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Hell is for real • Parables: Hell is an Ultimate Reality Part 2 • Rev Paul Jeyachandran
June 22, 2025 · 29 min
What does eternity reveal about our hearts today?In this powerful continuation, Rev. Paul Jeyachandran unpacks the rich man's prayers from hell, revealing not just his torment—but the pride, self-reliance, and misplaced trust that followed him into eternity. Through Jesus’ piercing parable, we glimpse a sobering truth: hell is not a metaphor. It’s a real, eternal destiny... and one that many still choose by rejecting God's Word.This message dives deep into:The pride that remains even in judgmentWhy wealth can blind us to our spiritual povertyThe finality of eternal destiny—and the great chasm that cannot be crossedWhy believing the Bible is the only way to salvationHow even a miracle—like someone rising from the dead—won’t convince a hardened heartThe question isn't whether hell exists. Jesus said it does.The question is: Will we believe Him?⚠️ Don’t miss the urgent invitation in this message—to examine our hearts, reject self-justification, and trust in the finished work of Christ.—📌 Subscribe for weekly discipleship messages grounded in Scripture🎧 Listen to Making Intentional Disciples with Rev Paul Jeyachandran on Spotify, YouTube, & Pray.com🎓 Get FREE discipleship training and resources at IDMC College🌐 Discover more at idmcmovement.com
Series IDMC Movement June 22, 2025 · 29 min · IDMC Movement
What does eternity reveal about our hearts today?In this powerful continuation, Rev. Paul Jeyachandran unpacks the rich man's prayers from hell, revealing not just his torment—but the pride, self-reliance, and misplaced trust that followed him into eternity. Through Jesus’ piercing parable, we glimpse a sobering truth: hell is not a metaphor. It’s a real, eternal destiny... and one that many still choose by rejecting God's Word.This message dives deep into:The pride that remains even in judgmentWhy wealth can blind us to our spiritual povertyThe finality of eternal destiny—and the great chasm that cannot be crossedWhy believing the Bible is the only way to salvationHow even a miracle—like someone rising from the dead—won’t convince a hardened heartThe question isn't whether hell exists. Jesus said it does.The question is: Will we believe Him?⚠️ Don’t miss the urgent invitation in this message—to examine our hearts, reject self-justification, and trust in the finished work of Christ.—📌 Subscribe for weekly discipleship messages grounded in Scripture🎧 Listen to Making Intentional Disciples with Rev Paul Jeyachandran on Spotify, YouTube, & Pray.com🎓 Get FREE discipleship training and resources at IDMC College🌐 Discover more at idmcmovement.com ...more Show the full description Show less What does eternity reveal about our hearts today?In this powerful continuation, Rev. Paul Jeyachandran unpacks the rich man's prayers from hell, revealing not just his torment—but the pride, self-reliance, and misplaced trust that followed him into eternity. Through Jesus’ piercing parable, we glimpse a sobering truth: hell is not a metaphor. It’s a real, eternal destiny... and one that many still choose by rejecting God's Word.This message dives deep into:The pride that remains even in judgmentWhy wealth can blind us to our spiritual povertyThe finality of eternal destiny—and the great chasm that cannot be crossedWhy believing the Bible is the only way to salvationHow even a miracle—like someone rising from the dead—won’t convince a hardened heartThe question isn't whether hell exists. Jesus said it does.The question is: Will we believe Him?⚠️ Don’t miss the urgent invitation in this message—to examine our hearts, reject self-justification, and trust in the finished work of Christ.—📌 Subscribe for weekly discipleship messages grounded in Scripture🎧 Listen to Making Intentional Disciples with Rev Paul Jeyachandran on Spotify, YouTube, & Pray.com🎓 Get FREE discipleship training and resources at IDMC College🌐 Discover more at idmcmovement.com
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Rev. Paul Jeyachandran leads the Intentional Disciple Making Church (IDMC) Movement, which is all about calling churches back to its disciplemaking roots. Visit us at idmcmovement.com
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0:00 At IDMC Movement, we believe that the heart of the church lies in intentional disciple making. We are calling churches globally to return to their disciple making roots, to intentionally walk this journey of0:12 faith transforming hearts and lives. Let's walk this journey together and discover what it truly means to live out Christ's Great Commission and build a legacy of faith that impacts families,0:24 communities, and nations. This is The Call, a journey of intentional discipleship. Today, we continue the message from last time, diving0:36 deeper into God's Word. Your external affairs, but God is not impressed by your external affairs. God looks at something deeper. Pay attention to this. But what we also need to take home0:48 is that death is the great neutralizer. Now, that's the contrast in death. Let's look at the third contrast. There are 2 prayers1:00 that the man in hell prayed. And he also actually gives us a glimpse of what it's like to be in hell. This is a contrast in eternity. First, he prays for a1:12 relief for himself. The second 1, he prays for redemption for his family. Look at this. He says in verse 24, And he called out, Father Abraham, have1:24 mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am in anguish in this flame. Circle a couple of words. He says, I'm in anguish1:35 here. I'm in anguish. And this is what He's saying. He's looking at Abraham and He's addressing Abraham as1:47 father. Why would He address Abraham as father? Because that's the covenantal relationship they have. Abraham is considered the father of faith for all
1:59 the Jewish nation. So there's Abraham, my father. So He's calling on that familial connection. He's calling on his pedigree, his heritage as a
2:11 descendant of Abraham. I deserve better. I shouldn't be in hell. I deserve better. In other words, He's looking at Father Abraham and says, Father Abraham, send Lazarus. I want you to listen to me carefully.
