREAD DOWN THE WICKED FOR THEY ARE 00:08:49.66\00:08:51.86 ASHES UNDER THE SOLES OF THEIR FEET.' 00:08:51.86\00:08:55.63 WE'RE NOT GOING TO WALK OUT OF THE NEW JERUSALEM AND GO, 00:08:55.63\00:08:57.26 'OOH, AHH, OOH, AHH IT'S STILL BURNING.' 00:08:57.26\00:08:59.93 NO, THEY'RE ALL BURNT UP. 00:08:59.93\00:09:01.96 THEY'RE JUST ASHES AND ON THE ASHES OF THIS PURIFIED PLANET 00:09:01.96\00:09:05.20 THEN GOD CREATES A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH WHEREIN 00:09:05.20\00:09:09.63 DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:09:09.63\00:09:11.60 'IN THE DAY THAT I SHALL DO THIS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS' - THAT'S 00:09:11.60\00:09:14.23 THE SECOND HALF OF MALACHI 4 - IT SAYS, 'THERE'LL NOT BE A COAL 00:09:14.23\00:09:17.43 TO WARM AT NOR A FIRE TO SIT BEFORE.' 00:09:17.43\00:09:19.96 IT'S BURNT UP. 00:09:19.96\00:09:21.80 'TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH INTO ASHES HE CONDEMNED 00:09:21.80\00:09:24.93 THEM WITH AN OVERTHROW, MAKING THEM EXAMPLES UNTO THOSE WHO 00:09:24.93\00:09:29.50 SHOULD AFTER LIVE UNGODLY.' NOW, I READ YOU ONE VERSE FROM 00:09:29.50\00:09:32.13 JUDE, HERE'S ANOTHER ONE FROM PETER TELLING US 'SODOM AND 00:09:32.13\00:09:35.26 GOMORRAH, THAT WERE BURNT WITH ETERNAL FIRE,' - PETER SAYS - 00:09:35.26\00:09:39.10 'THEY'RE OVERTHROWN AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT GOD IS GOING 00:09:39.10\00:09:42.80 TO DO IN THE LAST DAYS.' VERY MUCH LIKE WHAT HAPPENED 00:09:42.80\00:09:45.06 TO POMPEII. 00:09:45.06\00:09:47.56 WILL THE WICKED ENTER HELL IN BODILY FORM AND BE DESTROYED 00:09:47.56\00:09:52.70 BOTH SOUL AND BODY? 00:09:52.70\00:09:54.36 IS IT PHYSICAL? 00:09:54.36\00:09:55.80 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY? 00:09:55.80\00:09:57.50 MATTHEW CHAPTER 10 - WORDS OF JESUS - IF YOU'VE GOT 00:09:57.50\00:09:59.40 A RED-LETTER EDITION BIBLE THESE WORDS ARE IN RED. 00:09:59.40\00:10:02.36 FEAR NOT THEM WHO KILL THE BODY BUT ARE NOT ABLE TO KILL 00:10:02.36\00:10:06.20 THE SOUL' - HERE'S THE REST OF THAT VERSE - 'RATHER FEAR 00:10:06.20\00:10:09.43 HIM WHO IS ABLE TO DESTROY BOTH SOUL AND BODY IN HELL.' 00:10:09.43\00:10:15.26 I WANT THAT TO SINK IN - I WANT TO READ IT ONE MORE TIME 00:10:15.26\00:10:18.23 - WORDS OF JESUS - WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN HELL? 00:10:18.23\00:10:20.56 DESTROY SOUL AND BODY. 00:10:20.56\00:10:23.80 IF THAT'S CLEAR SAY, 'AMEN'. 00:10:23.80\00:10:25.03 JUST HUMOR ME. 00:10:25.03\00:10:26.80 I MEAN, I CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT - WELL, IF SOMEONE SAYS, 'YEAH, 00:10:26.80\00:10:28.96 WELL THE BODY - BODIES BURN UP. 00:10:28.96\00:10:30.60 THE BODY GOES TO ASHES BUT THE SOUL BURNS FOREVER.' 00:10:30.60\00:10:32.66 JESUS SAID, 'DESTROY THE SOUL AND BODY' IN THE HELL, IN THE 00:10:32.66\00:10:36.90 JUDGEMENT - IT'S FUTURE AND THEY'RE ANNIHILATED THERE. 00:10:36.90\00:10:42.53 'IF YOUR EYE OFFENDS THEE, PLUCK IT OUT. 00:10:42.53\00:10:46.90 IT'S BETTER FOR YOU TO ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD WITH ONE 00:10:46.90\00:10:49.60 EYE THAN HAVING TWO EYES TO BE CAST INTO HELL FIRE WHERE THE 00:10:49.60\00:10:54.10 WORM DOESN'T DIE AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.' 00:10:54.10\00:10:56.93 'OKAY PASTOR DOUG, I WAS WONDERING IF YOU WERE GOING TO 00:10:56.93\00:10:58.53 MENTION THAT VERSE. 