WEBVTT 03:41.800 --> 03:44.000 to be seeing Neil at the cross. 03:47.900 --> 03:49.180 Page number 14. 03:49.180 --> 03:51.260 Callie, could you get me a bulletin too, by the way? 03:51.260 --> 03:52.860 I think I forgot to bring mine up. 03:53.740 --> 03:55.660 Page number 14. 03:55.660 --> 03:56.860 Kneel at the cross. 03:58.780 --> 03:59.900 Thank you very much. 04:04.400 --> 04:07.400 Page number fourteen, let's sing together on the first. 04:07.400 --> 04:12.400 Kneel at the cross, Christ will meet you there. 04:12.400 --> 04:16.400 Come while he waits for you. 04:16.400 --> 04:21.400 Listen to his voice, leave with him your care, 04:21.400 --> 04:25.400 and begin life anew. 04:25.400 --> 04:30.400 Kneel at the cross, 04:30.400 --> 04:30.800 Please 04:41.000 --> 04:48.600 will meet you there. Amen. Good to be on the second. Kneel at the cross. There is room 04:48.600 --> 05:00.280 for all who would His glory share. Bliss their awaits. Harm can ne'er befall those who are 05:00.280 --> 05:08.100 Or incurred their meal at the cross. 05:08.100 --> 05:09.000 Leave your comments below. 05:18.800 --> 05:20.800 We'll meet you there 05:22.400 --> 05:29.280 Kneel at the cross give your idols up look unto realms above 05:31.480 --> 05:38.980 Turn not away to my sparkling cup trust only in his love 05:40.720 --> 05:43.520 Kneel at the cross 05:45.040 --> 05:46.200 Leave 05:47.300 --> 05:49.300 Every care 05:51.900 --> 06:01.780 the cross Jesus will meet you there amen good scene brother Ryan would you 06:01.780 --> 06:18.900 have a word prayer amen our second song is song number 174 06:23.500 --> 06:25.500 My Jesus, I love thee. 06:26.700 --> 06:31.000 Song number 174, My Jesus, I love thee. 06:36.100 --> 06:39.100 Song 174, let's sing it together on the first. 06:39.100 --> 06:49.100 My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine, 06:49.100 --> 06:53.100 For Thee, all the fall. 06:54.200 --> 07:11.100 of sin I resign my gracious Redeemer my Savior art thou if ever I 07:15.100 --> 07:27.100 Just as now I love thee because thou hast first loved me 07:27.100 --> 07:35.100 And purchased my pardon on Calvary's tree 07:52.600 --> 07:54.300 Just as now 08:11.500 --> 08:15.400 me breath on say 08:30.100 --> 08:35.100 his now and mansions 08:39.300 --> 08:42.800 S-D-Line, O-S-D-Line 08:48.600 --> 08:52.120 so bright. I'll sing. 08:55.000 --> 09:01.000 I'm a glittering crown on my brow 09:10.800 --> 09:13.520 Amen. A good thing at this time we'll go through our announcements. 09:13.880 --> 09:16.860 Man, I'll tell you what, that's probably the quietest I've sang in quite a hot 09:16.860 --> 09:21.800 second. Okay. Um, our first of the week though is John 15 verse number 18. 09:21.800 --> 09:25.360 When the Bible says if the world hate you, you know, uh, 09:25.400 --> 09:29.600 that it hated me before it hated you. That's John 15 verse number 18. Again, 09:30.320 --> 09:33.200 we're here at our Sunday evening service time where we're going to have a 09:33.200 --> 09:36.320 brother Jason preaching for us out of a Luke 16. 09:36.680 --> 09:38.760 So I'm excited to hear that sermon. And then on Wednesday, 09:38.800 --> 09:43.520 Like I said this morning, we're going to be continuing in 1 Corinthians 13 for part number 09:43.520 --> 09:49.440 seven of the charity chapter and then we'll probably end it off in part number eight. 09:49.440 --> 09:52.240 As far as the soul warning goes, did we get anybody saved out today? 09:52.240 --> 09:54.040 Oh, no, okay. 09:54.040 --> 09:54.760 Soul warning though. 09:55.300 --> 09:57.300 So that's good. 09:57.300 --> 10:03.300 June 16th, as far as our upcoming events go, we have our homeschool day at the church building. 10:03.300 --> 10:06.300 And on June 21st, we're having a Father's Day themed sermon. 10:06.300 --> 10:14.300 And on June 20th, we have the Cheney-Soulwany Marathon, which will be at 12 to start. 10:14.300 --> 10:18.300 I'm interested to see how many people are going to be there after school, 10:18.300 --> 10:22.300 how many people stay over the summer, and how many people go back home. 10:22.600 --> 10:24.260 uh... that'll be interesting 10:24.260 --> 10:28.520 uh... john six verse number forty seven is the children's number verse which 10:28.520 --> 10:30.100 says verily verily 10:30.100 --> 10:32.680 i say unto you he that believeth on me 10:32.680 --> 10:37.300 hath everlasting life but that doesn't apply to that dispensation when he said 10:37.300 --> 10:40.280 this okay this is to everybody after okay 10:40.280 --> 10:44.160 so just keep that in mind when you memorize that kids 10:44.160 --> 10:44.680 uh... 10:45.400 --> 10:49.080 Yeah, as far as everything else goes, I think that pretty much sums it up pretty well. 10:49.080 --> 10:52.720 So we'll just go into the prayer requests and then we'll have our third song. 10:52.720 --> 10:53.720 Let's pray. 10:53.720 --> 10:54.080 Do it for the God. 12:24.700 --> 12:26.700 Our third song will be song number 321. 12:31.300 --> 12:38.800 Song number 321, Where He Leads, All Follow. 12:38.800 --> 12:43.400 Song number 321, Where He Leads, All Follow. 12:49.000 --> 12:51.540 321, let's sing it together on the first. 12:51.540 --> 12:56.860 Sweet are the promises, kind is the word, 12:56.860 --> 13:01.900 Deer are far than any message man ever heard. 13:01.900 --> 13:06.900 Pure was the mind of Christ, sinless I see. 13:06.900 --> 13:11.900 He the great example is in pattern for me, 13:11.900 --> 13:15.400 Where he leads all foes. 13:27.300 --> 13:30.740 us every day. 13:31.100 --> 13:36.140 Sweet is the tender love Jesus has shown. 13:36.140 --> 13:41.180 Sweeter far than any love that mortals have known. 13:41.180 --> 13:46.060 Kind to the erring one, faithful is he. 13:46.060 --> 13:51.180 He the great example is in pattern for me. 13:51.180 --> 13:56.060 Where he leads I'll follow. 14:06.600 --> 14:09.080 us every day. 14:10.200 --> 14:15.060 Listen to his loving words, come unto me. 14:15.060 --> 14:20.100 Weary, heavy, late, and there is sweet rest for thee. 14:20.100 --> 14:24.900 Trust in his promises, faithful and sure. 14:24.900 --> 14:29.900 Lean upon the Savior and thy soul is secure. 14:29.900 --> 14:34.700 Where he leads, I'll follow. 14:34.700 --> 14:36.200 Follow. 14:45.500 --> 14:53.300 us every day. Amen. Good singing at this time. We'll have our offering. Uh, 14:53.300 --> 14:55.300 brother Jason, could you bless the offering for us? 14:56.700 --> 14:59.140 Children, father, thank you for this day, Lord. Thank you for giving us that 14:59.140 --> 15:01.820 for blessing. Give some giver is to give back to you. 15:44.200 --> 15:52.000 Good afternoon everybody, go ahead and take your Bibles and turn to Luke chapter 16. 15:52.000 --> 15:57.920 Luke chapter 16 is our text this afternoon and as always here at our church we read the 15:57.920 --> 16:01.840 entire chapter before the preaching. 16:01.840 --> 16:05.760 Luke chapter 16 the Bible reads. 16:06.100 --> 16:13.380 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a rich man which had a steward, and the same was 16:13.380 --> 16:20.100 accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. And he called him and said unto him, How is it that I 16:20.100 --> 16:26.100 hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest be no longer steward. 16:26.600 --> 16:33.320 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? For my lord takeeth away from me the stewardship. 16:33.320 --> 16:41.000 I cannot dig. To beg I am ashamed. I am resolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship 16:41.000 --> 16:46.760 they may receive me into their houses. So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, 16:46.760 --> 16:50.200 and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord? 16:50.800 --> 16:56.920 And he said, In hundred measures of oil, and he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down 16:56.920 --> 16:59.240 quickly and write fifty. 16:59.240 --> 17:03.000 Then said he to another, And how much o'est thou? 17:03.000 --> 17:08.600 And he said, In hundred measures of wheat, and he said unto him, Take thy bill and write 17:08.600 --> 17:09.600 four score. 17:09.600 --> 17:14.600 And the Lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely. 17:14.900 --> 17:20.900 for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. 17:21.860 --> 17:27.300 And I said unto you, make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, 17:27.300 --> 17:33.140 that when he fail, they may receive you into their everlasting habitations. 17:33.140 --> 17:38.020 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much. 17:38.600 --> 17:43.600 And he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 17:43.600 --> 17:47.600 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, 17:47.600 --> 17:51.600 who will commit to you your trust as the true riches? 17:51.600 --> 17:55.600 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, 17:55.600 --> 17:59.600 who shall give you that which is your own? 17:59.800 --> 18:06.320 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or 18:06.320 --> 18:10.280 else he will hold to the one and despise the other. 18:10.280 --> 18:13.080 He cannot serve God and mammon. 18:13.080 --> 18:18.520 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him, 18:18.520 --> 18:25.480 and he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your 18:25.480 --> 18:26.120 hearts. 