How great is our God
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Sing with me
How great is our God
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And all will see How great,
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how great is our God
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Name above all names
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You are worthy of all praise
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My heart will sing
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How great is our God
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Name above all names
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You are worthy of all praise
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And my heart will sing
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How great is our God
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Then sings my soul
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My Savior God to Thee
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How great Thou art
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How great Thou art
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Then sings my soul
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My Savior God to Thee
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How great Thou art
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How great Thou art
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Amen.
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That name above all
names. As morning dawns.
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As morning dawns
and evening fades
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You inspire songs of praise
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That rise from
earth to touch Your heart
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And glorify Your Name
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Your Name, is a
strong and mighty tower
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Your Name, is a
shelter like no other
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Your Name,
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let the nations sing it louder
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'Cause nothing
has the power to save
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But Your Name
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Isn't that beautiful?
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We have a shelter
and a place to hide.
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Let's sing this
next verse. Jesus.
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Jesus in Your Name we pray
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Come and fill our hearts today
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Lord, give us
strength to live for You
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And glorify Your Name
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Your Name,
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is a strong and mighty tower
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Your Name,
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is a shelter like no other
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Your Name,
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let the nations sing it louder
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'Cause nothing
has the power to save
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Your Name,
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is a strong and mighty tower
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Your Name,
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is a shelter like no other
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Your Name,
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let the nations sing it louder
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'Cause nothing
has the power to save
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But Your Name
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Let's pray.
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And so Father with that
festive fanfare as a sendoff.
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We are launched on a journey now
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into a thing that
could hardly be more sobering
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and somber than hell.
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Oh, God,
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we have to get this straight.
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So may the mighty
spirit of the Almighty
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teach us through Holy Scripture.
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We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Suver Pet who
is the receptionist
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and facilities
coordinator here at Pioneer.
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Put me in touch
with a purportedly
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actual recording
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of people in hell.
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I went to the website,
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read the report of a
group of geologists in Siberia
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who drill 14.4 kilometers
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into the crust of the earth.
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And to their shock,
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suddenly heard emanating
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from the fiery
core of this planet,
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human screams.
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The recording was
made of those screams.
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Someone sent radio host,
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Art Bell a copy
of that recording
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and he played it on
his radio show nationally.
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It ended up on YouTube.
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I want you to
listen to it right now.
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I warn you what
you are about to hear
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is very disturbing indeed.
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I think we have
the gist of that,
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that goes on for 40 seconds.
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Snopes.com, the
urban legend online buster
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researched the story
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and understandably has
declared it to be false.
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But no matter your
personal convictions about hell,
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you must admit.
Those are dreadful sounds.
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Is there a place called hell?
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And is it or will it
be filled with sounds
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such as we just heard.
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In 1741, Jonathan Edwards
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pastoring in North
Hampton, Massachusetts,
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during the great awakening,
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preached his most
famous sermon entitled,
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"Sinners in the
Hands of an Angry God."
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Through--a very
graphic depiction of hell,
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he's pleading with his listeners
to flee from sin to the Savior.
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He's an exert from that sermon
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I'll put it on
the screen for you.
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"The God that holds
you over the pit of hell,
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much as one holds a spider,
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or some loathsome
insect over the fire,
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abhors you, and is
dreadfully provoked.
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His wrath towards
you burns like fire,
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he looks upon you as
worthy of nothing else,
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but to be cast into the fire,
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he is of purer eyes than to
bear to have you in his sight,
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you are ten thousand times
more abominable in his eyes,
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than the most hateful
venomous serpent is in ours.
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How dreadful is the
state of those that are daily
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and hourly in the
danger of this great wrath
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and infinite misery!"
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It's no wonder
that in the 19th century
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somebody
published a children's book
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capturing this
popular concept of hell
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for those tiny
wide-eyed readers.
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These words
appeared in that book,
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"Little child,
if you go to hell,
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there will be a devil
at your side to strike you.
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He will go on striking you
every minute forever and ever,
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without ever stopping.
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How then will your
body be after the devil
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has been
striking it every moment
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for a hundred million
years without stopping?"
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It is no secret that the book
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I hold here in
my hands teaches...
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about hell nor is it a secret.
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That Christian
preachers and theologians
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over the
centuries have interpreted
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the Bible's teaching of hell
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to mean that God will
burn sinners forever and ever
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in the fires of hell.
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Nor is it surprising,
nor should it be a secret...
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to discover
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that the teaching of
everlasting hell has arguably
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turn more thinking men and women
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away from Christianity
than any other single teaching.
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Robert Ingersoll,
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the celebrated
agnostic of the 19th century
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grew up here, his preacher dad.
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His father was a pastor,
he grew up hearing him teach
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about how God would burn
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little tiny
babies forever in hell
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that youthful mind
absolutely revolted
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against the
injustice of the thought.
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Little Bobby
cried out, I hate him
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and spent the rest of his life
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disproving the
God of Christianity.
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Bertrand Russell famed atheist
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of the 20th century in his book,
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The Moral Problem wrote,
"I do not myself feel that
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any person profoundly humane
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can believe in
everlasting punishment."
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And then in the 21st century
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I have their
books, Richard Dawkins,
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Sam Harris, the
celebrated atheist of today.
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Both of them in their books
confront the caricature of God
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burning sinners
forever in the fires of hell.
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And both reject the
notion of such a God.
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In fact reject any God at all.
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Who would want your monster god
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to be his or her god anyway?
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So what do we do?
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We're just
teaching that has turned
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so many away
from God, is it true?
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Does the Bible teach
that God burns babies
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and sinners in an
everlasting hell of fire
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forever and ever? Amen.
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Or is there another way
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to understand
the truth about hell?
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Open you Bible with me
please to the words of Jesus
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in the Gospel of
Saint Luke, Luke Chapter 12.
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These are red letter words.
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By the way if you
didn't bring a Bible,
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you need to see
this for yourself.
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Luke Chapter 12, grab the
pew Bible in front of you,
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it will be page
701 in the pew Bible.
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Same translation that I'll
be reading out in this morning,
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the New King James version.
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Luke 12:4, read
it along with me.
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Whatever translation you have,
you have a red letter Bible,
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these words better be in red
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or you take
that back. All right.
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Luke 12:4, "And I say
to you, My friends." Filos.
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This speaks of like, you
know, in Philadelphia city
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a brother they love,
the Greek word is Filos,
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it means one, those I
feel especially close to.
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This is not a
public teaching now.
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"And I say to you, My friends,
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do not be afraid of
those who kill the body,
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and after that have no
more that they can do."
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Verse 5, "But I will
show you whom you should fear.
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Fear Him who,
after He has killed,
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has power to cast into hell,
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yes, I say to
you, fear Him!" Wow.
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Edward Fudge in his book,
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"The Fire that
Consumes," observes that,
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and I put the
words on the screen.
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"Perhaps the greatest
reason for talking about hell
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is also the
simplest and most obvious.
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Jesus our Savior spoke of it--
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more than once and in
the most serious tones.
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Whenever He speaks, we
will do well to listen."
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It wouldn't be wonderful
if we could come across
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a line in the Gospels
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where Jesus is speaking
red letters and He says,
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"You have heard of all that
it was said, there is a hell.
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But I say to you, there
is no hell." Hallelujah.
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You will not find those
words in any of the Gospels.
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Somber indeed,
instead is His warning.
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Look at verse 5, "But I will
show you whom you should fear.
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Fear Him who
after He has killed,
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has power to cast into hell,
yes, I say to you, fear Him!"
