The Problem with Hell

So I'd like to welcome everyone to Bridge Gospel this morning.
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Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for the gracious ways that you provide for us through jobs,
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So we thank you for this opportunity to give back and to sow a seed in the kingdom of God.
And we know that it may leave our hands, but it will never leave our life.
In Jesus' name, amen.
All right, so I'm going to be teaching out of Matthew 13 today.
We'll get to that text in a moment if you want to turn with me there.
But I just want you to imagine maybe standing in a courtroom, you know, not for something insignificant
like a ticket or a misdemeanor or something like that, but, you know, a trial that everybody is watching.
And the evidence is just overwhelming.
And there's witnesses, and there's experts, and there's DNA evidence.
There's a video of the crime actually happening, and maybe there's even a confession.
And the jury goes out, and they come back, and they read their verdict, and they say, well, guilty.
And nobody is surprised by this.
You know, and the judge is looking down from the bench, and he looks at the defendant, and he smiles, and he says,
you know what?
He says, everybody makes mistakes.
You're free to go.
And what would happen?
Would anybody clap?
Would anybody be excited about that?
Would anybody say, well, what a loving judge?
Of course not.
You know, the mother of the victim would be in tears.
The father would absolutely, he'd be burning something down.
I guarantee you that.
There would be protest, right?
And everyone who spent years building the case would just be in complete disbelief, and they'd be dishonored.
And the whole country would look at this judge and say, well, that's not mercy.
That's corruption.
Because a judge who refuses to punish evil is not loving.
He's unjust.
And I think deep down, you know, every one of us know that wrong has to be made right.
And, you know, we watch the things that go on in this world.
We see things happening, and, you know, we don't respond to, you know, a story about evil or a murder and say, well, nobody's perfect.
How many of you have just watched the news, and you see all this, oh, nobody.
Nobody sits there and says that.
There's this thing that rises up inside of us, and, you know, we have this sense that we know that evil somehow needs to be dealt with.
It needs to be judged.
And there's moments where that, for some of us, has not been very theoretical.
It's been very personal.
And maybe someone, you know, lied to you or betrayed you.
Maybe they took advantage of you or stole from you in some way, or they abused their power that they had over you.
And you prayed, and you waited, and you watched, and there was this thing inside of you that said, God, are you going to do anything about this?
And, you know, we all want justice.
But then one day we realize that we're the ones standing in the courtroom.
And now it's not just, well, what is God going to do about their evil?
Now the question becomes, what is God going to do about mine?
So I titled today's message, The Real Problem with Hell.
You see, hell is, I think it's probably the least popular doctrine in Christianity.
You know, nobody writes a book about the problem with heaven.
Nobody asks, you know, how could a loving God just let everybody be happy forever?
You see, heaven does not offend us, but hell does.
Because I think hell forces us to ask one of the deepest questions about Christianity.
And it's, can God really be good if hell exists?
And I've wondered that.
Maybe some of you have wondered that.
Maybe someone that you love is struggling with that in their desire to maybe follow Jesus.
And the question is, how could a loving God send someone to hell?
And I don't think it's a silly question.
It's not a stupid question.
But it's not a small question.
And I think it deserves an answer.
Because when we talk about hell, you see, we're not talking about an idea.
We're talking about people.
And most people think that that's the real problem with hell.
Now, the person who spoke the most about hell, and repeatedly, over and over again in Scripture, was Jesus.
The same Jesus who welcomed children.
The same Jesus who ate with sinners.
The same Jesus who stood outside of Lazarus' tomb.
He cried.
And the same Jesus that hung from the cross and said,
Father, forgive them.
That was the same Jesus that was warning people repeatedly about judgment.
And Jesus does not warn because he hates us.
He warns us because he loves us.
So I think the question that we have to wrestle with is,
how can a God who is perfectly loving also judge sin so harshly and so eternally?
And what does that tell us about the cross?
So Jesus tells us a parable in Matthew 13.
It's about wheat and about weeds.
And they're growing together.
I don't have slides for it.
I'll just read it real quick.
This is at verse 24.
It says,
He presented them with another parable.