00:10:58.53\00:11:00.53 WAIT, THERE IT SAYS, DOUG, 'THE WORM DOESN'T DIE AND 00:11:00.53\00:11:03.10 THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.' THE WORD THAT JESUS USES FOR 00:11:03.10\00:11:06.03 HELL HERE COMES FROM THE WORD GEHENNA - THERE ARE FOUR WORDS 00:11:06.03\00:11:10.30 IN THE BIBLE USED TO DESCRIBE HELL, I'LL GET TO THOSE IN JUST 00:11:10.30\00:11:13.13 A MINUTE - ONE OF THOSE FOUR WORDS IS A GREEK WORD 'GEHENNA'. 00:11:13.13\00:11:16.90 GEHENNA IS THE GREEK WAY OF SAYING, 'HINNOM'. 00:11:16.90\00:11:19.73 THE VALLEY OF GEHENNA OR THE VALLEY OF HINNOM IS MENTIONED 00:11:19.73\00:11:23.06 IN THE BIBLE. 00:11:23.06\00:11:23.76 IT WAS OUTSIDE JERUSALEM. 00:11:23.76\00:11:25.23 IT WAS A VERY STEEP VALLEY. 00:11:25.23\00:11:27.23 IT WAS A PLACE WHERE THE PAGANS HAD SET UP IDOLS 00:11:27.23\00:11:30.26 TO THEIR PAGAN GODS. 00:11:30.26\00:11:32.00 IT WAS CONSIDERED A CURSED VALLEY. 00:11:32.00\00:11:34.63 TO DISCOURAGE THE WORSHIP OF THOSE PAGAN GODS, THE JEWS MADE 00:11:34.63\00:11:37.80 IT THE CITY DUMP. 00:11:37.80\00:11:39.20 EVERY CITY NEEDS A DUMP - THEY NEED A LAND FILL - 00:11:39.20\00:11:42.46 AND THE VALLEY OF HINNOM WAS THE LAND FILL. 00:11:42.46\00:11:44.96 TODAY IT'S STILL PRETTY STEEP BUT THEY'RE STARTING TO BUILD ON 00:11:44.96\00:11:47.60 THE SIDES BECAUSE THEY'RE SHORT OF LAND. 00:11:47.60\00:11:50.13 AND THEY WOULD TAKE ALL THEIR BURNING REFUSE - DEAD ANIMALS, 00:11:50.13\00:11:53.96 ROTTEN FOOD - THEY'D THROW IT OFF IN THERE. 00:11:53.96\00:11:56.66 IT STUNK, IT WAS FULL OF MAGGOTS, AND IT WAS SMOLDERING. 00:11:56.66\00:12:01.26 SO WHEN JESUS SAID, 'YOU'RE BETTER OFF', 00:12:01.26\00:12:03.70 HE'S USING AN ILLUSTRATION. 00:12:03.70\00:12:05.23 GOING TO HEAVEN MISSING AN EYE OR A FOOT OR A HAND - ALL RIGHT, 00:12:05.23\00:12:08.73 STOP, STOP, STOP, STOP. 00:12:08.73\00:12:10.60 HOW MANY BELIEVE ANYONE IN HEAVEN IS GOING TO HAVE A 00:12:10.60\00:12:12.26 GLORIFIED BODY WITHOUT AN EYE, FOOT, OR HAND? 00:12:12.26\00:12:15.66 SO, WOULD WE ALL AGREE JESUS IS USING A FIGURE OF SPEECH HERE? 00:12:15.66\00:12:20.30 THEN TO GO INTO GEHENNA - THAT'S THE EXACT WORD HE USED - 00:12:20.30\00:12:23.66 WHERE THE WORM DOESN'T DIE AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED. 00:12:23.66\00:12:27.10 HE'S SAYING 'YOU'RE BETTER OFF' - HE SAID - SOME PEOPLE SAY, 00:12:27.10\00:12:29.86 'I WOULD LIKE TO SERVE THE LORD BUT I JUST CAN'T GIVE UP MY 00:12:29.86\00:12:32.70 CIGARETTES.' 'I'D LIKE TO SERVE THE LORD BUT, 00:12:32.70\00:12:34.36 YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT THIS BOYFRIEND AND I KNOW HE'S NOT A 00:12:34.36\00:12:36.06 CHRISTIAN BUT I SURE LIKE HIM.' JESUS SAID, 'CUT IT OFF.' 00:12:36.06\00:12:40.10 IT MIGHT BE HARDER THAN CUTTING OFF YOUR HAND, CUTTING OFF YOUR 00:12:40.10\00:12:42.23 FOOT, PLUCKING OUT YOUR EYE - THERE'S STRUGGLES IN TAKING UP 00:12:42.23\00:12:45.03 OUR CROSS AND FOLLOWING JESUS. 00:12:45.03\00:12:47.03 SOMETIMES THAT STRUGGLE IS - CAN YOU IMAGINE PLUCKING OUT YOUR 00:12:47.03\00:12:49.56 EYE OR CUTTING OFF YOUR HAND? 00:12:49.56\00:12:51.70 THEY'VE GOT A SNAKE IN INDONESIA - OR IT IS VIETNAM - 00:12:51.70\00:12:54.56 CALLED THE TWO STEP - SUPPOSEDLY YOU GET BIT BY 00:12:54.56\00:12:57.26 THIS SNAKE YOU GET TWO STEPS. 00:12:57.26\00:13:01.36 AND IF YOU KNEW THAT WAS THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE, WOULD YOU 00:13:01.36\00:13:05.13 MAKE THAT SACRIFICE? 