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00:04 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
00:08 DOUG BATCHELOR: SO, WHAT'S THE HOTTEST PLACE ON EARTH? 00:11 "GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS" LISTS THE OFFICIAL WINNER 00:13 AS DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. 00:16 ON JULY 10, 1913, THE MERCURY THERE SKYROCKETED 00:20 TO 134 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT. 00:23 SOME PARTS OF DEATH VALLEY HAVE AN AVERAGE DAILY HIGH 00:27 OF 115 DEGREES, BUT THE GROUND TEMPERATURE 00:30 CAN GET EVEN MORE INTENSE. 00:32 IN 1972, AT A PLACE CALLED FURNACE CREEK, IT REGISTERED 00:36 A BLISTERING 201 DEGREES, THE HOTTEST SURFACE TEMPERATURE 00:41 EVER RECORDED ON THE PLANET. 00:43 ACTUALLY, THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE THERE ARE OTHER PLACES IN THE 00:45 DESERTS AROUND THE WORLD THAT GET EVEN HOTTER, BUT MOST HUMANS 00:49 DON'T INHABIT THE HOTTEST PLACES ON EARTH, SO THERE ARE NO 00:52 WEATHER STATIONS OR SENSORS TO RECORD THE EXTREME TEMPERATURES. 00:56 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THE ULTIMATE GLOBAL WARMING 00:59 IS STILL IN THE FUTURE. 01:00 IT'S THE TIME WHEN GOD WILL CLEANSE THE WORLD WITH FIRE. 01:04 THE SCRIPTURE SAYS, "IN THAT DAY, THE VERY ELEMENTS WILL MELT 01:07 WITH FERVENT HEAT, AND THE EARTH AND THE THINGS THAT ARE 01:10 IN IT WILL BE BURNED UP." 01:12 SOUNDS SCARY? WELL, IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE. 01:16 TO FIND OUT MORE, JOIN ME NOW AS WE EXPLORE 01:19 "THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT HELL." 01:25 >>THE MESSAGE FOR THIS MORNING IS TITLED 'THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT 01:29 HELL - PART 1'. NOW THIS IS A VERY RELEVANT 01:37 THING FOR US TO TALK ABOUT BECAUSE THE BIBLE IS PRETTY 01:41 CLEAR THERE ARE ONLY TWO CHOICES THAT EVERY HUMAN FACES. 01:47 THERE ARE TWO DESTINIES EVERYONE AROUND YOU IS GOING TO EMBRACE. 01:52 YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 20, VERSE 15, "AND ANYONE NOT FOUND 01:56 WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE." 02:03 THERE ARE TWO CHOICES - LIFE OR DEATH - ETERNAL LIFE OR THE LAKE 02:10 OF FIRE, SOMETIMES KNOWN AS HELL. 02:12 I ALWAYS FEEL A LITTLE AWKWARD SAYING THAT WORD IN CHURCH. 02:15 MOST PEOPLE DON'T USE THAT WORD IN THE BIBLICAL SENSE, 02:18 BUT IT IS A BIBLICAL WORD AND JUST APPRECIATE 02:20 THAT'S THE WAY I'M USING IT. 02:23 AND, KIND OF, THE COLLECTIVE IDEA OF HELL IS THAT THERE'S 02:28 THIS MOLTEN PLACE, TYPICALLY DOWN YONDER SOMEWHERE, WHERE THE 02:36 LOST GO AS SOON AS THEY DIE AND THAT THEY BEGIN BURNING THERE 02:41 BUT THEY'RE ALIVE AND CONSCIOUS AND THEY FEEL THE BURNING AND 02:47 THEY DON'T BURN FOR A SECOND OR TWO, BUT THEY BURN IN THIS 02:50 MOLTEN FIRE AND SULPHUR AND BRIMSTONE AGONIZING SECOND AFTER 02:56 SECOND AND MINUTE AFTER MINUTE AND HOUR AFTER HOUR AND DAY 03:01 AFTER DAY AND WEEK AND MONTH AND YEAR AFTER YEAR AND 03:04 MILLENNIUM AFTER MILLENNIUM. 03:06 ALL THAT TIME THEY'RE ROLLING AND BLISTERING AND SHRIEKING AND 03:09 CRYING FOR MERCY AND MERCY NEVER COMES AND AFTER A BILLION YEARS 03:13 GO BY THEY MANAGE TO SWIM TO THE SURFACE OF THIS MOLTEN BRIMSTONE 03:18 AND THEY CALL 'LORD, HOW LONG?' AND GOD SAYS, 'YOU'VE ONLY JUST 03:21 BEGUN.' AND HE PUSHES THEM UNDER AGAIN. THIS IS WHAT IS BELIEVED. 03:26 YOU'RE AWARE OF THAT. THIS IS WHAT IS BELIEVED BY THE 03:30 TYPICAL BAPTIST AND MANY EVANGELICALS ABOUT HELL. 03:34 SOME TRY TO SOFTEN IT A LITTLE BIT AND THEY SIMPLY CALL IT 03:37 ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD. 03:40 BUT THEN YOU PIN THEM DOWN AND SAY, 'WELL, WHAT ARE THESE LOST 03:42 SOULS EXPERIENCING?' 'WELL, THEY'RE BEING TORMENTED 03:46 DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER AND EVER IN FIRE AND BRIMSTONE.' 