Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - The Truth About Eternity (Part 2)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Truth About Eternity (Part 2) | May 6, 2026

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Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with
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Dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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Again to "pathway to victory."
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It's fun to dream about the rewards that await us in heaven,
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But you hear very few messages today about the misery of
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Spending eternity in hell.
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In fact, i once heard a megachurch pastor brag about how
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He never preaches on the subject of hell because, well, it's just
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Too negative.
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Well, today we're going to talk about the reality of
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Eternal judgment.
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This may be one of the very first sermons you've ever heard
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On the topic.
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My message is titled "the truth about eternity" on today's
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♪ thou rushing wind that art so strong ♪
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♪ ye clouds that sail in heaven along ♪
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♪ o praise him alleluia, ♪
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♪ thou burning sun with golden beam. ♪
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♪ thou silver moon with softer gleam. ♪
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♪ o praise him. ♪
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♪ alleluia. ♪
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♪ thou rising morn, in praise rejoice. ♪
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♪ ye lights of evening, find a voice. ♪
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♪ o praise him, o praise him. ♪
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♪ praise him, all creatures here below. ♪
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♪ o praise him, o praise him. ♪
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♪ alleluia, alleluia, ♪
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♪ alleluia. ♪
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♪ amen. ♪
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♪ amen. ♪
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♪ amen. ♪
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Jeffress: no, the beast and false prophet were thrown in
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There 1,000 years ahead of time, but when it's satan's turn to be
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Thrown in the lake of fire, john says the beast and the false
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Prophet are still alive.
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After 1,000 years of suffering, they are still there, and they
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Will be tormented, verse 10 says, day and night, forever
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And ever.
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Verse 15 says for the unsaved, if any man's name was not found
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Written in the book of life, he was also cast into the lake of
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Fire to be tormented day and night forever and ever.
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You've heard me say before that word translated forever and ever
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Is the greek word "aionas," and interestingly it is the very
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Same word, the word that refers to the eternality of hell, that
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Is used to describe the eternality of heaven as well.
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In revelation 22, verse 5 john says, "and there shall no longer
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Be any night; and they shall not have need of the light of the
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Day or the light of the sun, because the lord god shall
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Illumine them; and they shall reign forever and ever."
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Do you see it?
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Same word that describes the eternality of hell is used to
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Describe the eternality of heaven.
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I'll never forget hearing dr. criswell say years ago, and it
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Was such a perceptive comment, he said, "if you reduce by any
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Amount, even one second, the time an unbeliever spends in
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Hell, you have to subtract that same amount from the time that
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A believer spends in heaven," because the same word
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Describes both.
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Fact is the punishment of hell is forever.
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Here is the awful truth about hell, ladies and gentlemen.
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If you end up there, if you end up in hell, after you have spent
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10 billion trillion years in that awful place, you will not
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Have reduced by one second the time you have left
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To spend there.
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Hell is a place of eternal suffering.
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Number three, hell is filled with indescribable loneliness.
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Matthew 8, verse 12, jesus said, "but the sons of the kingdom
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Shall be cast into the outer darkness; and in that place
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There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
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Have you ever heard anybody say before, "oh, i don't care about
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Going to hell.
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That's where all my friends are gonna be.
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And we'll just go there and party day and night forever.
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We'll have a great time, because i'll be with my friends."
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Well, the fact is you may be there with your friends.
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They may be there with you, but you won't know it.
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You won't be aware of it because hell is a place of darkness,
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Which means it is a place of indescribable loneliness.
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I'll never forget years ago an article i read about hell.
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It was entitled, "hell: that hideous doctrine."
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And in the article the writer imagined using the scripture
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What hell would be like from the point of view of somebody who
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Awakens and finds himself in hell.
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How would he feel?
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What would he do?
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Listen to this description.
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"after a roar of physical pain blasts him," that is the new
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Occupant of hell, "he spends his first moments wailing and
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Gnashing his teeth.
