Jesus Spoke Of Hell More Than Everyone Else In The Bible Combined

No one spoke about hell more than Jesus . . . because he, more than anyone, saw the true frightfulness of it . . . Jesus endured hell in the place of all those who wind up in heaven. Dane Ortlund

If we are to faithfully herald the love of Christ which passes knowledge, we must faithfully and compassionately herald the wrath of God which passes comprehension. Nick Batzig

And no one in Scripture speaks of [eternal punishment in hell] more often and at greater length than our Lord Jesus Christ, whose depth of human feeling and compassion no one can deny and who was the meekest and most humble of human beings. It is the greatest love that threatens the most severe punishments. Herman Bavinck 

I wonder if so many apparent followers of Jesus Christ would leave the faith and "deconstruct" if pastors, parents, and Sunday school teachers taught about hell with as much force, consistency, and vivid horror as Jesus Christ Himself did?

Jesus spoke about hell more than everyone else in the Bible combined. He knew Hell well. He bore the pains of Hell on that cross so that we might never face it forever! Hallelujah! What a Savior!

Praise God for salvation in Jesus Christ alone by faith alone - He lived the perfect life, died on that cross for sinners, was buried, and then rose up from the dead so that all who repent and believe in Him might be saved: “Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.” (1 Thessalonians 1:10)

Here's where Jesus taught on hell:

1. Matthew 5:22 – Gehenna of fire (Gehenna = Hell)

2. Matthew 5:29 – It’s better to cut your eye out than go to Gehenna 

3. Matthew 5:30 – It’s better to cut your hand off than go to Gehenna 

4. Matthew 8:12 – Outer darkness – weeping and gnashing of teeth

5. Matthew 10:28 – Fear Him Who can cast both body and soul into Gehenna

6. Matthew 11:23 – Hades – more tolerable for Sodom than for Capernaum on the day of judgment

7. Matthew 13:42 – Fiery furnace, weeping and gnashing of teeth

8. Matthew 13:50 – Fiery furnace, weeping and gnashing of teeth

9. Matthew 16:18 – Hades (It’s a place of torment – see Luke 16:23)

10. Matthew 18:8 – Eternal fire – It’s better to lose hand or foot than to go there

11. Matthew 18:9 – It’s better to tear out your eye than go to Gehenna

12. Matthew 22:13 – Outer darkness – weeping and gnashing of teeth

13. Matthew 23:15 – Pharisees making people twice as much a child of Gehenna

14. Matthew 23:33 – Brood of vipers – how will they escape Gehenna

15. Matthew 24:50-51 – will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites.

16. Matthew 25:30 – Outer darkness – weeping and gnashing of teeth

17. Matthew 25:41 – Separation of the sheep and the goats – sends the goats to eternal fire

18. Matthew 25:46 – The wicked are sent to eternal punishment

19. Mark 9:43 – Gehenna – unquenchable fire

20. Mark 9:45 – Gehenna

21. Mark 9:47-48 – Gehenna – where the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched

22. Luke 10:15 – Hades

23. Luke 12:5 – Gehenna

24. Luke 16:23 – Hades – torment, anguish, flames, cries for water and mercy

25. John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son so that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

26. John 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 

27. John 3:36 – Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

28. John 5:24-29 – 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. Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

This statement on hell from Charles Spurgeon is one of the most powerful statements I've ever read on hell. Jesus is King! Even of and in hell! He's King of hell; He's King in hell; He's King over hell! And He's the only King Who saves from hell! That's my King! Do you know Him?! Spurgeon said:

It is the iron crown of hell, for Christ reigneth there supreme. Not only in the dazzling brightness of heaven, but in the black impenetrable darkness of hell is his omnipotence felt, and his sovereignty acknowledged; the chains which bind damned spirits are the chains of his strength; the fires which burn are the fires of his vengeance; the burning rays that scorch through their eyeballs, and melt their very heart, are flashed from his vindictive eye. There is no power in hell besides his. The very devils know his might. He chaineth the great dragon. If he give him a temporary liberty, yet is the chain in his hand, and he can draw him back lest he go beyond his limit. Hell trembles at him. The very howlings of lost spirits are but deep bass notes of his praise. While in heaven the glorious notes shout forth his goodness; in hell the deep growlings resound his justice, and his certain victory over all his foes. Thus his empire is higher than the highest heaven, and deeper than the lowest hell.

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