03:50 THERE ARE SOME DIFFICULT PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE THAT ARE 03:53 FREQUENTLY MISUNDERSTOOD AND I'M GOING TO TAKE SOME TIME, 03:56 SPECIFICALLY NEXT WEEK TO TALK ABOUT THAT. 04:00 BUT IN THE PRESENTATION TODAY I WANT TO TELL YOU WHAT SOME OF 04:03 THE GOOD NEWS IS ON THIS SUBJECT AND TRY AND CLEAR UP SOME OF 04:07 THESE MISUNDERSTANDINGS BECAUSE THIS TYPICAL TRADITIONAL VIEW OF 04:11 HELL IS NOT WHAT WAS TAUGHT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT OR THE NEW 04:14 TESTAMENT OR BELIEVED BY THE EARLY CHURCH. 04:17 IT HAS BEEN DISTORTED THROUGH THE DARK AGES AND EXPLOITED BY 04:21 THE CHURCH TO DRIVE PEOPLE BY FEAR. 04:26 MANY, MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DRIVEN BY FEAR REGARDING THIS 04:29 SUBJECT AND IT DISTORTS THE PICTURE OF GOD - IT PAINTS GOD 04:33 AS A SADIST. AND I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND 04:37 WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY TEACHES ABOUT THE SUBJECT. 04:39 FIRST OF ALL, IS ANYBODY BURNING IN HELL RIGHT NOW? 04:42 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TEACH ABOUT THIS? 04:44 2 PETER - WE'LL HAVE SCRIPTURES ON THE SCREEN, BUT I HOPE YOU'LL 04:47 ALSO WRITE THEM DOWN SO YOU'LL HAVE AN OUTLINE IN YOUR HANDS. 04:51 2 PETER CHAPTER 2, VERSE 9 "...THE LORD KNOWS HOW TO 04:56 DELIVER THE GODLY OUT OF TEMPTATIONS AND TO RESERVE THE 05:01 UNJUST" - YOU'VE GOT TWO GROUPS: THE GODLY AND THE UNJUST - 05:05 "UNDER PUNISHMENT FOR THE DAY OF JUDGMENT," - SO WHEN ARE THE 05:08 UNJUST PUNISHED? THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. 05:12 THAT DAY IS NOT THE DAY OF THEIR DEATH. 05:14 THERE IS A GREAT JUDGMENT DAY COMING. 05:17 JOHN 12:48 JESUS SAID, "HE WHO REJECTS ME, AND DOES NOT RECEIVE 05:22 MY WORDS, HAS THAT WHICH JUDGES HIM - THE WORD THAT I HAVE 05:26 SPOKEN WILL JUDGE HIM IN THE LAST DAY." 05:29 CHRIST IS LOOKING OFF INTO THE FUTURE AT THAT DAY OF THE LORD - 05:33 THAT GREAT JUDGMENT DAY - AND HE SAYS 'THAT IS THE DAY WHEN THEY 05:38 WILL BE JUDGED BY THE WORD THAT I HAVE SPOKEN.' 05:40 THEY ARE NOT JUDGED YET. 05:41 THEY ARE NOT RECEIVING THEIR REWARD YET. 05:45 AND THEN, IF THERE'S ANY DOUBT, IT'S REALLY CLEAR WHEN YOU LOOK 05:48 AT THE PARABLE THAT JESUS TOLD - MATTHEW CHAPTER 13, VERSE 40 - 05:53 DO YOU KNOW THE PARABLE OF THE WHEAT AND THE TARES? HERE JESUS 05:57 TALKS ABOUT A MAN HAD A FIELD AND SOME ENEMY CAME DURING THE 06:00 NIGHT AND HE SOWED THESE TARES - TARES ARE LIKE A WEED. 06:03 HE SOWED THESE WEEDS IN AMONG THE WHEAT AND IT ALL GREW UP AND 06:06 THE SERVANTS SAID, 'WHAT SHALL WE DO? 06:08 SHALL WE PULL UP ALL THE WEEDS?' AND THE MASTER SAID, 'NO, LET IT 06:12 GROW TOGETHER UNTIL THE HARVEST AND AT THE HARVEST THEN WE'LL 06:15 GATHER THE TARES AND BURN THEM IN BUNDLES AND WE'LL 06:18 GATHER THE WHEAT AND PUT IT IN THE BARN. 06:20 AND SO JESUS, LATER, INTERPRETING THAT PARABLE FOR 06:23 THE DISCIPLES SO THERE'S NO MISUNDERSTANDING HE SAID - AND 06:27 THIS IS MATTHEW 13, VERSE 40, "THEREFORE AS THE TARES ARE 06:32 GATHERED AND BURNED IN THE FIRE, SO IT WILL BE AT 06:36 THE END OF THIS AGE. 06:39 THE SON OF MAN WILL SEND OUT HIS ANGELS," - WHEN JESUS COMES - 06:43 "AND THEY WILL GATHER OUT OF HIS KINGDOM ALL THINGS THAT OFFEND, 06:45 AND THOSE WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS," - THE WICKED - THE 06:48 LOST - "AND WILL CAST THEM INTO THE FURNACE OF FIRE. 06:51 THERE WILL BE WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH." 06:55 ALRIGHT, WELL ONE THING WE DID LEARN - THERE IS A FURNACE OF 06:58 FIRE BUT WE ALSO LEARNED THAT THEY'RE NOT BURNING THERE YET 07:02 BECAUSE THE JUDGMENT DAY HAS NOT HAPPENED. 07:04 THIS HARVEST HAS NOT HAPPENED YET. THE RESURRECTION OF THE 07:07 WICKED HAS NOT HAPPENED YET. IT IS STILL IN THE FUTURE. 