Heaven Vs Hell
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings...
Over the last several weeks we have compared various topics found throughout the Bible.
God Vs Satan
Judgment Vs Judgment
Hades Vs Eternity
Today we finish up this by looking at the ultimate contrast in Heaven Vs Hell.
I would venture to say the is no greater difference, outside of God Vs Satan, than Heaven vs Hell.
Heaven
Heaven
Heaven is the home of God and the angels.
Heaven is the home of God and the angels.
God dwells in heaven.
9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
Angels or messengers of God live in heaven with the Godhead.
32 “But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
32 And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course.
36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
God and the angels can “come and go” out of heaven to the earth.
12 It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
12 It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
15 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
Heaven is the future home of the righteous few.
Heaven is the future home of the righteous few.
God has promised the righteous a home with Him for eternity.
2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Jn 14:2-
15 Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Heaven is a place where no sin can exists.
Heaven is a place where no sin can exists.
Heaven literally cannot have sin in it because God dwells there () and where God dwells sin cannot...
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,
20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
Heaven is a place of eternal rest.
Heaven is a place of eternal rest.
It is the Sabbath rest for the people of God.
9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. 11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
It is the place where the wicked cannot trouble the righteous any more.
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17 There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
It is the place where the righteous rest from their hard labor for the Lord.
13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
Heaven is a place of eternal worship.
Heaven is a place of eternal worship.
7 the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight.
8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
Summery
Summery
Heaven is “the goal” for everyone willing to “work for the Lord” here on earth and do what is necessary to prepare for it.
If we are not “working out our own salvation” daily () by taking up our cross daily () then we are not preparing eternity with God.
Hell
Hell
Hell is the current home of the angels that sinned.
Hell is the current home of the angels that sinned.
There is only one group of created beings in hell, as far as the Bible describes, and that is the angels that left heaven to sin here on earth.
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
Hell is the future home of Satan and his followers.
Hell is the future home of Satan and his followers.
For Satan and his messengers the demons hell is their future abode.
29 And behold, they cried out, “What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Hell is a place of separation from God.
Hell is a place of separation from God.
Those in hell will not be in the presence of God or His glory.
9 For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,
9 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Hell is a place of eternal torture.
Hell is a place of eternal torture.
The evil physical tortures man has invented over the years doesn’t compare to the eternity of torture in “eternal fire” away from the presence of God and His glory.
7 “Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes! 8 And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. 9 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.
Mt 18:
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, 48 ‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’
Hell is a place of eternal “if only’s.”
Hell is a place of eternal “if only’s.”
Like torment there will be a constant “if only” said by those that “no not God nor obey the gospel.”
Though the rich man was in Torment within Hades he reminds us of the eventual and ultimate despair of eternity without God.
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.’
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.’
Lk 16:
27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house—
Lk 16:
30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
Lk 16:
Summery
Summery
Hell is the absolute worse place any soul could eventually end up.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Like when we compared God and Satan the comparison between heaven and hell is so contrasting that very few would hear such a lesson and prefer hell over heaven.
However, even though this is the case more people would rather prepare for hell in this life and wish for heaven.
The truth is, if we are not “working out our own salvation” daily () by taking up our cross daily () then we are not preparing eternity with God in heaven.
eternity with God.
Brother Brant Stubblefield was right in what he said here last year, “There is a great chance not everyone in this audience will be in eternity with God.”
Make sure you are doing everything you can to prepare for heaven and help each person around you to do the same!!!
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.