When He comes our glorious King
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All His ransomed home to bring
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Then anew this song we'll sing
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Hallelujah, what a Savior
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Hallelujah, hallelujah
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Hallelujah, what a Savior
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Hallelujah, hallelujah
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Hallelujah, what a Savior
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Hallelujah hallelujah
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Hallelujah, what a Savior
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Hallelujah, hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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What a Savior!
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Just think of His goodness.
Give thanks from your heart.
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How deep the
Father's love for us
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How vast beyond all measure
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That He should give His only Son
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To make a wretch His treasure
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How great the
pain of searing loss
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The Father turns His face away
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As wounds which
mar the Chosen One
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Bring many sons to glory
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Behold the man upon the cross
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My sin upon His shoulders
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Ashamed I hear my mocking voice
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Call out among the scoffers
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It was my sin
that held Him there
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Until it was accomplished
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His dying breath
has brought me life
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I know that it is finished
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Are you grateful
for the cross today?
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Listening to tha
first, I will not boast.
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I will not boast in anything
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No gifts, no power, no wisdom
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But I will boast in Jesus Christ
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His death and resurrection
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Why should I
gain from His reward?
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I cannot give an answer
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But this I know
with all my heart
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His wounds have paid my ransom
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Why should I gain.
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Why should I
gain from His reward?
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I cannot give an answer
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But this I know
with all my heart
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His wounds have paid my ransom
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O Love divine
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O Love divine
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O Love divine,
what has thou done
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The immortal God
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Hath died for me
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The Father's coeternal Son
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Bore all my sins upon the tree
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The immortal
God for me hath died
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My Lord, my Love, is crucified
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Is crucified for me and you
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To bring us rebels back to God
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Believe, believe the record true
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Ye all are
bought with Jesus' blood
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Pardon for all
flows from His side
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My Lord, my Love
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Is crucified
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Behold him
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All ye that pass by
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The bleeding
Prince of life and peace
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Come, sinners
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See your Savior die
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And say Was ever grief like his
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Come, feel with
me his blood applied
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My Lord, my Love
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Is crucified
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Come, feel with me
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His blood applied
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My Lord, my Love
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Is crucified
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O love divine,
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it is because my Lord,
my Love, was crucified.
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That we need to understand
what we are about to hear.
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May the cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ
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be the great template through
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which we can
understand the truth about You.
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We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
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The flamboyant Ted Turner,
you probably heard of him,
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he is the founder of
CNN Cable News Network
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and TBS Turner
Broadcasting System,
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the celebrated owner
of the Atlanta Braves.
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Ted Turner was once
quoted saying these words.
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I've got the
clipping right here.
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I don't want
anybody to die for me.
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I've had a few
drinks and a few girlfriends
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and if that's going to
put me in hellthen so be it.
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The clipping goes on.
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The famous Ted Turner on
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why Christ should not have
bothered sacrificing his life.
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Christianity, he added
is, "A religion for losers."
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Oh we love you too, Ted.
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I mean, come on
I've had a few beers,
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I've had a few girlfriends
so I go to hell so what?
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Isn't that amazing?
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How glibly we
tossed the word hell around
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in a rather earthy
American vocabulary,
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having no clue as
to what hell might be.
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We've come to the midpoint
in these tiny little mini series
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three parts long,
the truth about hell.
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We're now ready
for the story of hell.
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I want you to read that story
for yourself before warned.
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This is not a bedtime story.
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It will not begin with
the words once upon a time
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because the
story is still future.
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Before it happens
we must read the story.
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So please open your
Bible to the Bible's last book
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the Apocalypse.
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Revelation Chapter
20 the story of hell.
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Revelation Chapter 20.
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If you didn't bring a Bible,
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oh, boy, grab that
Bible in front of you,
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the pew Bible here
today you're gonna need it.
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You're gonna track, you
must track this story please.
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Grab the pew
Bible in front of you.
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Turn to the Bible's last book
that would be Revelation 20.
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Any translation you
brought fine it works.
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Go to the Bible's last book.
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I know some of you are
thinking, come on Dwight,
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why do we even have to
talk about hell at all?
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I'll tell you why,
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because it is the one
teaching of Christianity
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that more than
any other single claim
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of Christianity has turned
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more thinking men
and women into atheist
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the world over, that's why.
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This teaching of God
burning His children forever
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and ever has swollen
the ranks of the lost.
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Why should I care?
Because the character of God
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is on the line, that's why.
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Open your Bible with me
please to the story of hell,
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Revelation Chapter 20.
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Let's pick it up in verse 4.
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I'm in a Today's New
International Version.
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"I saw thrones on
which were seated those
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who had been given
authority to judge.
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And I saw the souls of
those who had been beheaded
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because of their
testimony about Jesus
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and because of the word of God."
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Those are martyrs obviously.
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"They had not
worshiped the beast or his image
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and had not received his mark
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on their
foreheads or their hands.
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They came to life and reigned
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with Christ a thousand years."
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Verse 5, little
parenthetical insertion here.
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"O the rest of the
dead did not come to life
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until the
thousand years were ended."
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So the beginning
of the thousand years
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God's friends come to life
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at the end of the thousand
years those who are lost
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come to life as we
will see in just a moment.
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Verse 5 goes on "This
is the first resurrection."
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Speaking of
those who are sitting
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on the thrones these martyrs.
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They came up in
the first resurrection.
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Verse 6 "Blessed
and holy are those
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who have part in
the first resurrection.
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The second death
has no power over them,
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but they will be
priests of God and of Christ
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and will reign with
him for a thousand years."
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Even a cursory
reading of this story of hell
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will lead us to
some logical conclusions
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and I wish you would
scribble those down right now.
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Pull out of
your worship bulletin
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please today's study
guide, brand new study guide,
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reach into your
worship bulletin.
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If you don't find
a worship bulletin
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ushers would you please right
now make sure that everybody
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on the sanctuary level,
everybody in the balcony,
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everybody in
overflow please make.
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Choir I sure hope, yeah,
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you've got your
study guides, good.
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Hold your hand up if you
didn't get a study guide.
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This is one, trust me, for
sure you want this study guide.
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By the way those of you
who are watching on television,
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we are delighted to have you.
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You got to get into
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Go to our website,
you'll get the same study guide.
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Let me put it on
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our website www.pmchurch.tv.
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Once you find that
website go on to website
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you're looking
for little miniseries
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entitled The Truth About Hell.
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It's only three parts long.
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We had a first past last week.
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Oh boy, if you
didn't get last week
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you've got to
download the podcast.
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Title of last
week's MonsterGod.com.
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Don't miss last
week's, set this up.
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Today's teaching this is
the one you're looking for
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is entitled "The
Smoke of Their Torments."
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So when it say study
guide right there beneath
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Smoke of Their
Torment, you click there
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you'll have the study guide.
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And by the way,
don't miss the conclusion.
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Next week "My Journey
to Purgatory and Back"
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that's next week.
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We'll wrap up
this little miniseries.
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I hope-- I trust and
pray that all three teachings
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will be
especially blessed to you.
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All right, so this is
"Smoke of Their Torment."
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Here we go.
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You got the study guide
now, everybody have one?
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Keep you hand up
can't wait for you.
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Let's go.
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Number one, what are
the logical conclusions
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that we can draw from
Revelation 20 the story of hell?
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Jot it down, number one
there are two resurrections.
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Two resurrections.
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If I can just put
that verse back up there.
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Let's put Revelation 20:6
back on the screen please.
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"Blessed and holy are
those who have a part in
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the first resurrection."
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How he's going next.
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"The second death
has no power over them,
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but they will be priests of God
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and of Christ and will reign
with him for a thousand years."
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Now look out
ladies and gentlemen,
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if they call a resurrection
first you understand
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it's to differentiate
from at least a second,
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at least a second.
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Come to find out there are two.
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And by the way the Apocalypse
is not unique in teaching
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two resurrections.
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Take a look at this.
Let's go to the Old Testament.
