This is one of the most scary statements that Jesus ever makes because he says on that day of judgment

people were going to come claiming to know him. They're going to claim that they have done all kinds of good works,

that they were religious, that they

were engaged in church activities, and Jesus says, I'm going to look at those people in that day

and I'm going to say them, depart for me. Please leave. I don't know your name. You who are workers of iniquity.

As Christians, we tend to talk about heaven a lot, but not so much about hell or a time of future judgment.

And culturally speaking, the West has certainly forgotten about such an event.

So how did we get here and what does the Bible teach about a future and final judgment?

Hi, I'm Nathan W Bingham and you're listening to the Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind.

Each Saturday we're hearing messages from R.C. Sproll's Foundation series.

That's his overview of systematic theology.

And as we approach the final messages in the series,

we're considering topics related to the end, to the last things.

And today, Dr Sproil will consider the final judgment, what we know about it, and a very sober

warning from Jesus.

Here's Dr Sproll.

It was in the 19th century that the German philosopher

Frederick Nietzsche announced the death of God.

And in the 19th century, we saw an unprecedented and unbridled spirit of optimism emerge in the intellectual world that had a tremendous impact on

European and subsequently on American culture. Not everybody was as pessimistic and gloomy as Nietzsche was in

his nihilism, but people welcomed the announcement of the death of God because the news indicated a major

victory for humanism and humanism said that we no longer need reliance upon some supernatural

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