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What’s The Deal With? . . . Hell and Eternal Punishment?

What’s The Deal With? . . . Hell and Eternal Punishment?. What’s The Deal With? . . . Hell and Eternal Punishment?. “What will happen to those who have never heard of Christ?”

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What’s The Deal With? . . . Hell and Eternal Punishment?

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  1. What’s The Deal With? . . . Hell and Eternal Punishment?

  2. What’s The Deal With? . . . Hell and Eternal Punishment?

  3. “What will happen to those who have never heard of Christ?” Everyone around the dinner table was waiting for some great theological answer, a weighty intellectual response - and none came. Instead, he bowed his head and wept.

  4. “I must not preach hell unless I preach it with tears.” – D.L. Moody

  5. What kind of God would condemn a person to hell?

  6. Job 38:4-18 4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. 5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

  7. Job 38:4-18 6 On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone— 7 while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?

  8. Job 38:4-18 8 “Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, 9 when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, 10 when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,

  9. Job 38:4-18 11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’? 12 “Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place,

  10. Job 38:4-18 13 that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it? 14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment. 15 The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.

  11. Job 38:4-18 16 “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? 17 Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

  12. Job 38:4-18 18 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.

  13. Job 40:2 2 “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who accuses God answer him!”

  14. Romans 9:20-21 20 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?

  15. Isaiah 55:8-9 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

  16. Psalm 115:3 3 Our God is in heaven he does whatever pleases him.

  17. Psalm 115:3 3 Our God is in heaven he does whatever pleases him.

  18. God has the right to do whatever pleases Him, whether or not we agree with it.

  19. Is hell a literal place?

  20. Orthodox Jews in Jesus’ Day Believed:a. Hell is a place of punishment after judgment. b. Hell is described in imagery of fire and darkness, where people lament. c. Hell is a place of annihilation or never-ending punishment.

  21. Daniel 12:2 2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

  22. Orthodox Jews in Jesus’ Day Believed:a. Hell is a place of punishment after judgment. b. Hell is described in imagery of fire and darkness, where people lament. c. Hell is a place of annihilation or never-ending punishment.

  23. What Did Jesus Teach about Hell?

  24. Matthew 25:31-46 31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

  25. Matthew 25:31-46 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. 34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

  26. Matthew 25:31-46 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

  27. Matthew 25:31-46 37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

  28. Matthew 25:31-46 40 “The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’

  29. Matthew 25:31-46 41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

  30. Matthew 25:31-46 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

  31. Matthew 25:31-46 44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ 45 “He will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

  32. Matthew 25:31-46 46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

  33. What Did Jesus Teach about Hell? a. Hell is a place of punishment after judgment. b. Hell is described in imagery of fire and darkness, where people lament. c. Hell is a place of annihilation or never-ending punishment.

  34. Hell is described in imagery of fire and darkness, where people lament

  35. Matthew 13:40-43 40 “As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.

  36. Matthew 13:40-43 42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

  37. Matthew 13:49-50 49 This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous 50 and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  38. Matthew 18:8-9 8 If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

  39. Matthew 18:8-9 9 And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

  40. Additional Passages speaking of hell as a place of darkness, weeping and gnashing of teeth Matthew 8:11-12 Matthew 22:13 Matthew 25:30

  41. Isn’t hell just a reference to a place on the outskirts of Jerusalem where garbage was burned and no one would want to live?

  42. What did other New Testament Authors Say About Hell?

  43. 2 Thessalonians 1:6-9 6 God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you 7 and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.

  44. 2 Thessalonians 1:6-9 8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power

  45. Romans 9:2-3 2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers

  46. What did other New Testament Authors Say About Hell?

  47. These two books speak of ‘destruction’ (2 Peter 2:1, 3, 12; 3:7, 9; Jude 5, 10, 11), ‘punishment’ (2 Peter 2:9, Jude 7), ‘judgment’ (2 Peter 2:4, 9; Jude 4), ‘condemnation’ (2 Peter 2:3, Jude 4), ‘hell’ (2 Peter 2:4), and retributive suffering (2 Peter 2:13) that await the ungodly who don’t follow Jesus. Hell is described as ‘the gloom of utter darkness’ (2 Peter 2:17, Jude 13) and the ‘punishment of eternal fire’ (Jude 7, 23).  

  48. What did other New Testament Authors Say About Hell? Revelation 14 and 20-22 give us some of the most vivid imagery of hell in the entire Bible.

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