Do You Think Hell Is Real

But then death changed everything!!!

In Vs 22 it said and it came to pass that the

Beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom

The rich man also died and was buried!!!!

You hear me BURIED!!!!!!

Now you can probably imagine that this rich man’s family no doubt threw the largest most expensive funeral imaginable!!!!

And poor Lararus’s body probably got carted to the city dump and burned with all the trash!!!

But there was a major reversal when these two men passed through the portal of death!!

Angel’s carried Lazarus into God’s presence

But the Rich Man finds himself in the depths of hell where he was in total torment!!!!

JOB 21:13 SAYS:

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave!!!

My God I’d rather be little Lazarus any day

Than be the rich man wouldn’t you??

LUKE 6:24 SAYS:

But woe unto you that are rich for ye have received your consolation!!!!

THE BIBLE SAYS

Its easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God!!!!

Jesus’ audience would’ve been astonished hearing about where you end up at death, because they all thought that riches was a sign of God’s favor and blessings!!

Man were they wrong!!

I think there’s much confusion today about what happens when we die in relation to eternity!

DEATH takes place when the spirit leaves the body!

JAMES 2:26 SAYS:

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also!!

Listen Church death is not the end!!

It’s the beginning of a completely new life in the world that is gonna come after this one!

When you die, only your body goes to the grave!

When we attend a funeral we only see the physical shell of that person laying there in the casket that we once knew!

The real person, which is the soul or the spirit has already departed to one of two places which is either a place of eternal damnation or a place of comfort and peace and beauty

And eternal life!!!

And it all depends on your spiritual condition when you die!!

Quite simply the question is are you serving God or the Devil??

Many theologians today believe that after Jesus rose from the tomb, He brought the saints from Abraham’s bosom straight to where God is!!!

EPHESIANS 4:8 SAYS:

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men!!

Since then believers spirits go immediately at death directly into the presence of God and

The shells of them in the grave are waiting on the resurrection when Jesus Returns!!

Now let me correct some misunderstandings about this place called hell!

Does anybody know

Why was the rich man sent to hell??

Maybe a lot of people might think that he missed having salvation because he wasn’t generous with his money!!

Well that ain’t the case!

The real reason he ended up in hell was he never got into The Word and He rejected God

He never accepted Jesus as his personal savior!!!

You see some people have an image of hell in their mind and it ain’t based on reality!!

These two men here in the book of Luke,

Give us a glimpse of what its like in hell.