Work till Jesus comes, will work till Jesus comes, will work till Jesus comes, and will be gathered on the second to Jesus Christ.
I've fled for rest, he bade me cease to roam, and lean for soccer on his breast till he conducts me home.
Work till Jesus comes, will work till Jesus comes, will work till Jesus comes, and will be gathered on the third.
I saw not once my Savior's side no more, my steps shall roam, with him I'll break this chilling tide and reach my heavenly home.
Work till Jesus comes, will work till Jesus comes, will work till Jesus comes, and will be gathered on the third.
Song number 377-377, Rescue the Perishing.
Song number 377, let's sing Rescue the Perishing.
Song number 377.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Rescue the Perishing, care for the dying.
Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave.
Reap for the erring lawns, lift up the fallen.
Tell them of Jesus, the mighty to save.
Rescue the Perishing, care for the dying.
Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save us again.
Though they are slighting him, still he is waiting, waiting the penny the child to receive.
Bleed with them earnestly, bleed with them gently, he will forgive if they only believe.
Rescue the Perishing, care for the dying.
Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save on the third.
Down in the human heart, crushed by the tempter.
Feelings like bearing the grace can be scored.
Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness.
Corse done or broken, will vibrate once more.
Rescue the Perishing, care for the dying.
Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save on the last.
Rescue the Perishing, duty demands it.
Strength for the labor the Lord will provide.
Back to the narrow way, patiently win them.
Tell the poor wanderer, Savior has died.
Rescue the Perishing, care for the dying.
Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save.
The next page, you see our service time is listed here.
After church today, we do have soul winning around 2.30 meeting at the Rizal Monument.
Brother Chris will be leading that here today, meeting at the Rizal Monument.
Obviously, a lot of you are coming from out of town.
If you have any questions, you can ask me after the service or one of the guys, one of the members of this church.
They can help direct you there.
We have a praise report for 2018. We ended the year in 2018 with 400 for salvation.
That's a good total for churches for a year.
We had like five weeks, so that's pretty good. We're excited about that.
We've had several baptisms and 98 salvations counted so far.
So, if anybody had any salvations between Monday through Saturday, if you guys want to let me know.
Anybody? Monday through Saturday that aren't counted in here?
How about yesterday? Do you know how many they got, Brother Dustin?
That would be around 13.
13? Okay. 13 salvations. I got your total, Brother Jay.
Was there anybody else from our church, Brother Jerry too?
Anybody else?
Five.
Five. Okay, perfect.
Any other totals? My son's got his hand raised.
How many is F?
It looks like a lot. He's pretty excited.
Alright everybody, keep up the good work.
I counted 20, so that's 118 salvations it looks like.
We're a family integrated church, which means children and infants are welcome in the services for your convenience.
Remember, no eating during the church services. Maintain a professional atmosphere during the service.
Keep children from running in rough housing before and after the church services.
On the next page, we have our Salvation Bootcamp series, which we're going to be talking about hell in this series.
And today, I should say.
Then we have our Keep Your Own Vineyard series starting in February 3rd.
We have our poll result. Which restaurant is Mas Mas Arab?
Fortunately, Jollibee won very easily.
And we have our January Challenge for Bible Memorization.
Remember, to get the prize, you've got to quote it to somebody else at church.
Word for word.
I'm close on these verses. You've got to get it word for word correct.
And I'm a little bit behind schedule.
I have memorized a lot of these verses in Tagalog.
But I'm going to try to get them all memorized here before the end of the month.
And be able to quote them in Tagalog to someone.
And we have our Verity Baptist Manila Missions trip coming up here, January 14th through 20th.
We put videos on our YouTube channel.
One was helpful reminders, helpful tips for being here in the Philippines.
And also a schedule video.
They just put it on the Verity Baptist channel like probably 40 minutes ago or an hour ago.
And so I'm not sure if everybody saw that. Maybe you don't know about our YouTube channel.
But if not, you can either go to the Verity Baptist Manila channel or the Verity Baptist Church channel.
And we'll give you also the helpful tips for being here. Some things to keep in mind.