00:13:05.13\00:13:06.33 THIS IS WHAT JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT. 00:13:06.33\00:13:08.26 AND HE'S LOOKING RIGHT THERE AT THE CITY DUMP WHEN HE SAYS THAT. 00:13:08.26\00:13:12.00 SO HE'S JUST COMPARING ALL OF THE LOST - OR THE REFUSE OF 00:13:12.00\00:13:16.50 SALVATION - THEY WILL REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE LORD - THEY'RE GOING 00:13:16.50\00:13:18.86 TO BE CONSUMED AND BURNT UP - THEY'RE CAST OUT. 00:13:18.86\00:13:22.33 IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE GOING TO BURN FOREVER AND EVER 00:13:22.33\00:13:23.76 AND THERE'S WORMS. 00:13:23.76\00:13:24.60 CAN YOU IMAGINE TRYING TO WALK AROUND IN HEAVEN TIPTOEING 00:13:24.60\00:13:27.53 AROUND SMOLDERING LOST PEOPLE AND MAGGOTS? 00:13:27.53\00:13:31.60 THAT'S NOT WHAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT. 00:13:31.60\00:13:33.70 IT'S AN ILLUSTRATION. 00:13:33.70\00:13:34.43 LISTEN, 'HE WILL THOROUGHLY PURGE HIS FLOOR. 00:13:34.43\00:13:37.73 HE'LL GATHER THE WHEAT INTO THE GARNER, BUT HE WILL BURN THE 00:13:37.73\00:13:41.10 CHAFF WITH UNQUENCHABLE FIRE.' UNQUENCHABLE - 'PASTOR DOUG, 00:13:41.10\00:13:45.03 THERE YOU'VE GOT IT - THEY'RE BURNT ETERNALLY WITH 00:13:45.03\00:13:47.43 UNQUENCHABLE FIRE - THAT MEANS THEY'RE BURNING 00:13:47.43\00:13:48.96 FOREVER AND EVER.' THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT MEANS. 00:13:48.96\00:13:51.83 WHAT DOES UNQUENCHABLE MEAN? 00:13:51.83\00:13:54.00 LET'S SUPPOSE I LIGHT A MATCH, OKAY? 00:13:54.00\00:13:55.73 USE YOUR IMAGINATION IF THAT'S ALL RIGHT. 00:13:55.73\00:13:59.10 THE MATCH IS BURNING IN MY HAND AND IT'S JUST BURNING DOWN 00:13:59.10\00:14:02.16 AND BURNING DOWN - GETTING NEAR MY FINGERS. 00:14:02.16\00:14:05.00 I DON'T WANT TO BURN MY FINGERS - YOU SPIT ON THESE FINGERS, 00:14:05.00\00:14:07.43 YOU GRAB THE TOP AND TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN. 00:14:07.43\00:14:10.46 NOW IT'S BURNING UP THE OTHER DIRECTION - THE TOP'S ALREADY 00:14:10.46\00:14:12.70 KIND OF SMOLDERING ASHES, BUT IT'S BURNING UP - 00:14:12.70\00:14:15.70 IT BURNS - POOF - IT BURNS UP. 00:14:15.70\00:14:19.43 I DIDN'T PUT IT OUT. 00:14:19.43\00:14:21.73 IT BURNED WITH UNQUENCHABLE FIRE. 00:14:21.73\00:14:25.26 THE WORD QUENCH - IT'S A VERB - IT MEANS TO EXTINGUISH. 00:14:25.26\00:14:28.63 WILL THERE BE ANY FIREMEN RUNNING AROUND IN HELL 00:14:28.63\00:14:30.70 PUTTING THINGS OUT? 00:14:30.70\00:14:32.76 NO, THAT'S ALL IT'S TALKING ABOUT, THE FIRE CAN'T BE 00:14:32.76\00:14:34.36 PUT OUT. 00:14:34.36\00:14:35.06 NOW LET ME PROVE WHAT I JUST SAID TO YOU BIBLICALLY. 00:14:35.06\00:14:37.33 YOU SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG YOU SAY THESE THINGS...' 00:14:37.33\00:14:38.83 IT'S IN THE BIBLE. 00:14:38.83\00:14:40.53 JEREMIAH CHAPTER 17, VERSE 27 - PROPHECY ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION 00:14:40.53\00:14:44.26 OF JERUSALEM - "BUT IF YOU WILL NOT HARKEN UNTO ME TO HALLOW THE 00:14:44.26\00:14:47.86 SABBATH DAY AND NOT TO BRING A BURDEN EVEN ENTERING INTO THE 00:14:47.86\00:14:51.33 GATES OF JERUSALEM ON THE SABBATH DAY, THEN I WILL KINDLE 00:14:51.33\00:14:54.93 A FIRE IN THE GATES THEREOF AND IT SHALL DEVOUR THE PALACES 00:14:54.93\00:14:59.10 OF JERUSALEM AND IT SHALL NOT BE QUENCHED." 