07:10 SO I HOPE THAT YOU FIND SOME GOOD NEWS RIGHT THERE - THAT 07:13 NOBODY IS BURNING IN HELL RIGHT NOW. SO WHERE ARE THE LOST NOW? 07:18 JESUS ANSWERS THAT IN JOHN 4, VERSES 28 AND 29, "DO NOT MARVEL 07:23 AT THIS; FOR THE HOUR IS COMING" - FUTURE TENSE - "IN WHICH ALL 07:27 WHO ARE IN THE GRAVES WILL HEAR HIS VOICE AND COME FORTH -" - 07:32 THEY HAVEN'T COME FORTH YET - THERE'S AN HOUR COMING WHEN 07:34 THEY'LL COME FORTH - THOSE WHO HAVE DONE GOOD, TO THE 07:37 RESURRECTION OF LIFE," - THAT'S FIRST - DEAD IN CHRIST RISE 07:40 FIRST. ISN'T THAT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS? 07:42 - "AND THOSE WHO HAVE DONE EVIL, TO THE RESURRECTION OF 07:44 CONDEMNATION." - OR THE RESURRECTION OF 07:46 DAMNATION - THE RESURRECTION OF THE LOST SPOKEN OF ALSO IN 07:51 DANIEL CHAPTER 12. JESUS SAID IT'S IN THE FUTURE. 07:55 YOU'VE GOT A RESURRECTION OF THE SAVED - THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE 07:57 FIRST. THAT'S IN 1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 4. 08:00 AND THEN THERE'S THE RESURRECTION OF THE LOST THAT 08:02 HAPPENS AT THE END OF THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS. 08:05 THE BIBLE TELLS US IN REVELATION 20, 'THE REST OF THE DEAD DO NOT 08:08 LIVE UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE FINISHED.' 08:11 IF THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE FIRST - ALL THE DEAD WHO ARE SAVED 08:14 RISE FIRST - WHO ARE THE REST OF THE DEAD? 08:16 THE DEAD WITHOUT CHRIST - THE LOST. 08:20 THAT'S THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION OR CONDEMNATION THE 08:24 BIBLE SPEAKS OF - IT'S IN THE FUTURE - HASN'T HAPPENED YET. 08:29 ALRIGHT, MOVING ON WITH THE NEXT QUESTION: WHAT IS THE END RESULT 08:33 OF SIN? WELL, LET'S LET THE BIBLE SPEAK FOR ITSELF. 08:38 JAMES 1:15, "...SIN, WHEN IT IS FINISHED, BRINGETH FORTH DEATH." 08:46 SO THERE ARE TWO REWARDS THAT ARE OFFERED: LIFE OR DEATH. 08:51 MOSES SAID, BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ENTERED THE PROMISED 08:53 LAND THERE IN DEUTERONOMY IN CHAPTER 30, HE SAID, 'I SET 08:57 BEFORE YOU THIS DAY LIFE AND GOOD AND BLESSING OR DEATH AND 09:00 EVIL AND CURSING.' THE OPTIONS FOR EVERYBODY IS IF 09:04 YOUR NAME IS IN THE BOOK OF LIFE YOU LIVE. 09:06 IF YOUR NAME IS NOT IN THE BOOK OF LIFE YOU WILL BE PUNISHED AND 09:10 YOU DIE. THE END RESULT OF SIN IS NOT 09:13 ETERNAL LIFE IN THE FIRE. IT DOESN'T SAY THAT IN THE 09:15 BIBLE. THE BIBLE DOESN'T SAY ANYWHERE 09:18 THAT YOU'VE GOT AN IMMORTAL SOUL. 09:20 I ALWAYS STOP AND I JUST ASK ANYBODY - I MEAN, HERE WE'VE GOT 09:24 OH, SIX OR SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLE, SHOW ME ONE VERSE IN THE BIBLE 09:28 THAT SAYS YOU HAVE AN IMMORTAL SOUL. 09:31 GOD IS IMMORTAL, BUT IMMORTALITY IS GIVEN AT THE RESURRECTION. 09:37 NOBODY NOW POSSESSES IMMORTALITY. 09:39 MATTER OF FACT, OUR BODIES ARE CALLED MORTAL BODIES. 09:42 WHEN JESUS COMES, THEN THIS MORTAL PUTS ON IMMORTALITY. 09:46 JOHN 3:16 - ACTUALLY I THINK I'VE GOT ONE IN ROMANS FIRST - 09:51 LET'S DO ROMANS 6:23. "FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, 09:57 BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE." 09:59 EVERYBODY HERE - YOU'VE GOT TWO OPTIONS. 10:02 AND I CAN PROMISE YOU SOMETHING: EVERYBODY HERE WILL RECEIVE ONE 10:05 OF THOSE TWO OPTIONS. AND WHAT ARE THOSE TWO OPTIONS? 10:11 DEATH - HE DOESN'T SAY 'THE WAGES FOR SIN IS ETERNAL LIFE IN 10:14 THE FIRE.' HE SAYS, 'THE WAGES FOR SIN IS DEATH.' 10:18 THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE. NOW, DID JESUS DIE FOR OUR SINS? 10:23 DID JESUS TAKE THE PENALTY FOR OUR SINS? 10:26 DID JESUS JUST FALL OVER AND DIE OR DID HE SUFFER AND DIE? 10:31 SO THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS NOT JUST DEATH, THE ULTIMATE PENALTY 10:34 IS DEATH, BUT HE SUFFERED AND DIED. 10:38 SO IF WE DO NOT EMBRACE THE SACRIFICE JESUS MADE IN OUR 10:42 BEHALF, WE WILL ALSO SUFFER AND DIE FOR OUR OWN SINS IF WE DO 10:47 NOT ACCEPT HIM AS OUR REPLACEMENT. 10:52 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE SO FAR? 10:55 JOHN 3:16 - TWO OPTIONS - "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE 11:00 GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD 11:05 NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE." THERE'S ONLY TWO OPTIONS. 