2:24 Who is Lazarus here? Lazarus is not his slave, is not his servant, but can you see the pride in this man's heart that he demands that Abraham send Lazarus. He's not even asking
2:36 Lazarus, Lazarus, could you please come and help me? No. The pride that he carries. The rich man, even in hell, was still proud,
2:48 was still very self sufficient and self reliant. And look at what he demands. He says, dip your the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue. Now, you and I, we need to understand
3:00 this. How much water can you get by dipping your finger in water? It's only a drop at the most. And what was Jesus highlighting here? That the drop of water
3:12 is not going to give him any relief, but when you're going through such agony, such pain, even the simplest form of relief will give some
3:24 sort of relief. That's the key. In other words, the agony was truly great. Verse 25, Abraham responds to that request.
3:36 And in his response, he actually refuses. Listen to this, But Abraham said, child, remember. Now, in this context, Jesus continues with that
3:48 father son relationship. He doesn't deny this man that he has no legal right to call Abraham father. See, even in the story, Jesus actually comes along and says, child,
3:59 remember that in your life, in your lifetime, you received your good things and Lazarus in like manner, bad things. But now he is comforted here, but you
4:11 are in anguish. Now pause and ask yourself this question. What is Jesus saying? Jesus is not saying, listen here, you in your earthly
4:23 lifetime, you enjoyed the best of life. You actually had the best of life now. You enjoyed everything that was good that the world had to offer. But that
4:35 was in your earthly lifetime, you enjoyed good, but Lazarus did not enjoy anything good. So now he is in heaven enjoying all that is good and you enjoy anguish. Lazarus endured anguish
4:47 on earth, you endure anguish in eternity. Is that what Jesus is saying? Jesus is not saying that better not enjoy the world too much. Because if
4:59 you enjoy the world too much, or if you have too many things, or if you're too wealthy or too prosperous in this earthly life, in eternity, you will suffer. Is that what He's saying? No.
5:11 He's not saying that. Because Abraham himself was a wealthy man. God blessed him, prospered him. He became so wealthy, even the land struggled to contain
5:22 the wealth. Listen, the reason I'm saying this is because Jesus was not addressing the external wealth. Jesus was addressing the internal heart. The
5:34 problem was the heart. That's what He's trying to address here. Listen, in verse 26, And besides all this, between us, you and us, there's a great chasm that has been
5:46 fixed. In order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able to come and may not cross from here to you or from you to me. In other words, 1 cannot go from heaven to
5:58 hell and hell to heaven. You know, sometimes if you watch televangelists, sometimes you get the picture that you could actually spend an afternoon in heaven and dinner in hell
6:10 because they come up with stories of they've been here, been there, done this. But the Bible says, once you go to hell, you can't come out. Listen to me carefully. This is what the
6:21 here it says, it's an irrevocable condition. In other words, once you are in an eternal destiny, that eternal destiny is
6:33 permanent. It's irrevocable. You cannot escape no matter what you do. You cannot escape from that grip of that eternal destiny. Listen to me carefully. And he says there's a
6:45 great chasm that's separating us. Look at verse 27. The second prayer he prays. And he said, then I beg you father to send him to my father's house for I have 5 brothers so that he may warn
6:56 them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Look, here is a man who is in hell himself, but he ends up becoming like a missionary. He says, I'm the
7:08 only 1. Here. I hope my 5 brothers don't end up here. So Father Abraham, please send Lazarus so that he can go and warn them. Now pay attention to
7:20 this. He adopted a missionary zeal. He understood what it's like to be in hell. And he says, I would rather not wish this upon anyone, my family members. And he says,
7:32 I do believe. If someone can go there and tell them, they will believe. So here he adopts a missionary zeal. Look at this in verse 29. But Abraham replied, again,
7:44 refuses the request and gives him a reason why. But Abraham said, they have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them. What does that mean? Moses and prophets. Moses represents the 5 first 5
7:56 books of the old testament. The Torah, the law and prophets, all the scripture writings, all the messianic prophecies, all that has been recorded for us. Pretty much he's saying the
8:08 entire Old Testament is given to them. Let them hear them. Why? Because if you carefully listen to the what the law and what the prophets were saying, you would conclude,
8:20 I cannot save myself. I need a substitution. I need someone to take my place and die on my behalf. And if they die, I can be set
8:32 free. If they pay the price for my sin through their death, then I'm set free. I can be guilt free. I can be shame free. I can be condemnation free. I can walk and I can enter into
8:44 heaven. Listen carefully. That's what he's saying. He's saying, they have the word of God. They should believe the word of God. They should confess the word of God. They should obey the word of God. But you know what?
