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A Tough Message

January 1, 2021

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In “A Tough Message,” Pastor Robert uncovers the very real nature of hell: who it’s for, what it’s like, and what we can do about it.

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A Tough Message

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PASTOR ROBERT MORRIS: Remember,I told you a few weeks ago,
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but I'm going to actuallyshow you the scripture.
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Hell was notcreated for you.
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Why I showed you the scriptureof Isaiah 5 that shows us
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that because mandecided to follow Satan.
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Hell had to be enlarged.
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PASTOR ROBERT: The first week,I talked about a tough question.
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The second week,some easy questions.
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If you haven't heard those,go back and listen
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or get the CD's.
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This week I'm calling it,"A Tough Message."
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Because I'm going to talk to youabout Hell and it's a tough
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message for meto talk about.
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I believe it was also atough message for Jesus.
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But Jesus didpreach about Hell.
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Jesus actually preachedabout Hell 33 times.
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He talked more about Hellthen He did about Heaven.
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That's pretty amazing.
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And I believe He did becauseHe didn't want anyone to go.
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So, think about this, He hada three-year ministry and He
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preached on Hell 33 times.
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So, almost once a month Hewould bring a message on Hell.
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You might not have wanted toattend His church because you
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have heard so much.
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But why did he didit -- why he do that?
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He had to just been filledwith compassion to keep people
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from going tothis difficult place.
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The Bible talks about Hell167 times, 167 times.
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Yet, many Theologians, manyPastors, many denominations
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are distancing themselvesfrom Hell today and even denying
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the existence of it.
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And in a recent survey manypeople said they do not believe
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in a literal Hell.
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As a matter of fact, ina survey I read 35% of Baptist,
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54% of Presbyterians,58% of Methodist,
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and 60% of Episcopaliansdo not believe
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in a literal Hell.
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But the Bible talks about it167 times and Jesus preached
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33 messages on Hellthat we know of.
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That we have recorded inscripture, maybe more.
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In my opinion, to deny theexistence of Hell is to deny
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Jesus Christ and to deny theBible because Jesus told
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us about this.
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There are four groups --just to give you a little --
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before we go to Luke 16.
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Four groups of people if youdeny the existence of Hell
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you fall into one ofthese four groups.
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The first group are Atheist.
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Atheist do not believe inHell because they do not
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believe in God.
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They believe that we evolvefrom nothing and that once
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we die we cease to exist.
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Now I want to make astatement here this might
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shock you.
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Atheist don'tbelieve in God.
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I don't believe in Atheist.
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I actually believe that it'sscientifically impossible
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to be an Atheist.
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Atheist make the statement,"There is no God."
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And the reason it'sscientifically impossible
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to be an Atheist is because inorder to make the statement,
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"There is no God," you wouldhave to possess all knowledge.
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You have to know everythingto be able to say emphatically,
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"There is no God."
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And scientist tell usthe smartest human being
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probably possesses2% of all knowledge.
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So, you really can'tbe an Atheist,
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but you can be an Agnostic.
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So that an Atheist andAgnostics don't believe in Hell.
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Here's the second group,Annihilationist,
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don't believe in Hell.
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Now here's whatthey believe.
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They believe that believersgo to Heaven, but unbelievers
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are annihilated.
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And some even believe thatthey are annihilated in Hell.
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They use Matthew 10:28 whichsays, "Fear him who can destroy
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both body and soul in Hell."
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Destroy they use the word,"Destroy," for their
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annihilationist theory.
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Now let me tell youwhy that's wrong.
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You can't take yourinterpretation of one verse
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and build a doctrine on it.
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You have to take the wholescripture and the whole
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scripture teachesus of Hell.
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So, annihilationist wouldnot be a scriptural
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viewpoint either.
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The other group that -- thethird group
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are ultimate reconciliationist.
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Ultimate reconciliationistbelieve that ultimately
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everyone will bereconciled to God.
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That people do go to Hell,but they only go to Hell
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dependent upon how badthey were on Earth.