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We opened this series
with a single red lettered line
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for two critical reasons.
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These reasons are so vital,
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I wish you would
scribble them down right now.
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Would you pull out the worship
study guide that's in your,
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in your bulletin today.
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Pull out the study guide,
all right, friendly ushers,
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you know the drill.
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Hold them out, there
are people who got in here
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but didn't get a
worship bulletin,
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you're gonna
want this study guide.
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You are gonna brood over
what we have shared today.
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Make sure you get it, please.
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Hold your hand up all
the way into the balcony.
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And those of you who
are watching on television,
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we are delighted to have you.
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I want you to have
the same study guide,
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so go to our website,
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let me put it on
the screen for you.
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www.pm--
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with a pioneer
memorial, www.pmchurch.tv.
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Now you're looking for
a brand new mini series,
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we just finished the
truth about death, three parts.
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Now we're moving into the
truth about hell, three parts.
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You're looking
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Today's teaching is
entitled MonsterGod.com.
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All right, you're
looking for today's teaching
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and then you will
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You click on there, you
will have the same study guide.
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By the way, don't
you dare miss next week,
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the Smoke of their Torment.
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And the final piece,
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My Journey to
Purgatory and Back.
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We share that, little
threesome for this mini series.
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Two critical reasons,
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there it is in the study
guide right at the top there.
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Fill it in please.
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"Two critical reasons we must
confront the teaching of hell."
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Write it down, one, number one,
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"Whatever hell
is, it is fearsome."
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They are the words of
Jesus, it's corroboration.
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Number one, "Whatever
hell is, it is fearsome."
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And number two,
"Whatever hell is, it is final."
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Fearsome and final.
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I share these two
reasons simply because,
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some of you who
happened to share
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my understanding of hell
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have been lowed
into lackadaisical,
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whole hump, big
deal attitude about hell.
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I mean, come on, who cares.
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But these words of Jesus
grab such careless thinking
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by the scruff of
the neck and cry out,
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you better think
again my friend about hell.
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Because whatever it is, it
is fearsome and it is final.
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It will not be
anesthetized picnic
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where you simply hit a
switch and quietly check out.
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just like suicide,
I'm out of here. Nope.
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Jesus cries out, no, no, no,
no, you had better fear the God
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who can not only extinguish
your life in this life
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but can extinguish your
life forever and ever, amen.
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Whatever hell is,
it will be fearsome
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and it will be final.
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And if hell should
happen to you and me,
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we will with all
our hearts be wishing
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that it was not
about to happen to us.
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Because then there will be
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no turning back. Not then.
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Jesus is clear, it
will be final and forever.
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It will be fearful and fearsome.
00:23:07.90\00:23:10.73
Nobody will--oh, I just wish,
I just wish I could go to hell.
00:23:10.76\00:23:14.48
Nobody will long for it, nobody.
00:23:14.51\00:23:18.72
I've never in my--I'll tell
you bit of reality check here.
00:23:18.75\00:23:23.15
I have never in my life
00:23:23.18\00:23:24.96
preached three sermons
00:23:24.99\00:23:26.28
in a row on hell, please.
00:23:26.31\00:23:30.19
I mean, I always
figured one little sermon
00:23:30.22\00:23:32.05
dealing with the manner of hell
00:23:32.08\00:23:33.33
will surely take care
of the biblical teaching.
00:23:33.36\00:23:37.26
But as I have been reading
deeply into this subject,
00:23:37.29\00:23:41.20
the spirit of
God has impressed me
00:23:41.23\00:23:45.19
that there is a
sobering and solemn death
00:23:45.22\00:23:49.10
to the subject that has elicited
00:23:49.13\00:23:51.45
what we just read
the red letters of Jesus.
00:23:51.48\00:23:54.27
Something is
there that we may have
00:23:54.30\00:23:57.65
hurried past in the past.
00:23:57.68\00:24:01.69
I'll read it again with you.
00:24:01.72\00:24:03.96
Verse 4 of Luke
12, "And I say to you,
00:24:03.99\00:24:06.15
My friends, do not be afraid
of those who kill the body,
00:24:06.18\00:24:09.91
and after that have
no more that they can do.
00:24:09.94\00:24:12.83
But--" verse 5, "I will
show you whom you should fear.
00:24:12.86\00:24:15.99
Fear Him who,
after He has killed you,
00:24:16.02\00:24:18.76
has power to cast into
hell, yes, I say to you."
00:24:18.79\00:24:21.80
In case you didn't
hear me the first time,
00:24:21.83\00:24:23.67
"Fear Him!" Jot
it down, will you?
00:24:23.70\00:24:26.66
"Do not fear those who can
00:24:26.69\00:24:27.73
extinguish you
life in this life.
00:24:27.76\00:24:31.13
But fear Him who
can extinguish your life
00:24:31.16\00:24:33.42
for the life to come."
00:24:33.45\00:24:37.12
Gentle Jesus meek and mild,
00:24:37.15\00:24:39.24
not here, ladies and gentlemen,
00:24:39.27\00:24:40.98
not here, not one
hell is on His mind
00:24:41.01\00:24:44.64
as it turns out is
often the case in the Gospels.
00:24:44.67\00:24:49.95
According to Jesus,
00:24:49.98\00:24:53.33
please note these descriptors
00:24:53.36\00:24:57.96
that he declares
are of hell itself.
00:24:57.99\00:25:01.22
Okay, you got your
study guide right there,
00:25:01.25\00:25:02.28
you're gonna have to
keep your pen moving.
00:25:02.31\00:25:03.54
We will do it off
the screen, have a look.
00:25:03.57\00:25:04.72
Let's put the first verse up
00:25:04.75\00:25:05.95
that will be in
Matthew Chapter 8.
00:25:05.98\00:25:07.10
These are all red
letters, Jesus speaking.
00:25:07.13\00:25:09.70
Matthew 8:11, "And I say to you
00:25:09.73\00:25:12.00
that many will
come from east and west,
00:25:12.03\00:25:14.03
and they will sit
down with Abraham,
00:25:14.06\00:25:15.14
Isaac, and Jacob in
the kingdom of heaven.
00:25:15.17\00:25:17.34
But the sons of the kingdom
00:25:17.37\00:25:18.83
will be cast out
into outer darkness.
00:25:18.86\00:25:21.99
There will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth."
00:25:22.02\00:25:25.29
And there--there are
some repeat references
00:25:25.32\00:25:27.58
and you have them
there in your study guide.
00:25:27.61\00:25:28.98
But would you jot
those three words down.
00:25:29.01\00:25:30.77
We're hunting for
the descriptors of hell
00:25:30.80\00:25:33.73
that Christ teaches,
so jot down those three.
00:25:33.76\00:25:35.96
Darkness, then
you're gonna jot down,
00:25:35.99\00:25:38.15
weeping and gnashing, all right.
00:25:38.18\00:25:43.48
Now he has more to say
about hell, that isn't it.
00:25:43.51\00:25:45.94
Let's put another one up,
00:25:45.97\00:25:47.00
let's go to Matthew
13:41, Jesus, red letters again.
00:25:47.03\00:25:50.91
"The Son of Man
will send out His angels,
00:25:50.94\00:25:53.17
and they will gather out of His
kingdom all things that offend,
00:25:53.20\00:25:56.23
and those who
practice lawlessness,
00:25:56.26\00:25:58.11
and will cast them
into the furnace of fire."