8:57 This is where the rich man starts to argue with Abraham and give him another look at the reply. He says in verse 31, He said to him,
9:08 no father Abraham, look at verse 30, sorry. And he said, no father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent. Circle that word. If someone goes from the dead, in other words,
9:20 if you send Lazarus down to earth, and my brothers know Lazarus quite well, because whenever they come to my house, they have seen him on the road. They have seen him near the gate. But if
9:32 he comes back and he says to them, repent, they will repent. Why? Because if someone comes from the dead, they will pay attention to it. Look at what Abraham replied. 31. He says, he said
9:44 to him, If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead. If they don't listen
9:56 to Abraham, if they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, in other words, they don't hear the word of God and obey the word of God, they don't hear the word of God and believe the word of God, even if someone rises
10:07 from the dead and comes and tells them, they will still not be convinced. I want you to listen to me carefully. It's not that they could not believe.
10:19 It is that they would not believe. Listen carefully. It's not that they can't believe. It's just that they won't believe. They have the word of God. They can believe the word of God and act
10:31 according to the word of God, and they will be saved, but yet they wouldn't believe. So that's why Jesus says, it doesn't matter even if someone rises from the dead. Now,
10:43 ironically, in John chapter 11, you read Jesus raised a man from the dead. What was his name? His name was Lazarus.
10:56 After Lazarus was raised, some did believe. But did all believe? No. In fact, after Lazarus came back to life, see, Lazarus was not just someone who needed
11:07 CPR and then he was unconscious and then he came back to life. No, no. Lazarus was dead. He's the dead dead dead dead. In other words, he was dead for 4 days. He stunk up the
11:19 place. The Jews believe that after 4 days, the spirit is no longer here. It's gone. His body stunk. And the Bible says Jesus called him and gave him life. He was
11:31 raised back to life. You know what the Jewish leaders, the religious leaders, the Pharisees, you know what they did? After they saw Lazarus come back to life, was raised back to life. Instead of believing, they actually
11:43 planned how to crucify Jesus. I want you to listen to me carefully. Even if someone rises from the dead, it's no guarantee
11:55 that they will believe. In fact, the ultimate resurrection, Luke chapter 24, Jesus rose from the dead. The Bible says he appeared to disciples.
12:06 He appeared to the disciples on the way to Emmaus. The Bible says 500 saw him, that he has come back to life. And they go and bear testimony of His
12:18 resurrection. The Jewish leaders in that day and age, they knew that the body cannot be found. But what did they say? Instead of believing, instead of receiving, you know what they
12:30 said? They said, Tell that His disciples have come and stolen the body. Listen to me carefully. Even if someone comes back from the dead,
12:42 ultimately, you and I have to believe. You know what we need to believe? We need to believe the word of God that he has already given us. Hallelujah. That's just retelling the
12:53 story. Pastor, you've taken a long time just retelling the story. Now, if you have just caught that, you can already conclude. But let me give you 2 more things, and we quickly
13:05 finish. Re examine the setting. What is the context in which Jesus said this? See, Luke is a brilliant writer, 1 of my favorite New Testament authors,
13:18 apart from Apostle Paul. Luke, he always shares things in a sequence of 3. Like in Luke 15, there are 3 parables. You can't
13:30 look at that parable in isolation, you have to see the 3 parables together. In the same way, you have to see Luke chapter 15 16, where this parable appears
13:41 in a sequence. Let me give you 3 parables that I want you to pay attention to. In Luke chapter 15 verse 11 to verse 32, it's a son who squanders his father's
13:53 possession. It's the parable of the lost son. In Luke chapter 16 verse 1 to 14, which is the immediate context, A servant who squanders his master's
14:04 possession. A son who squanders his father's possession. Here's a servant who squanders his master's possession. And then in Luke chapter 16 verse 19 to 31, a rich man who
14:16 squanders his own possessions. In all 3, they are squandering away their possessions. A rich man, an unjust servant, and a
14:28 son, prodigal son, wasteful. In other words, the resources have been given to them but they don't know how to steward it. They are covetous in their
14:39 heart. They love money. They want to use it upon on their own possessions. That's why in this context, Jesus is saying, look at the rich man. He's living a
14:50 wealthy, lavish, opulent lifestyle. That means they can't even take care of the poor that's on the street in front of their house. He couldn't even bring comfort to
15:02 Him, relief to Him. He can't bring bread to Him, but He used all the resources upon Himself. That's the context. The son who squanders the father's possession. The servant who squanders his
15:14 master's possession. Here's a rich man who squanders his own possessions. In the immediate context in Luke chapter 16, in verse 9, I want you to see this.
