Shall Not Perish Pt. 6...The Where of Judgement - Guest Micah Bournes - Feb. 12 2017 - a podcast by VOX Community Podcast

We continue with our series on John 3:16, explaining more about Hell, which is both a power and a place. As a power, humans often unleash it with their own tongues. But as a place, is it really a lake of fire with eternal conscious torment? Even in the garden of Eden, he did not send Adam and Eve off to be burned forever; He removed them from His presence. They were exiled out of God’s best. As a matter of fact, Mike shows us many Bible verses that model God’s treatment of sinful people: God banishes them. We learned that there was an actual Gehenna where the Jews who had forsaken their faith went to worship idols. They even burned their own children as sacrifices. The three important facts to know about Gehenna are: it was symbolic of what it meant to be given over to wickedness. God did not use fire to torture the children; human hands did. And it was outside of the main city. These people were sinners who were banished from his presence. This leads us to understand that hell is exile, not torture.

Spoken Word by Micah Bournes

Micah visited us again today and shared more of his amazing poetry and anecdotes. He spoke about a ministry he was in some time ago—a juvenile facility in Chicago where he noticed that the majority of kids were black. He had us think about whether blacks were more sinful, and told a compelling story about a 14 year old boy who was there because he sold drugs to literally feed his family. The bottom line was that many Christians would label or pronounce judgment on this boy, but we need to see the difference between sinful thieves and poor men stealing bread.

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