Canterbury Gardens Community Church (CGCC)
Jul 29, 2026 · 39 min · 9 segments
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I almost feel like this talk should come with a listener beware note.
It's heavy, but it's not hopeless.
So stick with it, please.
So you might wonder...
Yeah, not much of a welcome that passage, I acknowledge.
And then we'll look at how should Jesus' words and actions change us? So this might sound like the start of a joke, but it's not.
There's no punchline.
Well, there is a punchline, but it's not meant to be funny.
an English princess coming out of a church service apparently asked the preacher, is it true that there's a place called hell? And the preacher replied, Madam, or Your Majesty, the scriptures say so.
Christian people have always believed so.
To which the princess responded, then in God's name, why do you not tell us so? Now, there are some topics we naturally talk about as a community of people who love Jesus and want others to also come to know and love him.
Things, words, truths like grace, comfort, hope, forgiveness, and that's rightly so.
But there are other topics we tend to avoid talking about because they're uncomfortable heavy, disturbing, unpopular.
And I think often we might avoid talking about hell because, let's be honest, it is an uncomfortable topic.
It is heavy.
It is disturbing.
It's certainly not a popular topic for conversation.
Yet, Throughout history, churches have confessed that God, in his eternal, infinite, perfect righteousness, judges and condemns unrepentant sinners eternally to a place called hell.
We're going to turn back to Scripture in a bit, but for example, here's something from Canterbury Gardens' doctrinal statement.
It includes the statement that we believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead, of the believer to everlasting blessedness and joy with the Lord Jesus Christ.
and of the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting conscious punishment in the lake of fire.
I almost feel like this talk should come with a listener beware note.
It's heavy, but it's not hopeless.
So stick with it, please.
So you might wonder...
Yeah, not much of a welcome that passage, I acknowledge.
And then we'll look at how should Jesus' words and actions change us? So this might sound like the start of a joke, but it's not.
There's no punchline.
Well, there is a punchline, but it's not meant to be funny.
an English princess coming out of a church service apparently asked the preacher, is it true that there's a place called hell? And the preacher replied, Madam, or Your Majesty, the scriptures say so.
Christian people have always believed so.
To which the princess responded, then in God's name, why do you not tell us so? Now, there are some topics we naturally talk about as a community of people who love Jesus and want others to also come to know and love him.
Things, words, truths like grace, comfort, hope, forgiveness, and that's rightly so.
But there are other topics we tend to avoid talking about because they're uncomfortable heavy, disturbing, unpopular.
And I think often we might avoid talking about hell because, let's be honest, it is an uncomfortable topic.
It is heavy.
It is disturbing.
It's certainly not a popular topic for conversation.
Yet, Throughout history, churches have confessed that God, in his eternal, infinite, perfect righteousness, judges and condemns unrepentant sinners eternally to a place called hell.
We're going to turn back to Scripture in a bit, but for example, here's something from Canterbury Gardens' doctrinal statement.
It includes the statement that we believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead, of the believer to everlasting blessedness and joy with the Lord Jesus Christ.
and of the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting conscious punishment in the lake of fire.
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