Pastor Larry Dela Cruz

HELL IS REAL
The world today has different views about hell. Some believe it exists and others do not. The greatest tragedy for a human being is that if all his life that he had lived on earth was spent on temporal things and has neglected what was more important the salvation of his soul he can not turn back the time. He is doomed to hell. We are all given the opportunity to seek God and know God. He made the heavens and the earth, the stars and everything in creation declares and gives witness to His glory and eternal power. We are without excuse. Our conscience bears witness of good and evil. The good news of salvation in Christ is heard all over the world. Hundreds of thousands of people die everyday. Just think of it man lived on earth for more than 6,000 years. Hundreds of millions have died. The question is how many are in hell know? The small and the great, the rich and famous and all who have done wickedness and have not acknowledged God are in hell now. Hell is a temporary place for the wicked dead and at the Last Judgment shall be thrown with its dead to the Lake of Fire. The Lake of Fire which is the Second Death is the eternal punishment where the evil dead and Satan and his demons shall spend for all eternity. The Lake of Fire is the most gruesome place one could ever want to be. It is a place of torment, agony, suffering, pain, weeping and gnashing of teeth. The souls therein have a resurrected body but not unto life but unto death. Death therein is not the cessation of life but an unending gloom and darkness and suffering. Separated from God. Damned forever. The fire with intense heat burns your body and the worms that die not eat your body. Wailing and shouting are in every corner. You would want to die but you can not. You want to escape death but you can not. Death has engulf your whole being body and soul. There is no more turning back. Prayers can not be heard. Help can not be extended. Repentance has no more place. It is the last judgment. It is the horrible place one can not even imagine. If Jesus Christ is not your Lord and Savior who can deliver you from Hell and the Lake of Fire? He is the Son of God who came down from heaven to earth to pay for the sin of the world and to be the Savior of the world. By the Name of Jesus he who comes and repents and calls upon His Name shall be saved. There is no other Name under heaven given among men whereby we shall be saved other than the Name of Jesus. Satan, the god of this world, who deceives many, his end shall come. His doom is already foretold, "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever." (Revelation 20:10) Satan and his demons will not be alone in everlasting damnation. Many people who walked after the desires of the flesh, the fashion of this evil world and who were lovers of money and haters of God, who have rejected God and the Lord Jesus Christs atoning sacrifice shall be thrown therein.

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS. (Matthew 25:41) No goodness, good works, church or religion or any prophet or religious leader can bring to heaven and save a soul for every deed shall be held accountable. He shall reward all men according to what they have done. A person goes to hell not because he is the wicked person but because he has rejected the Son of God who came for him for his redemption. No power can ever loose him from the powers of darkness and from sin and its penalty- the spiritual death and worse from the agony of fires of hell. Jesus alone the Son of God is the way to the Father and no man can come to God except through His Son Jesus Christ. As a result, when people die in their unrepentant sins and have not mend their ways and put faith in the Son of God they are forever banished from the presence of God to a place called hell. And Satan the god of this world who enslaved many people shall not reign in hell but likewise shall suffer his fate- eternal condemnation and death. He shall be wailing the most than anyone else that ever lived. Great shall be his punishment. the devil... shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. (Revelation 20:10) God, out of great love for uswho have become slaves to sin and under the power of the enemy and have transgressed His commandmentssent His beloved Son who humbled Himself and took the form of a human and became obedient even unto death. He died on the cross for us for our redemption and has risen from the dead. He died for us and has become the Savior. The Savior of the world to save you and me. TO SAVE US FROM OUR SINS AND FROM THE PENALTY OF IT- HELL. If we reject His sacrifice and trod it underfoot and count ourselves not worthy of the eternal life the same God who sacrificed His beloved Son will cast us into hell and the lake of fire. NOTHING unclean will ever enter Gods Kingdom -- and we are all unregenerate, sons of disobedience and are unclean. We must be born anew through His Spirit. We are dead in trespasses and sins, but if one turns to Jesus he will be washed by the blood of the Lamb who was offered as a sacrifice once and for all. Come now, and let us reason together, said the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:18) God does not wish anyone to be in hell but wants all to come to repentance and knowledge of the truth. Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost and bring them to the eternal bliss with the Father. God does not just throw one to hell. It is because of our sins that separated us from Him and has brought judgment upon ourselves. If one will get right with and in Jesus no one will go to hell! As I live, said the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die... (Ezekiel 33:11) The Lord is...not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2Peter 3:9)