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In other words, if you werevery bad you would spend
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more time.
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That Hell is a purifyingplace that purifies us
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in to be able to go to Heaven.
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They actually believe thatSatan would ultimately
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be reconciled to God.
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And then the fourthgroup are Universalists.
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They're actually manypopular preachers today
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that are becoming Universalistsbecause they are misunderstand,
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and they've taken that twistedquestion that I answered first,
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"How could a loving God sendsomeone to Hell?"
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And I've already answered thatquestion.
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But they take that and say,"Because of that when Jesus
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died on the cross He paid theprice for everyone's sin," --
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which He did, "but youstill have a choice."
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They take free will completelyout of the equation
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and everyone is goingto go to Heaven.
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Adolf Hitler willgo to Heaven.
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The terroristswill go to Heaven.
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As a matter of fact, if youtake Universalism to its
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'nth degree here's ananalogy about that.
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The terrorist of 9/11 whenthey hit those buildings
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the believers on the plane andterrorists were immediately
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in the presence of God.
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That's whatUniversalism say.
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And, you know, I thinkthat's foolishness.
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So, Luke 16 Jesustells us about Hell.
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I need to tell you somethingabout this passage
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before we read it.
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And that is many peopledon't understand this,
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this is a true story.
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This is true whatJesus tell us.
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Here are some reasons why.
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It doesn't say -- and Hespoke this parable to them.
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And Luke 16 talks aboutdifferent parables and even
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has a parable at thebeginning of the chapter.
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But by the time you get hereit's not a parable
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'cause it does not -- that hespoke this parable.
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Also, it's not a simile thatJesus isn't saying,
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"It is like, it is like, it islike." He is telling us a true
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story and we know it's truebecause of a couple of things.
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And first of all, he says,"There was a certain rich man."
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This word "Certain"means individual or specific.
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There was an individual,specific, rich man I'm telling
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you about right now.
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And then He says, "There wasa certain beggar," --
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now listen to what He says,"Named Lazarus."
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Okay, Jesus wouldn't havemade up a name.
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Now let me explain one otherthing two because I got some
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questions lastnight afterwards.
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This is not the same Lazarusthat he raised from the dead.
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Okay?
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It's a common name, like, John,but it's not the same person.
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Okay?
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So, this is another person.
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All right let'sread the story.
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Luke 16:19: "There wascertain rich man who was clothed
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in purple and fine linen andfared sumptuously every day.
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But there was a certainbeggar named Lazarus full
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of sores who waslaid at his gate.
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Desiring to be fed with thecrumbs which fell from
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the rich man's table.
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Moreover, the dogs cameand licked his sores.
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And so, it was that thebeggar died and was carried
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by the angels," nowwatch this carefully.
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This is Jesus talking, "toAbraham's bosom."
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okay let's talk justfor a moment.
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Was Abraham a real person?
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Okay, he's talkingabout real people.
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"The rich man also died andwas buried and being
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in torment," I want you toremember the word, "Torment"
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because a variation of thatword is in this passage
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four times.
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That's -- this is thefirst reference, okay.
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"Being in torment in Hades,"and Hades is the Greek word
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for Hell.
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Okay, so this is Hell.
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They just used theGreek word there.
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"He lifted up his eyes andsaw Abraham," a real person,
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afar off, "andLazarus," a real person,
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"in his bosom.
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Then he cried and said,'Father Abraham have mercy
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on me and send Lazarus thathe may get the tip of his finger
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in water and cool my tongue forI am tormented.'"
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there's the second timewe see a variation of that word,
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"in this flame."remember the word "Flame"
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this is Jesus talking now.
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He describes Hell as aplace of torment and flame.
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"But Abraham said, 'Sonremember that in your lifetime
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you received good things andlikewise Lazarus evil things,
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but now he is comforted, and youare tormented,"
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third time wesee the variation of that word.
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And besides all this betweenus and you there's a great
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gulf fixed so thatthose who would want to pass
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from here to you cannot.
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Nor, can those fromthere pass to us.
