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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You and I living and walking around people every day
who do not believe the testimony of Jesus Christ, Incarnate,
Son of God. They do not believe the witness of
the Bible. They absolutely refuse to acknowledge the testimony of
their own conscience, and they spurn.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
The wooing of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
It is your responsibility in mind before God to warn
them and to assure them that Jesus Christ will save them,
but likewise to warn them that if they reject the
offer of salvation, they choose, by an act of their rejection,
to spend eternity separated from God.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's a popular idea that people can go to heaven
no matter what they believed about Jesus Christ. Maybe it's
you who has wondered if it's possible that those who
die without surrendering their lives to Jesus could be given
a second chance. Today, on in Touch, the teaching ministry
of doctor Charles Stanley, our series on our Eternal Destiny
continues with a solemn warning to those who reject Christ.
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Let's listen to doctor Stanley.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
If you're asleep and all of a sudden, your burglar
alarm system begins to blair out and scream out in
the night. You would consider that a warning, and more
than likely you would get up.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And see what was going on.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Not only a foolish person ignores warnings, and all through
the Bible, in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ
in the Gospels, Jesus continuously issued warnings to mankind concerning
life after death. And in the sixteenth chapter of Luke
he gives three warnings. And I want you to turn
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there if you will, because I want us to consider
one of those warnings. And the title of this message
is a solemn warning to those who reject Jesus Christ.
A solemn warning to those who reject Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Verse nineteen.
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There was a certain rich man and habitually dressed in
purple and fine linen, gaily, living in splendor every day.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And a certain poor man named.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores and
longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling
from the rich man's table. Besides, even the dogs were
coming and licking his sores. Now it came about that
the poor man died, and he was carried away by
the angels to Abraham's bosom, and the rich man also
died and was buried, And in hades, he lifted up
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his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away
and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried out and said,
Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that
he may dip the tip of his finger in water
and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony
in this flame. But Abraham said, child, remember that during
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your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus
bad things. But now he is being comforted here and
you're in agony. And besides all this between us and you,
there is a great chasm or great gulf fixed in
order that those who wish to come over from here
to you may not be able, and that none may
cross over from there to us. And he said, then,
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I beg you, father, that you send to my father's house,
for I have five brothers, that he may warn them
lest they also come to this place of torment. But
Abraham said, they have Moses and the prophets. Let them
hear them. But he said, no, Father Abraham, but if
someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.
But he said to him, if they do not listen
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to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if.
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Someone rises from the dead.
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What does the Bible say about this place called hell? Well,
first of all, let me give you four words that
are found in the Bible that describe this place. One
of them is called shield, that's the Old Testament word.
The second one is the word hades mentioned in our
scripture here. A third word is the tarus, where the
fallen angels have been reserved in judgment, or rather in punishment,
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in torment, until the judgment where they will be ultimately
cast in the lake of fire.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And then the word Gehinnon.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Which was the word Jesus used, taken from the valley
of Hennon outside of Jerusalem, where they burned the rubbish,
and it burned day and night, and so he likened
the place of future punishment to that.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It is also.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Interesting to note here that most everything you and I
know about future punishment is what Jesus told us. As
you read the epistles, they make reference to it in
some things has stated there, But most of what we
know is what Jesus said. Now listen to Macrefrey. Jesus
is issuing a solemn warning concerning those who die and
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face life after death. And the first thing he says
to us here is this that hell or this place
of future punishment is a place. It is not a
state of the mind.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It is a place.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
When you look at these four words shield gehinna ta
tarus hades, all four of these words are full words
that refer to a place of suffering in torment.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
But the listen carefully.
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The eternal lake of fire where men, where the false
beast and the prophet, where Satan and all the fallen
angels and every unbelievable spend eternity is called just that,
the lake of fire.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
We come into that little later.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
All of these places are temporary places of suffering. Listen
carefully until the great White Throne judgment in Revelation chapter twenty,
where all shall be judged according to their works, and
then their suffering will be by degrees according to the
way they've lived here in earth. Not many people I
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know of like to talk about hell or torment or suffering.
They love to talk about the love of God, the joy,
the peace, the happiness, the mercy, the kindness of God.