The Bible says that God loves us so much that the Creator of this universe (Jesus Christ) came to "taste death" for every man. but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by Gods grace he would experience death on behalf of everyone. (Heb 2:9). He is God in the flesh who came to destroy the power of death and hell--He holds the keys of life and death. He is the life and the source of it. If we say yes to Jesus, Hell won't be our final destination. If we say no to Jesus, Hell will be our eternal place of dwelling. There is no way out and no more escape-it's final, unending and eternal.

THE WORD OF GOD SAYS HELL EXISTS AND THE LAKE OF FIRE REAL

Psalm 9:17, The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. Isaiah 14:9-11, 15 (referring to Lucifer), Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirred up the dead for thee...all they shall speak and say to you, Have you also become weak as we? Have you become like us? Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you...you shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. Isaiah 66:24, And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be abhorring unto all flesh. Daniel 12:2, And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and EVERLASTING contempt. Matthew 10:28, And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Matthew 13:41-42, The Son of man (Jesus) shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 18:8, 9 Wherefore if your hand or your foot offend you, cut them off, and cast them from you: it is better for you to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or feet to be cast into everlasting fire. And if your eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: it is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. Matthew 22:13, ...Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:46, And these shall go away into EVERLASTING punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. Matthew 25:41 (Jesus speaking to people at final judgment), ...Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. Mark 9:44 (speaking of hell), Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. Luke 12:5, But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which AFTER he has killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. II Thessalonians 1:9 Who shall be punished with EVERLASTING destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. Jude 7, Sodom and Gomorrah...are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Revelation 21:8, But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Revelation 14:11, And the smoke of their torment ascended up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night... Revelation 20:12, 15, And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life...And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. You will either TURN from your sins to Jesus or you will BURN for your sins. If you reject the Lord Jesus Christ, you will be tormented in the flames forever without a single, solitary hope. The biggest fool in the world chooses hell. No need to argue with me about this. God said hell is real, your argument is with Him and you won't win that one. You have been warned. Repent or perish.

Is there an actual place called Hell?

The Scriptures all throughout from Genesis to Revelation speak of Gods hatred and judgment to sin. The wicked were punished and the righteous rewarded. Hell is beneath the earth where the wicked goes after death. Isaiah 14:9-11, 15. It is a place of punishment and torment. Isaiah 14:9-11, 15 (referring to Lucifer), Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirred up the dead for thee...all they shall speak and say to you, Have you also become weak as we? Have

you become like us? Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you...you shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. The fact of the reality of Hell is taught throughout the Bible in many passages. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself the All-knowing, the All-powerful One and the Creator and Lord of heaven and earth has come to reveal to us the realties of the next life. He was a Teacher with the most impeccable credentials--a sinless life, a miraculous ministry, and an empty tomb that could not hold Him- the Son of God who came down from Heaven and spoke to us. Christ, the Son of God has spoken: And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. Mark 9:43-48 In another passage Christ calls the Scribes and Pharisees a "generation of vipers," and warns them, "How will you escape the damnation of Hell?" Matt 23:33 Those are very strong words from the Lord Jesus. He laid it on the line. He told it like it is. When someone questions the fact and reality of Hell, he's actually questioning the authority of the Word of God, and the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. No one knows better than the Son of God Himself who was with the Father in the beginning and what He knows He made known to us. If Christ is the Son of God, and if He came into time from eternity, and came into the world from Heaven and died and rose again from the dead, then anything He ever said on any subject is worth hearing and ought to be heeded. And is really to be received without question. So people who have problems with the fact and reality of Hell sometimes do not realize that their real problem is with the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ and who He is and why He came to the world. Jesus said, The enemy came to steal, kill and destroy, I have come that they may have life and life abundantly. John 10:10 Is it possible that the unsaved will simply be annihilated and pass out of existence? There are two texts of Scripture that suggest that Hell involves everlasting punishment. Matthew 25:46 sums up the judgment on the "sheep and goats" with the words. "And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life." The same word aionion (eternal) is used to describe the punishment of the wicked and the blessing of the righteous. Whatever we say about the duration of "eternal" life for believers must be said about "eternal" punishment for