11:11 ONE OPTION IS NOT ETERNAL LIFE IN THE FIRE - 11:14 PERISH IS THE ABSENCE OF LIFE. 11:16 THEY'RE GOING TO PERISH OR EVERLASTING LIFE. 11:20 JESUS MADE THAT CLEAR RIGHT THERE IN JOHN 3:16. 11:23 OKAY, QUESTION #4: WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED IN HELLFIRE? 11:28 PSALM 37, VERSE 10 AND THEN I'M ALSO GOING TO READ VERSE 20 - 11:32 YOU OUGHT TO READ THE WHOLE PSALM. 11:33 WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WICKED IN HELLFIRE? HERE WE GO. 11:37 "FOR YET A LITTLE WHILE, AND THE WICKED SHALL NOT BE: YEAH, THOU 11:41 SHALT DILIGENTLY CONSIDER HIS PLACE, AND IT SHALL NOT BE." 11:46 THEY'LL NOT BE. I MEAN, WHAT OTHER TERM OR WORDS DO YOU USE 11:50 TO DESCRIBE SOMETHING CEASING TO EXIST? THEY'LL NOT BE. 11:53 'THE WICKED SHALL PERISH AND THE ENEMIES OF THE LORD 11:56 WILL CONSUME INTO SMOKE. THEY WILL CONSUME AWAY.' 11:59 AND I'VE HEARD SOME PASTORS SAY, 'WELL, YEAH, THAT'S TRUE. 12:01 THE BODIES ALL BURN UP BUT THE SOUL CONTINUES TO BURN FOREVER.' 12:06 OH, BUT JESUS SAID 'THE SOUL THAT SINS IT WILL DIE.' 12:09 ACTUALLY, THAT'S IN EZEKIEL - JESUS SAID, 'FEAR NOT HIM WHO 12:12 DESTROYS THE BODY' - MATTHEW CHAPTER 10 - 12:14 'BUT CANNOT DESTROY THE SOUL. 12:16 RATHER, FEAR HIM WHO DESTROYS SOUL AND BODY IN HELL.' 12:20 IT'S NOT JUST THE BODY THAT BURNS UP - THE SOUL AND BODY. 12:23 MALACHI 4, VERSE 1 - THIS WAS IN OUR SCRIPTURE READING - "'FOR 12:27 BEHOLD, THE DAY IS COMING, BURNING LIKE AN OVEN, AND ALL 12:31 THE PROUD, YES, ALL WHO DO WICKEDLY WILL BE STUBBLE. 12:35 AND THE DAY WHICH IS COMING SHALL BURN THEM UP.' 12:38 SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, 'THAT WILL LEAVE THEM NEITHER ROOT NOR 12:41 BRANCH.'" YOU THINK ABOUT THE WORDS THAT 12:44 GOD IS USING HERE. LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE AND 12:46 I'LL JUST TRY AND SUM THIS THOUGHT UP FOR YOU. 12:48 REVELATION 21, VERSES 7 AND 8, "HE WHO OVERCOMES WILL INHERIT 12:53 ALL THINGS" - THERE'S THE GOOD NEWS, RIGHT? - "AND I WILL BE 12:56 HIS GOD AND HE WILL BE MY SON." - SO ON ONE SIDE 12:59 YOU'VE GOT A SHEEP - THEY GET THE EVERLASTING LIFE. 13:03 THEY'RE SAVED. - "BUT" - 13:06 THIS IS VERSE 8 - REVELATION 21, VERSE 8 - 13:08 "THE COWARDLY, UNBELIEVING, ABOMINABLE, MURDERERS, SEXUALLY 13:14 IMMORAL, SORCERERS, IDOLATERS, AND ALL LIARS SHALL HAVE THEIR 13:19 PART IN THE LAKE WHICH BURNS WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, WHICH 13:23 IS THE SECOND DEATH." 13:26 REVELATION 20, VERSE 9 - WHERE IS HELL GOING TO BURN? 13:30 AT THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM WHEN SATAN MARSHALS THOSE LOST 13:34 FORCES AGAINST THE CITY OF GOD IT SAYS, "THEY WENT UP ON THE 13:37 BREADTH OF THE EARTH AND SURROUNDED THE CAMP OF THE 13:39 SAINTS AND THE BELOVED CITY. 13:41 AND FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN AND DEVOURED THEM." 13:45 THAT FIRE THAT RAINS DOWN SURROUNDING THE NEW JERUSALEM 13:48 FORMS A LAKE OF FIRE. IT IS ON THE EARTH. SO WHERE IS HELL 13:52 GOING TO BURN? ON THE EARTH. I'LL GIVE YOU A FEW MORE VERSES. 13:56 PROVERBS 11, VERSE 31, "...THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE RECOMPENSED 14:01 IN THE EARTH: MUCH MORE THE WICKED AND THE SINNER." 14:05 EVERYBODY'S GOING TO GET THEIR REWARD IN THE VERY PLACE OF THE 14:08 CRIME - RIGHT HERE ON THE PLANET. 14:10 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 10, "BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL 14:14 COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, IN WHICH THE HEAVENS WILL PASS AWAY 14:17 WITH A GREAT NOISE, AND THE ELEMENTS WILL MELT WITH FERVENT 14:20 HEAT; BOTH THE EARTH AND THE WORKS THAT ARE IN IT 14:23 WILL BE BURNED UP." 14:25 SO IT'S ALWAYS FOCUSED - THAT JUDGMENT IS RIGHT DOWN HERE. 14:28 HELL IS NOT A CAVERN OFF IN THE COSMOS SOMEWHERE - THAT'S FULL 14:33 OF MOLTEN FIRE - HELL IS NOT A CAVERN DOWN IN THE EARTH 14:38 SOMEWHERE, IT'S ON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH. 14:42 DOUG: DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS, IN JUST A MOMENT WE'RE 14:45 GOING TO RETURN FOR THE REST OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 14:49 HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED: IF GOD IS LOVE, IF GOD IS GOOD, 14:53 WHY WOULD HE MAKE A DEVIL? 