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Then he said, "I beg youtherefore father that you would
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send him to my father's housefor I have five brothers
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that he may testify to them lessthey also come to this place
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of torment." fourth time.
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"Abraham said to him, 'Theyhave Moses and Prophets
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let them hear them.
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And he said, 'No, fatherAbraham, but if one goes to them
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from the dead they will repent."but he said to him:
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"If they do not hearMoses and the Prophets neither
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will they be persuaded the onerise from the dead."
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Yeah, I first --a few things I want to tell you
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about this.
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Jesus is talking.
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And the first thing I wantyou to know is this ends all
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debate on theexistence of Hell.
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Because Jesus is referringto a specific man and He says
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in Verse 23: "In Hell.
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In Hell."
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He's referring to a person.
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And Jesus says, "He's in Hell."
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This also ends all debate onwhether it's a place of fire.
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Because Jesus says,"In this flame."
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Now listen to me carefully.
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32 times the New Testamentrefers to Hell as fire --
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a place of fire.
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Unquenchable, everlasting,eternal fire.
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Lake of, flame of,furnace of, okay.
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And 19 times Jesus himselfrefers to Hell as fire.
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And this also ends alldebate on whether it's a place
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of torment or notbecause we have the word --
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or variation of the word,"Torment" four times.
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The Greek word here fortorment has three meanings.
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It would be like when youlook up a word in Webster's
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dictionary and it has two orthree different meanings.
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That's what the Greekword here --
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it has three meanings.
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The first is acute painfrom debilitating disease.
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Acute pain fromdebilitating disease.
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The second is actually thename of a -- a rack of torture
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that they invented,and they gave it this name --
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the name that istranslated torment here.
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That's what they called it.
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It was a rack that had sharpobjects that they would stretch
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a body on and continue tostretch it around it.
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Until eventually the sharpobjects would pierce the body
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and the person woulddie from the piercings.
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And the third, is describingfire that is hot enough
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to melt metals.
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So, I want you to understandthese three definitions
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of this word torture are acutepain, a rack of torture,
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and intense fire.
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That's the word Jesus used.
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So, according to this thatJesus tells us we can discern
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a few things aboutwhat happens to a person
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when he goes to Hell.
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So, I want to give you threethings that happens to a person
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when he goes to Hell.
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Here's number one,he desires comfort.
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He desires comfort.
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Send Lazarus said, "He maydip the tip of his finger
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in water.
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That I may cool my tongue for Iam tormented in this flame."
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I want you to noticethat he didn't say,
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"Could I have a bucket of water?
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Or could I havea cup of water?"
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And he didn't even say thathe might dip his finger.
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He said, "That he might dipthe tip of his finger in water
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and cool my tongue."Remember I told you this a few
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weeks ago, but I'm goingto actually show you
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the scripture, "Hell wasnot created for you.
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Hell was not created for you."
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Why I showed you the scripture
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of Isaiah 5 that shows us thatbecause man decided to follow
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Satan, Hell had to be enlarged.
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It was enlargedby necessity.
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Not by design.
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But notice -- here's thescripture that shows you Hell
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was notprepared for you.
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Matthew 25:41: "Then youwill also say to those
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on the left-hand depart fromme you cursed into
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the everlasting," noticeagain it's not -- this blows
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away Annihilationist theorythat it's only a brief time,
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"fire," fire, it is fire,"Watched prepared for the Devil
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and his angels."And that's Jesus talking.
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Okay, "Hell was not preparedfor you."
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Now I want to make a statement.
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I want you to remember this.
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Jesus did not prepare Hellfor you, but He did prepare
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Heaven for you.
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John 14, he said, "I'm goingto prepare a place for you."
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Isn't that agreat statement?
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He did not prepareHell for you.
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He prepared Heaven for you.
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So, number one aman desires comfort.
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Number two, heexpresses concern.
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He immediately says, "Pleasesend him to my brothers.
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My father's house.
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I have five brothers." Okay,every person will
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have this thought at some point.