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That's their kind of God.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
My friend, what you have to ask yourself, is this
is your God Jehovah, God, the God of the Bible,
or is your God one that you have formulated to
meet your emotional needs because you cannot stand the idea
of a god who would allow you to make a
choice to shut him out of your life until finally
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he agrees and gives you what you want and allows
you to shut him out forever and ever and ever.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
The issue is what did Jesus say about this place.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
As he describes it in an issue of a solemn
warning to those who will reject him. He says it
is a definite place. He describes it, here is a place.
All the four words I described a few moments all
represent places. Hell is the place. The lake of fire
is the place. The second thing I want you to
notice about his description is that it is a place
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of punishment. Now, if you go down to verse twenty four,
it says he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy
on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the
tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue,
For I am in agony in this flame. He is
in agony, He is in torment, He is suffering indescribable pain.
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Then if you and I hold your hand there, go
over to Matthew chapter twenty five, and listen if you will,
to verse thirty, as Jesus is describing, also issuing a
solemn warning as he talks about the misuse of life
here and now, he says in verse thirty, and cast
out the worthless slave into outer darkness. Into that place
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there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. It is
not only a place of agony, a place of torment,
but a place of darkness where and a place of
a place of weeping, a place.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
He says, where there shall be.
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The grinding of the teeth, gnashing of teeth. We're describing
the place a future punishment for those who reject the
Lord Jesus Christ. Then he says, it is a place
of unquenchable fire, that is, you can't put the fire out.
In Mark chapter nine, verse forty three and forty four,
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a place of unquenchable fire. And notice, if you will,
in this sixteenth chapter that the man who died he
went to torment, did not say would you send over
enough water to put out the flames, because he knew
it was unquenchable. Nor did he say, would you please
get me out of this place? Because he knew next
that it is a place that is fixed, there is
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no escape. He said, rather, would you send somebody to
my home, to my family, and tell my brothers you
don't want to come to a place like this. In fact,
Jesus said, it is a place of remembrance. Listen to
what he said verse twenty five. But Abraham said, child,
remember that during your lifetime, man, you had everything going
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your way, but.
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This man didn't. A place of remembrance.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
What do you think a person's going to remember when
they get to hell. They going to remember the opportunities
they had to be saved. How many times they heard
it on the radio but said I don't want to
hear that. How many times people tried to share their
faith but they said, I'm not ready for that. Now
they're going to remember their opportunities of being saved. Remember, remember, remember, remember, listen,
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would you and not not agree that sometimes remembrance is tormenting.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
There's some things we like to forget in life forever.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But I believe that the place of torment is going
to be a place of remembrance. Why you don't forget.
He says, it's going to be a place of remembrance.
It is going to be a place Jesus said. Look
in Matthew chapter five, he says hell is so bad,
torment is so ten arrible. He says, avoided, and any cost,
even at this cost.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Verse twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
If you're right out makes you stumble, tear it out,
throw it from you. It is better for you that
one of your parts of your body perish than that
your whole body will be thrown into hell. If your
right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw
it from you. For it's better for you that if
one of the parts of your body perished, then for
your whole body.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
To go to hell. Jesus said, listen.
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Figuratively speaking, he's saying, here, it's better for you to
go through life named no hands, no eyes, no feet,
whatever it takes. The one thing you don't want to
do is end up in the place called the Lake
of fire, while you suffer eternally for getting your way.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You said, what do you mean getting your way? Getting
your way? God, I don't want you in my life.
I don't have.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Time for you now, no place for you in my life.
When a man dies separated from God, he gets his way.
God allows him to have his way, no place for
God in his life, and he spends eternaty separated from God,
which is one of those words here, separation, suparation from
his family, separation from heaven, separation from God.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
And let me tell you what I.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Believe on the worst things is going to be about
standing in the Great White Throne judgment in the presence.
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Of Jesus Christ being rewarded.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Listen, being rewarded for all the works in the Great
White Throne judgment, salvation won't be an issue.
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You'll only be in that judgment because you've rejected Christ.
He says, their men should be judged a courting of
their works.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
The books are going to be open, and God has
a valid account of what we have done and what
we have failed to do. In the judgment seat of Christ,
only believers are going to be there, and we're going
to be rewarded for our good works, and we will
suffer the loss of ward because of our sins. But
in the Great White Throne judgment, when the lake of
fire is open. The following that he says men should
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be judged by their works a place of loneliness, a
place of regret, but a place wherein men are going
to be and women are going to be judged according
to their works, and therefore they're going to be leveled
of suffering. That's why there has to be a judgment.