14:55 AND FURTHERMORE, WHY WOULD GOD WANT SATAN TO BE THE SUPERVISOR 14:59 OF HELL, MEASURING OUT HIS PUNISHMENT ON THE SINNERS? 15:04 MILLIONS THE WORLD OVER BELIEVE THESE THINGS, BUT WHAT IF I TOLD 15:08 YOU THAT YOU WON'T FIND THIS TAUGHT ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE. 15:12 WOULD THAT CHANGE YOUR PICTURE OF GOD? 15:15 THAT'S WHY I HOPE YOU'LL LET ME SEND YOU 15:16 A BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED STUDY GUIDE CALLED, 15:19 "IS THE DEVIL IN CHARGE OF HELL?" 15:22 THIS POWERFUL BIBLE RESOURCE WILL ANSWER SOME BIG 15:24 QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DEVIL. 15:26 IT'LL EXPLAIN WHERE THE SCRIPTURES SAY HE CAME FROM, 15:29 AND WHY GOD DOESN'T JUST SNUFF HIM OUT OF EXISTENCE. 15:32 TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND 15:35 ASK FOR OFFER 119, OR VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS. 15:39 AND AFTER YOU READ THIS INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, 15:41 MAKE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 15:44 WELL, LET'S GET BACK TO THE REST OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND 15:46 LEARN SOME MORE AMAZING FACTS FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 15:51 >>IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT BECAUSE ONCE YOU KNOW WHERE HELL 15:54 IS, IT BECOMES CLEAR THAT FOR GOD TO MAKE A NEW EARTH ON THIS 15:58 PLANET THE TWO CAN'T COEXIST TOGETHER. 16:01 THAT MEANS THE FIRES OF HELL MUST GO OUT. 16:05 NUMBER 6 - THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POINTS THAT I 16:09 THINK IS ACTUALLY GOOD NEWS. HOW LONG WILL THE WICKED SUFFER 16:13 IN THE FIRE? WELL, YOU KNOW THE BIBLE DOESN'T 16:16 GIVE US AN EXACT TIME BECAUSE IT VARIES FROM PERSON TO PERSON. 16:21 REVELATION 22:12, JESUS SAID - LAST CHAPTER OF THE BIBLE - 16:26 "AND, BEHOLD, I COME QUICKLY; AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME, TO 16:30 GIVE EVERY MAN ACCORDING AS HIS WORK SHALL BE." 16:34 EVERYONE IS REWARDED ACCORDING TO HIS WORK - MEANING THERE ARE 16:38 VARYING WORKS OUT THERE AND THERE ARE VARYING REWARDS. 16:42 IF EVERYBODY BURNS ETERNALLY THEN EVERYBODY GETS THE SAME 16:45 REWARD. HOW CAN THERE BE A VARIATION? 'WELL, SOME - 16:50 IT'S HOTTER FIRE THAN FOR THE OTHERS.' WOULD BE THE ANSWER. 16:53 COME ON, IF YOU GET EVERLASTING FIRE AND I GET EVERLASTING FIRE 16:56 - AND JUST THINK ABOUT HOW UNJUST THAT WOULD BE THAT YOU'VE 17:01 GOT, YOU KNOW, THINK OF THE BIGGEST FIEND YOU CAN THINK OF 17:03 FROM HISTORY - POL POT OR ADOLPH HITLER - PICK YOUR FIEND. 17:07 SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT STALIN KILLED MORE THAN HITLER. 17:10 PICK YOUR BIGGEST FIEND THAT YOU FIGURE IS LOST AND ON THE 17:13 JUDGMENT DAY GOD SAYS, 'LOST - LAKE OF FIRE FOR YOU.' 17:19 AND THE ANGELS TOSS HIM OFF IN THE MOLTEN LAKE OF FIRE AND THEN 17:22 YOU'VE GOT THAT TEENAGER. HE'S PAST THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY - 17:27 HE'S OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER BUT HE REJECTS GOD - TAKES HIS 17:33 OWN LIFE AND THE LORD SAYS, 'SORRY, YOU CAN'T BE SAVED. 17:39 YOU CAN GO BURN FOREVER RIGHT NEXT TO ADOLPH OR STALIN.' 17:42 IS THAT JUSTICE? NO, I JUST - IT ABSOLUTELY 17:47 VIOLATES OUR REASON. WELL, THE BIBLE IS CLEAR. 17:51 IT SAYS THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES OF PUNISHMENT. 