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Let's go to the Book of
Daniel, Daniel Chapter 12.
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"Multitudes who
sleep in the dust
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of the earth will awake."
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This is the Old Testament now.
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"Some to everlasting life."
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That would be the saved.
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"Others to shame and
everlasting contempt."
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Two resurrections,
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one for the
saved, one for the lost.
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Does Jesus agree with that
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when the
incarnate God was on earth?
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Oh, boy, does He ever.
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Look at this John
5:28 Jesus speaking.
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"Do not be amazed at
this, for a time is coming
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when all who are in their
graves will hear his voice."
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The Son of Man's voice.
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"And they will come
out-- those who have done
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what is good will rise to live."
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That would be the saved.
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"And those who have done
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what is evil will
rise to be condemned."
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Or judge the Greek
reads that would be the lost.
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So even a cursory reading
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we know there are
two resurrections.
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All right, jot down number two.
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There are two deaths.
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Number two,
there are two deaths.
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We will need to
read verse 6 again.
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As you did just a moment
ago and you see right there
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the second death
has no power over them.
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Look it, if
there is a second death
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then that means
there is a first death.
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Wouldn't that be illogical?
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But of course there
at least two deaths.
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There are two deaths.
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Now the first death
the Bible describes,
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in fact jot this
down in your study guide.
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"The first death is one
from which you can be awakened."
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Right in that word awakened.
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And then notice this quotation
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18.
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"For the Lord himself."
This is His second coming.
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"For the Lord himself
will descend from heaven
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and the dead in
Christ will rise."
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That's first
resurrection, all right.
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About by the way,
this is the resurrection
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everybody is
hoping and praying for.
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Early yesterday morning I
walk through Rose Hill Cemetery,
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try to imagine all these
graves just bursting open.
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This is what we live for.
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But there is a
second resurrection.
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Jot it down.
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"The second death is one
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from which you
will never be awakened."
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Now you may not have
known these verses in Bible
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but it is Jeremiah 51:57.
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"They will sleep
forever and not awake."
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That would be death number two.
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Oh, boy, if I have to die,
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let me die just
death number one please,
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not death
number two, no, no, no.
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All right, number
three, these are conclusions.
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Number three, just
even a cursory reading.
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Number three, jot it down.
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Hell is called the second death.
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Last week we were at
the foot of the cross.
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Last week the
paradigm shifted for us.
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Don't miss last week's teaching.
00:18:15.12\00:18:16.69
MonsterGod.com.
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But hell is
called the second death.
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You make an add up Dwight, nope.
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Take a look at this verse.
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That's--I want to begin
reading actually in verse 11.
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Will that be okay, verse 11?
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"Then I saw a great white throne
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and him who was seated on it."
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That would be almighty God.
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"And the earth and the
heavens fled from his presence,
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and there was no
place for them verse 12.
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"And I saw the
dead, great and small,
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standing before the
throne, and books were opened.
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And another book was opened,
which is the book of life.
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The dead were judged
according to what they had done
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as recorded in the books."
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Now verse 13. "The
sea gave up the dead
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that were in it,
and death and Hades."
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Technical word for
the grave, all right.
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"Death and the grave gave
up the dead that were in them,
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and everyone was judged
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according to
what they had done."
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Now I'm going to put
verse 14 on the screen.
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Here we go, verse 14.
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"Then death and Hades the grave
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were thrown into
the lake of fire."
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Now read this carefully.
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"The lake of fire
is the second death.
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All whose names" verse 15,
00:19:16.66\00:19:18.47
"All whose names were not found
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written in the book of life
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were thrown into
the lake of fire."
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Ladies and gentlemen,
hell results in a death
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from which you
will never be awaken.
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Hell the lake of
fire is the second death.
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Number four, you draw
this conclusion as well.
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Hell, this one comes
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as a surprise
to most Christians.
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Now hold on your pew.
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You've never heard this before.
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Hell takes place on earth.
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Is it there, Dwight?
Yeah, look at verse 9.
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This is after the
second resurrection
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all the lost are
raised on the planet.
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And they, verse 9, the lost
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"Marched across the
breadth of the earth
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and they surrounded
the camp of God's people."
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That would be the city of lost.
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That's the New Jerusalem.
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Apparently it's
descendent to earth.
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"But fire came down from heaven
and devoured them" verse 10.
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"And the devil,
who deceived them,
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was thrown into the
lake of burning sulfur,
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where the beast
and the false prophet"
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two religious institutions
in history "had been thrown.
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They will be tormented
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day and night
for ever and ever."
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Ladies and gentlemen,
please note it clearly
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the fire that comes down
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which is the fire of
hell happens on earth.
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There is no place
out in the universe
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somewhere where
it's called hell.
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No, no, no, no hell is
here, not yet but it's here.
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Right here on planet earth.
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All right, number
five, jot this down as well.
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You can just draw
these just one reading
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and you can draw
these conclusion.
00:20:55.34\00:20:56.37
Number five, "Hell is
terminated when God recreates
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a new heaven and a new earth."
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So this lake of fire
consumes the entire planet,
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the whole eco
system, the atmosphere
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everything just purified.
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And finally the God
on the great white throne
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throws His hands up and
He says let's start over.
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And that's exactly what happens.
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Hell is in the last
verse of Revelation 20,
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the lake of fire we
read it just a moment ago.
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Now go to the first
verse of Revelation 21.
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Then after the lake of fire
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"Then I saw a new
heaven and a new earth
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for the first
heaven and the first earth
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had passed away,
00:21:36.12\00:21:37.15
and there was
no longer any sea."
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Drop down to verse 4.
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"And God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes.
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And there will be no more death
or mourning or crying or pain,
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for the old order of
things has passed away."
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Verse 5 "He who was
seated on the throne said,
00:21:49.82\00:21:52.66
'I am making everything new!'
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Then he said, 'Write this down,
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for these words are
trustworthy and true.'"
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Hell comes to an end
when God recreates this earth.
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You see that.
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Do you know what that means?
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Two final
conclusions. No text now.
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Just based on what
we've read two conclusions.
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Number six, jot it down.
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Hell cannot be now,
because it takes place
00:22:14.50\00:22:18.18
on earth in the future.
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It can't be now.
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It can't be now. And
finally number seven.
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Hell cannot be forever,
00:22:29.33\00:22:31.09
because it takes place on earth,
00:22:31.12\00:22:33.69
and is followed by
God's new creation.
00:22:33.72\00:22:35.89
You can't have an eternal hell
00:22:35.92\00:22:37.19
when hell
transpires on this planet
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that God has promised
to restore to its Edenic,
00:22:39.31\00:22:41.22
it's garden of
Eden beauty one day.
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It can't be.
00:22:43.48\00:22:46.80
They say hey, where are they,
time out Dwight, not so fast,
00:22:46.83\00:22:49.63
wait a minute we just read this.
00:22:49.66\00:22:50.69
I'm only going verse 10.
00:22:50.72\00:22:52.03
It says and they
would, and they suffered--
00:22:52.06\00:22:54.01
they were
tormented forever and ever.
00:22:54.04\00:22:55.99
You just skipped over that, boy.
00:22:56.02\00:22:59.42
I'm glad you brought that up.
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And by the way
you say hey, hey, hey,
00:23:01.79\00:23:03.76
what you gonna do with Jesus.
00:23:03.79\00:23:05.19
Jesus talks
about everlasting fire.
00:23:05.22\00:23:06.65
Jesus talks about eternal fire,
00:23:06.68\00:23:08.40
what do you
going to do with those?
00:23:08.43\00:23:10.27
Fair enough, let's
take a look at them.
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Let's do this.
Let's take a look.
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Let's go back to the
gospel of Saint Mark.
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Little tiny gospel
there at the beginning
00:23:17.06\00:23:19.37
of the New
Testament right after Matthew.
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Find the gospel of Mark
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this would be page
681 in your pew Bible.