00:14:59.10\00:15:02.83 WELL, THEY DID NOT REPENT, THEY CONTINUED TO DISOBEY THE LORD, 00:15:02.83\00:15:06.06 NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME, HE BURNT THE CITY, HE BURNT THE GATES, 00:15:06.06\00:15:09.33 WITH UNQUENCHABLE FIRE. 00:15:09.33\00:15:11.73 THERE WAS NOBODY THROWING WATER, NO FIRE BRIGADE PUTTING OUT THE 00:15:11.73\00:15:14.80 FIRES OF JERUSALEM. 00:15:14.80\00:15:16.33 IT WAS BURNT WITH A FIRE THAT COULD NOT BE EXTINGUISHED. 00:15:16.33\00:15:19.83 SO WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE WICKED ARE BURNT WITH 00:15:19.83\00:15:21.53 UNQUENCHABLE FIRE IT MEANS THERE ARE NO FIREMEN RUNNING AROUND IN 00:15:21.53\00:15:24.10 HELL PUTTING OUT THE WICKED - ITS UNQUENCHABLE. 00:15:24.10\00:15:27.86 IT'S GOING TO BURN THEM WITH AN ETERNAL FIRE. 00:15:27.86\00:15:30.06 DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE - WHAT IT'S SAYING? 00:15:30.06\00:15:32.43 BIBLE EXAMPLE THERE HELPS TO ILLUSTRATE THAT. 00:15:32.43\00:15:35.26 IT SAYS CHRIST WILL DECLARE TO THE WICKED 'IT'S MORE PROFITABLE 00:15:35.26\00:15:40.56 FOR YOU THAT ONE OF YOUR MEMBERS SHOULD PERISH THAN YOUR WHOLE 00:15:40.56\00:15:43.96 BODY SHOULD BE CAST INTO HELL' - AND THAT'S WHAT'S 00:15:43.96\00:15:46.86 GOING TO HAPPEN. 00:15:46.86\00:15:47.43 THE WHOLE BODY, SPIRIT, SOUL IS CAST INTO HELL. 00:15:47.43\00:15:50.56 HE SAID, 'RATHER FEAR HIM WHO IS ABLE TO DESTROY BOTH 00:15:50.56\00:15:53.36 SOUL AND BODY IN HELL.' 'THE SOUL THAT SINS 00:15:53.36\00:15:57.06 IT WILL DIE.' WILL THE DEVIL BE IN CHARGE 00:15:57.06\00:15:59.50 OF HELL FIRE? 00:15:59.50\00:16:01.66 OH, DO YOU THINK YOU CAN TRUST HIM TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY 00:16:01.66\00:16:03.86 GETS A FAIR SHAKE? 00:16:03.86\00:16:06.76 AND PEOPLE HAVE THESE PICTURES OF THE DEVIL - HE'S GOT HIS 00:16:06.76\00:16:08.53 PITCHFORK - MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, ALL THE SINNERS 00:16:08.53\00:16:10.30 COOK EVENLY. 00:16:10.30\00:16:13.20 IS THE DEVIL IN CHARGE OF HELL OR IS HE GOING THERE? 00:16:13.20\00:16:16.60 IT SAYS, 'AND THE DEVIL THAT DECEIVED THEM WAS CAST INTO THE 00:16:16.60\00:16:20.30 LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE.' AND AGAIN, SPEAKING ABOUT THE 00:16:20.30\00:16:24.10 FATE OF LUCIFER, 'I WILL BRING THEE TO ASHES UPON THE EARTH 00:16:24.10\00:16:27.76 AND THE SIGHT OF THEM THAT BEHOLD THEE.' 00:16:27.76\00:16:30.36 HE IS GOING TO BE DEVOURED. 00:16:30.36\00:16:31.73 'NEVER SHALL THOU BE ANY MORE.' NOW, IF ANYBODY DESERVES TO BURN 00:16:31.73\00:16:36.16 FOREVER WHO IS IT? 00:16:36.16\00:16:38.40 I MEAN, OF ALL THE PEOPLE TEMPTED AROUND THE WORLD, 00:16:38.40\00:16:40.26 THE ONE WHO TEMPTED EVEN THE EVIL ANGELS TO REBEL - IT 00:16:40.26\00:16:45.70 ORIGINATES WITH THIS ARCH FIEND CALLED THE DEVIL. 00:16:45.70\00:16:49.83 IF ANYBODY - HE'S WORSE THAN HITLER - IF ANYBODY DESERVES TO 00:16:49.83\00:16:53.50 BURN FOREVER, IT WOULD BE HIM. 00:16:53.50\00:16:55.30 BUT IT SAYS, 'I'LL BRING YOU TO ASHES.' 00:16:55.30\00:16:57.30 NOW HE BURNS DAY AND NIGHT UNTIL HE'S ALL GONE. 00:16:57.30\00:17:01.36 WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THAT'S GOING TO BE, BUT HE'S GOING 00:17:01.36\00:17:03.66 TO SUFFER THE MOST. 00:17:03.66\00:17:04.80 BUT EVEN HE - THE BIBLE SAYS, 'NEVER SHALT THOU BE.' 00:17:04.80\00:17:08.63 GOD'S NOT GOING TO IMMORTALIZE THE DEVIL. 