He says, for example, it.
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Will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gummar on the
day of judgment than for you.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
He said to the city there in Matthew chapter eleven,
he said some shall suffer more stripes than others in
Luke chapter twelve, so that the judgment will determine the
degree of suffering. So Jesus made it very clear as
a warning. He's done everything in his power, everything in
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his power to keep men out of the place of
eternal suffering, except to force their will and to violate
their free will.
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But he says, this is the way he sees it.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
A place of agony and suffering and torment and darkness
and tears and anguish and separation and hopelessness and helplessness,
a place where there will be degrees of suffering. That
is the word of God.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
You don't like it, like it either, That isn't even
the issue.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
The issues this if your house is on fire, and
I know that it's on fire, you wouldn't want me
to just walk down the street.
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And say, well, that's your tough luck, buddy.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You want me to come running in and awaken you
out of your bed and tell you that the whole
top floor of your house is engulfed in flames and
do my best to rescue you lest you be consumed
in the smoking flames. You and I living and walking
around people every day who do not believe the testimony
of Jesus Christ, incarnate Son of God. They do not
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believe the witness of the Bible. They absolutely refuse to
acknowledge the testimony of their own conscience, and they spurn.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
The wooing of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It is your responsibility in mind before God to warn
them and to assure them that Jesus Christ will save them,
but likewise to warn them that if they reject the
offer of salvation, they choose, by an act of their rejection,
to spend eternity separated from God.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Now I want you to listen carefully. What I'm going
to tell you.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Here is the whole Gospel in a paragraph form.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
God the Father.
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Incarnate in his son Jesus Christ, the son of God,
born of a virgin, sinless and absolutely perfect, came into
this world for the primary reason of dying on a
cross that was God Man. Dying on the cross. On
that cross was placed all the sin of all mankind
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for all the ages of time. In the dying of
Jesus Christ on the cross, bearing the weight and the
guilt and the penalty for all of our sin, he
bore and paid in full your sin debt, past, present,
and future. When he died and was buried and descended,
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he went to the Father off of the blood of
his own death, before the Father as the final payment,
the lamb of God which takes away the sin.
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Of the world.
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His death and his sacrificial payment was accepted. The resurrection
of Jesus Christ is proof of that, and in the
acceptance of Jesus Christ, his only begotten son, is full
payment of our sin. Every single person who accepts his
death as payment for their sin and receives him personally
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as their savior, experiences the eradication, the forgiveness, the blotting
out of all debt for their sin, past, present and future,
and they are eternally a child of God stamped sealed
by the Holy Spirit of promise under the day of Redemption.
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And they forever shall be a child of God now
in dwelt of the very person of Jesus Christ, through
the whole Spirit, and forever and ever and ever and ever,
when time ceases, for all eternity, a child of the
Living God. For a believer to die today absent from
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the body present with the Lord. Listen, if you have
accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior, you are free
from all eternal suffering once you've placed your faith in
the all sufficient, substitutionary vicarious death of Jesus Christ, the
Son of God. Turn to Revelation chapter twenty, and let's
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look at a couple of verses quickly. Here Revelation chapter
twenty is he's describing this final place called the Lake
of Fire. Verse ten says the devil who deceived them
was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where
the beasts and the false prophet are old. So and
they will be tormented day and night forever and ever
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Verse fourteen. And death or the grave no more death
after this and hatease torment.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
We're thrown into the lake of fire. This is the.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Ultimate placement, will spend eternity without Christ. This is the
second death, the Lake of Fire. And if anyone's name
was not found written in the Book of Life, he
was thrown in the Lake of fire. And the way
to get your name in the Book of Life is
to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior.
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And he becomes your life. Now listen to me.
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There's only one way to get to heaven and only
one way to avoid what we just said, and the
way to do that is to confess your sins before God.
That is, repent of your sins. That is you willing
to let God turn you around us, to have a
change of attitude about the way you've been living and
recognize that you need to be forgiven of your sins
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and that you must receive Jesus Christ by faith as
your personal savior. That your works you can work till
you are old in your life, and you can suffer forever.