00:23:22.26\00:23:25.36
Find Mark Chapter
9. Take a look at this.
00:23:25.39\00:23:29.28
You are right, you
are absolutely right.
00:23:29.31\00:23:32.22
Here are the
words of Jesus Himself.
00:23:32.25\00:23:33.52
If you have a red letter Bible
these words are bright red.
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All right, Mark Chapter 9,
00:23:36.99\00:23:38.69
drop down to the end of
the chapter to verse 47.
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Mark 9:47 Jesus speaking
00:23:43.52\00:23:46.30
"And if your eye causes
you to stumble, pluck it out.
00:23:46.33\00:23:50.98
It is better for you to
enter the kingdom of God
00:23:51.01\00:23:53.10
with one eye
than to have two eyes
00:23:53.13\00:23:55.36
and to be thrown into hell."
00:23:55.39\00:23:58.04
Verse 48 "Where
'their worm does not die,
00:23:58.07\00:24:02.69
and the fire is not quenched.'"
00:24:02.72\00:24:05.80
I told you Dwight,
fire that cannot be quenched
00:24:05.83\00:24:08.41
goes forever and ever, amen.
00:24:08.44\00:24:12.58
Let me tell you
something by the way
00:24:12.61\00:24:14.83
about that word for
hell that you just read.
00:24:14.86\00:24:17.33
In the Greek it's Gehenna.
00:24:17.36\00:24:20.14
It's actually a
transliteration of Hebrew
00:24:20.17\00:24:21.94
that means Valley of Hinnom
00:24:21.97\00:24:23.77
or the Valley of
the Sons of Hinnom.
00:24:23.80\00:24:25.60
Gehenna was a
600 foot drop gorge
00:24:25.63\00:24:30.14
right beside the
walls of Jerusalem,
00:24:30.17\00:24:31.67
south and west of Jerusalem
00:24:31.70\00:24:32.75
there is gorge
drops down 600 feet
00:24:32.78\00:24:34.94
to a rocky defile at the bottom.
00:24:34.97\00:24:37.03
At the bottom of that gorge
00:24:37.06\00:24:38.79
King Manasseh, the wicked king,
00:24:38.83\00:24:40.18
you remember he used to
burn his children to death
00:24:40.21\00:24:42.30
as sacrifice to
the God of Molech.
00:24:42.33\00:24:43.86
You remember that?
00:24:43.89\00:24:44.92
That took place at
the bottom of Gehenna.
00:24:44.95\00:24:46.70
Josephus, the Jewish
historian tells us that
00:24:46.73\00:24:50.15
when Rome sacked the
city of Jerusalem in 70 AD
00:24:50.18\00:24:53.46
that bodies were stacked
00:24:53.49\00:24:55.52
from the bottom of
that gorge upwards.
00:24:55.55\00:24:58.60
And so Gehenna was
a nickname for hell.
00:24:58.63\00:25:01.78
It was simply code
language for horror, horror.
00:25:01.81\00:25:08.28
Jesus talks about Gehenna.
00:25:08.31\00:25:09.99
But listen, we need to probe
00:25:10.02\00:25:12.49
what Jesus is thinking here.
00:25:12.52\00:25:13.77
We need to look at Jesus' Bible.
00:25:13.80\00:25:15.52
And I remind you Jesus'
Bible is not the New Testament,
00:25:15.55\00:25:17.78
there was no New Testament.
00:25:17.81\00:25:18.87
The only Bible Jesus
had was the Old Testament
00:25:18.90\00:25:21.40
and as it turns out
00:25:21.43\00:25:22.62
Jesus has just
quoted here at Mark 9
00:25:22.65\00:25:25.38
words of the
ancient Prophet Isaiah.
00:25:25.41\00:25:27.56
So let's figure out
what is going on here.
00:25:27.59\00:25:30.07
Go back to Isaiah.
00:25:30.10\00:25:31.65
Don't read this on the
screen, it will be there.
00:25:31.68\00:25:33.51
But I want you to
see it in your Bible.
00:25:33.54\00:25:35.24
Isaiah 66, the very
last line of Isaiah.
00:25:35.27\00:25:40.54
Isaiah 66, take a look at this.
00:25:40.57\00:25:43.31
You're saying come on
Dwight, I don't have to look up
00:25:43.34\00:25:44.94
all these verse
and talk about hell.
00:25:44.97\00:25:46.50
My friend, the
character of God is on the line.
00:25:46.53\00:25:52.23
You better get it
straight what God's word teaches
00:25:52.26\00:25:57.26
about hell otherwise like
atheists across this nation
00:25:57.29\00:26:02.46
you may kiss it off
and walk away and say
00:26:02.49\00:26:05.93
I can't handle a God like that.
00:26:05.96\00:26:08.42
There can't be a God. Isaiah 66.
00:26:08.45\00:26:12.56
All right, let's just pick it up
before we get in the last line.
00:26:12.59\00:26:15.18
Let's pick it up in verse 22.
00:26:15.21\00:26:16.58
Isaiah 66:22
"'As the new heavens
00:26:16.61\00:26:19.95
and the new earth
that I will make endure
00:26:19.98\00:26:22.78
before me, declares the Lord,
00:26:22.81\00:26:24.90
''so will your name
and descendants endure.
00:26:24.93\00:26:27.26
'" Now He is talking
about the new earth now.
00:26:27.29\00:26:28.96
"'From one new moon to another
and from one Sabbath to another,
00:26:28.99\00:26:32.64
all people on the new earth
00:26:32.67\00:26:34.64
will come and bow down
before me,' says the Lord."
00:26:34.67\00:26:36.95
Now here it comes,
here it comes, verse 24.
00:26:36.98\00:26:39.51
"And they will go
out" on the new earth,
00:26:39.54\00:26:42.84
"and look on the dead bodies
00:26:42.87\00:26:45.13
of those who
rebelled against me,
00:26:45.16\00:26:46.90
their worm will not die,
00:26:46.93\00:26:49.92
nor will their fire be quenched,
00:26:49.95\00:26:52.25
and they will be loathsome
to the whole human race."
00:26:52.28\00:26:58.18
What's going on here?
00:26:58.21\00:27:00.20
Scholars believe
that Isaiah is recalling
00:27:00.23\00:27:03.82
a stunning moment of
history, of Judas history
00:27:03.85\00:27:08.06
in his own lifetime.
00:27:08.09\00:27:10.12
And that was when the Assyrian
forces came and besieged
00:27:10.15\00:27:12.45
the tiny little capital of
Judah, the city of Jerusalem.
00:27:12.48\00:27:15.92
Hezekiah is absolutely panicked
and he races to the temple
00:27:15.95\00:27:22.22
and he throws himself
down before God and he says,
00:27:22.25\00:27:24.79
oh God of Israel, you have
got to save us from the enemy.
00:27:24.82\00:27:29.43
There is no way
out, we are destroyed.
00:27:29.46\00:27:33.67
That night mysteriously
00:27:33.70\00:27:37.78
the entire army of
the Assyrians is killed.
00:27:37.81\00:27:44.25
Isaiah actually talks about it
00:27:44.28\00:27:45.81
and we'll put it
up on the screen here
00:27:45.84\00:27:47.33
Isaiah Chapter 37,
let's put it on the screen.
00:27:47.36\00:27:50.24
What happened that night?
00:27:50.27\00:27:51.30
"Then the angel of the
Lord went out and put to death
00:27:51.33\00:27:55.45
a hundred and
eighty-five thousand
00:27:55.48\00:27:58.24
in the Assyrian camp.
00:27:58.27\00:28:00.12
When the people got
up the next morning,
00:28:00.15\00:28:02.54
there were all the dead bodies."
00:28:02.57\00:28:06.06
I mean, can you imagine
00:28:06.09\00:28:07.28
185,000 corpses around your
little village or your city.
00:28:07.31\00:28:14.10
You would never forget
that as long as you live.
