1 00:00:11,341 --> 00:00:14,093 most people don't even prepare for it. 2 00:00:14,093 --> 00:00:16,435 But it's coming for everyone. 3 00:00:16,635 --> 00:00:18,156 It's about eternity. 4 00:00:18,777 --> 00:00:22,960 We like to imagine that life will always be just the way it is. 5 00:00:23,301 --> 00:00:25,482 We like to think we have time. 6 00:00:25,643 --> 00:00:30,947 But the truth is there is coming a day for each and every single one of us. 7 00:00:31,568 --> 00:00:35,851 And there's a place prepared for all of those who refuse God. 8 00:00:36,992 --> 00:00:38,133 It's serious. 9 00:00:38,133 --> 00:00:39,734 This place is real. 10 00:00:39,808 --> 00:00:42,299 and ignoring it does not make it go away. 11 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:48,103 Today we're going to face the truth that many people try to shy away from. 12 00:00:48,184 --> 00:00:54,067 We're going to see exactly what God says about the reality of hell. 13 00:00:54,408 --> 00:00:59,271 Brethren, if the Bible is true, then hell is true. 14 00:00:59,612 --> 00:01:03,314 If God is real, then judgment is real. 15 00:01:03,594 --> 00:01:09,118 And if judgment is real, then there is a place prepared for the devil and for his angels. 16 00:01:09,814 --> 00:01:12,755 and every soul that rejects the Lord. 17 00:01:13,175 --> 00:01:19,598 The world mocks this idea of hell, but mocking will not erase reality. 18 00:01:19,698 --> 00:01:25,200 What we believe or what we don't believe doesn't change what God has already said. 19 00:01:25,721 --> 00:01:30,222 Hell is real and it is eternal and it is dreadful. 20 00:01:31,183 --> 00:01:39,214 Now there will be people in our lives that will come in and say, well, hell is just a myth, but truth does not need your belief 21 00:01:39,214 --> 00:01:41,014 remain truth. 22 00:01:41,474 --> 00:01:44,454 Gravity works whether we believe in it or not. 23 00:01:44,454 --> 00:01:47,094 Fire burns whether we believe in it or not. 24 00:01:47,094 --> 00:01:51,014 And hell exists if we believe in it or not. 25 00:01:51,874 --> 00:01:54,474 Denial is not an escape. 26 00:01:54,514 --> 00:01:56,814 Silence is not safety. 27 00:01:56,814 --> 00:01:59,234 And disbelief is not deliverance. 28 00:01:59,234 --> 00:02:03,634 If you walk blindfolded into a busy highway, the semi-truck is still coming. 29 00:02:04,314 --> 00:02:06,182 It is the same for hell. 30 00:02:06,511 --> 00:02:15,031 Men blind themselves every single day with different philosophies, different beliefs, different excuses, and with different pleasures of life. 31 00:02:15,311 --> 00:02:20,991 But death is coming, judgment is coming, and eternity is coming. 32 00:02:21,471 --> 00:02:26,091 And when it comes, belief or unbelief will not change the outcome. 33 00:02:26,991 --> 00:02:30,551 Incidentally, Jesus Christ spoke more about hell than he did heaven. 34 00:02:30,671 --> 00:02:36,451 The fact alone should stop every preacher who stands in the pulpit and says, a lot of luck to talk about hell. 35 00:02:36,854 --> 00:02:39,955 Or I'll just say the place where we don't like to talk about. 36 00:02:40,936 --> 00:02:42,397 That's not right. 37 00:02:42,897 --> 00:02:45,699 Our Lord repeatedly warned us. 38 00:02:45,699 --> 00:02:46,699 Why? 39 00:02:46,820 --> 00:02:50,521 Because He knew how real hell was. 40 00:02:50,602 --> 00:02:53,983 He knew the torment that was awaiting the lost. 41 00:02:54,003 --> 00:02:58,606 He knew the terror of eternity, of being separated from God. 42 00:02:59,006 --> 00:03:03,849 And He loved men enough to tell each and every single one of us the truth. 43 00:03:04,389 --> 00:03:06,430 That's the God we serve. 44 00:03:06,882 --> 00:03:09,203 who does not hide anything from us. 45 00:03:09,744 --> 00:03:13,427 Silence on hell is not love, it's hatred. 