00:17:08.63\00:17:11.06 THE LORD DOES NOT HAVE A TORTURE CHAMBER OFF THERE IN THE 00:17:11.06\00:17:13.50 COSMOS SOMEWHERE WHILE YOU AND I GO ON THROUGH ETERNITY 00:17:13.50\00:17:16.53 IN JOY AND BLISS. 00:17:16.53\00:17:17.76 THERE IS NOT GOING TO BE THIS PLACE WHERE PEOPLE 00:17:17.76\00:17:19.93 ARE BEING TORTURED. 00:17:19.93\00:17:21.83 WHOEVER IS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE IS CAST 00:17:21.83\00:17:24.60 INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. 00:17:24.60\00:17:26.66 DOES THE WORD HELL AS - I'M SORRY, DOES THE WORD 'HELL' 00:17:26.66\00:17:30.00 AS USED IN THE BIBLE ALWAYS REFER TO A PLACE OF PUNISHMENT? 00:17:30.00\00:17:33.36 NO. 00:17:33.36\00:17:33.86 AND THIS IS WHERE PEOPLE GET MIXED UP. 00:17:33.86\00:17:35.30 A LOT OF TIMES WHEN YOU READ THE WORD 'HELL' - I SOMETIMES EVEN 00:17:35.30\00:17:38.00 FEEL GUILTY SAYING THAT BECAUSE I DON'T WANT YOU TO 00:17:38.00\00:17:39.86 THINK I'M CURSING - SOME PEOPLE USE THE WORD THAT WAY, 00:17:39.86\00:17:41.93 BUT IT'S IN THE BIBLE. 00:17:41.93\00:17:43.30 IT'S BEING USED, TYPICALLY, AS 'THE GRAVE'. 00:17:43.30\00:17:46.86 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE WORD 'SHEOL' IS TRANSLATED 'HELL' - 00:17:46.86\00:17:50.13 IT TYPICALLY JUST MEANS THE GRAVE. 00:17:50.13\00:17:52.86 IT EVEN SAYS 'KING DAVID WENT TO SHEOL.' 00:17:52.86\00:17:55.63 31 TIMES YOU'LL FIND IT, IT JUST MEANS THE GRAVE. 00:17:55.63\00:17:58.46 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT YOU'LL FIND TEN TIMES THE WORD 'HADES' IS 00:17:58.46\00:18:01.86 TRANSLATED 'THE GRAVE' OR THE WORD HADES COMES OUT SOMETIMES 00:18:01.86\00:18:05.63 HELL, BUT IT JUST MEANS THE GRAVE. 00:18:05.63\00:18:07.30 GEHENNA, 12 TIMES, MEANING A PLACE OF BURNING. 00:18:07.30\00:18:10.70 TARTARUS IS ONLY USED ONE TIME AND IT MEANS A PLACE 00:18:10.70\00:18:13.53 OF DARKNESS. 00:18:13.53\00:18:14.63 SO YOU FIND YOU FIND THE WORD 54 TIMES IN THE BIBLE - HELL. 00:18:14.63\00:18:18.56 WHAT IS GOD'S REAL PURPOSE IN HELL FIRE? 00:18:18.56\00:18:21.03 HE'S GETTING EVEN WITH THESE REBELLIOUS CHILDREN SO HE'S 00:18:21.03\00:18:23.66 GOING TO TORTURE THEM THROUGH ETERNITY. 00:18:23.66\00:18:25.63 IS THAT HIS PURPOSE? 00:18:25.63\00:18:27.23 NO, SORRY, I'M BEING SARCASTIC. 00:18:27.23\00:18:29.43 'DEPART FROM ME YE CURSED INTO EVERLASTING FIRE PREPARED 00:18:29.43\00:18:32.50 FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS. 00:18:32.50\00:18:34.73 GOD DOESN'T WANT ANYBODY THERE. 00:18:34.73\00:18:37.10 HE IS GOING TO DESTROY SATAN AND HIS MINIONS THERE, BUT THOSE WHO 00:18:37.10\00:18:40.06 CHOOSE TO FOLLOW THE DEVIL INSTEAD OF JESUS, 00:18:40.06\00:18:42.93 THEY SHARE IN THAT FATE. 00:18:42.93\00:18:45.66 HE IS REWARDING THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS, BUT IF WE CHOOSE TO 00:18:45.66\00:18:49.43 FOLLOW THEM INSTEAD OF JESUS, WE'LL SHARE IN THAT REWARD. 00:18:49.43\00:18:53.40 ISN'T THE WORK OF DESTROYING SINNERS FOREIGN TO GOD'S NATURE? 00:18:53.40\00:18:57.53 DOES THE LORD WANT TO TAKE LIFE OR GIVE LIFE? 00:18:57.53\00:19:01.13 DOES THE LORD LIKE TO CURSE OR DOES HE LIKE TO BLESS? 00:19:01.13\00:19:04.73 DOES THE LORD LIKE TO SEE SUFFERING OR DID JESUS SUFFER 00:19:04.73\00:19:07.96 TO TAKE OUR SUFFERING. 00:19:07.96\00:19:09.96 THIS WHOLE IDEA THAT GOD IS A SADIST IS SO OPPOSITE - 00:19:09.96\00:19:13.60 IT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE DEVIL WANTS PEOPLE TO THINK. 