It Makes No Sense!
A Message on Hell
1. As real as the Bible’s teaching on Heaven is, is
its teachings on Hell.
It is not a popular subject, and not a popular place.
It is as negative a teaching as found in Scripture,
and as emphatic as any truth in the Bible.
2. The Bible says Hell is a literal place, and states
clearly that a man will spend eternity in Heaven or
Hell, without exception.
3. The Bible teaches Hell, is a place of torment and
punishment for sin.
4. Many cults and false teachers have tried to water
down what the Bible says about Hell, or have taught
it does not exist. They teach:
Jehovah Witnesses’ - Man is annihilated. On eternal
punishment.
Roman Catholic’s - Hell or Purgatory only is temporary.
There you pay for your individual sins that one did not do
penance for while on earth. Prayers for the death, by the
living help one get out quicker.
Oriental religions - There is no hell, only reincarnation. If
you do good works you are reincarnated to a better state. If
no one is reincarnated in some not to be desired form. Karma
is the ultimate goal, where you become one with the universe.
Mormons (LDS) - Teach a second change after death. A
living person is baptized in proxy for someone who is dead.
That allows the Mormon missionaries to go and explain the
Mormon Gospel to the deceased person. If that person
accepts the Mormon Gospel, then they begin the process of
exaltation, with all the necessary works being done in their
temples by living people.
5. Statements made about Hell:
a. Some say the teaching of hell is unreasonable.
Ought sin not be punished?? A man brutally
murders over two girls, yet many says he should not
be punished? Are you saying man should not have
to take responsibility for his actions?
Are you saying that the person who has become so
degenerate he can commit horrible crimes should
allowed to live, and continue to be a burden to the rest
of society?
b. Some say then, we should punish but only to reform?
Say three men murder an entire family and rob them.
They are caught several weeks later.
One criminal, sobbing confessing he took part in the
murders, cries "I’m so sorry, its haunting me night
and day, its killing me, I’ll never do it again."
Should he be punished? He is seems to be reformed!
It is doubtful he would ever kill again. Shall he be
turned loose because he claims to be reformed.
Second criminal, is such a tenderhearted fellow, after
only a month in prison, he is thoroughly reformed and
has made up his mind never to do it again. Should he
be turned loose?
Third criminal, is a harden, criminal, the more you
punish him, the harder he gets. Should he not be
punished because it will only make him worse?
The answer in each case is that they each must
suffer punishment for the crimes they did.
6. Some say, they do not believe in a God of wrath.
God is love, and He could not let men suffer in hell
for eternity for their sin.
a. Those who say this do not understand one important
fact.
Man is by nature a sinner. He has a sinful nature
and will sin!
READ: Romans 1:18-32....wickedness of man
I Cor. 2:14...the natural man does not
receive the things of God they are foolishness
to him.
Romans 5:12, Wherefore by one man sin entered
into the world, and death by sin.
Rev. 20:6, 14, tells us the judgment and
eternal separation in Hell, is the second
death, and the death spoken of here.
b. A man can only lose the old carnal nature to sin
if he trusts in Christ, and God gives him a new
nature.
Jesus said, to Nicodemus, "you must be born again"
"a man cannot see the kingdom of heaven unless he
is born again"
That simply means, that no sinner, will enter heaven
without first receiving the new birth!
In Titus 3:3-7, You see every child of God was once
a sinner!!
Jesus said, he came into the world, not to bring the
righteous to repentance, but to save sinners!!!!
Folks, the only way to see heaven, and escape hell
is to trust in Jesus Christ, as ones Lord and Savior.
Only Christ, can give you the new nature. Only
Christ, can wash away your sin and declare you
righteous, and free of any guilt or penalty of
sin.
c. Heaven is a pure place, where there is no sin. To
let one unregenerate sinner into heaven would spoil
it.
You see, to know and take the things of God, one
must have received the nature of God. The sinner
who dies without Christ, doesn’t have the nature
of God.
I. THERE ARE TWO HELLS.
A. One is a place called "Hades." It is the abode of
the unsaved dead, at present.
Jesus in Luke 16:19, describes this place. It is a
place of separation from God, it is a place of
torment, it is a place of no escape.
1. Hades, is not the abode of Satan, he was never
there, is not there now or ever will be. But it
is populated with those who rejected God through
out history.