But also the general schedule.
And so tomorrow we're going to be meeting at 11 a.m. at the Lapu-Lapu Monument.
So that's going to be kind of the start of the day.
Last year we had the missions trip.
We organized it the best we could and then like 40 more people showed up than we expected.
It was packed.
And so after the first day we realized we had to change our strategy.
So it's just kind of a general plan as of now.
But depending on how many people show up tomorrow, we might need to adjust things.
But you can check out those videos if you want.
We have our 31-day Bible reading challenge coming up here starting on January 29th.
That's our month-long challenge to read through the entire New Testament as a church.
And on the back you'll see the birthdays and anniversaries.
We have our prayer list for the week.
And quote-unquote, the path to a young man earning respect is through proven character, maturity, and wisdom.
If you take a look at the offerings and just to remind you that with our new system here if you want to donate.
You know you have the envelopes you get during the offering.
If you want to write down your name on this we can track the total.
We can give you a statement at the end of the year or whatever.
And we'll track everybody's total here as a church.
So you're welcome to do that but you don't have to write your name if you don't want to.
You can just put money in if you feel like it.
And if you don't have to track it that's fine.
So I think that's it for announcements.
So we'll have Brother Prince lead us in another song before we take the offering and do the scripture reading.
Song number 389.
Turn your hymnals to song number 389.
Let's sing Bring Them In.
Song number 389.
Your hymnals.
Let's sing Bring Them In.
Song number 389.
Bring Them In.
On to first.
Heart is the shepherd's voice I hear.
Out in the desert, dark and rare.
Calling the sheep who've gone astray.
Far from the shepherd's foldaway.
Bring them in.
Bring them in from the fields of sin.
Bring them in.
Bring the wandering ones to Jesus.
For the second.
We'll go and help this shepherd kind.
Help him the wandering ones to find.
Who'll bring the lost ones to the fold.
Where they'll be sheltered from the cold.
Bring them in.
Bring them in from the fields of sin.
Bring them in.
Bring the wandering ones to Jesus.
On the last.
Out in the desert, hear their cry.
Out on the mountains, wild and high.
Heart is the master speaks to thee.
Go find my sheep wherever they be.
Bring them in.
Bring them in from the fields of sin.
Bring them in.
Bring the wandering ones to Jesus.
All right, please open your Bibles to the fifth book of Moses called Deuteronomy chapter
10.
The fifth book of Moses called Deuteronomy chapter 10.
And as our custom will be reading the whole chapter, Deuteronomy chapter 10.
Say amen when you're there.
Amen.
Deuteronomy chapter 10, the Bible reads,
At that time the Lord said unto me,
Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first,
and come up unto me into the mount,
and make thee an ark of wood.
And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou breakest,
and thou shalt put them in the ark.
And I made an ark of shittim wood,
and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first,
and went up into the mount, having it two tables in mine hand.
And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing,
the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
in the day of the assembly.
And the Lord gave them unto me.
And I turned myself, and came down from the mount,
and put the tables in the ark which I had made.
And there they be, as the Lord commanded me.
And the children of Israel took their journey from Beihirah,
of the children of Jehukah, of Mosirah.
There Aaron died.
And there he was buried.
And Eleazar his son ministered in a priest's office in his stead.
From thence they journeyed unto Gadgoda,
and from Gadgoda to Chatba, a land of rivers of waters.
At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi,
to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord,
to stand before the Lord to minister unto him,
and to bless in his name unto this day.
Wherefore, Levi had no part nor inheritance with his brethren.
The Lord is his inheritance,
according as the Lord thy God promised him.
And I stayed in the mount according to the first time forty days and forty nights.
And the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also,
and the Lord would not destroy thee.
And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people,
that they may go in and possess the land,
which I swear unto their fathers, to give unto them.
And now, O Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee,
but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways,
and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God,
with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
to keep the commandments of the Lord and his statutes,
which I command thee this day for thy good.
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord's thy God,
the earth also with all that therein is.
Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them,
and he chose their seed after them,
even you above all people as it is this day.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart,
and be no more stiff-necked,
for the Lord your God is God of gods,
and Lord of lords, a great God,
a mighty and a terrible,
which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless,
and widow, and loveth a stranger,
in giving him food and raiment.
Love ye therefore the stranger,
for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God,
him shalt thou serve,
and to him shalt thou cleave,
and swear by his name.
He is thy praise,
and he is thy God,
that hath done for thee these great and terrible things,
which thine eyes have seen.
Thy fathers went down into Egypt,
with threescore and ten persons,
and now the Lord thy God had made thee
as the stars of heaven for a multitude.
Let us pray.
Dear Heavenly Lord, thank you for your word.
Thank you for the Bible.
Please bless Brother Stuckey with your message,
Lord, with wisdom and truth.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Alright, we're here in Deuteronomy chapter 10,
and one thing I forgot to mention,
in terms of soul-wanting today,
and especially during this week-long marathon,
when you're going soul-wanting in Rizal Park,
there can be a bit of a language barrier.
So especially I ask my church,
but also for all of us, the best we can,
that if you're fluent in Tagalog,
then you go with someone who's not fluent,
and if you're not fluent in Tagalog,
we'll get better results if we make sure
that people that aren't fluent in Tagalog
will go with someone that is fluent,
because, you know, you can start a conversation,
and they might have a bit of a language barrier,
so it's gonna help if we have the people
that are not fluent to be going with people that are fluent.
And obviously there's plenty of people here
that speak perfectly great English as well,
but that will help us get better results.
So I just ask you guys that today.
Try the best you can.
Obviously everyone likes going soul-wanting
with their best friends,
but it's also great to meet all kinds of new people
and everything like that,
and we'll get better results
if we pair the fluent people in Tagalog
with the non-fluent people.
So we're here in Deuteronomy chapter 10,
and this is part of our Salvation Boot Camp series,
and the name of the sermon is
The Salvation Boot Camp, The Necessity of Hell.
The necessity of the hell.
Now, you're coming into the middle of a series,
so you might really not know what this series is about,
but basically we've been going through
all the things that are essential
when it comes to salvation.
The first sermon was just a sermon on not of works, okay?
If you think you have to work your way to heaven,
you're not saved, right?
You have to understand that it is not of works,
that it's a free gift.
So we talked about it not being of works.
We talked about eternal security.
We talked about baptism
because a lot of people here
think you've got to be baptized to be saved.
We talked about repentance of sins.
We talked about the nature of God,
and now we're talking about the necessity of hell
because if people do not believe in hell,
they're not saved, okay?
You have to understand hell.
You have to realize you're being saved from something, okay?
And so we're going to...
But during this series,
we don't want to be repetitive
and just read the same verses every single week,
so we're kind of going to different aspects.
So we're going to look at four points here
on the necessity of hell,
and we'll show how it is essential
when it comes to salvation.
But first point is just that the necessity of hell,
why do we need hell for the Savior, okay?
Notice Deuteronomy chapter 10, verses 17 and 18.
For the Lord your God is God of gods,
and Lord of lords, a great God,
a mighty and a terrible,
which regardeth not persons,
nor taketh reward.
See, God does not take rewards.
It's talking about in terms of judgment.
He doesn't accept bribes, okay?
You know, you commit some wicked sin.
You can't bribe God.
Say, well, you know,
I'll go soul winning for five hours today
to make up for it.
No, you can't make a bribe with God, okay?
Now, in our court systems,
I promise you you can make bribes to the judges,
you know, and they'll change the sentence
if you're willing to give them money.
That's why, you know,
rich people get away with just about anything.
You know, God does not take bribes.
He doesn't take rewards.
Verse 18,
He doth execute the judgment
of the fatherless and widow,
and loveth the stranger,
and giving him food and raiment.
See, the Bible says God is a judge.
It mentions many things about him,
but one thing is this,
he's a judge.
It says he is a just judge.
Look, if there's no hell,
he's not a just judge.