You'll never work your way into heaven. It is a
gift offered by God through his grace. It is what
Jesus has already provided for you, and my friend, you
have this offer if you willing simply to ask Him
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to forgive you and tell him that you're a sinner,
that you've sinned against him, and tell him that you're
accepting his death of his son on the cross is
full payment of your sin, and you are turning your
life over to him. Then, my friend, the Bible says
that you will be forgiven of your sin, your name
written in the Lamb's Book of Life, and forever and
ever you belong to God. And you're not going to
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die and suffer. You're going to die and spend eternity
with him. So, my friend, the next few moments could
be the next few most important moments in your life
where you either turn God down one last time or
forever are you allow Him into your life and ask
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him to forgive you your sins and trust him as
your savior. Foolish men and women ignore warnings. Wise men
and women take heed to them. And so I want
to invite you to receive Jesus Christ right now by faith.
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Let's pray together. I pray, Father in Jesus name.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's somebody to whom you've spoken today will respond even
in these next few critical moments in their life. They say, Yes,
I'm receiving Christ as my savior and avoid eternal punishment
is my prayer in Jesus name.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Amen.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Doctor Stanley's message explained that eternal punishment is the reality
for anyone who rejects Jesus Christ. The way to avoid
this outcome is to trust him as your savior. Receiving
God's forgiveness of your sin, then your eternal destiny is guaranteed.
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The justice of God must be answered.
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God hates sin, let me tell you why, because of
what it does to those.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Whom he loves.
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And he loves every single one of his creations, and
he hates sin because it devastates and destroys them.
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So what happened God?
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In order to remain just and to be able to
declare you and me guilty sinners no longer guilty and
acceptable in his eyes? Sin his only begotten son, Jesus,
he sent him to the cross, horrible, shameful way to die,
sent him to the cross, placed on him all the
sin of the entire world, which now makes it possible
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watch this. Now, God can forgive us of our sin,
declare is no longer guilty and pardoned from all of
our sin, and still remain a just God. Why because
he provided a substitute in your place and my place.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
And that's what the justice of God is all about.
At the cross, it isn't all just about love. It's
about the justice.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Of God doing what keeping true to His word, that
the soul that sinneth that shall die. And the only
way for that not to happen is for somebody to
be the substitute that God accepts. And what substitute is
that the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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You and I living and walking around people every day
who do not believe the testimony of Jesus Christ, Incarnate,
Son of God. They do not believe the witness of
the Bible. They absolutely refuse to acknowledge the testimony of
their own conscience, and they spurn.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
The wooing of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
It is your responsibility in mind before God to warn
them and to assure them that Jesus Christ will save them,
but likewise to warn them that if they reject the
offer of salvation, they choose, by an act of their rejection,
to spend eternity separated from God.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's a popular idea that people can go to heaven
no matter what they believed about Jesus Christ. Maybe it's
you who has wondered if it's possible that those who
die without surrendering their lives to Jesus could be given
a second chance. Today, on in Touch, the teaching ministry
of doctor Charles Stanley, our series on our Eternal Destiny
continues with a solemn warning to those who reject Christ.
(01:01):
Let's listen to doctor Stanley.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
If you're asleep and all of a sudden, your burglar
alarm system begins to blair out and scream out in
the night. You would consider that a warning, and more
than likely you would get up.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And see what was going on.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Not only a foolish person ignores warnings, and all through
the Bible, in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ
in the Gospels, Jesus continuously issued warnings to mankind concerning
life after death. And in the sixteenth chapter of Luke
he gives three warnings. And I want you to turn
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there if you will, because I want us to consider
one of those warnings. And the title of this message
is a solemn warning to those who reject Jesus Christ.
A solemn warning to those who reject Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Verse nineteen.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
There was a certain rich man and habitually dressed in
purple and fine linen, gaily, living in splendor every day.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And a certain poor man named.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores and
longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling
from the rich man's table. Besides, even the dogs were
coming and licking his sores. Now it came about that
the poor man died, and he was carried away by
the angels to Abraham's bosom, and the rich man also
died and was buried, And in hades, he lifted up
(02:28):
his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away
and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried out and said,
Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that
he may dip the tip of his finger in water
and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony
in this flame. But Abraham said, child, remember that during
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your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus
bad things. But now he is being comforted here and
you're in agony. And besides all this between us and you,
there is a great chasm or great gulf fixed in
order that those who wish to come over from here
to you may not be able, and that none may
cross over from there to us. And he said, then,
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I beg you, father, that you send to my father's house,
for I have five brothers, that he may warn them
lest they also come to this place of torment. But
Abraham said, they have Moses and the prophets. Let them
hear them. But he said, no, Father Abraham, but if
someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.