The kingdom of heaven is like a person who sowed good seed in his field.
But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed darnel,
your translation might say weeds,
among the wheat, and went away.
When the plant sprouted and produced grain,
then the darnel also appeared.
So the slaves of the landowner came and said to him,
Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field?
And then where did this darnel come from?
He said,
So that's kind of our setup for what's going on a little further.
In verse 40, he comes back around to this story.
He starts to explain all of these parables that he's been teaching them
because Jesus is talking kind of at the next level
and his disciples are kind of trying to follow along.
And in verse, I think it's 40, he talks about this.
As the poisonous weeds are collected and burned with fire,
so it will be at the end of the age.
The Son of Man will send his angels,
and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin
as well as all lawbreakers.
They will throw them into the fiery furnace
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
The one who has ears had better listen.
So I think Jesus was speaking into a world
that from a human perspective, it's very confusing.
Now these weeds, I had to nerd out on this.
I wasn't going to, and I couldn't help myself.
Your Bible might say weeds.
I think the message says thistles.
It actually says darnel, this grass here.
And I thought, well, what is this?
Now, it looks a lot like wheat when it's growing.
I have the translation note on this little word here.
It says,
That's interesting.
Under Roman law, the sowing of such poisonous plants
in someone else's field was specifically prohibited.
A number of recent English translations use weeds,
but this does not convey the poisonous nature of darnel
or the similarity in appearance to weed.
And the fun fact was scientists say
that this has a cosmopolitan distribution,
which means that it grows everywhere.
It gets into everything.
And I think, honestly, that is a great description of evil, isn't it?
It grows everywhere.
It gets everywhere.
It can survive anywhere.
So in this parable, these wheat and this toxic weed
are growing together.
And good and evil are occupying the same field.
And isn't that like life?
Where sometimes that the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper
and good people get hurt and bad people sometimes,
they appear to get away with everything.
And justice is delayed.
And when justice is delayed long enough,
we wonder, well, maybe God doesn't see what's happening.
And if God doesn't seem to do anything about it after a while,
that starts to turn into, well, maybe God doesn't care.
But Jesus is saying in this story that the delay of judgment
is not the absence of judgment.
That there is a harvest coming.
That there will be a day when God separates
what we cannot separate today.
There will be a day when evil is finally named.
Notice how that little note,
it said that you couldn't tell the difference
until the seed, the head of the wheat, came out.
And then you could tell the difference.
You couldn't tell the difference.
So there will be a day where nothing is hidden.
Nothing will be forgotten.
Nothing will be covered up.
Nothing will be excused.
And I want you to notice that the servants in this story,
they want to fix the problem right now.
But Jesus says, well, not yet.
Because they can't see clearly enough
to separate the two without damaging the good.
But God can.
So that means that the final judgment is not in our hands.
And thank God I don't know enough.
Thank God I can't see all that he sees.
I don't understand what he sees.
I can't see someone's heart, but God can.
So when scripture says that there's going to be judgment,
it's not telling me that, you know,
someday some angry, impulsive God
is going to lose his temper on people.
It's telling me that the only person
who is qualified to judge the world will.
And he'll get it right.
And I think that's good news
if you've ever been wounded by evil or injustice,
but it becomes a little bit frightening
when that evil is not only something
that has happened to us,
but it's something that has come through us.
Romans 3.19 says,
Now we know that whatever the law says,
it says to those who are under the law,
so that every mouth may be silenced
and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
You see, God doesn't compare you to your neighbor.
God compares you to his holiness.
And suddenly, you know,
the courtroom gets real quiet.
You know, that means you can't say,
well, at least I'm not like him.
Or at least I'm a good person.
I never did what they did.
And at least I'm better than people like this.
You see, I think we've been asking the wrong question
when we think about hell.
We think that the real problem is hell
and a God who's sending people there.
But Jesus is telling us
that the real problem starts
way, way before hell enters the story.
So I have four surprising truths
about hell that I want to share today.
The first one is that the biggest problem is not hell.
The biggest problem is sin.
You see, we think hell is like a disease,
but it's not.
