Heaven, Hell and Everything In Between (part 14)

Well, we were looking at good morning, we're looking at what the Old Testament says About eternal punishment and hell and we were on Page 53 and so probably good to just kind of put us in Mind of where we were to look at.

Daniel 12 and the Old Testament Teaching on Eternal Punishment

Daniel chapter 12. Book of Daniel chapter 12. Now I remember. While we're all getting settled in here, I just remember when I first got saved. I think there were about Three folks I could find in the Old Testament and Daniel was one of them might be having to find Genesis.

But it was Daniel because I I think I've mentioned it before but the first Bible study I went to was all eschatology all the time and That's why I finally bailed on that. The Bible study started going to Pastor Mike's Bible study because I was learning nothing.

Really nothing that would help me in terms of what I needed to know as a new believer. That's funny because it reminds me of my IBS class. I mean, I'm gonna make an announcement this morning about the IBS class and by the way that clock hasn't been changing.

You know, what what are the what are the things as a new believer that we're most interested in. I Had a friend in fact Tony the lawman anybody know who is Tony the lawman young. You know what he did first when he first got saved.

What's probably the most crazy thing you can do as a new Christian. What do you do when you buy a new book. Start reading how many people go to the end to find out how the story ends. That's what Tony did.

Tony would always get. You'd get a new book and he goes. I want to know how to end. So he turns the revelation he starts reading he goes. I have no idea what I'm reading. The book of Daniel chapter 12 verses 1 to 3.

And I'll just read this while y 'all are waking up now that time Michael the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your People will arise and there will be a time of distress such as never Occurred since there was a nation until that time and at that time your people everyone who was found written in the book will be rescued.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake these two everlasting life. But the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt those who have insight will shine brightly like the Like the brightness of the expanse of heaven and those who lead the many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.

We made the point ultimately that this is the clearest Old Testament passage that says look there's gonna be a resurrection and there are two destinies one that's great and one that is Not so grace. Not so great.

I mean, how would you like to have this described? Describe what's going to happen after life? Others to disgrace and everlasting contempt. Disgrace and everlasting contempt not the way you want to think about things on the top of page 53 the handout James Montgomery Boyce now yours probably starts on what?

55 this one but from last week if you have that if you're so blessed as to still have that. Boy says this again the first verse of chapter 12 begins at that time, which means he's talking about the previous time and about the end times and He says he knows that there will be a great persecution.

Which we believe to be the tribulation period a general resurrection a final judgment and the final eternal blessedness of the Saints. And then he talks about how the Lord himself talked about those in Matthew 24 and 25 this end time issue.

Point number two at this point. I want to be this is boys still talking. I want to be particularly cautious. But if what I've said thus far is correct. Then it would seem best to regard these verses as a prophecy of the career of the Antichrist now keep in mind James Montgomery Boyce is was a Presbyterian.

May still be a Presbyterian. I don't know how that all works. I don't think there are any denominations and. And of the final great battle of Armageddon that is described elsewhere in Scripture. I think in particular of Ezekiel 38 and of Revelation 16 and 19.

How we handle Daniel 11 36 to verses or to 12 for will depend on some measure then. And how we think of the chapters in Ezekiel and Revelation but taking them together I find that they refer to a great world war immediately prior to the Lord's return.

Daniel first to a great battle between the kings of the north and south. He mentions Egypt. Yeah, they gotta get a big war. Which in Revelation is called Armageddon? 0 .3 at the end of this period a great international turmoil the Lord Jesus Christ returns subdues his and Our enemies and ushers in a kingdom that will never be overturned or destroyed.

Interesting to when Jen and I were blessed to be in Israel in 2000. With the seminary one of the things that they did was they brought in. I mean we got to we get to meet a few Folks, I think we set in The one of the offices there in the Knesset building and we Heard from the deputy mayor of Jerusalem and it's not the other thing.

But one of the more interesting things we did was they brought in a rabbi to talk to us and the rabbi started talking about What he we were able to ask some questions so somebody said, you know, would you describe the Messiah since you don't believe Jesus.

The Messiah would you describe the Messiah? He said well the Messiah. Listen he said the Messiah is going to bring peace to Israel. He's going to rebuild the temple. You know and he just kind of went on laying out all these things that the Messiah was going to do and when I hear He's going to bring peace to Israel and he's going to rebuild the temple.

