Sermons on Hell

The Reality Of Hell

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No doubt this aversion lies at the bottom of much of the unbelief to what the Bible teaches about hell. Hell, despite the denials of many, is real. Sin is a violation of the law of God 1 John 3: If there were no punishment for sin, then there could be no law for law without penalty is null and void. If there is no law, there would be no sin. That would make the death of Jesus useless because if there is no sin there is no responsibility to save anyone from it.

The reality of life after death also demands the reality of hell.

1. And the first thing we should note is that God’s Word tells us that Hell IS indeed a REAL place.

Jesus taught, in Matthew In the account of the rich man and Lazarus Luke Hell was originally prepared for Satan and his angels Matt. Jude 6 states that fallen angels are placed in chains awaiting judgment. Yet, when men and women join the devil in his work and live in servitude to him, they must suffer the same fate that will befall him. Many people find it difficult to accept the reality of hell because they cannot believe that a loving and merciful God could create such a place. But hell is not contrary to the nature of God. If no punishment were given for violation of His law, then God would not be just.

Being a just God, He will reward the righteous and punish the wicked. Hell is to punish the wicked. I Love My Church. Hear Jesus Whisper, "Follow Me". The Greek word Gehenna derives its name from a deep ravine south of Hell is the eternal, conscious, tormenting state of existence of those separated from God.

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If There is no Hell Luke Then Jesus was a misguided soul. For He taught that Hell is a place, a place of outer darkness where there is weeping, wailing and nashing of teeth. For He taught that Hell is a place where the fire is not quenched and the worm never dies.

Hell , Blood Of Christ. Psalm 9 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. Psalm 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: Isaiah 5 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself. Isaiah 5 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: God does not warn us about hell to scare us into a relationship with God, but God does tell us the natural consequence of separation from our Creator. Sin Separates From God. Jesus spoke often in parables. Parables picture for us important truths.

In this parable, two main characters are shown: The Rich Man, who was unsaved as evidenced by his lack of compassion on Lazarus in their earthly days and by where he finds himself in the afterlife , and And, I believe this for three reasons:. Moreland, a conservative scholar, says, In Hebrews Yet nobody thinks God is a cosmic Bunsen burner. On the night of His arrest Jesus ate the Passover meal with His disciples.

He held up the bread and said, This is My body. Then He took the cup and referring to its contents said, This is My blood. Now, Jesus did not mean that the bread and the wine were His literal blood but rather that they were symbolic of the fact that His body was about to be nailed to a cross where He would shed His precious blood for the sins of the world. The book of Revelation says that when Christ returns He is going to have a big sword coming out of His mouth. No, the figure of the sword stands for the word of God in judgment. And in a similar fashion, the descriptions of hell as a place of fire are also symbolic of a horror that would be infinitely worse than a place filled with brimstone and constant flames.

One word in the New Testament that is used for Hell is, Gehenna and it alluded to to the Valley of Gehenna outside the southeast walls of Jerusalem. This had been a place of worship for the heathen god Molech, which included burning babies alive. Because of their cries it was known as the Valley of Lamentation,…which is what Gehenna literally means. A fire was kept going there continually for sanitary purposes. So, the Valley of Gehenna came to be used as a symbol of the awful reality of Hell.

Hell Not Contrary To The Nature of God

In this horrible place worms were constantly ingesting all that rotting flesh. And in using this metaphor Jesus was saying hell is worse than that disgusting place outside the city walls. When the Bible talks about Hell being a place of darkness it is saying that it is a place of hopelessness. Try to imagine what that would be like. I mean if you have ever experienced an attack of anxiety or depression you can always tell yourself that this feeling of dark despair will pass.

You can tell yourself to hang on because it will end and things will look better. But in Hell, that tactic would not work because the anxiety, the hopeless despair, will not end. It is a place of constant darkness in this sense. All these symbolic words and phrases used in Scripture to describe Hell are metaphors to help us see that Hell is a place so awful that no one in his right mind would want to go there. In this fashion the Bible teaches that Hell is the worst place we could possibly imagine.

This week I came across the descriptions of hell by several conservative theologians. I think their comments go a long way to helping us to begin to understand how bad a place Hell really is. Perpetually burning lusts never subside there and the tortured conscience burns but is never sated or appeased. Hell, then is the raw soul joined to an indestructible body, exposed to its own sin for eternity.

Hell is the place of unquenchable, raging, unmet emotional needs, without painkillers or sedation. Hell is a place of eternal regret. They want to be cross and miserable.

She says, They enjoy chewing things to pieces. It must be part of the frustration of Hell that there is nothing good there to chew up. The good is beyond their reach so they can only chew one another. But you know, she left one thing out because the thing that really makes Hell…Hell…. Now, imagine how horrible that will be. It does this to help us to understand that Hell is a place of unimaginable suffering and despair and knowing all this should be a real motivator for both non-Christians and Christians. General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, said, If I had my way I would not give any of my workers a three-years training in a college, but I would put each of them in Hell for twenty-four hours, the best training for earnest preaching you could have.

2. The Bible also tells us that Hell is an ETERNAL place.

Knowing how horrible a place Hell is should move us to compassion for the lost. We should run to them, sharing our faith, as a fireman races to rescue someone from a burning building. The thought that someone would spend eternity in this place should break our hearts. Robert Dale once said, The only man I can listen to preaching on hell is D. Moody, because I have never heard him talk of it without breaking down and weeping.

A Biblically based perception of Hell should motivate us to compassion for the lost; it should force us to renew our efforts to bring more and more people to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. It should compel them to embrace a personal faith in Christ. Vance Havner said his father was converted by the preaching of a hair-raising sermon that scared him into the kingdom of God. Then he said, Such preaching is discouraged these days but it is better to scare men into heaven than to lull them into hell. Better shocked than stupefied.

Does God send people to this horrible eternal place known as Hell?

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Well, when someone asks that question they are starting out with the wrong assumption. You see, Hell is not a place that God created out of anger or frustration with man. It is not a place where a sadistic tyrant takes out his frustration on helpless creatures. Hell is a place where persons are allowed to live with the consequences of their own choices, dire as they may be. You see the most important thing for people to understand in dealing with this question…. He hates that place and the only thing He hates more is for people to choose to go there. God has done all that He can do to save us, so any person who goes to Hell goes there against the will of God.

Lewis has said that in the end there are just two kinds of people:

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