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Good evening everyone. Welcome back to Anchor Baptist Church. It is time to get started.

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If you would find a seat grab a hymnal and turn to our first hymn number 324.

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Hymn number 324 324 Draw me nearer.

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Hymn number 324 Draw me nearer.

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324 let's sing it out together

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these things we pray in Jesus name, amen.

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For our next hymn, number 145,

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It is well with my soul.

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145, 145, it is well with my soul.

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145. Let's sing it all out together.

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When peace like a river

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attendeth my way.

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When sorrows like sea billows roll,

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Whatever my lot thou hast taught me to say,

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It is well, it is well with my soul.

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It is well, it is well with my soul

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with my soul it is well it is well with my soul on the second remember in the chorus that upper

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section ladies try to sing that out i'm going to sing both to help you the lower section the men

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so on the it is well part ladies on the upper men on the lower we'll start there in verse number two

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all together.

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Though Satan should baffet, though trial should come,

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Let this blessed assurance control,

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That Christ has regarded my helpless estate.

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And Tad shed his own blood for my soul.

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Ladies on the top.

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It is well, men, it is well, with my soul, with my soul.

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It is well, it is well, with my soul.

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My sin, O thou bliss, of this glorious thought.

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My sin not in part, but the whole,

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Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more.

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Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, oh my soul.

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It is well, it is well, with my soul, with my soul.

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It is well, it is well, with my soul.

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And Lord haste the day.

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my fate shall be side. The clouds be rolled back as a scroll. The trump shall resound

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and the lord shall descend even so.

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It is well with my soul.

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It is well, it is well.

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With my soul

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It is well

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It is well

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With my soul

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Amen. All right, good.

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Baptist Church. This time we'll go through our announcements. So if you did

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not get a bulletin this morning or if you need one raise your hand nice and

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high. Usher would be glad to bring you one. As a reminder there on the front our

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Bible memory passage of the week, 2nd Timothy chapter number 2 verse 2. And of

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course our goal is to memorize the entire epistle of 2nd Timothy. It's

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definitely a great goal and I hope you will work hard at doing that with us.

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We do have on the inside of our bulletin our service times listed Sunday morning at 1030 Sunday evening

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430 and then Wednesdays are our Bible studies through

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Ecclesiastes we're in the last chapter this Wednesday

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So the Wednesday after that we will have a brand new book of the Bible that we're going to be studying

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Below that we have all of our soul winning times and all of those meet here at the church building except for Saturday we meet on location

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And then we have our soul winning statistics for the year. I know we had several saved today

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So great job with that really cool salvation today brother cameron preached the gospel to a man named reuben

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And Ruben was talking about, he was 26 years old, right?

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Or 27, 27 years old, young man,

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and he was talking about how he's just been going through

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a lot in his life.

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He's like, man, I've just been going through a lot,

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and I was just wondering why God is allowing

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all this stuff to happen to me.

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And Cameron preached on the gospel, he got saved.

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He started crying so you know it was real.

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No, I'm just kidding.

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Obviously someone doesn't need to cry to get saved,

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but it just shows this person's really connecting

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with the gospel.

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And a lot of

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people the gospel is going to be emotionally moving because it's an

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amazing thing. I mean it is well with my soul when you think about that song. I

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mean it's such a beautiful thing, salvation being a free gift and so it's

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cool seeing him get saved. Pray for all the people that get saved that they'll

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start coming to church and growing in the Lord.

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Then we have below that our visitor card there as well as our online giving information and then our prayer list

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Keep those requests in prayer throughout the week, please

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And if you have anything to add an update or new request, please just email the church and i'd be happy to add that for you

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On the back, we have our upcoming events july 3rd. So this friday

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Is going to be an independence day fellowship at the hall's home. So please

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do come if you need the address talk to brother Cameron back there he'd be glad

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to give it to you but the church is renting like this water slide slash pool

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contraption there's gonna be a whole bunch of meat there's gonna be fireworks

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I mean it's gonna be a Baptist good time really excited for that so come on out

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we'd love to have you then July 11th

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is the next Soul Winning Marathon that's in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

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We're meeting at Feltz Park at 9 a.m. for coffee and donuts,

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and then we'll go out Soul Winning at 10 for our first round.

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We'll have lunch at 12 30 and then go back for a second round of Soul Winning at

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2 o'clock. So that's going to be a great day there. Looking forward to that.

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Then the day after July 12th, that's our next men's preaching night.

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So for the evening service, the guys that want to preach, please do sign up on the sign-up sheet.

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And then after we have that event, we'll have a food fellowship, time of just games, and hanging out after service.

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So please join us for that day.

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That's going to be it for announcements this evening. We'll go ahead and go to our third song together.

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For our third song this evening, number 377.

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Hymn number 377, Rescue the Perishing.

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377, rescue the perishing.

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377 let's sing it all out together

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are being passed, turn if you would to Psalm 86, Psalm 86 for our Bible reading this evening.

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Psalm 86, bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me, for I am poor and needy. Preserve my soul,

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for I am holy. O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. Be merciful unto me,

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O Lord, for I cry unto thee daily. Rejoice the soul of thy servant, for unto thee, O

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Lord, do I lift up my soul. For thou, Lord, art good and ready to forgive, and plenteous

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and mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

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Give veer, O Lord, unto my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplications.

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In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me.

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Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord, neither are there any works like unto thy works.

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All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and shall glorify thy name.

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For thou art great and doest wondrous things, thou art God alone.

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Teach me thy way, O Lord, I will walk in thy truth, Unite my heart to fear thy name.

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I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify thy name forevermore.

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For great is thy mercy toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

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O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my

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soul, and have not set thee before them.

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But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

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O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me. Give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the Son of thine handmaid.

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Show me a token for good, that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed. Because thou, O Lord, hast hope in me, and comforted me.

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Let's pray, dear Heavenly Father.

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I pray that you would help Pastor Oz to preach an edifying sermon that you would fill him with your spirit and help us to receive it this evening. Amen.

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Amen. We are in Psalm 86 this evening and I want to start reading in verse number 13.

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The Bible says, For great is thy mercy toward me and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

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And you know if you are saved this evening,

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you got saved from something.

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What we got saved from is not separation from God. We didn't get saved from

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Purgatory we didn't get saved from like a realm of the dead. We got saved from the lowest hell

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Okay, the Bible teaches the doctrine of hell and you stay there

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I just want to read for you a few verses Romans 10 verse 13 says for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord

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Shall be saved. What are we talking about being saved from hell?

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Now, of course, the doctrine of hell has always been under attack.

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Always and the doctrine of hell is under attack now and it will always be under attack in

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the future.

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The reason why is because the devil himself someday is going to go to hell and the devil

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wants as many people as possible to go to hell with him.

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One of the tactics that the devil uses to get people to go to hell is to convince people

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that hell doesn't even exist.

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Right, because here's the thing.

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The reason a lot of people get saved

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is because they're scared of hell.

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You know what, that's a good reason to get saved.

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Because if that's the only reason you get saved,

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that's good enough reason because hell is terrifying,

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hell is horrible, hell is worse than anything

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we could possibly comprehend.

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If you were to try to sit down and think

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of a worse punishment than hell, you could not do it.

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OK, let me read another verse for you.

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John 10 verse 10 says, the thief.

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cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy I am come that they might have life and

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That they might have it more abundantly, you know

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The devil knows he's going to hell someday and he wants as many people to go with him

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So he uses wicked people to teach false doctrine and lies about hell to tell people hell isn't real or

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To water down the doctrine of hell so that people aren't as scared of it

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Cause here's the thing, you got some people today, for example, like James Cameron.

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James Cameron last year, who he's a really famous Christian filmmaker.

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Everyone should be, I think, familiar with James Cameron.

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He was involved with the Left Behind series, which that's all false doctrine, the pre-trib

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rapture, that's a bunch of heresy.

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But he's a really well-known Christian.

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Last year he got up and taught that he no longer believes in eternal torment in eternal conscious torment

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But believes in annihilation

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Basically that when you die your soul just burns up and you cease to exist now

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Here's the thing for a lot of people that's not really that scary

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You know there's a lot of people with mental health struggles people that struggle with suicidal thoughts

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That the idea of ceasing to exist might actually sound good to them

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But you know what's horrible?

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The idea of being on fire and being in torments forever and ever.

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No one wants that.

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And if someone says that they want to go to hell, it just shows that they don't even know

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what hell is like.

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Absolutely no one wants to go to hell, okay?

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You got another guy.

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This Canadian Christian apologist named Wes Huff.

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Who knows who Wes Huff is?

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Okay, Canadian Christian apologist.

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He's getting real popular.

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In a recent interview he said this, he said a lot of imagery of fire and weeping and gnashing

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of teeth, I think a lot of that is kind of reflective and allegorical more than it's

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like a physical, tangible thing.

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Most of our perception of hell are largely shaped by our depictions of the middle ages

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in Dante's Inferno.