15:25 And I tell you, make friends for yourself by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails, they may receive you into their eternal dwellings. 1 day, we'll study Luke chapter 16
15:38 and verse 1 all the way to verse 14. It's a beautiful parable. And the conclusion of the parable is in verse 9. He says, use the unrighteous wealth to gain souls,
15:50 to win souls, invest money. Where? In people. Love people, use money to win people.
16:02 Not love money, use people to get money. Listen, what he was trying to say is, don't let your heart be filled with covetousness. Don't be about this earthly
16:13 life, be about the eternal dwellings. And in eternal dwellings, what matters is people, what you have invested in people. And so, here's a context of covetousness.
16:25 At the same time, how do you steward your resources? That's 1. But there's also a deeper meaning in this context. The deeper meaning is this. The Jews took pride
16:37 in their wealth. And the more wealth they have, the more prosperous they are. They believe that they are right with God. In other words, it's a form of self justification. Look at me, I'm
16:49 blessed. And because I'm blessed, I must be right with God. It's today's prosperity gospel, isn't it? The roots come from here. I want you to listen to me. It's like,
17:01 oh, God gave me a God blessed me with a house. I just bought a house. God blessed me with a house. That must be That means I must be right with God. God just blessed me with a life partner. That means I must be right
17:13 with God. God just gave me a promotion and an increase in my pay packet. God must be right. I must be right with God. Don't assume that. Because we erroneously think that we are blessed because we are
17:25 good. Can I humbly say this? We are blessed not because we are good, we are blessed because God is good. Despite our unfaithfulness. He's a God who blesses
17:37 us. His heart is to bless us. And His heart is to show us mercy and grace and love and kindness and blessing. Hallelujah. But here, the context is, they take
17:48 their external wealth and they say, this man must be accepted by God. Can I humbly say this? After Jesus taught them about all this, look at this in the context.
18:00 In verse 13, Luke chapter 16 and verse 13, Jesus actually goes on to say, you cannot serve 2 masters. You will hate the 1 and love the other. You'll be devoted to the 1 and beat and despise the
18:12 other. You cannot serve God and money. He put side by side. You cannot serve God, you cannot serve money. But the Bible says in verse 14, how did the
18:23 Pharisees respond? Listen carefully to this. The Pharisees who were lovers of money, circle that. The Pharisees knew the law. The Pharisees
18:35 take pride in keepers of the law. They are the custodians of the law. But the Bible says they were lovers of money. They heard all these things and they ridiculed Jesus. They
18:47 ridiculed Jesus. In other words, they were mocking at Him. You know the way the Pharisees will stand? And they were like, raising their nose.
18:59 What does He know? He's just a poor carpenter. He's hanging around with fishermen. What does he know about making money? Business. And what does he know about accumulating wealth?
19:11 He doesn't. We are blessed by God. We are prosperous. We are blessed by God. Listen to me. In that context, Jesus speaks this parable in verse 15. In Luke chapter 16
19:23 and verse 15, you are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts for what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God. Hallelujah. What Jesus
19:34 was trying to highlight is, you take pride in your external appearance, but God is looking at the condition of your heart. You are taking pride in
19:46 your earthly possessions, but God is looking at the emptiness of your life. In eternity, you are a beggar. I want you to listen to me carefully.
