Living for Jesus

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Exposing Myths About the ChurchIn the End,
Everyone Will Be Saved

• Matthew 1347-50

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Question Before Us

• Is Not
• Does God have the ability to save?
• It Is
• Will people accept His invitation before they
  die or before the Lord returns?
• In the End...
• Will everybody be saved?

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Jesus Said

• We are to be the salt of the earth.
• We are the light of the world.
• We are the yeast in the bread.

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Final Myth in This Series

• Myth
• In the end, everyone is going to be saved and
  make it to heaven.

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Myth In the End, Everyone Will Be Saved

• Popular Notions
• Eph 28-9
• Sober Reality
• Mt 1347-50, Mt 529, 2Pe 39, 2Th 17-9
• Blessed Promise
• Jn 141-3, Ac 412, Mk 1616, Ro 623, Jn
  316-17

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Popular Notions

• All religions are the same.
• God will grant me Heaven based upon my
  personality.

• Universalism
• Moral Relativism

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Peter Coterelle

• If all roads lead to heaven like they do to
  Tim-buck-to, then maybe all roads lead to no
  where and for all I can tell, maybe no read leads
  to heaven. Perhaps all roads lead to hell.
• To allow that everyone and everything is right
  is to destroy the notion of truth itself.

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Popular Notions

• All religions are the same.
• God will grant me Heaven based upon my
  personality.
• As long as my good deeds list is longer than my
  bad deeds list, God will grant me heaven.

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Ephesians 28-9

• For it is by grace you have been saved, through
  faith and this not from yourselves, it is the
  gift of God not by works, so that no one can
  boast.

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Myth In the End, Everyone Will Be Saved

• Popular Notions
• Eph 28-9
• Sober Reality
• Mt 1347-50, Mt 529, 2Pe 39, 2Th 17-9
• Blessed Promise
• Jn 141-3, Ac 412, Mk 1616, Ro 623, Jn
  316-17

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A Sober Reality

• A Fishing Net Attracts All Kinds of Fish

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Matthew 1347-48

• Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net
  that was let down into the lake and caught all
  kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen
  pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and
  collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the
  bad away.

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A Sober Reality

• A Fishing Net Attracts All Kinds of Fish
• The Wicked Are Going to Be Discarded

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Matthew 1348-50

• This is how it will be at the end of the age. The
  angels will come and separate the wicked from the
  righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace,
  where there will be weeping and gnashing of
  teeth.

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Statistics

• 90 of Americans believe in a place called
  heaven, while only 60 believe that there is a
  place called hell.
• The Bible mentions hell 54 different times.

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Matthew 529

• If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out
  and throw it away. It is better for you to lose
  one part of your body than for your whole body to
  be thrown into hell.

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Jesus Described Hell

• A furnace of fire.
• A place of torment.
• A place of everlasting punishment.
• A place where people pray and scream for mercy.
• A place where they weep and wail.
• A place of outer darkness.
• A place of separation.
• A place where the worm never dies and the fire
  is not quenched.

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2 Peter 39

• The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as
  some understand slowness. He is patient with you,
  not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to
  come to repentance.

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Madeline Murray OHare

• Who wants to go to a place where all they do is
  sing hymns and play harps? Speaking for myself,
  Id rather go to hell.

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How Do You Earn Eternity in Hell?
Reject Jesus Christ
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Myth In the End, Everyone Will Be Saved

• Popular Notions
• Eph 28-9
• Sober Reality
• Mt 1347-50, Mt 529, 2Pe 39, 2Th 17-9
• Blessed Promise
• Jn 141-3, Ac 412, Mk 1616, Ro 623, Jn
  316-17

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John 141-3

• Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in
  God trust also in me. In my Fathers house are
  many rooms if it were not so, I would have told
  you. I am going there to prepare a place for
  you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I
  will come back and take you to be with me that
  you also may be where I am.

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Acts 412

• Salvation is found in no one else, for there is
  no other name under heaven given to men by which
  we must be saved.

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The Safe Course

• Believe that Jesus is Gods Son.
• Acknowledge your sins before Him.
• Repent from your sins.
• Publicly confess that Jesus is Lord.
• Be buried with Jesus in baptism.

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Mark 1616

• Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved,
  but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

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Romans 623

• For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of
  God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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C.S. Lewis

• There are only two kinds of people in the end
  those who say to God, Thy will be done and
  those to whom God says, in the end, Thy will be
  done. All that are in hell choose it.

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John 316-17

• For God so loved the world that he gave his one
  and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall
  not perish but have eternal life. For God did not
  send his Son into the world to condemn the world,
  but to save the world through him.

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What Are You Going to Do TodayWith the Cross of
Christ?
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