Because you have to realize
that people in this world,
people get away with crimes like murder,
with being a pedophile,
with wicked crimes,
and never get caught.
There must be a hell
to balance right and wrong.
That's the only thing that makes sense.
If there is no hell,
then you know what?
God is not a just judge.
But the Bible says that he executes
the judgment of the fatherless and widow.
Now, look at this.
If he does not,
if there is no hell,
he's not a just judge,
he hasn't balanced this.
He's not executing judgment.
You look at these wicked pedophiles,
they get away with anything.
They spend like two years in jail
and they're out of jail.
If there is no hell to balance right and wrong,
God is not just.
We need hell simply for the Savior.
There must be a hell.
It makes perfect logical sense anyway.
If there's a heaven,
there's got to be a hell.
Now, here in the Philippines,
you're not going to have too many people
that are going to argue with that.
Obviously, if there's a heaven,
there's got to be a hell.
Most people believe that.
But there's a lot of people
that will walk around and say,
well, you know,
Jehovah's Witness,
well, you can spend paradise
on earth,
but there's no hell.
You just burn up out of existence.
You're just destroyed.
That doesn't make any sense.
So what about the wicked person
that never gets caught
for all their crimes?
That's the God you believe in?
Because that God is not a just judge.
See, the Bible says
God is a just judge,
and when it comes to
the necessity of hell,
it's a necessity for the Savior
to balance right and wrong.
Look, when people die
that are unsaved and go to hell,
some of them are going to burn
more than other people.
You know, for example,
you look at these wicked priests
here in the Philippines,
these Catholic priests
all around the world,
which at least 99% of them,
I mean, our president
said over 90%,
or 90% was his estimate
were pedophiles.
It's like, I think
he underestimated,
but it's like, you know,
hey, amen, I agree.
You know, they're
a bunch of monsters.
That's the truth.
And look, they're going to be
judged and held more accountable
than the average church member
that grows up Catholic
that never believes,
never gets saved.
They will be held
more accountable.
Why?
Because they did vicious,
malicious, and disgusting crimes
that no normal person would do.
There must be a hell
to balance right and wrong.
And if you commit great sins
and really exceedingly wicked sins,
you're going to be judged
more harshly than someone
who just grows up being deceived
and never gets saved.
Obviously, going to hell
at all is a huge punishment.
But you know what?
Some people are going to burn
more than other people.
Turn to James 4.
James 4.
Now, obviously, nobody's
going to burn worse
than the devil will.
You know, people have this idea
that the devil's ruling hell,
and I want to go there,
it's such a cool place,
you know, go down there
to be with my homies or whatever.
Look, you know, the devil
is going to be tortured
more than anybody in hell.
He's going to suffer
more than anyone
because no one was more
wicked than the devil.
James 4, notice verse 11.
Speak not evil one
of another, brethren.
He that speaketh evil
of his brethren
judges his brother
speaketh evil of the law,
and judgeth the law.
But if thou judgeth the law,
thou art not a doer of the law
but a judge.
There is one lawgiver
who is able to save
and to destroy
who art thou
that judgeth another.
The Bible says
there is one lawgiver, okay?
God's the one
who knows what's happened.
He balances right and wrong.
Look, if I got into
an argument with someone,
I promise you
on the two sides of the story,
my perspective was
they were wrong,
their perspective
is going to be I'm wrong.
Right?
That's why we leave it
in God's hands
to know how to balance
right and wrong.
And when you look at
these evil, wicked,
false prophets
that are in this country
that are getting away
with all these terrible things
and preaching wicked heresy,
quite honestly,
the only thing
we can really do
is go so away
and get churches started.
We can't really
change this system.
It is what it is
at this point,
but we can leave it
in God's hands
that when those people die,
they're going to suffer
so badly in hell
for wickedness.
And these false prophets
are exceedingly wicked
in this country
and they're going to pay
for their wickedness.
But we can't do
anything about it.
I can't be that judge
that's going to
execute judgment.
I'll get executed myself
if I try to execute judgment.
That's just reality.
But you know what?
God, He sees what's happening.
