Heaven & Hell

Ballard Campus 3-20-11 Pastor Mark Driscoll

Tags: Video, Hell

Luke 16:19-31

Heaven and Hell

How to Cushion the word to come:

PM is asking me for his trust as he shares the truth.

PM speaks for his love for the church.

Sharing his heart first so the words are taken as the brutal words of a friend trying to help

Options for Belief about life after death:

Naturalists - cesation of existence

Universalists - Everyone goes to heaven, very few will go to hell or maybe it's just a myth

Christian-ism - over time we will all be united to Jesus and all end up in heaven

Reincarnation - paying off karmic debt

Annihilationism - Sinners suffer for a while and then cease to exist

Catholic Purgatory - We suffer for a whil and then are purified

Bible - What does Jesus say? What does the Word say?

The most loving person that has ever lived speaks very brutally about Hell

Our sin must be unbearably horrible

The Body and Soul

2Cor 5 - We are two parts, immaterial and material existence

Rich Man & Lazarus

Lazarus died

Rich man died - In Anguish, Torment, Flame...

Moses and the Prophets is sufficient to convince someone to love God

Lazarus means "God Comforts"

Impoverished, crippled, sickly, he loved God

All he wanted was to eat the food that was accidentally dropped on the rich man's floor.

There is no way to cross from hell to heaven

Elevating God's Attributes:

Love is an attribute of God, but elevating it about all of his other attributes

The attribute Wrath is mentioned 600 times

The most often mentioned attribute of God is his Holiness

If God were to let all into heaven he would be denying his Holiness

Gospel

John 3 - Eternal life comes with obedience to God, but Hell filled with God's Wrath remains on me

Questions about Hell: (from The City)

1 What is Hell? What is Hell like?

Mark 9 - Gehena, a place where children were murdered, a cursed place, the town dump, a place where there was always fire burning and rotting flesh being eaten by worms

2 Is it possible for people can deny God and then later realize the truth after death?

No, Luke 16 - the rich man couldn't change his location, he is stuck there

Hebrews 9 - we die once and then there is judgement

3 Why does God make poeple who will never will repent and always reject him?

We are in no way innocent, we reject him even with our conscience and the law.

Our sin brought war to God, we ruined everything

Is makes sense for a convicted guilty criminal to go to Prison, why is is strange for a convicted guilty sinner to be denied access to heaven?

The really F-ed up thing is that God would opt to come into this corrupted twisted world where all the people who ruined his creation live, then he would humble himself be mocked, brutalized, and murdered

What an arrogant position to judge God, this is the same thing that brought evil into the world in the first place

Matt 25:41 Hell was made for Satan and his angels, for our protection

4 Is hell temporary, or do the souls of the damned get destroyed? (Matt 10)

Soul is destroyed in Hell

The same word used (destroyed) and translated as "lost" in the parable in Luke

Dan 12 - the dead will arrise to everlasting contempt

5 When we are in heaven, will we know of loved ones in Hell?

There are secret thing we do not know

Jesus will comfort us by wiping away all of our tears, we may have tears in heaven but Jesus will love us flawlessly

Philippians1 to live is Christ and to die is gain

6a Will everyone who doesn't know Jesus go to Hell?

Yes

John 14 - No one comes to the father, but be me

Hinduism No, mormonism No, Nice people No, religious people No

Acts 4 - Salvation in Jesus alone

6b What about people who died w/o ever hearing about Jesus.

God is a good Father, he is our hope and our help, he will make the right call for all.

"My job is so tell you the truth, and your job is to make a decision"

SYNC Notes 3/13/11

Deacon Justin Gillebo West Seattle Campus 3/13/2011

SYNC Notes

Perfect Story:

Everyone on our team comes early just for fellowship, leader starts on time, volunteers invited someone to the team, and they actually came.

Then we share the evidences of God’s grace and we open in prayer expecting that God will show up.

