Participants: Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000125
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01:01 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. >>THIS TYPICAL TRADITIONAL VIEW 01:13 OF HELL IS NOT WHAT WAS TAUGHT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT OR THE 01:17 NEW TESTAMENT OR BELIEVED BY THE EARLY CHURCH. 01:20 IT HAS BEEN DISTORTED THROUGH THE DARK AGES AND EXPLOITED BY 01:23 THE CHURCH TO DRIVE PEOPLE BY FEAR. 01:29 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 01:33 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:35 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 01:39 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 01:41 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:51 >>THE MESSAGE FOR THIS MORNING IS TITLED 'THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT 01:55 HELL - PART 1'. NOW THIS IS A VERY RELEVANT 02:02 THING FOR US TO TALK ABOUT BECAUSE THE BIBLE IS PRETTY 02:07 CLEAR THERE ARE ONLY TWO CHOICES THAT EVERY HUMAN FACES. 02:13 THERE ARE TWO DESTINIES EVERYONE AROUND YOU IS GOING TO EMBRACE. 02:17 YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 20, VERSE 15, "AND ANYONE NOT FOUND 02:22 WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE." 02:28 THERE ARE TWO CHOICES - LIFE OR DEATH - ETERNAL LIFE OR THE LAKE 02:35 OF FIRE, SOMETIMES KNOWN AS HELL. 02:37 I ALWAYS FEEL A LITTLE AWKWARD SAYING THAT WORD IN CHURCH. 02:40 MOST PEOPLE DON'T USE THAT WORD IN THE BIBLICAL SENSE, 02:44 BUT IT IS A BIBLICAL WORD AND JUST APPRECIATE 02:46 THAT'S THE WAY I'M USING IT. 02:48 AND, KIND OF, THE COLLECTIVE IDEA OF HELL IS THAT THERE'S 02:53 THIS MOLTEN PLACE, TYPICALLY DOWN YONDER SOMEWHERE, WHERE THE 03:01 LOST GO AS SOON AS THEY DIE AND THAT THEY BEGIN BURNING THERE 03:07 BUT THEY'RE ALIVE AND CONSCIOUS AND THEY FEEL THE BURNING AND 03:12 THEY DON'T BURN FOR A SECOND OR TWO, BUT THEY BURN IN THIS 03:16 MOLTEN FIRE AND SULPHUR AND BRIMSTONE AGONIZING SECOND AFTER 03:22 SECOND AND MINUTE AFTER MINUTE AND HOUR AFTER HOUR AND DAY 03:26 AFTER DAY AND WEEK AND MONTH AND YEAR AFTER YEAR AND 03:30 MILLENNIUM AFTER MILLENNIUM. 03:31 ALL THAT TIME THEY'RE ROLLING AND BLISTERING AND SHRIEKING AND 03:34 CRYING FOR MERCY AND MERCY NEVER COMES AND AFTER A BILLION YEARS 03:39 GO BY THEY MANAGE TO SWIM TO THE SURFACE OF THIS MOLTEN BRIMSTONE 03:43 AND THEY CALL 'LORD, HOW LONG?' AND GOD SAYS, 'YOU'VE ONLY JUST 03:46 BEGUN.' AND HE PUSHES THEM UNDER AGAIN. THIS IS WHAT IS BELIEVED. 03:52 YOU'RE AWARE OF THAT. THIS IS WHAT IS BELIEVED BY THE 03:56 TYPICAL BAPTIST AND MANY EVANGELICALS ABOUT HELL. 04:00 SOME TRY TO SOFTEN IT A LITTLE BIT AND THEY SIMPLY CALL IT 04:03 ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD. 04:05 BUT THEN YOU PIN THEM DOWN AND SAY, 'WELL, WHAT ARE THESE LOST 04:07 SOULS EXPERIENCING?' 'WELL, THEY'RE BEING TORMENTED 04:12 DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER AND EVER IN FIRE AND BRIMSTONE.' 04:16 THERE ARE SOME DIFFICULT PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE THAT ARE 04:19 FREQUENTLY MISUNDERSTOOD AND I'M GOING TO TAKE SOME TIME, 04:22 SPECIFICALLY NEXT WEEK TO TALK ABOUT THAT. 04:26 BUT IN THE PRESENTATION TODAY I WANT TO TELL YOU WHAT SOME OF 04:29 THE GOOD NEWS IS ON THIS SUBJECT AND TRY AND CLEAR UP SOME OF 04:32 THESE MISUNDERSTANDINGS BECAUSE THIS TYPICAL TRADITIONAL VIEW OF 04:36 HELL IS NOT WHAT WAS TAUGHT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT OR THE NEW 04:40 TESTAMENT OR BELIEVED BY THE EARLY CHURCH. 