17:53 AND LET ME GIVE YOU A FEW MORE VERSES ON THAT. 17:55 MATTHEW 10:28, "AND FEAR NOT THEM WHICH KILL THE BODY, BUT 17:59 ARE NOT ABLE TO KILL THE SOUL:" - I THINK I QUOTED THIS ALREADY 18:02 - "BUT RATHER FEAR HIM WHICH IS ABLE TO DESTROY BOTH SOUL AND 18:06 BODY IN HELL." SO IN HELL THE WICKED ARE DESTROYED. 18:09 MATTHEW 16, "...HE'LL REWARD EVERY MAN" - 16:27 - "ACCORDING 18:16 TO HIS WORKS." EVERYBODY. THEN AGAIN, WE'RE SAVED BY WHAT? 18:20 WORKS OR FAITH? WE'RE SAVED BY FAITH AND GRACE BUT WORKS ARE 18:24 THE ONLY THING THAT'S USED IN THE JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED. 18:27 WILL THE FIRE EVENTUALLY GO OUT? ISAIAH 47:14, IT SAYS, "BEHOLD, 18:34 THEY SHALL BE AS STUBBLE, THE FIRE SHALL BURN THEM;" - 18:38 SPEAKING OF THE WICKED - "THEY SHALL NOT DELIVER THEMSELVES 18:41 FROM THE POWER OF THE FLAME; IT SHALL NOT BE A COAL TO BE WARMED 18:45 BY, NOR A FIRE TO SIT BEFORE." NOT EVEN A COAL LEFT. 18:50 MALACHI 4:3 MAKES IT PRETTY CLEAR, "'YOU SHALL TRAMPLE THE 18:53 WICKED, FOR THEY SHALL BE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET ON 18:56 THE DAY THAT I DO THIS,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS." 18:59 SO 'BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, THEY WILL INHERIT THE EARTH.' 19:01 WE GO FORTH FROM THE NEW JERUSALEM AFTER THE JUDGEMENT OF 19:03 THE WICKED. THEY'VE ALL BEEN BURNED, INCLUDING THE DEVIL 19:06 AND HIS ANGELS, ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY DESERVE. 19:08 AND IF ANYBODY DESERVES TO BURN FOREVER, WHO IS IT? 19:11 IT'D BE LUCIFER. 19:13 THE BIBLE EVEN SAYS IN EZEKIEL, 'I WILL BRING FORTH A FIRE FROM 19:16 THE MIDST OF THEE AND IT WILL DEVOUR THEE AND IT WILL BRING 19:20 THEE TO ASHES ON THE EARTH IN THE SIGHT OF THEM THAT BEHOLD 19:23 THEE. THOU SHALT BE A TERROR AND NEVER SHALT THOU BE ANYMORE.' 19:27 NEVER SHALT THOU BE. YOU DON'T EVER HAVE TO WORRY 19:29 ABOUT HITLER ESCAPING FROM PRISON - LIKE NAPOLEON BRIEFLY 19:34 DID - AND ANOTHER REBELLION RISING UP. 19:37 HE IS GOING TO BE PERMANENTLY DEALT WITH. 19:40 HE WILL BURN LONGER THAN ANYONE ELSE - PROBABLY DAY AND NIGHT. 19:43 AND I'LL EXPLAIN THOSE VERSES IN OUR NEXT STUDY. 19:47 AGAIN, REVELATION 21, VERSES 4 AND 5, "AND GOD WILL WIPE AWAY 19:52 EVERY TEAR FROM THEIR EYES; THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH," - 19:56 NOTICE - "NOR SORROW, NOR CRYING." HE DOESN'T SAY NO MORE 20:01 CRYING AMONG THE SAVED, HE'S TALKING ABOUT A WORLD MADE NEW - 20:05 A NEW HEAVEN, A NEW EARTH - NO MORE CRYING - NO MORE CRYING 20:07 ANYWHERE. "THERE SHALL BE NO MORE PAIN." 20:11 HOW CAN YOU HAVE THIS VAST WAREHOUSE FILLED WITH PEOPLE WHO 20:17 ARE SCREAMING AND SHRIEKING AND GOD SAYING 'GOOD NEWS. 20:20 THERE'S NO MORE PAIN.' WELL, THERE IS PAIN. 20:24 IF, THEORETICALLY, THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD IS LOST AND IF 20:27 YOU'VE GOT MULTIPLIED BILLIONS OF PEOPLE THAT ARE WRITHING AND 20:30 SHRIEKING IN MOLTEN FIRE FOR ETERNITY, FOR GOD TO SAY, 'GOOD 20:34 NEWS, THERE'S NO MORE PAIN.' AND WOULDN'T WE HAVE TO ALL BE 20:38 BRAINWASHED AND NOT REMEMBER ANY OF THE PEOPLE WE KNEW IN THIS 20:41 LIFE THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT? AND THEN WE'D JUST, YOU KNOW, 20:45 GOD'S GOING TO BRAINWASH US LIKE THAT SO WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S 20:47 GOING ON - I WISH HE'D DO IT NOW, RIGHT? 20:52 JUST MAKE ME A SAINT RIGHT NOW AND MAKE ME OBLIVIOUS TO ALL THE 20:54 SUFFERING RIGHT NOW. BUT HE'S NOT. WE'RE GOING TO KNOW. 21:00 THAT'S WHY HE'S GOT TO DRY AWAY TEARS BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO 21:02 BE PEOPLE THAT ARE LOST AND THEY'RE PUNISHED BUT THEY'RE 21:07 GOING TO BE PUT OUT OF THEIR MISERY. 21:09 GOD IS GOING TO COMFORT US BY SAYING, 'GOOD NEWS. 21:11 NO MORE PAIN. THEY'RE NOT SUFFERING ANYMORE.' 21:15 THEY ARE ETERNALLY SEPARATED FROM GOD, YES. 21:18 THEY ARE DESTROYED WITH ETERNAL DESTRUCTION, YES. 21:21 THE FIRE THAT BURNS THEM IS AN ETERNAL FIRE - THEY ARE BURNT 21:23 FOREVER - GONE - BUT THEY'RE NOT STILL BURNING. 