I'm thinking Antichrist, so I mean you have these Jews who don't accept Christ as the Messiah. They're looking forward to a Messiah and you know, you read this in the Bible and you go. Well, how did anybody fall for the Antichrist?

How's that ever gonna happen? They're ready. All he has to do is just establish peace over there build the temple and they're like it's the Messiah so that's kind of what we have to look forward to and nobody knows when but it seems.

Obviously, we're getting closer and it seems Soon in the sense that it could happen anytime. On the other hand unbelievers will face shame and contempt. We talked about that or I just mentioned it shame.

Listen to this. It's interesting, you know everlasting or shame and everlasting contempt. Shame is a translation of the Hebrew term. Which I won't try to pronounce. Which one comes hitter? Designates a plural of intensive fullness.

Great shame the wicked will be ashamed and disgraced as they stand before the Lord and realize the gravity of their sin particularly the sin of rejecting God's loving Messiah. And then contempt refers to an object of aversion or abhorrence something from which you Would kind of divert your eyes not want to look at.

He goes on to quote here and I'll just skip down to the bottom of number four. So shocking will be the fate of the lost that unlooked onlookers must turn their face away in a horror or disgust. This contempt will be Everlasting that is it will endure for eternity.

Number five the fate of both groups is and I said before everlasting. Daniel therefore was setting forth the doctrines of eternal life and eternal punishment. According to this text all persons believers and unbelievers will enter the eternal state in bodily form.

They'll be raised from the dust as it says. So in summary talking about the Old Testament, this is Daniel block. Says there's any hope of victory over death and a beatific. What does that mean? What's a beatific?

What is? If you have a beatific vision, what is that, you know from beatific, how do you say that? Looks like it should be beatitude or be it. Who knows how to say that anyway. It just means good. He's beautiful.

Why do you just say that? I don't know. Any hope of victory over death and a beatific afterlife would require a reunion of the divorce components body and soul. Which is exactly what is it? He'll envisions.

In other words to a Jew and really to anyone. Can you imagine a Afterlife in which you are a disembodied spirits just floating around in the ether. I don't think that would be that exciting. And so what do you what the Old Testament teaches then is a resurrection where the body and the spirit will be rejoined.

Jesus on Hell and the Need to Preach the Full Gospel

Okay now Get to really the the heart of it and you'll see why I say that here in a minute on page 54. Jesus on hell. Listen these two quotes right in the beginning really kind of set the stage. Yarbrough says this if Jesus spoke as frequently and directly about hell as gospel writers claim.

This is after a long introduction in which he says there's no reason to doubt what the gospel writers claim. Which I'm always in favor of. When? When scholars tell us that there's no reason to doubt what the New Testament says.

I like that when they say well We don't really know What Jesus said. I have a problem with that. If Jesus spoke as frequently and directly about hell as gospel writers claim that it may not be the Christian message.

That we end up proclaiming if we modify his doctrine of posthumous existence posthumous meaning post-death. So, what's he saying who can summarize that. Let's see if we don't teach hell as Jesus did.

Then we don't teach the full gospel as Jesus did. We don't have the Christian message. Our message is sub Christian. McKnight says what Christians have believed about hell has been Constructed entirely almost entirely out of what Jesus teaches in the Gospels.

In other words what Christians have believed for centuries is not something they made up. It's not something Paul constructed. It's what Jesus himself taught and if the Lord talked more about hell than heaven if you talk about hell Frequently and he warned of hell then our message needs to contain that we've said on many occasions.

People can't understand the good news the gospel if they don't understand the bad news. If you don't understand what you're being saved from which is the wrath of God fully expressed in hell forever, then What is the good news?

Have to have bad news to get the good news. My first one I thought long and deeply about this hell is a horrible place. Clearly is Matthew 5 in the Sermon on the Mount again the words of Jesus and if you have a Red letter Bible then these things will really be.

Trick question to see if anybody's awake. Which words are more inspired. The red letters or the black letters the words in red or the words in black? All of them Red. No, they're all he's right. They are all equally inspired.

