Prayer
List
Ben
Harrington is having serious problems with his diabetics.
Leta Embry
is recovering from surgery. Her next surgery is Thursday Oct. 9th.
Greg Counts
will have surgery on his shoulder in December.
Betty Harris
is home.
Beryl Miller
is undergoing eye treatment and is doing some better.
Sue Morgan
is in Rehab and is improving
Dale Counts
is undergoing radiation treatments.
Jeremy Hall needs our
prayers.
Nell Hall,
Jerry Harris, James and Florene Griffin, Don Hickerson, Lester and
Billie Phillips, Shirley Quinn, Jack and Diane Arnold, Betty Clark,
Jerry Foster, Debbie Kluge, Sonny and Doris James, and Dean and Della
Price.
Serving in
the military: Travis Counts Cody Blomstedt
Dakota Smitherman
Let us pray
for our country and government leaders and those who are in harms
way, military and civilian personnel.
“The
effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much…
September’s
Fellowship has been moved to October 4th to coincide with
the beginning of our Fall Meeting. This will be last Fellowship
until January 2016.
Our Fall
Meeting will be Oct. 4-7 at 7:00pm each night. Sunday evening
services will be at 2:00pm instead at 7:00pm.
Sept.27th
Prayers Morning: Robert Courtney – Jack Cawthon
Evening: Greg Counts - Kerry King
Scriptures
Don Harrington
Pantry
Item: Pancake Syrup
What is
the Duration
of Hell?
It is common in
today’s religious world to reject the biblical teaching of the
reality of hell. Many claim that the old “eternal hell fire” is
out of character for a loving God, and that when this life is over
the unsaved will simply cease to exist.
This is an
appealing doctrine to many, because it eliminates the possibility of
punishment for sin. However, Jesus said that the wicked “shall go
away into everlasting punishment” (Matthew 25:46). Paul wrote that
those who do not know God and refuse to obey Him, “shall be
punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,
and from the glory of His power” (2 Thess. 1:9).
Hell, the
ultimate abode of the wicked, is translated from the Greek word
Gehenna. It differs from Hades, another Greek word
rendered as hell in the King James Version. Hades is the
abode of all the dead, righteous and unrighteous, before the
resurrection. The literal Gehenna, from which hell is derived, was a
narrow gorge near Jerusalem that represented the worst of Jewish
history. Years earlier they stained this valley with the blood of
their own innocent children offered in sacrifice to the idol, Baal.
In Christ’s day, Gehenna was a continually burning garbage dump,
the name of which He appropriated to describe the final abode of the
wicked.
The
Scriptures often describe hell as a place of unending punishment.
Jesus spoke of the day when His angels would gather those who do
iniquity and “cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be
wailing and gnashing of teeth” (Matt. 13:42). John described hell,
saying, “The smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever:
and they have no rest day or night” (Rev.14:11). Other passages
describe hell as “outer darkness (Matt. 8:12), a “furnace of
fire” (Matt. 13:42), and “eternal fire” (Jude 7).
Jude said
Sodom and Gomorrha, the wicked cities that were “giving themselves
over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for
an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire” (Jude 7). The
term eternal literally means “always being.” Hell is just
as eternal as heaven (Matt. 25:46). If the fires of hell burn out,
then the light of heaven will go out on the same day. The good news
is that hell can be avoided! Jesus died that we might be saved. We
can all obey His gospel and dwell in heaven forever.
(Bob Prichard,
Oxford AL.)