Sermon Notes August 10, 2025

What Are You Afraid Of?                                     “Lessons Learned from Reality TV”

Luke 12:4-7,  “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him. Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.”   

  1. In order to genuinely love God you must first______________.
  2. God has Unlimited ____________________________.
  3. God has Unlimited ____________________________.

Words for the Abode of the Dead or Hell:   

  1. a) “Sheol” — Old Testament word for the __________________. 
  2. b) “Hades” — From Greek mythology, it was the ____________    ___________________.     
  3. c) “Gehenna” — It meant the Valley of Hinnom, where the                 _____________________ was. 
  4. d) “Tartarus” — From Greek mythology the place in Hades where ___________________ were kept. See 2 Peter 2:4.

Matthew 25:41,  “Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.’”

Matthew 13:50, ”…and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.“

Matthew 8:12, ”But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

  1. God has Unlimited ____________________________.