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2023 | The Year of Dunamis - Strengthening the Foundations of Our Faith: Hell + Judgment

2023 | The Year of Dunamis - Strengthening the Foundations of Our Faith: Hell + Judgment

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January 8-28

Every year, we start the year off with a season of fasting and prayer! Fasting is a spiritual discipline that calls us to demy the desires of our flesh and fill ourselves up with God, His Word, and His presence. This year, we are doing a 21 Day corporate fast.

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ā€œHell is the state where those who do not have faith in Jesus Christ are sentenced to Eternal Suffering away/out from the Presence of God."
Hell Simplified… ā€œHell Is Eternal Death or Punishment!ā€
Hell Also Known As: Abyss; Eternal death; Eternal Punishment; Hades; Place of Torment; Spiritual Death; Second Death & Tartarus(Tar-ter-us)
(hadēs)is the Greek Word For Hell;A word that in ancient Greek literature could refer to the Greek god of the netherworld or the netherworld itself.

The New Testament, ā€œHadesā€ refers to death or the grave.

In the Septuagint (Greek Translation Of The Hebrew), hadēsis almost always translated (she'ol) (sheol;)

ā€œSheol frequently refers to the realm of the dead.ā€
There’s a lot of New Age teachings making its way into Christianity that is turning people of God away from the Truth. Teachings that say, there is no Hell, there is no judgment, in fact the word ā€œobedienceā€ is offensive. We are free and to use the word we are to obey or to what’s right in God’s eyes feels condemning and heavy. As if because we are invited into relationship with Jesus that this means we do not have to obey. Relationship with Jesus does not replace obedience and faithfulness to Jesus! This is rebellion. Period. This is lawlessness with some deceiving Christianese talk in it. Be wise and discerning church!
There are hundreds of scriptures about Hell and no one talked and taught about it more than Jesus!
5 Things You Need To Know About Hell
1. Hell Is Real!

- Jesus Taught Us About Hell!
"Parable Of The Sheep & Goats" The Final Judgment
ā€œEvery Scripture In Revelation On Hell Is JESUS Talking!ā€
- Jesus taught ā€œParable Of the Netā€
-Jesus Told Peter, The Gates Of Hell Wouldn’t Prevail Against His Church.
Hell is mentioned hundreds of times and talked and taught about by Jesus consistently, HELL IS REAL!
2. Hell Is a Place of Extreme Suffering
Many scriptures in the Bible describe the type of suffering that will come to those in Hell and the suffering will never be quenched!
3. Hell Is Forever
DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG FOREVER IS?
THERE IS NO RELIEF EVER!
EXAMPLE: The Longest Wait, Season, Suffering, Labor, Of Your Life…
Now Times FOREVER!
4. Hell Was Created For Satan & His Demons (Fallen Angels)
5. Many People Will Go To Hell.
WARNING: Look Out For False Doctrines of Universalism & Heretical Resources Like The Mirror Bible That Teaches ā€œEVERYONE AUTOMATICALLY GOES TO HEAVEN!ā€
Jesus is not bad because people go to hell, Jesus does not want that, we choose that! God gave His best for us, His most precious gift, his one and only son so that we would live in eternity with Him! IT is us that chooses sin and destruction over Jesus!
REPENTANCE IS KEY!
WE MUST LIVE A LIFE OF REPENTANCE!
Question... Who Goes To Hell?
Another Name for Hell Was Gehenna, a place of judgment. Gehenna originally referred to the Valley of Hinnom, a place believed to be have been cursed because it was the location of child sacrifice (Jer 7:31; 19:2–6).
JUDGMENT:
Dikaiokrisia: from dikaios (dik'-ah-yos) and krisis (kree-sis)
Dikaios: righteous, right in God’s eyes
krisis: a decision, judgment
Dikaiokrisia: righteous judgment
Original Word: Γικαιοκρισία, ας, į¼”
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: dikaiokrisia
Phonetic Spelling: (dik-ah-yok-ris-ee'-ah)
Definition: righteous judgment
Usage:just judging, just judgment, judgment based on God’s standard, His own justice, to separate or distinguish, to judge righteously, righteous judgment that condemns the nature of sin in His light, sentence; divine judgment