2. Hades, is a temporary place, and one day will
be emptied. Rev. 20:11-15, states that at the
Great White Throne judgment, all the lost from
all the ages will be brought before Christ, and
judged according to their works.
Isa. 45:23, God says every knee shall bow to
Him, and Phil. 2:10, states that every tongue
shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
It will happen, there is no question about it.
Just like death, is a subject most avoid, and
many, fail to accept, so is this judgment of
all who refuse to accept God’s free offer of
salvation.
B. The final resting place of the eternally lost is
a place Revelations calls the Lake of Fire. It is
also called Gehenna, name after a place outside
Jerusalem, where the garage was burned, a place
that was always on fire.
It is a place of eternal damnation, a place of
eternal torment, based on the works a man did
in his life.
1. There the lost of this world will stand
on an equal plain, each damned, without hope
of reprieve.
You see, they were offered a reprieve and
they rejected it.
They could have received it by receiving
Christ, yet they loved sin too much to have
to give up they wicked ways, so they
reject it, and enjoyed for a season, pleasures
of this world,.
Now the folly and stare reality of their decision
is made clear to them. It was fun for a moment
in time, but now they are to spend an eternity
reaping their just reward.
2. The religious lost will be there, pleading one by
one for Christ to accept their good deeds,
church membership, wonderful works, says Matt.
7:22-23. What a terrible thing to here the
righteous judge, say, depart from me ye workers
of iniquity, I never knew you.
3. In my commentary on Revelation 20:11-15, I make
this statement:
"Nothing is more pitiful, sorrowful, and utterly tragic, than
that God loved man so much, that even when men, rejected
His love, he still came and died a cruel death on Calvary’s
Cross. Jesus died and rose again making total and complete
atonement for every sin and act of rebellion ever done by man
on earth. Yet, most men, corrupted by sin and their own
warped sense of self worth, chooses to die in his sins and
willing go to hell rather, than let God, change him, for give
him, cleanse him for sin, and give him eternal life.
ILLUS: There is a child’s story of a king who was proud and
very vain. He ask his tailor to make him the most beautiful
set of clothes on earth or lose his head. The tailor thought
and thought but was at a lost to come up with what the king
wanted. He knew how vain the king was, so he concocted
a plan to save his head. He pretended to make the clothes
and put them on the king. He convinced the king he was
dressing him in beautiful clothes. But the king just stood
there in his underclothes. When he went out into the court
the king although he could not see them, was so vain, he told
the lords and ladies of the court how beautiful they were!
Afraid of the king’s wrath, they acted like he had clothes on.
They king then went out into the street of the town to show
off his new clothes and the people too, afraid of the king hid
the fact he had not clothes on until one little boy, shouted out
the truth...the king has no clothes on! The King is naked!
We can pretend there is no eternity. We can ignore the
truth...but it is not changed...hell as real as heaven!
Some churches and denominations, down play the reality
of hell. Their professional preachers are afraid to preach on
Hell might offend someone. I’ll tell you about someone who
will really be offended. It is the person whose preacher and
church did not tell him about hell and told them that God would
not send a man to hell. As they open their eyes in Hell, having
been deceived by their false religion, I am sure they will be
greatly offended!
Some churches deny it, or make it temporary, and many
believing them, put their trust in the false teaching and wake
up in hell.
No one ever born on this earth and given the precious gift
of life itself should be there at that final judgment!!!!
Why, oh why, does man reject God??? Why does he
willingly ignore eternity and enjoying a few moments
pleasure that will be paid for in the eternal Lake of Fire.
It makes no Sense, no sense at all.
Conclusion:
1. The Bible says no man need go to hell.
Romans 10:9-10, "That if thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that
God hat raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
John 3:16-17, "For God so loved the world, that he gave
his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not
his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the
world through him might be saved."
2. Those that reject God will face judgment and the second
death.
Rev. 20:11-15.
3. The question is simple: Will you believe God and accept
Jesus Christ as one’s Savior and receive forgiveness for sin?
Or will you reject Christ’s sacrifice for you and spent
eternity in hell?
God will not force himself on you...it is up to you to
believe or to reject. Understand that if you will not believe
you in fact are rejecting Christ Jesus.
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