I mean, they're all the words of Christ. It's just a matter of whether he physically spoke them or Whether they were given to men by the Holy Spirit who wrote them down. Okay, hell is a horrible place.

He wants to read Matthew 5 27 to 30 27 to 30 Matthew 5.

Carl You know you have heard that it is said you shall not commit adultery but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for Her for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

If your right eye makes you stumble tear it out and throw it from you For it is better for you to lose one of your parts of your body Then for your whole body to be thrown into hell. If your right hand makes you stumble cut it off and throw it from you For is better for you to lose one part of your body then for your whole body to go into hell.

This is it's spectacular language. And I thought Morris gives us some good insights here. He says since the look can be so significant talking about gazing at a woman It is important to use the right the eye rightly not the right eye the eye rightly correctly and Jesus uses Hyperbolic language and speaking of the exercise of sights his if clause puts the case strongly.

For the sake of discussion implies that the condition is met. There are several different kinds of if. In there are four types of if not that we're going to go over all those but In in Greek, there are several different kinds of conditions.

And in this case it says. You know if you do this and you do. Then this is what happens. The right eye was this is this was what I was thought was really fascinating the right I was thought of as especially valuable.

I mean you really ever think oh my right eye is so much better than my left side. But that's how they viewed it and we'll see why here in a second. For a warrior would be gravely handicapped if he lacked sight in this member.

And think about it, you know if you're an archer or if you have a bow, you know, what would you do? You'd draw back this way and you're gonna be you know. Looking your right eye down the side or whatever and if you don't have a right eye, you've got a problem.

Jesus envisions Envisages sees the possibility that this valuable member where the commentaries just use regular language, you know, like the rest of us Envisages the possibility of this valuable member may in fact be the cause of sin.

He does not define this further, but the lustful look of which he has just spoken makes clear the kind of Way in which an invaluable member of the body may cause the bringing of evil to the whole. In other words The eye is the window by which the entire body is brought into sin under those circumstances.

Jesus advises that it be gouged out and thrown away. He says it is better to lose one member than to lose the whole in Gehenna or hell. Gehenna is Little. I mean basically it's the city dump in Jerusalem.

It's this little You know trench of land where all the refuge goes and they burn it is just constantly burning. So when you see the term Gehenna, it is just synonymous with hell. It's a it's a picture of.

That they use often for hell. Morse goes on as in the previous verse the nature of the possible sin is not explained. This is talking about left right hand, I think. But if the right hand leads one to sin is better to cut it off.

Mark has the same similar Matthew did it and the eye is media relevant, but the hand is difficult. Here's the point. The point is that it is better as valuable as your right hand might be. I mean if you're right-handed you lose your right Hand, that's a problem.

You're gonna switch to using your left hand obviously, but it would be seen as a big handicap the idea of voluntarily Cutting off your right hand. I Want to stop saying I'm gonna come up my right hand.

Would that stop you from sinning? No, because let's say you stole bread with your right hand, you know, or you were a thief whatever you did. Are you gonna stop being a thief just because you cut off your right hand?

I might stop you for a little while won't stop you for very long. If you take out your eyes, I'm gonna stop you from lusting might stop you from the look for a little while. But it won't stop you all together.

You know do blind people ever lost. I imagine they probably do. What's Jesus trying to say? I mean, can you imagine I mean this is somebody asked you, you know, how much you know? You hear all these settlements lawsuits.

Somebody loses their right foot they get $500 ,000 in the lawsuit. Do you ever think wow, that's a lot of money. I wouldn't mind giving up my right foot for $500 ,000. So then think about cutting off your right foot.

Would you do it? I wouldn't cut off my right foot for $500 ,000. What Jesus is saying is these these things? That we have our body parts that we would see as so valuable that we wouldn't want to lose them.

We wouldn't want anybody to gouge our eye out. We wouldn't want to gouge out ourselves. He says listen stop sinning. It is better for you this right hand as much as you enjoy being right-handed and as many things as it does for you.

Your right eye as great as it is as many things as it does for you. It is better if you were to chop off your right hand if it would stop you from sitting. You need to stop sitting. You need to Avoid hell.

