El Shaddai by Kenneth E. Hagin

Author:Kenneth E. Hagin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: God, Jesus, Christ, El Shaddai, Christianity
Published: 2011-09-30T10:49:14+00:00

" For we KNOW. . . . "Paul says. Not "we hope so." Not we guess so." Not "maybe so." We KNOW. I like that. That fellow Paul was positive. He's my kind of preacher. Later in the same chapter he again says "we know."

SECOND CORINTHIANS 5.6-8

6 Therefore we are always confident, KNOWING that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

What is it we know, Paul?

That while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We are willing to be present with the Lord, the eighth verse says. That's where we're going to be: with the Lord.

What about the sinner? He's going to spend eternity somewhere, as the Lord Jesus Christ Himself said to us in Luke:

LUKE 16:19-28

19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and I.azarus in his bosom.

24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in the flame.

25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed; so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

27 Then he said, I pray thee, therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him [I.azarus] to my father's house:

28 For I have five brethren: that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

This portion of Scripture is not a parable, as so many think.

In every parable Jesus told, He said, "So and so is likened unto so and so." In this passage, He didn't say so and so is likened to anything. He said, " There was a CERTAIN rich man (v. 19) ... and there was a CERTAIN beggar (v. 20)."

You don't use the word "certain" in a parable, because "certain" means "for sure; this way and no other."

Jesus said there was a certain rich man. And it's certain he left this world and went down to what he called "this place of torment.

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