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Really famous apologist saying hey, you know what when we think about hell really that's just coming from the Middle Ages

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It's more allegorical. It's not real fire. You know we're not going to go to Dante's inferno this evening

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We're to go to the Word of God to show you what hell is like because hell is eternal fire

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It is eternal suffering, and it's something that the unsaved should be terrified of and motivate them to get saved

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Okay, here's another guy. I recently interviewed a Catholic priest

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I interviewed several Catholic priests for a film that we're working on called the truth of the gospel

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And I asked both of these men. Do you believe in a literal physical hell?

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And of all the questions that I asked them,

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this was the hardest question to get them to answer.

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You were there.

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You saw it.

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I had to ask this one guy like five times,

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do you believe hell is real?

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And he kept changing the subject, kept wouldn't answer.

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Finally, one of them answered this way.

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He said this, it's kind of like when a man and a woman comes

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together.

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It's as real as the sunrise.

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But we mostly think of it as a metaphor.

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What?

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What are you talking about?

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Is hell real?

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Oh, it's kind of like the marriage relationship.

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No, it's not.

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That's not at all what hell is like.

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What are you talking about?

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But you know what?

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The devil wants to corrupt the doctrine of hell

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because he wants people to go there.

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And you know what?

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If you are not saved, should be terrified of hell

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because anyone going to hell is going

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to be spending eternity in conscious torment and flames.

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It's not a pleasant subject, but the title of my sermon this evening is this the biblical doctrine of hell the biblical doctrine of

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Hell this is from our church website

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This is our church, uh doctrinal statement on hell. We believe in an eternal hell

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Where sinners who refuse to believe in jesus christ will spend eternity in fiery torment

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Hell is not simply separate separation from god or annihilation

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Hell is not symbolic or a metaphor but a real place of everlasting punishment

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That is what our church believes and I'm gonna prove that from the Bible this evening go to Deuteronomy chapter 32 now

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This is gonna be a lot more of a Bible study than like the sermon this morning

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So if you'd like to take notes, feel free to take notes. This is gonna be going through a lot of Bible

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I know it's you know, it's the end of the day. We're tired. Try to stay with us pay attention

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We're gonna talk about hell this evening number one

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Hell is both a New Testament and an Old Testament doctrine.

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Some people teach that Hell did not exist in the Old Testament,

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that it was completely different, and that only now Hell exists in the New Testament.

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I'm going to show you from the Bible that Hell has existed always in the Old Testament and the New Testament.

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Deuteronomy, chapter number 32, look at verse 20.

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It says, and he said, I will hide my face from them.

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I will see what their end shall be, for they are a very forward generation, children in

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whom is no faith.

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What does it take to be saved?

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It takes faith, right?

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Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, thou shalt be saved.

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These people, they have no faith.

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Verse 21.

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They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God.

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They have provoked me to anger with their vanities,

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and I will move them to jealousy with those

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which are not a people.

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I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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Verse 22, for a fire is kindled in mine anger,

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and shall burn unto the lowest hell.

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Shall consume the earth with her increase and set on fire the foundations of the mountains

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Now go to Romans chapter number 10 because the passage that we just read is

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quoted in

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Romans chapter number 10 where we can get a better at what this is talking about

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But when you just take this reading at surface value when you just look at what the text says believe what it says

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What do we have here? We have fire

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We have anger.

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We have burning we have depth right the lowest hell, you know, this doesn't sound like middle ages Dante Inferno

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This sounds like the King James Bible telling us what hell is like that

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It's flames that it's God's anger that it's the lowest hell now

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We know that this is talking about heaven and hell because Romans chapter 10. Okay, what's the context?

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Look at verse number one of Romans 10 brethren my heart's desire and prayer to God

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Israel is that they might be saved a couple things here. What do we what can we learn from this number one?

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Israel's not saved that's what possible Paul's desire and heart for Israel is that they would get saved now

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The question is saved from what well I submit to you that they're being saved from hell

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That's what you want to be saved from from hell. Here's how we know this. Okay, let's keep reading in verse 19

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This is where it's quoting what we just read in Deuteronomy verse 19, but I say did not Israel know

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Hey was Israel did they have an excuse? Did they not hear the gospel?

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Did they not have the word of God sent to them? It says first Moses saith

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I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people

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By a foolish nation will I anger you so Romans 10 is all about spiritual salvation

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Okay, and he's looking back at the nation of Israel and saying hey did they not know

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Did they not have the gospel and he quotes that part where he says I will provoke you to jealousy by them

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Oh people saying what saying to the Jews hey the Gentiles they're gonna believe the gospel

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The Gentiles are going to be saved.

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They're going to be saved from what?

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Well, maybe from what Deuteronomy 32 was talking about,

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the lowest hell.

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Right, when you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,

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you are saved from hell.

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You know, hell is something that's very important

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to emphasize in our gospel presentation

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because, you know, you're getting saved from something,

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you're getting saved from hell.

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You're not getting saved from separation from God.

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That's not even scary to a lot of people.

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People are already separated from God.

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The Bible says your sins have separated you from your God.

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Yeah, you're already separated from God.

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These people that are unsaved, that doesn't bother them.

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But what will bother them is being

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on fire for all of eternity.

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That's going to bother them.

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Let's look at some Old Testament passages.

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Proverbs 23.

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Proverbs, chapter number 23.

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I'm showing first of all that hell is a New Testament doctrine

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and an Old Testament doctrine.

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Proverbs 23.

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Proverbs chapter 23 when you're there look at verse number 14

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This is instruction for child rearing the Bible says in verse 14

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Thou shalt beat him with the rod saying you better spank your kids you better physically discipline your kids and

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Shall deliver his soul from hell

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Now a lot of people would be like, you know, what is spanking your children have to do with whether or not someone's going to go to heaven or whether someone's going to go to hell?

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Well, here's the thing. When you are spanking your children, you're reinforcing into your kids that there is consequences for your sin.

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Right? Kids who are never spanked, who are never disciplined, they grow up with this entitled mentality thinking that, hey, there's no consequences for my sin.

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And here's the thing, when mom and dad don't spank their kids, you know who does?

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The police officer does.

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Or when mom and dad don't spank their kids, you know who does?

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The wrong man that they mouth off to out on the street will do a good job of beating their

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butt.

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And so it's like your kids are going to learn one way or another.

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They might as well get the rod from their parents who love them rather than from the

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police officer who might kill them.

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And here's the thing, there's a bigger authority than the police and God and the big buff guy

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out on the streets.

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His name is the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And Jesus Christ has some rules.

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Jesus Christ has some commandments.

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And guess what?

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When we break God's commandments, there's a punishment.

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For the wages of sin is death.

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Right? What is that saying? That's saying that because we have sinned, we deserve hell.

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All liars shall have their part in the lake of fire and brimstone the Bible teaches.

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And so because we have sinned, we deserve hell.

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And guess what? Getting spanked as a child is going to make a child realize,

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hey, there's consequences for my action.

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And when you tell a child, hey, there's consequences from God too, you need to get saved,

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he's more likely to get saved.

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Get saved from what? From hell.

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That's what Proverbs is saying.

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Go to Isaiah chapter 33.

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Now also in the Old Testament the Bible describes hell without even necessarily using the word hell

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Here's here's what people who are novices in the word of God do is they want to look up a subject in the Bible

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So they go to a Bible search software and they type in hell

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You're gonna find a lot of results

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But you're not gonna find every result that talks about hell because there's lots of verses that talk about hell that don't use the word

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Hell, okay. This is an example of one of them right here Isaiah chapter 33 verse 14

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The sinners in Zion are afraid

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Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites notice this who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire

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Who among us shall dwell with?

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Everlasting burnings. Here's the thing just like eternal life. It means that it lasts for forever, right?

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That's how you know, you can't lose your salvation because Jesus said I give unto them eternal life

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And they shall never perish neither shall any pluck them out of my hand. Well, here's the thing. What's being talked about here?

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Everlasting burnings. I mean folks if you've ever experienced a burn on your body

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What do we do as human beings we move our hands away from what's ever burning us because getting burned sucks

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Getting burned is horrible.

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Now imagine, you know, just keeping your hand

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on the hot plate for 30 seconds.

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You'd be screaming, you'd be crying,

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you'd have tears rolling down your face.

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Now just hold it for an hour.

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I mean, you would probably pass out from the pain.

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Well guess what?

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Hell is all of eternity.

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Everlasting burnings.

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You say, that's not a positive message.

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No, it is not.

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You say, I don't like that message.

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Neither do I.

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But guess what?

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It's reality.

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Hell is real.

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And you know what?

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That's why I'm a soul winner, by the way, is because I don't want people to spend eternity

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burning in hell.

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Habakkuk chapter number two, if you'll go there, Habakkuk chapter number two, we're

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just showing some places in the Old Testament that teach the doctrine of hell.

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Aback at chapter number two

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While you're turning there Isaiah chapter 5 verse 14 says this therefore hell hath

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enlarged herself and

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Opened her mouth without measure and their glory and their multitude and their pump and he that rejoiceth shall descend into it

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That's not just talking about the grave folks.

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That's not talking about a tomb.

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That's talking about the pit of hell.

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Hell itself has enlarged itself.