00:28:14.13\00:28:19.38
Isn't that amazing
00:28:19.41\00:28:21.20
that using that historical
incident as a metaphor,
00:28:21.23\00:28:26.16
Isaiah at the
very end of his book
00:28:26.19\00:28:28.11
describes the
saved in the new earth
00:28:28.14\00:28:31.01
looking out and saying oh,
look at all those dead bodies.
00:28:31.04\00:28:37.34
Like I wish you write this down.
00:28:37.37\00:28:39.40
Jot it down, please note.
00:28:39.43\00:28:40.73
The bodies are
already dead. Jot it down.
00:28:40.76\00:28:45.99
The bodies are already
dead, the worms that would be
00:28:46.02\00:28:49.78
the maggots, fill in both.
00:28:49.81\00:28:52.09
Have you ever
driven by a possum one day,
00:28:52.12\00:28:53.62
dead possum, poor possum?
00:28:53.65\00:28:55.18
Drive by three days
later and the possum is gone
00:28:55.21\00:28:56.99
just a little skeleton.
00:28:57.02\00:28:58.05
What happened? The
maggots got a hold of it.
00:28:58.08\00:28:59.72
It's called decomposition.
00:28:59.75\00:29:02.63
The bodies are already dead,
00:29:02.66\00:29:03.93
the
worms/maggots of decomposition
00:29:03.96\00:29:06.36
are already at work and
the refuse-burning fires
00:29:06.39\00:29:09.15
are already in progress.
00:29:09.18\00:29:11.82
Ladies and gentlemen,
this is not a picture of pain,
00:29:11.85\00:29:15.19
it is a picture of permanence.
00:29:15.22\00:29:21.25
What did the Savior mean?
00:29:21.28\00:29:23.26
What did the Savior mean
00:29:23.29\00:29:24.65
when he quotes
Isaiah to talk about hell?
00:29:24.68\00:29:27.73
Because both of
them speak of this fire
00:29:27.76\00:29:30.30
that cannot be
quenched, what's that mean?
00:29:30.33\00:29:32.54
Well, again we need to let
the Bible interpret itself.
00:29:32.57\00:29:35.55
Let's find out what that means.
00:29:35.58\00:29:37.23
Notice how Isaiah
uses the identical language
00:29:37.26\00:29:40.20
in his own book.
00:29:40.23\00:29:41.34
That would be the safest to see.
00:29:41.37\00:29:42.40
Hey, Isaiah, do you
use the same language?
00:29:42.43\00:29:44.40
I want you to see this so
00:29:44.43\00:29:45.60
don't do it on the screen
go back to Isaiah Chapter 34.
00:29:45.63\00:29:49.14
So just go back a few
chapters from 66 back to 34.
00:29:49.17\00:29:52.59
Isaiah 34, notice
and God is speaking about
00:29:55.59\00:29:59.90
Israel's pesky
little neighbor Edom
00:29:59.93\00:30:02.72
that was forever
gorilla attacking them.
00:30:02.75\00:30:07.32
They become enemies of Israel.
00:30:07.35\00:30:09.06
God speaking about Edom,
00:30:09.09\00:30:10.24
this would be Isaiah 34:8
00:30:10.27\00:30:13.62
Verse 8, "For the Lord
has a day of vengeance,
00:30:13.65\00:30:17.44
a year of retribution,
to uphold Zion's cause."
00:30:17.47\00:30:21.36
Speaking of Edom, verse 9.
00:30:21.39\00:30:22.42
"Edom's streams will
be turned into pitch,
00:30:22.45\00:30:26.28
her dust into burning sulfur"
00:30:26.31\00:30:28.32
Now burning means fire.
00:30:28.35\00:30:30.73
"Her land will
become blazing pitch!"
00:30:30.76\00:30:34.19
The whole land will
be on fire. Verse 10.
00:30:34.22\00:30:36.63
"It will not be
quenched day or night,
00:30:36.66\00:30:39.94
its smoke will
rise forever and ever."
00:30:39.97\00:30:42.67
When John writes the apocalypse
00:30:42.70\00:30:45.54
and he describes the smoke
of their torment is ascending
00:30:45.57\00:30:48.62
forever and ever day
and night they had no rest.
00:30:48.65\00:30:51.02
He is taking it
straight from here,
00:30:51.05\00:30:52.36
he is pulling that
straight from here.
00:30:52.39\00:30:54.27
Now does that mean the
fire in Edom is still burning,
00:30:54.30\00:30:56.89
because it's Jordon
today the nation Jordon.
00:30:56.92\00:30:58.94
Is Jordon on fire?
00:30:58.97\00:31:01.18
Did God even mean
for us to conclude that?
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Look at verse 11.
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"The desert owl and the
screech owl will possess it,
00:31:05.34\00:31:10.85
the great owl and the
raven will nest there."
00:31:10.88\00:31:14.93
Now left out the end of verse 10
00:31:14.96\00:31:16.35
which says the
land would be desolate.
00:31:16.38\00:31:18.26
But the birds are coming back.
00:31:18.29\00:31:20.10
This is not a continuous fire
00:31:20.13\00:31:22.34
from which no life can enter.
00:31:22.37\00:31:24.54
No, no, once it's over
the birds will come back.
00:31:24.57\00:31:28.89
You see, that's unquenchable
the identical language.
00:31:28.92\00:31:32.16
The fire will not be quenched.
00:31:32.19\00:31:33.98
By the way
00:31:34.01\00:31:36.85
uses the
identical Hebrew language
00:31:36.88\00:31:38.71
to describe the
fire that God will do
00:31:38.74\00:31:40.57
set one day to the
gates of Jerusalem.
00:31:40.60\00:31:42.86
Now I've been to
Jerusalem I've seen those gates
00:31:42.89\00:31:45.03
and trust me they
are not still burning.
00:31:45.06\00:31:47.77
But God said, I'll
send an unquenchable fire
00:31:47.80\00:31:49.71
and burn your gates and He did
00:31:49.74\00:31:52.00
but it's not
still burning today.
00:31:52.03\00:31:54.26
What's going on here?
00:31:54.29\00:31:55.59
Look at your
study guide question.
00:31:59.52\00:32:01.34
Does unquenchable fire
mean a fire that burns forever?
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Answer.
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No, it means a
divine fire-judgment
00:32:05.36\00:32:08.41
that cannot be
humanly quenched or reversed.
00:32:08.44\00:32:12.60
That's what it means.
00:32:12.63\00:32:13.66
Give you a moment to
make sure you get that down.
00:32:13.69\00:32:15.57
It's a divine fire-judgment
00:32:15.60\00:32:17.37
that cannot humanly be stopped.
00:32:17.40\00:32:19.86
Also jot it down,
will you the next one.
00:32:22.57\00:32:24.31
"Worms" therefore
and "unquenchable fire"
00:32:24.34\00:32:28.03
are not a metaphor of
pain but of permanence.
00:32:28.06\00:32:33.77
Fire is not burning in Eden.
Jerusalem isn't on fire today.
00:32:33.80\00:32:37.12
You say yeah, but, Dwight,
00:32:41.99\00:32:43.28
didn't Jesus talk
about everlasting fire,
00:32:43.31\00:32:45.36
I mean, eternal fire not just--
00:32:45.39\00:32:47.06
didn't He
actually use those words?
00:32:47.09\00:32:48.57
He sure did.
00:32:48.60\00:32:49.63
Let's take a
look at two incidents
00:32:49.66\00:32:52.09
where Jesus spoke those words.
00:32:52.12\00:32:54.16
Here is Matthew's equivalent
of what we just read in Mark.
00:32:54.19\00:32:56.76
It's a little different so
00:32:56.79\00:32:57.82
that's why we're
going here in Matthew 18:8.
00:32:57.85\00:32:59.67
"If your hand or your
foot," Jesus speaking,
00:32:59.70\00:33:01.46
"causes you to stumble,
cut it off and throw it away."
00:33:01.49\00:33:03.36
Why?
