HELL
AND
ETERNAL
PUNISHMENT
Mt 16:26 What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
THE VALUE OF THE SOUL
Torment
Mt 8:28 When he arrived at the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him.… 29 “What do you want with us, Son of God?” they shouted. “Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?”
Lk 16:23 In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham…27 “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father’s house, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’
SUFFERING & PLACE TO BE FEARED
Fire
Lk 16:24 So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me … because I am in agony in this fire.’
Mark 9:43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out…It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, 48 where ”‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’
SUFFERING & PLACE TO BE FEARED
Fire
Rev 9:1 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from
a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by
the smoke from
the Abyss.
Rev 20:10 And the
devil, who deceived
them, was thrown
into the lake of
burning sulfur…
SUFFERING & PLACE TO BE FEARED
Darkness
The Parable of the Talents
MT 25:30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness…
2 Pet 2:17 These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
Sorrow & regret
Mt 13:40 “As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. 42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
SUFFERING & PLACE TO BE FEARED
Eternal
MT 25:41 “Then he will say to those on
his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are
cursed, into the eternal fire prepared
for the devil and his angels. …46 “Then
they will go away to eternal punishment,
but the righteous to eternal life.”
Mark 9:43 …It is better for you to
enter life maimed than with two hands
to go into hell, where the fire never goes out.
Jude 7 In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
SUFFERING & PLACE TO BE FEARED
Eternal
Rev 20:10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Rev 14:11 And the
smoke of their
torment rises for
ever and ever. There
is no rest day or
night for those who
worship the beast
and his image, or for
anyone who receives
the mark of his
name.”
SUFFERING & PLACE TO BE FEARED
Separation from God
2 Thess 1:9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power 10 on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed.
Rev 20:14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.
SUFFERING & PLACE TO BE FEARED
Separation from God
We may rest assured that no one will suffer in hell who could by any means have been won to Christ in this life. God leaves no stone unturned to rescue all who would respond to the convicting and wooing of the Holy Spirit. As for the fate of [the damned] being eternal, it could not be otherwise. Death is not the cessation of existence but the continuation of the eternal being with which God lovingly endowed man--but now in painful separation from God and all else in utter darkness and loneliness.
-- Dave Hunt
SUFFERING & PLACE TO BE FEARED
Acts 23:6 Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. I stand on trial because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead.” 7 When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. 8 (The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)
New Testament only?
Mk 12:18 Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 19 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and have children for his brother. 20 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children. 21 The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third. 22 In fact, none of the seven left any children.
Last of all, the woman died too. 23 At
the resurrection a whose wife will she be,
since the seven were married to her?”
24 Jesus replied, “Are you not in error
because you do not know the Scriptures or
the power of God? 25 When the dead rise,
they will neither marry nor be given in
marriage; they will be like the angels in
heaven.
New Testament only?
26 Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the book of Moses, in the account of the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”
Lk 20:39 Some of the teachers of the law responded, “Well said, teacher!”
40 And no one dared to ask him any more questions.
Daniel 12:1 At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered. 2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
New Testament only?
Ps 111: 10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom
Day of reckoning coming:
Jude 14 Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones 15 to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
JN 3: 36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him.”
FEAR GOD
Luke 12:4 “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. 5 But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
Heb 10: 26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. …30 For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again,
“The Lord will judge his
people.” 31 It is a dreadful
thing to fall into the hands
of the living God.
FEAR GOD
1 Jn 4:16 God is love…
2 Thess 1:6 God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you 7 and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. 8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
In a sense, the concept of hell gives meaning to our lives. It tells us that the moral choices we make day by day have eternal significance, that our behavior has
consequences lasting to eternity, that God
Himself takes our choices seriously. The
doctrine of hell is not just some dusty
theological holdover from the Middle Ages.
It has significant social consequences.
Without a conviction of ultimate justice,
people's sense of moral obligation dissolves,
and social bonds are broken. -- Chuck Colson
FEAR GOD - Love & justice
Mt 11:20 Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. 21 “Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths (HADES).
If the miracles that were
performed in you had been
performed in Sodom, it would
have remained to this day. 24
But I tell you that it will be
more bearable for Sodom on the
day of judgment than for you.”
Degrees Of Punishment
Lk 12:47 “That servant who knows his master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be beaten with many blows. 48 But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
2 Pet 2:20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. 21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.