He knows who His children are
and He knows who
these wicked reprobates are
and He will judge fairly.
Why?
Because God
is a just judge.
He sees everything
that happens.
Sometimes you just got
to leave it in God's hands
to balance right and wrong.
James 5.
And in James 5,
starting in verse number 7,
the Bible reads,
Be patient therefore, brethren,
unto the coming of the Lord.
Behold, the husband and men
waited for the precious
fruit of the earth
and hath long patience for it
until he received
the early and latter rain.
Be also patient.
Establish your hearts
for the coming of the Lord
draweth nigh.
Grudge not one
against another, brethren,
lest he be condemned.
Behold, the judge standeth
before the door.
Well, God knows
what's happening.
The judge stands
before their door.
We need to just be patient
and put it in God's hands.
God will execute
right and wrong.
You look at this country
and it surprises people
when they visit here.
Why?
The LGBT is bigger here
than in America.
It surprises people.
I mean, they're shocked
when you tell them that.
And it's like,
why don't you talk to the people
that are here in April
for the missions trip?
And it's like,
it starts to become normal
seeing a guy dressed up
like a woman.
All of a sudden you say,
wow, it's everywhere here.
It is everywhere here.
That's reality.
And you look at that,
we know the wickedness
that goes along with that,
don't we?
We're well aware of that.
You know what?
We can look there
and get really angry about it
and we should be angry,
but you know what?
We still have to be able
to hold our temper back
and let God deal with that.
Amen.
Because we can't execute
the judgment there.
It just is what it is.
We have to rely on God
to do that.
We can preach the truth
and get people saved
and warn people
about what the Bible says,
but when it comes to the vice
gondas that are out there,
I can't do anything about it.
Why?
Because he's got
millions of dollars,
he's really famous,
and I'll be the one
who goes to jail, not him.
That's the reality.
Now, we know what he is.
Do you know the Bible?
You know what he is
and people like him.
We know how bad
of people that they are,
but you know what?
We can't do anything about it.
There is a judge, though,
who knows how bad they are.
There is a judge.
I was in Arizona one time.
I used to be
a public high school teacher
and there was an event
we had to go to
for the community
and there was this person
that I saw
that was wearing a shirt.
It was a woman,
as we call a tomboy here.
That's what you call it
here in the Philippines.
But she was wearing this shirt.
It had one word on it,
recruiter,
and it had a picture
of a rainbow down below.
I looked at that.
I was so angry
because I knew exactly
what that meant
and she was bold about it.
You're able to be bold
and just write that
and we know what she's saying.
Nobody else has a problem with it.
They have a problem with us
for condemning that.
It's like, man,
you feel like you're living
in the twilight zone,
like in a dream world.
It's like, is this real?
But that's the reality.
We can't do anything about it.
Now, there was a day
where that was considered
wicked all across the world,
but that's not the way
it is anymore.
When it comes to issues
like this or these false prophets,
we have to just
leave that up to God
because we can't do
anything about it.
We'll do everything we can
to get all these Catholics saved.
We'll do everything we can
to get people in these
false cults saved,
but you know what?
We can't really do anything
to these false prophets,
but there is a judge
that standeth before the door
who will execute judgment.
He's a just judge
and he will balance the scales
of right and wrong.
Somebody might get away
with this wickedness
and this life,
but they're not going to
get away with it forever.
That ought to be
kind of encouraging to us
when we get frustrated
with some of these false prophets.
Some of these people
really evil people
and we can't do much about it,
but you know what?
God's a just judge
and he will balance right and wrong.
Hell is a necessity
for the Savior
to balance right and wrong.
Let's turn to Revelation 20.
In Revelation 20
it says in verse 11,
And I saw a great white throne
in him that sat on it,
from whose face the earth
and the heaven fled away,
and there was found
no place for them.
And I saw the dead
small and great stand before God,
and the books were opened
and another book was opened,
which is the book of life.
And the dead were judged
out of those things
which were written in the books
according to their works.
Now, let me just say this,
and I think most everyone here
is aware of this,
but there's two judgments.