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I hope my kidsdon't come here.
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I hope my spousedoesn't come here.
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And they might even havea thought like this.
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Maybe, maybe -- and theymight bring --
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they'll not remember thatyou go to church.
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Or that you're a believer.
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And so, they might think,"Well maybe at Christmas
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I know Bill is a believer.
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I know Mary is a believer.
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I know Sue is a believer.
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I know Jim is a believer.
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Maybe at Christmas Sue willtell my children about
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this place."
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And then I wonder, I wonder ifhe will have this thought,
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"She probably won't tell mychildren because
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she didn't tell me."
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I remember arguments about who Ivoted for,
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but I don't rememberher ever telling me that this
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was where I would go and that itwas easy to avoid this place.
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That if I would simply givecontrol of my life to Jesus
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Christ I could haveavoided this place.
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So, every person desirescomfort, expresses concern,
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and here's number three,he seeks consolation.
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He seeks consolation.
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Here's what he said -- hetries to tell himself
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if someone would gofrom the dead.
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If someone would rise fromthe dead and tell them maybe
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they would believe.
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I'm sure they would believe.
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Abraham says this, "Listen theyhave Moses and the Prophets."
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Now you need tounderstand what Moses
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and the Prophets meansin the Bible.
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Moses wrote the first fivebooks of the Old Testament.
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The Prophets wrotethe other books.
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We call them the majorand minor Prophets.
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It's the way we woulddivide
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the Old Testament theologically.
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And understand at this pointthere's no New Testament.
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So, when they say -- when hesays, "If they don't believe
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Moses on the Prophets," he'sreferring to the Bible.
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He's saying, "If they won'tbelieve the Bible," and listen
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to what he says, "If they won'tbelieve the Bible they won't
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believe even if one were to risefrom the grave."
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Listen carefully,Jesus did rise from the grave.
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That's a direct reference.
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He did rise from the grave.
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So, if they don't believethe Bible they wouldn't believe
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even if one wereto rise from the grave.
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And He did.
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Now this story is describingHell before
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the resurrection of Christ.
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You need to understand thatevery person that died before
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the resurrection of Christ wentto a place of "Waiting".
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There were two compartmentswith a chasm between.
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One was Hell wherepeople were tormented.
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The other though, was Abraham'sbosom is what it was called.
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It was a place of waiting forOld Testament Saints.
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And the Bible says thatbefore Jesus ascended into
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Heaven, he descended intothe lower parts and led all
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of those Old TestamentSaints to Paradise.
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Remember He said, "Even tothe thief today you will
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be with me in Paradise."
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Okay, so He leads them outof there.
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So, this is talking about itbefore the resurrection
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of Christ.
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There is also a future Hellafter the second coming.
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And the Bible tell us somethings about future Hell
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that you need to understand.
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I'm going to tell you somethings that will help you
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to understand what eternalHell will be like.
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And I'll give you thescripture to prove it to
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you, okay.
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First of all, there are twophysical properties on Earth
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that keep usmentally stable.
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All right.
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Two physical properties thatkeep us mentally stable.
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This a scientific fact.
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Light and solid.
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Light and solid.
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Light helps us togain our bearings.
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If we can just see wherewe're going, what we're doing.
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Even blind people many timescan see light and dark because
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when the light turnson in the room many times
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and keeps them stable.
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Please understand thatlight is not in Hell.
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The Bible describes Hell asa place of utter darkness
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or outer darkness.
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Matthew 8 describes Hell:"Complete total darkness."
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As a matter of fact, theGreek word means blackness.
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Total darkness.
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Please understand you willnever -- listen Satan has so
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lied that Hellis going to be some big party.
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You'll never see anyone.
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You will never seeanother person.
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And you'll nevertalk to them.
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The reason he did in thisstory -- remember this
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is before the resurrection.
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This is not eternal Hell.
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You will never see ortalk to any other person.
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So, there's nolight in Hell.
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The reason there's light inHeaven -- Revelation 21 tell us:
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"That there's no sunin Heaven", Did you know?