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People are constantly being fed into hell.

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People are constantly dying and going to hell.

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And hell is enlarging itself, the Bible says.

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Look at Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 5.

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Yea, also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home,

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who enlargeth his desire as hell.

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And is as death and cannot be satisfied but gathereth unto him all nations and heepeth unto him all people

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So the bible is using an analogy to describe this super prideful person and this prideful person his desire can never be satisfied

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It's always growing. He's just a proud man. His desire is enlarging. It's like death. It can't be satisfied

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It's just like hell

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Why because hell is never satisfied hell is always enlarging itself. Hell is constantly getting new inhabitants every single second

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There's been thousands of people that have gone to hell since I started preaching this sermon

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That's the reality because every day people are dying

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There's thousands of people dying in this area probably in this state, you know thousands and thousands in this country every single day

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I mean hell is constantly just enlarging its self

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Okay, go if you would to Deuteronomy 32 again.

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Now, what about number two, what about Sheol?

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Hades and Gehenna.

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Who's heard this kind of these terms before?

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Sheol, Hades and Gehenna.

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Now here's the thing,

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when people want to deceive you,

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when they wanna attack a certain doctrine,

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they're usually not gonna come at you

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with the King James Bible and saying,

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here's why hell isn't real

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because of this very clear Bible in the King James.

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What they're gonna do is they're gonna go

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to a foreign language that you don't even speak.

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to try to put this air of authority on,

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like they have some sort of esoteric special knowledge,

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and they want to go back to the Greek

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or go back to the Hebrew to deceive you and lie to you.

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And here's the thing, I actually speak multiple languages fluently, and you know I'm pretty

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good in a third language as well.

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I don't speak Greek or Hebrew, but I know how translations work, and let me tell you,

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there's nothing special about Hebrew or Greek.

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It's just languages, okay?

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When you hear something in Greek, it's like, ooh, it's more special because I heard it

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in Greek.

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Ooh, you know, you know, hey, Jesus is the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word

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was God.

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And we get up and we say, hey, Jesus is the Word of God.

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And the Catholics go, no.

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He's the Logos.

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The Orthodox say, no, Jesus isn't the word.

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He's the Logos.

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What if I told you that Logos is the Greek word for word?

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And guess what the English Bible is doing?

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It's translating Logos into English.

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That's what we're doing with hell.

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That's what we're doing with Hades.

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That's what we're doing with Gehenna.

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That's what we're doing with Sheol.

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OK, now here's the thing.

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We're going to go into all these.

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Because a lot of people teach this and when I was in Germany last week

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I preached the God to someone in Spanish funny enough. I preached the gospel like three times in Spanish in Germany

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I was like what is going on? It's like in Germany. I'm expecting speak German, right?

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But this guy was basically saying like hey hell doesn't exist because if you go to the Hebrew

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It's she'll if you go to the Greek it's Hades and he was basically saying that you know when you die

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There's this realm of the dead

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that is a temporary holding place and part of the realm of the dead is for the wicked

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where they're suffering but they're not going to be going to hell until they're resurrected

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at the great white throne judgment then they're going to go to hell and then you have the part of

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you know this realm of the dead known as abraham's bosom

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That's like this nice part of hell where the righteous go and they're waiting to be at the resurrection the first resurrection at the rapture to go to heaven and he said hey no one's ever gone to heaven yet no one's ever gone to hell yet we're waiting I've heard this out so many many times with real individuals you know Abraham's bosom is a common false doctrine that the old ife teaches but they what here's what they have to do they have to go back to the Greek and Hebrew to do

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And you ought to need to be careful when someone's trying to go back to a foreign language telling you,

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hey, you can't trust the Bible, listen to me.

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Now here's the thing, if you're going to listen to an expert,

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are you going to listen to a guy who stands up and just claims to know Greek and Hebrew

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and he probably just took a few classes in Bible college,

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he probably can't even speak the language fluently,

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he's probably never preached the gospel to someone in Greek or in Hebrew,

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or are you going to trust the 54 expert scholars?

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that translated the King James Bible, many of which were fluent in over 10 languages.

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Not only that, they had seven committees where they all were given specific parts of the Bible to translate.

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They translated it, then they rotated their work across all the other committees

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and all 54 of them said, here's the final product.

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And you know what we have in the Bible? The word hell.

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You know we don't have we don't have Hades. We don't have shiol

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We don't have gehanna because the whole point of a translation

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Is to take the original language and move it into the right language you're reading it in

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Would it make sense if I just started reading to you in greek?

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In an english church service, right?

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Like is it doesn't make any sense that the catholic church for thousands of years did mass in latin

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When people don't even speak latin

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How would you like it if I just got up here?

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Just started speaking a foreign language to you as for the whole service doesn't make any sense right so here's the thing

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Well, let's go through these different words so in in the Old Testament you have the Hebrew word

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Sheol okay the Hebrew word sheol

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appears

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65 times in the Masoretic text the Masoretic text is the Hebrew underlying the King James Bible

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That's the Old Testament 65 times you have the word sheol

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Now, 31 times, shiel is translated as hell.

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31 times, shiel is translated as the grave.

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And 3 times, shiel is translated as the pit.

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Now, that can be confusing to some people, but here's the thing.

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If you speak multiple languages, you understand how translation works.

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And even

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English well, you should know that sometimes a word can have multiple meanings depending on the context, right?

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So for example the word plane I could be talking about an airplane

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I could be talking about a flat surface a plane or I could be talking about a plain bagel if you change the spelling a little

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bit, right

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So we have we have one word plain and it could be meaning a whole bunch of different things right

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or for example you have the word face we could be talking about human anatomy where your tongue and

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your lips and your eyes and your nose are that could be a face or a face could also be a flat

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surface right the face of the water how about the word elevator

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An elevator could be something that takes you to a higher floor.

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An elevator is also the part of the aircraft that determines pitch, right?

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Attitude, not altitude. Attitude.

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But your attitude does determine your altitude.

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Sorry about that.

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All right. Deuteronomy Jap number 32.

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So look, let's look first of all at a few instances where sheol is translated as hell.

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The context told the King James translators which one the original authors were talking about.

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Deuteronomy 32 verse 22.

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Let's ask ourselves, does this sound like hell?

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grave or a pit? Deuteronomy 32 verse 22, for a notice, fire is kindled in mine

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anger and shall burn unto the lowest sheol.

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Let's plug it in.

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What do you think this is talking about here?

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It's talking about hell.

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It's like, how could you possibly know that?

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Because you have fire, because you have God's anger,

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because you have burning, and because you have depth.

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And so we know that is talking about hell.

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And shall consume the earth with her increase

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and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

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So hell is located at the center of the earth.

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The core of the earth, what is it?

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Magma, fire.

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And what is it doing?

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setting on fire the foundation of the mountains, right?

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So that is hell.

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Let's look at a few instances

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where it's translated as hell.

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Go to Isaiah 14, Isaiah 14.

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And I'll show you examples of all these.

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I'll show you where it's translated as the grave.

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I'll show you where it's translated as the pit.

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And here's the thing.

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Sometimes the grave is an allusion to hell.

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And sometimes the pit is an allusion to hell

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using a different word.

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Again, we could say different words

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and mean different things.

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Or you could have different words

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for the same exact thing that just has different names.

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This is just how languages work.

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Isaiah 14.

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Look at verse number four. This is about Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon. It says right here

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That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon and say how hath the oppressor ceased?

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The golden city ceased the Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked and the scepters of the rulers

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He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke,

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he that ruled the nations in anger is persecuted

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and none hindereth.

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The whole earth is at rest and is quiet.

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They break forth into singing.

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Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee

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and the seers of Lebanon say, since thou art laid down,

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no feller is come up against us.

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Where, what are we talking about?

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Nebuchadnezzar.

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He was the king of Babylon. He's the one who invaded Israel and took captive Jerusalem, right?

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That's the Babylonian captivity, right? So Ezekiel, it's written in the Babylonian captivity.

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Ezekiel's among the captives. That's the whole context of the book, okay?

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Nebuchadnezzar was a very powerful leader. He just ruled nations. He just steamrolled wherever he

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went. So when Nebuchadnezzar dies, the earth is at rest, right? It's like, oh, the warfare is over.

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Oh man, he's no longer taking over the nations notice what verse 9 says about him hell

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From beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming

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It's stirreth up the dead for thee even all the chief ones of the earth

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It hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. What does it say?

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Hey Nebuchadnezzar when you die, you're going straight to hell

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By the way, this should clear up any confusion about whether or not Nebuchadnezzar is saved.

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The Bible's just saying, you know, hey, death, hell is waiting for you.

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Nebuchadnezzar, when you die, you're going to hell.

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Verse number 10.

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Now here's the thing, this is also a picture of the devil.

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It says in verse 10, and they shall speak and say unto thee, art thou also become weak

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as we?

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Art thou become like unto us?

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So notice, he had all this power and pomp and circumstance in this world,

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but as soon as you go to hell, you're nothing.

