Key passages: Deut. 4:24 and Deut. 9:3

God is a Consuming Fire

• Jealousy and Holiness (4:24)
  • Isaiah 42:8
  • Rom. 13:13
  • 1 Cor. 10:22
  • God's jealousy is actually love.
    • He will not let us settle for anything less than Himself.
• Judgment and Justice (9:3)
  • Isaiah 3:14
  • Nahum 1:6

God's Fire in Sheol, Hades and Gehenna

• Sheol
  • Job 14:13
  • Ps. 16:10
  • Gen. 37:35
• Hades
  • Luke 16:23
• Gehenna
  • the valley of Hinnom
    • south of the City of Jerusalem
    • a garbage dump of rot and decay where a fire was always burning
• Matthew 25:41-46
• Jude 1:6
• Revelation 20:10

False Views of Hell

• Conditional
• Purgatorial

Hell is INVOLUNTARY separation

• Job 16:2

Hell is UTTER seperation

• Daniel 4:34

The Gospel: Mercy from the God who is a Consuming Fire

• Hell is FINAL SEPARATION
• Romans 3:23-24
• Col. 2:13-14
• Ephes. 2:8