But he said to him, if they do not listen
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to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Someone rises from the dead.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
What does the Bible say about this place called hell? Well,
first of all, let me give you four words that
are found in the Bible that describe this place. One
of them is called shield, that's the Old Testament word.
The second one is the word hades mentioned in our
scripture here. A third word is the tarus, where the
fallen angels have been reserved in judgment, or rather in punishment,
(04:06):
in torment, until the judgment where they will be ultimately
cast in the lake of fire.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And then the word Gehinnon.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Which was the word Jesus used, taken from the valley
of Hennon outside of Jerusalem, where they burned the rubbish,
and it burned day and night, and so he likened
the place of future punishment to that.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It is also.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Interesting to note here that most everything you and I
know about future punishment is what Jesus told us. As
you read the epistles, they make reference to it in
some things has stated there, But most of what we
know is what Jesus said. Now listen to Macrefrey. Jesus
is issuing a solemn warning concerning those who die and
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face life after death. And the first thing he says
to us here is this that hell or this place
of future punishment is a place. It is not a
state of the mind.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It is a place.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
When you look at these four words shield gehinna ta
tarus hades, all four of these words are full words
that refer to a place of suffering in torment.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
But the listen carefully.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
The eternal lake of fire where men, where the false
beast and the prophet, where Satan and all the fallen
angels and every unbelievable spend eternity is called just that,
the lake of fire.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
We come into that little later.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
All of these places are temporary places of suffering. Listen
carefully until the great White Throne judgment in Revelation chapter twenty,
where all shall be judged according to their works, and
then their suffering will be by degrees according to the
way they've lived here in earth. Not many people I
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know of like to talk about hell or torment or suffering.
They love to talk about the love of God, the joy,
the peace, the happiness, the mercy, the kindness of God.
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That's their kind of God.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
My friend, what you have to ask yourself, is this
is your God Jehovah, God, the God of the Bible,
or is your God one that you have formulated to
meet your emotional needs because you cannot stand the idea
of a god who would allow you to make a
choice to shut him out of your life until finally
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he agrees and gives you what you want and allows
you to shut him out forever and ever and ever.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
The issue is what did Jesus say about this place.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
As he describes it in an issue of a solemn
warning to those who will reject him. He says it
is a definite place. He describes it, here is a place.
All the four words I described a few moments all
represent places. Hell is the place. The lake of fire
is the place. The second thing I want you to
notice about his description is that it is a place
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of punishment. Now, if you go down to verse twenty four,
it says he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy
on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the
tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue,
For I am in agony in this flame. He is
in agony, He is in torment, He is suffering indescribable pain.
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Then if you and I hold your hand there, go
over to Matthew chapter twenty five, and listen if you will,
to verse thirty, as Jesus is describing, also issuing a
solemn warning as he talks about the misuse of life
here and now, he says in verse thirty, and cast
out the worthless slave into outer darkness. Into that place
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there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. It is
not only a place of agony, a place of torment,
but a place of darkness where and a place of
a place of weeping, a place.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
He says, where there shall be.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
The grinding of the teeth, gnashing of teeth. We're describing
the place a future punishment for those who reject the
Lord Jesus Christ. Then he says, it is a place
of unquenchable fire, that is, you can't put the fire out.
In Mark chapter nine, verse forty three and forty four,
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a place of unquenchable fire. And notice, if you will,
in this sixteenth chapter that the man who died he
went to torment, did not say would you send over
enough water to put out the flames, because he knew
it was unquenchable. Nor did he say, would you please
get me out of this place? Because he knew next
that it is a place that is fixed, there is
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no escape. He said, rather, would you send somebody to
my home, to my family, and tell my brothers you
don't want to come to a place like this. In fact,
Jesus said, it is a place of remembrance. Listen to
what he said verse twenty five. But Abraham said, child,
remember that during your lifetime, man, you had everything going
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your way, but.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
This man didn't. A place of remembrance.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
What do you think a person's going to remember when
they get to hell. They going to remember the opportunities
they had to be saved. How many times they heard
it on the radio but said I don't want to
hear that. How many times people tried to share their
faith but they said, I'm not ready for that. Now
they're going to remember their opportunities of being saved. Remember, remember, remember, remember, listen,
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would you and not not agree that sometimes remembrance is tormenting.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
There's some things we like to forget in life forever.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But I believe that the place of torment is going
to be a place of remembrance. Why you don't forget.
