Steve Lawson Sloppy Hermeneutics: Will Christ Personally Torment Unbelievers in Hell for Eternity?
Something has been on my mind for some time that I have never written about. During the 2009 Resolved conference, “Pastor” Steve Lawson preached a sermon on the Great White Throne Judgment. In that message, Lawson claimed that Christ Himself will “be in hell”… “personally inflicting the wrath on unbelievers” for eternity. I know that Calvinism is heavily predicated on fear so I wasn’t surprised that Lawson said it. Rob Bell committed the unpardonable sin among New Calvinists by removing the fear factor in his book, “love Wins.” Calvin himself taught that fear and terror of judgment was efficacious to the mortification and vivification process that enables Christians to stand in the final judgment (CI 3.3.3-7). Bell didn’t merely violate Scripture, he dissed a Reformed mainstay: fear and its kissing cousin control.
Hell, in and of itself, is sobering enough, but apparently Lawson thought the reality of it needed…
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Do you have a link for this sermon so I can check it out?
Thank you!
Brenda
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Minutes 49:56–51:31
Minutes 49:56–51:31
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Where does Steve Lawson get this from, you ask?
Not from John Gill: The Lamb will be their Judge, and will condemn them to everlasting burning, and pronounce the sentence on them; and the former ( angels) will be the executioners of it; they will gather them out, and sever them from the righteous, and cast them into the furnace of fire, and will be spectators of their punishment, and rejoice at it; and the sight of their power and glory will increase the torment of the sufferers.
Not from the Pulpit Commentary: The punishment is in the presence of the angels and the Lamb, that is, probably the purity and bliss of heaven is visible to the wicked, and the sight of it, combined with the knowledge of its in-accessibility to themselves is part of their torment.
Not from Jamieson-Fausset-Brown: in the presence of the angels is the object in this commentary.
Nor really from Matthew Henry: And in the presence of the Lamb–the Lamb of God– the final Judge. This also may mean either that the condemnation will occur in his presence, or that the punishment will be under his eye.
Steve Lawson gets this from John MacArthur’s Revelation 12-22 Commentary. ( page 92)
Unrepentant sinners will be banished from God’s presence relationally; they will be forever barred from the loving fellowship with Him that believers will enjoy. They will not, however, be away from His presence in the sense of His sovereignty and omnipresence—even in hell.
Lawson mention “omnipresence”, did’t he?
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Wow Carmen. You do your homework!
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