00:33:03.39\00:33:04.42
"It is better for you to
enter life maimed or crippled
00:33:04.45\00:33:06.43
than to have two
hands and two feet
00:33:06.46\00:33:08.26
and to be thrown
into eternal fire."
00:33:08.29\00:33:11.27
Wow, not just saying hell
now He is saying eternal fire.
00:33:11.30\00:33:13.76
"And if your eye
causes you to stumble,
00:33:13.79\00:33:15.50
gouge it out and throw it away."
00:33:15.53\00:33:16.56
Why?
00:33:16.59\00:33:17.62
"It's better for you
to enter life with one eye
00:33:17.65\00:33:19.08
than to have two eyes and to be
thrown into the fire of hell."
00:33:19.11\00:33:21.90
So hell equals
eternal fire, that's clear.
00:33:21.93\00:33:25.14
One more reference from the
Lord Jesus, from the Savior.
00:33:25.17\00:33:28.05
This is the final parable
He told before His execution.
00:33:28.08\00:33:30.75
Matthew 25, remember
the sheep and the goats,
00:33:30.78\00:33:33.42
the king now is
talking to the goats.
00:33:33.45\00:33:34.84
"Then he the king will
say to those on his left"
00:33:34.87\00:33:36.73
that would be the goats,
00:33:36.76\00:33:37.79
"'Depart from me,
you who are cursed,
00:33:37.82\00:33:40.27
into the eternal fire.'"
00:33:40.30\00:33:42.08
Please note for whom
the fire has been prepared.
00:33:42.11\00:33:45.32
Prepared for whom? "For
the devil and his angels."
00:33:45.35\00:33:50.32
Final line to the
parable. Verse 46.
00:33:50.35\00:33:52.56
"Then they the lost will go
away into eternal punishment,
00:33:52.59\00:33:56.96
but the righteous
into eternal life."
00:33:56.99\00:34:01.30
So what do we going to
do with the Savior's somber
00:34:01.33\00:34:04.52
I mean, you can't,
you can't duck this one.
00:34:04.55\00:34:06.52
He is talking eternal fire.
00:34:06.55\00:34:10.65
Well, we got to look the
Bible interpret itself again,
00:34:10.68\00:34:12.45
that's the only way
you can study the Bible.
00:34:12.48\00:34:16.38
You remember the story of Sodom
and Gomorrah, of course you do.
00:34:16.41\00:34:19.35
Remember when God came down
00:34:19.38\00:34:20.86
with the couple of
ancient companions,
00:34:20.89\00:34:22.03
a strangers,
Abraham took them in.
00:34:22.06\00:34:24.07
God said, I'm
gonna destroy Sodom.
00:34:24.10\00:34:25.60
Abraham goes to the bluff
00:34:25.63\00:34:26.75
overlooking
Sodom in the distance.
00:34:26.78\00:34:28.24
And he says God,
and he gets him all,
00:34:28.27\00:34:29.60
you remember, gets him
all the way down to 10.
00:34:29.63\00:34:31.41
Will you spare Sodom
for 10 righteous people?
00:34:31.44\00:34:34.32
God says you got
it, I'll spare for 10.
00:34:34.35\00:34:37.94
But when God goes
and examines for himself,
00:34:37.97\00:34:41.08
He can't even
five, five righteous,
00:34:41.11\00:34:45.27
just Lot, his wife
and the two daughters.
00:34:45.30\00:34:48.12
And early in the next morning
the angels have to manhandle,
00:34:48.15\00:34:51.15
have to physically drag them out
00:34:51.18\00:34:53.48
and as soon as
they had dragged out,
00:34:53.51\00:34:55.19
the heavens explode
and fire burning sulfur
00:34:55.22\00:35:00.09
falls on that impenitent city.
00:35:00.12\00:35:06.94
Abraham wakes up,
he goes to the bluffer
00:35:06.97\00:35:10.02
he and God battered over Sodom
00:35:10.05\00:35:12.24
and in the
distance his heart sinks
00:35:12.27\00:35:14.50
in the distance a plume
of smoke that's all is left.
00:35:14.53\00:35:19.96
Let's take the story of Sodom.
00:35:22.80\00:35:25.94
Jude 7, put it on
the screen for you.
00:35:25.97\00:35:29.15
By the way, I want you to
go to your Bible underline it,
00:35:29.18\00:35:31.37
look at all these
text in your Bible.
00:35:31.40\00:35:32.88
Say all that maybe,
maybe the pastor slipped
00:35:32.91\00:35:34.76
a little something on us.
00:35:34.79\00:35:36.07
Okay, check it out.
00:35:36.10\00:35:37.13
You go home this afternoon,
mark it up in your Bible.
00:35:37.16\00:35:39.96
Let's put Jude 7 on the screen.
00:35:39.99\00:35:41.86
"In a similar
way, Sodom and Gomorrah
00:35:41.89\00:35:44.92
and the surrounding
towns gave themselves up to
00:35:44.95\00:35:47.60
sexual
immorality and perversion."
00:35:47.63\00:35:49.61
And what happened?
00:35:49.64\00:35:50.67
"They serve as
an example of those
00:35:50.70\00:35:52.71
who suffer the
punishment of eternal fire."
00:35:52.74\00:35:56.03
You want an example
of what hell would be?
00:35:56.06\00:35:58.30
They serve-- just go
to Sodom and Gomorrah.
00:35:58.33\00:36:01.24
Are Sodom and
Gomorrah still burning today?
00:36:01.27\00:36:05.04
They are not.
00:36:05.07\00:36:06.36
Archaeologists
have found the site,
00:36:06.39\00:36:08.24
they have found actual
ash in that desert sand,
00:36:08.27\00:36:12.05
there is no
burning trust me today.
00:36:12.08\00:36:16.10
In fact, God says
let them, let them,
00:36:16.13\00:36:18.75
you can do this
Dwight, just using Bible,
00:36:18.78\00:36:20.87
you don't have to give
that archeological reports.
00:36:20.90\00:36:23.77
Watch this Second Peter 2:6.
00:36:23.80\00:36:27.07
"If he condemned the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
00:36:27.10\00:36:29.89
by burning them" to what?
00:36:29.92\00:36:31.71
"By burning them to ashes."
That's what eternal fire does.
00:36:31.74\00:36:37.00
It just shew, gone ashes.
00:36:37.03\00:36:41.12
And He made them an example,
He made them an example.
00:36:41.15\00:36:46.87
Jot it down, will you please?
00:36:46.90\00:36:48.48
"Sodom and Gomorrah suffered
the punishment of eternal fire,
00:36:48.51\00:36:52.85
burning them to ashes."
00:36:52.88\00:36:55.55
Hey, wait a minute, Dwight,
then what does eternal mean
00:36:55.58\00:36:58.93
when it's attached to fire?
00:36:58.96\00:37:00.77
Watch this, jot it down.
00:37:00.80\00:37:02.29
"Eternal fire
is a momentary fire
00:37:02.32\00:37:06.42
whose source is
the Eternal, capital E,
00:37:06.45\00:37:09.53
whose source is the Eternal
00:37:09.56\00:37:11.39
and whose results are eternal.
00:37:11.42\00:37:16.98
It is a graphic, keep writing,
it is a graphic depiction
00:37:17.01\00:37:20.23
of the
permanence of the results,
00:37:20.26\00:37:22.58
not the pain of the event.
00:37:22.61\00:37:25.50
In fact it is no
accident that the Bible uses
00:37:29.35\00:37:31.64
burning sulfur and ascending
smoke of their torment imagery
00:37:31.67\00:37:34.52
from the destruction
of Sodom and Gomorrah."
00:37:34.55\00:37:36.34
John weaves it
straight into the apocalypse
00:37:36.37\00:37:38.78
"To describe the 'day and night'
forever and ever destruction."
00:37:38.81\00:37:43.21
It's a metaphor for
the destruction of hell.
00:37:43.24\00:37:48.43
And by the way that is precisely
00:37:50.21\00:37:53.10
how the Bible portrays
hells destruction to the wicked.
