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00:01 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
00:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
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00:11 >>THE DEVIL ISN'T DOWN THERE SOMEWHERE IN THE MOLTEN,
00:14 UNDER THE GROUND. WHEN GOD SAYS, IN THE BOOK OF
00:17 JOB, 'SATAN, WHERE'D YOU COME FROM?'
00:18 HE DOESN'T SAY, 'I CAME FROM A HOLE IN THE EARTH', HE SAID, 'I
00:20 CAME FROM WALKING TO AND FRO ON THE EARTH.'
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00:46 >>TONIGHT'S STUDY IS, I THINK, ONE THAT IS NOT ONLY ONE THAT IS
00:49 VERY IMPORTANT, BUT IT COULD REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR PICTURE OF
00:51 GOD AS IT DID FOR ME.
00:54 AND LET ME GIVE YOU JUST A LITTLE PERSONAL TESTIMONY THAT
00:57 WILL HELP LEAD INTO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT TONIGHT.
01:00 I MENTIONED EARLIER, WHEN I SHARED MY TESTIMONY, I WENT TO
01:05 ABOUT 14 DIFFERENT SCHOOLS AND, AMONG THOSE SCHOOLS, WERE A
01:09 COUPLE OF DIFFERENT CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS.
01:11 AND I REMEMBER HEARING WHAT MANY OF US HAVE HEARD - THAT IF
01:16 YOU'RE GOOD, WHEN YOU DIE YOU GO TO HEAVEN; AND IF YOU'RE BAD AND
01:22 YOU DIE, YOU GO TO THE OTHER PLACE WHERE THERE IS MOLTEN
01:29 SULPHUR AND BURNING BRIMSTONE AND ALL THE EXPERIENCE OF EVERY
01:34 SQUARE CENTIMETER OF YOUR BODY IN FLAMES - NOT FOR A MOMENT,
01:39 BUT FOR ETERNITY - YOU WILL EXPERIENCE BLISTERING, BURNING
01:46 MISERY. AND I THOUGHT, 'WOW, GOD IS A
01:53 SADIST.' JUST TELLING YOU WHAT I THOUGHT.
01:56 I SAID - HERE I AM, TEN YEARS OLD - I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I WAS
01:59 YOUNG BUT I COULD THINK IT THROUGH.
02:01 I SAID, 'HE MADE ME. NO ONE ASKED ME IF I WANTED TO
02:05 BE MADE.' IT SEEMS LIKE EVERYBODY'S GOT THIS PROPENSITY
02:10 TO DO THINGS WRONG - ESPECIALLY A TEN-YEAR-OLD BOY, RIGHT?
02:13 - 'AND IF I SHOULD DIE NOW, I WILL BE TORTURED ETERNALLY.' AND
02:21 I SAID, 'HOW CAN I LOVE A GOD LIKE THAT?
02:25 AND IN MY HEART, I THOUGHT, 'IF THERE'S A GOD LIKE THAT' -
02:27 FORGIVE ME, I SAY THIS JUST TO BE HONEST - I THOUGHT, 'I HATE
02:32 HIM.' I THOUGHT, 'HE'S CRUEL.' BECAUSE I WOULDN'T DO
02:36 THAT TO MY DOG AND I WAS PRETTY BAD.
02:41 WHEN I FINALLY LEARNED WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY TEACHES ABOUT THIS
02:45 SUBJECT, IT WAS SO LIBERATING FOR ME, IT ENABLED ME TO TRUST
02:49 AND TO LOVE GOD. NOW, JUST - BEFORE ANYONE
02:54 CHANGES THE CHANNEL OR SAYS, 'OH, PASTOR DOUG DOES NOT
02:56 BELIEVE IN HELL OR THE LAKE OF FIRE.' I DO.
03:02 PEOPLE ARE WRONG ABOUT HOW LONG HELL BURNS AND WHEN IT BURNS.
03:09 SO WE'RE GOING TO STUDY THAT FROM THE BIBLE NOW AND OUR
03:11 LESSON TONIGHT IS LESSON NUMBER 10 AND IT'S TITLED THE FINAL
03:16 FIRESTORM . THE FINAL FIRESTORM. IT BEGINS WITH A STORY THAT WE
03:21 KNOW FROM GENESIS CHAPTER 13, THAT TALKS ABOUT LOT.
03:27 ORIGINALLY, ABRAHAM AND LOT WERE TOGETHER WITH THEIR SHEEP, BUT
03:30 BECAUSE THEY HAD SO MANY SHEEP AND THEY - THE SHEPHERDS WERE
03:35 FIGHTING WITH EACH OTHER, ABRAHAM SAID, 'YOU KNOW, WE
03:37 PROBABLY OUGHT TO SPLIT THINGS UP.' AND LOT LOOKED DOWN AT THE
03:40 VALLEY OF SODOM AND IT SAYS IT WAS WATERED LIKE THE GARDEN OF
03:44 GOD, BACK THEN. IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE.
03:47 ABRAHAM, HE SHOOK HIS HEAD BECAUSE IT SAYS IN THE BIBLE -
03:51 GENESIS 13:13 - "THE MEN OF SODOM WERE EXCEEDINGLY WICKED."
