HELL-BY STEVE FINNELL
The contemporary church of Christ looks at the Bible and cannot see the word, hell, written there. Well they actually can, but to mention hell is not really "seeker friendly." To speak of hell makes people uncomfortable, fearful, and increases their anxiety level. The church wants to hear God's love preached, not a negative, depressing message about hell. To reference hell could alienate visitors. Is that want God wants?
THE UNSPOKEN EDICT IS, DO NOT PREACH ABOUT HELL!
Matthew 10:28 Do not fear of those who can kill body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
JESUS DID NOT GET THE MEMO!
Mark 9:47-48 If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into hell, 48 where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.
JESUS DID NOT GET THE MEMO!
2 Peter 2:4-9 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgement; 5 and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly..........
PETER DID NOT GET THE MEMO!
Matthew 40-43 So just as the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness, 42 and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
JESUS DID NOT GET THE MEMO!
Revelation 20:14-15 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
COMFORTABLE SEEKER FRIENDLY PREACHING CAN HAVE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES!
THERE IS A LAKE OF FIRE!
(All Scripture quotes from: NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE)
THE UNSPOKEN EDICT IS, DO NOT PREACH ABOUT HELL!
Matthew 10:28 Do not fear of those who can kill body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
JESUS DID NOT GET THE MEMO!
Mark 9:47-48 If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into hell, 48 where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.
JESUS DID NOT GET THE MEMO!
2 Peter 2:4-9 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgement; 5 and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly..........
PETER DID NOT GET THE MEMO!
Matthew 40-43 So just as the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness, 42 and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
JESUS DID NOT GET THE MEMO!
Revelation 20:14-15 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
COMFORTABLE SEEKER FRIENDLY PREACHING CAN HAVE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES!
THERE IS A LAKE OF FIRE!
(All Scripture quotes from: NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE)
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