21:32 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED 21:36 THERE'S A STORY IN THE BIBLE THAT TELLS US EXACTLY HOW IT'S 21:38 GOING TO END. 21:40 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE STORY OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH? 21:45 AND THE BIBLE TELLS US THERE THAT - IN GENESIS 19:24 - I'LL 21:53 NEVER FORGET, WHEN I WAS 16 YEARS OLD I LIVED ON A SAILBOAT 21:58 AND WE SAILED AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN AND ONE OF THE 22:00 PLACES THEY TOOK US WAS THE RUINS OF POMPEII. 22:05 THERE, NOT FAR FROM THE FOOT OF MOUNT VESUVIUS, THE VOLCANO BLEW 22:09 UP IN ABOUT 79 A.D. AND IT SHOWERED THE CITIES OF POMPEII 22:15 AND HERCULANEUM WITH ASHES AND BRIMSTONE. 22:17 AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE ESCAPED. PLINY THE ELDER, I THINK, TALKED 22:22 ABOUT IT IN A LETTER TO HIS COUSIN AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE 22:26 ACTUALLY MADE IT OUT TO THE WATER AND THEY WERE ACTUALLY 22:28 ABLE TO ESCAPE THE CLOUD OF GASES AND ASH THAT CAME DOWN AND 22:32 SO MANY PEOPLE IN THAT - IT WAS THE LAS VEGAS OF THE ROMAN 22:35 EMPIRE BACK THEN. YOU CAN TELL FROM THE FRESCOS ON 22:38 THE WALLS - THEY'VE GOT ORGIES PAINTED ON THE WALLS AND BASIC 22:41 PORNOGRAPHY THAT SURVIVED. THEY FOUND IT IN 1874. 22:45 IT HAD BEEN BURIED UNDER 20 FEET OF ASH AND THEY'VE BEEN 22:47 EXCAVATING IT EVER SINCE. IT'S NOT EVEN ALL EXCAVATED YET. 22:51 AND EVERY NOW AND THEN THEY CAME TO A CAVITY AND THEY THOUGHT, 22:55 WAIT A SECOND, THERE WAS SOMETHING IN HERE AND SO THEY'D 22:57 MIX UP PLASTER OF PARIS AND THEY'D POUR IT IN AND THEY'D LET 23:01 IT DRY AND THEN THEY'D TAKE AWAY THE ASH AND THEY FOUND WHAT WAS 23:03 IN THERE AND THESE ARE SOME OF THE FORMS THAT THEY FOUND. 23:06 THESE GHOSTLY SHAPES OF PEOPLE - REAL PEOPLE WHO LIVED - THAT 23:11 WERE BASICALLY INCINERATED - THEY DIED BUT IT LEFT A VACUUM 23:15 ONCE THEIR BODIES DECOMPOSED IN THAT CHAMBER. 23:18 AND IT WAS JUST AN AWFUL DESTRUCTION. FIRE RAINED FROM 23:24 HEAVEN, YOU MIGHT SAY, AND BURNT THE CITY OF POMPEII. THAT MADE 23:27 A PRETTY DEEP IMPRESSION ON ME WHEN I SAW THAT AS A TEENAGER 23:31 AND I KIND OF WAS WORRIED ABOUT WHAT MY FUTURE WAS. 23:36 WELL, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THAT'S NOT THAT 23:38 DIFFERENT FROM WHAT HAPPENED TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH. 23:40 GENESIS 19:24, "THEN THE LORD RAINED BRIMSTONE AND FIRE ON 23:46 SODOM AND GOMORRAH, FROM THE LORD OUT OF THE HEAVENS." 23:50 AND JESUS, DESCRIBING THE END OF THE WORLD IN LUKE CHAPTER 23:54 17:28-30, SAYS IT'S GOING TO BE SIMILAR. 23:57 "LIKEWISE, AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF LOT: THEY ATE, THEY DRANK, 24:01 THEY BOUGHT, THEY SOLD, THEY PLANTED, THEY BUILT; BUT ON THE 24:04 DAY THAT LOT WENT OUT OF SODOM IT RAINED FIRE AND BRIMSTONE 24:07 FROM HEAVEN AND DESTROYED THEM ALL. EVEN SO WILL IT BE 24:10 IN THE DAY WHEN THE SON OF MAN IS REVEALED." 24:13 NOW HERE'S THE QUESTION: SODOM AND GOMORRAH ARE SET FORTH AS AN 24:16 EXAMPLE OF WHAT THIS FIRE IS. ARE THEY STILL BURNING TODAY? 24:22 LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE: JUDE 1:7, "AS SODOM AND GOMORRAH, AND 24:27 THE CITIES AROUND THEM IN A SIMILAR MANNER...GIVEN 24:30 THEMSELVES OVER TO SEXUAL IMMORALITY" - BOY, COULD IT BE 24:33 MUCH WORSE TODAY THAN IT WAS THEN? COULD IT HAVE BEEN 24:37 MUCH WORSE THEN THAN IT IS TODAY? COULD WE SHARE, 24:41 AS A WORLD, IN THEIR FATES? - "HAVING GONE AFTER 24:45 STRANGE FLESH," - YOU KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN BY STRANGE FLESH? 24:49 NOT EVEN NATURAL SEX - "ARE SET FORTH AS AN EXAMPLE, SUFFERING 24:55 THE VENGEANCE OF - NOTICE THIS - "SUFFERING" - THEY'RE AN EXAMPLE 24:58 OF "SUFFERING THE VENGEANCE OF ETERNAL FIRE." 25:01 SODOM AND GOMORRAH WERE BURNED UP WITH ETERNAL FIRE. 25:03 WHY DOES GOD CALL IT ETERNAL FIRE? 25:05 BECAUSE WHAT THAT FIRE DID TO THOSE CITIES WAS ETERNAL. 