46 00:03:13,427 --> 00:03:18,249 Refusing to warn a man about danger is not compassion, it's cruelty. 47 00:03:18,410 --> 00:03:25,014 If a bridge is out and you smile and wave as a man drives full speed ahead, that's not love at all. 48 00:03:25,355 --> 00:03:36,652 If a preacher stands in the pulpit and refuses to warn about hell while men speak toward judgment day every single day, that is not love at all and he has blood on his hands. 49 00:03:36,834 --> 00:03:39,295 Brethren, warning is love. 50 00:03:39,435 --> 00:03:43,076 Hell is not a topic of debate, it's a reality. 51 00:03:43,417 --> 00:03:47,618 And brethren, you cannot preach the gospel without preaching on hell. 52 00:03:47,799 --> 00:03:50,940 You cannot understand the cross without hell. 53 00:03:50,940 --> 00:03:55,121 You cannot grasp the love of God until you understand the wrath of God. 54 00:03:55,582 --> 00:03:58,483 Why did Jesus hang on Calvary? 55 00:03:58,543 --> 00:03:59,884 Why the blood? 56 00:03:59,884 --> 00:04:01,564 Why the suffering? 57 00:04:01,664 --> 00:04:03,265 Why the agony? 58 00:04:03,825 --> 00:04:05,838 Because there was something worse. 59 00:04:05,838 --> 00:04:08,539 than the crucifixion awaiting mankind. 60 00:04:08,700 --> 00:04:12,421 was eternal separation from God forever. 61 00:04:12,922 --> 00:04:17,364 The cross only makes sense when you see the penalty of sin. 62 00:04:17,745 --> 00:04:20,786 If sin was nothing, then Calvary was nothing. 63 00:04:21,026 --> 00:04:25,428 But if sin condemns to eternal hell, then Calvary is everything. 64 00:04:25,529 --> 00:04:31,992 And this is why Satan tries so hard every single day to erase the thought of hell in our minds. 65 00:04:31,992 --> 00:04:35,274 Because if there is no hell, there is no urgency. 66 00:04:35,392 --> 00:04:38,864 If there is no hell, there's no need for repentance. 67 00:04:39,165 --> 00:04:43,548 If there is no hell, there's no reason to obey the gospel. 68 00:04:44,249 --> 00:04:50,813 But brethren, if hell is real, then nothing else matters until we escape it. 69 00:04:51,434 --> 00:04:54,736 Hell is a destiny for souls. 70 00:04:55,357 --> 00:05:01,361 Every man and woman in here today will either spend their life in heaven or in hell. 71 00:05:01,421 --> 00:05:03,252 There is no middle ground. 72 00:05:03,512 --> 00:05:06,063 There is no third option, no escape. 73 00:05:06,404 --> 00:05:12,046 Your eternal destiny is already being sealed by the decisions that you make every single day. 74 00:05:12,347 --> 00:05:15,909 This morning, I want us to examine what the Bible says. 75 00:05:16,109 --> 00:05:21,392 Not my opinion, not church tradition, not philosophies, but by the word of the living God. 76 00:05:22,012 --> 00:05:24,513 Hell is a real place. 77 00:05:25,434 --> 00:05:28,276 It's not imagination, and it's not a metaphor. 78 00:05:28,276 --> 00:05:32,758 It's not a fable created by preachers to scare people into obedience. 79 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:38,454 It's just as real as heaven and just as real as the earth that you're sitting on right now. 80 00:05:39,035 --> 00:05:41,416 Just as real as the God who made you. 81 00:05:41,977 --> 00:05:47,801 Jesus said in Matthew 25: 41, "Depart from me you cursed into everlasting fire. 82 00:05:47,882 --> 00:05:53,686 Prepared for the devil and his angels." Notice he said everlasting fire. 83 00:05:53,767 --> 00:05:58,460 If words mean anything, means hell is a real place with real punishment. 84 00:05:58,924 --> 00:06:04,837 He also said in Revelation 20: 14 through 15, "and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. 