Sermon Tone Analysis
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The Day of the Lord
Reoccurring theme and Shadow of a looming event
What God Hates!
Sincere hearts vs False Pretense
What God Loves.
Amos
Injustice today:
Cyclical poverty
Broken Justice system.
Senseless immigration laws
Religious persecution
Elderly suffering poor care.
Children dying because of abortion
Starfish Story
Be consistently, quietly, peacefully good people.
Idolatry
Putting finances above all.
Putting career above all.
Putting family above all.
Putting stuff above all.
Idolatry allows Indiscriminate wealth gain and sexual immorality.
Hell!
“There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ’s moral character, and that is that he believed in hell.
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.”—Bertrand
Russell, atheist (The Case for Faith, p169)
“Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.”
—G.K. Chesterton, Christian (The Case for faith, p 169)
"We need to distinguish between whether we like the idea of hell and if it’s right to do.” —P172 (The Case for Faith p 172)
Ez 33:11
Not a torture chamber
Loving & Compassionate
AND
Moral & Just
Hell=Relational
God’s Fall-Back
Answering questions on hell
The Case for Faith, Lee Strobel
Children in hell?
Degrees of Hell?
Infinite punishment for finite crimes?
How long does it take to murder someone?
How long would it take to steal this baby grand piano?
Scale of punishment=Scale of deed
Why not force people to heaven?
Matt
Intrinsic vs. Instrumental value
Why not snuff people out?
How can heaven and hell both exist?
Hell doesn’t have veto power over heaven.
—C.S. Lewis
Why doesn’t God just create those who would follow him?
Why no second chance?
Question assumes God hasn’t done all He could do to lead someone to Him.
This is beyond what we can know and not something we can determine for anyone.
The sight of the judgment seat of Christ would be coercive.
Reincarnation?
Doesn’t make sense, we are body and spirit.
What’s God to do?
“Hell is not a place where people are consigned because they were pretty good blokes, but they just didn’t believe the right stuff.
They’re consigned there, first and foremost, because they defy their maker and want to be a the center of the universe.
Hell is not filled with people who have already repented, only God isn’t gentle enough or good enough to let them out.
It’s filled with people, who for all eternity, still want to be the center of the universe and who persist in their God-defying rebellion.
(The Case for Faith, p 193)
What is God to do?
If he says it doesn’t matter to him, then God is no longer a God to be admired.
He’s either amoral or positively creepy.
For him to act in any other way in the face of such blatant defiance would be to reduce God himself.
(The Case for Faith, p 193)
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