00:25:58.14\00:26:03.17
Last time it was
darkness, this time it's fire.
00:26:03.20\00:26:06.20
"And there will be
weeping and gnashing of teeth."
00:26:06.23\00:26:09.17
Now the kings--
New King James there
00:26:09.20\00:26:10.65
actually translates
the identical Greek word
00:26:10.68\00:26:12.68
as wailing for what
reason we do not know.
00:26:12.71\00:26:15.13
That's the thing
about modern translations,
00:26:15.16\00:26:16.67
they just on a wimp.
00:26:16.70\00:26:17.90
It should be the
same word of weeping.
00:26:17.93\00:26:19.57
So you have to say
00:26:19.60\00:26:20.67
two descriptors
weeping and gnashing.
00:26:20.70\00:26:22.44
But this one adds
fire. So what do we have now?
00:26:22.47\00:26:24.19
We have darkness
and we have weeping
00:26:24.22\00:26:26.77
and gnashing and we have fire.
00:26:26.80\00:26:28.83
But it's not true, He
will talk about hell again.
00:26:28.86\00:26:30.89
Let's go to Matthew
Chapter 24. Red letters as well.
00:26:30.92\00:26:33.83
"The master of that
servant will come on a day
00:26:33.86\00:26:36.12
when he is not looking for him
00:26:36.15\00:26:37.71
and at an hour
that he is not aware of,
00:26:37.74\00:26:40.08
and will cut him in two."
00:26:40.11\00:26:43.01
Now it doesn't say the
instrument for that cutting
00:26:43.04\00:26:45.83
but with your permission
I would like to suggest
00:26:45.86\00:26:48.42
it's probably a sword.
00:26:48.45\00:26:51.39
So we put in
brackets, with a sword,
00:26:51.42\00:26:53.08
"He will cut him
into with a sword
00:26:53.11\00:26:55.07
and appoint him his
portion with the hypocrites."
00:26:55.10\00:26:57.59
And here comes again,
00:26:57.62\00:26:58.84
"There shall be
weeping and gnashing of teeth."
00:26:58.87\00:27:02.80
Would you write
that down, please?
00:27:02.83\00:27:04.27
Sword, weeping,
gnashing, what else do we have?
00:27:04.30\00:27:07.13
We have darkness,
weeping and gnashing,
00:27:07.16\00:27:08.48
we have fire,
weeping and gnashing.
00:27:08.51\00:27:09.95
There they are
according to Jesus
00:27:09.98\00:27:12.12
the final destruction of hell
00:27:12.15\00:27:13.83
will come by
fire, darkness and sword
00:27:13.86\00:27:16.47
and those who experience
00:27:16.50\00:27:17.53
it will erupt in
weeping and gnashing of teeth.
00:27:17.56\00:27:21.17
So which one of
these metaphors is right?
00:27:21.20\00:27:23.28
Will hell be fire?
Will hell be darkness?
00:27:23.31\00:27:25.59
Or hell be the sword?
00:27:25.62\00:27:29.18
Or could it be
that intentionally,
00:27:29.21\00:27:32.13
intentionally mixing
his metaphors for hell,
00:27:32.16\00:27:34.74
darkness, fire and
sword, Jesus is making a point.
00:27:34.77\00:27:40.34
What if they could be shown
00:27:40.37\00:27:42.46
that Jesus Himself
personally experienced
00:27:42.49\00:27:45.85
all five of these
descriptors of hell.
00:27:45.88\00:27:50.80
Come with me to that
awful Friday we now call good.
00:27:50.83\00:27:57.25
Go back to the
Gospel of Matthew,
00:27:57.28\00:27:58.40
Matthew will take
Matthew's crucifixion account.
00:27:58.43\00:28:00.72
Matthew Chapter 27,
just go back a few pages.
00:28:00.75\00:28:04.25
We were in Luke, but
now we go to Matthew.
00:28:04.28\00:28:06.56
Matthew Chapter 27,
speed up in verse 33.
00:28:06.59\00:28:11.47
What page number is that?
00:28:11.50\00:28:12.53
That's page 671 got a
pew Bible, follow along.
00:28:12.56\00:28:17.44
Let's go to the cross.
00:28:17.47\00:28:18.80
Matthew 27:33,
"And when they had come
00:28:18.83\00:28:23.24
to a place called Golgotha,
00:28:23.27\00:28:25.35
that is to say,
Place of a Skull."
00:28:25.38\00:28:27.11
Verse 34, "They gave Him,
00:28:27.14\00:28:29.05
Jesus, sour wine
mingled with gall to drink.
00:28:29.08\00:28:32.70
But when He had tasted
it, He would not drink.
00:28:32.73\00:28:36.22
Then they crucified Him,
and divided His garments,
00:28:36.25\00:28:38.78
casting lots, that
it might be fulfilled
00:28:38.81\00:28:40.55
which was spoken by the prophet.
00:28:40.58\00:28:42.20
'They divided My
garments among them,
00:28:42.23\00:28:43.66
and for My
clothing they cast lots.'"
00:28:43.69\00:28:45.31
Verse 36, "And sitting down,
they kept watch over Him there."
00:28:45.34\00:28:51.42
I like that, they
kept watch over Him there.
00:28:51.45\00:28:53.82
Let you and I do the
same for a few moments.
00:28:53.85\00:28:55.89
Now in the next verses
that follow time will pass.
00:28:55.92\00:29:00.36
Only what's not in those
next verses is Luke's account
00:29:00.39\00:29:03.39
of what happens
during those next verses.
00:29:03.42\00:29:05.08
And that would be the
thief turning to Jesus
00:29:05.11\00:29:07.14
and there's that
conversation with the thief.
00:29:07.17\00:29:08.94
Nor is John's account
of the crucifixion there
00:29:08.97\00:29:12.27
because John would
describe Jesus in his agony
00:29:12.30\00:29:15.12
looking down upon
his beloved mother.
00:29:15.15\00:29:16.96
And as a legacy
giving her to young John boy.
00:29:16.99\00:29:21.28
So all of that transpires,
now we're gonna pick it up
00:29:21.31\00:29:24.11
a bit later that
Friday, verse 45,
00:29:24.14\00:29:26.58
"Now from the sixth hour."
00:29:26.61\00:29:29.63
Some of you will have
very new translations,
00:29:29.66\00:29:31.96
it reads from
noon. That's correct.
00:29:31.99\00:29:35.39
"Now from the sixth
hour," that would be noon,
00:29:35.42\00:29:37.21
"Until the ninth hour," that
would be 3 in the afternoon.
00:29:37.24\00:29:39.88
"There was--" what,
ladies and gentlemen?
00:29:39.91\00:29:42.93
What's the word in
all our translations?
00:29:42.96\00:29:45.11
There was what?
"There was darkness."
00:29:45.14\00:29:47.52
Have you heard the
word darkness before?
00:29:47.55\00:29:49.84
Today? Yes, you have.
00:29:49.87\00:29:52.78
"There was
darkness over all the land."
00:29:52.81\00:29:58.00
It turns out, darkness
00:29:58.03\00:29:59.90
is a symbol of
judgment in the Old Testament.
00:29:59.93\00:30:01.99
Will you jot that down please
in your study guide? Darkness.
00:30:02.02\00:30:04.55
We're going to Calvary,
00:30:04.58\00:30:05.61
we're looking for
the five descriptors.
00:30:05.64\00:30:07.19
Lo and behold, we
bump into the first one.
00:30:07.22\00:30:09.03
There is
darkness. What is darkness?