03:58 FINALLY, GOD SENT THE ANGELS DOWN - YOU KNOW THE STORY - TO
04:01 SODOM TO RESCUE LOT BEFORE HE DESTROYS IT.
04:06 AND THEY SAID, GENESIS 19, VERSE 17 - "ESCAPE FOR YOUR LIFE!
04:12 DO NOT LOOK BEHIND THEE...ESCAPE TO THE MOUNTAINS, LEST YOU BE
04:16 CONSUMED...THEN THE LORD RAINED UPON SODOM AND UPON GOMORRAH
04:23 BRIMSTONE AND FIRE FROM THE LORD OUT OF HEAVEN."
04:29 THIS IS A REAL EVENT THAT HAPPENED AND THERE IN THAT VERY
04:32 REGION WHERE THEY TELL US THEY EXISTED, THEY CAN FIND - ONLY
04:34 PLACE IN THE WORLD - JUST PEPPERED IN THE GROUND ARE THESE
04:39 SULPHUR BALLS - THAT WHEN THEY HIT THE GROUND, SOME OF THEM
04:42 JUST EXTINGUISHED THEMSELVES ON IMPACT AND IMBEDDED THEMSELVES
04:44 IN THE ASH AND ARE STILL THERE TODAY.
04:47 NOW WHAT HAPPENED TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH, THE BIBLE SAYS, IS AN
04:52 ILLUSTRATION OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WICKED IN THE LAST DAYS.
04:56 IT SAYS, "AND GOD, TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH
05:00 INTO ASHES, CONDEMNED THEM WITH AN OVERTHROW, MAKING THEM AN
05:06 EXAMPLE UNTO THOSE THAT AFTER SHOULD LIVE UNGODLY." BY THE
05:10 WAY, WHAT HAPPENED TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT'S
05:13 GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE WICKED IN THE LAST DAYS. WHEN WILL THE
05:18 WICKED BE DESTROYED IN HELLFIRE? 2 PETER CHAPTER 2, VERSE 9, "THE
05:23 LORD KNOWETH HOW TO...RESERVE THE UNJUST UNTO THE DAY OF
05:28 JUDGMENT TO BE PUNISHED." IF THEY'RE BEING RESERVED FOR
05:33 PUNISHMENT TIL THEN, WOULD THEY BE BURNING IN A LAKE OF FIRE
05:36 NOW? >>NO.
05:38 >>NO, BECAUSE JUDGMENT HASN'T HAPPENED.
05:40 RESURRECTION HASN'T HAPPENED, RIGHT?
05:42 JESUS SAID, JOHN 12:48, "...THE WORD THAT I HAVE SPOKEN, THE
05:47 SAME SHALL JUDGE HIM" - HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE LOST - "IN THE
05:50 LAST DAY." THE JUDGMENT HAPPENS WHEN?
05:53 THE LAST DAY. FURTHERMORE, YOU CAN READ -
05:55 JESUS TELLS A PARABLE - MATTHEW CHAPTER 13, VERSE 40 -
05:58 "AS THEREFORE THE TARES" - THOSE ARE WEEDS - "ARE GATHERED AND
06:02 BURNED IN THE FIRE; SO SHALL IT BE IN THE END OF THIS WORLD.
06:09 THE SON OF MAN SHALL SEND FORTH HIS ANGELS, AND THEY SHALL
06:12 GATHER....THEM WHICH DO INIQUITY; AND SHALL CAST THEM
06:16 INTO A FURNACE OF FIRE." IS IT HAPPENING NOW? NO.
06:20 IF THE WICKED WHO HAVE DIED ARE NOT YET IN HELL, THEN ACCORDING
06:26 TO THE BIBLE, WHERE ARE THEY? LET THE BIBLE TELL US.
06:30 JESUS SAID - JOHN 5:28 AND 29 - "...THE HOUR IS COMING" - THAT'S
06:36 FUTURE TENSE, RIGHT? - "IN THE WHICH ALL THAT ARE" - WHERE?
06:39 - "IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE, AND SHALL COME FORTH;" -
06:44 THEN HE DESCRIBES THE TWO RESURRECTIONS - "THEY THAT HAVE
06:46 DONE GOOD, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE; AND THEY THAT HAVE DONE
06:48 EVIL, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION."
06:50 THAT'S THE SECOND RESURRECTION. THAT'S WHEN THEY GET THEIR
06:53 REWARD. THE HOUR IS COMING WHEN THEY'LL
06:55 BE REWARDED. IT'S IN THE FUTURE.
06:57 IT SAYS, "THE WICKED IS RESERVED TO THE DAY OF DESTRUCTION, YET
07:03 HE WILL BE BROUGHT TO THE" - WHERE?
07:05 - "THE GRAVE AND WILL REMAIN IN THE TOMB."
07:10 THEY'RE ASLEEP. YOU CAN PUT R.I.P - REST IN
07:13 PEACE - ON ANY GRAVE BECAUSE, UNTIL THE JUDGMENT, THEY'RE
07:16 AWARE OF NOTHING. ISN'T THAT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS?
07:20 QUESTION #4 - START AT THE BEGINNING - WHAT IS THE REWARD
07:24 OR PUNISHMENT FOR SIN? WHAT DID GOD SAY?
