Sermon Tone Analysis

*                                  The blessing— Life forevermore *       7~/13~/08 a.m.

 

*Ps 133:1-3*

1     Behold, how good and how pleasant /it is/

     For  brethren to dwell together in unity!

2     /It is/ like the precious oil upon the head,

     Running down on the beard,

     The beard of Aaron,

     Running down on the edge of his garments.

3     /It is/ like the dew of  Hermon,

     Descending upon the mountains of Zion;

     For  there the Lord commanded the blessing—

     Life forevermore.

*The blessing— Life forevermore is;*

           

            Good

            Pleasant

            A family

            Living together

            Perfect harmony

            Gods’ highest honor

            Gods’ anointing

            Gods’ continual refreshing

            Gods’ highest eternal blessing

            True life forever

 

Having never experienced the perfect life God has always intended for us, it is hard, if not impossible for us to imagine this blessing of True Eternal Life.

Being more familiar with life tainted by sin and its effects, it’s easier for us to imagine the life we will escape by God’s salvation rather than the life we will receive.

The life we will escape is a life of Eternal damnation, a life of Eternal condemnation, a life without any presence of God, His love, mercy, and goodness.

This life is referred to as hell.

Hell is all the bad we know of life multiplied a million times over and with no way of escape and with no end.

*hell* \ˈhel\ n

[ME, fr.

OE; akin to OE /helan/ to conceal, OHG /helan,/ L /celare,/ Gk /kalyptein/] bef.

12c

*1*     *a*     *(1)* *: **a nether world in which the dead continue to exist* *: *hades

                  *(2)* *: **the nether realm of the devil and the demons in which the damned suffer everlasting punishment *— often used in curses 〈go to /hell/〉 or as a generalized term of abuse 〈the /hell/ with it〉

                        *b*      /Christian Science/ *: *error 2b, sin

*2*     *a*      *: **a place or state of misery, torment, or wickedness*

〈war is /hell/ —W.

T. Sherman〉

                        *b*      *: **a place or state of turmoil or destruction* 〈all /hell/ broke loose〉

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*HELL is a translation of: * 

*Translation of the Hebrew word /sheol/, *

Signifying the unseen state

Sheol is described as down, deep, dark, with bars.

*Translation of the Greek word /hades/ in N.T. of King James Version, *

The unseen world

It has the same scope of signification as sheol of the Old Testament.

It is a prison, with gates and bars and locks, and it is downward 

 

*       Translation of the Greek word /gehenna/, *

Signifying the place of torment

Designates the place of the lost

The fearful nature of their condition

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*Translation of the Greek verb /tartaro¢/, signifying the infernal region,*[1]* *

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*Hell — *derived from the Saxon helan, to cover; hence the covered or the invisible place.

In Scripture there are three words so rendered:

(1.) Sheol, occurring in the Old Testament sixty-five times.

This word sheol is derived from a root-word meaning “to ask,” “demand;” hence insatiableness (Prov.

30:15, 16).

It is rendered “grave” thirty-one times (Gen.

37:35; 42:38; 44:29, 31; 1 Sam.

2:6, etc.).

The Revisers have retained this rendering in the historical books with the original word in the margin, while in the poetical books they have reversed this rule.

In thirty-one cases in the Authorized Version this word is rendered “hell,” the place of disembodied spirits.

The inhabitants of sheol are “the congregation of the dead” (Prov.

21:16).

It is (a) the abode of the wicked (Num.

16:33; Job 24:19; Ps. 9:17; 31:17, etc.); (b) of the good (Ps.

16:10; 30:3; 49:15; 86:13, etc.).

Sheol is described as deep (Job 11:8), dark (10:21, 22), with bars (17:16).

The dead “go down” to it (Num.

16:30, 33; Ezek.

31:15, 16, 17).

(2.)

The Greek word hades of the New Testament has the same scope of signification as sheol of the Old Testament.

It is a prison (1 Pet.

3:19), with gates and bars and locks (Matt.

16:18; Rev. 1:18), and it is downward (Matt.

11:23; Luke 10:15).

The righteous and the wicked are separated.

The blessed dead are in that part of hades called paradise (Luke 23:43).

They are also said to be in Abraham’s bosom (Luke 16:22).

(3.) Gehenna, in most of its occurrences in the Greek New Testament, designates the place of the lost (Matt.

23:33).

The fearful nature of their condition there is described in various figurative expressions (Matt.

8:12; 13:42; 22:13; 25:30; Luke 16:24, etc.).

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*Hell is prepared for:*

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*Originally for the Devil and his angels*

*Matt.

25:41* 41 “Then He will also say to those on the left hand,  ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire *prepared for  the devil and his angels:*

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*Fallen angels     *

*2 Pet.

2:4* 4 For if God did not spare *the angels who sinned*, but cast /them/ down to hell and delivered /them/ into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

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*Beast and the false prophet     *

*Rev.

19:20* 20 Then *the beast* was captured, and with him *the false prophet* who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and  those who worshiped his image.

These two *were cast alive into the lake of fire  burning with brimstone.

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*Worshipers of the beast     *

*Rev.

14:11* 11 And  the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, *who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”

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*Wicked     *

*Rev.

21:8* 8  But *the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars* shall have their part in  the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

*Disobedient     *

*Rom.

2:8, 9* 8 but to *those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth*, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;

 

*Rejecters of the Gospel     *