85 00:06:05,118 --> 00:06:14,903 This is the second death and whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." This is not an imagination. 86 00:06:15,123 --> 00:06:17,505 That is God describing a destination. 87 00:06:17,505 --> 00:06:20,306 The Bible uses the word Gehenna for hell. 88 00:06:20,306 --> 00:06:27,202 The word referred to the valley of Heman outside of Jerusalem where garbage, dead animals, and refuse were constantly burning. 89 00:06:27,202 --> 00:06:29,784 The Jews understood that message very well. 90 00:06:29,784 --> 00:06:33,446 It was a place of filth, of stench, of constant fire. 91 00:06:33,446 --> 00:06:40,289 Jesus took that earthly message and said, is what hell, this is a picture of eternal punishment. 92 00:06:40,550 --> 00:06:44,211 It is real, it is dreadful, and it is eternal. 93 00:06:44,472 --> 00:06:46,052 Now listen carefully. 94 00:06:46,533 --> 00:06:49,574 Men everywhere have tried to deny this. 95 00:06:49,755 --> 00:06:55,798 Some say this is purgatory, where sins are just purged for a little time and then soon released. 96 00:06:56,270 --> 00:06:59,250 But we know the Bible never says that. 97 00:06:59,710 --> 00:07:05,270 But it does say in Hebrews 9.27 that is appointed and the men wants to die, but after this, the judgment. 98 00:07:05,590 --> 00:07:07,770 There are no second chances. 99 00:07:08,090 --> 00:07:12,370 There is no halfway house and there is no escape of hell. 100 00:07:12,670 --> 00:07:17,130 Others say this is an annihilation where the wicked will just simply cease to exist. 101 00:07:17,530 --> 00:07:22,290 That contradicts what we just read in Matthew 24 or 25, 46. 102 00:07:22,290 --> 00:07:24,890 Where Jesus said, these shall go into everlasting punishment. 103 00:07:25,016 --> 00:07:27,047 but the righteous into eternal life. 104 00:07:27,587 --> 00:07:30,128 I want you to think logically for a second. 105 00:07:30,949 --> 00:07:36,411 If heaven is eternal, if heaven is forever, you know what that means? 106 00:07:36,751 --> 00:07:38,872 Hell is forever too. 107 00:07:39,192 --> 00:07:43,894 You cannot twist the word eternal in one half of the verse and then leave it alone in the other. 108 00:07:44,334 --> 00:07:47,715 If heaven is everlasting, then so is hell. 109 00:07:47,996 --> 00:07:51,097 If hell is not real, then sin is not serious. 110 00:07:51,097 --> 00:07:54,038 If hell is not real, then judgment is meaningless. 111 00:07:54,081 --> 00:07:57,973 If hell is not real, then the cross was unnecessary. 112 00:07:58,073 --> 00:08:00,714 But brethren, sin is dangerous. 113 00:08:00,735 --> 00:08:04,476 Judgment is coming and the cross was very necessary. 114 00:08:04,737 --> 00:08:07,898 Therefore, hell must be real. 115 00:08:08,198 --> 00:08:10,531 The world says, I don't believe in hell. 116 00:08:10,531 --> 00:08:13,441 But brethren, unbelief does not erase truth. 117 00:08:13,521 --> 00:08:17,723 A man may stay, I practice that so much and I still got it wrong. 118 00:08:17,843 --> 00:08:23,276 A man may stand on a railroad track and say, I don't believe in trains. 119 00:08:23,384 --> 00:08:26,735 But unbelief will not stop him from getting ran over by that train. 120 00:08:26,955 --> 00:08:29,836 It's the same way for a Christian. 121 00:08:30,836 --> 00:08:35,257 The same way a man may live his whole entire life rejecting the thought of hell. 122 00:08:35,257 --> 00:08:39,978 But on the day of judgment, unbelief will not protect him from reality. 123 00:08:40,179 --> 00:08:43,180 Hell is eternal and hell is without end. 124 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:47,221 Once a soul crosses into that place, there is no coming back. 125 00:08:47,421 --> 00:08:51,532 As we need to make sure we teach this because it's exactly what the Bible teaches. 