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But after a season he grows accustomed to the pain, not that
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It's become tolerable, but that his capacity for it has enlarged
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To comprehend it without being consumed by it.
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Though he hurts, he is now able to think, and he instinctively
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Looks about him.
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But as he looks, he only sees blackness.
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In his past life he learned that if he looked long enough, a glow
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Of light somewhere would yield definition to his surroundings,
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So he blinks and he strains to focus his eyes, but his efforts
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Only yield blackness.
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He turns and strains his eyes in another direction.
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He waits.
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He sees nothing but unyielding black ink.
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It clings to him, smothering and oppressing him.
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Realizing that the darkness is not going to give way,
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He nervously begins to feel for something solid to get
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His bearings.
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He reaches for walls or rocks or trees or chairs.
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He stretches his legs to feel the ground, but he
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Touches nothing.
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He hangs there alone in his pain, unable to touch a solid
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Object or see a solitary thing.
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He begins to weep.
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His sobs choke through the darkness.
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They become weak and then lost in hell's roar."
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Hell is a place of indescribable loneliness.
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You say how could god ever do something so awful to people?
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Number four, jesus said hell is a deserved judgment.
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It's a deserved judgment.
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Notice how after the rich man begs for relief from the agony
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Of hell, notice how abraham responds to his request.
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Luke 16, verse 25, "but abraham said, child, remember that
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During your life you received your good things, and likewise
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Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted there, and
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You're in agony."
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Verse 27, "and the rich man said, then i beg you, abraham,
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That you might send lazarus to my father's house--for i have
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Five brothers--that he may warn them, lest they should come
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To this place of torment."
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Isn't that interesting?
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Even an unbeliever in hell, sensing the reality of hell,
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Desires that his lost brothers be saved.
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"father abraham, please send someone to go and warn my
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Unbelieving brothers."
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Verse 29, "abraham said, they have moses and the prophets."
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That is, they have the scripture.
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"let them hear them.
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But the rich man said, oh no, father abraham, but if somebody
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Goes to them from the dead, they will repent!
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But abraham said, if they do not listen to moses and the
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Prophets, neither will they be persuaded if somebody rises
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From the dead."
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And of course, that was prophetic.
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When jesus rose from the dead, people still refused to believe
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In him.
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What abraham was saying to the rich man was this.
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He said, "you had many opportunities in your life.
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Remember all of the good things that god brought into your life,
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Those good things should have pointed you to god and
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Into repentance.
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But you gave up those opportunities.
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You didn't respond."
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And then when he said, "well, at least remember my brother, send
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Somebody from the dead, lazarus, to warn them."
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He said, "you have an opportunity to
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Through scripture.
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Scripture warns them.
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If they don't believe, they won't believe if somebody comes
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From the dead."
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What this passage is teaching us is there is nobody who is in
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Hell because of god's choice.
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People are in hell because of their own choice, and that is
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The choice to reject the knowledge, the sufficient
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Knowledge that comes from god's word.
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They have moses and the prophets.
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We have even more.
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We have even the revelation of the new testament, and that
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Means no man has an excuse.
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Hell is a deserved judgment.
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People choose to reject the knowledge of god's word and
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Spend eternity separated from him.
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I think about hebrews chapter 10, verse 29.
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You know, we get the idea, "well, isn't that kind of an
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Overreaction on god's part to send people to a horrible place
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Like this simply because they haven't believed the right
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Things about jesus?"
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But as hebrews 10:29 says, neglecting the gospel or
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Rejecting the gospel is not some harmless, secondary sin.
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I want you to notice how the writer describes what you are
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Doing when you reject or simply neglect receiving god's offer
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Of salvation.
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He writes, "how much severer punishment do you think he will
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Deserve who has trampled under foot the son of god, and has
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Regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was
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Sanctified, and has insulted the spirit of grace?"
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Will you notice the three things somebody is doing when he
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Rejects or neglects the gospel?
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First of all, he is guilty of trampling the son of god.