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There's no sun becausethe lamb is the light.
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The reason there's no lightin Hell is because God takes
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His presence from Hell.
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So, there's no light.
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Here's the second thing,solid, in other words being
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able to hold something.
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Grab something.
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Keeps us mentallystable on this Earth.
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Being able to sit down, orwalk, or touch something.
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Hell is describedRevelation 9:11.17.20.
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Okay Revelation 9:11.17.20tell us that:
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"Hell is a bottomless pit.
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You will nevertouch anything.
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You will never sit down.
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You will never stand.
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No matter how hard youlunge, you will never be able
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to touch anything else."
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Those two physical propertiesare not in Hell.
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They keep usmentally stable.
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There are two emotionalproperties that keep us
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emotionally stableon this Earth.
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Rest and hope.
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And I know many of you thinkrest is a physical property,
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which it is, but it's alsoan emotional property
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because rest keepsus emotionally stable.
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Think about how grumpy youget when you get tired.
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We have a littlesaying in my house.
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My wife will say to me, "Youneed a nap."
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And she says that to hergrandkids as well.
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And the grandkids and Ihave to go take a nap.
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So -- when we get tiredwe begin to lose it emotionally.
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And think about if you'velost a person close to you.
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How tired you are and peoplearound you will say to you,
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"You need to get some rest.
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You need to get some rest."
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And we know on this Earth if wecan just rest for sometimes
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just a few moments then we canhandle what we're
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going through emotionally.
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Revelations 14:11 says, "Onthe smoke of their torment
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ascends forever and everand they have no rest.
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Day or night."
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No rest.
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So, there's no rest.
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And the second emotionallyproperty that is not
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in Hell is hope.
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There's no hope.
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On this Earth we always havehope that it can get better.
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Do you realize that a personwho commits suicide is a person
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whom Satan has convinced thatsomething is true on Earth
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that is actually true in Hell?
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He's convinced that personthat you have no hope.
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And on Earth you always havehope because you're alive
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and you can turn to God.
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But in Hell there's no hope.
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Every person who goes toHell will at some point have
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a thought something like this:"When I have been here
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10.000 centuries I will nothave one less second to be
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in this place because Hellis forever."
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And there's one thing I want totell you about Hell that comes
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directly from Jesus theway He described it.
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Jesus used a word todescribe Hell that no person
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had ever used.
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And the Jewish people understoodwhat he was talking about.
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He used the "Gehenna".
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Gehenna means thevalley of Henna.
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It is a valley that is southof the old city Jerusalem.
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If you are in the King Davidcitadel you can see
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the old city and the North,you see two valleys.
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The North valley and theSouth that actually
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come together, up at Westernside of the city right in front
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of the Western wall.
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That valley on the Southsideof Jerusalem is called Gehenna.
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That valley there was alwaysa continual fire in that valley.
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They would burn therefuse from the city.
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But when they went a droughtseason when poor people
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would die and did not haveenough money to be buried
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they began burning the bodies ofpoor people in that valley.
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So, you could smellflesh burning.
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But there's somethingelse that happened.
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When they were taken out ofthe land -- the captivity
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they learned of Babylonianand Chaldean practice
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and that was offering theirchildren to the god of Molech.
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And we know, the Bible tellsus specifically two kings
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did this.
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Manasseh and Ahaboffered their children,
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burned their childrenin the valley of Henna.
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And I told you it'sa tough message.
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What I'm about to tellyou is very difficult.
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They made their childrenwalk into the fire alive.
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And they burned them alive.
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Sometimes they even used whipsto drive them into the fire.
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And Jesus used a phrasethat every Jewish person
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understood describing Hell.
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He said, "It islike Gahenna.
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Where there is," -- andyou've heard this phrase,
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which you might not knowwhere it came from,
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"Where there is weeping andwailing and gnashing of teeth."
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These young boys and girls wouldbe so afraid and in so much pain
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they would weep andwail and gnash their teeth
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together while theywere burned alive.
