Tag: Hell
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Seeing the Kingdom of Heaven
Have you ever seen God? Some of you will answer by telling me how you see God working or how you see God in nature or people. Those things are not God Himself. I will venture to guess that you have never seen God. Yet, we believe He is. A vast majority of people on…
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Tobit- Will I Go To Hell If I Take My Own Life?
Tobit 3:7-15 The scene of Tobit shifts to another location, Ecbatana in Media rather than Nineveh, and the voice shifts from first to third person. Sarah, like Tobit, is depicted as being righteous. Even though she is righteous, Sarah endures the burdens of an unrighteous person. She, like Tobit, pleads with God on the basis…
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The Reality of Our Future Resurrection
As we conclude our current series walking through our belief statements at our local church, we must declare our stance on the reality of the resurrection. Perhaps one of the most hotly debated topics in theology is the end times, partly because we don’t have much information and partly because over the years people have…
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What Happens to the Soul When the Body Dies?
What have we learned so far about Heaven and Hell? There are only two possible destinations. There is the resurrection to judgment and the resurrection to life. Those who experience the resurrection to life will experience satisfaction and fulfillment as they are with the Master. Those who experience the resurrection of judgment will remain outside…
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Are Heaven and Hell Real Places, or merely concepts?
A survey conducted by LifeWay and Ligonier Ministries reveals what many self-proclaimed Christians believe about different theological topics. The results of this survey can be found at stateoftheology.com. In this survey, 66% of about 3,000 ‘Christians’ surveyed said they believed in the literal existence of a place called Hell. That means 34% believe Hell to…
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Hypocrisy and Jesus
We are a people lost in our own hypocrisy. I often get to talk with people who claim to love Jesus about why they are not a member of a local church. Almost always, the answer is that the church is full of hypocrites. We might jokingly say, “There is always room for one more!”…