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"