00:30:09.06\00:30:10.67
It is a symbol of judgment.
00:30:10.70\00:30:12.79
There are numerous Old
Testament evidences for this,
00:30:12.82\00:30:14.86
but let's just put one up.
00:30:14.89\00:30:15.98
I put Isaiah
Chapter 13 on the screen.
00:30:16.01\00:30:19.67
"Behold, the day
of the Lord comes."
00:30:19.70\00:30:22.20
Now Old Testament
scholars are very clear
00:30:22.23\00:30:23.73
whenever you read
in the Old Testament,
00:30:23.76\00:30:25.19
the day of the Lord.
00:30:25.22\00:30:26.30
That's speaking
about end time judgment,
00:30:26.33\00:30:27.63
that's hell, that's the end--
00:30:27.66\00:30:28.92
and everything
wrapped up together.
00:30:28.95\00:30:30.48
That's the big,
that's the big one.
00:30:30.51\00:30:33.78
"Behold the day of
the Lord comes, cruel,
00:30:33.81\00:30:36.23
with both wrath
and fierce anger."
00:30:36.26\00:30:40.12
What happens in this day?
00:30:40.15\00:30:41.18
"To lay the land
desolate, and He will destroy
00:30:41.21\00:30:44.81
its sinners from
it." Keep reading.
00:30:44.84\00:30:47.35
"For the stars of
heaven and their constellations
00:30:47.38\00:30:50.51
will not give their light."
00:30:50.54\00:30:52.37
Oh, oh, something
is getting dark here.
00:30:52.40\00:30:54.45
Next, "The sun will be
darkened in its going forth,
00:30:54.48\00:30:57.87
and the moon will not
cause its light to shine.
00:30:57.90\00:31:00.57
I will punish the
world for its evil,
00:31:00.60\00:31:02.75
and the wicked
for their iniquity."
00:31:02.78\00:31:04.42
God speaking, "I will halt
the arrogance of the proud,
00:31:04.45\00:31:06.86
and I will lay low the
haughtiness of the terrible."
00:31:06.89\00:31:09.70
Case established,
darkness is a sign of judgment.
00:31:09.73\00:31:15.67
Darkness is an aspect of
hell, the final judgment.
00:31:15.70\00:31:21.78
All right. Let's go back.
00:31:21.81\00:31:23.07
Let's go back to
Matthew 27, read verse 45 again.
00:31:23.10\00:31:27.53
"Now from the sixth
hour until the ninth hour
00:31:27.56\00:31:30.35
there was
darkness over all the land.
00:31:30.38\00:31:33.02
And about the ninth hour
Jesus cried out with a--"
00:31:33.05\00:31:35.90
in the Greek, megelaphone.
00:31:35.93\00:31:37.70
This is a megaphone, this
is-- this isn't a whimper.
00:31:37.73\00:31:39.82
This is a scream.
00:31:39.85\00:31:41.40
"Jesus cried out saying,
'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?'
00:31:41.43\00:31:45.53
that is, 'My God, My God,
why have You forsaken Me?'"
00:31:45.56\00:31:50.74
Jot it down, will you?
00:31:54.71\00:31:56.50
There is weeping.
00:31:56.53\00:31:58.26
There is weeping at Calvary.
00:31:58.29\00:32:02.55
You say how do you know, Dwight?
00:32:02.58\00:32:04.33
Just watch this.
00:32:04.36\00:32:05.39
Many scholars believe
that Jesus was repeating
00:32:05.42\00:32:07.25
the entire Psalm by memory
while He hung on the cross.
00:32:07.28\00:32:11.74
Let's go to that
messianic Psalm, Psalm 22:1,
00:32:11.77\00:32:15.22
"My God," that's
where He got these words.
00:32:15.25\00:32:17.60
"My God, why
have You forsaken Me?
00:32:17.63\00:32:19.72
Why are You so
far from helping Me,
00:32:19.75\00:32:21.29
and from the
words of My groaning?
00:32:21.32\00:32:23.52
O My God, I cry in the
daytime, but You do not hear,
00:32:23.55\00:32:28.66
and in the night
season, and am not silent."
00:32:28.69\00:32:31.22
There was weeping
at the cross, I cried.
00:32:31.25\00:32:38.03
What else is at the
cross? Go to the screen again.
00:32:38.06\00:32:40.41
Let's insert another Psalm,
00:32:40.44\00:32:44.03
that reflects
the cry of Calvary.
00:32:44.06\00:32:48.26
Psalm 35, Psalm 35:16,
00:32:48.29\00:32:50.95
"With ungodly mockers at feasts
00:32:50.98\00:32:53.52
they gnashed at
me with their teeth.
00:32:53.55\00:32:57.37
Lord, how long
will You look on?"
00:32:57.40\00:32:59.72
The very cry of Calvary.
"How long will You look on?
00:32:59.75\00:33:02.34
Rescue Me from
their destructions,
00:33:02.37\00:33:03.97
My precious
life from the lions."
00:33:04.00\00:33:06.27
Would you jot it down, please?
00:33:06.30\00:33:07.72
Calvary, gnashing.
00:33:07.75\00:33:10.04
See the word, gnashing
00:33:10.07\00:33:11.20
describes not only the
experience of the victim,
00:33:11.23\00:33:14.34
it describes the experience
of those who can't describe this
00:33:14.37\00:33:17.80
the experience of those
who surround the victim,
00:33:17.83\00:33:21.13
there's gnashing.
00:33:21.16\00:33:22.29
Let's go back to
that messianic Psalm.
00:33:26.09\00:33:27.57
Psalm 20:20, Psalm
22, rather verse 20,
00:33:27.60\00:33:31.67
"Deliver Me from the sword,
00:33:31.70\00:33:34.82
My precious life from
the power of the dog."
00:33:34.85\00:33:39.10
Dog is the symbol for the enemy.
00:33:39.13\00:33:41.05
"Deliver Me,"
the cry of Calvary,
00:33:41.08\00:33:42.65
"Deliver Me from the sword."
00:33:42.68\00:33:43.86
Would you jot it down, please?
00:33:43.89\00:33:45.06
There is a sword at Calvary.
00:33:45.09\00:33:46.57
And we didn't even
look up John 19:34,
00:33:46.60\00:33:48.80
where they took
the sword that spear
00:33:48.83\00:33:50.21
just rammed into
His side. It was there.
00:33:50.24\00:33:55.15
There they are,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:33:55.18\00:33:56.55
four Jesus own
descriptors of hell
00:33:56.58\00:33:58.78
that He Himself experienced
00:33:58.81\00:34:00.32
on that terrible
Friday on the cross.
00:34:00.35\00:34:02.09
You say, hey, wait a minute,
00:34:02.12\00:34:03.15
Dwight I
thought there were five.
00:34:03.18\00:34:04.21
Where is this, hey, wait a
minute where's number five?
00:34:04.24\00:34:05.98
There's no fire on Calvary.
00:34:06.01\00:34:08.16
I've read all
four Gospels accounts,
00:34:08.19\00:34:09.80
there's no fire at all.
00:34:09.83\00:34:11.03
My friend,
you're absolutely right.
00:34:11.06\00:34:12.58
You can't find a spark.
00:34:12.61\00:34:14.91
But in the cryptic cry
from that center cross,
00:34:19.22\00:34:24.08
we find it echoed in advance
00:34:24.11\00:34:27.44
a sobbing question
that inserts the fire.
00:34:27.47\00:34:31.92
Watch this. Psalm 89.
