Okay question three what about people who have never heard the gospel or people in the Old Testament
Will God send them to hell or hold them accountable for what they don't know? No, I don't believe they will now
This is an important question. There are many people who never heard the gospel. Okay, and so
You know people of all ages people obviously of the Old Testament. There was no gospel in the Old Testament. I want to say
So
My basic answer is can a person go to heaven? Okay, I've got two parts of this now
I want you to hear both of them. Can a person go to heaven?
Without hearing the gospel. I mean if they never heard the gospel, can they go to heaven? It's a qualified
Yes, I'll finish this just a minute. So here's another thing. Why should we preach the gospel if a person can get to heaven?
without God
It says that God prepared hell for the devil and his angels and
People who rebel against him will go there only because they've formed an alliance with the devil against God
Who will be spending their eternity in hell
We'll look down at Revelation 21 verse 8 the Bible reads, but the fearful and unbelieving
Of course, the unbeliever will spend eternity in hell
It says and the abominable and murderers and foremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and liars and all liars
Well that covers everybody and all liars
Shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death
So there's only two choices heaven or hell
God we choose God in heaven is where God is and
Hell is where God isn't and there you can't make another choice
There aren't three or four choices and you can't reject him and go to a good place
Hell is not separation from God
Now a lot of people today in their effort to tone down and water down this doctrine of hell
Have tried to substitute the fires of hell by saying well hell is actually just being separated from God
That's all it is. Well turn if you would to Revelation chapter 14 go to Revelation chapter 14
Not only is hell a place of literal fire but hell is a place where people will not be separated from God
Oh, no, it's quite the opposite. They will be in the presence of God
Look if you would at Revelation chapter 14 verse 10 the Bible reads the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God
which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation and
He shall be tormented
Which means torture he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels
And in the presence of who?
The way that's the Lord Jesus Christ the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world
the Bible says that they will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the
Presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the land and the smoke of their torment
Ascendeth up forever and ever and they have no rest day nor night
Worship the beast and his image and whosoever received at the mark of his name the Bible is clear
They'll be in the presence of God and the Bible says in Psalm 139 8 if I ascend up into heaven
Thou art there if I make my bed in hell behold thou are there whither shall I flee from my presence?
God is everywhere the Bible teaches that God's on my present. He's present in heaven
He's present in hell. He's present anywhere you go on this earth
you cannot escape from God and the Bible is clear that the torment in hell is in the presence of
the land now
So when I say heaven a person going to heaven there's the heaven which is the New Jerusalem
Which is the very presence of God that the church lives in and then there is the recreated earth
Where people go who don't go to hell and there are people who've never heard the gospel and I'm saying it would be unfair
For God to hold them accountable for something they never heard
So there's only two choices heaven or hell you can't make another choice
There aren't three or four choices and you can't reject him and go to a good place
The
Doctrine of hell is under attack today. There are a lot of people who don't believe in it and
increasingly this doctrine is being questioned and a big reason why is that new modern Bible versions are slowly
Eradicating hell from their Bible or removing this doctrine or changing this doctrine
There's no question to a Bible believing Christian with a King James Bible. What hell is
It's not a questionable doctrine
But to those who are unbelieving who don't have faith in the perfection and inerrancy of God's Word
This doctrine is up for grabs now
I want to focus today on the Old Testament scriptures on hell for the simple reason that the modern Bible
Versions whether it be the ESV or the NIV or whatever the Bible of the Month Club is signed up for this month
They completely remove the word hell
Every single time it occurs in the Old Testament. Did you know that?
So if you have an NIV the word hell doesn't even occur once in the whole Old Testament if you have an ESV
It doesn't even occur one time
But God has testified to every person in the history of the world that he is real
He has testified to every person of his nature
But there have our people who have chosen not to retain God in their knowledge and rejecting and those people will go to hell
But there are other people who have seen the same thing and lived the best they could according to what they had
They're not the bride of Christ. They will not live in the presence of God, but they also won't go to hell
They'll come to a recreated earth
Watch this now and there shall in no wise
What's that mean say no way?
There shall in no wise enter into it anything that defile it
neither whatsoever work at the abomination watch this or make it a
Lie, how many lies a lie?