00:19:13.60\00:19:16.50 THE DEVIL WANTS PEOPLE TO BELIEVE THIS MISCONCEPTION ABOUT 00:19:16.50\00:19:19.96 GOD BECAUSE IN THEIR HEART OF HEARTS THEY SAY, 'HOW CAN I EVER 00:19:19.96\00:19:23.03 REALLY LOVE HIM?' IF GOD IS GOING TO TORTURE - 00:19:23.03\00:19:26.60 SUPPOSE YOU'VE GOT A LOVED ONE THAT'S LOST AND YOU'RE IN HEAVEN 00:19:26.60\00:19:29.40 AND SOMEONE THAT YOU DEARLY LOVED, PARENTS, SPOUSE, CHILD - 00:19:29.40\00:19:35.26 AND THEY DIDN'T MAKE IT - LET'S BE HONEST, NOT EVERYONE'S GOING 00:19:35.26\00:19:38.40 TO MAKE IT - HOW COULD YOU EVER FEEL LOVE FOR GOD IF YOU KNEW 00:19:38.40\00:19:42.93 SOMEWHERE OUT THERE THERE WAS A PLACE WHERE HE WAS TORTURING THE 00:19:42.93\00:19:46.50 ONES YOU LOVED IN THIS LIFE? 00:19:46.50\00:19:49.46 UNLESS GOD IS GOING TO TOTALLY MAKE US SO THAT WE JUST DON'T 00:19:49.46\00:19:51.73 EVEN THINK STRAIGHT AND ARE TOTALLY UNAWARE AND OBLIVIOUS. 00:19:51.73\00:19:56.40 BUT HE'S GOING TO DEMONSTRATE HIS LOVE IN THAT HE'S EVEN GOING 00:19:56.40\00:19:59.93 TO PUT THE WICKED OUT OF THEIR MISERY BECAUSE SINNERS 00:19:59.93\00:20:02.46 ARA NOT HAPPY. 00:20:02.46\00:20:04.63 THE WAY THAT GOD DEALS WITH THE WICKED IS ACTUALLY 00:20:04.63\00:20:06.56 AN ACT OF LOVE. 00:20:06.56\00:20:09.73 'THE LORD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT THAT ALL 00:20:09.73\00:20:13.23 SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE' AND ACCEPT HIM AND SURRENDER 00:20:13.23\00:20:16.53 TO HIM AND SERVE HIM. 00:20:16.53\00:20:17.46 AND YOU'LL FIND PEACE - YOU FIND JOY. 00:20:17.46\00:20:20.06 HE WANTS YOU TO LIVE, NOT DIE. 00:20:20.06\00:20:22.20 SPEAKING OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED, IT SAYS, 'THE LORD 00:20:22.20\00:20:25.16 SHALL BE WROTH THAT HE MIGHT DO HIS WORK, HIS STRANGE WORK.' 00:20:25.16\00:20:29.70 IT'S STRANGE TO HIS NATURE - 'AND BRING TO PASS 00:20:29.70\00:20:32.03 HIS ACT, HIS STRANGE ACT' - THIS IS STRANGE FOR GOD, 00:20:32.03\00:20:36.23 IT'S NOT NORMAL FOR HIM. 00:20:36.23\00:20:38.50 IT REPULSES HIM BUT HE HAS TO DO IT. 00:20:38.50\00:20:41.83 CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW A HORSE TRAINER FEELS WHEN HE HAS TO 00:20:41.83\00:20:43.90 WALK OUT ON THE FIELD AND TO DISPATCH A WOUNDED ANIMAL? 00:20:43.90\00:20:48.26 DO YOU THINK HE ENJOYS THAT OR DOES IT BREAK HIS HEART? 00:20:48.26\00:20:51.66 THEY DO IT WITH TEARS IN THEIR EYES. 00:20:51.66\00:20:55.93 GOD IS A GOD OF LOVE. 00:20:55.93\00:20:57.46 HE MAKES LIFE. 00:20:57.46\00:20:58.96 HE DELIGHTS IN NEW LIFE. 00:20:58.96\00:21:00.40 HE DELIGHTS IN SEEING HIS CHILDREN HAPPY. 00:21:00.40\00:21:03.60 WHAT KIND OF PARENT IS IT THAT LIKES TO SEE THEIR CHILDREN 00:21:03.60\00:21:05.53 SUFFER? 00:21:05.53\00:21:07.96 AND IF YOU HAVE TO PUNISH YOUR CHILDREN, DO YOU ENJOY IT? 00:21:07.96\00:21:11.46 THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU IF YOU DO. 00:21:11.46\00:21:13.23 THAT'LL NO DOUBT TURN INTO ABUSE. 00:21:13.23\00:21:15.80 GOD SAYS, ''AS I LIVE' SAYS THE LORD, 'I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THE 00:21:15.80\00:21:19.03 DEATH OF THE WICKED BUT THAT THE WICKED SHOULD TURN FROM HIS WAY 00:21:19.03\00:21:22.40 AND LIVE.'' AND THEN HE APPEALS AND HE SAYS, 00:21:22.40\00:21:25.16 'TURN YE, TURN YE FROM YOUR EVIL WAYS. WHY WILL YOU DIE, 00:21:25.16\00:21:29.63 O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?' AGAIN, THE SON OF MAN IS COME 00:21:29.63\00:21:33.56 NOT TO DESTROY MEN'S LIVES BUT TO SAVE THEM. 00:21:33.56\00:21:38.20 JESUS WANTS TO SAVE US THAT WE MIGHT NOT PERISH. 