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Basic Bible Study Course
ETERNAL
JUDGMENT
LESSON
#15, (Part #1)
OUTLINE:
1. BLESSING AND CURSING
2. JUDGED ACCORDING TO YOUR DEEDS
3. JUDGMENT IS SURE
4. ESCAPE GOING TO HELL—NO ESCAPE AFTER YOU GET THERE!
5. WRATH OF GOD
6. IGNORANCE OR FORGETTING—NO EXCUSE
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(1) Therefore
leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go
on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance
from dead works, and of faith toward God, (2) Of the doctrine
of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection
of the dead, and of eternal judgment. Hebrews 6:1-2.
Before
we can go on to perfection, we must know the principles of
the doctrine of Christ. Eternal judgment is one of them. Whether
you believe it or not, God is still God. Unbelief does not
make God or his Word void (Isaiah 55:11). God is God and there
is none other (Isaiah 44:8). We will be judged according to
God's rules and according to our works. If we obey God, we
will obtain eternal life. If we disobey God, we will obtain
eternal damnation. There is no in between. Hell was prepared
for the devil and his angels (Matthew 25:41), but hell enlarged
herself to accommodate others (Isaiah 5:14).
It is
time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy
law. Psalm 119:126.
This
scripture means that the people THOUGHT they made void the
law of God and it was time the Lord proved to them that they
had not. Some SEEM to "get by" with sin. They do NOT get by
with it. God is merciful, not willing that any perish (2 Peter
3:9). If we turn from sin, God will forgive (Ezekiel 33).
It is appointed unto men once to die and then the judgment
(Hebrews 9:27).
There
is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof
are the ways of death. Proverbs 14:12.
So shall
my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not
return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I
please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Isaiah 55:11.
God's
laws and commandments are holy, just, and good (Romans 7:12
& Revelation 15:3). He is supreme. His commandments are not
grievous (1 John 5:2-3). He has set before us life and death,
blessing and cursing. There is no alternative to choosing;
you must choose. Choose carefully because when you die your
final judgment is eternal. You will forever be where God puts
you.
1. BLESSING
OR CURSING, YOU CHOOSE
I call
heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have
set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore
choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: Deuteronomy
30:19. Read all of Deuteronomy 28 and Deuteronomy 30:15.
And if
it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day
whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served
that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the
Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house,
we will serve the LORD. Joshua 24:15.
I also
will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon
them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake,
they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and
chose that in which I delighted not. Isaiah 66:4.
(30)
For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me,
I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall
judge his people. (31) It is a fearful thing to fall into
the hands of the living God. Hebrews 10:30-31.
2. JUDGED
ACCORDING TO YOUR DEEDS
All souls
will be judged according to the deeds done in this body and
none are exempt. Read all of Romans Chapter 2.
(6) Who
will render to every man according to his deeds: (7) To them
who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and
honour and immortality, eternal life: (8) But unto them that
are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness,
indignation and wrath, (9) Tribulation and anguish, upon every
soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of
the Gentile; (10) But glory, honour, and peace, to every man
that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
(11) For there is no respect of persons with God. Romans 2:6-11.
(12)
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without
law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged
by the law; (13) (For not the hearers of the law are just
before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. (14)
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature
the things contained in the law, these, having not the law,
are a law unto themselves: (15) Which shew the work of the
law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing
witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else
excusing one another;) (16) In the day when God shall judge
the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Romans 2:12-16.
Read 2
Peter 2:21-22 and Romans 8:13. There are many scriptures about
backsliding.
Our lives
are open for all to see. Some think their secret lives are
hid but God sees all. Read Luke 8:17, Hebrews 4:12-13, Luke
9:47, 1 Timothy 5:24, Acts 8:22, and 1 John 1:7-9.
3. JUDGMENT
IS SURE
For the
wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23.
Thy word
is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous
judgments endureth for ever. Psalm 119:160.
And as
it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Hebrews 9:27.
But we
are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against
them which commit such things. Romans 2:2. Read Romans Chapters
1 & 2.
In earthly
courts, the judge makes a decision whether the accused person
goes free or has to be punished.
God judgeth
the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
Psalm 7:11. Read Psalm 7:8-11.
(4) For
if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down
to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be
reserved unto judgment; (5) And spared not the old world,
but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness,
bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; (6) And
turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned
them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those
that after should live ungodly; (7) And delivered just Lot,
vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (8) (For
that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing,
vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful
deeds;) (9) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out
of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of
judgment to be punished: 2 Peter 2:4-9.
But the
heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are
kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment
and perdition of ungodly men. 2 Peter 3:7.
He that
believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth
not shall be damned. Mark 16:16.
That
they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had
pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thessalonians 2:12. Read Mark
3:29.
The wicked
shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget
God. Psalm 9:17.
(15)
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death,
and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge
shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have
made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
(18) And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and
your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down
by it. Isaiah 28:15-18. Read Proverbs 15:11.
(26)
For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to
the Son to have life in himself; (27) And hath given him authority
to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. (28)
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all
that are in the graves shall hear his voice, (29) And shall
come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection
of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection
of damnation. John 5:26-29.