07:28 ROMANS 6:23, "FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH; BUT THE GIFT OF
07:35 GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD."
07:39 YOU REMEMBER IN THE BIBLE, WHEN GOD SAID TO ADAM AND EVE, 'DO
07:44 NOT EAT THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT OR YOU WILL DIE.' THE PENALTY FOR
07:47 THAT SIN WAS DEATH. THE DEVIL SAID TO EVE, THROUGH
07:52 THE SERPENT - SHE SAID, 'OH, GOD SAID IF WE EAT IT WE'LL DIE -
07:55 GOD SAID WE'LL DIE.' AND THE DEVIL SAID, 'DON'T BELIEVE GOD,
07:58 YOU'LL NOT REALLY DIE. YOU'RE IMMORTAL.
08:01 YOU'LL EITHER LIVE FOREVER IN HEAVEN OR YOU'LL LIVE FOREVER IN
08:04 HELL, BUT YOU CAN'T DIE. YOU'LL BE LIKE GODS.' SEE THE
08:07 DEVIL TRIED TO INSTILL WITHIN MAN WHAT HE DESIRES.
08:10 THE DEVIL IS CONSUMED WITH THE TRUTH.
08:13 IT TEARS HIM UP THAT HE IS NOT GOD AND THAT HE IS NOT IMMORTAL.
08:17 EVEN THE DEVIL HAS AN END. SO, GOD SAID, EVEN AFTER MAN
08:21 SINNED, 'WE NEED TO DRIVE MAN FROM THE GARDEN, LEST HE PUT OUT
08:24 HIS HAND AND TAKE ALSO OF THE TREE OF LIFE AND EAT AND LIVE
08:29 FOREVER.' WAS MAN EVICTED FROM THE GARDEN?
08:32 >>YES. >>THEN WE DON'T HAVE THAT
08:34 IMMORTALITY. WE ARE - HE SAYS HE'S GOING TO
08:37 DIE. SINNERS DO NOT LIVE FOREVER.
08:40 WHAT ARE THE ONLY TWO CHOICES FOR ALL MEN? IT'S VERY SIMPLE.
08:44 NOQ THE STRONGEST VERSE TO PROVE THIS POINT IS THE MOST POPULAR
08:49 VERSE IN THE BIBLE. WHAT IS THAT?
08:52 >>JOHN 3:16. >>JOHN 3:16.
08:53 WHY DON'T YOU SAY IT WITH ME? "THAT WHOSOEVER
08:57 BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING
09:03 LIFE." THIS TRANSLATES THE SAME IN ANY LANGUAGE.
09:05 WHAT DID JESUS DO ON THE CROSS? >>DIED.
09:08 >>IF THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS ETERNAL BURNING, THEN JESUS DID
09:13 NOT PAY THE FULL PRICE ON THE CROSS BECAUSE HE'S NOT STILL
09:16 BURNING, IS HE? THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH. JESUS DIED.
09:20 THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS NOT ETERNAL TORMENT.
09:22 QUESTION #6: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WICKED IN HELLFIRE?
09:27 PSALMS 37 - HERE'S OUR ANSWER - VERSE 10 AND VERSE 20 - "FOR YET
09:31 A LITTLE WHILE, AND THE WICKED SHALL NOT BE...BUT THE WICKED
09:36 SHALL PERISH...INTO SMOKE THEY SHALL CONSUME AWAY."
09:41 WHAT KIND OF WORDS CAN WE USE THAT ARE BETTER TO EXPLAIN THESE
09:44 THINGS? LOOK IN MALACHI CHAPTER 4, VERSES 1 AND 3.
09:48 THE BIBLE SAYS, "...THE DAY COMETH, THAT SHALL BURN AS AN
09:52 OVEN; AND ALL...THAT DO WICKEDLY, SHALL BE STUBBLE: AND
09:55 THE DAY THAT COMETH SHALL BURN THEM UP."
10:00 NOW WHEN SOMETHING'S BURNT UP, WHAT'S LEFT?
10:02 "AND YE SHALL TREAD DOWN THE WICKED; FOR THEY SHALL BE ASHES
10:06 UNDER THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET." WHERE WILL HELLFIRE BE LOCATED?
10:11 YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 20, VERSE 9 - IT SAYS, "AND THEY
10:16 WENT UP ON THE BREADTH OF THE EARTH, AND COMPASSED THE CAMP
10:20 OF THE SAINTS ABOUT." SO BEFORE GOD RAINS THAT FIRE
10:23 AND BRIMSTONE DOWN, WHERE - WHERE IS THE DEVIL AND ALL THE
10:26 FORCES OF GOG AND MAGOG - ALL THE WICKED? ON THE EARTH.
10:30 AND IT SAYS, "AND FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, AND" -
10:35 WHAT? - "DEVOURED THEM." WHERE IS IT? ON THE EARTH.
10:38 YOU CAN READ IN 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 10, "...THE ELEMENTS
10:42 SHALL MELT WITH" - WHAT KIND OF HEAT? -
10:45 >>FERVENT HEAT. >>"FERVENT HEAT, THE EARTH ALSO
10:47 AND THE WORKS THAT ARE THEREIN SHALL BE BURNED UP."