See, sin is the disease.
Judgment is revealing what the disease
and the damage it has done.
You know, imagine going to the doctor
and you get all these tests
and then you have the follow-up appointment
and you sit down
and the doctor says,
well, I have bad news.
Like, uh-oh.
The doctor says,
well, you have cancer.
Now, nobody in their right mind
is going to look at the doctor
and shake them and say,
you gave me this cancer.
It's ridiculous.
But he's already,
he's just revealing something
that is already destroying you.
And the diagnosis may hurt,
but the diagnosis is not the enemy.
The disease is.
And hell forces us to stop,
you know, treating sin
like just some minor,
you know, character flaw.
You know, our,
we want to say that I decide what is good
and I decide what is evil
and I decide who's good
and who's evil.
And I want to rule my own life.
And we've all done it.
I've done it.
And Romans 3 is telling us
that all have sinned
and fallen short of the glory of God.
Not some, all.
That means that I'm not just a victim of evil,
that I'm a contributor
and a cause of it.
And I may have never murdered anyone.
I may have never committed robbery.
I may never stand in a courtroom
accused of anything.
But I've committed enough sin
to need a savior.
And so have you.
And the Bible is not saying
that every sin has got the same set
of earthly consequences.
Because they don't.
You see, murder and impatience,
they're not socially equivalent.
But they reveal the same reality.
That something is wrong in our hearts.
See, Jesus says that murder
begins with hating your brother.
Adultery begins with lust.
And our outward sins
are just symptoms
of our inward rebellion.
And everything that happens
in the horizontal
is dictated by our vertical
relationship and understanding
with God.
You know, and I love sermons
about what is wrong with the world.
And then Jesus eventually
turns the mirror on me
and he turns the mirror on us.
And, you know,
some of us
have asked God
to judge other people.
Anybody but me.
Anybody but me.
And we want justice
for the pride
that we are victims of,
but we want mercy
for ourselves.
And we want justice
for greed,
but we want understanding
for ours.
But God is holy.
And I think
the greatest mystery
of Christianity
is not why would anybody
go to hell?
I think the greatest mystery
is how could anybody
possibly get to go to heaven?
So the real problem
with hell
is not sin.
It's not hell,
it's sin.
Hell is where the disease ends.
But sin is where it begins.
Surprising truth number two
is hell exists
because God is good.
And we usually hear
that question
the other way around.
He says,
well, if God is good,
there'd be no hell.
But think about that.
You know,
imagine a God
who watches
all the evil in the world,
human trafficking
and murder
and betrayal
and war
and cruelty,
and he shrugs.
He shrugs.
He says,
well,
it's not that serious.
I don't want to judge
anybody.
Would that be,
God be good?
Of course not.
That God would be wicked.
God's justice exists
because his creation
matters to him.
That people matter.
Truth matters.
Holiness matters.
Goodness matters.
And if God
simply allowed evil
to just go on
forever
without answering it,
then evil would have
the final word.
But scripture says
that it will not.
2 Peter 3.9 says,
the Lord is not slow
concerning his promise
as some regard slowness,
but is being patient
toward you
because he does not wish
for anyone to perish
but for all to come
to repentance.
Do you see the tension?
God is just.
God is patient.
But God will judge.
He's waiting.
Because every day
that we live
is God giving people
another chance.
He's delaying.
He's waiting.
Every day is another chance.
Every heartbeat
is another chance.
Every time you hear
the gospel,
there's another chance.
every time the Holy Spirit
speaks to you
is another chance.
But don't mistake
God's patience
for God's permission.
You have to be careful.
The delay of consequences
does not mean
the absence
of holiness.
God is patient
but he is not
indifferent.
Now how many
have ever done this?
You ever thought
about your own sin
or something you did
and said,
but she did this,
but he did that,
but he did this,
and that's why I did this.
And you don't understand
and it's as if we could
explain ourselves
to God.
But God understands
every circumstance
perfectly.
And Romans 3 tells us
that every mouth
will be stopped.
That means there's
no excuses.
There's no making
a deal with God.
You ever tried that?
I'm going to make
a deal with God.