God has a plan

He reveals himself

I get to respond in worship

He is at work in a massive epic redemptive story

God Wants all his people to be reconnected to him

Main response:

Who God is

What he has done

What he is doing

Practical Meeting Rythms:

Bring scripture to the meeting to show everyone who God is

Tell the Whole Gospel every meeting, what God has done

Danger: Pointing to ourselves instead of who God is

Leader sets the expectation for the team by being on time and repenting first

I must Point to Jesus, I cannot be the standard

Invite the team into Jesus’ service team to live out his mission

Sharing evidence of God’s grace points people to what God is doing

Transformation: God’s work via the Holy Spirit

Changing us into a better image of Jesus

Ask people to share their stories in the meeting

Where have I forgotten who God is, what he has done, and what he is doing?

Repent

What Do I need to remember?

Q&A:

When I am late repent, but point to Jesus, “I am not the standard for my team, Jesus is.”

Jesus and the Law

Ballard Campus 3-13-11 Pastor Mark Driscoll

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Luke 16:14-

Driscoll goes for an hour on one 3 x 5 post-it note and 1/3 of a page of single-spaced notes with a few highlights

Success Cannot Save

The religious people liked money instead of worshipping and because their were doing well financially they believed that God was blessing them

In truth God was angry with them

Justify: God as a holy and just God, cannot be with us evil sinners so He had to cover us with his perfection and impute his perfection through Jesus

God must have perfection for close intimate relationship in heaven

My success cannot save me

Any joy happiness, or success is not indicative of God's favor and blessing

The Law Cannot Save You

To break any of the law is to break all the law

My good works done in my own strength are an abomination to God

What we need is a savior, we need Gospel

Everyone is a Hypocrit

Other people's sin is far more clear than my own

I am not even innocent under my own twisted morality

"I can't believe people would act like...me"

Adultery

They would grant people divorces w/o biblical grounds for money

People come to churches where their leaders allow disobedience because the leaders are compromised by the same sin

Jesus says why would you place heavy legal burdens on other people and grant illegal divorces when you are guilty of adultery

Divorce, when sin murders a Marriage

What constitutes the Biblical Grounds for Divorce?

1 Death Rom 7 & 1 Cor 7

2 Adultery Deut 22 & Matt 5

3 Sexual Immorality Matt 5 & Matt 19 - Infidelaty in the Covenant

4 Non-Christian Quits the Marriage 1Cor 7

5 Treachery in the marriage Mal 2 "I hate Divorce" Not I hate the Divorcee

Cruel, meanspirited treatment of a spouse

6 Hardness of Heart Matt & 19 Mark 10

Blamshifting, attacking, no repentance, "It's all my spouses fault"

Who gets to decide when there are Biblical grounds for divorce?

1Pet 5 & Heb 13 Says that Pastors and Leaders are appointed to make these calls as objective prayerful agents of God's Wisdom

What will the elders do if my Christian spouse insists on divorcing me without grounds?

Church discipline is there not to punish but to compell the unrepentant toward repentance and restored relationships

Must people endure abusive relationship?

10-14% of all marriages feature sexual assault, 95% of abuse is frm the husband to the wife

The first anti-spousal abuse law came from the Puritans between 1640-1680. Mandatory Christian responsibility to report all abuse publically and get involved to protect the women

Any man who abuse his wife, is a functional heretic

No abuse ever

Any relationship where one person is held to obey the Bible and the other doesn't is abusive

What about remarriages after divorce?

The Christian offending party (adulterer) cannot remarry anyone other than their spouse

The Christian Offended party can be remarriage after an appropriate season of greaving

Did my parents have biblical grounds for divorce? I don't understand all the shit that went down between them. I have no idea. Have I forgiven them? I don't know what to forgive them of? I don't know who to forgive for what. I have huge fear of marriage because mine will probably be like that. But God can redeem my marriage from the foolish ways inherited from my forefathers. But the mistakes they made were taught to me. I am likely to make the same mistakes they did. In addition, I look at myself and my proclivities are HIGHLY selfish. God has given me the same power that raised Jesus From the dead. But I still resist the Holy Spirit. If this happens, if I continue my selfishness, if I continue in the ways of my parents, I will DESTROY a wife and any kids. Father God here is my fear. I give it to you. Please don't make my fear paralysing, but an sober-minded honest assesment of the dangers involved in the second most important decision in my life.

