Heaven and Hell: Lesson 3
Heaven and Hell: Lesson 3
Heaven and Hell: Lesson 3
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Heaven and Hell
Lesson 3
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Open to Mark chapter eight, we began in last two lessons a study what the Bible
says about Heaven and Hell. We’re making our way toward the understanding of those
matters, but first, are laying some ground work of the fact that we all have a life beyond the
short time we spend in this body of flesh. Many people in our world today have bought into
the lie of evolution; the outworking of the evolutionary teaching is the spiritual darkness
that leads a man or a woman to see themselves as nothing more than a beast; sees the
death of a physical body as the end of their life and the end of their existence.
We established from the word of God in Lesson two, that your spirit will return to the
God that gave it. Your body will return to the dust from which it is made. Then your eternal
everlasting immortal soul will dwell forever as in the presence of the Lord or separated
from God in conscious torment.
The Bible says in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 that every one of us is made of spirit, soul
and body. You will not die the death of a beast, you have an eternal soul given to you by
an eternal God. And that soul was made by God to enjoy fellowship with Him. The Bible
says in Matthew 25:41 that Hell was prepared for the devil and his angels. God never
intended that any man should lose his soul in Hell, but sadly, many, many men and women
choose Satan over Jesus Christ; and choose him as their eternal companion.
This lesson we want to consider this Bible fact that your soul is the issue with God.
The spirit that’s the part of you that communicates with others. It will not do you much good
in eternity. Your body enables you to walk around without scaring everybody too bad. The
body is not what this God is concerned with. In fact, He doesn’t have much to say about
the body, except don’t pay much attention to it. He said adorn it in such a way as to not
make a big deal. He said exercise it, just a little bit, but not too much lest somebody think
you were body crazy. He said don’t worry about what you put into your mouth, you going
die anyway. Worry about what comes out of your heart. God is preeminently concerned
with our soul.
There are a thousand different little movements in the world today that are trying to get you
concerned with your body. You’re not going to die because of what’s in the air you breathe
or what’s in the foods you eat. You’re going to die because the Bible says, the soul that
sinneth, it shall die. The wages of sin is death, not the wages of pollution, additives, lack of
sleep, or lack of medication. The wages of sin is death! We have plenty of movements a
round to help you fight different things that might hurt your body and cost you your physical
life. God said you ought to be concerned with what would cost you your soul. Cost you
eternal life.
The Bible says in Mark chapter 8:34, “And when he had called the people unto him with his
disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take
up his cross, and follow me.” Jesus said follow me, but that won’t exclude death. Follow me,
I went to a cross. Follow me, I gave up the ghost. Follow me, my body was buried in a
tomb. Jesus didn’t say, follow me and I’ll save you from dying. Verse 35, “For whosoever
will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the
same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his
own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” Bodies are cheap. They are
not well made; I mean they are fearfully and wonderfully made but they break down as a
result of sin. They are not made to withstand the ravages of nature and of sin taken their
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toll upon this body of human flesh. There is not a man here that can jump or run as fast as
he once did, see as far as once did, your body is just wearing out. Jesus said if you spend
all your time and all your strength and all your energy, trying to save this life, you will lose
the one that lasts. If you go ahead and realize that this life is temporary and lay hold on the
one that will last, you’ll be the better for it. If you gained everything this world had to offer
and the world itself, you lost your soul, it wouldn’t do you one bit of good. You’ll be the
loser.
Turn to Ezekiel 18 and Hebrews chapter 10. Your soul is what God is concerned
about. It’s a given according to that Mark 8 passage, you are going to lose your physical
life and your mortal body. What about that soul? What about the real eternal everlasting
part of you dwelling down on the inside of that body. The Bible says in Ezekiel 18:4,
“Behold, all souls are mine…” Now we saw that last time God created every one of us. You
are not the outworking of some evolutionary system. You are not the by-product of human
reproduction, you are fearfully and wonderfully made in the womb by God according to
Psalm 139:14. You are his people and the sheep of his pasture, he’s made everyone of us
according to Psalm 100:3. Not only that but Jesus Christ shed His blood for all man; He
died that He might be the Saviour of all mankind; and He is. God holds every soul in His
power and in His jurisdiction. He made your body and He can take the life from that body
anytime He chooses. He has the power and the authority and the right to do what He will
with your soul. And this is what the God that made your everlasting soul said about it.
Ezekiel 18:4, “Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is
mine: the soul that sinneth, it (Look at that.) it shall die.” Not the body; not the spirit. Your
soul is in danger of dying. That is far worse than your body dying. When your body dies,
they bury it or burn it and that is the end of that body until the resurrection day. But where
are you going to be? There is a you inside that earth suit. All this is, is your outward
mechanism. You are inside that body. God said your soul can die.
Hebrews 10:39, “But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that
believe to the saving of the soul.” …Of them that believe to the saving of the soul. If you will
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, your soul that has sinned and is sentenced for death, can
be saved. That body is going to die one way or another. It could die on a hospital bed, or
it’ll die on a shuffle board court, but you’re going die! But what about that soul? You lived to
a good old age, not good enough, not old enough, not long enough; you are going to die.
There are some men in that book of Genesis that lived several hundred years.
However long, it was not long enough they all died. There is a record about Adam, it says
that Adam lived 930 years and he died. So we buy the miracle cream, miracle pills, drink
miracle water, get 8 hours of sleep a night, it will not make any difference. You are going to
die. If you gained the whole world for your body and lose your own soul YOU ARE LOST,
that’s what the Bible says. YOU ARE LOST! Terrible thing to think! God’s made a clear
statement about this in His word.
Types and offerings of the Old Testament; not only do they point to the Lord Jesus
Christ as our final sin bearer, the one who made the ultimate payment for our sin, but they
all point to our need. Why any offering if man has no need of offering; and why any
sacrifice, if man has no need of forgiveness. The Bible says in Exodus 20 (now watch) in
verse 15, “The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when
they give an offering unto the Lord [watch] to make an atonement for your [What?] souls. Verse
16, “And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for
the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of
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1. Why is it so important to have the right bible? show example using John 8:38.
3. What verse does this quotation come from? He shall see the travail of his soul.
8. Explain the “sin” that was never in the book, until JESUS appeared on the scene.
13. Why is the following statement so important: Father into thy hands I commend my
spirit.
True/false
• having your spirit will help you in eternity
• Clean air, no additives are all distractions from what is really important
• All souls belong to God
• Hell was made for the devil and his angels
Scripture Memorization – Write out these verse on the back of this page
Isaiah 53:10-11; Leviticus 17:11; (must be in KJV)
any questions?