04:42 IT HAS BEEN DISTORTED THROUGH THE DARK AGES AND EXPLOITED BY 04:46 THE CHURCH TO DRIVE PEOPLE BY FEAR. 04:51 MANY, MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DRIVEN BY FEAR REGARDING THIS 04:54 SUBJECT AND IT DISTORTS THE PICTURE OF GOD - IT PAINTS GOD 04:58 AS A SADIST. AND I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND 05:02 WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY TEACHES ABOUT THE SUBJECT. 05:05 FIRST OF ALL, IS ANYBODY BURNING IN HELL RIGHT NOW? 05:08 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TEACH ABOUT THIS? 05:10 2 PETER - WE'LL HAVE SCRIPTURES ON THE SCREEN, BUT I HOPE YOU'LL 05:12 ALSO WRITE THEM DOWN SO YOU'LL HAVE AN OUTLINE IN YOUR HANDS. 05:17 2 PETER CHAPTER 2, VERSE 9 "...THE LORD KNOWS HOW TO 05:22 DELIVER THE GODLY OUT OF TEMPTATIONS AND TO RESERVE THE 05:26 UNJUST" - YOU'VE GOT TWO GROUPS: THE GODLY AND THE UNJUST - 05:30 "UNDER PUNISHMENT FOR THE DAY OF JUDGMENT," - SO WHEN ARE THE 05:34 UNJUST PUNISHED? THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. 05:38 THAT DAY IS NOT THE DAY OF THEIR DEATH. 05:40 THERE IS A GREAT JUDGMENT DAY COMING. 05:43 JOHN 12:48 JESUS SAID, "HE WHO REJECTS ME, AND DOES NOT RECEIVE 05:47 MY WORDS, HAS THAT WHICH JUDGES HIM - THE WORD THAT I HAVE 05:52 SPOKEN WILL JUDGE HIM IN THE LAST DAY." 05:55 CHRIST IS LOOKING OFF INTO THE FUTURE AT THAT DAY OF THE LORD - 05:58 THAT GREAT JUDGMENT DAY - AND HE SAYS 'THAT IS THE DAY WHEN THEY 06:03 WILL BE JUDGED BY THE WORD THAT I HAVE SPOKEN.' 06:06 THEY ARE NOT JUDGED YET. 06:07 THEY ARE NOT RECEIVING THEIR REWARD YET. 06:11 AND THEN, IF THERE'S ANY DOUBT, IT'S REALLY CLEAR WHEN YOU LOOK 06:14 AT THE PARABLE THAT JESUS TOLD - MATTHEW CHAPTER 13, VERSE 40 - 06:18 DO YOU KNOW THE PARABLE OF THE WHEAT AND THE TARES? HERE JESUS 06:23 TALKS ABOUT A MAN HAD A FIELD AND SOME ENEMY CAME DURING THE 06:25 NIGHT AND HE SOWED THESE TARES - TARES ARE LIKE A WEED. 06:29 HE SOWED THESE WEEDS IN AMONG THE WHEAT AND IT ALL GREW UP AND 06:32 THE SERVANTS SAID, 'WHAT SHALL WE DO? 06:34 SHALL WE PULL UP ALL THE WEEDS?' AND THE MASTER SAID, 'NO, LET IT 06:37 GROW TOGETHER UNTIL THE HARVEST AND AT THE HARVEST THEN WE'LL 06:41 GATHER THE TARES AND BURN THEM IN BUNDLES AND WE'LL 06:43 GATHER THE WHEAT AND PUT IT IN THE BARN. 06:46 AND SO JESUS, LATER, INTERPRETING THAT PARABLE FOR 06:49 THE DISCIPLES SO THERE'S NO MISUNDERSTANDING HE SAID - AND 06:53 THIS IS MATTHEW 13, VERSE 40, "THEREFORE AS THE TARES ARE 06:57 GATHERED AND BURNED IN THE FIRE, SO IT WILL BE AT 07:01 THE END OF THIS AGE. 07:05 THE SON OF MAN WILL SEND OUT HIS ANGELS," - WHEN JESUS COMES - 07:08 "AND THEY WILL GATHER OUT OF HIS KINGDOM ALL THINGS THAT OFFEND, 07:11 AND THOSE WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS," - THE WICKED - THE 07:14 LOST - "AND WILL CAST THEM INTO THE FURNACE OF FIRE. 07:17 THERE WILL BE WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH." 07:21 ALRIGHT, WELL ONE THING WE DID LEARN - THERE IS A FURNACE OF 07:23 FIRE BUT WE ALSO LEARNED THAT THEY'RE NOT BURNING THERE YET 07:28 BECAUSE THE JUDGMENT DAY HAS NOT HAPPENED. 07:30 THIS HARVEST HAS NOT HAPPENED YET. THE RESURRECTION OF THE 07:32 WICKED HAS NOT HAPPENED YET. IT IS STILL IN THE FUTURE. 07:36 SO I HOPE THAT YOU FIND SOME GOOD NEWS RIGHT THERE - THAT 07:39 NOBODY IS BURNING IN HELL RIGHT NOW. SO WHERE ARE THE LOST NOW? 07:44 JESUS ANSWERS THAT IN JOHN 4, VERSES 28 AND 29, "DO NOT MARVEL 07:49 AT THIS; FOR THE HOUR IS COMING" - FUTURE TENSE - "IN WHICH ALL 07:53 WHO ARE IN THE GRAVES WILL HEAR HIS VOICE AND COME FORTH -" - 07:58 THEY HAVEN'T COME FORTH YET - THERE'S AN HOUR COMING WHEN 08:00 THEY'LL COME FORTH - THOSE WHO HAVE DONE GOOD, TO THE 08:03 RESURRECTION OF LIFE," - THAT'S FIRST - DEAD IN CHRIST RISE 08:06 FIRST. ISN'T THAT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS? 08:08 - "AND THOSE WHO HAVE DONE EVIL, TO THE RESURRECTION OF 08:10 CONDEMNATION." - OR THE RESURRECTION OF 08:12 DAMNATION - THE RESURRECTION OF THE LOST SPOKEN OF ALSO IN 08:16 DANIEL CHAPTER 12. JESUS SAID IT'S IN THE FUTURE. 