Today’s Sermon Notes: 8-11-2026
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“The Last Four Things”
A Sermon Series
“Hell”
Miscellaneous Verses, Luke 16:19-31
Defining Hell
- Let’s begin our study at the beginning, in the Garden of Eden. What was the purpose of creation? Humanity was created to be in perfect relationship with God.
Man’s Purpose Is To Have a Relationship With God.
Matt. 25:41 says, “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.”
Matthew 8:12 “thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Mark 9:43-48 “And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. 45And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. 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.’”
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Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (of knowledge, of understanding).”
Hebrews 10:31 says: “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. . . 12:29 “For our God is a consuming fire.” Hebrews 11:7 “By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household.”
The Reality of Our Purpose (vv. 19-21)
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.”
The Reality Of Missing that Purpose (vv. 22-25)
“The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. 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.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.”
Hebrews 9:27 “And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, 28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.”
James 4:14 “What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.”
Matthew 7:21 “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. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons vin your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’”
Mark 9:43-48, “the fire that shall never be quenched”—“where the worm does not and the fire is not quenched.”
The Reality of A Loving Permanent Plan (vv. 26-31)
“And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ 27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”
C. C. Lewis said, “sin is the human being saying to God throughout his life, “Go away and leave me alone.” Hell is God’s finally saying to the human,” You may have your wish.”
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[1] Millard Erickson, Christian Theology, Second Edition (Grand Rapids, Michigan; Baker Academic, 2007) 1247.
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