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 from me.

Please leave.

I don't know your name. You who are workers of iniquity.

As Christians, we tend to talk a lot about heaven, but not so much about hell. Why is that?

And what does the Bible teach about a future and final judgment? Hello and welcome to the Saturday edition of renewing your mind. I'm Lee Webb.

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overview of systematic theology. And in this

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Well, today, R.C. considers a very sober warning from the lips of Jesus.

It was in the 19th century that the German philosopher of Friedrich Nietzsche

announced the death of God.

And in the 19th century, we saw an unprecedented and unbridled spirit of optimism emerged 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

deity to improve the human condition, but we are now in an evolutionary mode, moving from the

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