00:34:31.95\00:34:35.44
"How long, Lord?" My
God, why have You cut me off?
00:34:35.47\00:34:39.18
"How long, Lord? Will
You hide Yourself forever?
00:34:39.21\00:34:43.29
Will Your wrath burn like--"
00:34:43.32\00:34:45.60
what? Fire.
00:34:45.63\00:34:47.48
Write it down, would you please?
00:34:47.51\00:34:50.68
My God, My God, why
have You cut me off?
00:34:50.71\00:34:53.20
Your wrath to Me is like fire.
00:34:53.23\00:34:54.84
Calvary, fire, a
symbol of divine wrath.
00:34:54.87\00:35:01.87
Fire, darkness,
00:35:01.90\00:35:04.81
sword, weeping, gnashing.
00:35:04.84\00:35:10.38
You know what that
means? Jot it down.
00:35:10.41\00:35:13.66
"All five descriptors of
hell that Jesus described,
00:35:13.69\00:35:17.78
He Himself personally
experienced upon the cross."
00:35:17.81\00:35:24.69
Personally, all
five He experienced them.
00:35:24.72\00:35:31.39
And what is this
wrath of God's business?
00:35:31.42\00:35:35.02
Oh, this is fascinating.
00:35:35.05\00:35:36.13
You got to, you keep
your pen right there.
00:35:36.16\00:35:38.50
You have got to see this.
00:35:38.53\00:35:40.45
Romans Chapter 1,
let's go to Book of Romans.
00:35:40.48\00:35:41.81
It actually powerfully defines
what the wrath of God means.
00:35:41.84\00:35:44.60
This is Romans 1:18,
"For the wrath of God."
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Okay, so we want to know
what is this wrath of God?
00:35:47.69\00:35:49.79
What happens to human being
00:35:49.82\00:35:51.02
when the wrath
of God takes place?
00:35:51.05\00:35:52.82
"For the wrath of God
is revealed from heaven
00:35:52.85\00:35:55.64
against all ungodliness
00:35:55.67\00:35:57.44
and unrighteousness
of men and women,
00:35:57.47\00:35:59.27
who suppress the truth in
unrighteousness." All right.
00:35:59.30\00:36:02.44
What does it mean
when God reveals His wrath?
00:36:02.47\00:36:04.94
Notice verse 24,
00:36:04.97\00:36:06.00
"Therefore God also gave
them up," speaking of sinners.
00:36:06.03\00:36:10.34
"God also gave
them up to uncleanness,
00:36:10.37\00:36:12.88
in the lusts of their hearts,
00:36:12.91\00:36:14.37
to dishonor their
bodies among themselves."
00:36:14.40\00:36:18.28
Let's just keep a little
tally here of how many times
00:36:18.31\00:36:20.94
a particular word in
the Greek appears in Romans.
00:36:20.97\00:36:23.25
Would you jot it
down in your study guide?
00:36:23.28\00:36:24.70
Romans 1:18, 24, and
by the way 24, 26 and 28
00:36:24.73\00:36:30.24
all used this
Greek word, paradidomi
00:36:30.27\00:36:32.73
and it's translated,
God gives sinners up.
00:36:32.76\00:36:36.58
Write that down.
00:36:36.61\00:36:37.64
God, what does that mean
to have the wrath of God?
00:36:37.67\00:36:39.73
God gives sinners up.
That isn't hard to understand.
00:36:39.76\00:36:44.97
He chooses not to force sinners
00:36:45.00\00:36:47.21
to love them
and He gives them up
00:36:47.24\00:36:49.31
to the consequences
of their own choices.
00:36:49.34\00:36:51.18
You can't be a
mother, you can't be a father
00:36:51.21\00:36:54.18
and not know the
meaning of that human reality.
00:36:54.21\00:36:57.70
I mean, you can say to
your kids, look it, look it.
00:36:57.73\00:36:59.99
Son, don't you ever drink this.
00:37:00.02\00:37:02.75
You can say to your daughter,
don't you ever do this.
00:37:02.78\00:37:07.88
You can say don't
you ever smoke this.
00:37:07.91\00:37:11.13
But every parent
knows there will come a time
00:37:11.16\00:37:13.59
when you can no
longer make, isn't this true?
00:37:13.62\00:37:16.72
You can no longer make
the choices for your children.
00:37:16.75\00:37:20.32
They are of age and
they will have to choose
00:37:20.35\00:37:23.38
and they will have to,
00:37:23.41\00:37:25.34
how does that old
law of the universe go?
00:37:25.37\00:37:27.41
Whatsoever a man sows
that shall he also reap.
00:37:27.44\00:37:33.68
You can't stop the law.
00:37:33.71\00:37:35.50
You can beg them,
you can plead with them
00:37:35.53\00:37:37.92
but they have the
freedom, do they not?
00:37:37.95\00:37:39.68
To say, "I'm not too bad,
dad. I'm gonna do this anyway."
00:37:39.71\00:37:43.27
And all a parent can do is
with a broken heart stand by
00:37:43.30\00:37:48.22
and pray hard. I know.
00:37:48.25\00:37:51.62
But what startling in
Romans is not only that
00:37:54.34\00:37:57.53
that it defines the
wrath of God is God just let--
00:37:57.56\00:38:00.22
God letting us reap the
consequences of what we insist.
00:38:00.25\00:38:03.22
We got to be able to do.
00:38:03.25\00:38:04.92
What startling in
Romans is that God
00:38:04.95\00:38:07.09
does the very same
thing to Jesus on the cross.
00:38:07.12\00:38:10.90
Watch this. Romans 4:25.
00:38:10.93\00:38:13.63
"Jesus was--" he's
speaking of Calvary right here.
00:38:13.66\00:38:16.02
"Jesus was delivered up,"
00:38:16.05\00:38:17.86
there's that same
Greek word, paradidomi.
00:38:17.89\00:38:19.77
"Jesus was delivered up because
of our sins, our offenses,
00:38:19.80\00:38:24.06
and He was raised
because of our justification."
00:38:24.09\00:38:27.60
Would you jot that down, please?
00:38:27.63\00:38:29.96
Paradidomi in Romans
4:25, God gave Jesus up.
00:38:29.99\00:38:35.86
I mean does that, does
that blow your mind or what?
00:38:35.89\00:38:40.45
I mean, please
what God does to sinners
00:38:40.48\00:38:42.98
He did for Jesus on the cross.
00:38:43.01\00:38:45.04
And by the way in
case you didn't get it,
00:38:45.07\00:38:47.61
the author of Romans, Paul says,
00:38:47.64\00:38:49.01
let me give you
one more proof of that.
00:38:49.04\00:38:50.53
Romans Chapter 8,
let's put that one on.
00:38:50.56\00:38:52.47
Romans 8:32,
00:38:52.50\00:38:55.56
"He who did not
spare His own Son,
00:38:55.59\00:38:58.08
but delivered Him up."
00:38:58.11\00:39:00.06
There it is again that
Greek word, paradidomi.
00:39:00.09\00:39:02.47
"But delivered Him up for
us, how shall He not with Him,
00:39:02.50\00:39:06.75
Christ, also freely
give us all things?"
00:39:06.78\00:39:12.29
Romans 1, God gives,
00:39:12.32\00:39:14.19
gives up sinners
to their own choices.
00:39:14.22\00:39:16.03
Romans 2, God gives up Jesus
to the consequences of sin.