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That word "trample," katapateo in greek, it is a word that was
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Used to describe what would happen when salt had become
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Worthless and had been thrown out because it no longer had any
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Bite to it.
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It was thrown out to be, what?
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Trampled underfoot by men, that's the same word.
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In other words, you'd see salt out there, you wouldn't
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Walk around it.
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You figured if it was on the ground, it was worthless.
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And what the writer is saying is when you reject or neglect jesus
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Christ, you are saying the death jesus christ died for me is
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Worthless, it is meaningless, it's not worth my time to give
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Attention to.
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That's a pretty serious sin, but that's not even the most serious
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Thing we do when we reject or neglect the gospel.
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Secondly, the person who acc-- rejects or neglects the gospel
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Has regarded as unclean, verse 29, the blood of jesus, the
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Blood of the covenant.
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That word "unclean" is a word in greek that was used to describe
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The mangy dogs that used to roam the streets of jerusalem.
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When you reject or just neglect the gospel offer of salvation,
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You know what you're saying?
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You're saying the blood of jesus christ is as dirty, as
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Filthy as that of a mangy mongrel dog.
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Do you think god is gonna let you get away with that?
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Number three, not only has he trampled underfoot the son of
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God or regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant,
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Number three, he has insulted the spirit of grace.
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When you reject or just neglect, don't have time for the gospel
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Of jesus christ, you are insulting the holy spirit of
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God, who is continually moving and urging you to accept
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The gospel.
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Let me illustrate that for you.
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Let's say, guys, one saturday morning you're looking out your
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Window, and you see your neighbor's yard across the
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Street is flooding with water.
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You realize a water hose has been left on, so trying to spare
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Him an inflated water bill, you wanna warn him, so you send your
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Ten-year-old son over there to warn him.
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So, your ten-year-old son goes across the street and knocks on
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The door, and neighbor opens the door, looks at your ten-year-old
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Son, and your son says, "mister--" the neighbor cuts him
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Off, "you snotty-nosed little kid, get off my property."
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So, your son comes back and reports to you what
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The neighbor said.
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Still you feel compassion and concern.
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Maybe he didn't know what was going on.
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So, this time you send your wife over there, you send your wife
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Over to warn the neighbor.
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She knocks on the front door, he opens the door, sees her, calls
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Her every vile and profane name in the book you can imagine.
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She breaks down in tears and comes back and reports to you
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How your neighbor has responded.
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How likely are you to send somebody else or go yourself?
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And yet the bible says god kept coming back and back and
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Back again.
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He sent the prophets.
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They beheaded the prophets.
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He sent his own son, jesus.
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The world delivered him back to god on the end of a bloody
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Roman spear.
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Wouldn't that be enough to cause god to give up?
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But it wasn't.
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Everyone who ends up in hell is there by his own choice.
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Hell is a deserved judgment.
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Number five, and most disturbing, hell is
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A forever destination.
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Hell is a forever destination.
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You know, there's some people who want to suggest that, "okay,
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I believe hell is a real location.
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I even believe it's a horrible place.
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But it's only temporary because eventually even the residents of
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Hell will be convicted of their sin, and they will have a second
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Chance to accept in christ."
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There are christian pastors out there--i'm not sure they're
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Really christians, but they say they're christians--who are
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Teaching that idea of the second chance, that in hell people will
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Have an opportunity to repent, and eventually everybody will
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End up in heaven.
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Does god allow for that possibility?
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Look again at luke 16, verse 26.
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The rich man begged abraham to bring relief to him, and notice
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In verse 26 what abraham said.
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"besides all of this, between us and you there is a great chasm
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Fixed, in order that those who wish to come over from here to
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You may not be able, and that none of you may cross over from
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There to us."
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Once you die, your eternal destination is just
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That, eternal.
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You know, today's technology allows us to take most of our
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Pictures digitally.
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Most of you have digital cameras or cell phone cameras so you can
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Take those selfies, you know, and that's what we like to do.
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We want to see our pictures instantaneous.
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But there are a few die hard photography buffs who don't use
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Digital cameras.