Hell is a lot worse than losing your right hand or losing your right eye because those things are temporary. You can adjust. Hell goes on forever. Kiss the mocker on page 56 says this. It would seem that the following lessons are taught here.

The presence is not our only life. We are destined for eternity. And he quotes Jesus and notes that your whole body be thrown into or go down into hell. You only go around once a life so go for all the gusto you can first.

That's a beer commercial from 1969. I think. You know, how about. We'll just Christian eyes it your best life now. Saying you need to think about more than just the here and now. You need to have a long view of things.

Kiss the marker goes on nothing no matter how precious it may seem to us at the moment. Think of the right high right eye and right hand should be allowed to doom our glorious destiny. Sin has a very destructive force must not be pampered.

It must be put to death. Temptation should be flung aside immediately and decisively. I love this word dilly-dallying delaying. Putting things off is deadly. Halfway measures work havoc. The surgery must be radical right at this very moment and without any vacillation or hesitation.

The obscene book should be burned. The scandalous picture destroyed the soul burning or soul destroying film condemned the sinister yet intimate social tie broken and the Baneful habit discarded in the struggle against sin the believer must fight hard.

Shadowboxing will never do. Even as believers, I mean does any do I don't want any confessions here. But does anyone ever kind of think well, you know after this happens after thus and such a date. You know when I when when I finally feel this way then I'll stop whatever sin I Think maybe the most common thing that happens is believers.

These days especially with young people dating unbelievers or Believers Move in together to save money on rent or whatever. They do, you know boyfriend and girlfriend and they tell themselves, you know what?

Eventually, we'll make this right. Eventually, we will Will legitimize it with marriage will do this will do that will stop will do blah blah blah blah blah. It's compromise. It's a half measure it's Dilly-dallying it's vacillation.

Going to kind of Take half measures, you know just kind of do a little bit. There's just kind of soothe our conscience to make ourselves feel better and that's not what Jesus calls for. He says whatever the sin is Get rid of it.

Whatever it is. It's causing you to stumble whether it's a person a relationship a thing Get it out of your life. Why because a pattern of sin. You know, I think there's this idea maybe I just heard recently of a man who you know was in an adulterous relationship for ten years and then died and You know, it's a professing Christian nobody knew about the adultery until he died and so, you know, the question is well was this God's Judgment on him or was this some kind of you know way of revealing sin was he a Christian all that?

I don't know. All I know is ten years is a long time to have that sort of thing going on in your life and I mean, I Don't know how you Ultimately, it's up to God. But I mean, I I don't think I could be Confident of his internal state ten years.

It's a very long time Christ calls for radical dealing with sin. Because hell is a horrible place secondly God himself is present. This is midway through 56. God himself is present in hell and the deliverer of punishment.

I Matthew 10 24 to 28. We'd like to read that please.

All the way to. 28 Nothing. No, but I tell you that I can speak in the light what you hear whispered in your ear proclaim upon the housetops Do not fear those who kill the body, but I were able to kill the soul.

So the immediate question comes about.

Well, I mean there are a couple questions. Who is it who is able to destroy both body and soul in the hell. You know can only be God and yet you can only do that if he is. Present. Nolan says this the ultimacy of death is Relativized by the image of a more fearful death experience.

Talk of killing the body already implies that there is more to a person than the body, right? I mean you think about it here's the threat the threat is against your life and. If all we are is a body if all we are are, you know flesh and bones.

Then when they kill us, that's the worst thing that can happen. And so Jesus is saying now there's something worse. Goes on to say death is a dreadful reversal. But not the most extreme one possible fear of God is to displace fear of death dealing persecutors.

The stakes are higher with God, you know these people that you are afraid of. These people who persecute you these people who chase you around with pitchforks and torches or whatever they're doing. Says you're worried about them.

Let me tell you who you should be worried about. You should be worried about God. Morris says this. Jesus speaks of authority to cast into hell and authority that only God has. The Bible never says and this is why I had to put this in here.

The Bible never says that believers are to be afraid of Satan. Let me say that again. The Bible never says that believers are to be afraid of Satan. If we are going to be afraid let it be of the minor danger.

That is all that evil people or even Satan himself can bring us or let it not be of the minor damage. Minor danger, but at the major danger involved in God's holy wrath against evil. Where they are not able he is able his power far.

