Jim Bakker Show - Two False Teachings | Dr. R.T. Kendall
Aired: 2023-09-04
Duration: 03:27


=== What Will Hell Be Like? (03:27) ===

[00:00:00]  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?
[00:00:11]  Well, I just preached a sermon last week at Times Square Church in New York City.
[00:00:22]  What will hell be like?
[00:00:25]  That was the name of your message.
[00:00:27]  What will he help?
[00:00:28]  I should tell you that I go to Times Square Church once a month.
[00:00:31]  And the previous month, I preached a sermon, What Will Heaven Be Like?
[00:00:35]  And after I thought about it, I thought, I should preach a sermon on what will hell be like.
[00:00:42]  And I haven't preached on hell, I'm ashamed to say, but I haven't for 25 years or more.
[00:00:47]  I preached it all the time at Westminster Chapel, but I'm not a pastor now.
[00:00:51]  And so I don't go into churches and tell them, you know, about hell.
[00:00:55]  But this is a little different because I have a regular ministry there, but thanks to Pastor Tim Delina.
[00:01:01]  And he was thrilled with my sermon outline and since thrilled, it's on the internet.
[00:01:06]  You can get it.
[00:01:07]  You're good.
[00:01:08]  Go to YouTube.
[00:01:10]  But my point for mentioning it is that what has taken over a great portion of preachers today are two false teachings.
[00:01:22]  One, it's called annihilationism.
[00:01:26]  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.
[00:01:38]  Well, that's what the atheist hopes is true.
[00:01:40]  That's what the unbeliever hopes is true.
[00:01:43]  That there's no hell.
[00:01:44]  There's no hell.
[00:01:45]  And I'm sorry to say, but it swept over England.
[00:01:48]  It's sweeping over America.
[00:01:50]  And these are good people.
[00:01:51]  People, you'd know their names.
[00:01:53]  That's right.
[00:01:53]  I had a call this week.
[00:01:55]  People that I know from my lifetime said, oh, Jim, you can't believe there's a hell.
[00:02:02]  God wouldn't send anybody to hell.
[00:02:04]  I'm telling you, it's taken over.
[00:02:06]  Well, you're admitting you agree with what I'm saying.
[00:02:09]  Well, that will change because when the church is revived and this great awakening comes, there'll be an awareness that hell is real.
[00:02:18]  The other dangerous teaching is called open theism.
[00:02:23]  Now, a lot of people will never heard of that, but the idea is that God is open.
[00:02:29]  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.
[00:02:37]  Wow.
[00:02:38]  And so we're supposed to help God to know what to do next.
[00:02:41]  It virtually makes us equal with God.
[00:02:43]  We tell him what to do.
[00:02:44]  That sounds like today.
[00:02:46]  Well, I'm telling you, there are people, you would know their names.
[00:02:49]  You would say to me, RT, are you sure he believes that?
[00:02:52]  I'm not going to mention their names.
[00:02:53]  I don't want to get anybody in trouble, make anybody look bad.
[00:02:55]  But I'm telling you right now, there are those who actually teach that the purpose of prayer is to change God's will.
[00:03:04]  That's not true.
[00:03:05]  The purpose of prayer is to find out what God's will is.
[00:03:08]  That's right.
[00:03:09]  But we've changed.
[00:03:10]  That's right.
[00:03:10]  And we tell God what to do.
[00:03:12]  And the result is there is no fear of God in the church at all.
[00:03:18]  That's right.
[00:03:18]  No fear of God in the nation.
[00:03:20]  That's it.
[00:03:20]  No fear of God in the church.
[00:03:22]  This awakening will change that.
[00:03:25]  It's true.
[00:03:26]  It's true.