God – You allow people to go to hell!
10/6/19
Message Notes for October 6, 2019
Series: God on Trial
Title: God – You allow people to go to hell!
Different views of where moral truth derive, affects our perspective of judgment and hell.
God is a God of both justice and love.
A God of love will pursue me, rescue me and die for me.
A God of justice makes things right for me and removes from my hands the need to make everything right.
Where does hell fit with a God of love and justice?
- Cultural view
- Biblical view
Fire both purifies and disintegrates
Purifies:
Malachi 3:3, Matthew 3:11
Disintegrates:
Jude 1:7. Mark 9:43
A disintegrating fire happens step by step.
FIRST: The greater need for more, apart from God.
James 1:14-15
SECOND: Isolation and self-justification.
Luke 16:19-31
God is not guilty of casting people into hell!
Romans 1:24-25. John 10:10, 1 Peter 3:9-10
God’s Good News for us.
Romans 5:8-9 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Family/Group Study Notes for the week of October 6, 2019
Series: God on Trial
Title: God – You allow people to go to hell!
- What are your thoughts on hell and heaven? What would cause someone to go to hell? What would cause someone to go to heaven
- What would it look like for God to be love? What would it look like for God to be just? Can He be both? Share your thoughts.
- Read James 1:12-15. What does this passage say about God? What does it say about human nature? How does temptation affect us? How does it cause sin to grow and move us further from God? What is the blessing for those who withstand temptation’s test?
- Read Romans 1: 18-25. What is this passage saying about God and the truth He wants us to know? Is there any reason why we would not know what God expects? In vs. 21-22, how does evil escalate? How do you see this in the world? What do vs. 24-25 mean to you? How does this free will choice move people away from God and toward hell?
- Read John 10: 9-10. Who does God say that He is? What does that mean for your life? What does God say He brings vs. what the thief brings? Satan is the thief. What does he have the power to do in your life? What does having life to the full with God mean? How could you stay close to God on a daily basis? How would this protect you from what Satan wants to steal from you?
- Read 1 Peter 3: 9-10. What does this passage say about the goodness of God?
- Gather in smaller groups and pray for each other.