Surpasses that of anyone or anything else in all creation. And Jesus illustrates that power by saying that God can destroy both soul and body in hell. It's perhaps surprising that he should speak of the destruction of the body in hell.

The body dies here on earth. But the expression refers to the whole person and the whole person is body and soul and Jesus is not Such so much speaking of the particular area in which the body suffers.

Disillusion as of the power of God a power not limited to this earth. Like your persecutors would be but extending to the world to come the reference to hell shows that we are not to understand destroy meaning annihilation.

But Jesus is speaking of the destruction that makes. Of all that makes for a rich and meaningful life not the cessation of life's existence. In other words when you are in hell. A couple things happen.

I mean everything that you value here in this life is gone. And any hope that you would have of happiness of comfort of joy. Forever all those things vanish and in fact you have a body that is perfectly suited to Withstand the wrath of God and it will feel as though you are being destroyed Forever.

That you should worry about. I mean, what's the you know, there have been some horrible ways. Mike gave us some graphic ways if you were put to death several weeks ago. But I mean if we were to look over history, we would see that, you know, basically the history of mankind is.

Would teach a few lessons man is inherently Evil. I mean the things the way that people dream up things or even you know The Spanish Inquisition forcing people to confess that their heretics before you put them to death burning people to stake all these kind of things have happened for centuries and Jesus says look as bad as these things are as horrible as they might be to suffer as Peter would say for a little while.

Then what? Talked to a man not long ago who said he was tired of not being happy. Wanted to be happy. We wanted to have a nice life. And I just looked at him. I said well and then what what happens after you die.

If you have to stand before God and answer for what you're doing right now, you won't think that on that day. You won't go. Today is the day to repent. The next one page 57 religious activity alone will lead to hell.

Religious Activity Alone Cannot Save

Jesus When he gives these woes these Pharisees, I mean you can put Almost any religious kind of group in there. I mean I think of my own background and a lot of great people. I was even thinking about how thankful I am that God restrained the sin of my own life.

While I was younger by having me involved in the Mormon Church the families and the friends I had everything that really kind of held me in check. But religious activity alone will lead to hell. Let's read this is not really too long here Matthew 23 15.

Those who don't really like to read and want a quick one this would be great for you. Just quit verse. Well, I guess it's not that quick. What do you scribes and Pharisees and.

Hippocrates because you travel about on the sea and land and make one Proselyte and when he becomes one you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves. Okay, the scribes are.

Yeah experts in the law Pharisees are these? Ultra Jews always trying to trap Jesus but it's interesting because he says what do you scribes and Pharisees? I like what the NAS does here. What do you scribes and Pharisees and then comma?

Hypocrites he's called both groups hypocrites. Why does he say woe to you because you travel on sea and land in other words? They were very and we'll see this here in a second. They were very apt to go out and do Missionary work, you know to try to make proselytes to try to convert people reminds me we used to Wait a yard sale at our house before we left and one of our friends effect used to be at Mike's Bible say to you he came over and he and his wife were there.

The whole neighborhood it was like a little cul-de-sac of a whole place was like they had one annual yard sale so people would come around and just kind of. Walk around the neighborhood and these two ladies were missionaries walking around.

My friend Edwin says So what do you lay down? I mean they have their name tags, you know sister whatever her name was and Sister also, whatever her name is and so anyway, you know, they're walking around everybody says so, what are you?

What are you ladies doing today? Oh, we're just shopping for things. Well, what else are you doing? Well, we like to go around and give people the good news of Jesus Christ and he said oh really. He was uh, and then he you know gives him the gospel and they're like No, no, that's not what we do and he goes oh well then you don't have any good news you have bad news.

And that's what they that's what the Pharisees had. Look what Morris says says they speak of doing all this just to make one proselytes. One convert they're willing to you know, climb mountains swim seas do whatever.

The term used only here in the gospel meaning means to make a convert to their religion throughout history the Jews that sometimes have been Very loathed to make converts while at other periods they have been active.

There's general agreement that at this time they were very active and Jesus is saying that in his day. The Pharisees at any rate were keen to make converts even one convert was highly prized. But being a proselyte of the Pharisees meant that the person was instructed in Judaism according to pharisaic Understanding of the faith and since the convert presumably knew little or nothing and would probably turn to Revelation.