unbelievers. Since "life" for believers is everlasting John 10:28, so must be the punishment for unbelievers. In a second text, Revelation 20:10, John describes those in the "lake of fire" being "tormented day and night forever and ever." The expression day and night is used in Revelation to express the concept of "forever." The lake of fire is described in Revelation 19:20 as a place that "burns with brimstone." In the saddest verse in the Bible, John declares that anyone whose name is not written in the book of life is "thrown into the lake of fire" Revelation 20:15. The doctrine of eternal punishment for those who have rejected Christ appears to be thoroughly biblical. This is not an easy teaching or one that brings us joy. But the unpleasantness of a doctrine should not cause us to deny biblical truth.

Why was Hell made?

Matthew 25:41 tells us that Hell was prepared for the Devil and his angels. Thats why such a place was prepared in the first place. It was not originally planned and designed for humans. It was prepared for the Devil and his angels. But because man too has rebelled against God and has loved unrighteousness and approved thereof that commit them and has added sin unto sin his end is the same. These have made us separated from a holy God. Sin brings us to hell. Related question:

Is there anyone in Hell today?

One can confidently say, I do not believe in Hell. No one has ever seen and gone to hell and went back to life. The bible say if one has entered hell there is no turning back. As you enter you can never get out. There are countless testimonies from many people from all religions who were at the binge and edge of death, others were pronounced clinically dead and came back to life. Others saw a bright light in the horizon and others had a glimpsed of hell and saw how terrible it was. No words can express the horror and fear they felt and heard and saw. These have changed their outlook in life. The Bible is not a story book but contains facts of life here and the hereafter. The wicked who dies end up in Hell. They have rejected Christ after hearing the gospel and others did not repent from their wicked ways and Hell was the place to which they were to go. After the Great White Throne Judgment they were thrown into the Lake of Fire. In the day of final judgment, Hell and its population were cast into eternal damnation. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades (Hell) delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his

works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:12-15.

Will there literally be a burning fire in Hell?

In Mark 9, notice that the Lord Jesus repeats three times about Hell, where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched. Is it literal fire or not? If it is not literal why does it say it is not quenched? If it is not quenched therefore it is unending. The fire need not coals for it to keep on burning. It is therefore not a physical fire we know of but an eternal fire- a spiritual fire that burns forever tormenting the wicked and all that reject God and His Christ. They have souls and body burning. The bible word for Hell here is Gehenna, and that referred to the garbage dump of the valley of Hen, where there was fire constantly burning, and the worm and maggots never lacked something to eat. They were always alive, always in existence. In Hell, the souls of the wicked so to speak shall keep it burning and the souls that die cease not to exist because it is eternal. They shall eternally dwell in hell in the everlasting fire.

In Hades, what do people remember? In Luke 16:19-31, Jesus told the story of the rich man and Lazarus. They both died and the rich man woke up in hell and the Lazarus was with Abraham. Others say this is a parable. If we examine carefully Jesus never said that this s a parable, Second in a parable the characters are never named. This is an actual event that happened long time ago. And Lazarus is with Jesus now in Paradise and the rich man is still in hell up to this day more than 2,000 years ago. His lost soul who went to a place of punishment and torment. He was in Hell, bound for eternal destruction at the Judgment day without God, without hope, his memory was very much alive. He said, Send Lazarus to give me a little relief. At another point he said, Send him to tell my five brothers, lest they also come to this place of torment. The dead people in hell remember their live love ones on earth. They dead people are praying for the living and not should be the living praying for the dead. Religions have come up with rituals that would expiate for the souls who have died that they may still make up to heaven. This is a lie from the Devil. Abraham said to the rich man, But, Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish. Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us. (Luke 16:25-26). It was too late for the rich man. All that he could wish for is that none of his family go to the same place where he is in. Today, hundreds of millions in hell are wailing and wishing none of their live ones end down in hell. The word of Abraham was remember. When one is in hell he will remember the times and the opportunities God made the way for him to see the light and the danger of hell fire. Even at the reading of this study wont escape your thoughts if one goes to hell. Christ died for all men and not for a few men making His salvation