18:26.600 --> 18:32.440 For that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. 18:32.440 --> 18:38.600 The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God is preached, 18:38.600 --> 18:44.600 and every man presseth into it. And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass 18:45.240 --> 18:47.560 than one tittle of the law to fail. 18:48.300 --> 18:52.300 Whosoever putteth away his wife and marryeth another, 18:52.300 --> 18:58.300 committeth adultery, and whosoever marryeth her that is put away from her husband, 18:58.300 --> 19:05.580 committeth adultery. There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, 19:05.580 --> 19:08.000 and fared sumptuously every day. 19:08.400 --> 19:14.800 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate full of sores, 19:14.800 --> 19:20.400 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. 19:20.400 --> 19:24.080 Moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores. 19:24.080 --> 19:29.720 And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's 19:29.720 --> 19:30.720 bosom. 19:31.300 --> 19:38.100 The rich man also died and was buried, and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, 19:38.100 --> 19:45.460 and seeth Abraham afar off in Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, 19:45.460 --> 19:52.740 have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, 19:52.740 --> 19:58.340 for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, 19:59.000 --> 20:04.360 Remember that thou in thy lifetime receivest thy good things and likewise 20:04.880 --> 20:09.200 Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou are 20:09.720 --> 20:14.800 Tormented and beside all this between us and you there is a great goal fixed 20:15.240 --> 20:18.880 So that they which would pass from hence to you cannot 20:19.520 --> 20:23.600 Neither can they pass to us that would come from thence 20:24.500 --> 20:30.420 Then he said, I pray thee therefore father that thou wouldest send him to my father's house, 20:30.980 --> 20:37.060 for I have five brethren that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of 20:37.060 --> 20:45.780 torment. Abraham said unto him, they have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them. And he said, 20:45.780 --> 20:51.580 And nay, Father Abraham, but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 20:52.000 --> 20:58.400 And he said unto them unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be 20:58.400 --> 21:04.800 persuaded, though one rose from the dead. Let's pray dear heavenly father, thank you God. 21:04.800 --> 21:08.480 For this church, I pray you'll fill brother Jason with your Holy Spirit now and 21:08.480 --> 21:11.700 please give us the ears to hear tonight in Jesus name. Amen. 21:17.800 --> 21:24.800 Alright, we're there in Luke chapter number 16 and if you want to go ahead and turn your Bibles to Deuteronomy chapter number 32. 21:24.800 --> 21:30.800 Deuteronomy chapter number 32, we'll be back in Luke 16 a little bit later in the sermon. 21:30.800 --> 21:35.800 But tonight, since we had such an uplifting sermon this morning... 21:36.700 --> 21:39.500 in John chapter number three. 21:39.500 --> 21:42.300 I wanted to double down on the upliftingness 21:42.300 --> 21:44.100 and preach about everyone's favorite subject, 21:44.100 --> 21:45.700 which is of course hell. 21:45.700 --> 21:52.100 So hell is one of those subjects that every once in a while 21:52.100 --> 21:53.500 you have to preach on it. 21:53.500 --> 21:55.700 Why? Because it's in the Bible. 21:55.700 --> 21:57.900 It's in the Bible a lot. 21:57.900 --> 22:02.500 And there's always a temptation to avoid certain subjects. 22:02.900 --> 22:08.100 And I would say that hell is kind of one of those subjects that people would tend to avoid 22:08.100 --> 22:13.300 because it is such an unpleasant subject and it's not a fun subject to preach about. 22:13.300 --> 22:16.100 It's not a fun subject to talk about. 22:16.100 --> 22:20.000 But it is one of those truths that just needs to be preached over once in a while. 22:20.000 --> 22:24.200 And, you know, we call ourselves fundamental Baptists and we believe the Bible. 22:24.200 --> 22:27.400 And so, you know, we got to preach all subjects in the Bible. 22:27.400 --> 22:30.900 And hell is actually, you know, one of the bigger subjects. 22:30.900 --> 22:37.620 in the Bible. The word hell is used I believe 54 times in the King James Bible. 22:39.620 --> 22:44.820 But you know the word hell is not the only way it's described in the Bible. It's brought up 22:44.820 --> 22:50.020 probably hundreds of different times, you know, without using the specific word hell. 22:50.820 --> 22:56.580 But we're here in Deuteronomy chapter number 32 and this is the first time the word hell is used 22:56.580 --> 22:57.600 in the Bible. 23:01.200 --> 23:04.660 And Deuteronomy chapter number 32 verse number 22 it says 23:05.700 --> 23:13.460 for a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume 23:13.460 --> 23:20.180 the earth with her increased, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains." 23:21.220 --> 23:26.340 And so in tonight's sermon, I want to focus on three different aspects of hell. 23:26.900 --> 23:32.980 And the first aspect that I want to focus in on here is the fact that hell includes fire, right? 23:32.980 --> 23:33.700 And we see here. 23:33.700 --> 23:38.560 Here is part of the description of hell the first time it's used in the Bible. 23:38.560 --> 23:41.140 We see there in the first part of the verse it says, 23:41.140 --> 23:46.060 And she'll burn right unto the lowest hell. 23:46.060 --> 23:49.660 Burning insinuates that there's something that's hot. 23:49.900 --> 23:51.900 you know, something's burning, right? 23:51.900 --> 23:55.260 And what do you say when the forest is burning? 23:55.260 --> 23:57.420 Well, it's a forest fire, right? 23:57.420 --> 24:00.540 And then later, of course, in the verse it says, 24:00.540 --> 24:05.540 and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 24:06.060 --> 24:07.420 You know, and this is very interesting 24:07.420 --> 24:11.020 that this also indicates that the hell would be... 24:11.400 --> 24:16.800 Underneath would be down right because where the foundations of the mountains well, they're underneath of us right underneath our feet 24:16.800 --> 24:18.800 And you know according to science 24:19.160 --> 24:24.760 You know the the the core of the earth is like a it's like a molten iron core 24:25.080 --> 24:27.480 That actually spins and that's what creates 24:28.400 --> 24:35.400 Magnetism on the earth is that spinning molten iron core iron and nickel and some other elements that are that are down there 24:36.200 --> 24:43.200 And that's what creates magnetism and allows us to have compasses. 24:43.200 --> 24:53.200 Because of that spinning metal core. Sorry flat earthers, but hell is proof that the earth is not flat, it's actually round. 24:53.600 --> 25:00.200 But we can see here that the Bible is describing hell as a place of fire. 25:00.200 --> 25:01.800 And there's multiple places. 25:01.800 --> 25:04.400 Go ahead and turn to Matthew, chapter number 25. 25:04.600 --> 25:09.000 I'm gonna read for you Matthew 13, verses number 32, where the Bible reads, 25:09.000 --> 25:12.680 and shall cast them into a furnace of fire. 25:12.680 --> 25:16.280 There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 25:16.280 --> 25:19.720 So once again, we see here a furnace of fire, right? 25:19.720 --> 25:25.000 And then Matthew 25, 41, the Bible reads, 25:25.000 --> 25:28.360 then shall they say also unto them on the left hand, 25:28.800 --> 25:39.200 depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels." 25:39.200 --> 25:46.000 And so we see here multiple times the Bible is describing hell as a place of fire. 25:46.000 --> 25:48.640 And why is hell a place of fire? 25:49.000 --> 25:54.880 Well, because what hell is, it's a place for people to be punished for their sins. 25:54.880 --> 25:59.520 For people that have transgressed God's law, that is the punishment for them. 25:59.520 --> 26:01.040 And you know, fire... 26:01.400 --> 26:06.840 is one of the most, being burned is one of the most painful things people can endure. 26:06.840 --> 26:11.240 You know, if you, if you, if you, if anyone's ever been burned in here, most people have been 26:11.240 --> 26:17.000 burned to one degree or another, you know. And if you get like a blister or whatever and it just 26:17.000 --> 26:21.720 bugs you for days, you know, and eventually it'll start itching and it's just, it's not comfortable. 26:21.720 --> 26:23.240 But, um... 26:23.600 --> 26:26.780 You know, I've been burned at various different times in my life. 26:26.780 --> 26:33.320 I think the most recent time, you know, I was cooking, I was supposed to be smashing beans, 26:33.320 --> 26:35.760 you know, in this, in a frying pan. 26:36.300 --> 26:42.700 And of course, you know, being the new AFV man that I am, I rarely do such things, you know. 26:42.700 --> 26:45.400 I usually am not in the kitchen cooking things. 26:45.400 --> 26:47.800 I'm usually sniffing things in the kitchen, right? 26:47.800 --> 26:50.300 That's usually my job there. 