But God doesn't judge
from incomplete information.
He knows everyone's motives.
He knows every wound.
He knows every excuse.
He's hurt at all.
You know,
nothing ever occurs
to God.
Nothing ever surprises.
God never says,
wow,
I can't believe
they did that.
God is never surprised.
Nothing ever occurs
to him.
Nothing ever surprises him.
And that means
that his judgment
will be perfectly just.
And no one,
no one will be able
to stand before him
and say,
you know,
you got my case wrong, pal.
Nobody will be able
to do that.
And I think that's where
Jesus' whole thing
becomes kind of haunting.
He talks about
the weeping
and the gnashing of teeth.
the weeping,
the regret,
the loss,
the grief,
the realization
that I can't believe
that my choice
has brought me here.
I can't believe
I'm in hell.
And there's weeping.
But then there's
the gnashing of teeth
and elsewhere in Scripture
that image is associated
with anger,
hostility,
defiance.
And I think Jesus
is giving us
a picture
of two things,
of terrible sorrow
on one hand
and terrible hostility
on the other hand
where
one person is just,
I can't believe you,
I'm here.
And they're so sorry
and they're so regretful.
But then you have
this other person
that is so prideful.
I can't believe
God would dare
send me here.
Jesus is showing us
both attitudes.
And I think that tells us
something really frightening
is that
sometimes we think
that if God could just
see the situation
well enough
that God would just
automatically fix everything
and love people
but sin is so much deeper
than a lack of information.
You see how pride hardens
and resentment hardens
and rebellion hardens
and a person
becomes so committed
to being their own authority
that even judgment
from God
in hell
does not make them change.
That is terrifying.
You see,
hell is not simply about
where sin takes you.
It's the person
that it makes you into.
And we have to guard our hearts.
The scripture is constantly
warning us
to guard our hearts.
So I have a couple of questions.
You know,
where have I started
calling God unfair
because he won't approve
or do what I want?
Where have I started
calling God unfair?
Where have I mistaken
patience for permission?
Where have I demanded
justice for someone else
or resisting
or resisting
repenting myself?
Or where have I
become concerned
more about fairness
than surrender?
You see,
the problem with hell
was never hell.
It was our own sin.
And now,
God has to do
something about it.
And that's the real problem
that Jesus was answering
on the cross.
So the next truth
I want to share
is that hell
makes the cross
more beautiful.
You see,
without judgment,
the cross has no point.
It's confusing.
You know,
why would Jesus
have to die?
Why couldn't he
just forgive everyone?
Why the blood?
Why Gethsemane?
Why the agony?
Why the darkness?
Why this cry
of abandonment?
Why send Jesus
to the cross?
And I think this
is where Christianity
is so different.
In the Old Testament,
the prophets
were always talking
about this cup.
This cup.
This cup.
Psalm 75
talks about a cup
and it's in the Lord's hand.
Isaiah talks about
a cup of wrath.
Jeremiah talks about
the nations
drinking a cup
of judgment.
So when Jesus
is in there,
he's in the garden,
he's in Gethsemane,
and he's saying,
Father, if it is possible,
let this cup
pass from me.
Now he knows
exactly what he's saying.
He's not holding the cup.
But he's looking
towards this judgment.
And I think it's amazing.
I don't think
the deepest terror
that Jesus had
was the Romans,
the nails,
the humiliation.
I think he knew
about all that.
But I think he knew
that something much deeper
was going to happen.
He knew that he was
about to bear
the sin of the whole world.
And that even though
he had never rebelled,
he would stand
in the place
of those who did.
And he would be
the one taking
the judgment
of the guilty.
Isaiah says
he was pierced
for our transgressions,
that he was crushed
for our iniquities,
and that that punishment,
it all fell on him.
Do you hear the exchange?
Our sin
for his wounds,
our guilt
for his judgment,
our rebellion
for his punishment.
And Jesus
accepts it.
He doesn't pass it off
to someone else.
He's praying with God
and he says,
not my will,
but yours.
Be done.
And then hours later,
he's saying from the cross,
my God,
my God,
why have you
abandoned me?
