Eternal Choices: Heaven, Hell, and God's Justice

1. "Heaven is a place of incredible, inexpressible splendor because God is there. So where's heaven? Heaven is wherever God is, wherever God chooses it to be, because God is omnipresent. That means that God is everywhere so that God is everywhere, but yet God, there's a place of the special presence of God. First Corinthians 2, 9, describes that. We would call that present heaven because in the future, where's, you know, where heaven's going to be? Heaven's going to be on earth. The new heaven and the new earth come down out of heaven, heaven to God's going to recreate heaven and earth. And there will be a new Eden, a new Jerusalem that's going to come down out of heaven and heaven will be on earth." [00:45:40] (48 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "As a matter of fact, he knew we would blew it, but we blew it. He knew we would mess up. So he had, he had a real plan, which was Christ who was slain before the foundation of the world. So he had, it was, he didn't, when Adam and Eve sinned, he didn't go, what am I going to do now? He knew. And so he redeemed us. That was the plan. So what makes heaven, heaven is this glorious thing is that this new Jerusalem is going to come out of heaven and we're going to rule and reign with him forever and ever." [00:46:43] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "Heaven's a place of rewards and responsibility. Uh, you're going to have rewards in heaven, what we do now makes a difference in eternity. St. Corinthians 5, 10, we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. This is judgment seat of Christ. This is not the great white throne judgment. This is not a heaven and hell judgment. This is a judgment based on rewards. What rewards are you going to get in heaven?" [00:49:04] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "So it's, but it's going to be this wonderful, glorious joining with God in his eternal purpose. Do you think that God just had a plan for right till now? It doesn't have a plan for eternity that is going to be splendiferous or something. It's going to be incredible. I'm looking forward to that. It's a place of rewards and responsibilities." [00:50:07] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "Heaven's a place of revelation. Beloved, now we're the children of God. It's not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that when he appears, we'll be like him. Just let that blow your mind a little bit, right? We're going to be like him because we shall see him just as he is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on him purifies himself just as he is pure." [00:50:34] (22 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "So the angels around the throne are saying, holy, holy, holy. What are they saying? Well, to bring it to our common language, they're saying, wow, wow. Wow. They're like nudging each other. Did you see that? Because for eternity, which is not a long time, but the absence of time, I don't know how that works, okay? But so for eternity, they're continually seeing attributes and character and the depth and nature of God that they didn't see. They didn't see God. They didn't see God. They didn't see God. They didn't see before. And that's going to be part of heaven for us too, is that we're going to be seeing the ever unfolding glories of God. And we're just going to be continually blown away. Can you imagine?" [00:52:40] (58 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "So what makes heaven, heaven is the presence of God. But what makes hell, hell is the absence of the presence of God. That's what the Bible says. The only thing that could compare is, is this, which we use the term burning, torment, agony, flames, so why is hell, hell? Hell is hell because God's not there. Second Thessalonians 1, 9. These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power. When you remove God, you remove light and beauty and joy and love and peace and kindness and relationship. Everything that's beautiful is God." [00:56:48] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "Hell is not going to be a party with your friends. Think of hell as solitary confinement for the rest of your life. It's dark and alone. There's no good old boys. There's no Dos Equis. There's no Coors Light. I don't know good beer names. I'm sorry. I don't drink beer. Just alone, away from the presence of God. There's nothing good away from the presence of God. It's just, nothingness." [00:58:05] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "Hell is eternal. Having no end, the Bible seems to imply. Daniel 12, 2, God promises that the day is coming when men, many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt. So everybody lives forever. Some are going to live forever in heaven. Some are going to live forever in hell." [01:01:29] (21 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "Universalism is a belief system that says God wants everybody to go to heaven, so everybody's going to go to heaven eventually. So some may go to hell for a while, and then after you've paid, you've been in punishment long enough, then you'll get to get out of hell. You get out. It's like playing Monopoly. You get to get out of hell, and you get to go to heaven. Now, there's not really any scripture to support that, and Jesus is like pretty strongly saying, scripturally, multiple times, it doesn't work that way. It's appointed unto man once to die, and after that, the judgment. The decision to follow Christ is not made in heaven. The decision to follow Christ is made by faith, on earth." [01:04:39] (53 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)