26:50.300 --> 26:56.500 And so, you know, I just, I accidentally turned it to the side and like sloshed the beans, 26:56.500 --> 26:58.400 hot beans up onto my hand. 26:58.600 --> 27:00.100 And I got burned. 27:00.100 --> 27:01.100 I was like, oh! 27:01.100 --> 27:02.020 And it turned red. 27:02.020 --> 27:02.780 It didn't blister up. 27:02.780 --> 27:04.700 It wasn't like a super bad burn or anything. 27:04.700 --> 27:06.040 But it was painful. 27:06.040 --> 27:08.780 It was bugging me for multiple days. 27:08.780 --> 27:11.060 And so anyone who's been burned bad 27:11.060 --> 27:14.700 knows that it's a very painful experience. 27:15.200 --> 27:22.200 And so this is how serious God takes when man has broken his laws. 27:22.200 --> 27:26.200 He has a punishment where you're going to be in fire. 27:26.200 --> 27:30.200 You're going to be in the flames, you're going to be in a furnace of fire. 27:30.200 --> 27:33.200 And people will always say, well, you know... 27:33.600 --> 27:37.600 It's, you know, hell is not really real. 27:37.600 --> 27:41.100 It's just, you know, when the Bible talks about hell, it's just talking about death, 27:41.100 --> 27:43.600 it's just talking about dying and all this stuff. 27:43.600 --> 27:49.600 But it's like, well then why is God describing it in all these different places as a place of fire? 27:49.600 --> 27:52.600 It kind of makes it sound like there's going to be fire there. 27:52.700 --> 27:57.400 Like, there's going to be, I mean, it's describing it as a furnace of fire, you know, 27:57.400 --> 28:04.200 my anger shall burn unto the lowest hell, you know, and it shall consume the earth with their increase 28:04.200 --> 28:09.700 and set on fire the foundations of the mountains, you know, then shall they, you know, 28:09.700 --> 28:16.200 what does it say, Matthew 25, 41, into everlasting fire, prepare for the devil and his angels. 28:16.200 --> 28:19.900 It's like, you know, I think God is describing these things here for a reason. 28:20.200 --> 28:21.920 It's to let us know. 28:21.920 --> 28:27.460 And there's all these heretics out there that want to downplay hell. 28:27.460 --> 28:32.600 And one of the biggest things that people say about hell that's completely false is 28:32.600 --> 28:37.440 they say, well, beware of the people that want to take a picture or paint a picture 28:37.440 --> 28:39.520 of hell for you. 28:39.520 --> 28:46.200 Because all we really know about hell is that it's separation from God. 28:46.200 --> 28:47.600 Where in the world did they get that? 28:47.600 --> 28:49.940 No, hell is a place of fire. 28:49.940 --> 28:52.420 It's not just separation from God. 28:52.420 --> 28:53.880 And in fact, that's not even true at all. 28:53.880 --> 28:55.880 And we've gone over that many times. 28:55.880 --> 28:59.480 It's not even true at all that it's separation from God because they're burned in the presence 28:59.480 --> 29:03.400 of the Lamb and the presence of his angels. 29:03.400 --> 29:05.840 You know, and it's, and guess what? 29:05.840 --> 29:11.480 I mean, the first time hell is mentioned in the Bible, it says, for a fire is killed in 29:11.480 --> 29:12.480 in my anger. 29:13.200 --> 29:16.200 Right? So, I mean, where is the fire coming from? 29:16.200 --> 29:20.840 Well, I believe it's Isaiah 30, 33, he says, 29:20.840 --> 29:23.540 "'For Tofet is ordained of old, yea, for the king it is prepared. 29:23.540 --> 29:27.240 "'He hath made it deep and large, and the power of this fire and much wood, 29:27.240 --> 29:31.320 "'and the breath of the Lord as a stream of brimstone doth kindle it.'" 29:31.320 --> 29:34.620 So where is the fire and brimstone coming from? 29:34.620 --> 29:36.620 It's coming from the Lord, my friend. 29:37.800 --> 29:42.200 And so, no, hell is not separation from God. 29:42.200 --> 29:46.240 Actually, hell is a place of fire. 29:46.240 --> 29:48.740 Go ahead and turn back to Luke chapter number 16. 29:48.740 --> 29:51.440 Luke chapter number 16. 29:51.440 --> 29:55.640 And we actually have a story in the Bible 29:55.640 --> 29:59.920 that Jesus tells of somebody who goes to hell. 29:59.920 --> 30:01.960 And this is probably one of the most famous stories 30:01.960 --> 30:03.300 about hell in the Bible. 30:06.600 --> 30:10.600 is in Luke chapter number 16. We'll start there in verse number 19. It says, 30:11.120 --> 30:17.340 There was a certain rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day, 30:17.760 --> 30:19.760 and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus. 30:20.400 --> 30:26.880 which was laid at his gate full of sores and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell 30:26.880 --> 30:32.160 from the rich man's table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores and it came to pass 30:32.720 --> 30:38.800 that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and 30:38.800 --> 30:43.600 was buried and in hell lifted up his eyes being in torment. 30:44.300 --> 30:47.800 and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 30:47.800 --> 30:52.200 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, 30:52.200 --> 30:56.600 and send Lazarus, that he might dip the tip of his finger in water, 30:56.600 --> 31:02.400 and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame." 31:02.400 --> 31:09.800 So, the Bible says here that the rich man is tormented by being separated from God? 31:09.800 --> 31:10.700 No. 31:10.900 --> 31:15.700 He says he's being tormented by this flame. 31:15.700 --> 31:17.840 And what is flame? 31:17.840 --> 31:21.040 Well, that's another way to say fire, my friend. 31:21.040 --> 31:23.240 And so, you know, and by the way, 31:23.240 --> 31:26.340 we're going to get to this a little bit later in the sermon, 31:26.340 --> 31:30.640 but you notice how the rich man, you know, he's not just burning up. 31:31.200 --> 31:38.400 He's being tormented in the flame and he's having a conversation with Abraham while being tormented in the flame, 31:38.400 --> 31:40.200 which means he's not being burned up. 31:40.200 --> 31:41.000 He's right. 31:41.000 --> 31:41.800 Right? 31:41.800 --> 31:46.400 Because if, I mean, if, you know, if you were just going to get burned up, you know, I don't think you'd be saying much. 31:46.400 --> 31:49.400 You'd just burn up and then that'd be it, right? 31:49.400 --> 31:50.200 You know? 31:50.600 --> 31:55.920 Probably, you know, I don't know how long somebody could survive being completely engulfed in flames, but probably not that long. 31:57.040 --> 32:01.820 Probably not that long. And so we can see here that he's not being burned up. 32:01.820 --> 32:05.660 And we'll get to that. We'll expand on that a little bit later in the sermon. 32:07.260 --> 32:11.880 But it says in verse number 25, it says, but Abraham said, son remember 32:12.700 --> 32:17.460 that thou in thy lifetime received thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things 32:18.500 --> 32:22.260 But now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 32:22.260 --> 32:26.740 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great goal fixed, 32:26.740 --> 32:31.460 so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot, 32:31.460 --> 32:37.220 neither can they pass to us that would come from thence." 32:37.220 --> 32:40.980 So according to the Bible here, it says there's a great goal fixed. 32:40.980 --> 32:42.980 And this is kind of just kind of a bonus point. 32:43.800 --> 32:47.800 And it says that, hey, those that are in hell, they can't pass to Abraham. 32:47.800 --> 32:50.800 Those that are with Abraham cannot pass back to hell. 32:50.800 --> 32:54.800 Which indicates that once somebody's in hell, they can't get out. 32:54.800 --> 32:58.800 So you hear all these people that claim that they've been to hell before. 32:58.800 --> 33:02.800 That they died or whatever and they actually went to hell and all this stuff. 33:02.800 --> 33:04.800 Well, sorry friend, but that's not true. 33:05.100 --> 33:09.740 you know maybe they were tripping on shrooms maybe they had a near-death experience you know maybe 33:09.740 --> 33:15.260 maybe they had a horrible dream or whatever you know but these stories that people you know they 33:15.260 --> 33:19.340 they either they went to hell or they went to heaven you know it is kind of interesting that 33:19.340 --> 33:23.980 nobody's ever been to purgatory and came back and told us all about how purgatory is real 33:24.860 --> 33:30.220 so it's kind of funny I think about that but you know once somebody actually goes to hell 33:31.100 --> 33:37.500 They're there. They're stuck there, and there's no getting out right why because there's a great gulf fixed 33:38.200 --> 33:44.440 And you know, God is not in the business of just having people burn in hell for a little while and then letting them out. 33:44.440 --> 33:50.880 You know, God is not like our modern justice system where you could be like a multi-rapist or whatever, 33:50.880 --> 33:54.880 and they give you like, you know, 10 months and, well, we'll try it again. 33:54.880 --> 33:56.280 We'll give you another try. 33:56.280 --> 34:02.880 That's not how it works with God, where, you know, once somebody is condemned in hell, they are there. 34:03.200 --> 34:10.400 forever. They're not getting out. Nobody's getting out. So any of these people that have claimed that they've actually gone to hell, 34:12.160 --> 34:13.280 they're liars. 