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Doesn't matter if you were ruling kingdoms, ruling nations,

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doesn't matter if you were Adolf Hitler,

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and you're running the Third Reich, and you're taking over the world,

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you know, as soon as you go to hell, you're nothing.

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Nothing.

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Notice, verse 11, thy pump is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy vials,

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the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

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Now notice this is also a picture of the devil because it says, how art thou fallen from

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heaven, O Lucifer?

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So we've switched audiences here, talking to Nebuchadnezzar, now talking to Satan.

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How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning?

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How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations?

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For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven.

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I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.

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I will sit upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north.

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I will ascend above the heights of the clouds.

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I will be like the most high." So the devil, he's prideful, right?

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Trying to take God's position. Verse 15.

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Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell and the sides of the pit.

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They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee, saying, Is this the

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man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms, that made the world as a wilderness,

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and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the house of his prisoners?

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Right, so just like when Nebuchadnezzar goes to hell,

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people are like, wow, you're the one that were steamrolling the nation.

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You had all this pomp, you had all the circumstance.

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It's gonna be the same thing in hell.

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Because guess what?

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The devil is not just going to a grave.

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The devil's not just going to a pit.

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The devil's going to hell.

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Right.

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And guess what?

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You know, what this world often portrays hell

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is like the devil is ruling and reigning in hell.

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No, no, no, when the devil goes to hell, he's gonna be tormented.

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The devil's not ruling and rating in hell when the devil goes to hell everyone's looked at him saying like this is the guy

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This is the guy that was taking over the world

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This is the one that was making the nations to shake

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You know people are gonna be more on an evil level playing field in hell than they are in this earth

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That's for sure now. There is the lowest hell there is the greater condemnation no doubt about that

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You know people who live more wickedly or less are gonna be burning more less in hell like you know pedophiles lowest hell

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You know, Jews that killed Jesus, lowest hell.

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You know, the devil, lowest hell.

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Okay?

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But people there are just gonna be like,

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wow, this was the guy that had all this power.

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Go to Genesis 37.

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So those were a few examples

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where the King James translators,

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they saw the word shield and they said,

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hey, this is talking about hell.

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It's like, how do you know that?

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You read the context.

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The devil is a spiritual being and he's not going into a grave.

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We're not gonna have a funeral service for him. We're not putting him in a box.

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Okay, the devil's going to hell.

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And I think King James translators are smart enough to know that.

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Okay.

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Now let's look at some instances where the King James translators translated Sheol as the grave.

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And let's see if this makes sense with the context.

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Genesis 37 verse 31 and they took Joseph's coat and killed a kid of the goats and dipped the coat in

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The blood of course

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This is when Joseph's brethren sold him into slavery and they're conspiring to cover up what they did to trying to make it look

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Like Joseph was killed by some wild beasts

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They take his clothes they dip it in the blood verse 32 and they sent the coat of many colors and they brought it to

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Their father. It's Jacob and said this have we found

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Know now whether it be thy son's coat or no.

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And he knew it and said it is my son's coat an evil beast hath devoured him

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Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces. So jacob he bought the lie. He he fell for the conspiracy

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He seized the bloody coat. He's like my son joseph's dead

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He's like upset about he's sad about it verse 34 and jacob rent his clothes

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And put sackcloth upon his loins and mourned for his son

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Many days and all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be

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comforted and he said for I will go down into the shield unto my son mourning.

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What did the King James translator say? Grave. Right? Thus his father wept for him

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for I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Now why did the King James

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translators translate into Deuteronomy 32? Hell but here the great. Well because

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Jacob saved and he's not going to hell.

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Right?

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So when the word shield is used here, what's it talking about?

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It's talking about going in the ground.

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He's saying, hey, I'm going to be so sad about losing my son

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that I'm going to be sad about him until the very day I die.

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That's what he's saying.

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And the King James translators translated this.

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Go to numbers for 16.

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Look at where the King James translators translated

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this as the pit.

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Now, quite frankly, I'm very glad.

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that we have a Bible that translated things the way that we did, because I would not like to read

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this and just see the word shield there, because it's not as clear, right? And it's like the whole

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point of translation again is to take the original language and put it in the new. And grave matches

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perfectly what the meaning is in this text for this context. And in Deuteronomy, hell is the perfect,

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and Isaiah 14, hell is the perfect meaning for that context. Here's where the Bible uses pit.

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Number 16 verse 30. This is of course Korah Dathan in a byron they conspired against the man of God and they're about to go to

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Hell it says number 16 verse 30

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but if the Lord make a new thing and the earth open her mouth and

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Swallow them up with all that appertain unto them and they go down quick into the pit

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Then you shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord

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And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground

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clave asunder that was under them, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them

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up and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah and all their goods,

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they and all that appertained unto them went down alive into the pit.

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And the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation.

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Now again, in the context here, I think it's a great choice to use the word pit.

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Now of course, what is this talking about?

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It is talking about hell.

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That's why I said sometimes the King James Bible uses other words to allude to hell.

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They chose to use the word pit here.

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Why?

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Because we're not really thinking about the center of the earth right now.

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We're thinking about the fact that the earth just opened this giant chasm that's going

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to drop them alive into hell.

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So if we're standing where Korah, Dathan, and Abiram is,

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and we're looking at this,

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you know what we're gonna see?

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A big pit.

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Now, if you went over the edge, and you looked in,

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and an unsaved person went down there,

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you know where they'd go?

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They'd go to hell.

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And that's of course where Korah, Dathan, and Abiram went

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as they dropped alive straight into hell.

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So look, hell's an Old Testament.

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You know doctrine don't be confused by the word shield

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It's just a word in a foreign language and you know what context determines what we're talking about now

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Let's go to the new testament. All right, matthew chapter 11 in the new testament

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Of course, the new testament is translated from greek with the texas receptus

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Okay, don't don't have a septuagen based bible for the old testament or anything like that

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You want to have the king james bible as the new testament receptus texas receptus now. Here's the thing

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You have the word Hades in the New Testament in the original Greek.

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The word Hades is used.

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What is that?

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That is simply the Greek word for hell.

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Okay.

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Now the King James translators translated Hades as hell every single time Hades is used in the

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Greek except for one time.

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And we'll go to that one time.

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But 99.999% of the time when the New Testament, the original Greek says Hades, the King James translators, they're writing hell.

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Okay, let's see if that fits the context of the verses. Matthew chapter 11 verse 21.

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This is Jesus preaching.

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He said, Woe unto thee, Corazon, woe unto thee, Bethsaida!

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For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon,

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they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

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But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment

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than for you.

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And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shall be brought down to hell."

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Notice he's juxtaposing these opposite things.

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Heaven, hell.

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It's not heaven the grave.

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Heaven death.

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No, it's heaven or hell.

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For if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Sodom, it would have

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remained until this day.

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But I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable for the lamb of Sodom in the day of judgment

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than for thee."

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Now let's just use some common sense here.

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What is he talking about when he says Hades?

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Is he talking just about a grave?

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Is he talking about a temporary spiritual holding place?

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Or is he talking about a fiery hell?

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Well he brings up Sodom.

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Now Sodom was literally torched.

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Sodom was a flame, a blaze, and he's saying,

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look, if these mighty works that I've been doing

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in these towns had been done in these other wicked towns,

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they would have gotten saved, some of them.

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Now, not Sodom, but Qatar and those other cities, right?

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He's saying some of those people would have gotten saved.

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They would have believed, they would have repented.

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He's like, you guys are so wicked

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that you have the Lord Jesus Christ in the flesh

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preaching to you, performing miracles unto you,

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and you still don't believe.

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He's

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it's going to be more tolerable than Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom and Gomorrah's judgment didn't

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seem very tolerable to me. God literally burned Sodom and Gomorrah. He killed every single

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Sodomite with fire from heaven. The Bible says that the Lord rained fire and brimstone from the

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Lord out of heaven. Jesus himself torched Sodom.

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It's funny people say oh Jesus never taught anything about sodomy. What are you talking about? Jesus was the one that torched Sodom and Gomorrah personally

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He personally torched that city and then when he was preaching in the flesh

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He's thinking about that city and he's like man the judgment that I gave Sodom and Gomorrah is nothing compared to the judgment

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You're gonna get because you know what Sodom and Gomorrah didn't have Jesus in their town in the flesh performing miracles

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Now, they're still wicked as hell, and they're getting the judgment that they deserve, but

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how much more when you have Jesus in the flesh and you still reject Him?

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That's not talking about the grave, folks, because is the grave worse or better than

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being burned alive?

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It's better, right?

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But you know what's worse than a quick destruction of fire?

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Eternal fire.

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Eternal punishment.

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Eternal suffering.

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Go to Revelation chapter 1.

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So look, you look at the context, I totally get why the King James translators, they didn't keep the word Hades there.

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Right? It's so stupid that modern translations of the Bible, modern versions of the English Bible, they just leave the word Hades there.

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That is so dumb, because you know what?

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No one even knows what that means.

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Or if you do, it's probably because you're way into nerd Greek mythology,

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and you're going to be thinking about the Greek underworld of Hades,

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and that's not what the Bible teaches hell is like.