126 00:08:52,430 --> 00:08:59,610 When we look back at Matthew chapter 25 verses 46, did you read the word everlasting? 127 00:09:00,490 --> 00:09:04,570 The same word that describes the length of heaven describes the length of hell. 128 00:09:04,770 --> 00:09:07,370 If heaven is forever, then hell is forever. 129 00:09:07,410 --> 00:09:10,230 If hell comes to an end, then so does heaven. 130 00:09:10,310 --> 00:09:13,350 And who among us dares to say that heaven is temporary? 131 00:09:14,170 --> 00:09:19,830 The Hebrew writer says Hebrews 9.27 is appointed to men once a day, but after this, a judgment. 132 00:09:20,270 --> 00:09:22,265 Some will argue and say, well, God is just 133 00:09:22,265 --> 00:09:23,626 too merciful. 134 00:09:23,626 --> 00:09:25,757 God is all loving and he's all caring. 135 00:09:25,757 --> 00:09:28,918 He's not gonna let people to suffer for eternity. 136 00:09:29,479 --> 00:09:32,641 But what did Jesus say in Mark 9, 43 through 44? 137 00:09:32,641 --> 00:09:37,884 He said, is better to enter life maimed than having two hands to go into hell. 138 00:09:37,904 --> 00:09:39,545 And to the fire there should never be quenched. 139 00:09:39,545 --> 00:09:43,827 Well, the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched. 140 00:09:44,288 --> 00:09:49,070 Christ used the strongest words to describe that hell never ends. 141 00:09:49,302 --> 00:09:53,206 If God wanted us to believe it was temporary, don't you think He would have told us? 142 00:09:54,288 --> 00:09:59,053 Instead, all throughout these verses, He repeats it over and over again. 143 00:09:59,053 --> 00:10:01,336 The fire is not quenched. 144 00:10:01,336 --> 00:10:03,318 The worm dieth not. 145 00:10:03,839 --> 00:10:05,680 Eternal means eternal. 146 00:10:06,842 --> 00:10:10,556 Preachers, if we teach anything less than this, we make God a liar. 147 00:10:12,204 --> 00:10:15,095 This is where some preachers speak soft about. 148 00:10:15,375 --> 00:10:21,347 They want a God who is all mercy and no justice, but you cannot separate God's mercy from his justice. 149 00:10:21,347 --> 00:10:32,320 Romans 2, 5 warns us, but after the hardness of the impending heart, treasures up thyself the wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God. 150 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,660 Notice the phrase righteous judgment. 151 00:10:34,861 --> 00:10:39,852 If God allows the wicked to walk free after death, his judgment is no longer righteous. 152 00:10:40,514 --> 00:10:48,336 The eternal punishment of hell is not only biblical, but it's necessary to uphold the holiness and the justice of the Almighty God. 153 00:10:48,516 --> 00:10:50,897 Think of a judge in a courtroom today. 154 00:10:51,137 --> 00:11:02,300 If a man is going in there and he's guilty of crimes like theft, abuse, lies, murder, and the judge just simply says, know what, today I'm just feeling nice. 155 00:11:02,340 --> 00:11:03,540 Today I'm feeling merciful. 156 00:11:03,540 --> 00:11:05,021 I'm going let him go free. 157 00:11:05,021 --> 00:11:06,381 What would we think about? 158 00:11:06,381 --> 00:11:08,361 How would that? 159 00:11:09,314 --> 00:11:10,264 I've lost my... 160 00:11:10,264 --> 00:11:11,075 train of thought. 161 00:11:11,075 --> 00:11:13,096 How would we feel after that? 162 00:11:13,637 --> 00:11:21,223 You know, if we can understand that about an earthly courtroom, how much more should we understand that about God's courtroom? 163 00:11:21,924 --> 00:11:26,948 If we can understand, well, brethren, God will not pervert judgment. 164 00:11:27,409 --> 00:11:29,790 And here's a thought that should make us tremble. 165 00:11:29,911 --> 00:11:33,533 Once the door is shut, it's never going to open again. 