4. ESCAPE
GOING TO HELL—NO ESCAPE AFTER YOU GET THERE!
Repent
of your sins and live for God. If you sin, repent and continue
in Christ. Read 1 Corinthians 10:13. There will be no excuses
for sin at the day of judgment. The Bible says that God's
spirit will not always strive with man (Genesis 6:3). We cannot
come to Jesus except the Father draws us (John 6:44). If we
want to escape hell, we must repent and be saved. Read 2 Corinthians
6:1-2. Read Mark Chapter 9.
I am
he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for
evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Revelation
1:18.
Or despisest
thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering;
not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
Romans 2:4.
The way
of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell
beneath. Proverbs 15:24. Read Proverbs 23:14.
If so
be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way,
that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto
them because of the evil of their doings. Jeremiah 26:3.
Therefore
hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure:
and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and
he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. Isaiah 5:14.
Read
these scriptures and the ones surrounding them: Jeremiah 25:6,
Zechariah 1:3, Isaiah 14:12-15, Matthew 23:33, and John 10:7-9.
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.
Because
Jesus makes intercession for us as born again Christians,
we can escape going to hell. If you die a sinner, not knowing
Christ, or have known him and then denied him, you will go
to hell and there is no escape from hell, once you get there!
5. WRATH
OF GOD
But after
thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself
wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous
judgment of God; Romans 2:5.
Read
Nehemiah 9:28-31, Jeremiah 17:23, Jeremiah 10:10, John 3:36,
Habakkuk 3:2.
God is
jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is
furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries,
and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. Nahum 1:2.
For which
things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
Colossians 3:6.
(23)
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit
unto you, I will make known my words unto you. (24) Because
I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand,
and no man regarded; (25) But ye have set at nought all my
counsel, and would none of my reproof: (26) I also will laugh
at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; (27)
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction
cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon
you. (28) Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer;
they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: (29)
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear
of the LORD: (30) They would none of my counsel: they despised
all my reproof. (31) Therefore shall they eat of the fruit
of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. Proverbs
1:23-31.
He, that
being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be
destroyed, and that without remedy. Proverbs 29:1.
(11)
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder,
and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. (12) Yea,
they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should
hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent
in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great
wrath from the LORD of hosts. (13) Therefore it is come to
pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried,
and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts: Zechariah 7:11-13.
For rebellion
is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity
and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD,
he hath also rejected thee from being king. 1 Samuel 15:23.
(7) For
scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure
for a good man some would even dare to die. (8) But God commendeth
his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us. (9) Much more then, being now justified by his
blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Romans 5:7-9.
If we
repent when we are warned and chastised by God, we can be
saved (1 John 1:7-9). God chastises ALL who are his children
(Hebrews 12:5-8).
For the
wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Romans 1:18.
6. IGNORANCE
OR FORGETTING— NO EXCUSE
A. IGNORANCE
And an
highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called
The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but
it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall
not err therein. Isaiah 35:8.
Although
there is a famine in the land of preachers preaching the truth,
you still have the Word of God that contains the gospel of
Jesus Christ. There are many Bibles now written off of the
King James Version Bible. Some of them are actually PERVERSIONS
of the Bible because they take out important facts upon which
the gospel is founded. Revelation 22:18-20 gives strong warning
against this!
(18)
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the
prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things,
God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this
book: (19) And if any man shall take away from the words of
the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out
of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the
things which are written in this book. (20) He which testifieth
these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so,
come, Lord Jesus. Revelation 22:18-20.
Read
Psalm 105:7 and Revelation 15:4.
(3) But
if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: (4)
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them
which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of
Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 2
Corinthians 4:3-4.
In the
Old Testament they had to get forgiveness when they sinned
through ignorance. Read these scriptures: Leviticus 4:13-14,
Leviticus 5:15-18, Numbers 15:24-29.
(13)
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope
to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at
the revelation of Jesus Christ; (14) As obedient children,
not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in
your ignorance: 1 Peter 1:13-14.
(30)
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth
all men every where to repent: (31) Because he hath appointed
a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness
by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance
unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Acts
17:30-31.
Having
the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life
of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the
blindness of their heart: Ephesians 4:18.
(13)
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious:
but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
(14) And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with
faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 1 Timothy 1:13-14.
Paul
received mercy because he repented when Jesus appeared to
him. He repented of his ignorance in unbelief.
B. FORGETTING.
There is a time to forget some things and a time to remember
other things. Time to forget:
(13)
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this
one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind,
and reaching forth unto those things which are before. (14)
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling
of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14.
Time
to remember:
Then
they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and
the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance
was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and
that thought upon his name. Malachi 3:16. Read Psalm 103:17-21.
DON'T
FORGET GOD
My people
are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected
knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no
priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,
I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4:6.
Can a
maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people
have forgotten me days without number. Jeremiah 2:32.
Read
Psalm 18:21-22, Psalm 105:5, Psalm 119:30, and Psalm 119:52.
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