34:13.280 --> 34:20.580 They're either they're liars or they just hallucinated hard enough to where they actually think what they actually experienced helped. 34:21.000 --> 34:26.360 Maybe there's people out there that are like that, but they did not actually go there. 34:26.360 --> 34:29.480 That's fake news, those are fake stories. 34:29.480 --> 34:33.560 And you shouldn't be getting your doctrine from people that are claiming anything like that. 34:33.560 --> 34:36.440 Get your doctrine straight from the Bible. 34:36.440 --> 34:40.320 Alright, let's see here, verse number 27, it says, 34:40.320 --> 34:44.680 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, Father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house, 34:44.680 --> 34:46.000 where I have five brethren. 34:46.400 --> 34:48.160 that He may testify unto them, 34:48.160 --> 34:51.400 lest they also come into this place of torment. 34:51.400 --> 34:52.900 Abraham said unto him, 34:52.900 --> 34:54.800 They have Moses and the prophets, 34:54.800 --> 34:56.360 let them hear them. 34:56.360 --> 34:57.400 And they said, Nay, 34:57.400 --> 34:59.100 He said, Nay, Father Abraham. 34:59.100 --> 35:01.840 But if one went unto them from the dead, 35:01.840 --> 35:03.040 they will repent. 35:03.300 --> 35:09.140 And he said unto them, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded 35:09.140 --> 35:12.540 though one rose from the dead." 35:12.540 --> 35:16.340 You know, and I was thinking before the service started that these verses here, they do kind 35:16.340 --> 35:18.700 of expose Pentecostalism. 35:18.700 --> 35:21.100 Because what's Pentecostalism all about? 35:21.100 --> 35:24.060 Having these miracles, having these special healings, you know. 35:24.060 --> 35:27.900 And if you find wild enough ones, they'll even claim to be reviving people from the 35:27.900 --> 35:28.400 the dead. 35:29.000 --> 35:35.800 But at the end of the day though, that's not the way God is getting people saved. 35:36.300 --> 35:41.660 You know, you had a short time during the New Testament, we see in the book of Acts, 35:41.660 --> 35:47.260 where God is having Peter and various of the apostles doing certain miracles, right? 35:47.260 --> 35:52.300 You know, you have the apostle Paul, you know, he's bitten by a snake and he didn't die. 35:52.300 --> 35:57.660 He didn't get sick. He just shook it off and continued doing what he was doing as if nothing had happened. 35:57.900 --> 36:05.900 Right? And so you have various miracles like this in the book of Acts, but you know, we've all read, you know, 1 Corinthians 13. 36:05.900 --> 36:09.900 I don't know. I can't keep track how many times, but quite a few times. 36:09.900 --> 36:12.900 But it says, you know, hey, miracles they shall cease, right? 36:12.900 --> 36:18.900 And so, you know, at the end of the day, we have Moses and the prophets, don't we? 36:18.900 --> 36:22.900 That's how people are going to get saved. They're going to get saved through Moses and the prophets. 36:22.900 --> 36:24.900 And guess what? You know... 36:25.200 --> 36:27.600 People aren't going to be persuaded, 36:27.600 --> 36:30.400 if somebody's performed miracles 36:30.400 --> 36:32.400 or even raising people from the dead, 36:32.400 --> 36:34.800 they're not going to be persuaded because of that. 36:34.800 --> 36:36.800 Because if they're going to reject 36:36.800 --> 36:38.500 the very words of Christ, 36:38.500 --> 36:40.200 they're going to reject the Word of God, 36:40.200 --> 36:42.300 they're also going to find a way to reject 36:42.300 --> 36:44.600 somebody's miracles. 36:44.900 --> 36:47.500 And so this also exposes dispensationalism. 36:47.500 --> 36:49.800 You know, you can't get enough of exposing dispensationalism. 36:49.800 --> 36:53.600 Because they say that all the Jews are just going to magically get saved in the end times, right? 36:53.600 --> 36:55.200 But guess what? What did Jesus say? 36:55.200 --> 36:56.600 He said, guess what? 36:56.600 --> 36:59.200 You know, though one roasts in the dead, they're not going to be persuaded. 36:59.200 --> 37:01.100 They need Moses and the prophets. 37:01.100 --> 37:03.000 They need the Word of God in order to get saved. 37:03.000 --> 37:04.900 And guess what the Jews have right now? 37:05.700 --> 37:07.700 They've got the completed Word of God right here. 37:07.700 --> 37:08.700 It can be preached to them. 37:08.700 --> 37:10.700 They can open up and read it anytime they want. 37:10.700 --> 37:13.700 They can go on the internet and type in, 37:13.700 --> 37:15.700 Baptist preaching, Baptist Bible way to heaven, 37:15.700 --> 37:18.700 anytime they want, and they can hear that. 37:18.700 --> 37:20.700 But they're waiting for a miracle in the end times. 37:20.700 --> 37:22.700 They're waiting for Jesus to return 37:22.700 --> 37:25.700 and show that He did rise from the dead. 37:25.700 --> 37:27.700 But they're not going to be persuaded, though, 37:27.700 --> 37:29.700 one who rose from the dead, because guess what? 37:29.700 --> 37:30.700 He already did. 37:30.700 --> 37:31.700 And guess what? 37:31.700 --> 37:33.100 what you know Jesus 37:33.500 --> 37:40.540 You know, I believe, you know, you got Luke 16 here, you got a guy named Lazarus, you know, 37:40.540 --> 37:47.180 dying and going and being in Abraham's bosom, right? But then you have John 11, where another 37:47.180 --> 37:53.260 guy named Lazarus is literally raised from the dead. And what's the reaction of the Jews to that? 37:53.260 --> 37:55.980 They want to kill Jesus. They want to kill him. 37:57.000 --> 38:02.000 So guess what? They're not going to be persuaded though he was risen from the dead. 38:02.000 --> 38:07.000 Why? Because there was literally a guy named Lazarus who actually got rose from the dead 38:07.000 --> 38:13.000 three days afterwards or four days actually and they just made it worse. 38:13.000 --> 38:17.000 It's like what in the world? What is wrong with you people? 38:17.000 --> 38:19.000 I mean he was dead for four days! 38:19.300 --> 38:24.300 Four days he was in that tomb and Jesus came and rose him up, performed an amazing miracle. 38:24.300 --> 38:27.300 And you're just like, you know, the Jews are just like, kill him. 38:27.300 --> 38:32.300 It's like, you know, that's why Luke 16 is here though. 38:32.300 --> 38:39.300 It's like this is what you get for, you know, just rejecting Jesus out of hand. 38:39.300 --> 38:43.300 Right? Let's see, where were we? Did we finish the chapter already or? 38:43.300 --> 38:45.000 I can't even remember where I'm at there. 38:45.200 --> 38:53.200 Finish the chapter. Yeah. So, you know, so this is the most famous chapter about hell. 38:53.200 --> 39:01.200 And, you know, what does it include? It includes fire, right? Fire and torment. 39:01.200 --> 39:05.200 And so hell is, once again, it's a place of fire. 39:05.400 --> 39:10.120 And one other thing that I was kind of thinking of about Luke 16 is it's if you squint, right, 39:10.120 --> 39:14.040 if you squint hard enough, it kind of, it is kind of a picture of replacement theology, right, 39:14.040 --> 39:18.680 because the rich man would kind of represent the Jews, right, because what do the Jews always have? 39:19.100 --> 39:20.100 A lot of money. 39:20.100 --> 39:26.020 You know, and spiritually like the rest of us, you know, all of our tax money is going 39:26.020 --> 39:30.200 to the Jews, you know, and you know, we're like the poor beggars, you know, just trying 39:30.200 --> 39:35.220 to scrape by, you know, and all the Jews are just getting all the money and living sumptuously 39:35.220 --> 39:37.620 and, you know, partying every day and all this stuff. 39:37.620 --> 39:39.300 But where do they go when they die? 39:39.300 --> 39:43.840 Well, Jews go to hell, you know, and unless they believe on Jesus Christ, and then they 39:43.840 --> 39:46.840 transform from being a Jew into being a Christian. 39:47.100 --> 39:49.700 And so they're no longer a Jew at that point. 39:49.700 --> 39:51.480 And so anyway, I just, I don't know. 39:51.480 --> 39:53.080 It's not like a perfect picture or anything. 39:53.080 --> 39:55.480 Don't quote me on it, you know? 39:55.480 --> 39:57.360 But it's kind of a picture there. 39:57.360 --> 39:58.560 All right, but moving on. 39:58.560 --> 40:01.600 So my first point is that hell's a place of fire. 40:02.920 --> 40:05.120 Go ahead and turn to Matthew chapter number eight. 40:05.120 --> 40:06.400 Matthew chapter number eight. 40:12.100 --> 40:16.860 Matthew chapter number 8 verse number 11 it says, 40:18.600 --> 40:21.840 that many shall come from the east and west, 40:21.840 --> 40:26.040 and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 40:26.040 --> 40:29.120 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out 40:29.120 --> 40:32.440 into outer darkness, and there shall be weeping 40:32.440 --> 40:36.440 and gnashing of teeth." Now this is not a picture 40:36.440 --> 40:40.700 of replacement theology, this is just straight up replacement theology right there. 40:41.100 --> 40:44.040 But once again, I want you to notice that he says, 40:44.040 --> 40:45.040 hey, but the children of the kingdom 40:45.040 --> 40:48.740 shall be cast into outer darkness. 40:48.740 --> 40:49.580 Amen. 40:49.580 --> 40:52.440 And so my second point here is that hell 40:52.440 --> 40:55.620 is a place of darkness. 40:56.200 --> 41:01.880 eternal darkness. 