166 00:11:33,694 --> 00:11:39,022 Revelation 22, 11 says that, the unjust still be unjust. 167 00:11:39,022 --> 00:11:42,042 and he which is filthy let him be filthy still. 168 00:11:42,042 --> 00:11:44,942 There is no changing sides after death. 169 00:11:44,942 --> 00:11:48,962 The wicked will remain wicked and the righteous will remain righteous. 170 00:11:49,062 --> 00:11:53,462 Eternity seals the souls of the person's destiny forever. 171 00:11:54,282 --> 00:12:01,002 Hell is eternal because sin against an eternal God demands eternal consequences. 172 00:12:01,542 --> 00:12:05,814 That's why in 2 Thessalonians 1, 8-9 says when the Lord comes back 173 00:12:05,814 --> 00:12:14,880 in a flaming fire taking vengeance on them who know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the 174 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:18,342 presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power. 175 00:12:18,942 --> 00:12:27,848 Everlasting destruction away from God's presence, away from hope, away from peace. 176 00:12:28,468 --> 00:12:31,340 That is hell and it never ends. 177 00:12:31,982 --> 00:12:36,522 Jesus said in Matthew 7, 13 through 14, entry ye into the straight gate. 178 00:12:36,742 --> 00:12:39,562 For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction. 179 00:12:39,562 --> 00:12:46,062 And many there be go in there at, because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth into life. 180 00:12:46,062 --> 00:12:49,142 And few there be that find it. 181 00:12:49,142 --> 00:12:51,822 Brother, many are on that broad road today. 182 00:12:52,362 --> 00:12:54,442 Few find that narrow one. 183 00:12:54,582 --> 00:12:57,242 And once that road ends, there are no U-turns. 184 00:12:57,242 --> 00:12:58,902 There are no detours. 185 00:12:58,902 --> 00:13:00,722 There are no second chances. 186 00:13:01,152 --> 00:13:04,665 Eternity means forever and forever means no second chances. 187 00:13:05,064 --> 00:13:08,388 Hell is eternal and it's a thought that we shouldn't take lightly. 188 00:13:08,448 --> 00:13:11,010 It's a reality to tremble at. 189 00:13:11,010 --> 00:13:21,559 If this doesn't make us all examine our own souls, if this doesn't make us to want to stir up and warn the lost, then we don't understand the weight of God's words. 190 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,222 Hell is forever and help us if we don't preach it like it is. 191 00:13:25,523 --> 00:13:29,836 The torments of hell are beyond what words can express. 192 00:13:30,166 --> 00:13:33,789 So far we've seen that hell is real and that hell is eternal. 193 00:13:33,789 --> 00:13:36,130 But I want to go one step further with this. 194 00:13:36,371 --> 00:13:40,614 Hell is not only real and forever, but it's place of unimaginable torment. 195 00:13:40,614 --> 00:13:43,455 And God our Father did not hide this from us. 196 00:13:43,456 --> 00:13:50,440 He gave us glimpses of what it would be like so that we can understand the seriousness of sin and the urgency of salvation. 197 00:13:50,541 --> 00:13:52,986 Read with me Luke chapter 16. 198 00:13:53,103 --> 00:13:58,076 Turn your Bibles to Luke 16, 19 through... 199 00:14:02,018 --> 00:14:04,558 Luke 16, 19 through 25. 200 00:14:04,899 --> 00:14:10,361 And it says, was a certain rich man who had his clothed in purple and fine lining and fared sumptuously every day. 201 00:14:10,361 --> 00:14:17,583 But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, desiring to be fed from the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. 202 00:14:17,583 --> 00:14:26,806 Moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores, and it came to pass that when the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom, the rich man also died and was 203 00:14:26,806 --> 00:14:27,626 buried. 