He says, it's going to be a place of remembrance.
It is going to be a place Jesus said. Look
in Matthew chapter five, he says hell is so bad,
torment is so ten arrible. He says, avoided, and any cost,
even at this cost.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Verse twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
If you're right out makes you stumble, tear it out,
throw it from you. It is better for you that
one of your parts of your body perish than that
your whole body will be thrown into hell. If your
right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw
it from you. For it's better for you that if
one of the parts of your body perished, then for
your whole body.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
To go to hell. Jesus said, listen.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Figuratively speaking, he's saying, here, it's better for you to
go through life named no hands, no eyes, no feet,
whatever it takes. The one thing you don't want to
do is end up in the place called the Lake
of fire, while you suffer eternally for getting your way.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You said, what do you mean getting your way? Getting
your way? God, I don't want you in my life.
I don't have.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Time for you now, no place for you in my life.
When a man dies separated from God, he gets his way.
God allows him to have his way, no place for
God in his life, and he spends eternaty separated from God,
which is one of those words here, separation, suparation from
his family, separation from heaven, separation from God.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
And let me tell you what I.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Believe on the worst things is going to be about
standing in the Great White Throne judgment in the presence.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Of Jesus Christ being rewarded.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Listen, being rewarded for all the works in the Great
White Throne judgment, salvation won't be an issue.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
You'll only be in that judgment because you've rejected Christ.
He says, their men should be judged a courting of
their works.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
The books are going to be open, and God has
a valid account of what we have done and what
we have failed to do. In the judgment seat of Christ,
only believers are going to be there, and we're going
to be rewarded for our good works, and we will
suffer the loss of ward because of our sins. But
in the Great White Throne judgment, when the lake of
fire is open. The following that he says men should
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be judged by their works a place of loneliness, a
place of regret, but a place wherein men are going
to be and women are going to be judged according
to their works, and therefore they're going to be leveled
of suffering. That's why there has to be a judgment.
He says, for example, it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gummar on the
day of judgment than for you.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
He said to the city there in Matthew chapter eleven,
he said some shall suffer more stripes than others in
Luke chapter twelve, so that the judgment will determine the
degree of suffering. So Jesus made it very clear as
a warning. He's done everything in his power, everything in
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his power to keep men out of the place of
eternal suffering, except to force their will and to violate
their free will.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
But he says, this is the way he sees it.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
A place of agony and suffering and torment and darkness
and tears and anguish and separation and hopelessness and helplessness,
a place where there will be degrees of suffering. That
is the word of God.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
You don't like it, like it either, That isn't even
the issue.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
The issues this if your house is on fire, and
I know that it's on fire, you wouldn't want me
to just walk down the street.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And say, well, that's your tough luck, buddy.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You want me to come running in and awaken you
out of your bed and tell you that the whole
top floor of your house is engulfed in flames and
do my best to rescue you lest you be consumed
in the smoking flames. You and I living and walking
around people every day who do not believe the testimony
of Jesus Christ, incarnate Son of God. They do not
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believe the witness of the Bible. They absolutely refuse to
acknowledge the testimony of their own conscience, and they spurn.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
The wooing of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It is your responsibility in mind before God to warn
them and to assure them that Jesus Christ will save them,
but likewise to warn them that if they reject the
offer of salvation, they choose, by an act of their rejection,
to spend eternity separated from God.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Now I want you to listen carefully. What I'm going
to tell you.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Here is the whole Gospel in a paragraph form.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
God the Father.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Incarnate in his son Jesus Christ, the son of God,
born of a virgin, sinless and absolutely perfect, came into
this world for the primary reason of dying on a
cross that was God Man. Dying on the cross. On
that cross was placed all the sin of all mankind
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for all the ages of time. In the dying of
Jesus Christ on the cross, bearing the weight and the
guilt and the penalty for all of our sin, he
bore and paid in full your sin debt, past, present,
and future. When he died and was buried and descended,
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he went to the Father off of the blood of
his own death, before the Father as the final payment,
the lamb of God which takes away the sin.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Of the world.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
His death and his sacrificial payment was accepted. The resurrection
of Jesus Christ is proof of that, and in the
acceptance of Jesus Christ, his only begotten son, is full
payment of our sin. Every single person who accepts his
death as payment for their sin and receives him personally
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as their savior, experiences the eradication, the forgiveness, the blotting
out of all debt for their sin, past, present and future,
and they are eternally a child of God stamped sealed
by the Holy Spirit of promise under the day of Redemption.
