The Dragnet

Pride is the devil’s dragnet, in which he takes more fish than in any other, except procrastination.

Charles Spurgeon

I. The Final SEPARATION (v. 47-48)

A. It is Absolute

B. It is Previously Determined

(No Time for Change)

C. It is Permanent

II. The Final JUDGEMENT (v.49-50)

A. Suffering

B. Memory

The “pains of hell” are not the greatest part of hell. The “loss of heaven” is the weightiest woe of hell.

John Chrysostom

People worry about whether there is fire in hell or not. I have no reason not to believe it; what the Bible says I take as the truth. I would not hesitate to refer to the fires of hell, for the Scripture talks about the “lake of fire” (Revelation 20:14-15). But if there were no fire in hell, if hell were a habitable country, it still would be the ugliest country in the universe, the most shockingly deformed place that is known in the creation because there is none of the perfection of beauty. Only God is absolutely perfect.630

A. W. Tozer, The Attributes of God

A. W. Tozer

C. Guilt

III. The Final QUESTION (v. 51-52)

The Jewish scribes sought to know the Word of God, but they did not know the God of the Word!

Warren W. Wiersbe

Jesus’s disciples were better qualified than the scribes and Pharisees to serve as teachers of the law. In their storeroom of instruction, they had old treasures (the OT) and new treasures (the teachings of Jesus).

Robert H. Stein