00:39:16.06\00:39:19.65
Romans 4, rather Romans 8,
00:39:19.68\00:39:22.66
God gave up, jot it
down, God gave up His Son.
00:39:22.69\00:39:27.88
What God does to sinners
He did to Jesus on the cross.
00:39:27.91\00:39:32.83
He let Him reap the dark and
wretched consequences of sin.
00:39:32.86\00:39:37.21
i.e., the wrath of
God, this divine let Him go.
00:39:37.24\00:39:41.51
God lets Christ experience
the full force of that.
00:39:41.54\00:39:45.06
Now that you're own,
now that you are on your own
00:39:45.09\00:39:48.44
severance
between the two of them.
00:39:48.47\00:39:51.53
Are you getting this?
00:39:56.30\00:39:58.30
You understand that
when the wrath of God
00:39:58.33\00:40:01.84
is displayed to sinners
it means I'll let you go,
00:40:01.87\00:40:06.60
I'll let you reap the
consequences of your choice.
00:40:06.63\00:40:11.71
Do you understand
that when the wrath,
00:40:11.74\00:40:13.05
that same wrath of
God is displayed to Jesus,
00:40:13.08\00:40:16.84
it's the same, I'll let
you go, you have become sinner.
00:40:16.87\00:40:20.59
I'll let you go and
you reap the consequences.
00:40:20.62\00:40:24.70
Markus Barth, the
New Testament scholar
00:40:24.73\00:40:26.91
graphically
describes the severance
00:40:26.94\00:40:29.70
that took place at Calvary.
00:40:29.73\00:40:31.19
You see the words
there in your study guide.
00:40:31.22\00:40:32.87
"Here at the cross
God stands against God,
00:40:32.90\00:40:37.02
the Father against the Son,
00:40:37.05\00:40:39.63
the benevolent, promising
God addressed in prayers,
00:40:39.66\00:40:42.41
against what
God makes and allows
00:40:42.44\00:40:44.58
in the world of
facts and events.
00:40:44.61\00:40:46.23
The earth
trembles. The sun fades away.
00:40:46.26\00:40:49.38
This is the horror of
the judgment, God is silent.
00:40:49.41\00:40:52.47
An eclipse of the living God,
a victory of death over life,
00:40:52.50\00:40:55.69
the end of all
religions, all law and justice,
00:40:55.72\00:40:58.14
all morality-- it
is this that comes in
00:40:58.17\00:41:00.96
at 3:00 p.m. on Good Friday.
00:41:00.99\00:41:03.61
A hell, deeper and hotter
00:41:03.64\00:41:05.79
than anything one might
imagine has opened its maw,
00:41:05.82\00:41:09.12
its jaws, devoured God's
Son, and become all-victorious."
00:41:09.15\00:41:16.58
In a way we shall
never fully understand
00:41:16.61\00:41:22.19
Christ drank the
bitter heart crushing drags,
00:41:22.22\00:41:29.40
the cup of human sin.
00:41:29.43\00:41:31.65
Drank it to the last drop.
00:41:31.68\00:41:37.87
He entered into the
very hill that he warned us,
00:41:37.90\00:41:41.63
he waved us away from.
00:41:41.66\00:41:43.75
You don't want to go here.
00:41:43.78\00:41:45.76
He enters that very hill.
00:41:45.79\00:41:49.34
He saved us,
unless Jesus did save me,
00:41:49.37\00:41:50.94
how can He reap the consequences
of his pure and moral life?
00:41:50.97\00:41:55.49
Ah, my friend, that is precisely
the good news of the gospel.
00:41:55.52\00:41:58.84
Let's put it up on the screen,
everybody knows Isaiah 53.
00:41:58.87\00:42:05.49
"Surely He has borne our griefs
00:42:05.52\00:42:08.22
and carried our
sorrows," described in Calvary.
00:42:08.25\00:42:11.26
"Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
00:42:11.29\00:42:14.53
But He was wounded
for our transgressions,
00:42:14.56\00:42:17.05
He was bruised
for our iniquities.
00:42:17.08\00:42:19.69
The chastisement for
our peace was upon Him,
00:42:19.72\00:42:21.51
and by His
stripes we are healed."
00:42:21.54\00:42:23.53
Now notice, "All we
like sheep have gone astray,
00:42:23.56\00:42:26.07
we have turned,
every one, to his own way.
00:42:26.10\00:42:27.93
And the Lord has
laid on Him the iniquity,"
00:42:27.96\00:42:32.08
write it down, please.
00:42:32.11\00:42:33.14
"The iniquity of
the entire human race."
00:42:33.17\00:42:39.72
I give you up now.
00:42:39.75\00:42:41.88
You take the
consequences and bearing it all.
00:42:41.91\00:42:45.54
Every sin in my life,
00:42:45.57\00:42:48.85
every sin in your
life, He bears it.
00:42:48.88\00:42:52.31
The Lord has laid on
Him the iniquity of us all,
00:42:52.34\00:42:53.87
is that only an
Old Testament teaching,
00:42:53.90\00:42:55.35
note, keep your pen moving.
00:42:55.38\00:42:56.48
2 Corinthians 5:21, "For He,"
the father, "made Him," Christ,
00:42:56.51\00:43:01.33
"who knew no sin
to be sin for us,
00:43:01.36\00:43:05.04
that we might become
00:43:05.07\00:43:06.84
the
righteousness of God in Him."
00:43:06.87\00:43:09.73
Would you jot that down?
He made Him to be sin for us.
00:43:09.76\00:43:15.60
Ladies and gentlemen, the
mysterious truth of Calvary
00:43:15.63\00:43:18.42
is that Jesus became our sin
in order to bear our penalty.
00:43:18.45\00:43:24.15
And as a consequence He
died the death that was ours.
00:43:24.18\00:43:27.74
Not this momentary death that
comes from human vicissitude,
00:43:27.77\00:43:30.69
you know, I'm just weak,
00:43:30.72\00:43:31.77
I got that, I have the disease,
00:43:31.80\00:43:33.52
I was hit by a
car, not that death.
00:43:33.55\00:43:36.33
But the eternal death
of human rebellion and sin.
00:43:36.36\00:43:40.03
In fact say it out
loudly you know this one.
00:43:40.06\00:43:41.73
Romans 6:23, "For the
wages of sin is death,
00:43:41.76\00:43:46.83
but the gift of
God is eternal life
00:43:46.86\00:43:50.21
through Jesus Christ our Lord."
00:43:50.24\00:43:52.65
The gift is eternal
life, and what is the wage?
00:43:52.68\00:43:55.13
The very
antithesis of eternal life,
00:43:55.16\00:43:57.06
can't be just a momentary death,
00:43:57.09\00:43:59.14
it has to be an eternal death.
00:43:59.17\00:44:00.82
The very opposite, the wages
and the gift are contrasted.
00:44:00.85\00:44:05.90
Revelation calls
this eternal death,
00:44:05.93\00:44:08.61
the second death, you know why?
00:44:08.64\00:44:11.63
Because it's the one death
00:44:11.66\00:44:13.71
from which you cannot
ever be awakened again.
00:44:13.74\00:44:19.20
Second death.
00:44:19.23\00:44:21.69
It's the death
that hell consummates.
00:44:21.72\00:44:26.17
Jesus taught hell,
00:44:26.20\00:44:27.64
He said there will be
five descriptors of hell.
00:44:27.67\00:44:30.13
The darkness and
sword of the judgment,
00:44:30.16\00:44:32.68
the weeping and
gnashing of anguish
00:44:32.71\00:44:34.18
and the fire of divine wrath
00:44:34.21\00:44:36.10
and on Calvary,
all five descriptors.
