Will You Live With God? (Revelation 12:7-9)
Gary McManus, 03/23/2014Part of the Why Hell? series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
March 23, 2014 Revelation 12:7-9 (p. 1223)
Disclaimers from the Pastor:
--I don’t intend to assign folks to Hell.
--Listen to my word choices carefully.
(The sermon and notes will help.)
Jesus asked questions and warned people.
The New Testament uses the word “perish”
over thirty times. Jesus used the word.
[esp Luke 13:3,5, John 3:16]
Jesus seems concerned that there will be
people who will perish. How come?
To just start talking about “Hell” is to come in
on the middle of a movie!
We have been trying to bring folks up to speed.
Hell was made for Satan not for you.
Still people will go there. Curious.
This is especially strange since the Bible says
that God wants to save us.
(1 Timothy 2:4, Titus 2:11)
The “movie” on Hell starts in the garden called Eden.
Once the humans ate that fruit, the humans COULDn’t
live in the garden anymore. The humans had wrecked
God’s plan to live close to the humans in the garden.
God LOVED the humans too much to let the humans go.
Eventually, God Himself goes to where the humans live
to get them back.
The word or words return to the Lord occur about 100 times.
[See Jesus’ story of the Father and two sons, Luke 15:11ff.]
“I will go back to my Father. . .” (vs. 18)
That is a spiritual truth. After the humans leave the
presence of the Father, things did NOT go well for them.
That isn’t punishment as we understand punishment.
It is a spiritual fact. (Joe Diffie, Third Rock From the Sun)
When people walk away from the Lord, stuff falls apart.
That is OUR decision.
[A hellish report. Note: Hell is a real place not of this earth.
On earth, we can make things hellish but Hell is not here.]
So, who is going to hell? Anyone who WANTS to go.
Satan didn’t want to live with God either.
And therefore, a place was made for Satan. . .Hell.
Satan frustrated God’s original plan.
The Apostle put it this way
2 Thessalonians 2:10
“. . .wickedness deceives. . . They perish because they refused
to love the truth and so be saved.
The Lord God wants us to live with Him forever.
Jesus came saying: “Come to me. . .all.(Matthew 11:28)
Be with Jesus, walk with Jesus, follow Jesus. . .this was
Jesus’ FIRST INVITATION to the the disciples
. . .follow me [Mark 1:17, Matthew 9:9, 10:38, Luke 18:26,
John 8:12, 10:27, 12:26 ]
Hell isn’t for you. Amen.
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