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What Will Hell Be Like?
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| So why is it more critical now than ever for us to be in the Bible, reading the Bible, to know what's happening and what's coming next? | |
| Well, I just preached a sermon last week at Times Square Church in New York City. | |
| What will hell be like? | |
| That was the name of your message. | |
| What will he help? | |
| I should tell you that I go to Times Square Church once a month. | |
| And the previous month, I preached a sermon, What Will Heaven Be Like? | |
| And after I thought about it, I thought, I should preach a sermon on what will hell be like. | |
| And I haven't preached on hell, I'm ashamed to say, but I haven't for 25 years or more. | |
| I preached it all the time at Westminster Chapel, but I'm not a pastor now. | |
| And so I don't go into churches and tell them, you know, about hell. | |
| But this is a little different because I have a regular ministry there, but thanks to Pastor Tim Delina. | |
| And he was thrilled with my sermon outline and since thrilled, it's on the internet. | |
| You can get it. | |
| You're good. | |
| Go to YouTube. | |
| But my point for mentioning it is that what has taken over a great portion of preachers today are two false teachings. | |
| One, it's called annihilationism. | |
| There are those who no longer believe in eternal punishment, but believe a person will be annihilated, which means as though you never were, as though you're gone, it's over. | |
| Well, that's what the atheist hopes is true. | |
| That's what the unbeliever hopes is true. | |
| That there's no hell. | |
| There's no hell. | |
| And I'm sorry to say, but it swept over England. | |
| It's sweeping over America. | |
| And these are good people. | |
| People, you'd know their names. | |
| That's right. | |
| I had a call this week. | |
| People that I know from my lifetime said, oh, Jim, you can't believe there's a hell. | |
| God wouldn't send anybody to hell. | |
| I'm telling you, it's taken over. | |
| Well, you're admitting you agree with what I'm saying. | |
| Well, that will change because when the church is revived and this great awakening comes, there'll be an awareness that hell is real. | |
| The other dangerous teaching is called open theism. | |
| Now, a lot of people will never heard of that, but the idea is that God is open. | |
| Whereas the Bible says he knows the end from the beginning, open theism is God doesn't know the future, but he looks to us for input. | |
| Wow. | |
| And so we're supposed to help God to know what to do next. | |
| It virtually makes us equal with God. | |
| We tell him what to do. | |
| That sounds like today. | |
| Well, I'm telling you, there are people, you would know their names. | |
| You would say to me, RT, are you sure he believes that? | |
| I'm not going to mention their names. | |
| I don't want to get anybody in trouble, make anybody look bad. | |
| But I'm telling you right now, there are those who actually teach that the purpose of prayer is to change God's will. | |
| That's not true. | |
| The purpose of prayer is to find out what God's will is. | |
| That's right. | |
| But we've changed. | |
| That's right. | |
| And we tell God what to do. | |
| And the result is there is no fear of God in the church at all. | |
| That's right. | |
| No fear of God in the nation. | |
| That's it. | |
| No fear of God in the church. | |
| This awakening will change that. | |
| It's true. | |
| It's true. | |