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Because if you've been paying attention, hell is not demons and the devil ruling and reigning,

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like the Greek Hades, it's the devil being tormented.

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And people being like, wow, you're nothing just like us in hell.

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So Hades, that's a dumb word to use in English.

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I mean, why don't we just speak in German then?

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Because we're speaking English.

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So we should speak English.

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Revelation 1.

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He says, I am he that liveth and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore.

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Amen.

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And have the keys of hell and of death.

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Now, which one is this talking about?

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Is this talking about the grave or is this talking about hell?

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It's talking about hell.

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Okay, and I've got a whole point on Jesus going to hell.

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I'm going to get to soon.

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But Jesus Christ, the Bible is very, very clear that Jesus went to hell.

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Revelation 6, a few pages over, Revelation chapter number 6.

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It says in verse number 7, and when he had opened the fourth seal, of course, this is

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during the great tribulation, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, come and see.

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And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell

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followed with him.

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And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword,

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and with hunger, and with death.

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And with the beasts of the earth now, let's think about this. Is this talking about the grave or is this talking about the fiery?

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Literal hell well, he says that his name that sat on him was death

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And hell followed with him. Let me help you if you're unsaved and you die, you know, what's coming after that hell

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So if all these people are being killed, I mean there's over a fourth part of the earth a quarter of the earth

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There's power to kill with the sword and with hunger and with death and with the beasts of the earth.

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I mean during the great tribulation there's just gonna be mass death, mass carnage.

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And you know what that means sadly? Massive amounts of people are going to be going to hell.

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That's why it says his name is Death and hell followed with him.

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Now there's one time in the New Testament.

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that Hades is not translated as hell,

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where Hades is translated as the grave,

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and that's 1 Corinthians 15, 55.

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I'll just read it for you.

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O death, where is thy sting?

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O grave, where is thy victory?

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I'm totally fine with that translation.

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Honestly, I can see it making sense either way

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because Jesus arose from hell and he arose from the grave,

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so he's got the key over both.

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He has the victory over both.

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Go to 2 Chronicles 28.

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So we talked about Sheol, we talked about Hades.

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Now what about Gehenna?

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The word Gehenna, it has 12 appearances

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in the New Testament, so used 12 times.

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Gehenna is a transliteration, right?

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So Gehenna is not an English word.

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Gehenna is a transliteration from Greek,

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which is a transliteration from Aramaic.

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which is a transliteration from Hebrew.

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Okay, and the Hebrew word that it's talking about

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is the Valley of Hinnom.

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The Valley of Hinnom, that's what Gehenna is talking about.

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Now if you watch the documentary, Marching to Zion,

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remember when Pastor Anderson is interviewing one of the Jewish rabbis

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and he was asking the Jewish rabbi if he believed that hell is real.

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And you know that old Jewish rabbi, he's been like,

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I have been to hell.

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He's like, it is the Valley of Hinnom,

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where they used to sacrifice children in the fire.

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And he's like, here's the thing, that is what the word Gehenna came from.

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Now, why is that?

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Okay, well, what was the Valley of Hinnom like?

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Look at 2 Chronicles chapter number 28, verse 3.

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It says, moreover, he burnt incense in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom

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and burnt his children in the fire

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after the abominations of the heathen,

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whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

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What was happening in the Valley of Hinnom?

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Child sacrifice.

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not just child sacrifice, burning your children in the fire.

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You know, if there was such a place like this in America,

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imagine if there was a place in America,

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let's bring this into 2026 America.

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Let's just say Salt Lake City, all right?

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Imagine Salt Lake City just starts burning children.

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Wouldn't you be like, that place is hell.

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What a hell hole.

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That's like hell. Well, it's like here's the thing. There's such a horrible horrific stuff going on and people are burning that

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Gehenna which again transliteration to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom was a you know word like a byword or proverb for hell

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Now people will lie to you and they'll be like oh what people did is they looked at the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and

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They invented the doctrine of hell that's its opposite

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Hell already existed people already knew what hell like and they looked at that place and said like this is like hell

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This is horrible. Okay, go to second Chronicles 33. I'll show you a few more examples of this

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second Chronicles chapter number 33

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2 Chronicles 33 verse 6 and he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom

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And he also observed times and used enchantments and used witchcraft and dealt with a familiar spirit and with wizards

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He wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger again

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What do we see children being burnt in the fire go to Matthew chapter 10?

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Jeremiah 731 says this and they've built the high places of Tofet which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom

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To burn their sons and their daughters in the fire which I commanded them not neither came it into my heart

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So notice whenever this valley is being brought up. What do we see we see people being burned with fire?

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That makes me think of a place hell where people are being burned with fire

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So it's not like, oh, Gehenna is this extra special realm.

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You have to go back to the Greek.

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You have to go back to Hebrew to find out these extra.

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No, it's just another language that's using a word

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to describe what hell is like.

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Now, when it comes to Gehenna, how

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is that word translated in the New Testament?

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100% of the time, it's translated as the word hell.

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100% of the time.

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Let's look at a few examples of where Gehenna is used.

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Matthew 10, verse 28.

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and fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul, but rather

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fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."

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I wonder what this could be talking about. You have two options.

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Either you believe a fiery literal hell where God destroys people's souls and bodies,

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everlasting destruction, the Bible says, or if you're going to say really literal,

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Gehenna is the valley of the Son of Hinnom, then you'd have to believe that God is taking people

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to the valley of the Son of Hinnom in Israel and he's destroying their bodies and souls in the valley of Hinnom.

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Now here's the thing, you could go there today and you're not going to see God burning people in Hinnom.

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But if you went to hell you would see people being burned because that's what this is talking about mark chapter 9

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Go to mark chapter 9 and let's ask ourselves is jesus in mark chapter 9

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Is he talking about a place in israel?

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Is he talking about the valley of hinnom or is he talking about hell? Well, let's look at the context

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Verse 43

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And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off, it is better for thee to enter into life maimed

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than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched."

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Again, I would rather go to a place in Israel physically than to chop my hand off.

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But I would rather lose my hand than go to hell.

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That's for sure.

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I'd rather do any of these things. Notice, where there worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.

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There was fire in the Valley of Son of Hinnom when people were sacrificing their children,

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but that fire has been quenched. It's not happening right now, but the fires of hell will never be quenched.

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And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter halt into life

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than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched.

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See, it's eternal!

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You don't burn up, you don't cease to exist, it's eternal.

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And if I now offend thee, pluck it out.

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It is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God

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with one eye than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

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where their worm dieeth not, and the fire is not quenched.

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So look, when you just get over like the,

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ooh, mystical specialness of using, you know,

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these foreign words, if you just go to the context

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and you read it, you can easily see why

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the King James translators translated them

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the way that they did.

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Because what is Jesus talking about here?

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Is he talking about a valley in Israel?

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Or is he talking about hell?

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He's talking about hell.

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So if we're speaking English would it make any sense to leave the word Gehenna here or just to say what Jesus is actually talking about?

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Hell. Okay. Hey, it's so cool if you can speak a foreign language, but it doesn't do anyone any good if they don't understand what you're talking about.

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Okay. Go if you would to 2nd Corinthians chapter 5. Number 3.

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You know what we're doing a Bible study. I know it's a little bit longer, but this is a very important topic alright number three

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There is no nice part of hell

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What am I talking about?

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I'm talking about the doctrine of Abraham's bosom that teaches that basically there's this

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Realm of the dead this temporary realm of the dead that part of it is nice and part of it is suffering suffering

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So again when I talk to this guy in Germany who believed this doctrine

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He was basically telling me that Old Testament saints and people who die before the rapture go to this temporary holding cell known as Abraham's bosom and that they're going to be there until the rapture.

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Okay, now here's the thing. The Bible teaches very clearly that when you die, the moment you die, you either go to heaven or hell.

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Right now if you were to drop dead right now you will either go to heaven or hell you will not either go

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You won't go to this compartment this temporary place. You won't go to Abraham's bosom because it doesn't exist. We'll talk about that

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How am I proving that okay set you're there in second Corinthians 5, right?

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Verse 8 notice this we are confident I say and willing rather

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To be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord

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The apostle Paul said, hey, I am not scared of death.

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I'm not worried about death, because here's what I know.

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When I die, I will be absent from my body.

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But here's the good news, is I will be present with the Lord.

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Does everyone see that when you die, if you're saved, you are immediately with God?

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Now, here's the question.

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Where is God?

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This is a very difficult question.

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All right.

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But let's go, if you would, to Psalm chapter number 11.

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Is God in Abraham's bosom?

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Okay, no.

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He says we are willing and confident rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord

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Where does the bible say that the lord is it's heaven. Let's look what the bible says psalm 11 verse 4

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The lord is in his holy temple. The lord's throne is in heaven

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Underline this take a picture of this memorize this verse. The lord is in his holy temple

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The lord's throne is in heaven

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His eyes behold, His eyelids try, the children of men.

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Now here's the thing, we could go to Revelation and we could do a really deep Bible study

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about how the final eternal state is going to be a new heaven and a new earth.