2nd Peter chapter number 2 verse number 17 it says these 41:01.880 --> 41:07.000 are wells without water clouds that are carried with the tempest to whom the 41:07.000 --> 41:11.320 mist of darkness is reserved forever and ever. So once again we have another 41:11.320 --> 41:17.400 descriptor of hell being a place of darkness. Jude 1 13 says raging waves of 41:17.400 --> 41:21.880 the sea foaming out their own shame wandering stars to whom is reserved the 41:21.880 --> 41:24.200 blackness of darkness. 41:24.200 --> 41:27.120 forever. And so according to the Bible here, 41:27.120 --> 41:30.800 hell is a place of darkness. 41:30.800 --> 41:35.480 Now, you know, darkness is something, you know, when you're a little kid, 41:35.480 --> 41:39.160 you know, it's a lot of things, it's something that a lot of children are 41:39.160 --> 41:43.320 afraid of, right? They don't like the dark. It is kind of interesting because, you know, 41:43.320 --> 41:45.480 like a little baby, like a one-year-old, 41:45.480 --> 41:47.500 you don't really care. 41:48.000 --> 41:52.300 They're just going to go to sleep, they're in a dark room, sometimes you have a nightlight, 41:52.300 --> 41:54.300 but if you don't, it's not a big deal. 41:54.300 --> 41:58.860 But once they get like two years old, three years old, it's like all of a sudden the darkness 41:58.860 --> 41:59.860 is just scary. 41:59.860 --> 42:03.380 And they don't want to be in the dark by themselves. 42:03.380 --> 42:07.300 But as you get older, you kind of get over it, unless you're like walking in the woods 42:07.300 --> 42:08.860 in the dark or something by yourself. 42:09.300 --> 42:14.300 You know, it's like, eugh, you know, all of a sudden all these things are coming into your mind. 42:14.300 --> 42:19.300 You're just like picturing these just bizarre things happening to yourself or whatever in the woods. 42:19.300 --> 42:24.300 You know, or if you're in a dark building or in a dark room. 42:24.300 --> 42:29.200 There's this building downtown that I used to work for. 42:29.700 --> 42:30.700 What am I even saying? 42:30.700 --> 42:35.260 At the company that I used to work for, we would go to this building downtown. 42:35.260 --> 42:41.420 It was a nine-story building that had, on average, about seven people in it because 42:41.420 --> 42:47.980 they had gotten rid of all the desks, you know, and it turned half of it into servers, 42:47.980 --> 42:48.980 right? 42:48.980 --> 42:53.580 All these AT&T servers, and then there were a bunch of like battery rooms, backup battery 42:53.580 --> 42:54.580 rooms and all. 42:54.580 --> 42:57.340 So it's this massive building with nobody in it. 42:57.600 --> 43:04.600 And every once in a while we'd have to go out there at night for whatever reason, because something broke and we had to go fix it. 43:04.600 --> 43:16.400 And to be honest, it's kind of a creepy place. Why? Because it's completely dark, you're wandering around there with a flashlight, and it's just a weird feeling. 43:16.500 --> 43:21.380 Right? It's a, you know, I never enjoyed just being there at night by myself. 43:21.380 --> 43:28.380 It's just, it's weird, right? And so there's something innate within us that tells us darkness is bad. 43:29.100 --> 43:33.900 You know, every shadow is like something horrible is going to get you, right? 43:33.900 --> 43:38.780 And so, you know, and people have varying degrees of fear of darkness, right? 43:38.780 --> 43:42.780 You know, and again, you kind of get over it when you get older, but, you know, 43:42.780 --> 43:46.060 there's still kind of that like, ugh, feeling. 43:47.180 --> 43:50.300 But there's an innate fear that people have in darkness. 43:50.300 --> 43:51.660 Well, if you were... 43:52.400 --> 43:59.320 If you were to go to a place that is completely black, there's no light there at all, that, 43:59.320 --> 44:03.040 in my opinion, would be a horrifying experience, especially if you're there for a prolonged 44:03.040 --> 44:04.040 period of time. 44:04.040 --> 44:09.160 Because, you know, I mean, if you ever are up in the middle of the night, you know, and 44:09.160 --> 44:10.600 you're wandering around in your bedroom... 44:11.500 --> 44:17.380 It's never very fun because you think you're in one spot, but you're not. 44:17.380 --> 44:23.460 You reach out, you think you're going to get your nightstand and you miss, and it's not there. 44:23.460 --> 44:26.300 And then there's something on the nightstand that is not supposed to be there. 44:26.300 --> 44:30.020 If you're sitting the glass down on the nightstand, there's always something that you hit on the edge, 44:30.020 --> 44:31.900 and it tips over every time. 44:31.900 --> 44:38.660 And so you lose all... you just don't know where you are, and you don't know where you're going. 44:38.660 --> 44:39.500 and it's never a good 44:39.500 --> 44:44.900 feeling and so you know being in hell with the blackness of darkness forever 44:44.900 --> 44:50.460 that would be a horrible feeling not good I mean especially when you when 44:50.460 --> 44:53.260 you're up at night you want some light on you want to be able to see something 44:53.260 --> 44:59.660 and so you know if this is going on for a long period of time you know you're 44:59.660 --> 45:01.100 gonna start freaking out 45:01.200 --> 45:08.000 Right? And so the blackness, the darkness of hell is something that is not to be traveled with. 45:08.000 --> 45:14.200 It's not, it's something that would be horrible to be in just darkness forever, to never actually see. 45:14.200 --> 45:18.900 I mean, imagine not being able to see anything ever again. 45:18.900 --> 45:24.300 You're just in darkness, complete total blackness and darkness forever. 45:24.300 --> 45:26.100 That would be horrible. 45:26.100 --> 45:28.100 This is a horrifying... 45:28.400 --> 45:32.140 seeing that the Bible is picturing for us. 45:32.140 --> 45:33.960 The fact that there's gonna be people 45:33.960 --> 45:36.720 that are in blackness and darkness for all of eternity. 45:36.720 --> 45:37.560 Not fun. 45:38.800 --> 45:39.680 Let's see here. 45:39.680 --> 45:41.160 So that's kinda my second point. 45:41.160 --> 45:43.120 That's gonna be kind of a bit of a shorter point 45:43.120 --> 45:46.400 is the fact that hell is a place of darkness. 45:46.400 --> 45:48.720 There's no light there. 45:48.720 --> 45:52.120 Go ahead and turn to 2 Thessalonians chapter number one. 45:53.840 --> 45:55.440 2 Thessalonians chapter one. 46:00.200 --> 46:02.600 2 Thessalonians chapter number 1 verse number 8 it says, 46:02.600 --> 46:06.840 In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, 46:06.840 --> 46:09.960 and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, 46:09.960 --> 46:14.680 who shall be punished with everlasting destruction 46:14.680 --> 46:18.680 from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, 46:18.680 --> 46:22.100 which he shall come to be glorified in his in his saints. 46:22.200 --> 46:25.600 and to be admired in all them that believe, 46:25.600 --> 46:29.960 because our testimony among you was believed in that day." 46:29.960 --> 46:33.000 So notice the verse 9 there says, 46:33.000 --> 46:36.560 who shall be punished with everlasting destructions. 46:36.560 --> 46:38.360 And the third point of my sermon tonight is, 46:38.360 --> 46:41.400 hell is a place of everlasting destruction, 46:41.400 --> 46:44.520 meaning hell lasts forever. 46:45.640 --> 46:49.160 And this is one subject that 46:49.800 --> 46:54.200 probably gets the most pushback from people that don't believe the Bible. 46:54.200 --> 46:57.640 Because they don't want to believe in a hell that lasts forever. 46:57.640 --> 47:01.800 Because, you know, fire, being burned in fire is horrible. 47:01.800 --> 47:06.200 Terrible. Being in blackness and darkness forever is horrible and terrible. 47:06.200 --> 47:12.040 Right? But the worst part about hell, by far, is the fact that it lasts forever. 47:12.680 --> 47:16.040 Never ends. That's the worst part. By far. 47:17.000 --> 47:19.320 And it's the most uncomfortable part. 47:19.320 --> 47:22.360 And it's something that I think about from time to time, 47:22.360 --> 47:24.680 is the fact that hell is forever. 47:24.680 --> 47:27.640 And you kind of think about how long that is. 47:27.640 --> 47:31.040 And I kind of think about different ways to picture that. 47:31.040 --> 47:33.880 But in reality, there's no way for us to picture it. 47:33.880 --> 47:36.280 Because it's eternal, it's infinity. 47:36.280 --> 47:39.920 So it's this un-comprehendable amount of time. 47:40.300 --> 47:47.300 that, you know, it's what makes it so bad is that it will never end. 47:47.300 --> 47:55.300 And, you know, again, this is what makes preaching about hell largely uncomfortable, largely unenjoyable. 47:55.300 --> 47:58.300 Thinking about it is not that fun, right? 47:58.300 --> 48:05.100 It's because we know that when people go there, they're there like the rich man for... 48:05.200 --> 48:10.400 ever. And so, you know, there are many people, many different denominations. You know, we 48:10.400 --> 48:16.640 think of the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Seventh-day Adventists, and various other groups that say 48:16.640 --> 48:22.000 that hell does not last forever. They basically, they believe, you know, that people will burn up 48:22.000 --> 48:26.880 and then they're just kind of gone forever. But, you know, if you read through the Bible, 48:28.320 --> 48:30.480 that is not a conclusion you could ever come to. 48:31.500 --> 48:38.000 and they have to jump through all kinds of strange hoops and do all kinds of mental gymnastics to say 48:38.000 --> 48:42.800 that hell does not last forever, even though the Bible says it multiple times. 