The Bible talks about
the great white throne judgment,
where people that never believed,
they will be judged
for everything
they've ever done wrong.
We as believers,
none of our sins
will ever be accounted against us.
We'll get rewards
for the things we did.
We'll be judged
according to this book
that we did good things
and we'll get rewards.
None of our sins
will ever be brought up.
But here in Revelation 20,
you're seeing
the great white throne judgment
of people that never believed
on Jesus Christ,
and they're going to
spend forever in hell,
and they will be judged
according to their works
in verse 13.
And the sea gave up
the dead which were in it,
and death and hell
delivered up the dead
which were in them,
and they were judged
every man according
to their works.
Now, here's what
you have to understand.
None of these people are saved
being judged
according to their works.
See, if you choose
to be judged according
to your works,
God will judge you that way.
You say,
I think I can get to heaven
based on how good I am.
Okay, well, God will judge you
based on your works then,
and you're going
to be very guilty
because he says all liars
shall have their part
in the lake which burns
with fire and brimstone.
But since he's judging them
based on their works,
it's not like he's looking
at their work and saying,
okay, you all go to hell.
No, he's giving them
a proper judgment
for how bad they're
going to burn forever, okay?
They're being judged
according to their works,
and for each and every sin,
they're going to pay for it.
The Bible talks
about the greater sin.
These sins that are more
exceedingly wicked
than other sins.
And these people
that go to hell,
they'll be judged
by the just judge
who sees everything they do.
Our court systems
are never going to be just.
No matter what country
you look in,
they're never going to be just.
Why?
Because the love of money
is the root of all evil,
and the people that
own those systems
have a lot of money.
They're bad people.
We talked about that
at our church
when we preached
through Psalms 1, right?
We talked about soul winners
versus children of the devil.
They're not going to
hide positions.
They're the ones
giving the counsel,
making the judgments.
It just is what it is.
But, you know,
there is a just judge
who will judge verily.
Turn to John 3.
So hell is a necessity
simply for the Savior,
but not only for the Savior,
but also for the sinner, okay?
Now we're going to look at
pretty much the most common
verses when it comes
to preaching the gospel.
And just think outside
the box for a second.
Just pretend that, you know,
somebody just doesn't
believe in hell.
Think about whether or not
you can get this person saved
if they just won't
believe in hell.
They refuse to believe in hell.
And when I preach the gospel,
right after I show them
they're guilty,
I'm showing them
Revelation 20 and 21.
And if they're not willing
to believe that there's a hell,
they're never going to
get saved.
Because people get saved
if they choose to believe
the Bible.
If they choose to reject
the Bible, then you know what?
You're not going to get saved.
But think about this.
We're turning to John 3,
a very, very famous passage.
Look at these verses.
Verse 15.
That whosoever believeth in him
should not perish,
but have eternal life.
Okay, perishing would be
going to hell.
So you either have
eternal life or eternal
damnation, eternal death,
the second death.
Should not perish,
but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
For God not sent not
His Son into the world
to condemn the world,
but that the world through
Him might be saved.
He that believeth on Him
is not condemned,
but He that believeth not
is condemned already,
because He hath not believed
in the name of the only begotten
Son of God.
Notice in all these verses,
hell is woven into these verses.
It talks about hell.
Nobody could walk away and say,
well, I believe in Jesus,
but I don't believe
there's any condemnation.
I mean, you don't believe
the Bible, then.
You can't get saved and say
there is no hell,
because every single salvation
verse we're going to show
is going to speak
about a judgment.
John 3, it's just very clear.
You're going to either perish,
you're either going to have
spiritual death
or spiritual life.
John 3, verse 36.
He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life,
and he that believeth not
the Son shall not see life,
but the wrath of God
abideth on Him,
which means it's forever
God's wrath abides on Him.
Look, the people that are
in hell, God does not
love them anymore.
God's wrath abides
on those people.
Now, He did love them.
God so loved the world,
He died for their sins,
He wanted them to get saved,
but you know what?
They rejected, rejected,
and you know what?
