Eternal Choices: Understanding Hell and Salvation
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "This is not a message of fear to try to scare you out of hell, but it's a message to help you understand what Jesus did and the lengths that he's gone to to say to you I've got a better way. He forgives you of your sin, he gives you a purpose for living and a hope for eternity." [01:12:11]
2. "Eternal ecstasy. Or eternal misery. It's your choice. Ecstasy. Let me tell you what that means. It's a state of overwhelming emotion. And joy. Misery is a state of great suffering. And unhappiness. And emotional distress. So why are we talking about death? Because what you believe. It's there in your notes. What you believe determines how you live." [45:37]
3. "It's on the screen. Let's say it together. What you believe determines how you live. Look at your neighbor and say that to him. To them. What you believe determines how you live. I'm afraid a lot of us. Never think much about hell. And that's okay. I mean as a believer. I don't think we should think about that. But I think we should think about that. In reference to the people that are our friends. And that are lost." [46:39]
4. "You say Terry I understand I understand hell for murderers I understand hell for Stalin for Hitler for human traffickers who steal young girls and rape them and impregnate them and lock them up and then they give them steroids to themselves and the fetus so the baby will be born quicker so they can sell that baby to pedophiles I believe hell should be a place for them and I believe there's levels of punishment in hell but I'm here to tell you today you can't forget the words that I've taught today you have no excuse today you can leave today and say I don't believe that preacher I don't believe look I haven't given you my words I've given you what Jesus said about that so you have no excuse today for eternity of how that you've made a decision here and where you spend eternity with him." [01:09:02]
5. "You ever wake up in the middle of the night and everything is pitch dark and that feeling of panic I mean I'm a grown man and there are times that that's disoriented in the darkness and what will I do? I'll reach over to my phone that's beside me turn the light off make sure can you imagine for eternity in darkness gnashing of teeth wailing hearing people eternal fire but you're never burned up you're never burned up people say do you believe that hell is literally a place of fire well I'm not gonna add or take away from the scripture I'm just gonna say that's what Jesus said and I'm gonna take what Jesus said I just don't regardless of that I don't wanna go how about you and I don't want my friends to go how about you." [58:53]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Most people quit there but you can't miss verse 9 and 10 and since we've been made right or we've been justified in God's sight by the blood of Christ we'll certainly be saved from God's condemnation or God's wrath I want you to see this picture God's wrath is poured out on sin but because of Jesus because of his blood because of that shredding of his body and he said it is finished now I stand under the spread of his wings and the wrath of God does not touch me does not come upon me because I have believed in him now look at the rest of this verse in God's sight by the blood of Christ to save us from that wrath for since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his son while we were still enemies we will certainly be saved through the life of his son the cross also teaches us that no one can make it in your own merit." [01:05:51]
2. "And you keep them coming back to church. You don't ever mention politics. You don't ever mention money. And of all things. You never mention hell. Well, today. The good news is. I'm not teaching on politics. I'm not going to preach on money. But I am going to let the word. Talk to us today about H-E-double-L. Some of you, I know you brought a guest with you today. Or this is your first time at the Father's house. Just come back next week. Next week, we go to heaven. But I think that we all need to be aware of. The alternative that happens. You know, we talked last week. About this rope. This rope represents. First of all, this side. Represents the eternal past. You know, it's like God has always been. He never was created. He never was formed. God has always been. So just as far back as you can think. That's eternity past. This side reminds us of eternity future. That forever and ever and ever. We're going to spend somewhere in eternity. It's given unto man once to die. And after that the judgment. That will decipher which way you go. So last week we said. This red represents the history of mankind. Eternity past. Eternity future. History of mankind. From Adam and Eve and all the way through. And over here at the end. It really would be much smaller than this. But so you can see it. Right here is where we are. Right here is our life. Somewhere around 1950. I can start there. Some of you are halfway through. Some of you are way over here. So you have less. All right. But the decisions. That we make here. In this blue. Affects where we'll spend eternity. And that's the thing that's on my heart today." [41:02]
3. "And his wrath has covered my sin and I know now that in the future there's no chance in hell for sin to come again because of the wrath of God if that's so then the wrath of God is meaningless a few weeks ago Anita and I and Kevin and Melissa were privileged to go to Costa Rica one of the places on my bucket list and it's lush beautiful stuff but I want you to see in the background it's a real volcano and so when we were there it erupted in 1968 and I know you've seen how the pictures of volcanoes erupting let's look at that next picture there's a picture of a volcano erupting coming up out and so what happens is all of that all of that heat all of that fire comes down now I want you to picture this this is a picture of God's wrath over sin now look at the picture now of this area this is after the volcano erupted in 1968 when we were there there's still some smoke from the volcano it completely destroyed a town Tabacon that was there cleared it out destroyed everything when the wrath of God was poured out on Jesus Jesus took all the sins so that they could be cleansing and so in hell if you choose if you choose not to take the way of Jesus in hell the wrath of God is going to be poured on your sin you have a choice this morning you can say yeah in fact let's look at this Romans chapter chapter 5 it's sort of like the hinge of all the New Testament it's there in your notes too it says when we were utterly helpless you ever been utterly helpless when we were utterly helpless Christ came at just the right time and he died for us sinners now most people would not be willing to die for an upright person though some perhaps would be willing to die for a person who's especially good but God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners." [01:03:15]
4. "You say is Jesus talking about literally I need to go cut off my hand or punch out my eye? I mean like you know you lusted this week and so you punch out your eye and you go to your next life group wearing a patch and several other men are wearing a patch too in the same way. That's not what he's talking about here. But what he's saying is the things in your life you know that are not right that are sin, that are separating you from a relationship with God." [55:14]
5. "And there was a perpetual fire that was burning up everything. That perpetual fire then put a smoke or a stench out of that valley and every time people looked at it they remembered that the smoke never quits because there's a constant fire and it's burning up the trash. It's burning up the refuse. And so Jesus uses that word Gehenna and it means a place of everlasting punishment. So today I want to look at what does Jesus say about hell. I don't have any cute stories. I don't have any stories about what Uncle Billy Bob thinks about hell. I want to look, find in the head and find what Jesus says. So listen, over 33 times in the gospels, 33 times Jesus taught about hell. In other words, he had 33 sermons that he talked about hell. Now his ministry was only less than 36 months. So he figured that out. That means about once a month he taught on hell. And you wonder why did he talk about it so much? I believe because he didn't want you to go there. He knew that it was a place for Satan and his demons. He knew it was a place and he didn't want you to go there. So let's look and see what Jesus said. I'm going to look at a lot of scripture today. Is that okay? So if you get bored doodling, just look at the screen, alright? Look at your bible. We're going to look at a lot of scripture today. Because I don't want to just give you. I want to give you what Jesus says about hell. First of all, he says it's a place of regret and sorrow." [48:40]
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1. "This is not a message of fear to try to scare you out of hell, but it's a message to help you understand what Jesus did and the lengths that he's gone to to say to you I've got a better way. He forgives you of your sin, he gives you a purpose for living and a hope for eternity." [01:12:11]
2. "Eternal ecstasy. Or eternal misery. It's your choice. Ecstasy. Let me tell you what that means. It's a state of overwhelming emotion. And joy. Misery is a state of great suffering. And unhappiness. And emotional distress. So why are we talking about death? Because what you believe. It's there in your notes. What you believe determines how you live." [45:37]
3. "It's on the screen. Let's say it together. What you believe determines how you live. Look at your neighbor and say that to him. To them. What you believe determines how you live. I'm afraid a lot of us. Never think much about hell. And that's okay. I mean as a believer. I don't think we should think about that. But I think we should think about that. In reference to the people that are our friends. And that are lost." [46:39]
4. "You say Terry I understand I understand hell for murderers I understand hell for Stalin for Hitler for human traffickers who steal young girls and rape them and impregnate them and lock them up and then they give them steroids to themselves and the fetus so the baby will be born quicker so they can sell that baby to pedophiles I believe hell should be a place for them and I believe there's levels of punishment in hell but I'm here to tell you today you can't forget the words that I've taught today you have no excuse today you can leave today and say I don't believe that preacher I don't believe look I haven't given you my words I've given you what Jesus said about that so you have no excuse today for eternity of how that you've made a decision here and where you spend eternity with him." [01:09:02]
5. "You ever wake up in the middle of the night and everything is pitch dark and that feeling of panic I mean I'm a grown man and there are times that that's disoriented in the darkness and what will I do? I'll reach over to my phone that's beside me turn the light off make sure can you imagine for eternity in darkness gnashing of teeth wailing hearing people eternal fire but you're never burned up you're never burned up people say do you believe that hell is literally a place of fire well I'm not gonna add or take away from the scripture I'm just gonna say that's what Jesus said and I'm gonna take what Jesus said I just don't regardless of that I don't wanna go how about you and I don't want my friends to go how about you." [58:53]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Most people quit there but you can't miss verse 9 and 10 and since we've been made right or we've been justified in God's sight by the blood of Christ we'll certainly be saved from God's condemnation or God's wrath I want you to see this picture God's wrath is poured out on sin but because of Jesus because of his blood because of that shredding of his body and he said it is finished now I stand under the spread of his wings and the wrath of God does not touch me does not come upon me because I have believed in him now look at the rest of this verse in God's sight by the blood of Christ to save us from that wrath for since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his son while we were still enemies we will certainly be saved through the life of his son the cross also teaches us that no one can make it in your own merit." [01:05:51]
2. "And you keep them coming back to church. You don't ever mention politics. You don't ever mention money. And of all things. You never mention hell. Well, today. The good news is. I'm not teaching on politics. I'm not going to preach on money. But I am going to let the word. Talk to us today about H-E-double-L. Some of you, I know you brought a guest with you today. Or this is your first time at the Father's house. Just come back next week. Next week, we go to heaven. But I think that we all need to be aware of. The alternative that happens. You know, we talked last week. About this rope. This rope represents. First of all, this side. Represents the eternal past. You know, it's like God has always been. He never was created. He never was formed. God has always been. So just as far back as you can think. That's eternity past. This side reminds us of eternity future. That forever and ever and ever. We're going to spend somewhere in eternity. It's given unto man once to die. And after that the judgment. That will decipher which way you go. So last week we said. This red represents the history of mankind. Eternity past. Eternity future. History of mankind. From Adam and Eve and all the way through. And over here at the end. It really would be much smaller than this. But so you can see it. Right here is where we are. Right here is our life. Somewhere around 1950. I can start there. Some of you are halfway through. Some of you are way over here. So you have less. All right. But the decisions. That we make here. In this blue. Affects where we'll spend eternity. And that's the thing that's on my heart today." [41:02]
3. "And his wrath has covered my sin and I know now that in the future there's no chance in hell for sin to come again because of the wrath of God if that's so then the wrath of God is meaningless a few weeks ago Anita and I and Kevin and Melissa were privileged to go to Costa Rica one of the places on my bucket list and it's lush beautiful stuff but I want you to see in the background it's a real volcano and so when we were there it erupted in 1968 and I know you've seen how the pictures of volcanoes erupting let's look at that next picture there's a picture of a volcano erupting coming up out and so what happens is all of that all of that heat all of that fire comes down now I want you to picture this this is a picture of God's wrath over sin now look at the picture now of this area this is after the volcano erupted in 1968 when we were there there's still some smoke from the volcano it completely destroyed a town Tabacon that was there cleared it out destroyed everything when the wrath of God was poured out on Jesus Jesus took all the sins so that they could be cleansing and so in hell if you choose if you choose not to take the way of Jesus in hell the wrath of God is going to be poured on your sin you have a choice this morning you can say yeah in fact let's look at this Romans chapter chapter 5 it's sort of like the hinge of all the New Testament it's there in your notes too it says when we were utterly helpless you ever been utterly helpless when we were utterly helpless Christ came at just the right time and he died for us sinners now most people would not be willing to die for an upright person though some perhaps would be willing to die for a person who's especially good but God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners." [01:03:15]
4. "You say is Jesus talking about literally I need to go cut off my hand or punch out my eye? I mean like you know you lusted this week and so you punch out your eye and you go to your next life group wearing a patch and several other men are wearing a patch too in the same way. That's not what he's talking about here. But what he's saying is the things in your life you know that are not right that are sin, that are separating you from a relationship with God." [55:14]
5. "And there was a perpetual fire that was burning up everything. That perpetual fire then put a smoke or a stench out of that valley and every time people looked at it they remembered that the smoke never quits because there's a constant fire and it's burning up the trash. It's burning up the refuse. And so Jesus uses that word Gehenna and it means a place of everlasting punishment. So today I want to look at what does Jesus say about hell. I don't have any cute stories. I don't have any stories about what Uncle Billy Bob thinks about hell. I want to look, find in the head and find what Jesus says. So listen, over 33 times in the gospels, 33 times Jesus taught about hell. In other words, he had 33 sermons that he talked about hell. Now his ministry was only less than 36 months. So he figured that out. That means about once a month he taught on hell. And you wonder why did he talk about it so much? I believe because he didn't want you to go there. He knew that it was a place for Satan and his demons. He knew it was a place and he didn't want you to go there. So let's look and see what Jesus said. I'm going to look at a lot of scripture today. Is that okay? So if you get bored doodling, just look at the screen, alright? Look at your bible. We're going to look at a lot of scripture today. Because I don't want to just give you. I want to give you what Jesus says about hell. First of all, he says it's a place of regret and sorrow." [48:40]
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