WHAT JESUS TAUGHT ABOUT HEAVEN? ( Part 7 )

Pastor Christopher Choo

Lesson 3289

WHAT JESUS TAUGHT ABOUT HEAVEN? ( Part 7 )

Did Jesus teach about Hell?

The most important text about Hell from the mouth of Jesus is found in a parable of Luke 16:19-31.

The passage is about a rich man who played the ultimate fool by indulging in his wealth, ignoring true faith in God and service to humanity, until he found himself in hell for his godless selfishness.

The rich man who died without Christ is separated from the living by an impenetrable chasm like a wall. The word “fixed” in Luke 16:26 has about the same meaning as our phrase “cast in concrete.”

Thus Hell has no exit door. Father Abraham tells the writhing sufferer why his condition could not be remedied: “Between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us” (Luke 16:26).

Abba Father, 

the Bible extends the opportunity of grace for every human being’s full lifetime. We hear in 2 Peter 3:9 of the Your great patience: “. . . not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.” Yet people will perish—once they have passed the doorway of death without knowing Christ.

Scripture is resolute: there is no means of escape out of hell. However, the gospel of God’s love and mercy shows one way of escape BEFORE

entering. Jesus told it in John 5:24 - “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.”