We have a generation and people screaming ā€œDon’t JUDGE ME!ā€ Christians and non-Christians yelling, DON’T JUDGE ME!
**THIS BEGINS WITH A PEOPLE THAT ARE OFFENDED WITH OBEDIENCE! A people that do not want obey God, His word nor His teachers so their response is DON’T JUDGE ME! Offense with obedience is a giant step into deconstructing the word or making the word SERVE YOU and YOUR FLESH that leads to not believing in judgement or hell.
Because those that do not want to OBEY ARE THOSE THAT DO NOT WANT CONSEQUENCES!!
SO IF WE CAN REMOVE OBEDIENCE, WE REMOVE CONSEQUENCES… CHURCH WE DO NOT HAVE THE POWER TO REMOVE EARTHLY OR ETERNAL CONSEQUENCES. THIS IS REBELLION, WHICH IS WITCHCRAFT!**
New Age teaching is fueled by a demonic spirit to fool the church, to insert rebellion! But this spirit cannot remove the truth that judgment and hell are real and coming for a people that are self-seeking and will not obey the truth! YOU must guard yourself and your heart, so you are not fooled by this teaching!
4 Things you need to know about Judgment:

1. JESUS is JUDGE
The Bible says to all of us including those New Age believers that Jesus is all Love, yes, He is love, but He is also Judge. One does not override the other!
Witnesses to Jesus
2. We should judge one another, as believers.
What prepares us to be judged by God one day?
To judge one another!
To allow others to judge us!
Judging is determining between right and wrong!
Landon’s teaching:
The people in the Bible that shouted for a King instead of a judge… if you don’t want to be judged, then you will be ruled. People that don’t want judgment, will be ruled by evil things!
THE BIBLE TELLS US TO JUDGE OTHER BELIEVERS, BUT TO JUDGE OURSELVES FIRST AND DO IT WITH THE INTENTION OF RESTORING THE OTHER PERSON!
3. Everyone will stand before the Judgment Seat.
The Bible says Jesus sits in the Judgment Seat that we will all stand before!
JUDGMENT SEAT
bƩma: a step, raised place, a tribunal, the administration of justice, a platform to which someone walks up to receive judgment, a throne from where rewards and punishments are given out
Original Word: βῆμα, ατος, Ļ„ĻŒ
Part of Speech: Noun
Transliteration: bƩma
Phonetic Spelling: (bay'-ma)Definition: a step, raised place, by implication a tribunal
Usage: an elevated place ascended by steps, a throne, tribunal.
BUT I THOUGHT WE WERE SAVED BY FAITH?
WE ARE....
We are SAVED BY FAITH IN JESUS! It is not your works that save you, that is a religious spirit or self-serving IDOL that will tell you that to be saved you must do more good deeds or you must accomplish salvation in your own strength…
SALVATION IS A FREE GIFT!

BUT… to know if one has truly HEARD AND BELIEVED, truly in relationship with Jesus, WORKS or DEEDS is what proves our faith in Jesus is real!
akouó (ak-oo'-o)
to hear God's voice which prompts Him to birth faith within
Abraham’s obedience or work walking up a mountain after he heard and believed God was what granted Him a man of faith!
What separates you from the demons believing in Him also?
Your daily encounters with the Lord!
KNOWING HIM! BEING INTIMATE WITH HIM!
The one who is intimate with Him, HEARS HIM IS WITH HIM AND RESPONDS! HIS PRESENCE, HIS GOODNESS, HIS WAYS WHEN YOU’RE CLOSE TO THEM WILL CAUSE YOUR ACTIONS TO CHANGE!
YOU WILL SACRIFICE WHAT YOU WOULDN’T USE TO SACRIFCE! YOU WILL GIVE WHAT YOU WOULDN’T USE TO GIVE!

**BECAUSE YOU NO LONGER SERVE SELF!!! YOU SERVE HIM!**
How can the Bride not count it a joy to do what her Bridegroom entrusts her with?
The Bride or the one who is intimate with Him, not only hears Him, but obeys Him!!
4. JUDGMENT IS COMING TO THE HOUSE OF GOD FIRST!!!