available to all men that whosoever believe in Him shall not perish in hell but have everlasting life. and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world. 1John 2:2 But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; they must respond to them. Then the rich man said, No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent. He replied to him, If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead. (Luke 16:29-31). Today, the good news of salvation has gone and preached unto the whole world. Man is without excuse.

Eternal Death
The miserable fate of the wicked in hell (Matt 25:46, Mark 3:29, Hebrews 6:2, 2Thess 1:9, Matt,18:8, 25:41, Jude 1:7) The Scripture as clearly teaches the unending duration of the penal sufferings of the lost as the everlasting life, life, the eternal life of the righteous. The same Greek words in the New Testament (aion, aionios, aidios) are used to express

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the eternal existence of God. (1Tim 1:17, Rom 1:20, 16:26) of Christ (Rev 1:18) of the Holy Ghost (Hebrews 9:14) the eternal duration of the sufferings of the lost (Matt 25:46, Jude 1:6)

Their condition in the Lake of Fire is expressed in these bible truths: fire that shall not be quenched (Mark 9:45, 46), fire unquenchable (Luke 3:17), the worm that never dies, the bottomless pit (Rev 9:1), the smoke of their torment ascending up for ever and ever (Rev 14:10,11). The idea that because God is love no one will suffer in hell and in the lake of fire and the second death (Rev 20:14) of the wicked is their absolute destruction and annihilation. This teaching has no support from Scripture but rather the opposite. God is love and that He gave His only Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. He that believes not is condemned already because he believes not the only Son of God.
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this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him. The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be

exposed. But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God. - (John 3:16-21) The atoning death of Christ and the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit are the only means of divine redemption for man. Man is call to repent and believe the gospel. Now in the case of them that believed yet has fallen away and have apostatized and lived a life of sin and have denied Christ there remain no more sacrifice for sin but judgment from God. (Hebrews 10:26-39). There shall be an eternal life for the righteous in Christ so as there will be an eternal punishment for the wicked without Christ. The Lake of Fire is a place of torment and eternal punishment where all the wicked, unbelievers, unrepentant sinners, the devil and his angels were kept forever and ever. REV 20:10 And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Who Won't Enter God's Kingdom And End Down in Hell?

1 CORINTHIANS 6:9 FORNICATORS IDOLATERS ADULTERERS EFFEMINATE HOMOSEXUALS THIEVES COVETOUS DRUNKARDS REVILERS SWINDLERS _______________________ EPHESIANS 5:3-5 THOSE WHO PRACTICE:

GREEDINESS FILTHINESS AND SILLY TALK IMMORALITY IMPURITY COVETOUSNESS _______________________

GALATIANS 5:20-21 THOSE WHO PRACTICE: IDOLATRY SORCERY ENMITIES STRIFE JEALOUSY OUTBURSTS OF ANGER DISPUTES DISSENSIONS FACTIONS ENVYING DRUNKENNESSES CAROUSING _______________________ REVELATIONS 22:15 DOGS SORCERERS SEXUALLY IMMORAL MURDERERS IDOLATERS WHOEVER LOVES & PRACTICES LYING

AND FINALLY, THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE JESUS CHRIST IN THEIR LIVES. HE IS THE LIFE, THE LIFE OF GOD, THE ETERNAL LIFE. HE THAT HAS THE SON HAS ETERNAL LIFE. HE THAT HAS NOT THE SON HAS NOT LIFE.

REPENT AND RECEIVE HIM AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR. NOW! BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!