Either the sin kills the marriage or Jesus dies for the sin.

I have seen a rare few good marriages, but I wonder if they are legit. I hope they are.

S Training 3

Q & A PMD & PJM 3/08/11

Campus Networks Dept?

Dave Bruskas is the Network Dept Leader, moving to Seattle this Summer

PM PJM and PD are theExecutive Elders

The wall?

Easter is our biggest growth season, and this is when systems and people breakdown

Wester and darkness hurts

The Year: There is a sprint up to Easter, Then Summer is the rebuilding planning, Test drive in the fall, enjoy the holidays, Drive all the systems to Easter

We have a brief window of opportunity to strike then the window in close - Here

This is an opportunity to learn and don't miss it

We are in a cranked up season

There is hope, this build up will conclude

Protests?

Gonna Happen

Spiritual Warfare?

Size barriers to punch through:

Beyond 800 is a tough thresh hold - shoreline, WS, Albuquerque

1800 churhces beyond 2,000 - Bellevue

6,000 is the next biggest 180 churches

10,000 is about 40 churches - MH trying to get through

Danger getting sheep focused instead of flock focused

Not focusing on who to pour into, efficency questions, what to cut, where to focus my time

Danger: Negative folks pull whole teams down, look at a challenge and despair, Positives pull up teams to combat problems

It all starts with a campus Pastor, they set the tone for the whole team

Bottom Line being positive in hope in Jesus and flock focused

Momentum is forward or backward, there is NO stasis

We want to ride the wave as long as we can,

The Best problems are MH's problems - There is a big problem finding a place to put all the people, things are moving fast we are at the 800 person thresh hold trying to push through.

WHEN THE NEGATIVE COME TO ME ASK ARE THE NEGATIVES LOOKING TO ME AS A WOLF TO LEAD THEM?

Explain the vision:

Hub campuses with regional campuses in urban centers

If we can help provide content (preaching, CGs, RGs, etc) to existing churches they could become new Campuses

When Churches die, their zoning status ends, no more churches will ever be there

S Training 2

Pastor Justin Holcomb Ballard Campus 3/8/2011

PRIESTLY -

Life is Suffering, the Curse is in effect

Pain, Sin, Financial, Miscarriages....

Where to I need hope right now (expectation of God showing up to get in the middle of my situation)

G. Marcel - "Hope is a memory of the future"

Romans 8:18-23 - The most hopeful expectation of the future and yet the most realistic view of current suffering

I. Not Worth Comparing

The suffering of right now is not even worth comparing to the glory that Jesus will reveal

Paul is not minimizing the suffering, he is explaining the glory to come as far beyond now

Any claim against my identity in Christ, is to be answered with the truth that I am adopted by God

"There was once filth on my head, now there is a golden crown" -India's Princess of Sanitation

II. The Holy Spirit is With us Rom 8:23-27

The Spirit alone knows what to pray for even when we don't know what to pray

Solitary Conminment is the worst POW experience

"God please break in with some of the future glory"

Paul says that the Spirit groans even deeper than we groan under suffering, God Loves us so much that he feels my suffering

III. God's Sovreignty

God is so creative and powerful that he can turn the most unjust things toward goodness and grace

Predestination: "A sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort" - Article 17 of the 39 Articles of the Anglican Church

Perseverance of the Saints....half the time I bring teh suffering on to myself. God perseveres and he holds me.

Nothing will get ni the way of the Love of God.

God has a white knuckle grip on me. Pain and suffering are trying to pry God's fingers loose and God is laughing saying "No way that's gonna happen"

Hymn - "Oh love that will not (never) let me know" - Mattias

Dude going blind, told his fiancee, she left him because of it

A tribute to God's faithfulness

RESURRECTION

Only because Jesus rose from death we have hope in any situation

S Training

Pastor Bill Clem 3-08-11 Ballard Campus

Nehemiah - A Man Under Fire

Being Prayed up like Jesus in Mark 9 where Jesus doesn't pray he just deals with the possed biy and frees him

History of Israel:

Bab Captivity

Persians conquer Babylon, and God get Cyrus' heart to send Israel home to build the house of God (only 42,000 out of millions just two generations before) he even send cash

Funding Stops for the temple

Prophets (Zach and Hag) tell Israel to rebuild the temple now (130 years have lapsed from the last time Israel had lived under God)

Main Point: god used the 7 years to recapture Israel's heart, then brought them back and puts them in a place where they they need to rely on him

Ezra:

A skilled scribe of Moses' Law, a student of the law and a teacher of it, he had memorized it and unerstood how to apply it

-Study, Obey, Teach, and Disciple - A commmited replicator of the truth of God

Ezekiel 1 - Shows a messed up picture of God on high, in comparisson we can rightly see our problems in relation to God not in comparisson to ourselves

Nehemiah - A man of Prayer who shows up 13 years after Ezra arrives, no walls in place

The walls must be built as a testament to an almighty God

His Prayers - {God-focused, Confession, Heart-Felt, Word-Based}

Easter - We need to pray confession for the sins of Seattle

Looking for the evidences of God's Grace is meant to build a sense of expectation that God will show up

15 things that Instantaneously Happened at My Salvation:

1 Redeemed from slavery to sin

2 Reconciled to God

3 Adopted by God

4 Forgiven of all your sins

5 Accepted by God

6 Justified in Jesus

7 Glorified by Jesus

8 United to Jesus

9 Possess every spiritual blessing

10 Delivered from the power of darkness

11 Joined to the flock of God

12 God the Father is in me

13 The Son is in Me

14 The Holy Spirit in you

15 Granted Access to God

Quit Blocking the Holy Spirit, Don't Pursue Him, He is already in you, Just get the Hell out of the Way

The Parable of the Dishonest Manager

Ballard Campus 3-06-11 Pastor Mark Driscoll

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Luke 16:1-13

Ever been fired? - Fired fairly

One of the most difficult parables of Jesus...about a guy that got fired

Jesus: The dude who ripped off the owner was very shrewd

PM says expectations should be low on the interpretation of this parable, it is debated

The Cheat: 50% and 20% off the debts owed to the master in hopes that the other dudes in debt will hire him

The Scammer decides to use his position before the audit's results come in to secure

The master is impressed that the scammer actually came up with a cunning plan. If the steward had come up with such a plan earlier, he would have made money for the master and wouldn't have lost his job

Steward is to oversee the investing, saving, tithing of the rich man's money

Financial skills of a good steward:

Saving, negotiating, spending, investing, using contracts, employing CPAs

Jesus uses a negative example to illustrate a positive lesson

Everyone, even evil people, can teach us a lesson

Learn from people who have failed

The employee demonstrates great shewdness, if he had used this ability in work, then he could have saved his job

Jesus as Prophet Priest and King

Kingly view of Money

Chirstians need to be shrewd in their business dealings

Feel free to negotiate a deal becaus that is they way the business works

Priestly

Be generous, to love people

Spend money so people will be your friend

Shrewdness enables more wealth which allows us to be more generous

Prophet

Wealth does fail

Jesus says "When money fails", not if money fails

Huge meeting of the most affluent men met in 1929 Chicago Edgewater Hotel, 25 years later: 3 sucides, 2 prison, and 2 destitution

Is it a sin to not marry someone if I find out they are drowning in debt?

Am I a Shrewd Steward?

I don't know if I am using my time well. Is this internship what God wants me too. Should I instead pursue work to earn cash? Am I stewarding my life well?

