What Is Hell?

What is Hell?

The Truths About Hell.

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 fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

1) Hell is real.

Hell is not an eternal orgy

A) Isolation

B) Fire

C) Darkness

D) Eternal Gnashing of Teeth

A) Hell is total isolation.

Matthew 27:26

About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani!” -- which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me.”

B) Hell is a fiery furnace.

Jude 7: In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

C) Hell is blackest darkness.

Jude 13 “They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame, wandering stars, for the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.”

D) Hell is eternal, gnashing of teeth.

Matt. 13: 50 “...and throw them into fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

2) Hell is avoidable.

A) Good News -- created in the Image of God

B) Bad News -- all are sinners

C) Good News -- Jesus Christ as the Gift of God

A) Created in the Image of God

Gen 1:27

“God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.”

B) All are sinners

Romans 3:23

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Romans 6:23a

“And the wages of sin is death”

C) Jesus as the Gift of God

Romans 6:23b

“…but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.”

C) Jesus as the Gift of God

Ephesians 2:8

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith -- and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.”