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And they forever shall be a child of God now
in dwelt of the very person of Jesus Christ, through
the whole Spirit, and forever and ever and ever and ever,
when time ceases, for all eternity, a child of the
Living God. For a believer to die today absent from
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the body present with the Lord. Listen, if you have
accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior, you are free
from all eternal suffering once you've placed your faith in
the all sufficient, substitutionary vicarious death of Jesus Christ, the
Son of God. Turn to Revelation chapter twenty, and let's
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look at a couple of verses quickly. Here Revelation chapter
twenty is he's describing this final place called the Lake
of Fire. Verse ten says the devil who deceived them
was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where
the beasts and the false prophet are old. So and
they will be tormented day and night forever and ever
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Verse fourteen. And death or the grave no more death
after this and hatease torment.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
We're thrown into the lake of fire. This is the.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Ultimate placement, will spend eternity without Christ. This is the
second death, the Lake of Fire. And if anyone's name
was not found written in the Book of Life, he
was thrown in the Lake of fire. And the way
to get your name in the Book of Life is
to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
And he becomes your life. Now listen to me.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
There's only one way to get to heaven and only
one way to avoid what we just said, and the
way to do that is to confess your sins before God.
That is, repent of your sins. That is you willing
to let God turn you around us, to have a
change of attitude about the way you've been living and
recognize that you need to be forgiven of your sins
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and that you must receive Jesus Christ by faith as
your personal savior. That your works you can work till
you are old in your life, and you can suffer forever.
You'll never work your way into heaven. It is a
gift offered by God through his grace. It is what
Jesus has already provided for you, and my friend, you
have this offer if you willing simply to ask Him
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to forgive you and tell him that you're a sinner,
that you've sinned against him, and tell him that you're
accepting his death of his son on the cross is
full payment of your sin, and you are turning your
life over to him. Then, my friend, the Bible says
that you will be forgiven of your sin, your name
written in the Lamb's Book of Life, and forever and
ever you belong to God. And you're not going to
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die and suffer. You're going to die and spend eternity
with him. So, my friend, the next few moments could
be the next few most important moments in your life
where you either turn God down one last time or
forever are you allow Him into your life and ask
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him to forgive you your sins and trust him as
your savior. Foolish men and women ignore warnings. Wise men
and women take heed to them. And so I want
to invite you to receive Jesus Christ right now by faith.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Let's pray together. I pray, Father in Jesus name.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's somebody to whom you've spoken today will respond even
in these next few critical moments in their life. They say, Yes,
I'm receiving Christ as my savior and avoid eternal punishment
is my prayer in Jesus name.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Amen.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Doctor Stanley's message explained that eternal punishment is the reality
for anyone who rejects Jesus Christ. The way to avoid
this outcome is to trust him as your savior. Receiving
God's forgiveness of your sin, then your eternal destiny is guaranteed.
You'll spend it in heaven forever with God. If you
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Heart you're listening to in Touch. God hates sin and
he loves us. How are these realities connected. Here's a
moment with Charles Stanley.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
The justice of God must be answered.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
God hates sin, let me tell you why, because of
what it does to those.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Whom he loves.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And he loves every single one of his creations, and
he hates sin because it devastates and destroys them.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
So what happened God?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
In order to remain just and to be able to
declare you and me guilty sinners no longer guilty and
acceptable in his eyes? Sin his only begotten son, Jesus,
he sent him to the cross, horrible, shameful way to die,
sent him to the cross, placed on him all the
sin of the entire world, which now makes it possible
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watch this. Now, God can forgive us of our sin,
declare is no longer guilty and pardoned from all of
our sin, and still remain a just God. Why because
he provided a substitute in your place and my place.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
And that's what the justice of God is all about.
At the cross, it isn't all just about love. It's
about the justice.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Of God doing what keeping true to His word, that
the soul that sinneth that shall die. And the only
way for that not to happen is for somebody to
be the substitute that God accepts. And what substitute is
that the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
God will declare anyone not guilty who trusts that Jesus
satisfied the penalty of sin in their life and personally
receives this gift of forgiveness and eternal life. Learn more
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