Sermon: To Hell & Back

9/6/09 Mike Massar: To Hell and Back

• It is a Christ like command
• So many people are living and going to hell
• Hell is no longer a negative meaning in our society
o We say things like: “what the hell is this?”
• What is hell to you?
• It was personal for Jesus
• He went to Hell for our sake
• To go to hell for Christ’s sake
Jonah:
• loved to preach
• He was good at it
• One day he asked God where he should go
• God spoke back to him and told him to go to Nineveh
• He puts God off, dismisses the crowd and goes to the opposite place
• He fell asleep on a ship when there is a bad storm
• All the sailors feel like they are being punished by God so they start confessing
• Jonah tells them the truth and how its all his fault
• They asked to know about his God
• Jonah goes into the water, gets swallowed up by a large whale and he starts praying inside the whale
• Jonah made the whale sick and it threw up and Jonah ended up on the beach of where God told him to go to begin with
• Does God change His mind? He did with Sodom & Gomorrah.
o He did at Mt. Sinai when He was about to wipe out the people
• We, too have a 2nd chance
• Jesus prayed, asking the Lord to take this cup from His hands
o Why would Jesus ask God if God didn’t change His mind?
• God So Loved the World…
• It is our calling to go to hell for heaven’s sake (on earth)
• There are people living in hell here on earth
• If we know about it, then we are responsible for them
• Christ asked us to “stand up”
• Nothing can separate you from the love of Christ
• Our calling: is to go to the hardest places we don’t want to go to
• Romans 5:
o Jesus goes to be ungodly
o Because Christ came for the ungodly