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Yes, someday heavenly Jerusalem is coming down from heaven

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and the earth is going to have a brand new creation if you will.

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It's going to go back to Edenic conditions basically.

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So yeah, we're going to have a real new heaven and new earth, but right now...

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The holding cell, the temporary location is not Abraham's bosom, it's heaven with God.

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Because right now, if we're absent from the body, we're present with the Lord.

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Where is the Lord? The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord's throne is in heaven.

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Now do you know exactly what heaven looks like and everything we're going to be doing there?

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No, I don't. But I know that we're going to go to heaven.

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Okay. Luke chapter 16, if you would, Luke chapter number 16.

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Where does the doctrine of Abraham's bosom comes from? It comes from a twisting of Luke chapter number 16.

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Let's go through it really quickly of this story.

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And you know, this story, let me tell you this, this is not a parable.

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Okay.

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Luke chapter 16 is not a parable.

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When you read the parables of the Lord Jesus Christ, He does not use people's proper names.

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He says there was a certain man, there was a certain householder, there was a man taking

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a far journey or something like that.

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In this story, we have someone's real name.

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Why because this is a real story what we're about to read Luke 19 or 16 verse 19

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There was a certain rich man

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So that one doesn't have a name but keep reading which was closed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day

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And there was a certain beggar named

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Lazarus

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which was laid at his gate full of sores,

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and desiring to be fed with the crumbs

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which fell from the rich man's table.

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Moreover, the dog came and licked his sores."

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So you have a picture here of a rich man

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who's fairing some to us every day.

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He's super rich. He's partying every day. He's got everything you could ever want

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Then you have the poor man Lazarus who he's so poor

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He's under the rich man's table and he's just wishing for the crumbs to fall, right?

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It kind of feels like me on my diet right now. Like I'm just I would eat crumbs off the floor right now

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I'm so hungry, but he's like, you know, whatever I could get I'm excited for that. But what's worse is he's got sores

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Right and talks about the dogs came and licked his sores horrible existence, right? No one wants to trade places with this guy

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But look at verse number 22 and it came to pass that the beggar that's Lazarus died and was carried

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By the angels into Abraham's bosom now. Here's the thing

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Carried carried implies picking up right

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If Abraham's bosom was in hell in some sort of lower location,

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would it make sense to say the angels carried him?

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You know, when Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, when they dropped,

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it says that they fell into hell.

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They dropped alive into the pit.

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Right? So being carried, that implies up.

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That doesn't imply down.

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Right?

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But notice what it says in verse 22.

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It says, the rich man also died and was buried.

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So his location is going down.

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Notice this, and in hell, he lift up his eyes.

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Right, so one's up, one's down.

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The rich man is in hell, and he's lifting up his eyes.

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And notice, being in torments.

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And he seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.

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Bethany, come here, come here, come here, come here,

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come here, right now, yep, come here, come here.

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You're not in trouble, you're okay, come here, come here.

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I'm gonna show you what it means

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to be in someone's bosom, okay?

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So you have the rich man, you can come up on stage,

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it's okay, you have the rich man and he's in hell

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and he's looking up and he sees Lazarus

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and he sees the beggar in his bosom.

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Right? Here's my bosom is my chest. That's what my bosom is. Right? So I'm hugging.

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Okay, you can sit down. Good job, Bethany. Everyone clap for Bethany.

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So look, I'm just showing that to show you this, that Abraham's bosom is a body part.

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That's what a bosom is. It's his body part. And he's seeing Abraham and Lazarus chilling in heaven.

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He's his bro. He's chilling in heaven. Does this say he was in a mystical?

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you know, realm of the dead, where half of the compartment was people who were righteous

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and half are people that are suffering. That's not what the Bible says. That is not in the Bible.

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In the Bible, we have the rich man, he dies, he's buried, he goes to hell and he's looking up

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and he sees Abraham and Lazarus in his bosom.

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That's Abraham's bosom is Abraham's chest. That's his bosom folks.

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Okay verse 24, and he cried and said, Father Abraham have mercy on me and send Lazarus

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that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame.

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Doesn't that match exactly with every other description of hell that we've been reading

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in the entire Bible Genesis revelation?

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Hell is what? Fire. Torments.

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And when this guy dies, he's in fire, and he's in torments.

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And he's begging for just, you know, water to just be tipped on his tongue

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so that he could cool himself from that.

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I mean, you can't even fathom how bad hell is.

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We've all been thirsty, we've all been hot,

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but could you imagine just like, that's the relief you're looking for,

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is just a little tip of water on your tongue.

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It's so sad to think about.

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But Abraham said, son, remember that thou in thy lifetime

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receivest thy good things, and likewise Lazarus' evil things.

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But now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

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What is the whole point of this story?

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To tell you, hey, it doesn't matter

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how bad you have it in this earth, if you're saved,

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you're doing better off than anyone in hell.

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Yes.

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And you know it's not worth to go to hell and reject the gospel, to chase after money

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and to become rich and not even want to listen to the gospel, not want to believe in Christ

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because even if you're rich and even if you fare sumptuously every stupid day of your

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life you're going to regret it every moment in hell.

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And none of the pleasures that you enjoyed as a rich man are going to even compare to

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the agony and torment and suffering of burning in hell for all of eternity.

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That's what Jesus is trying to get across to us here.

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Verse 25.

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Or 26 notice this and beside all this between us and you there is this great

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Gulf fixed so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot neither

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Can they pass to us that would come from this?

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What is this talking about?

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Obviously God is allowing some sort of miracle to happen here because you have two people in heaven that are able to talk to two

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People in hell and he's saying look people who are in heaven even if they wanted to which they would never want to

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But even if you wanted to go to heaven

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That would be impossible would never happen and those who are in hell

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I'm sure they all want to go to heaven, but they can't right so this idea of like purgatory. It's not biblical

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Okay, because the Bible saying hey once you're there even if you desire to cross over to us you cannot

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Now look this is a sad message, but you know it's the reality

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Which is why we need to preach the gospel, which is why if you're not saved you need to get saved because there is no

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Well, god will give them another chance when they're in hell once you're in hell. It's over

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It's over for all of eternity

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Verse 27 then he said I pray thee therefore father that that would have sent him to my father's house for I have five

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Brethren that he may testify under the

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Lest they also come into this place of torment

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What is the desire of people in hell? It's that other people don't go there

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Right? So it's like whether you're lost relative, you know, if you have relatives that have died

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and you're not sure whether or not they were saved or you know for a fact that they are in hell,

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here's the thing that is sad and I know that from experience. I know that for experience.

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I know that I have loved ones that are in hell, but here's what I know

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is that everyone in hell would want you to be saved.

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And it's like, oh, we just got to hang on to our tradition of being a Hindu because it's a family tradition.

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You know, I guarantee the Hindus burning in hell want you to break that family tradition.

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The Catholics that are burning in hell, the Orthodox that are burning in hell because they believe in work salvation,

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they want their family members to stop being that and believe on Jesus Christ.

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That's the whole point. And look, he says, hey, it's not going to work.

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Neither would they believe if one were sent from the dead because you know what you have to believe?

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You have to believe the gospel.

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Acts chapter number two number four this evening Jesus went to hell

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Jesus went to hell now. I've laid a lot of foundation

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I've laid a lot of groundwork showing you from the Bible. We didn't go to Dante's Inferno

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We didn't go to any you know extra biblical sources

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We just looked at what the Bible says of what hell is like we saw how the King James translators have been translating it

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I submit to you that Jesus Christ went to hell. Why do I say that look at Acts chapter 2 verse 29?

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This is says men and brethren. Let me speak. Let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David

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He's like, let me preach you a little sermon about King David

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That he is both dead and buried

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Sepulcher is with us unto this day speaking of his body, of course

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Therefore being a prophet and knowing that god had sworn with an oath to him

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that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh,

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he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne.

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Don't listen to these dispensationalists that say,

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oh, people in the Old Testament,

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they didn't know the gospel.

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Oh, people in the Old Testament,

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they didn't know of the coming Christ.

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The Bible says very clearly that David knew

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that Christ would come of his loins.

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David preached this.

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He said, I know that Christ is coming of my loins,

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that he's gonna be in my lineage.

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Okay, so what is David preaching about?

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David is preaching about Jesus

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Now doesn't this make sense because the Bible says to him Jesus gave all the prophets witness that through his name

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Whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins the Bible says black and white clear as day

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every single prophet of the Bible preached of Jesus Christ

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Look at verse 31 he that's David

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Seeing this before

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Spake of the resurrection of Christ that his soul was not left in hell

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Neither did hit neither his flesh did see corruption David King David preached about the resurrection

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The resurrection of Jesus Christ is not just a New Testament doctrine. Did you know that?

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The resurrection of Jesus is an Old Testament doctrine.

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In fact, it's an eternal doctrine because the Bible says that Jesus is the lamb

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slayed from the foundation of the world. So, you know, the resurrection is Old Testament as well.