25:08 THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN REBUILT. THEY ARE STILL RUINS TODAY. 25:13 ARE THEY STILL BURNING? NO. 25:16 AND AGAIN, 2 PETER, 2:6, "AND TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND 25:19 GOMORRAH INTO ASHES, CONDEMNED THEM TO DESTRUCTION, MAKING THEM 25:24 AN EXAMPLE TO THOSE WHO AFTERWARD WOULD LIVE UNGODLY;" 25:27 WHAT WAS THE EXAMPLE? THEY WERE TURNED INTO ASHES. 25:30 THEY WERE BURNT WITH ETERNAL FIRE. 25:31 THEY ARE NOT STILL BURNING TODAY. 25:33 WE DON'T HAVE TO WONDER WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE WICKED. 25:35 GOD SAID, 'I'VE GIVEN YOU EXHIBIT A'. 25:37 LET'S GO TO THAT NEXT SLIDE. LET'S LOOK AT WHAT THE GOOD NEWS 25:39 IS THAT WE'VE LEARNED ABOUT HELL. 25:42 FIRST OF ALL, NO ONE IS BURNING IN HELL RIGHT NOW. 25:45 CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN'? THAT'S GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO 25:48 HAVE BEEN TORMENTED BY THAT IDEA. 25:50 SECONDLY, NO ONE IS GOING TO BURN IN HELL FOREVER. 25:55 THERE IS A LAKE OF FIRE. FOR MY BAPTIST FRIENDS THAT MAY 25:57 BE WATCHING AND YOU THINK, 'YOU FOLKS DON'T BELIEVE IN FIRE. 26:00 DON'T BELIEVE IN HELLFIRE.' MY HELLFIRE IS HOTTER THAN YOUR 26:04 HELLFIRE BECAUSE MY HELLFIRE BURNS THEM UP AND YOUR HELLFIRE 26:07 JUST ROASTS THEM FOREVER, RIGHT? AND SO, YES, WE BELIEVE IN 26:11 HELLFIRE BUT IT DOESN'T BURN FOREVER. 26:14 WE'VE SEEN THAT FROM THE BIBLE. HELLFIRE WILL PUT SINNERS OUT OF 26:19 THEIR MISERY. YOU EVER THOUGHT OF THAT? 26:21 SINNERS ARE NOT HAPPY - LIKE AN ANIMAL SUFFERING SOME INCURABLE 26:25 DISEASE - GOD IS GOING TO PUT SINNERS OUT OF THEIR MISERY. 26:29 AND, YOU KNOW, THAT IS ACTUALLY AN ACT OF LOVE AND MERCY. 26:32 EVEN IN THE WAY HE DEALS WITH THE LOST. 26:35 HELLFIRE WILL PURIFY THE UNIVERSE. 26:37 THERE'S NO MORE GOING TO BE SIN OR SINNERS. 26:39 ALL THINGS ARE PERFECT AND PURE AGAIN. 26:42 AND YOU DON'T NEED TO GO THERE. THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS. 26:47 YES, MOST OF THE WORLD'S GOING TO MAKE THE WRONG DECISION BUT 26:50 THERE'S NO NEED FOR ANYONE TO BE LOST BECAUSE THE SUFFERING THAT 26:53 JESUS TOOK UPON HIMSELF WAS YOUR SUFFERING. 26:57 BUT YOU MUST EMBRACE THAT. 27:03 ANNOUNCER: DON'T FORGET TO REQUEST TODAY'S LIFE-CHANGING 27:05 FREE RESOURCE. 27:07 NOT ONLY CAN YOU RECEIVE THIS FREE GIFT IN THE MAIL, YOU CAN 27:09 DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL COPY STRAIGHT TO YOUR COMPUTER OR 27:12 MOBILE DEVICE. 27:13 TO GET YOUR DIGITAL COPY OF TODAY'S FREE GIFT, SIMPLY TEXT 27:16 THE KEYWORD ON YOUR SCREEN TO 40544 OR VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS 27:20 SHOWN ON YOUR SCREEN. 27:22 AND BE SURE TO SELECT THE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD OPTION ON THE 27:25 REQUEST PAGE. 27:26 IT'S NOW EASIER THAN EVER FOR YOU TO STUDY GOD'S WORD WITH 27:29 AMAZING FACTS WHEREVER AND WHENEVER YOU WANT, AND MOST 27:33 IMPORTANT, TO SHARE IT WITH OTHERS. 27:36 ANNOUNCER: WHAT IF YOU COULD KNOW THE FUTURE? 27:40 WHAT WOULD YOU DO? 27:41 WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE? 27:43 TO SEE THE FUTURE, YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THE PAST. 27:49 THIS INTRIGUING DOCUMENTARY, 27:51 HOSTED BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR, EXPLORES THE MOST STRIKING BIBLE 27:55 PROPHECIES THAT HAVE BEEN DRAMATICALLY FULFILLED 27:58 THROUGHOUT HISTORY. 28:00 "KINGDOMS IN TIME," 28:01 FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT KINGDOMSINTIME.COM. 28:06 ♪♪ 28:10 ANNOUNCER: DON'T FORGET TO REQUEST TODAY'S FREE OFFER. 28:12 IT'S SURE TO BE A BLESSING. 28:14 WE HOPE YOU'LL JOIN US NEXT WEEK AS WE DELVE 28:16 DEEP INTO THE WORD OF GOD TO EXPLORE MORE AMAZING FACTS. 28:22 ♪♪ 28:24 >>THIS PRESENTATION WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 28:27 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. |
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