10:50 AND YET, HOW MANY OF US HAVE HEARD, 'HELL IS SOMEWHERE DOWN
10:54 YONDER'? RIGHT? THE DEVIL ISN'T DOWN THERE
10:58 SOMEWHERE IN THE MOLTEN, UNDER THE GROUND.
11:01 WHEN GOD SAYS, IN THE BOOK OF JOB, 'SATAN, WHERE'D YOU COME
11:03 FROM?' HE DIDN'T SAY, 'I CAME FROM A
11:04 HOLE IN THE EARTH.' HE SAID, 'I CAME FROM WALKING TO AND FRO ON
11:07 THE EARTH.' I'LL TELL YOU WHY PEOPLE GET THAT IDEA.
11:11 IT OFTEN TALKS ABOUT DESCENDING INTO HELL, IN THE BIBLE, AND
11:15 THOSE TERMS ARE - MANY OF THEM - ARE FROM HEBREW. IT'S A WORD
11:20 CALLED SHEOL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND IT MEANS GRAVE.
11:24 THE WORD THAT YOU FIND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT FREQUENTLY - THOU
11:28 WILL NOT LEAVE MY SOUL IN HELL - THAT TRANSLATES SHEOL - THAT
11:32 JUST MEANS GRAVE. THAT'S ALL IT MEANS.
11:33 FOUR WORDS IN THE BIBLE ARE TRANSLATED FOR HELL: SHEOL, IN
11:37 THE OLD TESTAMENT; IN THE NEW TESTAMENT YOU'VE GOT THREE.
11:40 YOU'VE GOT GEHENNA, WHICH WAS A VALLEY OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM
11:44 CALLED THE VALLEY OF HINNOM. YOU'VE GOT HADES, WHICH COMES
11:47 FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY, AND YOU'VE GOT TARTARUS -
11:50 IT'S ONLY USED ONE TIME IN THE WRITINGS OF PETER.
11:53 GEHENNA WAS THE CITY DUMP - THE VALLEY OF HINNOM - THEY USED TO
11:58 HAVE IDOLS THERE AND SO THEY DECIDED TO MAKE IT A CITY DUMP
12:01 BECAUSE THEY HAD WORSHIPED PAGAN IMAGES DOWN THERE AND ALL OF THE
12:05 REFUSE WAS PUT IN THERE AND THEY - WHEN AN UNCLEAN ANIMAL DIED IT
12:08 WENT TO GEHENNA AND THEY HAD THEIR OLD BASKETS THERE AND OLD
12:12 CLOTH THERE AND EVERY NOW AND THEN SOMEONE WOULD THROW THEIR
12:14 ASHES OUT THERE AND IT WAS SMOLDERING BECAUSE THEY STILL
12:18 HAD HOT COALS IN IT. SO THEY LET IT BURN - IT WAS
12:21 GOOD - IT KEPT THE GASSES DOWN AND IT HELPED CONSUME THINGS.
12:24 ANY OF YOU EVER BURN GARBAGE? AND SO JESUS IS REFERENCING -
12:27 ONE OF HIS REFERENCES TO HELL HE TALKS ABOUT A PLACE WHERE THE
12:30 WORM DOES NOT DIE AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.
12:32 IT WAS FULL OF WORMS AND DEAD BODIES AND MAGGOTS AND IT WAS
12:35 SMOLDERING AND - THAT'S GEHENNA. THAT'S THE WORD THAT HE USES
12:38 FOR GEHENNA. QUESTION #8: WILL THE DEVIL BE
12:42 IN CHARGE OF HELLFIRE? NO. REVELATION 20:10, "AND THE DEVIL
12:48 THAT DECEIVED THEM WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE."
12:54 YOU CAN SAY 'AMEN' THERE. THAT'S GOOD NEWS.
12:56 I MEAN, IF ANYONE DESERVES TO GO THERE, HE DOES, RIGHT?
13:00 HE STARTED ALL THE PROBLEMS. HE'S NOT IN CHARGE.
13:03 A LOT OF WHAT HAS COME INTO CHRISTIANITY TRICKLED IN FROM
13:09 THE GRECO-ROMAN RELIGIONS BECAUSE CHRISTIANITY ABSOLUTELY
13:14 EXPLODED IN GROWTH IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE, DURING THE TIME OF PAUL.
13:20 I MEAN, EVEN PAUL SAYS THE GOSPEL'S BEEN PREACHED TO EVERY
13:23 CREATURE. THE CHURCH GREW SO QUICKLY - PENTECOST -
13:26 THOUSANDS WERE BAPTIZED. MIRACLES WERE HAPPENING.
13:29 AND A LOT OF THE PAGANS WERE ONLY HALF CONVERTED.
13:31 THEY CAME IN AND, NOT BEING PROPERLY TAUGHT, THEY TRIED TO
13:34 MIX UP THE TRUTHS FROM THE WORD OF GOD ABOUT THE DEVIL AND HELL
13:39 AND THEY GOT IT MIXED UP WITH GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND PLUTO AND
13:42 HADES AND SOME OF THOSE THINGS STAYED FOR YEARS.