204 00:14:27,766 --> 00:14:33,528 And being in torment in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom. 205 00:14:33,829 --> 00:14:43,272 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. 206 00:14:43,272 --> 00:14:54,597 But Abraham said, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and likewise Lazarus' evil things, but now he is comforted and you are tormented. 207 00:14:54,977 --> 00:14:57,898 So far we noticed two people. 208 00:14:58,222 --> 00:15:00,463 The rich man and the poor beggar. 209 00:15:00,483 --> 00:15:04,045 The rich man had everything in the world that he could possibly ever want. 210 00:15:04,446 --> 00:15:09,708 And we see the poor man here who just was desiring to be fed by the rich man's crumbs. 211 00:15:10,149 --> 00:15:13,490 We also see the two destinations that these men went to. 212 00:15:13,711 --> 00:15:16,527 It does not say the rich man fell asleep or went to nothing less. 213 00:15:16,527 --> 00:15:21,094 It says being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes. 214 00:15:21,855 --> 00:15:27,368 Brother Moser once told us that he couldn't see it other than being, think of you as a child. 215 00:15:27,574 --> 00:15:29,575 and you're falling asleep in the car. 216 00:15:29,776 --> 00:15:34,259 And you don't know how you woke up the next morning in your bed while your parents picked you up and took you there. 217 00:15:34,380 --> 00:15:38,823 It's a thought that we should think about, but we do not, however, know. 218 00:15:38,943 --> 00:15:40,884 But think about this man. 219 00:15:41,465 --> 00:15:53,435 A man who feasted every day, dressed in luxury, lived in comfort, and now he would give absolutely anything, anything for just one drop of water. 220 00:15:54,436 --> 00:15:57,298 Not a glass, but just a drop. 221 00:15:58,924 --> 00:16:00,455 He could never have it. 222 00:16:00,575 --> 00:16:03,037 And I'm here to tell you, he never will. 223 00:16:03,637 --> 00:16:09,301 Hell is a place of fire, but one that never dies down, not one that runs out of fuel. 224 00:16:09,301 --> 00:16:15,666 Jesus said in Mark 9 through 43 through 44, he tells us that the fire is not quenched. 225 00:16:15,666 --> 00:16:18,768 Revelation calls it the lake of fire and brimstone. 226 00:16:18,768 --> 00:16:22,131 Brethren, God did not use that picture to just scare us for nothing. 227 00:16:22,131 --> 00:16:24,172 He used it because hell is real. 228 00:16:24,172 --> 00:16:27,362 Fire burns, fire destroys, but here's the thing. 229 00:16:27,362 --> 00:16:29,623 Fire burns without ever consuming. 230 00:16:30,124 --> 00:16:32,196 The body and soul suffer without end. 231 00:16:32,196 --> 00:16:34,027 That right there is torment. 232 00:16:34,148 --> 00:16:37,290 But hell is not just fire, but it's also darkness. 233 00:16:37,731 --> 00:16:42,195 Jesus said in Matthew 8-12 that the loss will be cast in the outer darkness. 234 00:16:42,195 --> 00:16:45,657 Jude 13 calls it the blackness of darkness forever. 235 00:16:45,858 --> 00:16:50,181 Can you even imagine a fire that gives off no light? 236 00:16:50,682 --> 00:16:54,104 A place where you cannot even see your hand in front of your face? 237 00:16:54,725 --> 00:16:56,456 No friend to comfort you. 238 00:16:56,790 --> 00:17:02,814 no glimpse of God's glory, only endless blackness and endless despair. 239 00:17:03,375 --> 00:17:07,157 And it's not only fire and darkness, but it's a memory. 240 00:17:08,418 --> 00:17:11,119 Abraham said to the rich man, son, remember. 241 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:13,221 Remember your life. 242 00:17:13,221 --> 00:17:14,492 Remember your choices. 