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And Jesus said, "I'm tryingto tell you the best I can
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about this place, soyou don't go there.
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Now I want to give you aludicrous illustration.
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It's ludicrous.
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If you were to drive hometoday and your neighbors
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house was on fire,what would you do?
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We'd all do the same thing.
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We would immediatelycall 911.
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And if it were safe to do sowe would enter the house
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to try to see if anyonewas still in the house.
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The reason I said this isludicrous is none of you
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would see your neighborshouse on fire and pull into
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your garage and have thethought,
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"Someone else will tell them."
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Someone will tell them."
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And even this thought maybe.
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And I don't mean this in ajoking way, but listen we
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wouldn't have the thought,"Oh, I'll just pray for them."
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And I believe in prayer.
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I believe in prayer.
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That's the first step whenit comes to witnessing
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is praying.
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But the second step isthat you got to tell them.
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You know, Romans 10 says,"Whoever calls on the name
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of the Lord will be saved."But how can they call on Him
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whom they've not heard?
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And how can they hearunless someone tells them?
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We have to tell them.
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So, hear me.
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Your neighbors house is noton fire, but your neighbor is.
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If he doesn't know the Lordaccording to the Bible,
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he will go to a place of fireand a place of torment
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for all eternity.
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PASTOR ROBERT: I know thatthis is a very difficult
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subject to talk about,but I want to remind you
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that God did not createHell for human beings.
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He created Hell for angelsthat rebelled against Him.
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And yet because of the choicesthat we've made we could
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be on our way to Hell.
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But here's the good newsbecause of a choice
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that we can make we can beon our way to Heaven.
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You do not haveto go to Hell.
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You can go to Heaven bysimply accepting Jesus Christ
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as your Lord and Savior.
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Jesus died on the crossto pay for our sins.
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We could never pay for ourown sins and yet he did that.
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And it is a free gift.
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Salvation is afree gift from God.
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And you could receiveJesus Christ right now.
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Just tell him rightnow while I'm talking.
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Tell him, "Jesus I receiveyou as my Lord and my Savior."
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And if you did that we wouldlove to hear from you.
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And we would love to sendyou some material that will help
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you in your new lifewith Jesus Christ
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as your Lord and your Savior.
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Thanks for watching.
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I'll see you next time.
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ANNOUNCER: We're so glad thatyou joined us
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for today's program, and we hopethat you enjoyed
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this important and timelymessage from Pastor Robert.
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The afterlife is mysterious, andcan often be scary
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and overwhelming to think about.
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Just the thought of it raisesquestion after question.
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What's Heaven like?
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Is there a literal Hell?
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Is there a judgement?
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What about the second coming?
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How can you know for sure?
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In this five-part series, "TheEnd: What Happens Next"
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Pastor Robert reveals theanswers to these questions
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and so many more so that you canbegin living a life
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that truly matters.
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Because, ultimately, what youbelieve about death and eternity
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will determine how you live.
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So don't live another daywithout knowing the comforting
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and motivating truth about whathappens next.
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Be sure to take a moment to callus or visit us online
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at PastorRobert.com so that youcan request your copy
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of "The End".
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And for your best gift today,you will receive this series
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teaching series on both CD, andDVD, or as a digital download.
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When you visit PastorRobert.com,you will find several other
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resources on a variety of topicsto help you grow
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in your knowledge of God's Word,and in your relationships
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with others.
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You can also share your prayerneeds with us online,
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and let us know the amazinganswers to prayer
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that you have alreadyexperienced.
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As always, we thank you for yourgenerous support
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of Pastor Robert Morrisministries, and for helping us
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continue to share God's Word inhomes throughout the world.
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♪ ♪
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ANNOUNCER: Living your best lifeisn't about having a dream home,
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wonderful kids,or the ideal job.
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It's about changesin your family, health,
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and relationships.
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When God changes your heart,you'll discover
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that there is so muchmore to life.
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With humor, passion,and clarity,
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Pastor Robert presents,
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"The Secretsof Living Your Best Life."
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♪ ♪
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