When you go to hell,
His wrath is abiding on you.
He's angry
that you didn't believe,
and you're paying for
your sins in hell
because you rejected the pain
that Jesus Christ made.
God's wrath abides on them.
Where does it abide on them in?
It abides on them in hell.
If there was no hell,
how is it abiding on them?
But it says God's wrath
abideth on them.
Turn to Acts 16.
Now, I'm glad that here
in the Philippines,
I really don't run into
people too often that say,
you know what?
I don't believe in hell.
You know, pretty much,
you'll run into that
in America a lot,
which is kind of frustrating.
It's like,
what are you talking about?
It's like, of course
there's a hell.
But here in the Philippines,
most everyone believes in it,
and it's all throughout
the Bible.
Acts 16, verses 30 and 31.
And brought them out
and said,
Sirs, what must I do
to be saved?
And they said,
Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved
and I house.
And he's telling them,
they need to be saved.
What's the implication?
They're being saved
from something.
Okay?
They're being saved
from hell.
That's what the Bible's saying.
Now, this might surprise
some of you.
One of the guys at our church
used to go to a church,
and he preached on hell.
He was told he wasn't allowed
to preach.
I love this story
because it's so unique,
and it's like,
this is so bizarre
that there's no way
he's making this up.
But he preached at the church,
and he talked about
how when people die,
they go to hell.
And then he was told
he wasn't allowed
to preach there anymore
because this Baptist church,
the best church in the area,
said,
We don't believe anybody
goes to hell when they die.
We believe they soul sleep
until the great white
throw judgment.
Baptist church
in the Philippines.
We're not overstating
when we say
there are no churches
here in Metro Manila.
I mean, it's not like
there's all these great churches
right around the corner,
and it's just like,
we're just a little bit,
this is not America
where there's plenty
of IFB churches
that might not be like this,
but they're still preaching
the gospel.
They still have
the right gospel.
They don't even believe in hell.
When you die,
you know what I mean?
I mean, what about Luke 16?
It's like,
are you kidding me?
I mean, you know Luke 16?
I mean, I'm getting ahead
of myself.
We're going to be talking
about that, but it's like,
isn't Luke 16 in your Bible?
I mean, what are they doing
to these NIVs these days?
I mean, they're just taking
out whole chapters now?
I mean, but it says
you're being saved
in Acts 16.
The implication is
you're being saved
from something.
Right?
What are you being
saved from?
You're being saved
from hell,
if you believe
on Jesus Christ.
Turn to Romans 6.
Romans 6.
And in Romans 6,
verse 23,
a very famous passage,
very famous scripture
for sowing.
It says, verse 23,
for the wages of sin
is death,
but the gift of God
is eternal life.
The gift of God
is eternal life
through Jesus Christ,
our Lord.
And so the Bible says
the wages of sin
is death.
Because of our sin,
we earn death.
Now, obviously,
we know we're going
to physically die one day,
but this is mainly contrasting
eternal life
versus eternal death.
Eternal life
versus eternal damnation.
And what we earn
as our sin
is spiritual death
where we will be judged
and paid
for all of our sins.
The wages of sin
is death.
Okay?
Now, the Bible talks
about in Revelation 20
the second death.
And it talks about
being tormented
day and night
forever and ever.
No.
So it's not that you just
die and you're out of existence.
No, it says forever and ever.
Okay?
So obviously,
we know that.
But all these verses,
it talks about a judgment.
All these verses
we use for soul winning,
it implies hell.
Now, we talk about hell
earlier in the conversation,
but even in these
salvation verses,
it shows you're being
saved from something.
Right.
It only makes sense.
Common sense would tell you
that.
Turn to Acts 24,
verse 24,
And so,
hell is a necessity
for the sinner
because you're not
going to get saved
without believing
there's a hell.
Okay?
But not only because
you can't be saved
without believing in hell.
And people like Billy Graham,
you know Billy Graham
stated before he went to hell
that he didn't believe in hell?
It's like,
I wonder if you
believe in it now, buddy.