08:20 YOU'VE GOT A RESURRECTION OF THE SAVED - THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE 08:23 FIRST. THAT'S IN 1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 4. 08:26 AND THEN THERE'S THE RESURRECTION OF THE LOST THAT 08:28 HAPPENS AT THE END OF THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS. 08:30 THE BIBLE TELLS US IN REVELATION 20, 'THE REST OF THE DEAD DO NOT 08:34 LIVE UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE FINISHED.' 08:36 IF THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE FIRST - ALL THE DEAD WHO ARE SAVED 08:39 RISE FIRST - WHO ARE THE REST OF THE DEAD? 08:42 THE DEAD WITHOUT CHRIST - THE LOST. 08:46 THAT'S THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION OR CONDEMNATION THE 08:50 BIBLE SPEAKS OF - IT'S IN THE FUTURE - HASN'T HAPPENED YET. 08:55 ALRIGHT, MOVING ON WITH THE NEXT QUESTION: WHAT IS THE END RESULT 08:58 OF SIN? WELL, LET'S LET THE BIBLE SPEAK FOR ITSELF. 09:04 JAMES 1:15, "...SIN, WHEN IT IS FINISHED, BRINGETH FORTH DEATH." 09:12 SO THERE ARE TWO REWARDS THAT ARE OFFERED: LIFE OR DEATH. 09:17 MOSES SAID, BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ENTERED THE PROMISED 09:19 LAND THERE IN DEUTERONOMY IN CHAPTER 30, HE SAID, 'I SET 09:23 BEFORE YOU THIS DAY LIFE AND GOOD AND BLESSING OR DEATH AND 09:26 EVIL AND CURSING.' THE OPTIONS FOR EVERYBODY IS IF 09:29 YOUR NAME IS IN THE BOOK OF LIFE YOU LIVE. 09:31 IF YOUR NAME IS NOT IN THE BOOK OF LIFE YOU WILL BE PUNISHED AND 09:35 YOU DIE. THE END RESULT OF SIN IS NOT 09:39 ETERNAL LIFE IN THE FIRE. IT DOESN'T SAY THAT IN THE 09:41 BIBLE. THE BIBLE DOESN'T SAY ANYWHERE 09:44 THAT YOU'VE GOT AN IMMORTAL SOUL. 09:46 I ALWAYS STOP AND I JUST ASK ANYBODY - I MEAN, HERE WE'VE GOT 09:50 OH, SIX OR SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLE, SHOW ME ONE VERSE IN THE BIBLE 09:54 THAT SAYS YOU HAVE AN IMMORTAL SOUL. 09:57 GOD IS IMMORTAL, BUT IMMORTALITY IS GIVEN AT THE RESURRECTION. 10:03 NOBODY NOW POSSESSES IMMORTALITY. 10:05 MATTER OF FACT, OUR BODIES ARE CALLED MORTAL BODIES. 10:07 WHEN JESUS COMES, THEN THIS MORTAL PUTS ON IMMORTALITY. 10:12 JOHN 3:16 - ACTUALLY I THINK I'VE GOT ONE IN ROMANS FIRST - 10:17 LET'S DO ROMANS 6:23. "FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, 10:22 BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE." 10:25 EVERYBODY HERE - YOU'VE GOT TWO OPTIONS. 10:28 AND I CAN PROMISE YOU SOMETHING: EVERYBODY HERE WILL RECEIVE ONE 10:31 OF THOSE TWO OPTIONS. AND WHAT ARE THOSE TWO OPTIONS? 10:36 DEATH - HE DOESN'T SAY 'THE WAGES FOR SIN IS ETERNAL LIFE IN 10:40 THE FIRE.' HE SAYS, 'THE WAGES FOR SIN IS DEATH.' 10:44 THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE. NOW, DID JESUS DIE FOR OUR SINS? 10:49 DID JESUS TAKE THE PENALTY FOR OUR SINS? 10:52 DID JESUS JUST FALL OVER AND DIE OR DID HE SUFFER AND DIE? 10:57 SO THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS NOT JUST DEATH, THE ULTIMATE PENALTY 11:00 IS DEATH, BUT HE SUFFERED AND DIED. 11:04 SO IF WE DO NOT EMBRACE THE SACRIFICE JESUS MADE IN OUR 11:08 BEHALF, WE WILL ALSO SUFFER AND DIE FOR OUR OWN SINS IF WE DO 11:13 NOT ACCEPT HIM AS OUR REPLACEMENT. 11:18 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE SO FAR? 11:21 JOHN 3:16 - TWO OPTIONS - "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE 11:26 GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD 11:31 NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE." THERE'S ONLY TWO OPTIONS. 