This morning I would like to remind you of the most horrible doctrines in God's Word—the reality of an eternal Hell for those who do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. The amazing thing about Hell is how seldom we hear about it. Jesus spoke more of Hell than Heaven—we speak more of Heaven than Hell. Jesus warned of Hell from the start to the end of His ministry. Jesus preached about the horrors awaiting the unsaved lost ones in public, in private, with saints, and with sinners. Jesus spoke much of it—we speak little of it. It was almost 20 years ago I read an article in Moody Monthly that more clearly described Hell than I was even comfortable with. Let me share that with you. That hideous doctrine of hell is fading. How often have you thought of it in the past month, for instance? Does it make a difference in your concern for others, in your witness? Is it a constant and proper burden? Our Lord’s words on the subject are unnerving. In Luke 16, He tells us of a rich man who died and went to Hades (the abode of the unsaved dead between death and final judgment). From that story and a few other revelatory facts, we can infer several characteristics of hell. First, it’s a place of great physical pain. The rich man’s initial remark concludes with his most pressing concern: “I am in agony in this flame” (Luke 16:24). We do not make enough of this. We all have experienced pain to some degree. We know it can make a mockery of all life’s goals and beauties. Yet we do not seem to know pain as a hint of hell, a searing foretaste of what will befall those who do not know Christ, a grim reminder of what we will be spared from. Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to get access to weekly video releases over the next year totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS that feature weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Clips are taken at just one of the places where we are taking our virtual journey through all the Lands of the Bible & Great Museums of the Bible on the Paul's Life & Letters Course. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND, Paul's Life & Letters Course STUDY RESOURCES, and John's two most loved books--David's Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join Follow Discover the Book Ministries to stay up to date: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverthebook/ DTBM Academy Courses: https://dtbma.com/Default.aspx Purchase John's Books, Mp3 & DVD resources: E-Books: https://tinyurl.com/y3wbhlxy Here are links to our Amazon Pages-- https://www.amazon.com/shop/dtbm Donate to the ministry: https://dtbm.org/donations/partnership/ For more of Dr. John Barnett's Bible teaching messages go to: https://dtbm.org/ https://youtu.be/OWTKdPebMcs ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWTKdPebMcs

A Word-filled life is a life with habits of Scriptural Resolves. So, First Ezra shares in Psalm 119 a list of his Habits or RESPONSES he had cultivated toward the Lord. Secondly, he records his hopes or RESOLVES 1. Psalm 119:7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. 2. Psalm 119:8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. 3. Psalm 119:15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. 4. Psalm 119:16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. 5. Psalm 119:32 I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart. 6. Psalm 119:45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. 7. Psalm 119:46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. 8. Psalm 119:47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. 9. Psalm 119:48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes. (Literally ‘in my hands I will carry…’ God's Word was close at hand). So how did Ezra do this on a consistent basis? By meditation. Remember Meditation is a soul that thirsts and drinks of God in His Word; that longs for the waters of life and drinks them of God in His Word; that drinks from an ever-present oasis in the arid, sun-baked, lifeless deserts of life through finding and communing with God in His Word. From DYG-03d & WFL-21 - 030706AM - https://youtu.be/EIbbFcQXJEA Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to get access to weekly video releases over the next year totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS that feature weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND STUDY RESOURCES, and John's two most loved books--David's Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join Follow Discover the Book Ministries to stay up to date: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverthebook/ DTBM Academy Courses: https://dtbmonline.org/all-video-courses/ Purchase John's Books, Mp3 & DVD resources: E-Books: https://tinyurl.com/y3wbhlxy Here are links to our Amazon Pages-- https://www.amazon.com/shop/dtbm Donate to the ministry: https://discoverthebook.org/donations/partnership/ For more of Dr. John Barnett's Bible teaching messages go to: https://discoverthebook.org/ https://youtu.be/Y--09ehQU1s ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y--09ehQU1s