48:42.800 --> 48:47.800 And you know, I counted, when I wrote, I actually wrote this sermon last Saturday, 48:47.800 --> 48:54.300 but when I wrote it, I can't remember how many verses, but you know, even in the verses I had for other points, 48:54.300 --> 48:56.800 for the fact that it's fire and the fact that it's darkness, 48:56.800 --> 48:59.500 they make the point that it's everlasting fire and then it's everlasting... 48:59.500 --> 49:05.740 darkness, right? And so, you know, the Bible says many, many, many times in 49:05.740 --> 49:10.720 different ways that it lasts forever. Okay, and this is my first example. It 49:10.720 --> 49:15.360 says, you know, that it's an everlasting destruction, meaning the 49:15.360 --> 49:19.320 destruction lasts forever. You see, somebody who goes to hell, they're being 49:19.320 --> 49:25.700 destroyed, but it's an everlasting destruction. The destruction lasts forever. 49:26.400 --> 49:29.400 It's kind of like the burning bush with Moses. 49:29.400 --> 49:33.400 It was on fire, but it was not consumed. 49:33.400 --> 49:37.400 The bush never went away, but yet it was on fire. 49:37.400 --> 49:45.400 And so people are going to be destroyed in hell, but it's an everlasting destruction. 49:45.400 --> 49:48.400 They will never be fully destroyed. 49:48.400 --> 49:52.300 Because why? Well, because it's everlasting. It doesn't end. 49:52.900 --> 49:56.900 If the destruction ended and they were fully destroyed, then this verse would not be true, 49:56.900 --> 50:02.180 and God would be a liar, and God is not a liar. And so it's an everlasting destruction. 50:02.180 --> 50:06.180 Go ahead and turn to Mark chapter number nine. Mark chapter number nine. 50:13.100 --> 50:17.660 You gotta have a lot of water when you're preaching about hell so you don't overheat. 50:17.660 --> 50:21.340 Mark chapter number 9 verse number 43 it says, 50:21.340 --> 50:27.180 If thy and if thy hand offend thee, cut it off, it is better for thee than to enter into. 50:27.400 --> 50:31.760 Life is better for thee to enter into life maimed than having two hands to go into hell 50:32.280 --> 50:39.520 Into fire that never shall be quenched. So notice that the Bible says that the fire shall never be quenched 50:39.520 --> 50:44.880 It says where there worm dith not and there and the fire is not quenched 50:45.900 --> 50:50.260 Now, you know, people can have different discussions on what the worm is. 50:50.260 --> 50:54.660 People, you know, some people say it's a body, or your body. 50:54.660 --> 50:58.900 Other people say, well, it's actually a worm that like does stuff to you or whatever. 50:58.900 --> 50:59.900 I don't know. 50:59.900 --> 51:01.640 I don't really care, honestly. 51:01.640 --> 51:05.500 I don't plan on finding out exactly what it is, you know. 51:05.500 --> 51:08.180 I'm never going to know what that's like, if you like, or anything like that. 51:08.600 --> 51:11.160 So it's a worm, but it doesn't die. 51:11.160 --> 51:14.680 Whatever this worm is, it dith not, right? 51:14.680 --> 51:17.680 And the fire is not quenched. 51:17.680 --> 51:19.180 Verse number 45, it says, 51:19.180 --> 51:20.980 and if thy foot offend thee, cut it off, 51:20.980 --> 51:24.080 it is better for thee to enter halt into life 51:24.080 --> 51:26.920 than having two feet to be cast into hell, 51:26.920 --> 51:29.760 into the fire that never shall be quenched. 51:30.600 --> 51:34.300 where there worm dith not and the fire is not quenched. 51:34.300 --> 51:36.700 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out. 51:36.700 --> 51:39.900 It is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God 51:39.900 --> 51:45.000 with one eye than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire, 51:45.000 --> 51:51.100 where there worm dith not and the fire is not quenched." 51:51.100 --> 51:54.500 And so we have many multiple times here, 51:54.500 --> 51:57.300 the Bible is saying that it's... 51:57.500 --> 52:04.500 Right? The worm dith not and the fire shall not be quenched multiple times. 52:04.500 --> 52:10.500 Right? Why is the Bible telling us so many different times that the fire shall not be quenched? 52:10.500 --> 52:14.000 And here's what people will say that don't want to believe the Bible. 52:14.000 --> 52:19.000 They'll say, well, you see, what happens is that people go to hell, they go into the furnace of fire, 52:19.000 --> 52:22.800 they're burned up, and then they no longer exist. 52:22.900 --> 52:26.140 But the fire just kind of keeps on burning. 52:26.140 --> 52:28.940 The fire never shall be quenched. 52:28.940 --> 52:32.900 Which means they're gone, but the fire is just still there. 52:32.900 --> 52:36.460 It's kind of like a ghost flame serving no purpose at all, 52:36.460 --> 52:38.300 just burning forever and ever. 52:38.400 --> 52:43.800 It's like, okay, I don't think that's what God is trying to communicate. 52:43.800 --> 52:46.400 I mean, why is God just so interested in letting us know, 52:46.400 --> 52:49.400 hey, there's this fire that's burning. 52:49.400 --> 52:53.800 While you're in heaven, there's just going to be this random fire just kind of burning, 52:53.800 --> 52:55.800 and it's never going to be quenched. 52:55.800 --> 52:59.500 There were people in the fire at one point, but they're gone because, you know, 52:59.500 --> 53:02.900 God's not cruel and He's not unjust. 53:02.900 --> 53:05.800 But the fire is just going to kind of be burning there. 53:06.400 --> 53:11.180 And by the way, you know what what you know, why is this such a big deal is because when people are saying 53:12.180 --> 53:17.540 That hell doesn't actually last forever that people just burn up in hell and they're gone 53:18.660 --> 53:20.940 They're actually calling God an unjust God 53:21.860 --> 53:28.100 Because they are actually going to burn forever and they're claiming that God would be unjust for making people burn forever 53:28.380 --> 53:30.380 So they're blaspheming God 53:31.100 --> 53:36.500 They're blaspheming his name, they're blaspheming his word by calling him an unjust God. 53:36.500 --> 53:38.500 But God is perfectly just. 53:38.500 --> 53:40.300 And you know what? 53:40.300 --> 53:44.800 To all those people that are like, oh you know, God's unjust for sending people to hell forever, 53:44.800 --> 53:48.100 well guess what? God actually went to hell. 53:48.100 --> 53:52.600 And so he's not making anybody do something that he actually hasn't done himself. 53:53.000 --> 53:59.400 Because he actually went there and he suffered in hell and he actually suffered the amount of suffering 53:59.400 --> 54:04.200 that would be equal for us to pay for, for him to pay for all of our sins. 54:04.200 --> 54:09.880 Which is an insane, it's insane. If you actually think about it, that's insane. 54:09.880 --> 54:16.280 I mean the incredible love that Christ had for us to actually suffer that punishment in hell for us. 54:16.500 --> 54:24.500 the eternal darkness, the fire, the excruciating pain and suffering that he felt in hell, 54:24.500 --> 54:29.300 for us, for people to just call him unjust. 54:29.700 --> 54:33.100 and say He's an unjust God because the punishment is too much. 54:33.100 --> 54:34.500 Well, guess what? 54:34.500 --> 54:37.300 That's why hell is reserved for those people. 54:37.300 --> 54:40.000 I mean, they can pretend that it's not forever all they want, 54:40.000 --> 54:42.200 but if they reject Jesus Christ 54:42.200 --> 54:43.800 and they say that He's not God, 54:43.800 --> 54:47.900 or try to pay for their own salvation by rejecting the free gift, 54:47.900 --> 54:49.700 that's where they're going to go. 54:49.700 --> 54:51.800 And it doesn't matter what they believe. 54:51.800 --> 54:54.100 You know, there's that saying that says, 54:54.100 --> 54:56.900 you know, hey, God doesn't believe in atheists. 54:57.600 --> 55:01.140 It doesn't matter what the atheist thinks. 55:01.140 --> 55:05.560 God doesn't believe in an atheist because he's real anyway, whether they believe it 55:05.560 --> 55:07.600 or not. 55:07.600 --> 55:09.360 And it's the same thing with hell. 55:09.360 --> 55:12.620 It doesn't matter what the scoffers say. 55:12.620 --> 55:14.920 It's a real place and it does last forever. 55:17.800 --> 55:22.300 Matthew, let's see here, Matthew 25, 46, the Bible reads, 55:22.300 --> 55:25.400 and these shall go away into everlasting punishment, 55:25.400 --> 55:29.000 but the righteous into life eternal. 55:29.800 --> 55:32.040 Jude 1-7, it says, 55:32.040 --> 55:33.640 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, 55:33.640 --> 55:35.440 and the cities about them in like manner, 55:35.440 --> 55:37.140 giving themselves over to fornication, 55:37.140 --> 55:39.800 and going after strange flesh, 55:39.800 --> 55:42.000 are set forth for an example, 55:42.000 --> 55:47.280 suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 55:47.280 --> 55:49.160 So according to the Bible here, 55:49.160 --> 55:50.800 Sodom and Gomorrah, 55:50.900 --> 55:53.140 which is Homo Town by the way. 55:53.140 --> 55:56.700 You know, it's June, I don't observe Pride Month. 55:56.700 --> 55:59.860 You know, I'm against the queers, I'm against the homos, 55:59.860 --> 56:01.940 and so I don't observe Pride Month. 56:01.940 --> 56:03.940 But, you know, because it is June, 56:03.940 --> 56:06.260 I will read from the book of Jude, 56:06.260 --> 56:07.980 which is a great chapter of the Bible, 56:07.980 --> 56:10.860 and point out the fact that those that are sodomites 56:10.860 --> 56:14.340 are going to suffer the vengeance of eternal fire. 56:14.340 --> 56:14.900 Yep. 56:15.400 --> 56:18.600 And guess what? They're going to be there forever. 56:18.600 --> 56:22.760 You know, otherwise, you know, why would God say, hey, they're going to suffer the example of, 56:24.200 --> 56:29.400 they're going to suffer vengeance of eternal fire. Why would he say that unless it actually lasted 56:29.400 --> 56:34.040 forever? What would be the point of saying that? What's he trying to communicate there? 56:34.040 --> 56:38.840 If it, I mean, if God were just going to burn people up and they were just going to disappear 56:38.840 --> 56:42.200 and they weren't going to be here anymore, why would God be using this kind of language? 56:43.500 --> 56:46.940 If that's true, God is a horrible communicator. 56:46.940 --> 56:49.740 He couldn't just tell us anywhere in the Bible 56:49.740 --> 56:52.220 that they're just gonna burn up and it's over, 56:52.220 --> 56:55.300 and it's not gonna be conscience suffering forever. 56:55.300 --> 56:57.580 He could have anywhere, he could have said that. 56:57.580 --> 57:01.140 But yet he didn't, and he just uses this eternal language 57:01.140 --> 57:03.260 over and over and over and over again. 57:03.260 --> 57:06.940 It's like, if you can believe that hell is not eternal, 57:06.940 --> 57:08.180 then guess what? 57:08.180 --> 57:10.620 You could also believe that heaven's not eternal. 57:11.200 --> 57:14.240 Hell, or heaven is going to be a temporary thing. 57:14.240 --> 57:18.080 It's not, you know, it's just a, you know, you're going to be there for a few minutes. 57:18.080 --> 57:20.480 You're going to be in the glory and the presence of the Lord. 57:20.480 --> 57:22.720 You're going to be happy for about 10 minutes. 57:22.720 --> 57:24.720 And after that, you're just gone. 57:24.720 --> 57:26.000 Disappear. 57:26.000 --> 57:27.120 Gone forever. 57:27.120 --> 57:28.800 It's like, what in the world? 57:30.320 --> 57:32.160 I mean, we have everlasting life. 57:32.160 --> 57:35.520 I mean, don't we believe the Bible when it says we're going to have everlasting life? 57:35.520 --> 57:38.400 eternal life, life that never ends. 57:39.000 --> 57:42.700 But we can't believe the opposite when the Bible says it's eternal hellfire, 57:42.700 --> 57:45.960 the vengeance of eternal fire. 57:45.960 --> 57:48.800 No, that's actually not eternal. 57:48.800 --> 57:51.800 It's actually just the fire. 57:51.800 --> 57:54.660 It's just the eternal barbecue. 57:54.660 --> 57:58.760 It's like, okay, all right. 57:58.760 --> 58:03.560 You know, at some point, there's not a lot you can do to help these people. 58:03.900 --> 58:06.500 It's like you either believe the Bible or you don't. 58:06.500 --> 58:10.100 And if you don't believe the Bible, then just put it down and stop reading it. 58:10.100 --> 58:12.700 Quit lying to people claiming that you're a Bible believer. 58:12.700 --> 58:15.100 Just tell people that I don't believe the Bible, 58:15.100 --> 58:18.700 I just made up my own religion and I go with whatever I think. 58:18.700 --> 58:21.700 Right? Because the Bible is so clear. 58:22.600 --> 58:27.560 Revelation 20 10 it says, and the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and 58:27.560 --> 58:35.160 brimstone with the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever and 58:35.160 --> 58:41.800 ever. Right? And notice this, this is another torpedo in the, in the burn up theory. It says, 58:41.800 --> 58:46.760 because where the beast and the false prophet are. So did they burn up? 58:48.000 --> 58:55.000 No. And guess what? How long would it take for somebody to burn up before they were gone? 58:55.000 --> 59:03.000 If you just chuck somebody into a big old furnace of fire, how long would it take? 59:03.000 --> 59:10.000 Not too long. Maybe two minutes, right? Who knows? Maybe a minute. 59:14.600 --> 59:17.540 We're not going there brother ready. 59:17.540 --> 59:22.640 Not long, right, before they're gone and they're no longer alive, they're burned up. 59:22.640 --> 59:30.880 Right? But, you know, in Revelation 20, 10, you know, this is basically, this is after the millennial reign. 59:30.880 --> 59:37.560 Right? And so the beast and the false prophet, they're thrown into the lake of fire at the beginning of the millennial reign. 59:37.560 --> 59:40.560 And then we're getting a description of... 59:40.600 --> 59:46.600 of people being cast in the lake of fire, which is after the millennial reign, right? 59:46.600 --> 59:49.600 And so they've been there for a thousand years. 59:49.600 --> 59:57.600 You know, I've cooked a lot of meat, you know, I've burned a few things on the cooker before, 59:57.600 --> 01:00:03.200 you know, and you know, it doesn't take a thousand years usually to burn something to where it's gone. 01:00:03.800 --> 01:00:09.580 You know, it's like, you leave it on, if you leave the meat, if you leave the steak on 01:00:09.580 --> 01:00:13.260 the cooker for about five minutes too long, it's pretty crispy. 01:00:13.260 --> 01:00:14.260 Right? 01:00:14.260 --> 01:00:15.260 It's pretty black. 01:00:15.260 --> 01:00:17.940 You know, not a lot of good meat left. 01:00:17.940 --> 01:00:20.860 It doesn't take a thousand years. 01:00:20.860 --> 01:00:25.900 You know, it's so, it seems like they're not just burning up and going away. 01:00:25.900 --> 01:00:28.600 It seems like they're still there after. 01:00:28.900 --> 01:00:35.220 a thousand years, right? And so, you know, once again, this is a clear cut. 01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:42.120 example of hell lasting forever. Revelation 14 10 it says the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without 01:00:42.120 --> 01:00:49.400 mixture into the cup of his indignation and should be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the 01:00:49.400 --> 01:00:59.080 presence of the lamb and the smoke of their torment ascended up forever and ever and they have no rest day or night who worship the beast. 01:00:59.600 --> 01:01:07.920 and his image and whosoever received the mark of his name. So, you know, once again, this is 01:01:07.920 --> 01:01:14.480 probably, I would say, the most powerful verse because, I don't know, it says it multiple ways, 01:01:15.120 --> 01:01:19.920 multiple times in this one verse. You know, it says the smoke of their torment is ascending 01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:24.480 up forever and ever, right? So it's like, okay, well, it's just the smoke though. 01:01:25.200 --> 01:01:26.880 Yeah, but it's the smoke of their torment. 01:01:27.400 --> 01:01:35.400 So it's like, I mean, I guess the torment is just there forever and it's like producing smoke or something. 01:01:35.400 --> 01:01:39.400 I don't know. What in the world is going on here? 01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:42.400 And they should have no rest day or night. 01:01:42.400 --> 01:01:46.400 So there's day and night going by and yet there's no rest. 01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:51.400 So it's like, okay, well how many of these day-night cycles are they experiencing before they're burned up? 01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:53.400 Can you give me like a hard number? 01:01:53.900 --> 01:01:58.580 I mean, it's like, you know, otherwise you're just making up your own stuff. 01:01:58.580 --> 01:02:08.580 So, you know, again, the Bible is extremely clear that those who go to hell will be there forever. 01:02:08.580 --> 01:02:16.100 And the fact that, you know, Luke chapter number 16 said, hey look, you know, he's having a conversation with the rich man. 01:02:16.100 --> 01:02:21.500 And he's telling him, you can't get out. You know, you can't come. 01:02:21.800 --> 01:02:24.040 here and Lazarus can't go there, 01:02:24.040 --> 01:02:28.400 not even to just get one drip of water to drip on your tongue. 01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:32.840 You know, not even the slightest request can be granted in hell. 01:02:32.840 --> 01:02:35.920 Why? Because he is there forever. 01:02:35.920 --> 01:02:36.600 Right? 01:02:36.600 --> 01:02:38.720 And you know, the fact, I was thinking about this too, 01:02:38.720 --> 01:02:43.080 the fact that the Bible describes hell as blackness of darkness, 01:02:43.080 --> 01:02:45.960 also indicates that it lasts forever. 01:02:45.960 --> 01:02:48.040 Otherwise, who cares? 01:02:48.700 --> 01:02:55.700 If hell is a place of blackness and darkness, but you're only there for a few minutes, who cares? 01:02:55.700 --> 01:02:58.700 Why is that a relevant description? 01:02:58.700 --> 01:03:04.700 I mean, if you're there for a few minutes, when you've just burned, experienced some pain, who cares? 01:03:04.700 --> 01:03:08.700 Why does the blackness of darkness forever? Why does it matter? 