00:21:38.20\00:21:44.00 SOMEONE MIGHT ASK THIS QUESTION: 'SHALL MORTAL MAN BE MORE JUST 00:21:44.00\00:21:46.63 THAN GOD?' WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT SOME OF 00:21:46.63\00:21:49.36 THESE CONVOLUTED IDEAS THAT PEOPLE HAVE ABOUT THE 00:21:49.36\00:21:51.63 DESTRUCTION AND THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED - THE IDEA THAT 00:21:51.63\00:21:54.60 THE LORD'S GOING TO BURN PEOPLE THROUGH ALL ETERNITY FOR THE 00:21:54.60\00:21:57.50 SINS OF ONE BRIEF LIFETIME. 00:21:57.50\00:21:59.76 AND IF WE WOULDN'T DO THAT TO OUR CHILDREN AND WE WOULDN'T 00:21:59.76\00:22:01.90 DO THAT TO OUR DOG OR EVEN A KANGAROO RAT - AND YET PEOPLE 00:22:01.90\00:22:06.73 BELIEVE THAT GOD'S GOING TO DO THAT TO HIS REBELLIOUS CHILDREN 00:22:06.73\00:22:11.03 - FOREVER AND EVER HE'S GOING TO TORTURE THEM? NO. 00:22:11.03\00:22:14.33 ARE YOU MORE JUST THAN GOD? 00:22:14.33\00:22:16.30 THAT'S WHAT JOB IS ASKING. 00:22:16.30\00:22:17.23 OF COURSE NOT. 00:22:17.23\00:22:18.63 WHAT ARE GOD'S POST-HELL PLANS FOR THE EARTH AND HIS PEOPLE? 00:22:18.63\00:22:23.96 WHAT IS GOD GOING TO DO? 00:22:23.96\00:22:24.93 'NEVERTHELESS WE, ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE, LOOK FOR A NEW 00:22:24.93\00:22:28.36 HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, WHEREIN DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND GOD 00:22:28.36\00:22:33.20 SAYS, 'BEHOLD,I WILL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM THEIR EYES. 00:22:33.20\00:22:36.93 NOW GET THIS FRIENDS, 'THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH - 00:22:36.93\00:22:39.73 GET THIS - NEITHER SORROW, NOR CRYING - NEITHER SHALL THERE 00:22:39.73\00:22:43.93 BE ANY MORE PAIN. 00:22:43.93\00:22:45.30 THERE SHALL BE NO MORE SORROW, NO MORE PAIN, NO MORE CRYIíG. 00:22:45.30\00:22:50.80 IF GOD HAS A TORTURE CHAMBER OUT THERE IN THE UNIVERSE, OR DOWN 00:22:50.80\00:22:54.56 YONDER SOMEWHERE IN THE EARTH WHERE PEOPLE ARE TORTURED AND 00:22:54.56\00:22:59.33 THEY'RE BURNING AND WRITHING AND SCREAMING AND CRYING, 00:22:59.33\00:23:01.76 AND SORROWFUL, HOW CAN THIS VERSE BE TRUE? 00:23:01.76\00:23:07.00 GOD IS MAKING A UNIVERSE WHERE THERE IS NO MORE SIN, 00:23:07.00\00:23:09.23 NO MORE SINNERS, NO MORE PAIN, NO MORE SUFFERING. 00:23:09.23\00:23:12.20 ALL THINGS - ALL THINGS - ARE MADE NEW. 00:23:12.20\00:23:14.63 IF SINNERS ARE IMMORTALIZED, THOSE WERSES AREN'T TRUE. 00:23:14.63\00:23:17.46 YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 00:23:17.46\00:23:20.30 IF THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS EVERLASTING TORTURE, THEN JESUS 00:23:20.30\00:23:22.40 DIDN'T PAY YOUR PENALTY. 00:23:22.40\00:23:24.56 THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT TEACHING, FRIENDS, BECAUSE NOT 00:23:24.56\00:23:28.60 ONLY DOES IT LIBERATE US IN THAT WE REALIZE THAT GOD IS JUST 00:23:28.60\00:23:33.56 AND GOD IS FAIR, IT HELPS US RECOGNIZE THAT GOD IS A GOD OF 00:23:33.56\00:23:37.86 LOVE AND THAT YOU CAN TRUST HIM THAT WE'RE GOING TO ENTER 00:23:37.86\00:23:41.76 A UNIVERSE WHERE ALL THINGS ARE MADE NEW. 00:23:41.76\00:23:45.73 YES, THERE IS PUNISHMENT FOR SIN. 00:23:45.73\00:23:47.40 THERE'S ONLY TWO CHOICES THAT WE HAVE, LIFE AND DEATH. 