Oh, they didn't have in About Judaism other than the instruction he was given by those who converted him. He was converted to Pharisee ism He knew nothing of any other way of understanding scripture. So that any door that might have opened to him for a fuller knowledge of God was closed from the beginning and here's racing.

You know this whole idea of how are they twice the son of hell when you when somebody gets converted? They're generally more zealous than Someone who grew up in the in the church or grew up in a religion.

And there's that immediate kind of burst of religious activity. And so he says, you know you you Struggle to make you go to great lengths to make these people Pharisees and he goes the truth is then they become even worse than you are just go to 58.

Your world says this here. Jesus teaching implies that hell exerts any influence when he's talking about this phrase twice the son of hell as you Hear Jesus teaching implies that hell exerts an influence on people.

I thought this was interesting that can make them stand pat in their native religious and moral condition. Rather than respond with a whole heart to Jesus call for repentance personal trust and kingdom service.

Hell is a sphere of influence on the present as well as an escalate eschatological destination. In other words, he's saying hell right now has an influence on the people who are bound there. Who are going there who are heading for destruction in the sense that?

This kind of religious insulation, you know, we talked about how even Roman Catholics now Since we're surrounded by them, you know, how many of them here in Massachusetts think that they're hell-bound.

Did you say many think they are? Well, they know their purgatory ground. I'm doing It's good, they don't think they're going right to heaven. I can tell you that well, I mean it'd be nice with it. I mean, I like to talk to somebody says well, I think I'm going to purgatory because then all I have to do is do what?

Suffer for something. No, I mean, I like this. I'd like to walk up to a person say, you know. Do you think you're going to have a no? I'm going to purgatory. They already know they're a sinner they do but the system doesn't give them the hope of it doesn't give them hope.

But what would you do with somebody who said well, I'm going to purgatory. What happens after that? Okay. All right is I mean, I know what I what I would want to do. There are a couple things I would want to do.

One is I just asked him. Well exactly. How would you? Determine biblically that. You know, you're gonna go to purgatory where does it say that and where does it say that. Yeah, so I mean that's just a matter of You know tradition so it does it it's not even there the other thing I would I would say is I would like to go John chapter 20 in verse 30 therefore.

Many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples. Which are not written in this book in other words the book of John. But these have been written the book of John has been written so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing you may have life in his name not purgatory in his name.

I mean, wouldn't that be great? And that believing you may have purgatory in his name so sign me up for that no. You'd have eternal life. You'll be in paradise with me, yeah. So another problem with that whole idea, you know, I mean, what did that guy do?

He didn't even get baptized. Well, what you don't understand is one of the Roman guards Through the water and he said pop us free to us or whatever who knows what that means. Papas free just yeah any Spanish speakers.

It's French for this. All right. Double point here. There are only two destinations we talked about that. There are only two destinations not purgatory and heaven but hell heaven and hell. Let's look at Matthew 25 very long reading.

It's actually less than half a pitch already that Matthew 25 31 to 46, but This is Jesus speaking and again, this is Similar to what we were reading earlier in Daniel just kind of an expansion on it. But when the Son of Man comes in his glory and the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

All the nations will be gathered before him and he will separate them from one another as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats and He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on the left.

Then the king will say to those on his rights come you who are blessed of my father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Really? I don't want to say that's predestination, but it sounds like predestined.

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you invited me in Naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.

Then the righteous will answer him Lord when did we see you hungry and feed you or thirsty and give you something to drink and when did you see. When did we See you as a stranger and invite you in or naked and clothe you.

When did we see you sick or in prison and come to you. The king will answer and say truly I say to you To the extent that you did it to one of the these brothers of mine. Even the least of them you did it to me.

Then he will also say to those on his left Depart from me accursed ones into the eternal fire, which has been prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing deeds. I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink.

I was a stranger and you did not invite me in naked and you did not clothe me sick and in prison and you did Not visit me then they themselves will answer Lord. When did we see you? Hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not take care of you.

Then he will then he will answer them truly I say to you to the extent that you did not do it unto the Do it to the least of these you did not do it to me. These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.