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November 15, 2015
*Read Lu 13:22-30* – Ever notice that Jesus never watered down His message to avoid offending people.
He made them feel bad enough to repent or furious enough to reject.
But He clarified the difference as no one in history.
Repent or perish.
With eternity at stake He never beat around the bush.
He knows that in the end, many who think they are in, like the Pharisees, won’t be.
So, He lovingly warns those rejecting Him of the consequences.
Someone asked in v. 23, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?”
He noted those who are saved come thru the narrow door of repentance.
Most choose door # 1.
His shocking sermon outline: I. Few Will Be Saved II.
Many Will be Lost III.
It Pays to be Saved.
Today we’ll see it pays to enter the narrow door.
It may seem restrictive now – but believe me, it won’t in 100 years, 1000 years, 1,000,000 years.
Jesus contrasts 2 alternatives the only two that exist.
Once we die, it is one or the other.
There is no door # 3.
*I.
The Revulsion of Hell*
*A.
It’s Real* – We don’t talk much about hell today.
Too awful to be true.
But Jesus talked about it – more than anyone.
V. 28: “In that place.”
Hell is a place – not a symbol or metaphor.
If heaven is a place, then hell is just as much a place.
The Greek actually says, “There”.
For some things there is no there, there.
But Jesus says hell is there; it is real.
Awful as it is, it exists.
It is a created place.
Mt 23:41 Jesus calls it, “the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”
Unfortunately, many will join them there.
So is the fire real?
No one can be sure.
If it is symbolic it is indicating a place of terrible suffering.
Whatever hell is, it is real; it is awful and it is forever.
In Mark 9:48 Jesus calls it a place “‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.”
If we had even a small glimpse of hell we would all be on our knees before Christ begging for mercy.
That’s why Jesus gives this glimpse -- so our heart will open to Him.
He warns in Mark 9:43, “43 And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.
It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off.
It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.
47 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out.
It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell.”
It’s real; it’s inescapable; it’s permanent.
“You’d be better to go thru life crippled or blind than to end up in hell.”
It’s that real!
*B.
It’s Regretful* – Can you imagine infinite regret?
Well, that’s hell.
V. 28, “In that place there will be weeping.”
There will be no end to the tears there -- tears of remorse, shock, pain and surprise on the part of those who thought they were going to heaven.
Thought they had the bases covered only to find that without Christ, they are without hope.
They will remember the day they could have said Yes, but instead said Later, or No!
About 3 years ago, 1:00 one morning, Jeffrey Giuliano, a 5th grade teacher in New Fairfield, CT got a call from his sister who lived next door saying she feared an intruder.
Jeffrey got his pistol and went to investigate.
Shortly he encountered someone dressed in black with a ski mask who attacked him.
He shot and killed his assailant.
But when the mask was removed, it was his own 15-year-old son.
No one knows what the boy was up to, but Dad is devastated.
He said, “If I could just live that one moment over.”
But the moment is gone.
Hell will be like that.
“If only’s” will bounce off the walls for all eternity.
Spurgeon once reminded an audience that having heard the gospel that day, they would never have an excuse.
“If you are lost and cast away, you will have to bear all the blame and all the tortures of conscience yourself, forever reflecting, “I have destroyed myself; I have made a suicide of my soul; I have been my own destroyer.”
The time to repent is now.
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It’s Raging* – V. 28, “In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.”
Unbelievers will see believers in glory prior to being cast out and it will cause “gnashing of teeth.”
That’s a term that indicates extreme anger.
Job 16:9, “He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me.” Imagine a caged lion, being tormented by a teaser.
He bares his teeth in a roar of anger.
When Stephen was arrested for preaching Jesus, he preached an amazing sermon, closing with the accusation that they have murdered their own Messiah.
The result is in Acts 7:54: “Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth (same phrase) at him.”
They hated him, just as those in hell will hate the very idea that Jesus would refuse their good works and cast them into hell, even as they weep with regret.
In Mt 7:22 Jesus depicts people as begging to stay in heaven based on all the things they’ve done for him – “did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?”
They want to stay on their terms – and when they can’t, they gnash their teeth in anger at the God.
Hell is a place of raging, hatred of a God who dares to refuse those who reject His Son.
Like Judas, they are remorseful, but not repentant.
They hate God.
That’s what hell will be like.
Look what Jesus says at end of v. 27: “Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’” How can Jesus say that?
These are Pharisees, not terrorists and rapists.
Surely they are not evildoers!
But they are, Beloved, because they insist that their good is better than that of the Christ who died for them.
They refuse God’s verdict in Isa 64:6, “and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.”
They are the worst kind of evil-doers because they declare God a liar.
His words, “Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’” will resonate thru their minds for all eternity and they will gnash their teeth at the memory.
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It’s Wretched* – The worst part of all – removal from God’s presence!
V. 27: “Depart from me.” That’s the end of hope.
Ever hear anyone say, “You can have heaven.
I’ll take my friends in hell?” Hell as a big frat party.
Won’t be like that, Beloved.
It’s a place of severe loneliness.
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