243 00:17:14,492 --> 00:17:16,844 Remember the opportunities that you wasted. 244 00:17:16,844 --> 00:17:26,550 Brother, can you even imagine every sermon that you heard, every invitation song that was sung, every prayer, every chance you had to obey the gospel? 245 00:17:26,638 --> 00:17:28,498 It's all going to come back to you. 246 00:17:29,059 --> 00:17:30,959 That right there is torment. 247 00:17:31,439 --> 00:17:33,540 Over and over and again. 248 00:17:33,540 --> 00:17:37,021 And one of the worst parts is just knowing that you can't even change it. 249 00:17:37,241 --> 00:17:39,221 That is torment of the mind. 250 00:17:39,642 --> 00:17:45,903 But they're one of the greatest, or the greatest torments perhaps is separation from God. 251 00:17:46,504 --> 00:17:52,465 Second Thessalonians 1, 9 says that the wicked will be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord. 252 00:17:52,565 --> 00:17:55,040 Every good thing that you've ever known in your life. 253 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:59,493 laughter, sunlight, mercy, all comes from God. 254 00:17:59,673 --> 00:18:03,095 James said, good gift and every perfect gift is from above. 255 00:18:03,896 --> 00:18:05,917 In hell there are no good gifts. 256 00:18:06,558 --> 00:18:10,540 There are no mercy, no kindness, no love, no peace, God is gone. 257 00:18:10,590 --> 00:18:12,361 And that's the worst thing about it. 258 00:18:12,942 --> 00:18:17,725 In that absence, that separation, that hopelessness, that torment beyond words. 259 00:18:18,046 --> 00:18:20,848 Jesus said there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 260 00:18:20,848 --> 00:18:24,408 Jesus repeated that phrase and he over again so that we would 261 00:18:24,408 --> 00:18:30,506 we would realize and know that hell is not just silence, it's endless cries and endless agony. 262 00:18:30,847 --> 00:18:33,771 Now know somebody will say, well, preacher, do you really believe what you're saying? 263 00:18:33,771 --> 00:18:36,554 Yes, I do, because it's exactly what Jesus said. 264 00:18:38,198 --> 00:18:46,563 And if I or any of one of us preachers stand in the pulpit and say otherwise or act like it's not that bad, we make God a liar and shame on us. 265 00:18:47,364 --> 00:18:53,327 If the joys of heaven are beyond imagination, then the torments of hell are beyond imagination too. 266 00:18:54,288 --> 00:19:02,532 Every single day, souls are dropping, people are dying, and every single day people are going to that place. 267 00:19:03,053 --> 00:19:05,204 And we have the power to stop it. 268 00:19:05,804 --> 00:19:17,051 We should want every single day to try to save somebody, try to help them to get back on the right path, try to get more people to come through that door so they don't end up the 269 00:19:17,051 --> 00:19:18,952 same way that other people have. 270 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:26,548 Brethren, if this ended here, we would have no hope of eternal life. 271 00:19:28,130 --> 00:19:31,531 Hell can be escaped, but only through Christ. 272 00:19:33,294 --> 00:19:36,714 Hell can be exsaked not by our own strength, but by the blood of Christ. 273 00:19:36,714 --> 00:19:44,874 Romans 6, 23 says, the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 274 00:19:45,574 --> 00:19:47,014 That's a reality. 275 00:19:47,374 --> 00:19:48,774 That's the truth. 276 00:19:48,774 --> 00:20:00,174 He also said in John 5, 24, he that heareth my words and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life, and should not come into condemnation, but is passed from death 277 00:20:00,174 --> 00:20:01,314 into life. 278 00:20:01,734 --> 00:20:02,926 Brethren, the cross. 