11:37 ONE OPTION IS NOT ETERNAL LIFE IN THE FIRE - 11:40 PERISH IS THE ABSENCE OF LIFE. 11:42 THEY'RE GOING TO PERISH OR EVERLASTING LIFE. 11:46 JESUS MADE THAT CLEAR RIGHT THERE IN JOHN 3:16. 11:49 OKAY, QUESTION #4: WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED IN HELLFIRE? 11:53 PSALM 37, VERSE 10 AND THEN I'M ALSO GOING TO READ VERSE 20 - 11:58 YOU OUGHT TO READ THE WHOLE PSALM. 11:59 WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WICKED IN HELLFIRE? HERE WE GO. 12:03 "FOR YET A LITTLE WHILE, AND THE WICKED SHALL NOT BE: YEAH, THOU 12:07 SHALT DILIGENTLY CONSIDER HIS PLACE, AND IT SHALL NOT BE." 12:12 THEY'LL NOT BE. I MEAN, WHAT OTHER TERM OR WORDS DO YOU USE 12:16 TO DESCRIBE SOMETHING CEASING TO EXIST? THEY'LL NOT BE. 12:19 'THE WICKED SHALL PERISH AND THE ENEMIES OF THE LORD 12:22 WILL CONSUME INTO SMOKE. THEY WILL CONSUME AWAY.' 12:25 AND I'VE HEARD SOME PASTORS SAY, 'WELL, YEAH, THAT'S TRUE. 12:27 THE BODIES ALL BURN UP BUT THE SOUL CONTINUES TO BURN FOREVER.' 12:32 OH, BUT JESUS SAID 'THE SOUL THAT SINS IT WILL DIE.' 12:35 ACTUALLY, THAT'S IN EZEKIEL - JESUS SAID, 'FEAR NOT HIM WHO 12:38 DESTROYS THE BODY' - MATTHEW CHAPTER 10 - 12:40 'BUT CANNOT DESTROY THE SOUL. 12:42 RATHER, FEAR HIM WHO DESTROYS SOUL AND BODY IN HELL.' 12:46 IT'S NOT JUST THE BODY THAT BURNS UP - THE SOUL AND BODY. 12:49 MALACHI 4, VERSE 1 - THIS WAS IN OUR SCRIPTURE READING - "'FOR 12:53 BEHOLD, THE DAY IS COMING, BURNING LIKE AN OVEN, AND ALL 12:57 THE PROUD, YES, ALL WHO DO WICKEDLY WILL BE STUBBLE. 13:01 AND THE DAY WHICH IS COMING SHALL BURN THEM UP.' 13:04 SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, 'THAT WILL LEAVE THEM NEITHER ROOT NOR 13:07 BRANCH.'" YOU THINK ABOUT THE WORDS THAT 13:10 GOD IS USING HERE. LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE AND 13:12 I'LL JUST TRY AND SUM THIS THOUGHT UP FOR YOU. 13:15 REVELATION 21, VERSES 7 AND 8, "HE WHO OVERCOMES WILL INHERIT 13:19 ALL THINGS" - THERE'S THE GOOD NEWS, RIGHT? - "AND I WILL BE 13:23 HIS GOD AND HE WILL BE MY SON." - SO ON ONE SIDE 13:26 YOU'VE GOT A SHEEP - THEY GET THE EVERLASTING LIFE. 13:30 THEY'RE SAVED. - "BUT" - 13:32 THIS IS VERSE 8 - REVELATION 21, VERSE 8 - 13:34 "THE COWARDLY, UNBELIEVING, ABOMINABLE, MURDERERS, SEXUALLY 13:40 IMMORAL, SORCERERS, IDOLATERS, AND ALL LIARS SHALL HAVE THEIR 13:45 PART IN THE LAKE WHICH BURNS WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, WHICH 13:49 IS THE SECOND DEATH." 13:52 REVELATION 20, VERSE 9 - WHERE IS HELL GOING TO BURN? 13:56 AT THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM WHEN SATAN MARSHALS THOSE LOST 14:00 FORCES AGAINST THE CITY OF GOD IT SAYS, "THEY WENT UP ON THE 14:03 BREADTH OF THE EARTH AND SURROUNDED THE CAMP OF THE 14:06 SAINTS AND THE BELOVED CITY. 14:08 AND FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN AND DEVOURED THEM." 14:11 THAT FIRE THAT RAINS DOWN SURROUNDING THE NEW JERUSALEM 14:14 FORMS A LAKE OF FIRE. IT IS ON THE EARTH. SO WHERE IS HELL 14:18 GOING TO BURN? ON THE EARTH. I'LL GIVE YOU A FEW MORE VERSES. 14:23 PROVERBS 11, VERSE 31, "...THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE RECOMPENSED 14:27 IN THE EARTH: MUCH MORE THE WICKED AND THE SINNER." 14:31 EVERYBODY'S GOING TO GET THEIR REWARD IN THE VERY PLACE OF THE 14:34 CRIME - RIGHT HERE ON THE PLANET. 