00:44:36.13\00:44:43.54
Christ Himself can do it.
00:44:43.57\00:44:46.47
There is no clear portrayal
00:44:46.50\00:44:48.49
in all of Holy Scripture
of hell than the cross.
00:44:48.52\00:44:55.33
Whereon Jesus did not cry out,
00:44:55.36\00:44:56.98
"My God, My God,
Why are You killing Me?"
00:44:57.01\00:45:00.88
He didn't cry out, "My
God, why are You burning Me?"
00:45:00.91\00:45:04.80
Cry on Calvary is unmistakable.
00:45:04.83\00:45:06.75
"My God, My God,
why have You cut me off?
00:45:06.78\00:45:10.50
Why have You forsaken me?"
00:45:10.53\00:45:12.07
Dreadfully somber and
sobering truth of hell
00:45:16.37\00:45:20.25
is that it is the
final and fearsome severance
00:45:20.28\00:45:25.47
from the one
being in the universe
00:45:25.50\00:45:27.08
who is the life
support of all creation.
00:45:27.11\00:45:33.31
Our last text,
Christ descended into hell
00:45:33.34\00:45:35.74
into that awful darkness for us,
00:45:35.77\00:45:37.16
look at this, our final text.
00:45:37.19\00:45:38.44
Hebrew 2:9, "But we see Jesus,
00:45:38.47\00:45:42.83
who was made a little
lower than the angels,
00:45:42.86\00:45:44.72
for the suffering of death
crowned with glory and honor,
00:45:44.75\00:45:48.61
that He, by the grace of God,"
00:45:48.64\00:45:52.26
jot this down.
00:45:52.29\00:45:53.32
"That He, by the grace of God,
00:45:53.35\00:45:54.99
might taste death for everyone."
00:45:55.02\00:46:01.13
All of us will
taste our own first death
00:46:01.16\00:46:04.20
whether it's premature or comes
with old age, we will all die.
00:46:04.23\00:46:08.28
We will taste
that death ourselves.
00:46:08.31\00:46:11.16
But there is a second death
00:46:11.19\00:46:12.79
that only one
being in the universe
00:46:12.82\00:46:14.84
thus far has
tasted and He did so,
00:46:14.87\00:46:17.18
so that none of us
would ever, ever, ever
00:46:17.21\00:46:20.83
have to taste that
death for ourselves.
00:46:20.86\00:46:26.99
Listen to Desire of Ages,
00:46:27.02\00:46:29.30
moving depiction
of the second death
00:46:29.33\00:46:33.48
that Christ
experienced it at Calvary,
00:46:33.51\00:46:35.36
that we have a new study
guide, I put it on the screen.
00:46:35.39\00:46:38.88
Friday afternoon,
00:46:38.91\00:46:40.01
"But now with the terrible
weight of guilt He bears,
00:46:40.04\00:46:44.20
He cannot see the
Father's reconciling face.
00:46:44.23\00:46:47.96
The withdrawal of
the divine countenance
00:46:47.99\00:46:49.90
from the Savior in
this hour of supreme anguish
00:46:49.93\00:46:54.21
pierced His heart with a sorrow
00:46:54.24\00:46:56.65
that can never be
fully understood by man.
00:46:56.68\00:47:01.60
the Savior could not see
through the portals of the tomb.
00:47:01.63\00:47:04.24
Hope did not present to Him
00:47:04.27\00:47:05.41
His coming forth from
the grave a conqueror,
00:47:05.44\00:47:07.32
or tell Him of the Father's
acceptance of the sacrifice.
00:47:07.35\00:47:10.48
He feared sin was
so offensive to God
00:47:10.51\00:47:13.49
that Their
separation was to be eternal."
00:47:13.52\00:47:15.49
Second death, we will
never be together again.
00:47:15.52\00:47:19.54
"Christ felt--" read on,
"Christ felt the anguish--"
00:47:19.57\00:47:23.43
this would be hell, wouldn't it?
00:47:23.46\00:47:24.96
"Christ felt the anguish
which the sinner will feel
00:47:24.99\00:47:27.77
when mercy shall no longer
plead for the guilty race.
00:47:27.80\00:47:32.25
It was the sense of sin,
bringing the Father's wrath,"
00:47:32.28\00:47:35.84
there it is again.
00:47:35.87\00:47:36.96
"It was the sense of sin,
00:47:36.99\00:47:38.02
bringing the
Father's wrath upon Him
00:47:38.05\00:47:39.34
as man's substitute that
made the cup He drank so bitter,
00:47:39.37\00:47:44.98
and broke the
heart of the Son of God."
00:47:45.01\00:47:52.79
And you're saying,
Dwight, there's no way.
00:47:52.82\00:47:54.95
There's no way He
died the second death,
00:47:54.98\00:47:57.11
He came up on Sunday.
00:47:57.14\00:48:01.58
I've told a story
over and over again.
00:48:01.61\00:48:08.10
I may repeat it once more.
00:48:08.13\00:48:12.05
Story about a little
boy who was deathly ill.
00:48:12.08\00:48:16.74
Doctors tried
everything, they can't,
00:48:16.77\00:48:18.87
they can't reverse
impending death that looks like.
00:48:18.90\00:48:24.09
There's a rare genetic disorder,
00:48:24.12\00:48:26.78
they need somebody who is
the perfect genetic match.
00:48:26.81\00:48:30.62
So they try, obviously,
they test the mother first
00:48:30.65\00:48:32.75
and then they test the father.
00:48:32.78\00:48:34.84
Nobody in their
family test that matched
00:48:34.87\00:48:38.04
expect the boy's younger sister.
00:48:38.07\00:48:42.72
Of course the
doctors are delighted
00:48:42.75\00:48:44.86
and they gather with the
family around a little girl
00:48:44.89\00:48:46.74
and they explain
to her that she has,
00:48:46.77\00:48:51.49
she has the perfect match that
can save her brother's life.
00:48:51.52\00:48:56.74
Would you be willing, honey
00:48:56.77\00:48:58.89
to give your
blood for your brother?
00:48:58.92\00:49:03.75
The little girl turns
her pensive face away,
00:49:03.78\00:49:06.36
she's deep in thought,
finally decision is made.
00:49:06.39\00:49:09.70
She looks back
into the downturn face,
00:49:09.73\00:49:12.62
she bounces those curls
and she says, she would.
00:49:12.65\00:49:18.07
So they hurry her
into the laboratory,
00:49:18.10\00:49:19.65
you've given blood,
you know what it is like.
00:49:19.68\00:49:21.35
And that little plastic bag
begins to fill with the life
00:49:21.38\00:49:26.04
giving portion to save
her older brother's life.
00:49:26.07\00:49:31.33
When it was all over,
00:49:31.36\00:49:35.31
she was leaving the laboratory
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she looked up
into her father's face.
00:49:36.90\00:49:39.87
And she said,
"Daddy, when will I die now?"
00:49:39.90\00:49:45.20
He kind of chuckled
00:49:45.23\00:49:48.59
when all of a sudden it hit
him like a bolt of lightening.
00:49:48.62\00:49:52.95
His little girl had just gone
00:49:52.98\00:49:56.68
through the
procedure of giving her blood
00:49:56.71\00:49:59.29
believing that in
the gift of that blood.
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She would die.
00:50:05.45\00:50:08.16
Now academicians, I
want to ask you a question.
