Eternal
Lesson 2: Eternal Separation
February 8 & 9, 2020
Hell Wasn’t Created For People But Some People Will End Up There
Matthew 25:41 Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. New International Version
Because Sin and Evil Can’t Enter Heaven
Revelation 21:6 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. New International Version
Revelation 21:8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers,the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” New International Version
Revelation 21:25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. New International Version
Revelation 21:26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27 Nothing impure will everenter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life. New International Version
Ephesians 2:1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. New International Version
2 Corinthians 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. New International Version
Why Does God Allow Sin and Evil On Earth?
God is Holy and Just, and Will Hold People Accountable
Ecclesiastes 8:9 I saw all this when I thought about the things that are done in this world, a world where some people have power and others have to suffer under them. Good News Translation
Ecclesiastes 8:10 Yes, I have seen the wicked buried and in their graves, buton the way back from the cemetery people praise them in the very city where they did their evil. It is useless. Good News Translation
2 Thessalonians 1:6 God will do what is right: he will bring suffering on those who make you suffer, Good News Translation
2 Thessalonians 1:7 and he will give relief to you who suffer and to us as well.He will do this when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven with his mighty angels, 8 with a flaming fire, to punish those who reject God and who do not obey the Good News about our Lord Jesus. Good News Translation
2 Thessalonians 1:9 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from his glorious might, 10 when he comes on that Day to receive glory from all his people and honor from all who believe. You too will be among them, because you have believed the message that we told you. Good News Translation
Matthew 13:41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. 42 They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. New International Version
Luke 16:22 The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. New International Version
2 Thessalonians 1:9 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from his glorious might, 10 when he comes on that Day to receive glory from all his people and honor from all who believe. You too will be among them, because you have believed the message that we told you. Good News Translation
John 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. New International Version
1 John 5:11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. New International Version