14:36 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 10, "BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL 14:40 COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, IN WHICH THE HEAVENS WILL PASS AWAY 14:43 WITH A GREAT NOISE, AND THE ELEMENTS WILL MELT WITH FERVENT 14:47 HEAT; BOTH THE EARTH AND THE WORKS THAT ARE IN IT 14:49 WILL BE BURNED UP." 14:51 SO IT'S ALWAYS FOCUSED - THAT JUDGMENT IS RIGHT DOWN HERE. 14:54 HELL IS NOT A CAVERN OFF IN THE COSMOS SOMEWHERE - THAT'S FULL 14:59 OF MOLTEN FIRE - HELL IS NOT A CAVERN DOWN IN THE EARTH 15:04 SOMEWHERE, IT'S ON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH. 15:07 IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT BECAUSE ONCE YOU KNOW WHERE HELL 15:10 IS, IT BECOMES CLEAR THAT FOR GOD TO MAKE A NEW EARTH ON THIS 15:14 PLANET THE TWO CAN'T COEXIST TOGETHER. 15:17 THAT MEANS THE FIRES OF HELL MUST GO OUT. 15:21 NUMBER 6 - THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POINTS THAT I 15:26 THINK IS ACTUALLY GOOD NEWS. HOW LONG WILL THE WICKED SUFFER 15:30 IN THE FIRE? WELL, YOU KNOW THE BIBLE DOESN'T 15:33 GIVE US AN EXACT TIME BECAUSE IT VARIES FROM PERSON TO PERSON. 15:38 REVELATION 22:12, JESUS SAID - LAST CHAPTER OF THE BIBLE - 15:43 "AND, BEHOLD, I COME QUICKLY; AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME, TO 15:46 GIVE EVERY MAN ACCORDING AS HIS WORK SHALL BE." 15:51 EVERYONE IS REWARDED ACCORDING TO HIS WORK - MEANING THERE ARE 15:55 VARYING WORKS OUT THERE AND THERE ARE VARYING REWARDS. 15:58 IF EVERYBODY BURNS ETERNALLY THEN EVERYBODY GETS THE SAME 16:02 REWARD. HOW CAN THERE BE A VARIATION? 'WELL, SOME - 16:06 IT'S HOTTER FIRE THAN FOR THE OTHERS.' WOULD BE THE ANSWER. 16:10 COME ON, IF YOU GET EVERLASTING FIRE AND I GET EVERLASTING FIRE 16:12 - AND JUST THINK ABOUT HOW UNJUST THAT WOULD BE THAT YOU'VE 16:17 GOT, YOU KNOW, THINK OF THE BIGGEST FIEND YOU CAN THINK OF 16:20 FROM HISTORY - POL POT OR ADOLPH HITLER - PICK YOUR FIEND. 16:23 SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT STALIN KILLED MORE THAN HITLER. 16:27 PICK YOUR BIGGEST FIEND THAT YOU FIGURE IS LOST AND ON THE 16:30 JUDGMENT DAY GOD SAYS, 'LOST - LAKE OF FIRE FOR YOU.' 16:35 AND THE ANGELS TOSS HIM OFF IN THE MOLTEN LAKE OF FIRE AND THEN 16:38 YOU'VE GOT THAT TEENAGER. HE'S PAST THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY - 16:43 HE'S OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER BUT HE REJECTS GOD - TAKES HIS 16:49 OWN LIFE AND THE LORD SAYS, 'SORRY, YOU CAN'T BE SAVED. 16:55 YOU CAN GO BURN FOREVER RIGHT NEXT TO ADOLPH OR STALIN.' 16:59 IS THAT JUSTICE? NO, I JUST - IT ABSOLUTELY 17:04 VIOLATES OUR REASON. WELL, THE BIBLE IS CLEAR. 17:07 IT SAYS THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES OF PUNISHMENT. 17:09 AND LET ME GIVE YOU A FEW MORE VERSES ON THAT. 17:11 MATTHEW 10:28, "AND FEAR NOT THEM WHICH KILL THE BODY, BUT 17:16 ARE NOT ABLE TO KILL THE SOUL:" - I THINK I QUOTED THIS ALREADY 17:19 - "BUT RATHER FEAR HIM WHICH IS ABLE TO DESTROY BOTH SOUL AND 17:23 BODY IN HELL." SO IN HELL THE WICKED ARE DESTROYED. 17:26 MATTHEW 16, "...HE'LL REWARD EVERY MAN" - 16:27 - "ACCORDING 17:32 TO HIS WORKS." EVERYBODY. THEN AGAIN, WE'RE SAVED BY WHAT? 17:37 WORKS OR FAITH? WE'RE SAVED BY FAITH AND GRACE BUT WORKS ARE 17:41 THE ONLY THING THAT'S USED IN THE JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED. 17:44 WILL THE FIRE EVENTUALLY GO OUT? ISAIAH 47:14, IT SAYS, "BEHOLD, 17:51 THEY SHALL BE AS STUBBLE, THE FIRE SHALL BURN THEM;" - 17:54 SPEAKING OF THE WICKED - "THEY SHALL NOT DELIVER THEMSELVES 17:57 FROM THE POWER OF THE FLAME; IT SHALL NOT BE A COAL TO BE WARMED 18:02 BY, NOR A FIRE TO SIT BEFORE." NOT EVEN A COAL LEFT. 18:07 MALACHI 4:3 MAKES IT PRETTY CLEAR, "'YOU SHALL TRAMPLE THE 18:10 WICKED, FOR THEY SHALL BE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET ON 18:13 THE DAY THAT I DO THIS,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS." 18:15 SO 'BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, THEY WILL INHERIT THE EARTH.' 