13:47 BUT IT'S NOT A BIBLICAL THING, IT'S A GREEK MYTH THAT FOUND ITS
13:50 WAY INTO THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES IT SAY
13:53 THE DEVIL'S IN CHARGE OF HELL, DOES IT? NO.
13:56 QUESTION #9: WILL THE FIRES OF HELL EVER GO OUT?
14:00 THIS IS THE - THIS IS A BIG QUESTION WHERE I WANT TO SPEND A
14:03 MOMENT. ISAIAH 47, VERSE 14.
14:06 IT SAYS, "...THERE SHALL NOT BE A COAL TO WARM AT, NOR FIRE TO
14:12 SIT BEFORE IT." IT SAYS YOU'LL GO FORTH - THE
14:16 WICKED ARE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET.
14:18 AFTER GOD RAINS THAT FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN UPON THE WICKED, IT
14:23 FORMS A LAKE OUTSIDE THE CITY OF GOD.
14:26 BUT, ULTIMATELY, IT GOES OUT. IT SAYS YOU'LL GO FORTH AND YOU
14:29 TREAD UPON THE WICKED BECAUSE THEY ARE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES
14:32 OF YOUR FEET. BLESSED ARE THE MEEK - THEY WILL
14:35 INHERIT WHAT? >>THE EARTH.
14:37 >>THE EARTH. IT'S THE MEEK ARE WALKING OUT.
14:38 I HEARD A PASTOR SAY ONE TIME, 'TODAY SHEEP GRAZE WHERE
14:42 DINOSAURS THUNDERED. AND CHRISTIANS WILL WALK WHERE
14:46 THE WICKED ONCE RULED.' THE MEEK WILL INHERIT THE EARTH.
14:50 QUESTION #10: ARE BOTH THE SOUL AND THE BODY DESTROYED IN HELL?
14:55 NOW, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE PASTOR DOUG, WILL YOU BELIEVE PASTOR
14:58 JESUS? SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, DOUG, YOU'RE RIGHT.
15:02 THE BODIES DON'T BURN FOREVER, BUT THE SOULS BURN FOREVER.'
15:05 I'VE HEARD SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT. OH, LET'S SEE WHAT JESUS SAID.
15:08 MATTHEW 10:28, HE SAID, "FEAR NOT THEM WHICH KILL THE BODY,
15:13 BUT ARE NOT ABLE TO KILL THE SOUL: BUT RATHER FEAR HIM WHICH
15:17 IS ABLE TO DESTROY" - TO DO WHAT? -
15:21 "DESTROY BOTH SOUL AND BODY IN HELL." WHAT DID JESUS SAY?
15:28 HE SAID FEAR THE ONE WHO COULD DESTROY SOUL AND BODY.
15:31 HE SAID DON'T FEAR THE DEVIL, HE CAN ONLY HURT YOUR BODY, BUT GOD
15:33 IS THE ONE WHO CAN DESTROY SOUL AND BODY IN HELL.
15:38 AND THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD FEAR. NOW WHAT'S LEFT WHEN THE SOUL
15:42 AND BODY ARE GONE? NOTHING. FOR WHOM WILL HELLFIRE BE
15:46 KINDLED? MATTHEW CHAPTER 25, VERSE 41 -
15:50 JESUS, WHEN HE SEPARATES THE SHEEP FROM THE GOATS IN THIS
15:53 PARABLE HE SAYS TO THE WICKED, "DEPART FROM ME, YE CURSED, INTO
15:56 EVERLASTING FIRE, PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS."
16:02 'WELL, THERE YOU HAVE IT, PASTOR DOUG: EVERLASTING FIRE.
16:05 IT SAYS IT'S GOING TO LAST FOREVER.' STAY WITH ME, WE'LL
16:08 GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE.
16:10 BUT IS THE DEVIL IN CHARGE OF HELL OR DOES IT SAY THAT HE -
16:15 HELL IS PREPARED FOR HIM AND HIS ANGELS.
16:17 SO IT'S NOT JUST SATAN, ALL THE FALLEN ANGELS AND THE DEMONS
16:20 THAT FOLLOWED HIM, THEY'RE GOING TO GET THAT SAME PUNISHMENT.
16:24 HOW DOES THE BIBLE REFER TO GOD'S DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED?
16:29 IS IT SOMETHING HE ENJOYS? NO.
16:32 ISAIAH CHAPTER 28, VERSE 21, IT SAYS, "FOR THE LORD...SHALL BE
16:37 WROTH...THAT HE MAY DO HIS WORK, HIS STRANGE WORK; AND BRING TO
16:42 PASS HIS ACT, HIS STRANGE ACT." SOMEONE ASKED EARLIER IN ONE OF
16:46 THE QUESTIONS, 'HOW CAN A GOD OF LOVE DESTROY?'
16:49 DOES HE ENJOY THAT? DOES GOD LIKE DESTROYING?
16:53 REMEMBER WHEN GOD DESTROYED THE WORLD IN THE DAYS OF NOAH?
16:55 HE USED WATER. ARE THEY STILL DROWNING TODAY OR
16:58 ARE THEY GONE? HE SAID, 'NEXT TIME I'LL DO IT
17:01 WITH FIRE.' BUT HE'S GOING TO DESTROY THE WORLD AGAIN.