00:37:53.13\00:37:56.35
Hold on now, I
need you to see this.
00:37:56.38\00:37:59.96
Get your pen.
00:37:59.99\00:38:01.44
We won't even
bother to look this up.
00:38:01.47\00:38:02.55
Let me put it on the
screen for you Psalm 37.
00:38:02.58\00:38:04.59
Every time there
is a word in yellow
00:38:04.62\00:38:06.22
would you scribble
it down after the--
00:38:06.25\00:38:07.86
you have the reference
there you can study this later.
00:38:07.89\00:38:10.01
But every time
there is a word in yellow,
00:38:10.04\00:38:11.53
by the way, the word in
yellow will depict permanent,
00:38:11.56\00:38:14.88
permanent,
permanent, permanent, all right.
00:38:14.91\00:38:18.34
"Do not fret because of those
00:38:18.37\00:38:21.30
who are evil or be
envious of those who do wrong,"
00:38:21.33\00:38:24.20
what, "for like the
grass they will soon wither."
00:38:24.23\00:38:28.44
That means just gone.
00:38:28.47\00:38:30.00
"They will soon
wither, like green plants
00:38:30.03\00:38:31.75
they will soon die away."
00:38:31.78\00:38:34.11
Just gone.
00:38:34.14\00:38:35.76
Watch again,
let's go to verse 10.
00:38:35.79\00:38:37.37
"A little while, and
the wicked will be no more."
00:38:37.40\00:38:40.01
Jot it down.
00:38:40.04\00:38:41.07
No more, it will go
somewhere in the universe
00:38:41.10\00:38:42.90
and keep living
forever and ever.
00:38:42.93\00:38:44.04
They will be no more.
00:38:44.07\00:38:45.88
Though you look for
them, they will not be found
00:38:45.91\00:38:48.72
anywhere, anywhere, anywhere.
00:38:48.75\00:38:51.22
Let's go to verse 20
"But the wicked will perish,
00:38:51.25\00:38:53.67
though the Lord's enemies are
like the flowers of the field,"
00:38:53.70\00:38:56.12
notice this,
"they will be consumed."
00:38:56.15\00:38:58.70
There is another
yellow word permanence.
00:38:58.73\00:39:00.85
"They will be consumed,
they will go up in smoke."
00:39:00.88\00:39:05.34
It is general when the
smoke goes up it's over,
00:39:05.37\00:39:08.01
that's all that
wispily ascends into heaven.
00:39:08.04\00:39:12.42
It's over.
00:39:12.45\00:39:14.83
One more is
there, yeah, verse 38
00:39:14.86\00:39:16.44
"But all sinners
will be destroyed,
00:39:16.47\00:39:19.10
there will be no future."
00:39:19.13\00:39:21.96
It's over second death, gone.
00:39:21.99\00:39:26.64
By the way, the very
last book of the Old Testament
00:39:26.67\00:39:29.76
makes the identical
point, let's put it up here.
00:39:29.79\00:39:31.74
Malachi 4:1
"Surely the day is coming,
00:39:31.77\00:39:35.15
God is speaking, it
will burn like a furnace.
00:39:35.18\00:39:38.75
All the arrogant and
every evildoer will be stubble."
00:39:38.78\00:39:42.70
I tell you what,
when you stubble,
00:39:42.73\00:39:43.96
that's it, that's it just gone.
00:39:43.99\00:39:46.22
"And that day that is
coming will set them on fire,
00:39:46.25\00:39:49.61
says the Lord Almighty."
00:39:49.64\00:39:50.96
Keep going. Watch this.
00:39:50.99\00:39:52.86
"Not a root or a
branch will be left."
00:39:52.89\00:39:57.39
Satan the root, his branches,
00:39:57.42\00:40:00.53
his followers
all gone, all gone.
00:40:00.56\00:40:03.66
Drop down to verse 3 now.
00:40:03.69\00:40:05.22
"Then you will
trample on the wicked."
00:40:05.25\00:40:07.57
could this be clearer.
00:40:07.60\00:40:09.01
"They will be
ashes under your feet."
00:40:09.04\00:40:13.77
They are not going on and living
somewhere else, it's over.
00:40:13.80\00:40:16.29
"They are ashes under your feet
00:40:16.32\00:40:18.98
on the day when I act,
says the Lord Almighty."
00:40:19.01\00:40:22.18
What's the point?
00:40:27.27\00:40:29.74
The point is, looks
awfully permanent to me.
00:40:29.77\00:40:32.53
I know it today, you all
come, you know what, Dwight,
00:40:32.56\00:40:34.20
okay, so God goes ahead
and just blots out the wicked.
00:40:34.23\00:40:39.17
But I'll bet you the
devil burns forever and ever.
00:40:39.20\00:40:42.06
Amen.
00:40:42.09\00:40:43.21
You want to see
about the devils.
00:40:43.24\00:40:44.27
Put it on the
screen, Ezekiel Chapter 28
00:40:44.30\00:40:46.14
God is speaking
directly to Satan here.
00:40:46.17\00:40:47.90
"By your many
sins." This is verse 18.
00:40:47.93\00:40:50.25
"By your many sins
and dishonest trade
00:40:50.28\00:40:52.86
you have
desecrated your sanctuaries."
00:40:52.89\00:40:54.58
Keep going.
00:40:54.61\00:40:55.64
"So I made a fire
come out from you,
00:40:55.67\00:40:58.55
and it consumed you,
and I reduce you" Satan
00:40:58.58\00:41:03.42
"to ashes on the ground
00:41:03.45\00:41:05.16
in the sight of
all who were watching.
00:41:05.19\00:41:07.50
And all the nations who
knew you are appalled at you,
00:41:07.53\00:41:10.50
you have come to a horrible
end and will be no more."
00:41:10.53\00:41:16.71
Ladies and
gentlemen, anyway you cut it.
00:41:16.74\00:41:20.47
Jot it down.
00:41:20.50\00:41:21.56
"The Bible describes the
destruction of the wicked
00:41:21.59\00:41:24.26
both human and angelic
as total annihilation."
00:41:24.29\00:41:30.95
Make sure you get
the right number of 'N's'
00:41:30.98\00:41:33.56
total annihilation.
00:41:33.59\00:41:38.84
Come on, you
remember the story of hell
00:41:38.87\00:41:40.67
that we read just a moment ago.
00:41:40.70\00:41:42.49
Where is hell? It's here.
00:41:42.52\00:41:45.49
They can't keep
burning forever and ever
00:41:45.52\00:41:47.17
'cause God says
when the fires done,
00:41:47.20\00:41:49.94
I'm creating a
brand new Garden of Eden,
00:41:49.97\00:41:54.28
a new earth and new heavens.
00:41:54.31\00:41:56.74
Can't be here.
00:41:56.77\00:42:00.09
"Hence the words" jot this down
00:42:00.12\00:42:02.24
"forever/eternal/everlasting
must describe the permanence
00:42:02.27\00:42:07.61
of judgment rather than
the progression of judgment."
00:42:07.64\00:42:12.27
It's not talking about how
long it takes for God to do it,
00:42:12.30\00:42:14.93
it's talking about the
results will be permanent.
00:42:14.96\00:42:18.07
Keep writing.
00:42:18.10\00:42:19.13
The Bible says "The wages of sin
00:42:19.16\00:42:20.43
is eternal death,
not eternal dying."
00:42:20.46\00:42:24.43
Jesus when He said,
00:42:24.46\00:42:25.49
"They will go to
their punishment."
00:42:25.52\00:42:26.55
He did not say they will
go to their eternal punishing,
00:42:26.58\00:42:30.19
it's an eternal punishment.
00:42:30.22\00:42:31.79
The results are forever.
00:42:31.82\00:42:34.35
My friend Samuele Bacchiocchi,
00:42:34.38\00:42:36.88
he died just a
couple of months ago.
00:42:36.91\00:42:39.97
His book just came
out, he gave me copy.