Degrees Of Punishment
Heb 10:25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching… 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Degrees Of Punishment
DEMONS
LK 8:30 Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”
“Legion,” he replied, because many demons had gone into him. 31 And they begged him repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss.
WHO WILL BE THERE?
Rev 9:2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace… 3 And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth… 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a
man. 6 During those days
men will seek death, but
will not find it; they will
long to die, but death will
elude them…11 They had as
king over them the angel of
the Abyss, whose name in
Hebrew is Abaddon, and in
Greek, Apollyon.
(DESTROYER)
WHO WILL BE THERE?
SATAN
MT 25:41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Isaiah 14: 11 All your pomp has been brought down to the grave (SHEOL), along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you. 12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star (LUCIFER), son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! 13 You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. 14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” 15 But you are brought down to the grave (SHEOL), to the depths of the pit.
WHO WILL BE THERE?
SATAN
Rev 20:1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. 2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he
must be set free for a short time.
Rev 20: 7 When the thousand years are
over, Satan will be released from his prison
8 and will go out to deceive the nations… 10
And the devil, who deceived them, was
thrown into the lake of burning sulfur,
where the beast and the false prophet had
been thrown. They will be tormented day
and night for ever and ever.
WHO WILL BE THERE?
Those who do not believe the gospel
Mk 16: 15 He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Those absorbed in this life only
Lk 12:13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14 Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” 15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
WHO WILL BE THERE?
18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
21 “This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not
rich toward God.”
WHO WILL BE THERE?
Those who are unconcerned about the suffering of others
Lk 16:19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell
from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.
23 In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.
WHO WILL BE THERE?
24 So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue,
because I am in agony in this fire.’ 25 “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’
27 “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father’s house, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’
29 “Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’
30 ”‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
31 “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”
WHO WILL BE THERE?
In his life he could afford the finest food & wine, but now he begs for water:
MT 7:1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
WHO WILL BE THERE?
Those who are unconcerned about the suffering of others
MT 25:41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
WHO WILL BE THERE?
Those who hate (root sin of murder)
Matt 5:21 “You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ 22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.
Those who lust (root sin of adultery)
Matt 5:27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
WHO WILL BE THERE?
Drunkards, revelers & brawlers
Isaiah 5:11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine. 12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets, tambourines and flutes and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the LORD, no respect for the work of his hands. 13 Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; their men of rank will die of hunger and their masses will be parched with thirst. 14 Therefore the grave (SHEOL) enlarges its appetite and opens its mouth without limit; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers.
Liars
Rev 21:8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.
WHO WILL BE THERE?
Impure, shameful, deceitful
Rev 21:22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the
Lamb is its lamp. 24 The nations will
walk by its light, and the kings of the
earth will bring their splendor into it.
25 On no day will its gates ever be
shut, for there will be no night there.
26 The glory and honor of the nations
will be brought into it. 27 Nothing
impure will ever enter it, nor will
anyone who does what is shameful or
deceitful, but only those whose names
are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
WHO WILL BE THERE?
Idolaters, Occult practitioners…
Rev 21:12 “Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
14 “Blessed are those who wash
their robes, that they may have
the right to the tree of life and
may go through the gates into the
city. 15 Outside are the dogs,
those who practice magic arts,
the sexually immoral, the
murderers, the idolaters and
everyone who loves and practices
falsehood.
WHO WILL BE THERE?
Those who cause others to lose their faith
Matt 18:5 “And whoever welcomes a
little child like this in my name welcomes
me. 6 But if anyone causes one of these
little ones who believe in me to sin, it
would be better for him to have a large
millstone hung around his neck and to be
drowned in the depths of the sea.
7 “Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! 8 If your hand or your foot causes you to sin cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. 9 And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
WHO WILL BE THERE?
Those who murder God’s prophets
Matt 23:29 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. 30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the
prophets. 32 Fill up, then,
the measure of the sin of
your forefathers!
33 “You snakes! You brood
of vipers! How will you
escape being condemned
to hell?
WHO WILL BE THERE?
Those who deliberately keep on sinning after they know the truth
Heb 10:26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” 31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED?
WHO WILL BE THERE?
Those who are ashamed of Jesus
Matt 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. … 32 “Whoever acknowledges me
before men, I
will also
acknowledge him
before my Father
in heaven. 33 But
whoever disowns
me before men,
I will disown him
before my Father
in heaven.
WHO WILL BE THERE?
