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People's desires make them give in to immoral ways, filthy thoughts, and shameful deeds. [20] They worship idols, practice witchcraft, hate others, and are hard to get along with. People become jealous, angry, and selfish. They not only argue and cause trouble, but they are [21] envious. They get drunk, carry on at wild parties, and do other evil things as well. I told you before, and I am telling you again: No one who does these things will share in the blessings of God's kingdom.

Galatians 5:19-21 (CEV)

Galatians 3:22 (CEV) - The Scriptures say that sin controls everyone.

Life Principle: I am free to do whatever I want under the control of my sinful nature.

There is no one who looks to God for help.

Romans 3:11 (NCV)

Feelings of loneliness: feelings of desperation, boredom, self criticism, and depression. These feelings are felt when you feel that your personal relationships are too few or unsatisfying.

Living a life without God means you fill your life with the world's values - money, popularity, power, pleasure, and prestige.

When Adam sinned, sin entered the entire human race. Adam's sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.

Romans 5:12 (NLT)

Only those who sin will be put to death.

Ezekiel 18:4 (CEV)

The payment for sin is death.

Romans 6:23 (GW)

In 1965 a study was done at McGill University in Montreal, Canada to what the effects of Isolation and sensory deprivation were.

First day - they sleep

Second/Third day - became bored, difficulty concentrating and seeing hallucinations.

They determined that a human beings behavior is determined by his need for other people and his reactions to other people.

Four Main Groups of Stressors

1. Intellectual Impairment - mental deficiencies, learning problems, hallucinations
2. Motivational Decline
3. Physical Complaints - sleep disturbances, headaches, nose, and chest colds, upset stomachs, and constipation
4. Changes in Mood and Morale

Findings

1. A human being needs human stimulation and companionship.
2. If a human being is removed from his/her habitat the reaction will be negative involving more withdrawal, hostility or psychological issues.

According to the diaries of stranded explorers, scientists working in seclusion and prisoners in solitary confinement reported: "As Isolation wears on, they felt fear, insomnia, memory lapses, depression, fatigue and confusion." They said "confinement was a form of torture."

When you die without God you are confined to literal HELL.

There is no eternal doom awaiting those who trust him to save them. But those who don't trust him have already been tried and condemned for not believing in the only Son of God. [19] Their sentence is based on this fact: that the Light from heaven came into the world, but they loved the darkness more than the Light, for their deeds were evil. [20] They hated the heavenly Light because they wanted to sin in the darkness. They stayed away from that Light for fear their sins would be exposed and they would be punished.

John 3:18-20 (Living)

Your desire to live a life without God is eternal doom in a confinement to loneliness. You will have painful deprivation and frustration of lost emotional relationships, loneliness and boredom.

Psychological affects of prison confinement:
"memory loss to severe anxiety to hallucinations to delusions and, under the [most] severe cases of sensory deprivation, people go crazy" (CNN, 1998, p. 2). The almost complete loss of liberty that solitary confinement entails is dehumanizing and may hurt the inmate's potential for rehabilitation.

Four things I loose immediately at my death

• I loose my liberty
• I loose my right to choose
• I loose security for the constant companionship of thieves, rapists, killers, aggressive homosexuals, and forced sexual assault either coerced, bribed or seduced and to acquire sexual gratification from others through persuasion, bribery, coercion or force.
• I loose my values. The values of the people in Hell become my new values. Your new confinement creates uniformity of behavior rather than your life values on earth.

Coping with problems is more important than the frequency and severity of the problems you will experience.

to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched, where their worm (soul) does not die.

Mark 9:43-44 (NKJV)

He went to hell, where he was constantly tortured.

Luke 16:23 (GW)

Your lack of control is the result of continuing abuse by others.

Your feelings of guilt, fear, anxiety, alienation and confusion which are aggravated the constant reminder you chose a life without God.

They don't care anymore about right and wrong and have given themselves over to impure ways. They stop at nothing, being driven by their evil minds and reckless lusts.

Ephesians 4:19 (Living)

Desires at work in you, such as sexual immorality, indecency, lust, evil passions, and greed (for greed is a form of idolatry).

Colossians 3:5 (TEV)

1. I will be judged alone before God

Earth and sky ran away from him and disappeared.

Revelation 20:11 (NCV)

All the dead people standing in front of that throne. Every one of them was there, no matter who they had once been. Several books were opened, and then the book of life was opened. The dead were judged by what those books said they had done.

Revelation 20:12 (CEV)

You will stand alone before God who all your lifetime you have sought a life without.

God will judge you for choosing a life without His relationship. Your own feelings of loneliness and desperation will never be satisfied living with the Devil.

2. I will suffer the vengeance of eternal fire

If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 20:15 (NIV)

When that day comes, heaven will be on fire and will be destroyed. Everything that makes up the universe will burn and melt.

2 Peter 3:12 (GW)

You will live in depth dimension, no longer three dimensional world, but one dimension on fire with no relationships that satisfy ever.

What do I need to do to stop being lonely?

1. I need to be adopted into God's family

His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure.

Ephesians 1:5 (NLT)

God treasures relationships. God has always existed in loving relationship to himself. He has never been lonely! He didn't need a family, he desired one. So God created us.

It was a happy day for him when he gave us our new lives through the truth of his Word, and we became, as it were, the first children in his new family.

James 1:18 (Living)

2. I need to accept and believe in Christ

But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

John 1:12 (NLT)

When you place your faith in Christ, God becomes your Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church becomes our spiritual family.

The only way to get into God's family is by being born again into it. You became part of the human family by your first birth, but you become a member of God's family by your second birth. God "has given us the privilege of being born again so that we are now members of God's own family." (1 Peter 1:3b Living)

3. I need to daily love God and other people to stop the feeling of isolation

Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' [38] This is the first and greatest commandment. [39] And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

Matthew 22:37-39 (NIV)