Are heaven and hell real places? And what are they like? Today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope,

the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren, we continue his series called Eternal Realities,

heaven and hell. In these lessons, Rick shares what the Bible says about heaven and hell,

and how you can be absolutely certain

you'll go to heaven. And now, here's part two of a message called The Reality of Hell.

Now, there's one other eternal reality we need to cover before we can actually look at the text

today, and that is this. There's no chance. There's no second chance after you die.

You get to choose where you're going to spend eternity, but you have to choose now while you're

alive, not after you're dead. In other words, I can't walk out this door my way and then say,

oh, by the way, I don't like this.

I want to go back over here.

Now, God says, I gave you an entire lifetime to make the right decision, and you didn't take it.

You kept putting it off, putting it off, putting it off.

I gave you an entire lifetime.

So there is no halfway house between heaven and hell. There's no little intermediate state. There's no limbo. There's no purgatory. Now I know many of you were

raised Catholic friends. Pergatory is not in the Bible. The word is not even there. It's not a

Bible idea. It's not something Jesus or God taught. It's something

that was created 800 years ago in the Middle Ages. Purgatory is not even in the Bible. In fact,

Catholics don't even believe it anymore. Pope John Paul II stated in a very public way that

purgatory was not a real place.

And Bishop, I mean, I mean, Pope Benedict let the newest catechism of the Catholic Church,

the word purgatory isn't even in there anymore.

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