00:50:08.19\00:50:12.29
Did that little
girl die for her brother?
00:50:12.32\00:50:18.34
Yes or no? Huh?
00:50:18.37\00:50:21.14
Oh, you bet she did. She
died for him, right here.
00:50:21.17\00:50:25.48
Died that death,
I'll give my life for him.
00:50:25.51\00:50:29.78
Did Jesus die the second death?
00:50:29.81\00:50:35.19
Oh, yes, He did. Right here.
00:50:35.22\00:50:38.75
And it broke His heart.
00:50:38.78\00:50:42.77
He died the second death of hell
00:50:42.80\00:50:48.09
for you and me.
00:50:48.12\00:50:51.22
May I be cantor with
you, I cannot comprehend it.
00:50:51.25\00:50:56.11
I cannot grasp how
anyone would love me so much
00:50:56.14\00:51:01.05
that he would be
willing to go to hell for me.
00:51:01.08\00:51:08.15
That he would be willing
00:51:08.18\00:51:10.18
on that cross to be separated
00:51:10.21\00:51:12.17
from the Father forever and ever
00:51:12.20\00:51:15.00
so that I could
live with the same Father
00:51:15.03\00:51:17.56
forever and ever.
00:51:17.59\00:51:19.83
I read about
it. I sing about it.
00:51:19.86\00:51:24.44
But I'm being honest with you,
00:51:24.47\00:51:26.15
I for the life of me cannot
comprehend that kind of love.
00:51:26.18\00:51:33.21
Nobody has ever loved me
00:51:33.24\00:51:38.26
that much before.
00:51:38.29\00:51:43.09
There's only one
thing I know what,
00:51:43.12\00:51:44.66
I know how to do, only one.
00:51:44.69\00:51:49.71
That is I bow with
my face to the ground
00:51:49.74\00:51:57.14
and I worship
Him who died for me.
00:51:57.17\00:52:04.71
"O Sacred Head, now wounded
00:52:04.74\00:52:08.28
with grief and
shame weighed down.
00:52:08.31\00:52:12.24
Now scornfully surrounded
with thorns, Thine only crown.
00:52:12.27\00:52:16.93
O sacred Head, what glory,
what bliss till now was Thine!
00:52:16.96\00:52:20.75
Yet, though despised and
gory, I joy to call Thee mine.
00:52:20.78\00:52:26.06
What language shall I borrow
to thank Thee, dearest Friend.
00:52:26.09\00:52:29.92
For this Thy dying sorrow,
00:52:29.95\00:52:32.06
Thy pity without end?
00:52:32.09\00:52:34.02
O make me Thine forever,
00:52:34.05\00:52:36.86
and should I fainting be.
00:52:36.89\00:52:40.09
Lord, let me never, never
00:52:40.12\00:52:44.36
outlive my love to Thee."
00:52:44.39\00:52:49.65
O Sacred Head, now wounded
00:53:28.60\00:53:34.99
With grief and
shame weighed down
00:53:35.02\00:53:41.03
Now scornfully surrounded
00:53:41.06\00:53:47.62
With thorns, Thine only crown
00:53:47.65\00:53:53.77
O sacred Head, what glory,
00:53:53.80\00:54:00.94
what bliss till now was Thine
00:54:00.97\00:54:07.63
Yet, though despised and gory
00:54:07.66\00:54:14.85
I joy to call Thee mine.
00:54:14.88\00:54:19.75
What Thou, my Lord hast suffered
00:54:24.15\00:54:30.30
Was all for sinners' gain
00:54:30.33\00:54:36.72
Mine, mine was the transgression
00:54:36.75\00:54:43.28
But Thine the deadly pain
00:54:43.31\00:54:50.11
Lo, here I fall, my Savior
00:54:50.14\00:54:57.30
'Tis I deserve thy place
00:54:57.33\00:55:04.44
Look on me with thy favor
00:55:04.47\00:55:11.31
Vouchafe to me Thy grace.
00:55:11.34\00:55:17.20
What language shall I borrow?
00:55:21.03\00:55:27.86
To thank Thee, dearest Friend
00:55:27.89\00:55:34.48
For this Thy dying sorrow
00:55:34.51\00:55:41.19
Thy pity without end?
00:55:41.22\00:55:47.97
O make me Thine forever
00:55:48.00\00:55:54.93
And should I fainting be
00:55:54.96\00:56:02.24
Lord, let me never, never
00:56:02.27\00:56:09.50
outlive my love to Thee.
00:56:09.53\00:56:15.18
And now the grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ
00:56:22.58\00:56:26.42
and the love of God
00:56:26.45\00:56:28.96
and the communion of the Holy
Spirit be with you all. Amen.
00:56:28.99\00:56:34.03
It's been a pleasure to be
able to worship with you today.
00:56:37.03\00:56:39.64
I hope that the spirit of Jesus
has blessed your time with us
00:56:39.67\00:56:42.65
right here in the
Pioneer Memorial Church
00:56:42.68\00:56:44.13
in the campus of
Andrews University.
00:56:44.16\00:56:46.39
Do you know
that around the world
00:56:46.42\00:56:47.45
people join us every
week for this hour of worship.
00:56:47.48\00:56:49.90
We're always
looking as a consequence
00:56:49.93\00:56:51.72
for new ways to bridge,
00:56:51.75\00:56:53.04
somehow to
connect with these people
00:56:53.07\00:56:55.11
who come here to
worship via the telecast.
00:56:55.14\00:56:58.14
One of the areas that is quickly
growing for us is our website.
00:56:58.17\00:57:01.49
We had more than a
140,000 visitors last year.
00:57:01.52\00:57:05.38
It's an incredible opportunity
00:57:05.41\00:57:07.29
that God has given us
to expand His kingdom.
00:57:07.32\00:57:10.03
If you like to
help partner with us
00:57:10.06\00:57:12.09
as we seek to spread
the everlasting gospel,
00:57:12.12\00:57:15.03
I'd love to have you
call our toll free number.
00:57:15.06\00:57:17.51
We got very friendly
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Here's our number, 877-His-Will.
00:57:20.04\00:57:23.26
877 and then the
two words His will.
00:57:23.29\00:57:25.25
One of the
operators will be happy
00:57:25.28\00:57:27.49
to give you the
details of how you can partner
00:57:27.52\00:57:29.77
with this Global ministry.
00:57:29.80\00:57:31.50
If you prefer, listen
you can do it all online,
00:57:31.53\00:57:33.72
go to our website,
please. www.pmchurch.tv.
00:57:33.75\00:57:38.14
I'd be honored to
have the privilege
00:57:38.17\00:57:39.57
of partnering with you as
we seek to spread the truth
00:57:39.60\00:57:41.89
about God for this generation.
00:57:41.92\00:57:44.02
We are living in urgent times.
00:57:44.05\00:57:47.31
Now more than ever
we've got to go to the world
00:57:47.34\00:57:50.57
with the good
news entrusted to us.
00:57:50.60\00:57:52.27
So once again here's that
toll free number, 877-His-Will.
00:57:52.30\00:57:56.59
Thank you in
advance for your generosity.
00:57:56.62\00:57:59.06
That blesses me and
you grow this ministry.
00:57:59.09\00:58:02.25
I pray that the spirit of Christ
00:58:02.28\00:58:03.79
will abide with you
every step of the way.
00:58:03.82\00:58:06.36
And I hope you come back
again next time right here
00:58:06.39\00:58:09.31
as we continue our
worship journey together.
00:58:09.34\00:58:12.34