FORESHADOW of Revelation 7:3-8
- The 144,000 sealed or marked, or set apart on their foreheads in the Great tribulation.
What provoked this moment, is ā€œthe injustice became so greatā€, and the church so silent, so ā€œculturizedā€ worshipping their idols (THIS CHAPTER IS TITLED ā€œJUDGEMENT ON IDOLATERS!), not leading in RIGHTEOUSNESS or ADMINISTERING GOD’S JUSTICE, that God is provoked to bring HIS JUDGMENT OR HIS JUSTICE!!
And in this provoking, we see this in OT and NT, that God administers HIS JUDGMENT AND BRINGS HIS JUSTICE to the HOUSE OF GOD FIRST!!
NOTICE THE ONLY THING THAT COULD SAVE THEM WAS REPENTANCE! CRYING OUT FOR THE SIN OF THEIR NATION! THOSE THAT WERE MARKED OR DISTINCT FROM THE REST HAD A MARK PLACED ON THEIR FOREHEADS TO SET THEM APART, THIS MARK WAS PALCED ON THOSE WHO CRIED OUT AND REPENTED FOR THE SINS OF THEIR NATION!
This is why the Bible tells you to deal with the plank in your own eye first, SO THAT YOU MAY SEE CLEARLY! SO THAT YOU MAY KNOW BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG, GOOD AND EVIL!!

THEIR FAITH WAS DEAD, THEIR WORKS WERE UNRIGHTEOUS AND FULL OF INJUSTICE!
THEY SERVED IDOLS… THE IDOL OF SELF!
This brings us back to our opening scripture...

Luke 16:19-31
The Rich Man and Lazarus
NOTICE IN OUR OPENING SCRIPTURE IT DOES NOT SAY; THIS RICH MAN WAS A WICKED, SEXUALLY IMMORAL, HATER OF THE JEWS, MURDERED, SLANDERED, LIAR… and because of this many misinterpreted this scripture to mean that to be rich with money is evil and to be poor with money is virtuous!
-This is how he tempted Adam and Eve, I’ll make you as wise as God… its how he tempted Jesus, I’ll give all of this to YOU!-
This is not what the scripture is saying… this man’s SELF-WORTH filled his earthly cup making him SELF-SERVING, all about SELF, a worshipper of SELF, he provided his own needs, he took credit for what he had, therefore he had no hunger for what was right in God’s eyes.
**He was taken care of, so who cares about what’s happening around him, who cares about the hurt, abuse, darkness, injustice in the world… HE PASSED BY INJUSTICE DAILY, DOING NOTHING, SILENT, not using his gifts, talents, resources to bless others… he was about SELF.
**AND BECAUSE OF THIS IDOL, HE COULD NOT SEE NOR HEAR THE TRUTH AROUND HIM!
THIS IS PRIDE! ITS MORE SUBTLE BECAUSE IT SEEMS JUSTIFIED, WITH ALL THE TERMS, SELF-CARE, SELF-MADE, GIVE ME CREDIT!
THIS IS HOW SATAN FELL! HE WAS JEALOUS OF GODS GLORY, HIS CREDIT! HE WANTED TO BE KNOWN!
THIS IS WHAT HE KNOWS BEST AND WILL TRY TO ENTRAP YOU WITH IF HE CAN’T GET YOU IN OTHER AREAS.

ā€œI WILL GET THEM TO SERVE THEMSELVES!ā€
Because its so easy to be flattered by the enemy… at least someone respects me, at least someone sees how great I am, how hard I work, look how successful I am, and we begin to BOAST IN OURSELF and what we have accomplished not realizing WE HAVE SHIFTED OUR WORSHIP AND GLORY going to Jesus and onto our self!
THE IDOL OF SELF IS SO ADDICTING, the greatest temptation, because you feel you should get that accolade, you should get that appreciation, and if I don’t, I’ll make sure I do. And we begin to fight for our OWN GLORY STEALING GLORY FROM THE ONE THAT DESERVES IT ALL!
THE RICH MAN PASSED BY INJUSTICE EVERY DAY AND DID NOTHING. THIS IS WHAT HE WENT TO HELL FOR!
THIS IS WHY JUDGMENT FELL ON HIM, BECAUSE THE GOD OF JUSTICE CANNOT BE INTIMATE WITH A PEOPLE THAT SIT BY AND DO NOTHING WHEN INJUSTICE SURROUNDS THEM BECAUSE HE IS A GOD OF JUSTICE!
THE IDOLIZATION OF SELF WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO HEAR OR SEE WHAT IS RIGHT IN GODS EYES BECAUSE YOU ARE FULLFILLING WHATS RIGHT IN YOUR EYES!
YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS CHURCH!
You cannot say I believe in Jesus and then live the way you want! Take the credit, serve yourself, use the resources God has blessed you with for what you want, what makes you feel good, live and do what I like and pleases me, but I still believe in Jesus… no. This lifestyle or these deeds prove you are intimate with another God, not Jesus, but SELF.
SERVING SELF is the IDOL OF OUR AGE THAT RESISTS THE ONE TRUE GOD!
YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT ā€œSATANā€ MEANS?
THE ONE WHO ā€œRESISTSā€ OR "ACCUSES"
You cannot serve Jesus and serve yourself!