18:18 WE GO FORTH FROM THE NEW JERUSALEM AFTER THE JUDGEMENT OF 18:20 THE WICKED. THEY'VE ALL BEEN BURNED, INCLUDING THE DEVIL 18:22 AND HIS ANGELS, ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY DESERVE. 18:24 AND IF ANYBODY DESERVES TO BURN FOREVER, WHO IS IT? 18:28 IT'D BE LUCIFER. 18:30 THE BIBLE EVEN SAYS IN EZEKIEL, 'I WILL BRING FORTH A FIRE FROM 18:33 THE MIDST OF THEE AND IT WILL DEVOUR THEE AND IT WILL BRING 18:36 THEE TO ASHES ON THE EARTH IN THE SIGHT OF THEM THAT BEHOLD 18:39 THEE. THOU SHALT BE A TERROR AND NEVER SHALT THOU BE ANYMORE.' 18:44 NEVER SHALT THOU BE. YOU DON'T EVER HAVE TO WORRY 18:46 ABOUT HITLER ESCAPING FROM PRISON - LIKE NAPOLEON BRIEFLY 18:50 DID - AND ANOTHER REBELLION RISING UP. 18:54 HE IS GOING TO BE PERMANENTLY DEALT WITH. 18:57 HE WILL BURN LONGER THAN ANYONE ELSE - PROBABLY DAY AND NIGHT. 18:59 AND I'LL EXPLAIN THOSE VERSES IN OUR NEXT STUDY. 19:04 AGAIN, REVELATION 21, VERSES 4 AND 5, "AND GOD WILL WIPE AWAY 19:09 EVERY TEAR FROM THEIR EYES; THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH," - 19:13 NOTICE - "NOR SORROW, NOR CRYING." HE DOESN'T SAY NO MORE 19:18 CRYING AMONG THE SAVED, HE'S TALKING ABOUT A WORLD MADE NEW - 19:21 A NEW HEAVEN, A NEW EARTH - NO MORE CRYING - NO MORE CRYING 19:24 ANYWHERE. "THERE SHALL BE NO MORE PAIN." 19:28 HOW CAN YOU HAVE THIS VAST WAREHOUSE FILLED WITH PEOPLE WHO 19:34 ARE SCREAMING AND SHRIEKING AND GOD SAYING 'GOOD NEWS. 19:37 THERE'S NO MORE PAIN.' WELL, THERE IS PAIN. 19:40 IF, THEORETICALLY, THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD IS LOST AND IF 19:44 YOU'VE GOT MULTIPLIED BILLIONS OF PEOPLE THAT ARE WRITHING AND 19:47 SHRIEKING IN MOLTEN FIRE FOR ETERNITY, FOR GOD TO SAY, 'GOOD 19:51 NEWS, THERE'S NO MORE PAIN.' AND WOULDN'T WE HAVE TO ALL BE 19:55 BRAINWASHED AND NOT REMEMBER ANY OF THE PEOPLE WE KNEW IN THIS 19:57 LIFE THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT? AND THEN WE'D JUST, YOU KNOW, 20:02 GOD'S GOING TO BRAINWASH US LIKE THAT SO WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S 20:04 GOING ON - I WISH HE'D DO IT NOW, RIGHT? 20:08 JUST MAKE ME A SAINT RIGHT NOW AND MAKE ME OBLIVIOUS TO ALL THE 20:11 SUFFERING RIGHT NOW. BUT HE'S NOT. WE'RE GOING TO KNOW. 20:16 THAT'S WHY HE'S GOT TO DRY AWAY TEARS BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO 20:18 BE PEOPLE THAT ARE LOST AND THEY'RE PUNISHED BUT THEY'RE 20:24 GOING TO BE PUT OUT OF THEIR MISERY. 20:26 GOD IS GOING TO COMFORT US BY SAYING, 'GOOD NEWS. 20:28 NO MORE PAIN. THEY'RE NOT SUFFERING ANYMORE.' 20:32 THEY ARE ETERNALLY SEPARATED FROM GOD, YES. 20:35 THEY ARE DESTROYED WITH ETERNAL DESTRUCTION, YES. 20:38 THE FIRE THAT BURNS THEM IS AN ETERNAL FIRE - THEY ARE BURNT 20:40 FOREVER - GONE - BUT THEY'RE NOT STILL BURNING. 20:49 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED 20:53 THERE'S A STORY IN THE BIBLE THAT TELLS US EXACTLY HOW IT'S 20:55 GOING TO END. 20:56 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE STORY OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH? 21:01 AND THE BIBLE TELLS US THERE THAT - IN GENESIS 19:24 - I'LL 21:10 NEVER FORGET, WHEN I WAS 16 YEARS OLD I LIVED ON A SAILBOAT 21:15 AND WE SAILED AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN AND ONE OF THE 21:17 PLACES THEY TOOK US WAS THE RUINS OF POMPEII. 21:21 THERE, NOT FAR FROM THE FOOT OF MOUNT VESUVIUS, THE VOLCANO BLEW 21:25 UP IN ABOUT 79 A.D. AND IT SHOWERED THE CITIES OF POMPEII 21:31 AND HERCULANEUM WITH ASHES AND BRIMSTONE. 