The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-26


Christ Said
There Is He'll
We are certain that there is hell
Jesus Christ said so. The apostles
said so and God says so. We are
more sure than we are that the sun
will rise. The only thing against it,
my friends, is the speculations of
lot of theologians that dream, OF some
poets and novel writer's and philoso-
piers, and those who may not be able
to reconcile the suffering in hell with
the doctrine Of the love of God. But
no intelligent man will give up fact
because he acts beyond your power of
reason to understand it. You won't
be fool enough to do that At least
wouldn't and l think you've got as
much sense as 1 have. Now, when on
one hand I've got he speculations Of
philosophers and theologians and the
dreams of poets and novel writer's who
say there is no he'll, and on the other
side I've got the word of God, and the
word of Jesus and the word of apos-
ties, who say there is a hell, it don't
take me long to make up my mind
which / am going to believe.
And the next time you read a book,
and ! don't give a rap who wrote it;
the next time you hear a lecture, and
don't care who delivers 1t; the next
time you hear a sermon, and | don't
give plcayune who the preacher is;
/ If that book says there Is no hell, If
that preacher says there is no hell, |
say the author Of that book, and that
lecturer and that preacher are liars.
Hell is a place of bodily suffering.
''In hell he lifted up his eyes being
in torment" That is the plain teach
ing of the New Testament and the
words used to express the doom of
the sinner are these, Death ana de-
struction" Cor perdition which is trans
struction in another, means the same
thing.
Quotes From
New Testament
THE beast shall ascend out of the
bottomless pit and go into perdition
/ Tor destruction, same hing. And
the devil that deceived them, was cast
into the lake Of fire and birthstone
where the beast and the false prophet
are, and shall be tormented day and
night forever and ever"
According tosthe word Of God, my
friends, perdition or destruction is g
place in the lake of fire where they
are tormented day and night.
i Let's see If we can find out where
the beast goes; And the beast was
taken and with him the false proph
ct that wrought miracles before him
with which he deceived them thai
had received the mark of the beast
and them that worshipped his image
These both were cast alive into a lake
Of fire burning with birthstone"
BY the word Of God, perdition or de
struction is a place in the lake Of fire
of torment forever.
Let's see If we can find Gods def1ni
ton of death. Listen! But the fear
ful, and unbeleving, and the abomin
able and murderers and whoremong
ers, and scorcerers and idolators, ant
all liars, shall have their part in tn
lake which burneth with fire and brinl
stone, which is the second death"
The word death doesn't carry with 1
: the idea of ceasing to exist.
What Death
Means
We've got a lot Of people that sa,
that means total humiliation, Russell
ism and a lot of those "isms" AM
"sisms." 1t doesn't mean anything o
the kind. We say of a man, HE 1
dead in sin, and still alive physically.
He is dead in sin, he is drunkarC
a liar, libertine, he is dead in sin.
He is dead to everything that
l good, pure, he is dead in sin but h
: isn't physically dead. He is dead i
sin but he is alive physically for whel
ever the old devil goes YOU will Sc
l him go down to the street. And W
say to person, They are dead il
2 sin" That is they are Christian an
!, they won't do right. They are dea
: in sin, dead to everything that is gooc
t but hey are still alive physically.
= So the word death doesn't conve
e the idea that l cease to exist-an
! get into coffin full of embalming fluid
Not bit! See?
4 20 but" says a fellow to me, 'Bil
that is f1gurative." Well, Gods figure
0 never lie. You can't do away with tn
truth by saying, 1T is figurative," -
0 not at all! We use figurative languag
every day to express facts or describ
d them. So does the Lord. Let me Civ
:, you an illustration.
t We say of man, HE is slippery a
an eel"
f We'll, is he? No, he isn't. 1t Is fl
Y urative. We say, "He is as sharp a
d a tack" He isn't. That is figurativ
language, but it describes the fact tha
he is a smooth guy.
t Explains Use
t of Figures
n We say, ooh, am as dry as fish
d Now that is figurative language to e,
S press the fact that you are thirsty. BIZ
you don't do away with the fact thu
n you are thirsty, by using f1gurative lal
e guage to say that you were thirst.
]. You are still thirsty
& You say the Lord said, Land f1ov
ing with milk and honey" Their
O weren't rivers of milk and rivers
), honey, but the Lord says it is fertil
l. and when we talk about milk an
? honey, that is our idea about fertilit,
e So the Lord used figurative languae
i to tell the people what a great countr
S Canaan was and he said, Il shall cove
h thee with feathers as mother he
: covers her chickens. The Lord wi
Y protect thee"
The people understood that, whe
4''"w saw a mother hen cover her chi
dren.
if ne words were finished and l d.
= eat them" You don't believe that Jer
d nniah picked up Bible and bit O
= corner Of it-no, sir!
!; Jesus said, Il am the vine, ye al
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