Heaven

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Heaven Hell

• The Biblical View

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Heaven Hell

• Introduction
• The Nature of Man
• The Death State
• Hell
• The Popular Doctrine
• The Bible Doctrine
• Heaven
• The Popular Doctrine
• The Bible Doctrine
• Objections
• What Happens to us when we die

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The Nature of Man (1)

• Genesis 27 Man is a creature formed from the
  dust - And the LORD God formed man of the dust
  of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
  breath of life and man became a living
  creature.
• Psalm 10429 Man lives by the life power of God
  (Gods breath and spirit) Thou hidest thy
  face, they are troubled thou takest away their
  breath, they die, and return to their dust.
• Eccl. 318-20- When the life power of God is
  removed man, like the beast perishes I said in
  mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of
  men, that God might manifest them, and that they
  might see that they themselves are beasts. For
  that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth
  beasts even one thing befalleth them as the one
  dieth, so dieth the other yea, they have all one
  breath so that a man hath no preeminence above a
  beast for all is vanity. All go unto one place
  all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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The Nature of Man (2)

• James 414 Whereas ye know not what shall be on
  the morrow. For what is your life? It is 1even a
  vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and
  2then vanisheth away.

• 1 Seeing mans life is in Gods control, he
  cannot presume to make future plans with any
  certainty. Life is not naturally, mans eternal
  possession.
• 2 Man and the hundreds of generations that have
  come and gone are just like the vapour of steam,
  which appears so tangible but disipates leaving
  no trace of its existence
• LIFE AS NOW POSSESSED IS NOT EVERLASTING

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The Death State

• Ecclesiastes 95,6,10
• 5 For the living know that they shall die but
  the dead know not any thing, neither have they
  any more a reward for the memory of them is
  forgotten.
• 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their
  envy, is now perished neither have they any more
  a portion for ever in any thing that is done
  under the sun.
• 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with
  thy might for there is no work, nor device, nor
  knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou
  goest.
• In death man is
• Unconscious
• Knows nothing
• It is as though he had never lived

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What does Hell look like? Who is there? The Hell
of the Bible is one of these two pictures. Do
you know which one? You may be surprised!
Hell Fire The Popular Doctrine
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The Popular Doctrine Falls

• It depends on the false teaching of the
  immortality of the soul
• The wicked die and corrupt in the grave
• SATAN is not the popular evil being according to
  the Bible
• Gods character is denied

• If God is the merciful Being of order, justice
  and harmony of Scripture, how is it possible that
  with all His foreknowledge and power, He can
  permit the majority of the human race to be
  eternally tortures?

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Heaven The Popular Doctrine
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Objections

• Matthew 512
• Rejoice, and be exceeding glad for great is
  your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the
  prophets which were before you.
• If the reward is in heaven, then there are two
  possibilities
• The righteous go to heaven to obtain it
• The reward comes from heaven to the righteous
  (here on earth)
• Matthew 1627 For the Son of man shall come in
  the glory of his Father with his angels and then
  he shall reward every man according to his
  works.

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Objections

• 1 Peter 319
• By which also he went and preached unto the
  spirits in prison
• When Jesus died he did not preach to men in hell
• Spirits in prison is an expression for a person
  in bondage to sin and death. Prison has this
  association in the following passages-
• Isaiah 426,7 Isaiah 611 Ephesians 212

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The Hope of the Resurrection

• Acts 42 The Apostles preached through Jesus the
  resurrection from the dead.
• Phil 311 If by any means I might attain unto
  the resurrection of the dead. (Paul)
• Hebrews 1135 were tortured, not accepting
  deliverance that they might obtain a better
  resurrection
• Acts 111 men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up
  into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up
  from you into heaven, shall so come in like
  manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

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What happens to us when we die?
Who will render to every man according to his
deeds (Romans 26)