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They still do it the old-fashioned way with film.
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Some of you don't even know what film is, but believe me, there
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Was such a thing called film that you used to put in
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The camera.
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You'd take a picture, and then you would send it off somewhere
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To be developed.
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And if you know anything about the developing process, you know
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That what they do is they take that exposed film and they put
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It in a chemical solution, and while it's in the chemical
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Solution that image forms, and it's altered, and it changes,
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And it improves, but there is a place in the developing process
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When that film is taken and it's put in what is called a stop
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Bath, and that chemical in the stop bath stops.
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It fixes the film, and from that point on its image cannot
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Be altered.
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Ladies and gentlemen, death is the stop bath for every
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Human being.
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Hebrews 9:27 says, "it's appointed onto every man once to
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Die and then the judgment."
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Before you die you have all kinds of opportunities to
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Change, to make different choices, but once you die all
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Opportunities for change are over.
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Some people say, well, that's just unfair, that god wouldn't
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Give people a second chance.
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Randy alcorn writes, "fairness doesn't demand that god give
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People a second chance after death, since he gives us
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Thousands of chances before death."
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Heaven is a forever destination.
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Listen once again from the perspective of a new occupant
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In hell.
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"as time passes he begins to think and to do what the rich
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Man did.
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His first thoughts are of hope.
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You see, he still thinks as he did on earth where he kept
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Himself alive with hope.
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When things got bad, he found a way out.
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If he felt pain, he took medicine.
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If he was hungry, he ate food.
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If he lost his love, there was more love to be found.
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And so, he cast about in his mind for a plan to apply to the
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Hope that is building in his chest.
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Of course, he thinks.
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Jesus, the son of god, he can get me out of this.
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He cries out with a surge, 'jesus jesus, you were right.
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Please save me, jesus.'
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He waits, breathing hard with desperation.
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The sound of his voice slips into the darkness and is lost.
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He tries again.
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'i believe, jesus.
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I believe.
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Please give me a chance, jesus.
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I believe.
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Save me from this horrible place.'
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Again, the darkness smothers his words."
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You see, this sinner is not unique.
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In hell everyone's a believer.
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Let me move from the academic to the very practical.
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Do you know with absolute certainty that when you die
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You're not gonna end up in this terrible place jesus the son of
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God talked about?
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Are you sure?
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Do you have absolute assurance that when you awaken, you'll
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Awaken in that real place of the presence of god?
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One writer said five seconds after you die you will either be
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Experiencing eternal bliss or you will be catching your first
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Glimpse of unimaginable horror.
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Either way, your destiny will be irrevocably and
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Eternally unchangeable.
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Jeffress: only two choices.
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We can choose eternal happiness or unimaginable horror with
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Nothing in between.
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This is the truth about eternity.
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Now, in the time remaining today, i wanna share
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A thoughtful note i received from patty, who listens to our
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It's going to consist of economic turmoil.
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Jeffress: an alarming number of christians and non-christians
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Alike believe that when we die, we're all going to end up in the
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Same place.
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They falsely believe that it doesn't matter who we are and
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What we've done, and it doesn't matter which religion we've
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Embraced or rejected.
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Tragically, they are very wrong.
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Jesus made it clear there are two gates that lead to two
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Different destinations, and the decision you make about
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Jesus christ in this life will seal your fate forever.
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Today we looked at the eternal destiny of those who die
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Without christ.
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And next time i'll show you the far better future that awaits
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Christians by answering ten common questions about our
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Eternal home in heaven.
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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Series, "perfect ending."
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Jeffress: maybe that's the way it is with god.
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Maybe god knows if we really knew all of the great things he
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Has planned for us, we couldn't stand to live in this life.
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We'd be ready to get to the next life.
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But the truth is god has revealed just enough in the
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Bible about heaven to whet our appetite for it.
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Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for the message
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These streets, and the church was never the same.
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Robert Jeffress - The Truth About Eternity (Part 2)

May 6, 2026 | 27:29

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