Heaven Or Hell

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Heaven Or Hell Which?
2
Certainty Of Hell

• Jesus taught there is a hell.
• Matthew 522 29-30 Matthew 1028 1341-42
  Matthew 2531-34 41,46
• Apostles taught there is a hell.
• 2 Corinthians 510 2 Thessalonians 17-9
  Revelation 1411 218

3
What is Hell Like?

• Everlasting. Revelation 2010
• Punishment. Romans 28-9
• Place of tormenting appetite and desire. Luke
  1622-24
• Separation. 2 Thessalonians 19
• Memory, remorse and regret. Luke 1625 Matthew
  2530

4
What is Hell Like?

• Darkness. Matthew 2530
• Unquenchable fire. Revelation 218 Mark 943
• Death. Revelation 2014 218
• Without hope. Luke 1626 Revelation 149-11

5
Who Is Going To Hell?

• The devil and his angels. Matthew 2541
  Revelation 207-10 2 Peter 24 Jude 6
• The wicked. Psalms 917 Revelation 218
• Those who do not obey the gospel. 2
  Thessalonians 17-9 cf. Romans 28-9
• Unfaithful. Matthew 2514-30
• Apostates. Hebrews 64-8 1026-31 2 Peter
  220-21

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How Beautiful Heaven Must Be

• Heaven is real. Matthew 512 619ff 1 Peter
  14 Colossians 15 Philippians 320

7
How Beautiful Heaven Must Be

• Paradise. Revelation 27 322 221-5
• God shall dwell among His people, no sorrow.
  Revelation 211-4
• No sin. Revelation 2127

8
How Beautiful Heaven Must Be

• Permanent home of the soul. Matthew 2546 1
  Thessalonians 413-18 cf. Hebrews 118-10 2
  Corinthians 416-18 2 Corinthians 51

9
How Beautiful Heaven Must Be

• Perfect fellowship. Revelation 213 cf. 224 1
  John 32 Matthew 811

10
How Beautiful Heaven Must Be

• Worship and service. Revelation 223
• Place of rest. Revelation 1413 Galatians 69
  cf. 1 Corinthians 1558 2 Timothy 46-8

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Who Is Going To Heaven?

• Not everyone is. Matthew 713-14 21-23
• Only those who seek. Luke 1324 Romans 27-9
• Those who remain faithful. James 12-4, 12 2
  Timothy 46-8 cf. Revelation 210

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Matthew 2531-46

• Matthew 2534 Then shall the King say unto them
  on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father,
  inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
  foundation of the world
• Matthew 2541-42 Then shall he say also unto
  them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed,
  into the eternal fire which is prepared for the
  devil and his angels
• Matthew 2546 And these shall go away into
  eternal punishment but the righteous into
  eternal life.

13

• HELL
• A Real Place!
• A Place of Horror!
• Many Will Go There!
• Place Unending Torment!
• Devil, evil, disobedient!
• No Way of Escape!
• A Place To Avoid!

• HEAVEN
• A Real Place!
• Unimaginable Joy!
• Only The Faithful Few!
• A Place of Eternal Bliss!
• Obedient There!
• No Desire To Escape!
• Can Forfeit or Gain!

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Compare

• Ecclesiastes 78, "Better is the end of a thing
  than the beginning thereof,"
• and
• 2 Peter 220, "The latter end is worse with them
  than the beginning."
• Whether the end is better or worse than the
  beginning depends on the answer to the question,
  What shall the end be?