21:34 AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE ESCAPED. PLINY THE ELDER, I THINK, TALKED 21:39 ABOUT IT IN A LETTER TO HIS COUSIN AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE 21:43 ACTUALLY MADE IT OUT TO THE WATER AND THEY WERE ACTUALLY 21:45 ABLE TO ESCAPE THE CLOUD OF GASES AND ASH THAT CAME DOWN AND 21:49 SO MANY PEOPLE IN THAT - IT WAS THE LAS VEGAS OF THE ROMAN 21:51 EMPIRE BACK THEN. YOU CAN TELL FROM THE FRESCOS ON 21:54 THE WALLS - THEY'VE GOT ORGIES PAINTED ON THE WALLS AND BASIC 21:57 PORNOGRAPHY THAT SURVIVED. THEY FOUND IT IN 1874. 22:01 IT HAD BEEN BURIED UNDER 20 FEET OF ASH AND THEY'VE BEEN 22:04 EXCAVATING IT EVER SINCE. IT'S NOT EVEN ALL EXCAVATED YET. 22:08 AND EVERY NOW AND THEN THEY CAME TO A CAVITY AND THEY THOUGHT, 22:12 WAIT A SECOND, THERE WAS SOMETHING IN HERE AND SO THEY'D 22:14 MIX UP PLASTER OF PARIS AND THEY'D POUR IT IN AND THEY'D LET 22:17 IT DRY AND THEN THEY'D TAKE AWAY THE ASH AND THEY FOUND WHAT WAS 22:20 IN THERE AND THESE ARE SOME OF THE FORMS THAT THEY FOUND. 22:23 THESE GHOSTLY SHAPES OF PEOPLE - REAL PEOPLE WHO LIVED - THAT 22:27 WERE BASICALLY INCINERATED - THEY DIED BUT IT LEFT A VACUUM 22:31 ONCE THEIR BODIES DECOMPOSED IN THAT CHAMBER. 22:35 AND IT WAS JUST AN AWFUL DESTRUCTION. FIRE RAINED FROM 22:41 HEAVEN, YOU MIGHT SAY, AND BURNT THE CITY OF POMPEII. THAT MADE 22:44 A PRETTY DEEP IMPRESSION ON ME WHEN I SAW THAT AS A TEENAGER 22:48 AND I KIND OF WAS WORRIED ABOUT WHAT MY FUTURE WAS. 22:53 WELL, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THAT'S NOT THAT 22:54 DIFFERENT FROM WHAT HAPPENED TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH. 22:57 GENESIS 19:24, "THEN THE LORD RAINED BRIMSTONE AND FIRE ON 23:03 SODOM AND GOMORRAH, FROM THE LORD OUT OF THE HEAVENS." 23:07 AND JESUS, DESCRIBING THE END OF THE WORLD IN LUKE CHAPTER 23:11 17:28-30, SAYS IT'S GOING TO BE SIMILAR. 23:14 "LIKEWISE, AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF LOT: THEY ATE, THEY DRANK, 23:18 THEY BOUGHT, THEY SOLD, THEY PLANTED, THEY BUILT; BUT ON THE 23:21 DAY THAT LOT WENT OUT OF SODOM IT RAINED FIRE AND BRIMSTONE 23:24 FROM HEAVEN AND DESTROYED THEM ALL. EVEN SO WILL IT BE 23:27 IN THE DAY WHEN THE SON OF MAN IS REVEALED." 23:30 NOW HERE'S THE QUESTION: SODOM AND GOMORRAH ARE SET FORTH AS AN 23:33 EXAMPLE OF WHAT THIS FIRE IS. ARE THEY STILL BURNING TODAY? 23:39 LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE: JUDE 1:7, "AS SODOM AND GOMORRAH, AND 23:44 THE CITIES AROUND THEM IN A SIMILAR MANNER...GIVEN 23:47 THEMSELVES OVER TO SEXUAL IMMORALITY" - BOY, COULD IT BE 23:50 MUCH WORSE TODAY THAN IT WAS THEN? COULD IT HAVE BEEN 23:54 MUCH WORSE THEN THAN IT IS TODAY? COULD WE SHARE, 23:58 AS A WORLD, IN THEIR FATES? - "HAVING GONE AFTER 24:02 STRANGE FLESH," - YOU KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN BY STRANGE FLESH? 24:06 NOT EVEN NATURAL SEX - "ARE SET FORTH AS AN EXAMPLE, SUFFERING 24:11 THE VENGEANCE OF - NOTICE THIS - "SUFFERING" - THEY'RE AN EXAMPLE 24:14 OF "SUFFERING THE VENGEANCE OF ETERNAL FIRE." 24:18 SODOM AND GOMORRAH WERE BURNED UP WITH ETERNAL FIRE. 24:20 WHY DOES GOD CALL IT ETERNAL FIRE? 24:22 BECAUSE WHAT THAT FIRE DID TO THOSE CITIES WAS ETERNAL. 24:25 THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN REBUILT. THEY ARE STILL RUINS TODAY. 24:30 ARE THEY STILL BURNING? NO. 24:33 AND AGAIN, 2 PETER, 2:6, "AND TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND 24:36 GOMORRAH INTO ASHES, CONDEMNED THEM TO DESTRUCTION, MAKING THEM 24:41 AN EXAMPLE TO THOSE WHO AFTERWARD WOULD LIVE UNGODLY;" 24:44 WHAT WAS THE EXAMPLE? THEY WERE TURNED INTO ASHES. 24:46 THEY WERE BURNT WITH ETERNAL FIRE. 24:48 THEY ARE NOT STILL BURNING TODAY. 