Hypocrites & those servants who do not do God’s will
MT 24:45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46 It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. 47 I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ 49 and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51 He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
WHO WILL BE THERE?
MT 25:24 “Then the man who had received the one talent came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’
26 “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27 Well then, you
should have put my money on deposit with
the bankers, so that when I returned I
would have received it back with interest.
28 ‘Take the talent from him and give it
to the one who has the ten talents. 29
For everyone who has will be given more,
and he will have an abundance. Whoever
does not have, even what he has will be
taken from him. 30 And throw that
worthless servant outside, into the
darkness, where there will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.
WHO WILL BE THERE?
MT 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
Those who are unprepared
MT 22:11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12 ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless.
13 “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
14 “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
ARE YOU PREPARED FOR ETERNITY?
WHO WILL BE THERE?
Phil 4:3 Yes, and I ask you, loyal yokefellow,
help these women who have contended at my
side in the cause of the gospel, along with
Clement and the rest of my fellow workers,
whose names are in the book of life.
Rev 13:5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months. 6 He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 7 He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.
THE BOOK OF LIFE
Rev 3:5 He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.
New Jerusalem
Rev 21:27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
THE BOOK OF LIFE
Rev 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is
the second death. 15 If anyone’s
name was not found written in the
book of life, he was thrown into
the lake of fire.
IS YOUR NAME IN THE
BOOK OF LIFE?
THE BOOK OF LIFE
2 Pet 2:4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; 6 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what
is going to happen to the
ungodly; … 9 if this is so, then
the Lord knows how to rescue
godly men from trials and to
hold the unrighteous for the
day of judgment, while
continuing their punishment.
WILL EXCEPTIONS BE MADE?
We need not fear death:
1 Cor 15:51 Listen, I tell you
a mystery: We will not all sleep,
but we will all be changed— 52
in a flash, in the twinkling of
an eye, at the last trumpet. For
the trumpet will sound, the dead
will be raised imperishable, and
we will be changed. 53 For the
perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the
mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
55 “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
THE RESURRECTION
Our hope for the resurrection is based on Jesus words:
Jn 5:20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it…24 “I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. 25 I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has
now come when the dead will hear the voice
of the Son of God and those who hear will
live. 26 For as the Father has life in
himself, so he has granted the Son to have
life in himself… 28 “Do not be amazed at
this, for a time is coming when all who are
in their graves will hear his voice 29 and
come out—those who have done good will
rise to live, and those who have done evil
will rise to be condemned.
THE RESURRECTION
Our hope for the resurrection is based on Jesus words:
JN 11:23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 Martha answered, “I know he
will rise again in the resurrection
at the last day.”
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the
resurrection and the life. He who
believes in me will live, even
though he dies; 26 and whoever
lives and believes in me will
never die.
THE RESURRECTION
Our hope for the resurrection is based on Jesus words:
JN 4:14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
THE RESURRECTION
Our hope for the resurrection is based on Jesus words:
JN 6:37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and
believes in him shall have eternal life,
and I will raise him up at the last day.”
JN 10: 27 My sheep listen to my voice;
I know them, and they follow me. 28 I
give them eternal life, and they shall
never perish; no one can snatch them out
of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given
them to me, is greater than all ; no one
can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
THE RESURRECTION
The Bible says that God prepared hell for the devil and his demonic cohorts (Matthew 25:41), that He is "...not wishing for any [person] to perish but for all to come to repentance." (II Peter 3:9), and that He has done everything possible to save us from that terrible, terrible place. Yet in the end God will not violate or overrule the deliberate choice of those who consciously and willfully turn away from Him.
--Daryl E. Witmer
I willingly believe that the damned are, in
one sense, successful, rebels to the end;
that the doors of hell are locked on the
inside.
All that are in Hell, choose it.
Without that self-choice
there could be no Hell.
-- C.S. Lewis
YOUR CHOICE
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”— 5 …Then man goes to his eternal home and mourners go about the streets. 6 Remember him—before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, or the wheel broken at the well, 7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. 13 Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.
--Solomon, Ecc 12:1, NIV Bible
CONCLUSION
"For God did not
send the Son
into the world to
judge the world,
but that the
world should be
saved through
Him. He who
believes in Him
is not judged;
he who does not
believe has been
judged already,
because he has
not believed in
the name of the
only begotten Son of God. And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil."
--Jesus Christ, John 3:16-19, NASV Bible
CONCLUSION