19:58 You are those who justify. Look at verse 15 1 more time. You are those who justify yourselves before men. In other words, these are men who self justify. See, Luke
20:10 is a gospel about self justification. He actually the different parables that he talks about, Jesus actually compares the self justification of the Pharisees
20:22 and the 1 whom God justifies. Even in later on in Luke chapter 18, you'll have the parable where a tax collector is praying before God and a
20:34 Pharisee is praying before God. And the Pharisee says, Lord, I'm so good, I'm so holy, I'm so righteous. And the Bible says he went away condemned. But the tax collector says, Lord, I'm a sinner. I
20:45 can't even look at your look towards heaven and pray. I have no standing. And the Bible says he was justified and he walked away from there. Listen carefully, what is this? Self justification. Here the Bible says,
20:57 they are self justified because they think everything is going well. I'm not the 1 who is sick or dying or in need. I have everything in plenty. God has prospered me. Therefore I should be okay. I'm right with God.
21:09 Can I humbly say this? Don't look at things from the external perspective. Look at things from the eternal perspective. God looks at the heart.
21:22 That's the setting. Because the Bible says in Luke chapter 6 and verse 24, but woe to you who are rich for you have received your consolation here. Woe to you who
21:34 are rich. Why? Because you already received every consolation in this earthly lifetime. Our wealth actually blinds our need for grace. So we retold the story.
21:46 We have reexamined the setting. Let me give you the third 1, rediscover the significance. I want to ask you this fundamental question. Are you justified before men, but
21:58 condemned before God? Are you someone who's saying, look at my life. I'm blessed. I'm prosperous. See, can I humbly say this? You can fake to be a Christian, you know. You
22:09 can even fake on the pulpit. Because all you need to do is just throw away few comments and and rhetorics and statements and like some Christianese, and people will be impressed. But can I humbly say this? What
22:21 is the state of your soul before God? Are you someone who is self justified because your earthly happenings are happening the way you want it to happen and therefore you're so happy?
22:34 Or are you the poor Lazarus? Your external circumstances may not align to what you are trusting and asking God for, but the soul is rich. Hallelujah.
22:47 I want to close this by giving you 3 applicational principles. And these are the implications of this parable. The first 1 is this, believe the Bible.
23:00 Believe the Bible about what? Hell is an ultimate eternal reality. See, hell doesn't get talked about a lot in churches. Why? Because it's unpopular. It's
23:12 not something that you wanna talk about. It's not politically correct to talk about hell. But can I humbly say this? Jesus taught about hell. You can read the gospels. Just search online in a Bible
23:24 concordance. Just type the word hell and see how many times Jesus said, if your eye is causing you to sin, pluck it out so that you don't, you can rather live with the eye that you have don't have rather than
23:36 burning your whole body in hell. Jesus talked about hell a lot. Hell is a real place. But you and I, we need to believe the Bible.
23:48 You know, many people have objections about this. They say, If God is love listen carefully to this objection. Maybe you have it. If God is love, why does he create hell and send people to
24:00 hell? If God is love, why does he create hell and send people to hell? Listen. There are many presuppositions in that statement. Let me address it
24:12 1 by 1. There are at least 3 erroneous thinking that I find there. 1, God did not create hell for men. For whom did God create hell? Certainly not for
24:24 mankind. The Bible says God created hell as a place of judgment for Satan and his demons. Only for the Satan and his demons, the hell was created.
24:36 Secondly, why does God send people to hell? God does not send people to hell. Listen, people send themselves to hell. In other words, God has given them a provision to
24:48 have faith in Christ and to accept his pardon and to receive salvation, but they reject the pardon. They reject the Messiah that God sent and they are willfully trusting in themselves
25:00 to be self justified. As a result, they end up in hell as wicked. Hell was meant for Satan and his demons, but the wicked will go and join them because the wicked reject what God has
25:12 done. Why doesn't God do something? You may say, if God is love, why does He send people to hell? Can I humbly say this? If God is love, should He just close His eye and just
25:23 allow you to do whatever? No, God is also just, God is also holy. A holy God has to punish sin. A just God has to deal with sin.
25:35 The loving thing to do is to deal with sin. That's why the Bible says, God judges the sin. But you know what He does? He's still a God of love. That's why he sent his own son, Jesus
25:47 Christ. The Bible says Jesus lived the life that you and I could never live and die the death that you and I deserve to die. And when he died, God punished him on your behalf. God judged him. The wrath
25:59 of God that was stored for you and me, for mankind fell upon Jesus. He was condemned to die. That's why you and I, we need to believe. Believe the
26:11 Bible. I know some of you are saying this. If God knew that man will sin and hell is a reality, then why did God
26:23 create man in the first place? Hey, that's a good question to ask. But can I humbly say this? You are saying non creation is better than creation. That's our first
26:35 assumption. But can I humbly say this? Philosophically, that's not true. Non existence cannot be better than existence. At IDMC Movement, we believe in the Great
26:47 Commission to make disciples of all nations, bringing the hope and truth of Jesus Christ to the world. Through our global outreach, we have the incredible opportunity to share the
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