24:50 WE DON'T HAVE TO WONDER WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE WICKED. 24:51 GOD SAID, 'I'VE GIVEN YOU EXHIBIT A'. 24:54 LET'S GO TO THAT NEXT SLIDE. LET'S LOOK AT WHAT THE GOOD NEWS 24:56 IS THAT WE'VE LEARNED ABOUT HELL. 24:59 FIRST OF ALL, NO ONE IS BURNING IN HELL RIGHT NOW. 25:02 CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN'? THAT'S GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO 25:05 HAVE BEEN TORMENTED BY THAT IDEA. 25:07 SECONDLY, NO ONE IS GOING TO BURN IN HELL FOREVER. 25:12 THERE IS A LAKE OF FIRE. FOR MY BAPTIST FRIENDS THAT MAY 25:14 BE WATCHING AND YOU THINK, 'YOU FOLKS DON'T BELIEVE IN FIRE. 25:17 DON'T BELIEVE IN HELLFIRE.' MY HELLFIRE IS HOTTER THAN YOUR 25:21 HELLFIRE BECAUSE MY HELLFIRE BURNS THEM UP AND YOUR HELLFIRE 25:24 JUST ROASTS THEM FOREVER, RIGHT? AND SO, YES, WE BELIEVE IN 25:28 HELLFIRE BUT IT DOESN'T BURN FOREVER. 25:31 WE'VE SEEN THAT FROM THE BIBLE. HELLFIRE WILL PUT SINNERS OUT OF 25:36 THEIR MISERY. YOU EVER THOUGHT OF THAT? 25:38 SINNERS ARE NOT HAPPY - LIKE AN ANIMAL SUFFERING SOME INCURABLE 25:42 DISEASE - GOD IS GOING TO PUT SINNERS OUT OF THEIR MISERY. 25:46 AND, YOU KNOW, THAT IS ACTUALLY AN ACT OF LOVE AND MERCY. 25:49 EVEN IN THE WAY HE DEALS WITH THE LOST. 25:52 HELLFIRE WILL PURIFY THE UNIVERSE. 25:54 THERE'S NO MORE GOING TO BE SIN OR SINNERS. 25:56 ALL THINGS ARE PERFECT AND PURE AGAIN. 25:59 AND YOU DON'T NEED TO GO THERE. THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS. 26:04 YES, MOST OF THE WORLD'S GOING TO MAKE THE WRONG DECISION BUT 26:07 THERE'S NO NEED FOR ANYONE TO BE LOST BECAUSE THE SUFFERING THAT 26:10 JESUS TOOK UPON HIMSELF WAS YOUR SUFFERING. 26:15 BUT YOU MUST EMBRACE THAT. IT'S SOMETHING YOU MUST ACCEPT 26:19 THAT HE'S TAKEN YOUR PAYMENT. 26:25 >>WHEN PEOPLE THINK ABOUT HELL, THEY GENERALLY PICTURE AN 26:29 ABYSMAL CAVERN DEEP IN THE EARTH WHERE SINNERS ARE BEING 26:32 TORMENTED IN MOLTEN FIRE AND BRIMSTONE THROUGH CEASELESS 26:35 AGES. AND THERE'S THE DEVIL WITH 26:37 HIS PITCHFORK TURNING THEM TO MAKE SURE THEY ALL COOK EVENLY. 26:41 IS THIS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY TEACHES ABOUT HELL? 26:43 WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW THE GOOD NEWS? THEN PLEASE SEND FOR THIS 26:46 FREE STUDY, IS THE DEVIL IN CHARGE OF HELL? YOU'LL FIND IT 26:50 AN ENCOURAGING, REFRESHING STUDY IN THE WORD OF GOD. 26:53 TO GET YOUR FREE COPY GO TO 'AMAZINGFACTS.ORG' OR CALL THE 26:57 NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #119. 27:01 AND FRIENDS, WHEN YOU RECEIVE THIS FREE RESOURCE, 27:04 PLEASE READ IT AND THEN SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. WE WANT TO GET 27:06 THE WORD OUT BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS OUR MISSION. 27:12 >>(CRICKETS) (SPRINKLERS) (OMINOUS MUSIC) (DOG BARKING) 27:45 (FIRE ALARM) >>MOMMY, DADDY, HELP ME. 28:00 >>NO, I DON'T THINK SO. YOU DIDN'T DO VERY WELL ON YOUR 28:03 REPORT CARD THIS LAST QUARTER SO, NO. 28:06 >>YOU HAVEN'T BEEN PULLING YOUR WEIGHT AROUND HERE LATELY. 28:09 YOU WANT HELP? WELL, I WANTED HELP WITH 28:12 THE DISHES LAST NIGHT. HELP YOURSELF. 28:14 >>HUH? >>HONEY, DID YOU BRING 28:17 THE MARSHMALLOWS? (SIRENS) (MUSIC) 28:43 >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN RESOURCES VISIT AFBOOKSTORE.COM . 28:51 >>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER 28:54 BEFORE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 29:02 (MUSIC) 29:25 >>THIS PRESENTATION WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 29:28 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. |
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