279 00:20:02,926 --> 00:20:04,846 was God's rescue plan. 280 00:20:05,226 --> 00:20:09,086 On Calvary, Jesus bore the wrath that we deserved. 281 00:20:09,446 --> 00:20:12,026 He tasted death so that we might live. 282 00:20:12,026 --> 00:20:15,686 He endured the cross so we could escape that fire. 283 00:20:16,126 --> 00:20:19,086 Think for a second and really let that sink in. 284 00:20:19,206 --> 00:20:26,606 Every thorn, every nail, every blood that was shed on the cross was God saying, I don't want you in hell, I want you with me. 285 00:20:27,706 --> 00:20:32,078 Brother, in Matthew 7, 13 through 14, what we read earlier, many will choose that broad way. 286 00:20:32,078 --> 00:20:36,438 that leads to destruction, but the narrow way still stands open. 287 00:20:36,798 --> 00:20:42,138 Matthew 11 28, Jesus Christ has said the same things that he's saying long ago and he's saying them today. 288 00:20:42,138 --> 00:20:47,038 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 289 00:20:47,858 --> 00:20:58,878 Brethren, if hell is real, and it is, if hell is eternal, and it is, and if hell is torment beyond imagination, it is, and there's nothing more urgent than escaping it 290 00:20:58,878 --> 00:21:00,078 through Christ. 291 00:21:00,538 --> 00:21:01,978 Let me ask you something. 292 00:21:04,334 --> 00:21:07,715 If death came today, where would you spend eternity? 293 00:21:08,716 --> 00:21:11,635 Once you cross that line, there is no coming back. 294 00:21:11,837 --> 00:21:14,697 The time to flee from wrath is to come now. 295 00:21:14,818 --> 00:21:18,499 And 2 Corinthians 6.2 says, behold, now is the accepted time. 296 00:21:18,499 --> 00:21:20,919 Behold, now is the day of salvation. 297 00:21:21,140 --> 00:21:25,561 Not tomorrow, not next week, not next month, now. 298 00:21:26,201 --> 00:21:29,622 Hell is eternal, but so is the life of Christ. 299 00:21:30,082 --> 00:21:34,965 Hell is eternal, but Christ offers peace, joy, and love and rest forevermore. 300 00:21:35,446 --> 00:21:38,227 The question now is not whether if hell exists or not. 301 00:21:38,227 --> 00:21:40,288 The question is, will you accept it? 302 00:21:41,009 --> 00:21:44,631 The only way to escape Christ is through His plan. 303 00:21:44,772 --> 00:21:47,708 First, you must hear the word, Romans 10, 17. 304 00:21:47,708 --> 00:21:50,876 So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 305 00:21:50,876 --> 00:21:52,657 We must believe in Christ. 306 00:21:52,657 --> 00:21:53,670 Hebrews 11, 6. 307 00:21:53,670 --> 00:21:56,140 But without faith, it is impossible to please Him. 308 00:21:56,140 --> 00:21:58,202 We must repent of our sins, Luke 13, 3. 309 00:21:58,202 --> 00:21:59,842 I tell you, nay, except you repent. 310 00:21:59,842 --> 00:22:01,503 ye shall all likewise perish. 311 00:22:01,503 --> 00:22:09,770 We must confess to Christ, Romans 10, 9 through 10, that thou shalt confess with the mouth of the Lord Jesus Christ, and shalt believe in the heart that God hath raised him from the 312 00:22:09,770 --> 00:22:11,832 dead, thou shalt be saved. 313 00:22:11,832 --> 00:22:14,854 We must be baptized for the remission of our sins. 314 00:22:14,995 --> 00:22:20,859 Acts 2.38, repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins. 315 00:22:21,060 --> 00:22:24,252 Finally, we must live faithful unto death, Revelation 2.10. 316 00:22:24,252 --> 00:22:28,936 Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. 317 00:22:29,784 --> 00:22:32,116 Will you obey the gospel today or not? 318 00:22:32,136 --> 00:22:35,439 Will you accept His plan or will walk away? 319 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:40,624 If there's any way that we can help you today, come now as together we stand and as we sing.