17:04 BUT IT SAYS IT GRIEVED GOD AT HIS HEART THAT HE MADE MAN.
17:09 HE WAS NOT HAPPY ABOUT WHAT HE HAD TO DO, IT BROKE HIS HEART.
17:12 GOD WANTS TO MAKE LIFE. HE WANTS TO SAVE LIFE.
17:14 IF YOU DOUBT THAT, WHY DID JESUS COME?
17:16 BECAUSE HE'S DESPERATE TO SAVE US.
17:18 WHEN HE HAS TO DESTROY THE LOST, KNOW YOU DO NOT LOVE YOUR
17:23 CHILDREN MORE THAN GOD LOVES HIS CHILDREN.
17:26 IT HURTS GOD INFINITELY MORE THAN IT WOULD HURT ANY EARTHLY
17:31 PARENT TO HAVE TO TAKE THE LIFE OF THEIR OWN CHILD.
17:34 JESUS IS A LOVER OF GOOD. HE IS A LOVER OF LIFE.
17:40 HE WANTS TO GIVE LIFE. I'LL TELL YOU A QUICK STORY.
17:44 WHEN I LIVED UP IN THE MOUNTAINS, I TOLD YOU I LIVED IN
17:47 A CAVE FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AND I COOKED ON A FIRE
17:52 EVERY DAY. AND I REMEMBER, ONE NIGHT - I
17:55 HAD A CAT UP THERE - I THINK I SHOWED YOU A PICTURE, IF YOU
17:58 WERE HERE, OF MY CAT STRANGER. AND I NEVER BOUGHT CAT FOOD.
18:02 EVERY NOW AND THEN I'D THROW HIM A LITTLE SOMETHING, BUT HE
18:04 PRETTY MUCH TOOK CARE OF HIMSELF BECAUSE HE WAS A GOOD HUNTER.
18:07 ONE NIGHT, I WAS COOKING MY DINNER; STRANGER HAD CAUGHT A
18:10 LITTLE KANGAROO RAT. NOW, YOU KNOW, CATS ARE A LITTLE BIT
18:13 SADISTIC. THEY LIKE TO PLAY WITH THEIR FOOD.
18:16 AND THAT POOR LITTLE DAZED KANGAROO RAT, HE TRIED TO BOUNCE
18:20 AND HOP AWAY AND HE HOPPED RIGHT INTO THE FIRE. NOW I - IT NEVER
18:27 FAILS TO GET A GASP FROM THE AUDIENCE WHEN I TELL THAT STORY.
18:31 HERE YOU ARE, I'M TELLING YOU ABOUT THIS LITTLE MOUSE THAT
18:34 WENT INTO THE FIRE, AND IT JUST BREAKS YOUR HEARTS, DOESN'T IT?
18:36 THAT LITTLE THING - JUST THE IDEA OF THE LITTLE RAT
18:39 SUFFERING. NOW IT SEEMED LIKE A LONG TIME
18:42 BUT I WATCHED IT, YOU KNOW, IT JUST - IT SQUEAKED AND WRITHED
18:45 FOR PROBABLY TWO OR THREE SECONDS AND IT STOPPED - AND IT
18:49 PROBABLY EVEN HURTS YOU TO THINK ABOUT THAT. A MOUSE.
18:52 YOU DON'T WANT IT TO HAPPEN TO A MOUSE AND YET, MANY CHRISTIANS
18:57 BELIEVE THAT GOD IS GOING TO DO THAT AND MUCH WORSE TO HUMANS
19:00 FOREVER. THINK ABOUT THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU SAY
19:05 ANYTHING AGAINST IT PEOPLE SAY, 'YOU DON'T BELIEVE THE BIBLE!'
19:07 SURE YOU DO. NOW, THERE ARE SOME VERSES THAT
19:09 ARE CONFUSING AND WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THOSE.
19:11 QUESTION #13: DOESN'T THE BIBLE PHRASE UNQUENCHABLE FIRE
19:16 INDICATE THAT THE FIRE NEVER GOES OUT?
19:19 WELL, NO. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO QUENCH?
19:24 QUENCH IS A VERB THAT MEANS TO EXTINGUISH.
19:27 LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE: INTERPRET THE BIBLE WITH THE
19:31 BIBLE. THERE'S A RULE. LET THE BIBLE BE ITS OWN
19:34 EXPOSITOR. IT DOESN'T CONTRADICT ITSELF.
19:36 YOU CAN READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 3, VERSE 12, IT
19:41 SAYS, "HE WILL THOROUGHLY PURGE HIS FLOOR, AND GATHER HIS WHEAT
19:44 INTO THE GARNER; BUT HE WILL BURN UP" - WHAT DOES BURN UP
19:48 MEAN? GONE - "HE WILL BURN UP THE
19:52 CHAFF" - SPEAKING OF THE WICKED - "WITH UNQUENCHABLE FIRE."
19:55 THAT MEANS NO ONE IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRE THAT
19:59 GOD IS GOING TO USE TO PUNISH THE WICKED.
20:02 HAVE YOU EVER SEEN - THE HOUSE CATCHES ON FIRE - OR HEAVEN
20:05 FORBID IF A PERSON'S CLOTHES CATCH ON FIRE WHILE THEY'RE
20:07 COOKING? QUICKLY YOU QUENCH IT.
