The document discusses how God is righteous and will punish sin. It provides numerous biblical examples of how God punished people throughout history for their sins, such as destroying Sodom and Gomorrah. The document emphasizes that God will also punish unbelievers today with eternal punishment in hell. It describes hell as a place of torment, weeping, gnashing of teeth, and eternal fire. However, it notes that believers will receive eternal life. The document stresses that Christians have a duty to persuade others to become believers and be reconciled to God in order to be saved from punishment.

2. Abraham asked an important question long ago
when he said,
NIV Far be it from you to do such
a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked,
treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far
be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth
do right?“
God will always do right because He is
Righteous or Just.

3. Emphasized:
NIV The LORD is righteous in all
his ways and faithful in all he does.
NIV Dear children, do not let anyone
lead you astray. The one who does what is right
is righteous, just as he is righteous.

4. To be righteous He must punish sin.
NIV God is just: He will pay
back trouble to those who trouble you and
give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as
well.
NIV Consider therefore the
kindness and sternness of God: sternness to
those who fell, but kindness to you, provided
that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise,
you also will be cut off.

5. Examples:
Adam and Eve cast out of the garden; .
Cain had a mark placed upon him, and he
became a vagabond; .
The old world destroyed in a flood; .
Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed; .
Egypt with the plagues; .
Israel taken into Assyrian captivity; Judah taken
into Babylonian captivity.
Ananias and Sapphira died before God; .

6. He will punish those who disobey today:
NIV We must pay the most careful
attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so
that we do not drift away. For since the
message spoken through angels was binding,
and every violation and disobedience received
its just punishment, how shall we escape if we
ignore so great a salvation? This salvation,
which was first announced by the Lord, was
confirmed to us by those who heard him.

7. NIV Anyone who rejected the law of
Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two
or three witnesses. How much more severely do
you think someone deserves to be punished who
has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has
treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant
that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit
of grace? For we know him who said, "It is mine
to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will
judge his people." It is a dreadful thing to fall into
the hands of the living God.

8. NIV See to it that you do not
refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape
when they refused him who warned them on
earth, how much less will we, if we turn away
from him who warns us from heaven?

9. NIV "Then they will go away to eternal
punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."
NIV How much more severely do you
think someone deserves to be punished who has
trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated
as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that
sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of
grace?

10. Described:
NIV They will be punished
with everlasting destruction and shut out from
the presence of the Lord and from the glory of
his might

11. NIV The Son of Man will send out
his angels, and they will weed out of his
kingdom everything that causes sin and all who
do evil. They will throw them into the blazing
furnace, where there will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.

12. NIV In Hades, where he was in
torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far
away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called
to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and
send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water
and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in
this fire.'

13. NIV they, too, will drink the
wine of God's fury, which has been poured full
strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be
tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of
the holy angels and of the Lamb.

14. NIV But the cowardly, the
unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the
sexually immoral, those who practice magic
arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be
consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
This is the second death."

15. NIV If your hand causes you to
stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life
maimed than with two hands to go into hell,
where the fire never goes out.
And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it
off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than
to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

16. And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck
it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of
God with one eye than to have two eyes and be
thrown into hell, where "'the worms that eat
them do not die, and the fire is not quenched.'

17. NIV Anyone who rejected the law of Moses
died without mercy on the testimony of two or three
witnesses. How much more severely do you think
someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the
Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing
the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who
has insulted the Spirit of grace?

18. NIV And the smoke of their
torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be
no rest day or night for those who worship the
beast and its image, or for anyone who receives
the mark of its name."

19. NIV "Then he will say to those on
his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed,
into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and
his angels.

20. NIV They will be punished
with everlasting destruction and shut out from
the presence of the Lord and from the glory of
his might
NIV For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
our Lord.

21. NIV As the body without the spirit is
dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
,
NIV This is the message we have
heard from him and declare to you: God is light;
in him there is no darkness at all.

22. NIV They are wild waves of the sea,
foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for
whom blackest darkness has been reserved
forever.
NIV Whoever does not love does not
know God, because God is love.

24. NIV Every good and perfect gift is
from above, coming down from the Father of the
heavenly lights, who does not change like
shifting shadows.

25. NIV "Then they will go away to
eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal
life."

26. Everlasting and eternal are the same Greek
word
αἰώνιος (aiōnios,
ahee-o'-nee-os).
However long the life is, that is how long the
is.

27. NIV They will be punished
with everlasting destruction and shut out from
the presence of the Lord and from the glory of
his might
NIV And the smoke of their
torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be
no rest day or night for those who worship the
beast and its image, or for anyone who receives
the mark of its name."

29. NIV For we must all appear
before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each
of us may receive what is due us for the things
done while in the body, whether good or bad.
Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord,
we try to persuade others. What we are is plain
to God, and I hope it is also plain to your
conscience.

30. “ ”
Not supernatural beings.
Angels will not do the work for us.
The Holy Spirit does not
do it for us.
Nor will the Father or Son
do this work.
Not non-Christians,
they would not teach saving Truth.

31. Christians must do this work;
God left the spreading of the gospel into our
hands.
NIV He said to them, "Go into all the
world and preach the gospel to all creation.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved,
but whoever does not believe will be
condemned.

32. Therefore go and make
disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I
have commanded you. And surely I am with you
always, to the very end of the age.“
NIV For since in the wisdom of
God the world through its wisdom did not know
him, God was pleased through the foolishness of
what was preached to save those who believe.

33. NIV How, then, can they call on
the one they have not believed in? And how can
they believe in the one of whom they have not
heard? And how can they hear without someone
preaching to them? And how can anyone
preach unless they are sent? As it is written:
"How beautiful are the feet of those who bring
good news!" But not all the Israelites
accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, "Lord,
who has believed our message?"

34. We cannot force people to accept the truth,
only persuade.
People are free moral agents,
thus having the power of choice.

35. NIV Therefore, I urge you, brothers
and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your
bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to
God—this is your true and proper worship. Do
not conform to the pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then
you will be able to test and approve what God's
will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

36. We don’t try to persuade God.
He is supreme
We must persuade those who are not Christians
to become reconciled to God.

37. NIV
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39. There is a child in the road and we see a car is
going to hit the child, would we do nothing &
turn our backs to it, or try with all our being to
save the child from being hit, even to the
endangering of ourselves?

40. Do we have the same desire for man’s salvation
that Paul had for the Jew’s salvation?
NIV For I could wish that I myself
were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake
of my people, those of my own race,

41. NIV Brothers and sisters, my
heart's desire and prayer to God for the
Israelites is that they may be saved.
The task of persuading people Jesus is The
Christ is ours!!
It is up to us to show them the Hope found only
in Jesus.
Are we fulfilling our task, doing the job at hand
rescuing the perishing?