What about Hell?

19/09/2021

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Episode Synopsis


Matthew 25:31-46

“There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God…Your wickedness makes you, as it were, heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink, and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and all of your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you, and keep you out of hell, than a spider’s web would have to stop a falling rock. If God should only withdraw His hand from the floodgate, it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God, would rush forth with inconceivable fury, and would come upon you with omnipotent power; and if your strength were ten thousand times greater than it is, yea ten thousand times greater than the strength of the stoutest, sturdiest, devil in hell, it would be nothing to withstand or endure it. The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice directs the bow to your heart, and strains at the bow; and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.”
Jonathan Edwards, 18th Century Christian leader

The vast majority of direct references to the place called Hell comes from Jesus Himself.

I. Righteousness/Holiness

II. Justice

III. Love/Wrath

Hell is reserved, not for those souls who seek God yet struggle, but for those who defy God and rebel. The Ultimate Choice of where we will spend eternity belongs to each one of us.

Nothing impure will ever enter heaven, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Revelation 21:27

“I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.”
C.S. Lewis

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