20:09 BUT THERE'LL BE NOBODY QUENCHING THE LAKE OF FIRE.
20:14 ARE WE GOING TO SIT ON THE WALLS OF THE NEW JERUSALEM AND LOOK
20:17 OUT ON THE WICKED BURNING THROUGH CEASELESS AGES -
20:20 EATING POPCORN FOR ENTERTAINMENT?
20:22 (LAUGHTER) THAT'S SOME IDEA - SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT GOD HAS A
20:27 TORTURE CHAMBER SOMEWHERE WHERE, YOU KNOW, YOU PAY ADMISSION YOU
20:32 GET TO WATCH THE WICKED BURN. YOUR ENEMIES - YEP.
20:35 THEY'RE STILL BURNING. FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER.
20:37 NO, WHEN IT SAYS THAT THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED, IT SIMPLY MEANS
20:43 THERE ARE NOT GOING TO BE ANY FIREMEN IN HELL.
20:47 THERE IS NOBODY GOING AROUND - NO FIREFIGHTERS PUTTING OUT THE
20:50 FIRE. NOBODY EXTINGUISHING THE FIRE.
20:53 THEY ARE GOING TO BURN, UNINTERRUPTED UNTIL THEY ARE
20:57 CONSUMED. THAT'S THE WORD THAT IS USED.
21:00 IF YOU QUENCH A FIRE BEFORE IT STOPS - YOU PUT OUT A LOG BEFORE
21:03 IT'S BURNED UP, YOU CAN BURN IT AGAIN LATER.
21:06 GOD IS SAYING WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED IS - THERE IS NO
21:09 ESSENCE LEFT. IT IS BURNED UP.
21:11 MATTER OF FACT, MALACHI 4: IT LEAVES THEM NEITHER
21:13 ROOT NOR BRANCH. NOTHING IS LEFT.
21:16 QUESTION #14: DOESN'T THE PHRASE EVERLASTING FIRE MEAN UNENDING?
21:22 LET'S FIND OUT WHAT THE WORD MEANS, AGAIN, LETTING THE BIBLE
21:26 INTERPRET ITSELF. JUDE 7, "EVEN AS SODOM AND GOMORRAH...ARE SET
21:31 FORTH FOR AN EXAMPLE, SUFFERING THE VENGEANCE OF ETERNAL FIRE."
21:37 THE FIRE THAT BURNED THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH BURNT THEM
21:40 UP. THERE IS NOTHING LEFT ANYMORE. THE RESULTS OF THE FIRE
21:44 OF THE WICKED ARE ETERNAL. THAT'S WHAT IT'S SAYING.
21:48 GOD IS SAYING 'SIN IS A DEADLY CONTAGIOUS DISEASE. I LOVE YOU.
21:51 I DON'T WANT YOU TO PERISH, BUT THE DISEASE IS GOING TO TAKE YOU
21:54 IF YOU DON'T COME TO ME.' HE'LL HAVE NO ALTERNATIVE.
21:59 HE CAN'T LET IT SPREAD AMONG HIS OTHER CHILDREN IN THE UNIVERSE.
22:02 IT'S GOING TO BREAK HIS HEART. BUT THE WICKED WILL BE PUNISHED.
22:05 THERE IS A LAKE OF FIRE, BUT IT DOESN'T BURN FOREVER AND EVER.
22:09 QUESTION #15: WHEN REVELATION 20, VERSE 10 SAYS THAT THE
22:13 WICKED WILL BE TORMENTED FOREVER AND EVER, DOESN'T THAT INDICATE
22:16 ENDLESS TIME? NOW THIS IS ONE OF THE VERSES
22:20 THAT I WILL ADMITTEDLY SAY CAUSES PEOPLE SOME CONCERN.
22:23 AGAIN, LET THE BIBLE INTERPRET ITSELF.
22:26 IT SAYS THAT YOU COULD HAVE A HEBREW SLAVE; AT THE END OF SIX
22:29 YEARS, IF YOUR SLAVE LOVED YOU AND HE WANTED TO STAY, YOU WENT
22:32 THROUGH THIS RITUAL AND IT SAID HE WILL SERVE HIM FOREVER.
22:36 HOW LONG DID THAT MEAN? UNTIL HE DIED.
22:38 WHEN HANNAH BROUGHT SAMUEL TO THE TEMPLE SHE SAID, 'HE WILL
22:41 ABIDE HERE FOREVER.' HOW LONG DID THAT MEAN?
22:45 UNTIL HE DIED. IN 1 SAMUEL 1:28 SHE EXPLAINS IT
22:49 HERSELF AND SAYS, 'AS LONG AS HE LIVES'.
22:51 THE TERM 'FOREVER' MEANT FOR THE REMAINDER OF YOUR EXISTENCE.
22:55 SO WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE WICKED BURNING FOREVER AND EVER,
22:58 THE WORD THERE USED IN GREEK IS EON.