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And he points out two things about Jesus' resurrection. One is that his soul was not

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left in hell. And in addition to his soul not being left in hell, the Bible says that his flesh saw no

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corruption.

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Okay, what is the second part talking about? Obviously when Jesus's body was put in the tomb,

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he didn't start to stink, his body didn't start to decompose, he didn't start to swell like dead

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bodies normally do. Jesus's body saw no corruption whatsoever and says that his soul was not left in

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hell. Now here's the thing, if you did not leave something somewhere, it means it was there at one

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point. Right? Hopefully tonight I remember to grab my glasses over there and take them home.

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And if I remember to take those home, I could say, hey, I did not leave my glasses at church.

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You know what that means? It means my glasses were at church at one point.

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Right? Now here's the thing, Jesus' soul was not left in hell. He's not there now.

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He rose again. He's seated at the right hand of the Father right now,

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ever to make intercession for us. Jesus Christ rose again.

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But his soul was there. How do you know that? Because that's what the Bible says.

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Okay, go to Psalm chapter 16. Now let's go to the original places where David was preaching these things.

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Okay, Psalm chapter 16. Of course, David is the sweet psalmist of Israel.

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He is the author of many of the Psalms themselves.

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Where was King David preaching about Jesus Christ?

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Psalm 16 verse 10.

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For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell.

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Neither wilt out suffer thine holy one to see corruption now is David literally speaking of himself here

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No, what did Acts chapter 2 tell us he's seeing this before

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Spake the resurrection of Christ

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His all was not in hell so David he's using the first person here

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But it's indicative of the Lord Jesus Christ for thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. What is that?

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That's Jesus Christ saying to the father thou will not leave my soul in hell

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Neither wilt thou suffer in case you didn't know who was talking about thine holy one who's that?

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That's Jesus to see corruption doesn't that match exactly with Acts chapter 2 his flesh isn't

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Corrupting and his soul wasn't left in hell go to Psalm 18. There's not just one verse on this David preached a lot about this

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So I'm 18 verse 4 the sorrows of death compassed me

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the floods of ungodly men made me afraid the sorrows of hell

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Compassed me about the snares of death

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Prevented me in my distress. I called upon the Lord didn't Jesus say, you know, Lord Lord

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Why is that forsaken me?

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Loy, Loy, Lama sabachthani. Hey Lord Lord. Why have you forsaken me he cried?

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In my distress I called upon the Lord and cried unto my God

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He heard my voice out of his temple and my cry came before him even into his ears

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Doesn't the bible say that hell and destruction are before the lord, right?

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God can see into hell, you know when Jesus Christ was in hell. He was crying out to god. He was in pain

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He was in suffering. That's why it says the sorrows of hell compass me about the sorrows of death compass me

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Doesn't the bible say for the wages of sin is death?

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Right the wages of sin is death. What is it that we've deserved because we've sinned we deserve eternity in hell

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You know what jesus said he said the sorrows of hell compassed me about he said the sorrows of death

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Compassed me about it interchanges it therefore you in verse four in verse five to let you know what he's talking about

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Go to psalm 116 psalm 116. Let's prove this even further

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Look, there's not one or two verses on this.

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There's a lot of really important verses on this.

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This is a super important doctrine.

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Psalm 116, look at verse 1.

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I love the Lord because he hath heard my voice and my supplications, because he hath inclined

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his ear unto me.

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Therefore will I call upon him as long as I live."

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Verse 3, the sorrows of death compassed me.

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Notice, and the pains of hell gath hold upon me.

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I found trouble and sorrow.

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Say, what was Jesus doing in hell?

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Was he preaching to people and giving them another chance?

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No, no, no, we already read Luke 16. Those that are there,

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even if they desire to go, they can't cross.

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What was Jesus doing in hell? It's right here.

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The pains of hell.

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God, hold upon me.

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I found trouble and sorrow now look some people would say like oh, that's blasphemous that you said that Jesus suffered in hell

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No, no what it does is it makes me appreciate my salvation that much the more

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You know you should realize how bad our sin actually is and what it actually would cost you if you were to go to hell

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It would be eternity burning in hell. You know what Jesus Christ didn't just wave his hand and say you're forgiven

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No, God is a just God. He paid the punishment for our sin

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He paid it in whole. That's how he satisfied God's wrath. The Lord's wrath was satisfied on the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Have you ever heard of this verse in Isaiah? It pleased the Lord to bruise him.

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It's not saying that God had some sort of sadistic pleasure in his pain, but it's saying that the punishment of sin was being taken out on Lord Jesus Christ and that appeased God.

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that payment appeased the Lord Jesus or God the Father in that case.

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Go to Acts chapter number two, Acts chapter number two. So here's the thing, notice how it said there

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that the pains of hell

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got upon me. If this was just talking about going to the grave

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could it be accurate to say that when you're in the grave you're experiencing pain?

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No.

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I don't care how bad of a death that you die, as soon as death is over, physically in your

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human flesh, you are no longer feeling pain.

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If you die by burning to death, if you die by being tortured, God forbid, like all these

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horrible things, I mean that's how Jesus died, being tortured, no matter how you die, cancer,

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falling, whatever it is, the moment that your body dies, you're no longer in pain.

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But how could you still be in pain if you're in hell?

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That's how you could still be in pain.

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Now notice what the Bible says in Acts chapter 2 verse 24. Don't miss this verse. It says whom God hath raised up

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Who's that talking about Jesus?

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having loosed the pains of death

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Because it was not possible

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That he should be holding of it

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The bible says that Jesus was loosed from the pains of death at a specific moment in time

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When is it read carefully when is it that Jesus was loosed from the pains of death?

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It was when he was raised up. You know what that means before Jesus Christ was raised up

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He was experiencing the pains of death that can't be talking about physical death because the pains of physical death are when you're still alive

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When you're dying, that's the pain but the pains of death are in hell ongoing and ongoing

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That's why Jesus said hey my soul rests in hope

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Right? What's the hope that my soul's not left in hell, right? He was in hell. He was suffering pain

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Go to hebrews chapter number two hebrews chapter number two

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And then after that we'll go to first peter chapter three

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Hebrews chapter two first peter chapter three towards the end of the new testament

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I'm trying to prove this from all sorts of verses because the bible is very clear on this look at hebrews chapter two verse nine

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But we see jesus

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who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory

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and honor, that he by the grace of God should, notice, taste death for every man.

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What does it mean to taste something?

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It means to partake of something for a short time.

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Right?

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If you go to Costco and you just taste their samples, you're not eating a whole lasagna.

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Okay, you're taking a bite of lasagna. You're experiencing something for a very short amount of time

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Well, Jesus Christ the Bible says that he tasted death for every man. Think about this. Did Jesus just

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Taste of physical death or did he fully die?

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Fully died. Would it be accurate to say that he tasted a physical death?

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No, no, no. He was crucified. He endured the worst death anyone could ever endure.

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So he fully died. The Bible says Jesus died, was buried in rose again.

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But what did he just experience for a short amount of time? Hell.

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Why? Because for three days and three nights while his body was in the tomb,

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he was in hell. His soul was in hell.

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And so in that sense, he tasted of death. Go to 1 Peter chapter 3.

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right now.

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What about the idea of Jesus preaching to people in hell?

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Because this is something we hear all the time, a common misconception that people have,

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is they'll say, yeah, well, Jesus went to hell, but it's not really hell, first of all.

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It's this bicompartmental realm of the dead.

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One side's good, one side's bad.

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And what Jesus was doing is he was going to preach to the spirits down there,

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trying to give them another chance.

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Okay, a couple problems with that.

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Number one, that realm doesn't exist.

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Okay.

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Number two, people who are in hell, they're there forever.

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They can't escape.

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Okay.

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Also, it's a misinterpretation of this verse right here first Peter chapter 3 verse 18

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It says for Christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God

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Being put to death in the flesh but quickened by the Spirit notice by which also he went and preached under the spirits in prison

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Now here's the thing when we want to find out what this means. It's very important that we compare scripture with scripture

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We can't just look at a verse and just make it to mean whatever we want to mean.

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Like, does this verse, like be honest with yourself, does this verse say that Jesus went

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to a spiritual realm, to a nice part of hell and preached to spirits there?

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That's not what it says.

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Here's what it says, is that he preached unto the spirits in prison.

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The bible makes it very clear what this is talking about keep your place there and go to isaiah chapter 42

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Isaiah 42 the bible talks about hey compare scripture with spirit compare spiritual with spiritual, right?

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We're supposed to rightly divide the word of god. We're not going to just go to this vague verse

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You know, that's not super clear what it's talking about and make this this wild doctrine that the bible talks nothing about

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Why don't we go to other verses and let it interpret the bible for us isaiah 42?

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Isaiah 42 is about the Lord Jesus Christ

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Verse one says behold my servant. Who's that? That's Jesus whom I uphold mine elect in whom my soul

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Delighteth would Jesus baptized in God the Father say this is my beloved son whom I am well, please right so this is about Jesus

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I have put my spirit upon him. He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles, right?