The End of Days is Earth’s Darkest Spiritual Hour At the end of days, Satan sends to earth the expression of all of mankind’s desires in the person of the antichrist. In a very short time, almost all of the earth will follow him! That is the saddest commentary on the fallen heart of humanity there could ever be. The antichrist like Satan—comes to kill, steal, and destroy. Christ, on the other hand, came to offer an abundant life. If you have never trusted Christ as your Savior, I would urge you to receive him today. When you call upon Christ to save you from your sins, God delivers you from the power of darkness and their eternally damnable lies--and brings you into the wonderful kingdom of His Son. Satan knows that God has plans to save “a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands…” (Revelation 7:9). So to try to thwart God’s harvest of precious souls and to prevent the world from coming to Christ, Satan has deployed legions of liars. False signposts—all pointing people away from Christ. This is not new to our generation. False teachers have been a part of the landscape from the start. How does Jesus Describe The End of Days? The most repeated description of the End of Days is not warfare, demons, or disasters: it is deception. The word in Greek is planao, wandering, not fixed to a point but floating, drifting, wandering. When Jesus was asked about the End of Days, what was the first description of that future, apocalyptic, end-time: Matthew 24:4 (NKJV) And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. Q&A-19 Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to get access to weekly video releases over the next year totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS that feature weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Clips are taken at just one of the places where we are taking our virtual journey through all the Lands of the Bible & Great Museums of the Bible on the Paul's Life & Letters Course. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND, Paul's Life & Letters Course STUDY RESOURCES, and John's two most loved books--David's Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join Follow Discover the Book Ministries to stay up to date: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverthebook/ DTBM Academy Courses: https://dtbma.com/Default.aspx Purchase John's Books, Mp3 & DVD resources: E-Books: https://tinyurl.com/y3wbhlxy Here are links to our Amazon Pages-- https://www.amazon.com/shop/dtbm Donate to the ministry: https://dtbm.org/donations/partnership/ For more of Dr. John Barnett's Bible teaching messages go to: https://dtbm.org/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V1AR14WncM

Now, we need to practically apply the Ten Words or commandments. Turn for a moment to Exodus 20:3-17 and let’s see the #4 commandment in the context of love and why all 10 still reinforce God’s love. Now, if we love God we should do these things for Him! Now here’s the hard part. Do we spend more of our focus on improving our minds and bodies or souls? It’s so easy to get into the run-us-and-the-kids-to syndrome that they are too tired to be in God’s presence. What are you teaching by your example about loving God? 1. LOVE FOR GOD GUARDS HIS PLACE IN OUR LIVES: so as His children we remain true to Him (Commandment #1) Thou shalt have no other gods before Me” (v3). Love is loyal, not fickle. God is just saying, “Will you love Me enough to not leave Me for some other god? Love doesn’t make other gods or turn its back on the one, true God…it’s loyal. 2. LOVE FOR GOD GUARDS HIS WORSHIP: so as His children we Stay faithful to Him (Commandment #2) “Thou shalt not make unto thee any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate Me; and sowing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments” (vv. 4-6). 3. LOVE FOR GOD GUARDS HIS NAME: so as His children we guard God's Holiness (Commandment 3) “Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain” (v7). 4. LOVE FOR GOD GUARDS HIS TIME FOR INTIMACY: so as His children we seek intimacy with Him (Commandment #4) “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it” (vv. 8-11). God is saying, “If you love Me, you won’t just go live your life apart from Me, you’ll draw near to Me. You’ll want to be with Me and fellowship with Me, so you’ll drop all your activities one day a week and just spend it with Me.” Love is intimate. So love is: The first four commandments are just talking about loving God. In fact, Jesus summed it all up in Mark 12:30 when He said, “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength; this is the first commandment.” Now, the last six commandments define love toward men: 5. LOVE FOR GOD SEEKS TO HONOR PARENTS (Commandment #5) “Honor thy father and thy mother, ” (v12). Love is not lawless, nor is it rebellious – it is respectful and honoring. One of the great characteristics of love is that it always seeks to say the best about everyone. It also seeks to aid, to help, to assist, and to honor. Love is respectful. 6. LOVE FOR GOD Protects Life (Commandment #6) “Thou shalt not kill” (v13). True love would never murder another. Love is harmless…it hurts no one. 7. LOVE FOR GOD Seeks Purity (Commandment #7) “Thou shalt not commit adultery” (v14). Love always seeks the purity of another. Adultery defiles but love seeks only purity. 8. LOVE FOR GOD Gives NOT TAKES (Commandment #8) “Thou shalt not steal” (v.15). Love gives; it doesn’t take. Love is unselfish. 9. LOVE FOR GOD Speaks the Truth (Commandment #9) “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor” (v16). If you lie against your neighbor, you’re trying to hurt him, but if you love him, you’ll only tell the truth. 10. LOVE FOR GOD Stays Content (Commandment #10) “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife nor his manservant, nor his maidservant nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s” (v17). Love toward God is loyal, faithful, reverent, and intimate; toward men it’s respectful, harmless, pure, unselfish, truthful and content. Jesus summed up the last six commandments in mark 12:31 with the following statement: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” You see, even the Ten Commandments tell us to be like God. We are to love like God loves. Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to get access to weekly video releases over the next year totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS that feature weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND STUDY RESOURCES, and John's two most loved books--David's Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join https://youtu.be/MTsmsIxbyjE ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTsmsIxbyjE