Christ Community Downtown
The Final Judgement - 9 & 10:45am & ON-DEMAND
Revelation 19:11-21 ESV
Revelation 20:1-15 ESV
Title: The Final Judgement
Scripture: Revelation 19:11-20:15
Speaker: Gabe Coyle, GabeC@ChristCommunityKC.org
>> Hell is better than we often think, but still exceedingly awful forever.
“Sin is not a quiet roommate; it could ‘never in a thousand eternities find any way to arrest its own reproduction.’” - Joshua Butler, Skeletons in God’s Closet
>> Hell is God’s way of protecting His new creation from evil.
>> Torture v. Torment
- "Torment" in our text is basanidzo and means “an idiom, literally ‘to be tormented in soul’...to experience mental torment involving sorrow mixed with anger — ‘to experience anguish, to be tormented in one’s heart.’”
- Louw & Nida
"Hell, then, is the trajectory of a soul, living a self-absorbed, self-centered life, going on and on forever. . . . In short, hell is simply one’s freely chosen identity apart from God on a trajectory into infinity." - The Reason for God
>> You have a choice now.
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago