· Mentioned 54 times in the word of God
· Mentioned 15 times by Jesus Christ during His earthly ministry
· To deny its existence is to call Jesus Christ a liar
· To downplay its importance is to criticize Jesus’ preaching
· Fire that shall never be quenched, flaming torment (Mark 9:43-48; Luke 16:24)
· Occupants cry for momentary relief of one drop of water (Luke 16:24)
· Weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth (Matthew 13:42, 50; 24:51; Luke 13:28)
· Place of outer darkness (Matthew 8:12; 22:13; 25:30)
· Left with nothing but your thoughts, memory (Luke 16:25)
· Everlasting destruction (Matthew 10:28-29; Luke 12:4-5; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9; Hebrews 6:2)
· Better to pluck out your eye, cut off your hand, cut off your foot than to enter (Matthew 5:29-30; 18:8-9; Mark 9:43-48)
· Location the heart of the earth (Matthew 12:40 w/ Acts 2:27, 31)
· Levels/degrees of punishment: lowest hell, greater damnation (Deuteronomy 32:22; Psalm 86:13; Matthew 23:14; Mark 12:40; Luke 20:47)
· Temporary holding place: jail, trial, prison = hell, Great White Throne, lake of fire (Revelation 20:11-15)
· Jonah cried from belly of hell (Jonah 2:2)
· Jesus was not left in hell (Matthew 12:40; Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27-31)
· Jesus has the keys (Revelation 1:18)
· Will not prevail against the church (Matthew 16:18)
· Strange woman’s house the way to hell (Proverbs 5:5; 7:27)
· Proper chastisement helps children avert it (Proverbs 23:14)
· God’s presence if I make my bed there (Psalm 139:8)
· Tongue set on fire of hell (James 3:6)
· Never full; enlarges itself (Proverbs 27:20; Habakkuk 2:5; Isaiah 5:14)
· Population continually increasing – 150,000 people die every day, and most of them go there
· Hell is filling up…with people you care about – your lost friends, family members, classmates, job mates – they’re headed there (John 3:36)
· Rich man in hell wanted somebody to tell his brothers (Luke 16:27-28)
· People in paradise would have sought to rescue those in hell were it not for the great gulf (Luke 16:24)
· Only chance we have is now, and we can make a difference (Jude 22-23)