23:00 FOREVER AND EVER IS A BIBLICAL EXPRESSION WHICH MEANS UNTIL THE
23:03 END OF THE AGE, NOT NECESSARILY AN INFINITE UNENDING LENGTH OF
23:09 TIME. QUESTION #16: AFTER SIN AND
23:12 SINNERS ARE DESTROYED, WHAT WILL JESUS DO FOR HIS PEOPLE?
23:16 YOU CAN READ HERE IN 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 13,
23:20 "NEVERTHELESS WE, ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE, LOOK FOR NEW
23:23 HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH, WHEREIN DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS."
23:29 THERE'S NO MORE PAIN THERE. YOU READ IN REVELATION 21,
23:33 VERSE 4, "AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL
23:35 TEARS FROM THEIR EYES; AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH, NEITHER
23:40 SORROW, NOR CRYING, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE ANY MORE" - WHAT?
23:45 - "PAIN:" - NO MORE PAIN - "FOR THE FORMER THINGS ARE PASSED
23:49 AWAY...BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW" GOD SAYS.
23:53 IS GOD GOING TO IMMORTALIZE SATAN AND SINNERS IN A TORTURE
23:56 CHAMBER SOMEWHERE IN THE COSMOS? NO, NOT THEIR BODIES, NOT THEIR
24:01 SOULS. HE IS GOING TO MAKE ALL THINGS
24:02 NEW. THERE ARE NO HOLDOVERS - NO
24:05 CHANCE OF THE DEVIL ESCAPING AGAIN.
24:08 QUESTION #17: WILL THE SIN PROBLEM EVER RISE AGAIN?
24:12 IT TELLS US IN THE BOOK OF NAHUM 1, VERSE 9, "... AFFLICTION
24:17 SHALL NOT RISE UP THE SECOND TIME." PRAISE GOD! THIS TERRIBLE
24:22 INTERRUPTION IN GOD'S PERFECT UNIVERSE, FOR THE LAST SIX
24:26 THOUSAND YEARS, IS GOING TO DEMONSTRATE FOR ALL ETERNITY
24:30 THAT GOD IS LOVE AND NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE TO DOUBT HIS LOVE
24:32 AGAIN. IS THERE A HELLFIRE? IS THERE? YES. IS IT BURNING YET?
24:37 >>NO. >>NO.
24:39 DOES IT BURN FOREVER? >>NO.
24:42 >>WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY WILL HAPPEN TO THE WICKED?
24:44 THEY ARE CONSUMED - THESE ARE BIBLE WORDS - THEY ARE DEVOURED;
24:47 THEY ARE BURNT UP; THEY PERISH; NEVER SHALL THEY BE ANYMORE;
24:52 WHAT OTHER LANGUAGE IS GOD GOING TO USE TO EXPLAIN THIS - THAT HE
24:56 WANTS TO MAKE IT AS CLEAR AS IT CAN BE?
24:59 AND THE REASON IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT,
25:02 FRIENDS, IS BECAUSE GOD WANTS US TO TRUST HIM.
25:04 GOD WANTS US TO LOVE HIM. YES, WE'RE TO REVERE AND HONOR
25:08 GOD AND FEAR HIM IN THAT RESPECT, BUT HE DOESN'T WANT US
25:11 TO LIVE OUR LIVES IN TERROR. THE BIBLE SAYS THE FEARFUL WILL
25:13 BE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. HE DOESN'T WANT US TO LIVE BY
25:16 FEAR. HE WANTS US TO LIVE BY FAITH.
25:18 AMEN? >>AMEN. (MUSIC)
25:25 >>EVERYONE KNOWS THE BIBLE'S CLEAR THERE ARE ONLY TWO
25:27 DESTINIES: HEAVEN AND HELL. BUT THERE ARE MORE
25:30 MISUNDERSTANDINGS OVER THE SUBJECT OF HELL THAN VIRTUALLY
25:33 ANY OTHER BIBLE DOCTRINE. THE CONCEPT OF THIS PLACE OF
25:36 NEVER-ENDING TORMENT IS NOT BIBLICAL.
25:39 IF YOU'D LIKE TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT AND
25:41 UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES THAT ARE OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD, THEN
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25:59 AND FRIENDS, WHEN YOU RECEIVE THIS FREE RESOURCE, PLEASE READ
26:01 IT AND THEN SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. WE WANT TO GET THE WORD
26:04 OUT, BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS OUR MISSION.
26:09 (CRICKETS CHIRPING) (SPRINKLER TURNING ON) (DRAMATIC MUSIC)
26:34 (DOG BARKING) (FIRE ALARM BEEPING)
26:52 >>MOMMY! DADDY! HELP ME!
26:55 (HOKEY MUSIC) >>NO, I DON'T THINK SO.
26:59 YOU DIDN'T DO VERY WELL ON YOUR REPORT CARD LAST QUARTER SO, NO.
27:04 >>YOU HAVEN'T BEEN PULLING YOUR WEIGHT AROUND HERE LATELY, YOU
27:06 WANT HELP? WELL, I WANTED HELP WITH THE DISHES LAST NIGHT.
27:10 HELP YOURSELF! >>HUH?
27:12 >>HONEY, DID YOU BRING THE MARSHMALLOWS? (HOKEY MUSIC)
27:16 (COUGHING) (EMERGENCY SIRENS) (DRAMATIC MUSIC)
27:40 >>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER
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