Msg #1521 Seven No-Mores or Forevermores

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Jesus said, “I go to prepare a place for you”, and we say that heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. There is another prepared place, for in Matthew 25 he said to those gathered on his left hand in the judgment of nations, “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.” It is not a popular truth, but their everlasting fire is just as everlasting as our everlasting life. The saved are going to be snatched from this world in a resurrected body; “Wherefore comfort one another with these words” (1Thes 4:18), but there is no comfort or Comforter for the lost soul; “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them... and they shall not escape” (1Thes 5:3). To the saved Jesus says, “Enter thou into the joy of the lord” (Matt 25:21b) but for the unsaved he declares, “cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth”(Matt 25:30). For us, “In thy presence is fullness of joy... pleasure for evermore” (Psalm 16:11), for those in hell there is absence of joy, and pain forevermore. We will be in a place of beauty, a city foursquare with twelve gates, twelve foundations and streets of purest gold (Rev 21), they will be in a place of darkness with eternal fire and brimstone (Rev 21). We will be in an incorruptible body that has put on immortality (1Cor 15:54); they, “Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched (Mark 9:44, 46, 48) (Not in an NIV). In heaven there will be seven 'no-mores' (Rev 21:4, 25, 22:3). In hell seven 'forevermores' (Rev 21:8b). Whether saved or unsaved, you should carefully consider John 3:16-18 and 36.

An Essay for week #21 May 24, 15

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