00:42:40.00\00:42:42.84
In his book Popular Believes
00:42:42.87\00:42:46.13
Sam quotes William Temple
the Archbishop of Canterbury
00:42:46.16\00:42:49.16
back during the early 40s.
00:42:49.19\00:42:50.46
It's in your study
guide, put it on the screen.
00:42:50.49\00:42:52.41
"If men had not imported
the Greek and unbiblical notion
00:42:52.44\00:42:55.35
of the natural indestructibility
of the individual soul,
00:42:55.38\00:42:58.42
and then read the New Testament
00:42:58.45\00:42:59.76
with that
already in their minds,
00:42:59.79\00:43:02.16
they would have drawn from
the New Testament a belief,
00:43:02.19\00:43:04.81
not in everlasting
torment, but in annihilation.
00:43:04.84\00:43:08.30
It is the fire
that is called aeonian"
00:43:08.33\00:43:11.20
that's the Greek
word for everlasting,
00:43:11.23\00:43:12.80
"it is the fire
that is everlasting
00:43:12.83\00:43:14.89
not the life cast into it."
00:43:14.92\00:43:19.48
Oh, my friends if
only we had remembered
00:43:19.51\00:43:22.19
how Jesus
instructed us to address God.
00:43:22.22\00:43:25.96
When Jesus
taught us how to pray,
00:43:25.99\00:43:27.37
did He say we
have to pray this way,
00:43:27.40\00:43:28.80
our judge, who
art in heaven, huh?
00:43:28.83\00:43:33.22
Our king, who art in heaven.
00:43:33.25\00:43:35.69
Would that be fine,
what's wrong with it.
00:43:35.72\00:43:37.85
Our Lord, who art in heaven.
00:43:37.88\00:43:41.31
He didn't even say our
God, who art in heaven.
00:43:41.34\00:43:44.86
Are you kidding when Jesus
said, hey, you want to pray,
00:43:44.89\00:43:46.79
you want to address the almighty
on the throne of the universe
00:43:46.82\00:43:49.42
here's what I want
you to pray, our Father.
00:43:49.45\00:43:53.53
Call Him Father
which art in heaven.
00:43:53.56\00:43:58.78
And just a few breaths later
in the same sermon on the mount,
00:43:58.81\00:44:01.85
Jesus said look at
"If you who are evil."
00:44:01.88\00:44:04.22
Matthew 7:11 "If
you, who are evil,
00:44:04.25\00:44:07.41
know how to give good
gifts to your children."
00:44:07.44\00:44:09.35
Jot this down. How much more.
00:44:09.38\00:44:11.63
"How much more will
your Father in heaven
00:44:11.66\00:44:16.42
give good gifts to
those who ask him?"
00:44:16.45\00:44:21.19
Hey, here's a question for you.
00:44:21.22\00:44:22.86
Do fathers and
mothers punish their children?
00:44:22.89\00:44:26.42
Yes or no.
00:44:26.45\00:44:27.81
Yeah, I had
imaginary scars on my posterior
00:44:27.84\00:44:31.58
to prove that in
fact they indeed do.
00:44:31.61\00:44:34.97
I said, imaginary,
the pain is still real.
00:44:35.00\00:44:40.10
I still suffer.
00:44:40.13\00:44:43.73
Of course, of course parents
discipline their children.
00:44:43.76\00:44:46.37
I have two wonderful children.
00:44:46.40\00:44:47.72
Let's say Kirk and
Kristy are very young
00:44:47.75\00:44:49.77
and before leaving the
home I said to Kirk and Kristy,
00:44:49.80\00:44:52.90
now look at, mom has just baked
00:44:52.93\00:44:56.52
this plateful of
lovely chocolate chip cookies
00:44:56.55\00:44:59.46
but I'm putting saran
wrap over the top of it
00:44:59.49\00:45:02.14
and I don't want you to touch
it until I get home tonight
00:45:02.17\00:45:04.57
and then we will all
have a chocolate chip cookie
00:45:04.60\00:45:06.29
a piece tonight,
is that understood.
00:45:06.32\00:45:08.56
Yes, daddy, yes
daddy, yes daddy.
00:45:08.59\00:45:10.19
I go and come home in
the evening and guess what,
00:45:10.22\00:45:12.86
two chocolate chip
cookies are missing.
00:45:12.89\00:45:15.45
I called the children
in, I grill them hard,
00:45:15.48\00:45:18.95
and I draw confessions
from both their guilty hearts.
00:45:18.98\00:45:21.64
Each ate the
chocolate chip cookie.
00:45:21.67\00:45:24.31
Now I want to
teach a lesson to them.
00:45:24.34\00:45:26.23
Of course, I'm
going to spank them.
00:45:26.26\00:45:27.89
Here's my question to you,
00:45:27.92\00:45:29.18
how long should I
spank them, one hour?
00:45:29.21\00:45:34.17
You got a problem with that?
00:45:34.20\00:45:36.17
No wonder you
turned out the way you did.
00:45:36.20\00:45:40.84
One hour, no.
How about two hours?
00:45:40.87\00:45:44.51
How about five hours?
00:45:44.54\00:45:45.57
How about if I
spank them all night long
00:45:45.60\00:45:47.44
just to make sure
they never do this again?
00:45:47.47\00:45:50.44
Nope, nope, nope,
nope, you know what,
00:45:50.47\00:45:51.80
if I spank my
children for five hours
00:45:51.83\00:45:53.38
you'd have me turned in so fast
00:45:53.41\00:45:54.87
for child abuse
should make your heads swim.
00:45:54.90\00:45:57.51
Isn't that right?
00:45:57.54\00:45:59.26
You are not supposed
to punish your children
00:45:59.29\00:46:01.73
just because you are
madder than hell at them.
00:46:01.76\00:46:04.49
Oops sorry.
00:46:04.52\00:46:06.16
Part of my language.
00:46:10.00\00:46:11.99
But that is precisely
what people believe hell is,
00:46:12.02\00:46:14.90
God is so mad at my kids,
00:46:14.93\00:46:16.78
didn't choose me I'm gonna
punish you forever and ever
00:46:16.81\00:46:20.87
and ever and ever and ever.
00:46:20.90\00:46:26.07
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:46:26.10\00:46:30.13
are there rebellious
children in this life?
00:46:30.16\00:46:33.02
Yeah, yep, yep, yep, of course.
00:46:33.05\00:46:36.29
And it maybe that
one day your child
00:46:36.32\00:46:38.36
will leave your home and runaway
00:46:38.39\00:46:40.68
and never come
back again God forbid.
00:46:40.71\00:46:45.24
But children are free to
go their way, are they not?
00:46:45.27\00:46:50.04
In order for parental
love to be genuine love,
00:46:50.07\00:46:53.13
the parent must not only give
the child the right to say yes,
00:46:53.16\00:46:56.39
you must give your
child the right to say no.
00:46:56.42\00:47:00.61
And if one day your
child stands in the distance
00:47:00.64\00:47:03.18
with his hearty
arms fold it tight
00:47:03.21\00:47:06.75
in defiance against you,
00:47:06.78\00:47:08.51
I will never come
to your home again.
00:47:08.54\00:47:12.24
What are you gonna do then?
00:47:12.27\00:47:14.87
What will you do then?
00:47:14.90\00:47:18.79
Is there a parent here
who would choose to douse
00:47:18.82\00:47:23.03
that rebellious child with
some sort of flammable liquid
00:47:23.06\00:47:27.50
and then ignite the liquid
00:47:27.53\00:47:30.16
and then every 24 hours
through intravenous injection
00:47:30.19\00:47:33.84
keep that boy alive so
that the pain will go on
00:47:33.87\00:47:38.72
and on and on and on.
00:47:38.75\00:47:41.15
Not just the
day, not just a year,
00:47:41.18\00:47:43.22
not just a lifetime, it
will go on forever and ever.
00:47:43.25\00:47:47.58
Now will you
ever disobey me again?