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So the plan of the gospel some people say that was just for the Jews, right? Oh Jesus was just the Jewish Messiah

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Here's the Old Testament telling us that Jesus was gonna bring forth judgment to the Gentiles meaning to the world to the nations

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Verse 6 I the Lord have called thee in righteousness

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Will hold thine hand and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people

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For a light of the Gentiles here we go verse 7 to open the blind eyes to bring out the

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prisoners from the prison and

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Them that sit in darkness out of the prison house

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What is it talking about when Jesus preached to the spirits in prison? He's preaching the gospel to the unsaved

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That's what it is, right?

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Because here's the thing, the unsaved today,

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they are in bondage under sin.

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They're in bondage of sin, they're in a false religion,

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you know, they're on their way to hell,

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they're being held in bondage by this false religion,

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and the gospel of Jesus Christ sets us free.

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Amen for that praise God for the gospel of Jesus Christ. You know you got religions in this world today

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You know these extreme Hindu sects will they're literally throw feces at each other at their religious ceremonies

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You got people who practice self

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Flagellation cat like extreme hardcore Catholics in South America and Spain will literally just beat their backs

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and just make themselves bleed, they'll crawl on beds of glass and of nails.

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They're in bondage, folks.

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They're in prison to this false religion.

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And you know what sets them free?

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Hey, what must I do to be saved?

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Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.

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You know what sets someone free?

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For by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves,

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it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.

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Man, that sets people free today.

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So what am I supposed to believe? Am I supposed to believe that Jesus went to this underworld realm that the Bible speaks nothing about?

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Or does it make more sense that Jesus Christ preached the gospel and got people saved?

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You know what? We are setting people free from prison every single time we go soul winning.

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I preach to the spirits in prison every week of my life.

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And it's not Gehenna, it's not Sheol, it's not Hades.

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Hey, I'm never going there because I'm saved.

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Because Jesus went there for me so that I don't have to.

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But I do get people saved. I do get people free from prison.

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Go to Isaiah 49. Isaiah chapter number 49.

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Look at verse number 8.

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Thus saith the Lord, in an acceptable time have I heard thee,

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and in a day of salvation have I helped thee, and I will preserve thee.

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Give thee for a covenant of the people to establish the earth to cause to inherit the desolate

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Heritages that thou may have say to the prisoners

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Go forth to them that are in darkness

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Show yourselves they shall feed in the ways and their pastors shall be in all high places

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What is this talking about preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ?

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When you preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost person, you are telling a prisoner be free.

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Go forth, be free, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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You know that's a very freeing thing to get saved because before that you're in chains and bondage.

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Go back to 1 Peter. I told you to keep your place there. We're almost done this evening.

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1 Peter verse 4. Now let's look at this verse with the context of what we just read in Isaiah.

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For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged

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according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.

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Again, is this saying that Jesus wouldn't preach the gospel to people in hell or is this saying that the gospel is preached to people who are dead in their trespasses and sins?

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Right in Romans chapter 7, what did the Apostle Paul say? He says, I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

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Every single person who is unsaved is dead spiritually.

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Right. And so what are you doing? You're preaching the gospel to the dead every time we go soul-winning

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We're preaching the gospel to the dead. We're preaching the gospel to those who are in prison

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We're preaching to the spirits in prison. We're telling them be free. That was Jesus's whole ministry

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You go to mark chapter 1. What's the first thing Jesus says? Hey, the kingdom of God is at hand

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Repent ye and believe the gospel. That's the first thing he did right? That was his mission is to preach the gospel

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Go to Jude, the epistle of Jude right before Revelation.

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As you're turning there, Ephesians 2 verse 1 says,

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And you have he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins.

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The Bible is very clear on this. Look, in conclusion,

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the doctrine of hell is a non-negotiable doctrine for anchor Baptist Church.

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It's a non-negotiable doctrine. The Bible is very, very clear that hell is eternal, conscious torment.

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You say, Pastor Oz, do you like that? No, I don't like that.

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I don't like the thought of people going to hell. I don't want people to go to hell.

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But let me tell you, the cold, hard truth today is that most people are going to hell.

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Hey, the disciples asked Jesus, are there many that be saved?

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He's like, enter in at the straight gate.

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He said, wide is the way that goes to destruction,

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and many there be which enter in there at.

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But straight is the gate and narrow

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is the way which leadeth unto life,

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and few there be that find it.

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That's what Jesus said.

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You know what the truth is?

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Most people are going to hell.

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You know why? Because most people believe in work salvation.

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How do you know that? Because I go soul winning every week of my life.

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And I say, hey, if you were to die today, are you 100% sure you're going to heaven?

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Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure. Okay, what do you think someone has to do to go to heaven?

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Be a good person, follow the commandments, live a good life, be baptized.

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Well, that's not what the Bible says.

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And you know, if you're trusting in your works to save you, the Bible says in Galatians chapter 5,

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Christ has become of none effect unto you.

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Whosoever of you are justified by the law, you're fallen from grace.

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So it's like why are most people going to hell because they believe a false gospel

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And it's like what what does a message like this have to do with us?

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Look, we need to make you don't allow people to water down the doctrine of hell

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Because there is a real hell that people are going to and the devil would love to make people think that hell is just ceasing to

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Existing because that doesn't sound that bad, but you know, it does sound bad eternal

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conscious torment

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And here's the thing, I'm never going to hell, and I hope that no one in here is going to hell.

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I think everyone here believes on the Lord Jesus Christ.

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I hope you're never going to hell, but here's the thing.

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What can we do now is we can go get people from going to hell by preaching the gospel.

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Look what Jude, verse 22 says, and if some have compassion, making a difference,

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and others save with fear.

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Pulling them out of the fire hating even the garment spotted by the flesh you say pastor

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It sounds like you're just trying to scare people into becoming a Christian you got it, right?

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I'm trying to scare the hell out of people because I don't want them to go to hell

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And here's the thing, I'm not going to ever stop preaching about hell because the Bible

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says, hey, compassion, it's good.

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Some have compassion and it makes a difference for some.

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You know, today someone got saved and he was literally in tears because of the beauty of

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the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Praise God for that.

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Others save with fear.

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pulling them out of the fire,

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hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

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I will always preach the doctrine of hell.

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If I ever stop preaching the doctrine of hell,

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I would need to step down as a pastor immediately.

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Don't ever follow a pastor

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that does not believe in the eternal conscious torment of hell.

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Okay? That is a super important doctrine.

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I will never stop preaching it.

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And when I go out soul winning, I will always preach it.

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And in this day and age where so many people are being, you know, just tossed to and fro

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with false doctrine, in my gospel presentation, I always ask someone, hey, do you believe

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hell is real?

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And you know what a lot of people say?

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No, I'm in hell right now.

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Let me show you what the Bible says.

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Because no, you're not.

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And look, here's what they mean by that.

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My life sucks.

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And look, some people, their life may actually suck.

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Some people have lost a child recently.

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Some people, they're going through cancer.

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Some people, they're going through a divorce.

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And their life is like seeming like a living hell to them.

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But here's the thing, no suffering on Earth is comparable to hell.

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And you know what, I sympathize with those people.

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I say, look, you might be going through a really hard time.

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I'm sorry to hear that.

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But here's what I know about you, is that you're not on fire right now.

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You're not in torments.

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You know, you're not screaming and gnashing of teeth.

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But here's what hell is like.

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It's exactly what I just said.

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And I show them from the Bible.

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Here's another thing you should make sure,

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when you ask someone, do you believe in hell?

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Ask this follow-up question, how would you describe hell?

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Let them talk, let it come from their own heart.

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Hey, how would you describe hell?

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And if they tell you it's fire, it's brimstone,

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it's eternal, they got it.

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And oh, did they get that from Dante's Inferno?

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No, no, no, they got that from the Bible.

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Right.

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It's not Gehenna, it's not Hades, it's not Sheol, we're speaking English.

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You know, if you're going to go soul winning in Hebrew, in Israel, use that word.

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If you're going to go soul winning in Greece, in Greek, maybe you could talk like that.

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But you know what, we're in England, we're in America.

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Speak English, speak American, all right? Use American words.

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Look, what's the message for us that are saved? You need to become a soul winner.

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You need to become a soul winner.

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Look, I'm so happy that you're saved.

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I'm so happy that I'm saved.

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But what kind of person would I be

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if I knew that a real hell existed?

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And it's like, well, I'm not going to hell.

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Isn't that cool?

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But forget everyone else.

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You know what we should do?

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We should spend the rest of our life preaching

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the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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That's what we're here to do.

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That's the mission of our church.

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That's what that map is for.

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That's what that map is for.

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That's what that map is for.

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Why are we here today to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ

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so people don't go to hell?

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Let's pray.

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Thank you God for your unspeakable gift of salvation.

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I'm so thankful I never have to spend a minute in hell.

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Thank you for saving our souls.

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I pray that we wouldn't take this gift and become selfish or entitled,

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but rather that we would share the good news with every creature.

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We love you in Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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This time we'll go to our last hymn for the evening. It'll be number 359.

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3159359, Thy word have I hid in my heart.

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359 let's sing it out all together