Serving yourself will make you RESIST serving Him!
God will not pretend you serve Him when you serve YOU!
Mammon: what you think you need (outside of God) to accomplish that ā€œpurpose of yoursā€, that ā€œcalling of yours,ā€ that ā€œdream of yoursā€ it's no longer His, maybe never was, but you have your eyes set on that thing you need to make it happen… this is mammon, it steals your eyes off Him and onto anything else to get to it to accomplish YOUR PURPOSE!
The rich ruler gives a ā€œgood soundingā€ plea, that Abraham doesn’t fall for, he begins to ask for a dead man to be raised to prove to his brother's hell is real… or he asks for a SIGN!
He is pleading for a SIGN! They have the book of Moses and the prophets, the breath of God, yet they didn’t believe and now He is pleading for a dead man to be raised or a great sign or miracle to save his brother's.. Jesus had warned of this when He said:
The Sign of Jonah
Darkness and Light
This is why Abraham answers this way!!
He’s not being harsh, he’s saying, the signs have been sent… and they didn’t respond! THEY DIDN’T LISTEN!
TAKE NOTICE TO THE NAME LAZARUS…
Lazarus was the dead man raised and the Bible says...
THE ONE WHO WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD THEY WERE TRYING TO KILL AGAIN!! THEY HAD THE SIGNS AND WONDERS YET THEIR HEARTS WERE TOO HARDENED SO THEY COULDN’T HEAR, THEY COULDN’T RECEIVE THE TRUTH WITH IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM! THEY HAD CHOSEN THEIR MASTER!
AND THEN THE GREATEST SIGN WAS JESUS GIVING HIMSELF UP!
THE SAME ONES THAT TRIED TO KILL LAZARUS, WERE THE SAME CHANTING TO HEROD AND PILATE, CRUCIFY HIM! YET HE WAS INNOCENT, THEY WANTED HIM DEAD! THEY YELL: ā€œSET FREE THE MURDERER, THE ONE WHO KILLS, AND MURDER INSTEAD THE ONE WHO GIVES LIFE!! (SOUNDS LIKE THE CHANTS OF TODAY!) JESUS GIVES HIMSELF UP TO DIE FOR US AND IS RISEN ON THE THIRD DAY… FROM DEATH TO LIFE… THIS WASN’T ENOUGH FOR THOSE THAT HAVE CHOSEN TO SERVE SELF, TO SERVE WORLDY WAYS, FLESHLY WAYS!!
BUT HE IS ENOUGH! JESUS IS ENOUGH! HE NEVER HAS TO DO ANOTHER THING, JESUS IS ENOUGH FOR YOU TO PUT ALL YOUR FAITH IN CHURCH!
THOSE THAT NEED PROOF AND PERSUASION WILL MORE THAN MOST LIKELY NOT MAKE IT TO HEAVEN!
IT TAKES FAITH!
THERE HAS TO BE PERSONAL REFORMATION BEFORE YOU BRING REFORMATION OUT THERE! THIS HAS BEEN A YEAR TO FORTIFY, TO CLOSE THE GAPS IN YOUR LIFE, IN YOUR FAITH, IN YOUR MARRIAGE, IN YOUR BUSINESS, TO ALLOW GOD TO EXPOSE THEM, SO THEY CAN BE HEALED BY HIM SO THAT YOU CAN BRING HEALING OUT THERE.












HES COMING BACK TO BRING JUDGMENT ON THE CHURCH FIRST! ARE YOU READY CHURCH? ARE YOU FULLY SERVING HIM WITH ALL HE HAS ENTRUSTED YOU WITH OR ARE YOU SERVING YOU?
THE ONLY WAY IS REPENTANCE!
REPENTANCE FOR SERVING SELF, SERVING IDOLS, PUTTING THINGS, PUTTING FEARS, PUTTING ANYTHING BEFORE SERVING HIM FULL HEARTEDLY!!
NOW THEY DEMAND MORE PROOF AND I WILL
NOT PROVE MYSELF ANYMORE, I WILL NOT TRY TO PERSUADE A NATION OR PEOPLE TURNED TO IDOLATRY!
ABRAHAM WAS SAYING, THEY HAVE BEEN SUFFICIENTLY WARNED, THEY HAVE GREAT SIGNS BEFORE THEM

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