God sometimes uses a logical progression to test us

Faithfulness with a little can lead to an opportunity to

No servant can serve two masters.

Prosperity Theology

King David, Solomon, Abraham, Job all rich!

The more holy you are the more wealthy you are

This has been exported on the third world, if I join Jesus' team then I can be rich like all the americans

Poverty Theology

Money is bad, aesceticism heresy

You can't get closer to God based on my wealth

Jesus paid our entire spiritual debt to God, all canceled

Do I serve God or Money?

To whom do I compare myself to financially?

Do I worship my money or worship with my money?

How do I worship/serve money in a sinful way?

What deep idol fuels my worship of money (e.g. status, comfort, security, fame, beauty)?

Security - Misers leaves millions but lived cheaply - they worship security

Fame - Will Smith's Daughter

Beauty - why a young gal marries a rich old man, now she can have nice clothes, personal trainier

How do you define yourself by what you have and consume?

How has money enslaved you (debt)?

If Jesus set your budget, what would be different?

Why is Jesus a better God than money?

O'Driscolls story, Piracy of the seas,

Great Grandfather took a coffin ship after GGma starved to death

@ age 70, GGfather clear cut a new piece of lad, built a house in GF ND

* story told to remind PM of the grace of God in his life

Comparing myself to MTV cribs instead of my greatgrandfather in India breeds discontentedness

I have no plan for my grandkids, kids, family.

The Parable of the Prodigal Son

Ballard Campus 2-27-11 Pastor Mark Driscoll

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Luke 15:11-32

Possibly the most famous story in human stories

The word Father is a most evocative word, 70% of AA kids have no father 43% of all American kids have no father.

The Father

He is involved, he makes provision, he loves well, but his kids turn out bad

"Any man who doesn't provide for his family has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever" 1Tim

The mentality in youg immature men of sex without family, wife, and responsibility leads to the fatherless demographics

This dad is a great dad

The Rebellious Son

The best case for me is that you would be dead, then I could get your amazing provision. I hate you but I love your money, so write the check

The father responds by liquidating his assets, and handing them over. The son walks away.

Will the son even look back, will there be an remorse? No.

For jewish boys there is no worse job than pig farmer

No one gave him anything

He comes to repentance, he turns around and walks back toward his father.

The Father

Looks out every day, he is praying for his son daily

One day he sees his son and RUNS toward to the son

He embarasses himself by running. But the son is more important

The Father had some options:

1)He could have his son beaten

2)He could have his son disowned

3)He could even have is son put to death

The father kisses him over and over

Parenting: Fathers need to show physically affection to the kids

Dad's need to be tough to defend the family and tender to his family

The father's Reply to the son's confession and repentance

The Ring means that he is legally reinstated as a family member

Shoes mean he is a son, slaves didn't wear shoes,

The Robe means that the father wanted him to have his dignity back

The son doesn't deserve that, but it is grace, fully unmerited favor

God the Father will respond the same way.

The Other Son, the Religious Son

The son is pissed

The father calls the other son to the gospel, the son refuses

The religious get angry when there is lavish grace

Son you are always with me, the other son's inheretance is intact, the older son still get the 2/3rds of the property of the father

The father calls the religious son to be generous and show grace to the rebellious son

Roman's 4: "The kindness of God encourages us to repent"

Rebellion Religion

Innovation Tradition

Non-conformity Conformity

Breaks the rules Keeps the Rules

Liberal Conservative

Immoral Moral

Disobedient Obedient

Lazy Hard working

Sin is visible Sin is invisible

Usese people Judges people

Unrighteous Self righteous

Didn't Love Didn't Love

Neither son truely loved his father.

"Mr. Driscoll" what a freshman PM put on the back of his letterman's jacket

The whole point of the story is the third son, the one who was sent by the Father on a rescue Mission

Jesus is how the father embrasses us, loves us, legally justifies us, and gives us our dignity back in giving us new robes of righteousness to wear.