00:47:47.61\00:47:52.60
Oh my, my Lord,
00:47:52.63\00:47:57.30
what have we done
00:47:57.33\00:48:01.11
to the truth about God?
00:48:01.14\00:48:04.71
You tell me, you tell me.
00:48:04.74\00:48:07.19
Our Father, who art in heaven
00:48:10.50\00:48:15.61
how would be your name.
00:48:15.64\00:48:19.17
What have we done to him?
00:48:19.20\00:48:21.55
It is no wonder that
thanking man and woman
00:48:21.58\00:48:24.98
in the west have
rejected the child burning God,
00:48:25.01\00:48:30.22
that Christianity has
espoused and it walked away
00:48:30.25\00:48:35.22
and it said, I will never,
00:48:35.25\00:48:37.79
I will never believe in God
00:48:37.82\00:48:42.94
if that is who He is.
00:48:42.97\00:48:44.23
In the name of Calvary's God,
00:48:47.77\00:48:50.77
how wonder
heaven could we believe
00:48:50.80\00:48:53.64
that He will
torment His children
00:48:53.67\00:48:56.41
forever and ever.
00:48:56.44\00:49:01.18
It is no wonder today
00:49:01.21\00:49:02.54
that a growing host
of Christian scholars
00:49:02.57\00:49:04.89
are turning their backs on
the teaching of their childhood
00:49:04.92\00:49:08.56
and are rejecting the notion
00:49:08.59\00:49:10.99
that God burns
sinners forever and ever.
00:49:11.02\00:49:13.52
Some luminary, some
bright lights such as
00:49:13.55\00:49:16.90
call the greatest
preacher in the English language
00:49:16.93\00:49:19.50
in the 20th century
00:49:19.53\00:49:20.56
Anglican
preacher John R.W. Stott.
00:49:20.59\00:49:23.95
The theologian and
writer Oscar Cullmann.
00:49:23.98\00:49:26.73
The lawyer and theologian
Edward Fudge among others,
00:49:26.76\00:49:31.79
the Canadian
theologian Clark Pinnock.
00:49:31.82\00:49:35.22
In fact, let me
put Pinnock's words,
00:49:35.25\00:49:37.09
we'll end with this.
00:49:37.12\00:49:38.15
Let me put it on
the screen for you,
00:49:38.18\00:49:39.28
it's there in your study guide.
00:49:39.31\00:49:40.62
"There is a
powerful moral revulsion
00:49:40.65\00:49:44.05
against the traditional
doctrine of the nature of hell.
00:49:44.08\00:49:47.06
Everlasting
torture is intolerable
00:49:47.09\00:49:50.15
from a moral point of
view because it pictures God
00:49:50.18\00:49:53.61
acting like a
bloodthirsty monster
00:49:53.64\00:49:56.27
who maintains an
everlasting Auschwitz
00:49:56.30\00:49:59.62
for His enemies He whom He
does not even allow to die."
00:49:59.65\00:50:03.62
Him that let them die, not God.
00:50:03.65\00:50:07.77
"How can one love a God
like that?" Pinnock asked.
00:50:07.80\00:50:10.41
"I suppose one
might be afraid of Him,
00:50:10.44\00:50:13.40
but could we
love and respect Him?
00:50:13.43\00:50:16.86
Would we want to strive to be
like Him in this mercilessness?
00:50:16.89\00:50:21.58
Surely the idea of
everlasting, conscious torment
00:50:21.61\00:50:25.54
raises the problem of
evil to impossible heights."
00:50:25.57\00:50:32.65
Wow, our Father,
which art in heaven.
00:50:32.68\00:50:38.61
You say, Dwight,
00:50:51.28\00:50:53.77
you're telling me there
is no suffering in hell,
00:50:53.80\00:50:56.47
I didn't say that.
00:50:56.50\00:50:58.96
We'll look at
what hell would be like
00:50:58.99\00:51:01.05
in the final piece next week.
00:51:01.08\00:51:04.20
Our Father, which art in heaven,
00:51:04.23\00:51:08.82
hallowed be Your name.
00:51:08.85\00:51:14.03
A young preacher was in love,
they were engaged to be married.
00:51:14.06\00:51:19.89
He was counting down the
days when tragedy struck.
00:51:19.92\00:51:24.96
Mysteriously he was
smitten with blindness.
00:51:24.99\00:51:29.40
Eyes that cannot
now see, get a heart
00:51:29.43\00:51:32.13
that goes on loving that girl
00:51:32.16\00:51:35.84
until a twin tragedy struck.
00:51:35.87\00:51:40.21
And that day when she
stepped into his darkness,
00:51:40.24\00:51:44.08
clear her throat and announce
that she had searched her heart
00:51:44.11\00:51:47.52
and she could not find it within
herself to marry a blind man.
00:51:47.55\00:51:52.49
As her footfall echoed
00:51:52.52\00:51:55.61
for the last
time out of his life.
00:51:55.64\00:52:00.58
George Mattheson
in his agony wept
00:52:00.61\00:52:07.01
until the few hours
later he groped and found a pen
00:52:07.04\00:52:12.91
and scribble down the words
00:52:12.94\00:52:16.34
"O Love that wilt not let me go,
00:52:16.37\00:52:23.16
I rest my weary soul in thee,
00:52:23.19\00:52:31.16
I give thee back the life I owe,
00:52:31.19\00:52:35.72
That in thine
ocean depths its flow,
00:52:35.75\00:52:38.72
May richer, fuller be."
00:52:38.75\00:52:43.70
Our Father,who art in heaven
00:52:43.73\00:52:48.22
is about a love
that will not let go.
00:52:48.25\00:52:54.60
Sing with we-- will you
please only the first stanza.
00:52:54.63\00:52:59.10
Hymn 76 it's in
your pew rack right now.
00:52:59.13\00:53:02.93
Sing the words
of George Mattheson,
00:53:02.96\00:53:06.00
crushed over a love
that had let him go,
00:53:06.03\00:53:10.00
he writes of another love
00:53:10.03\00:53:13.22
that he celebrate that love
00:53:13.25\00:53:14.68
as we stand
together and sing hymn 76.
00:53:14.71\00:53:18.17
O Love that wilt not let me go
00:53:56.54\00:54:03.57
I rest my weary soul in Thee
00:54:03.60\00:54:10.96
I give Thee back the life I owe
00:54:10.99\00:54:18.77
That in Thine
ocean depths its flow
00:54:18.80\00:54:25.64
May richer,
00:54:25.67\00:54:28.15
Fuller be
00:54:28.18\00:54:35.02
I wanna sing that again.
00:54:37.36\00:54:38.39
We'll sing it even
more quietly this time.
00:54:38.42\00:54:40.65
O Love that wilt not let me go
00:54:40.68\00:54:46.64
I rest my weary soul in Thee
00:54:49.61\00:54:56.19
I give Thee back the life I owe
00:54:59.35\00:55:06.85
That in Thine
ocean depths its flow
00:55:09.16\00:55:16.76
May richer,
00:55:16.79\00:55:20.72
Fuller be
00:55:20.75\00:55:26.72
Dear Father,
00:55:37.46\00:55:41.44
we have been so wrong about You.
00:55:41.47\00:55:43.86
It is no wonder
00:55:48.13\00:55:51.39
Your children
have run away from home
00:55:51.42\00:55:56.16
but it's not too late.
00:55:56.19\00:55:59.82
The good news of this
love that will not let us go.
00:55:59.85\00:56:07.45
It can be told, we can
share with those we love.
00:56:07.48\00:56:14.04
Jesus said, you know the truth
00:56:14.07\00:56:17.30
and the truth will set you free.
00:56:17.33\00:56:20.75
Oh, Father, may Your
love set all of us free
00:56:20.78\00:56:26.91
while there is still time,
00:56:26.94\00:56:29.24
in the name of Jesus who died
00:56:32.97\00:56:37.20
to tell us the truth about You.
00:56:37.23\00:56:43.51
Amen.
00:56:43.54\00:56:45.07
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