And I think the cross
says two things
at the same time.
It says that,
number one,
sin matters this much.
Sin matters this much.
And at the same time,
it's saying,
I love you this much.
And I think this is where
it starts to get close
to home, you know.
Some of us hear
a sermon about hell
and we immediately
think about other people.
Our people
and our lives
who aren't saved.
Our neighbors
and atheists
that we maybe know
at work.
Maybe it's a child
or a family member
that's walked away
from the faith
and maybe it's somebody
who just thinks
Christianity is ridiculous.
It is ridiculous.
And yeah,
we should pray for them.
We should care.
And if hell is real,
then sharing the gospel matters.
Prayer matters.
Missions matter.
And it's very easy
to talk about judgment
like I'm standing here,
you know,
looking at everyone else
and I'm not.
See, I'm in the same courtroom
as everyone else.
I need the same blood.
I need the same grace.
I have nothing
to offer God.
None of us walk into heaven
carrying a resume.
We enter into heaven
because Jesus opened the door
and we accept it
and we walk through it.
And this is why
we need more than good advice.
We can't just say,
well, just try harder,
be a better person.
Do better.
Stop sinning.
Because none of that
solves the problem.
And the problem is
we need a Savior.
We need someone
who can stand
in front of God
for us.
And that is Jesus.
So this is my last
surprising truth about hell.
The real problem behind hell
has already been answered
at the cross.
The question is
whether you'll receive it.
You see,
there's two ways
to stand before God.
One of them
is carrying everything.
Your own sin.
Your own baggage.
Or you can stand
before him
represented
by Jesus Christ.
The beloved
son of God
who died
for you.
You see,
Christianity is not
about good people
going to heaven.
Christianity is about
guilty people
being forgiven
so they can
go to heaven.
You see,
the gospel is not
God looking at you
and deciding
that your sin
wasn't that bad.
The gospel is God
looking at you
in your sin
and all of its seriousness
and saying that
I love you.
I love you enough
to send my son
to the cross
and represent you.
John 3.16
says that God
so loved the world
that he gave
his only begotten son.
The cross
and hell
are not proof
that God
is angry.
The cross
is the love
of God
in action.
The Father
sends,
the Son
gives himself,
the Spirit
draws people
back to God.
And that's
why hell
doesn't prove
that God
wants people
condemned.
The cross
is proving
that he does not.
And I think
that God
has already
shown us
his heart
you know
he's poured
out his blood
he's offered
salvation
to everyone
who's willing
to place
faith in him.
So there's
an invitation
and I think
there's three groups
of people
that God
is speaking to
and I think
the invitation
is very simple.
Come
to Jesus
today.
Not after
you get
everything figured out
not after
you clean yourself up
not after
you get your life
together
not after
you start
looking religious
and some
of you
you just need
to surrender
your life
to Christ
and you
maybe believe
things about
Jesus
and been curious
about Jesus
but you've
never entrusted
yourself to him
and today
you can stop
being your own
defense
and you can
stop comparing
yourself
and stop
bargaining
and you can
put your trust
in the finished
work of Christ
and his
righteousness
will become
yours.
Some of us
need to
repent
and stop
something
that we've
been excusing
because the
consequences
haven't come
yet.
This is really
serious you
guys.
Repentance
means that
I stop
arguing with
God about
reality.
And what
you're doing
may work
for now.
It might
work.
It might
work this
month.
It might
work this
year.
It might
work for
decades.
You may
even think
it's
sustainable.
It may
work your
whole life.
But God
is saying
that this
road that
you're going
down doesn't
end where
you think
it does.
And faith
means that I
put my trust
in what
God says.
Galatians
says that
God is not
mocked.
Whatever a
person sows
that is what
they will
reap.
That means
that seeds
become something.
Choices
become something.
Habits
become
something.
Sin
becomes
something.
Repentance
says God
you know
where this
road is
going to
end better
than where
I do.
And this
isn't God
trying to
come in and
ruin your
life and
your fun.
This is
God being
patient and
warning you and
loving you and
inviting you into
his presence.
And there's a
third group.
A third group
that's afraid.
Not rebellious,
afraid.
And you hear
this sermon
about hell
and there's
something inside
of you.
What if that's
me?
What if I'm
standing before
God?
Is he really
going to accept
me?
Is he really
going to accept?
What if I didn't
pray the prayer
right?
What if I
haven't done
enough?
What if I
haven't
confessed
enough?
What if
there's some
sin that I
just forgot
to say
anything about
and confess
about?
What if I
think I'm
saved but
I'm not?
And then
this fear
starts to
become evidence
against you
and then you
start thinking
well if I
really belonged
to God I
wouldn't be
afraid.
If the
Holy Spirit
really lived
in me why
would he let
me think
this way and
feel this way?
And now you're
afraid of being
afraid.
Listen,
your salvation
does not
rest on how
confident you
feel today.
Your salvation
rests on Jesus
Christ who is the
object of your
faith.
Your emotions
will move.
They will
shift.
They will deceive
you.
But Jesus
does not
change.
Jesus Christ
the same
yesterday and
today and
forever.
Amen?
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
And your
confidence will
have good days
and it will
have bad
days.
Jesus does
not have good
days and bad
days.
And your faith
may feel strong
today and it
may feel like
nothing tomorrow.
But the
question is not
do I feel
righteous enough?
Of course you
don't.
I hope you
don't.
Because you
aren't.
That's the
whole point.
The question
is where is
my trust?
Because the
real problem is
not whether
your feelings
are strong
enough.
The real
question is
whether Christ
is strong
enough.
And I can
tell you that
he is.
And the
Bible says
there's no
condemnation for
those who are
in Christ
Jesus.
So when that
fear comes
along,
well look at
what you've
done.
God can
never accept
you.
You need
to clean
this.
You need
to do
this.
Look at
what you've
done.
And then
you can
say,
well look
at what
Jesus has
done.
Look at
what Jesus
has done.
And then
your conscience
will say,
well you're
not righteous
enough.
And you're
right.
That's
right.
You're
correct.
And some
of us need
to stop
looking inside
every five
minutes to
figure out
where we
stand with
God and
just start
looking at
the person
of Jesus
as our
assurance
is in
Jesus.
He died.
He rose
from the
dead.
He finished
the work.
And if you
trust in
him, you
don't have
to spend
the rest
of your
life wondering
whether
Jesus is
enough.
Amen?
You see,
when we
started today,
we thought
the real
problem with
hell was
hell, but
it isn't.
The real
problem is
sin and
that every
one of us
is guilty.
And the
greatest news
is that
Jesus took
our
judgment.
So you
don't have to
leave here
terrified of
hell, but
you can leave
amazed at
what Jesus
has done.
you can
leave
grateful.
You can
leave praying.
You can
leaving that
you know
that you
have eternal
life, that
you're in
right standing
with God.
Because one
day, one
day, every
person who
has ever
lived will
stand before
Jesus.
Kings,
presidents,
billionaires,
celebrities,
lawyers, liars,
thieves, pastors,
atheists, religious
people, ordinary
people, you,
you, me, and
Romans says
our mouths will
be stopped.
There's no
excuses.
There's no
explaining anything
away.
There's no
pretending.
It's just you
and God.
It's all truth.
And some
people will
meet God
only as a
judge, but
those who
belong to
Jesus will
discover that
the judge is
also their
savior.
So dear
Heavenly
Father, we
thank you for
what your
word clearly
says.
We thank
you that we
have no
reason to
stand condemned.
We have no
reason to be
afraid when
our faith is
in you.
Lord, so we
thank you for
the assurance
of salvation.
And Lord, I
pray that the
joy of your
gospel can
emanate from
each and every
person here
today.
That it can
be spread,
that the
kingdom of
God will
advance
mightily in
every family
conversation,
around every
kitchen table,
in every
place, in
Apache Junction
and around
the world.
We thank you
for the hope
of the gospel.
And we thank
you for the
confidence that
we have only
because of what
you have done
for us.
There's nothing
that we could
have done
ourselves.
in Jesus'
mighty name.
Everybody said
Amen.