01:03:08.700 --> 01:03:11.700 It wouldn't. It wouldn't matter at all. 01:03:11.700 --> 01:03:14.600 But the Bible has it there for a reason. It does matter. 01:03:15.200 --> 01:03:21.500 because that just makes it worse when it lasts forever. 01:03:21.500 --> 01:03:25.680 But we're getting closer to the end of my sermon. 01:03:25.680 --> 01:03:32.480 Go ahead and turn to Isaiah chapter 66. 01:03:32.480 --> 01:03:35.220 So, you know, as Bible-believing Christians, 01:03:35.220 --> 01:03:38.900 and especially as soul winners, 01:03:38.900 --> 01:03:40.900 You know, hell is something that... 01:03:41.000 --> 01:03:43.160 we should think about from time to time. 01:03:43.160 --> 01:03:44.240 Now, you know, obviously, you know, 01:03:44.240 --> 01:03:45.800 you don't want to just dwell on hell 01:03:45.800 --> 01:03:48.840 and just be thinking about hell all day long, you know. 01:03:48.840 --> 01:03:50.400 But every once in a while... 01:03:50.600 --> 01:03:55.000 We need to be thinking about the consequence that people are going to suffer 01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:58.000 who do not believe in Jesus Christ. 01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:02.080 Because this has been kind of a down river sermon. 01:04:02.080 --> 01:04:05.560 Most people don't sit there and enjoy thinking about hell. 01:04:05.560 --> 01:04:07.960 Maybe Goths do, I don't know. 01:04:07.960 --> 01:04:13.520 But most people don't enjoy thinking about it or hearing preaching about it necessarily. 01:04:14.100 --> 01:04:20.100 But, you know, the up... excuse me, the upside is that people don't have to go there. 01:04:20.100 --> 01:04:25.600 And we have the key for people to get out. Amen. 01:04:25.600 --> 01:04:30.600 And so we need to keep these things in mind that, hey, look, there's real consequences. 01:04:30.600 --> 01:04:39.600 There's real people that are living real lives that have real souls that are going to go to one place or another. 01:04:40.100 --> 01:04:44.100 You know, and one of them is a great, wonderful, amazing place 01:04:44.100 --> 01:04:49.140 that we all want to go to. And the other place is a horrible place of fire 01:04:49.140 --> 01:04:55.380 and darkness and torment and brimstone. And real people are going there. 01:04:55.380 --> 01:04:59.140 And so we ought to keep these things in mind. You know, if you ever, 01:04:59.140 --> 01:05:02.500 you know, in a in a lull and soul winning, 01:05:02.500 --> 01:05:06.100 you know, this is one of the things you can pop into your mind like, hey, there's 01:05:06.100 --> 01:05:08.000 a reason why we're going. 01:05:08.500 --> 01:05:14.040 Because we don't want people to end up in this horrible place of hell. 01:05:14.040 --> 01:05:17.620 And Isaiah chapter number 66 verse number 24 says, 01:05:17.620 --> 01:05:24.800 And they shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men that are transgressed against me. 01:05:24.800 --> 01:05:29.860 For their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, 01:05:29.860 --> 01:05:34.820 and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. 01:05:34.820 --> 01:05:36.420 So what's the Bible saying here? 01:05:37.000 --> 01:05:38.660 Well, we're going to go forth. 01:05:38.660 --> 01:05:42.860 All the saved people that have believed on Jesus Christ, 01:05:42.860 --> 01:05:45.960 at the end of time, after the Great White Throne Judgment, 01:05:45.960 --> 01:05:48.940 God is going to take us down to hell, 01:05:48.940 --> 01:05:50.980 down by the shores of the Lake of Fire. 01:05:50.980 --> 01:05:53.520 And we're going to look with our eyes 01:05:53.520 --> 01:05:56.840 at all the unsaved people that have ever lived that are in hell. 01:05:56.840 --> 01:05:58.900 We're going to look at the carcasses 01:05:58.900 --> 01:06:00.980 of the men that have transgressed against God. 01:06:00.980 --> 01:06:02.200 And we're going to see that. 01:06:03.400 --> 01:06:07.100 and they're going to be an abhorrent to all flesh. 01:06:07.100 --> 01:06:12.500 But you know, if we can do what we can to get people now in our lifetime saved, 01:06:12.500 --> 01:06:15.300 because you know, it's a horrible thing to think about 01:06:15.300 --> 01:06:21.400 to see somebody that you knew in that lake of fire, right? 01:06:21.400 --> 01:06:22.900 That's a horrible thought. 01:06:23.700 --> 01:06:34.200 We don't want to see any of our loved ones or any people that we know that we would have the opportunity to give that free gospel presentation to. 01:06:34.200 --> 01:06:37.100 We don't want to see them in hell. 01:06:37.100 --> 01:06:44.600 Because I believe that you're going to be able to see people that you may have known that have gone. 01:06:44.600 --> 01:06:50.900 You know, I have grandparents that have died, you know, and I don't believe they were saved. 01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:59.280 You know, my ancestors were all Mennonites until I think about four generations ago. 01:07:00.160 --> 01:07:05.840 You know, I'll see them. Of course, there was nothing I could do for them. They came before me, 01:07:05.840 --> 01:07:15.600 obviously. And, you know, my granddads, well, you know, they passed on before I was even saved. 01:07:15.600 --> 01:07:18.700 but you know you don't want to 01:07:18.900 --> 01:07:22.780 think about loved ones that you have now, 01:07:22.780 --> 01:07:24.820 you don't want to think about seeing them there. 01:07:24.820 --> 01:07:29.580 Because this is, again, this is reality. 01:07:29.580 --> 01:07:32.160 This verse is here for a reason. 01:07:32.160 --> 01:07:35.820 And we're going to look upon the carcasses of men 01:07:35.820 --> 01:07:39.700 that transgressed against God, all the people that were unsaved. 01:07:39.700 --> 01:07:42.000 And so these things should motivate us. 01:07:42.600 --> 01:07:47.960 in our soul winning quest to get as many people out of the lake of fire as possible. 01:07:47.960 --> 01:07:49.880 We don't want people to go there. 01:07:49.880 --> 01:07:52.160 You know, God didn't want people to go there. 01:07:52.160 --> 01:07:56.800 That's why God sent his son Jesus Christ to die and pay for our sins. 01:07:56.800 --> 01:08:03.040 And so, Jesus has purchased our salvation for us already. 01:08:03.040 --> 01:08:08.480 So let us labor to give others that gift that's already been paid for. 01:08:08.900 --> 01:08:14.340 Their ticket to heaven has been paid for already. All we have to do is get them to accept it. 01:08:15.220 --> 01:08:18.740 And they avoid this horrible eternal punishment of hell. 01:08:19.540 --> 01:08:21.700 Let's go ahead and bow our heads in a word of prayer. Do you have any father, I thank you for 01:08:21.700 --> 01:08:26.820 this day, Lord. I thank you for everything you've done for us. Lord, we thank you that you have 01:08:26.820 --> 01:08:31.220 purchased our salvation for us so that we don't have to go to this horrible place of hell that 01:08:31.220 --> 01:08:32.620 that lasts forever, Lord. 01:08:32.620 --> 01:08:34.940 And we pray that you'd please help us in our journey 01:08:34.940 --> 01:08:36.900 to show this. 01:08:37.000 --> 01:08:41.740 Free gift to as many people as we can while we're here on this earth Lord in Jesus name. Amen 01:08:50.600 --> 01:08:56.600 Our last song is song number 440, Thanks to God. 01:09:00.100 --> 01:09:02.900 Song number 440, Thanks to God. 01:09:18.900 --> 01:09:21.500 440 thanks to God. 01:09:26.900 --> 01:09:28.900 Sing it together on the first. 01:09:28.900 --> 01:09:33.400 Thanks to God for my Redeemer, 01:09:33.400 --> 01:09:37.400 Thanks for all Thou dost provide, 01:09:37.400 --> 01:09:41.900 Thanks for times but not a memory, 01:09:41.900 --> 01:09:45.900 Thanks for Jesus by my side, 01:09:45.900 --> 01:09:49.900 Thanks for pleasant balmy springtime, 01:09:49.900 --> 01:09:53.900 Thanks for dark and dreary fall, 01:09:53.900 --> 01:09:54.900 Thanks! 01:09:54.900 --> 01:10:02.900 Thanks for tears, my now forgotten. Thanks for peace within my soul. 01:10:02.900 --> 01:10:10.900 Thanks for prayers that thou hast answered. Thanks for what thou dost deny. 01:10:10.900 --> 01:10:18.900 Thanks for storms that I have weathered. Thanks for all thou dost supply. 01:10:18.900 --> 01:10:22.900 Thanks for pain and thanks for pleasure. 01:10:22.900 --> 01:10:31.900 Thanks for comfort and despair Thanks for grace that none can measure 01:10:31.900 --> 01:10:40.900 Thanks for love beyond compare Thanks for roses by the wayside 01:10:40.900 --> 01:10:48.900 Thanks for thorns their stems contain Thanks for home and thanks for farsight 01:10:48.900 --> 01:10:50.900 Thanks for hope 01:10:50.900 --> 01:10:59.620 that sweet refrain. Thanks for joy and thanks for sorrow. Thanks for heavenly 01:10:59.620 --> 01:11:10.460 peace with thee. Thanks for hope in the tomorrow. Thanks for all eternity. 01:11:10.460 --> 01:11:12.760 Amen. Good scene for the ride. Could you guys go to the prayer? 01:11:12.760 --> 01:11:15.860 Heavenly Father, thank you God for preaching the Lord. Thank you. 01:11:16.200 --> 01:11:20.700 that relate all our hearts to go out and do as much 01:11:20.700 --> 01:11:24.700 gold winning as we possibly can while we have time, Lord, 01:11:24.700 --> 01:11:29.200 while we're young, to get people to avoid the fiery hells, Lord. 01:11:29.200 --> 01:11:30.700 In Jesus' name, amen.