**HABITAT FOR ETERNITY
The Grand Finale – Week 11**
Steve Gallimore | pastorsteve@tvcc.us
November 22, 2020
Cite Robert Jeffress – Perfect Ending
HABITAT: the typical place of residence of a person or a group.
“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him.”
Deuteronomy 30:19-20
“Choose for yourselves today whom you will serve,” Joshua 24:13-15
“How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” 1 Kings 18:21
“Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.’”
Jeremiah 21:8
66 After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. 67 So Jesus said to the Twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, 69 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” John 6:66-69
1. Jesus
13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” Matthew 7:13-14
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2. Jesus
• Hell is an Actual
*Three terms used for hell:
1. Tartoros (2 Peter 2:4)
2. Gehenna (Revelation 19:20; 20:10; 20:15)
3. Hades (Luke 16:23; Revelation 20:14)
• Hell is a Place of
(Luke 13:28; Luke 16:24)
“And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’”
Luke 16:24
“And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.” Matthew 10:28
“And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.” Revelation 20:10
“And there shall no longer be any night; and they shall not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall illumine them; and they shall reign forever and ever.” Revelation 22:5
• Hell is Filled with Indescribable
(Matthew 8:12)
But many Israelites—those for whom the Kingdom was prepared—will be thrown into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 8:12
• Hell is a Deserved
(Luke 16:25, 27-31; Hebrews 10:29)
25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. 27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’” Luke 16:25, 27-31
“How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?” Hebrews 10:29 (NASB)
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• Hell is a Forever
“And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.” Luke 16:26
“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:” Hebrews 9:27 (KJV)