I've heard people say when I showed him that verse that said all liars are going to hell
They said well that's talking about a habitual liar. That's talking about somebody who lies all the time
I'm gonna tell you there are people who are saved who lie all the time. I've known them
I can tell you about it, but he says you're no
Even a person who made it a lie
They said why are the dead in Christ raised first since they're already in heaven
Okay, so people like my dad
My dad died of cancer and he was 80 years old and we buried him
And so we buried my dad and so he's in heaven. I know my dad's in heaven
Listen every time my parents went to church here for years and every time we gave an altar call my dad raised his hand
I know my dad say okay. I know my dad say so
Only the church lives in the presence of God forever only the church
Keep repeating that over. It's not biblical
Of
The nation so let me go back
3,000 years let me go back 3,000 years the jungles of South America
And let's say that there was a woman in the jungles of South America 3,000 years ago
Obviously didn't hear the gospel
There was no gospel, but she saw the creation and and she believed in God based on that and she was a precious woman
She was a moral person. She was a giving person. She was a forgiving person. She helped people
She was kind and gracious and based on what she knew she did everything she could okay to live for God
And so she died and at the very end of the millennium
There's the great white throne judgment where she'll be resurrected and she'll be judged according to what she's done
Okay
So she's brought before God and let's just say that woman who did everything she could to live right and to live morally based on
What she knew would God send her to help. I don't believe so
Will she come into the New Jerusalem to live in the presence of God no, no one comes to the Father but through Jesus
So where will that woman spend eternity?
So there's only two choices heaven or hell you can't make another choice
There aren't three or four choices and you can't reject him and go to a good place
Now I'm not gonna get dogmatic about this because I don't know this is true
Then sit down and shut up and let's get a real man of God in the pulpit who doesn't preach what he likes
He preaches what the Bible says not what he likes or what people like
Okay, it's my belief that those who are not Christians and a part of the body of Christ
God will put them somewhere on the recreated earth so they can live but they don't have a perfect body like ours
Because they still have to be healed
The leaves of the trees in the New Jerusalem are for the healing of the nations. So these people never die
But they evidently don't have the same supranatural bodies that we do. Let me say this another way
It's really worth it to live for Jesus
You know that
So with every head bowed I just want to ask you
Have you made Jesus the Lord of your life? Do you know where you would go?
If you were to die today
Do you know where your eternity is?
Because it's the easiest thing to make that secure
It says in in the Bible Pat the Apostle Paul says very clearly
That if we confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord, that means we surrender to him. We make a confession when you surrender
He takes it all away the alcoholism
the drug abuse the abusive behavior
There's nothing that can stop you from entering in to God's kingdom
So I want to ask with every head bowed every eye closed
That if that's you if you would you would come this morning and you would say I want to I want to I want to
make sure
That I have surrendered my life. I want to make Jesus the Lord of my life
Will you just raise your hand up real high make it proud real real high
Raise it up. I surrender to you this morning Jesus. I make you the Lord of my life. I
Turn it over to you
And
You know what I can stand here tonight and be humble and say my
Salvation has nothing to do with any of my righteousness not having my own righteousness
Which is of the law but that was through the faith of Christ
The righteous which is of God by faith and I am NOT having anything to boast of tonight. Nothing
I'm not gonna boast to you tonight about how I gave up this and I quit this and I join no
It's all through Jesus. He gets all the glory. I am nothing. I
Have not. Oh, I gave my life to Christ. No, he gave his life for us. You got that backwards
I didn't give him anything. I have nothing to give
You can't come to Christ. Oh, if you give your life to Christ, you'll be safe. He gave his life for you
You your life's not worth enough, you know to get you in the door
And if you won't do business with me because I speak in tongues I say Shonda mo
Goodness gracious, bye-bye
Bye-bye
What do you think about that dad bye-bye
Get on down with your bad self
That's not free that's not grace
You understand what I'm saying? So God says if it's works if he has to lift one finger for me in order to get that
gift
It's no longer faith and grace. It's works and
By the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight
So number one we saw the unbeliever will go to hell number two
The person who is trusting faith plus works is on their way to hell tonight
I'm gonna prove it to you in during the Galatians chapter 5 the person who's trusting faith plus works will split hell wide open
Picture this there's an airplane in an airport. The airplane is Jesus
Okay, this is an illustration the parable that I'm telling you the airplane is Jesus the destination is heaven you get on that plane
It's headed for heaven. What happens if you put one leg on the plane and one leg on the tarmac?
What happens when that plane takes off?
You're not going anywhere. You're gonna split your britches. You're gonna land flat on your face on that
That tarmac you're not going anywhere
Unless you get all the way on board and it's just like when Noah got on the ark God shut him in God shut the
Door behind it. You got to get on board shut the door. You're in your can't get out. You're on your way to heaven
that's what salvation is and
Here's the thing. A lot of people are trusting in works to get them to heaven, aren't they?
But the Bible says provide grace are you saved through faith and then not of yourselves it is the gift of God
Not of works lest any man should boast so a lot of you are trusting their works to get them to heaven
But the sad thing is that anyone who's trusting their works the Bible is clear. They'll be judged by their works
Do you want to trust in your works to get you to heaven someday you'll stand before God
He'll open the books. He'll open the Bible. He'll judge you
According to your works and let me tell you something. It isn't gonna be good
You thought your good works we're gonna get you into heaven and he said many will say to me in that day Lord
Lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name of cast-out devils and in thy name done many
Wonderful and the word echoes throughout all eternity works
and
Then will I profession to them? I never knew you
depart from me
the workers of iniquity