00:23:47.40\00:23:50.43 I DON'T WANT TO SUFFER MY SINS, FRIENDS. 00:23:50.43\00:23:53.56 I DON'T WANT TO EXPERIENCE IN THE LAKE OF FIRE WHAT I'VE DONE. 00:23:53.56\00:23:56.70 I AM SO THANKFUL THAT JESUS EXPERIENCED THAT ON THE CROSS 00:23:56.70\00:24:00.06 FOR ME. 00:24:00.06\00:24:02.03 AND HE EXPERIENCED EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER DONE WRONG OR YOU 00:24:02.03\00:24:04.63 EVEN MAY DO WRONG. 00:24:04.63\00:24:06.53 CHRIST SUFFERED FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD ON THE CROSS. 00:24:06.53\00:24:08.90 AND YOU MIGHT SAY, 'HOW CAN ONE MAN?' 00:24:08.90\00:24:11.36 HE WASN'T JUST A MAN. 00:24:11.36\00:24:13.60 GOD BECAME A MAN AND THAT'S WHY IT REQUIRED GOD, BECAUSE ONLY 00:24:13.60\00:24:19.16 GOD COULD SUFFER FOR THE WHOLE RACE. 00:24:19.16\00:24:22.90 HE SUFFERED AS NO ONE COULD SUFFER - AND YOU KNOW WHAT MADE 00:24:22.90\00:24:25.20 HIM SUFFER THE MOST? 00:24:25.20\00:24:27.06 HE EXPERIENCED SEPARATION FROM HIS FATHER. 00:24:27.06\00:24:30.23 HE EXPERIENCED THAT ETERNAL SEPARATION THAT THE LOST 00:24:30.23\00:24:32.73 WILL FEEL. 00:24:32.73\00:24:34.53 AND THAT'S WHAT BROKE HIS HEART MORE THAN ANYTHING - 00:24:34.53\00:24:36.56 WHY HE CRIED, 'MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?' 00:24:36.56\00:24:39.90 THAT WAS THE CRY OF THE LOST. 00:24:39.90\00:24:43.93 HE TOOK ALL THAT BECAUSE HE LOVES EACH ONE OF US SO MUCH - 00:24:43.93\00:24:47.53 BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WANT US TO PERISH. 00:24:47.53\00:24:50.06 FRIENDS, THE STORY OF HELL IS ACTUALLY GOOD NEWS. 00:24:50.06\00:24:54.46 IT'S THE GOOD NEWS THAT JESUS TOOK YOUR HELL 00:24:54.46\00:24:56.76 IF YOU'LL BELIEVE. 00:24:56.76\00:24:58.26 HE TOOK YOUR LAKE OF FIRE IF YOU'LL ACCEPTIM. 00:24:58.26\00:25:01.03 HE WANTS YOU TO LIVE. 00:25:01.03\00:25:03.60 HE WANTS YOU TO HAVE NEW LIFE, BUT YOU'VE GOT TO TRUST HIM. 00:25:03.60\00:25:08.36 >>STAY TUNED, WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S 00:25:08.36\00:25:10.60 SPECIAL OFFER. 00:25:10.60\00:25:19.70 >>YOU KNOW THAT OLD SERPENT CALLED THE DEVIL AND SATAN - 00:25:19.70\00:25:22.33 HE'S GOING TO BE ON ICE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS AND WHEN HE 00:25:22.33\00:25:25.56 REVIVES HE'S GOING TO TRY ONE MORE TIME TO LUNGE FOR THE LORD. 00:25:25.56\00:25:31.90 THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS COMMENCES WITH THE LORD'S COMING AND THE 00:25:31.90\00:25:36.10 RESURRECTION OF THE RIGHTEOUS. 00:25:36.10\00:25:38.90 SO, FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS, SATAN AND ALL THE FALLEN ANGELS 00:25:38.90\00:25:43.20 ARE FORCED TO SURVEY THE RESULTS OF THEIR REBELLION. 00:25:43.20\00:25:50.23 >>DURING A TIME OF GREAT SPIRITUAL DARKNESS, WHEN 00:25:50.23\00:25:59.66 BRAVE SOULS RISKED EVERYTHING, THE LIGHT OF GOD'S WORD 00:25:59.66\00:26:07.23 WAS GIVEN BACK TO ALL MANKIND. 00:26:07.23\00:26:22.23 COSMIC CONFLICT. 00:26:22.23\00:26:30.56 THIS COSMIC CONFLICT PROJECT IS GOING TO CHANGE LIVES AND 00:26:30.56\00:26:33.60 LIBERATE PEOPLE WITHTHE TRUTH ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 00:26:33.60\00:26:37.06 WILL YOU PLEASE PRAYERFULLY CONSIDER JOINING WITH US IN THIS 00:26:37.06\00:26:40.20 EPIC PROJECT TO CHANGE LIVES WITH THE TRUTH? 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