Because it's like,
how could you possibly
read this Bible
and walk away
and say there is no hell?
And he's like,
I don't know.
And he's like,
I don't know.
And he's like,
You know,
when I first got saved
in college,
the first year after
I got saved,
I didn't really read this much,
but I read a lot of,
you know,
Christian books.
And there's this famous book
by this guy named Lee Strobel.
Who's heard of Lee Strobel?
The case for faith?
The case for Christ?
Anybody?
Man, I'm dating myself.
I'm obviously a lot older
than I realize.
It's a long time.
This book was written
like 15 years ago or so.
But I remember, you know,
being saved and thinking,
oh, you know,
it'd be so great
to try to win these
atheists to the Lord.
And it's like, man,
I was like,
if I just read this book,
it would teach me how,
because he was an atheist
or agnostic
that supposedly converted.
Okay.
And I remember
that he was going around
to all these religious leaders,
all these Christian leaders,
and he was talking about hell
because hell was just
too unfair to him.
It didn't seem right to him
that there was a hell.
Okay.
We went to this
one religious leader.
I don't remember
who the religious leader was.
But the guy said,
you know,
actually,
a lot of the experts
think it's just symbolic
when it says
they're tormenting
the day and night
forever and ever
and it talks about fire
over and over.
I mean,
it talks about hell
like three times
as much as heaven.
And he was so touched
by that,
he's like,
well,
I can believe in a God
that doesn't send
anybody to hell.
But you know what?
That's not the God
of the Bible.
And he can sit here
and say,
well,
you know,
there's no hell.
You know,
people cannot get saved
unless they believe it.
Okay.
You say,
well,
but you know,
you have to understand also,
hell's a necessity
for the sinner
because when we preach
the gospel to them,
hell motivates them
to get saved.
It's not just that
it merely exists.
It motivates them
to get saved.
Now turn to Acts 24.
Are you in Acts 24?
Acts 24,
look at verse number 24.
And after certain days
when Felix came
with his wife,
Jerusalem,
which was a Jewess,
he sent for Paul
and heard him concerning
the faith in Christ.
And as he reasoned
of righteousness,
temperance,
Felix trembled
and answered,
go thy way for this time.
When I have a convenient season,
I will call for thee.
It says he's trembling.
Why is he trembling?
He's afraid.
He heard about the judgment
to come
and he's afraid.
Why?
Because he doesn't believe.
As far as we know,
he's in hell today
because he called
for a more convenient season.
That season
probably never came
because when you preach
the gospel to people
and they say,
well, later on,
the word that's sown
in their heart
is probably going
to be taken away.
They're probably
never going to believe.
They're probably
never going to get saved.
Now, I hope he did,
but all indications for him
and King Agrippa
a few chapters later
is they never did
get saved.
But when he heard
about the judgment to come,
he started to tremble.
He was afraid that Paul
might be telling the truth.
And he didn't believe it,
but he was afraid
he was going to hell.
See, hell motivates people.
You know the reason
why I got saved?
I vividly remember.
I was afraid
I was going to die
and go to hell.
That's why I was willing
to listen to the gospel
because I was afraid.
And then all of a sudden
I got saved
and I was so thankful.
Afterwards, I felt
this feeling of relief
immediately after I got saved.
And I was so thankful
to be saved.
People that are unsaved
out there,
they are afraid
that they're going to die
and go to hell.
Now, they might not
tell you that,
but I promise you
it's the truth.
For two years,
I remember just every night
just thinking,
man, I hope God
will forgive me.
I hope he'd let me
into heaven
because I just didn't know
that I had faith.
Ninety-nine plus percent
of people in this country,
they believe a false gospel.
They believe in Catholicism.
They believe in all these
various weird cults.
They don't believe
the right thing.
We'll do our best
and when we show them hell,
that's going to motivate them
to get saved.
I was preaching the gospel
one time in Ohio.
I don't remember
if it was at the university
at Akron or Kent State.
My friend brother,
Jeff Utzler,
he went to those areas a lot
and I was up there
visiting one weekend
and we went to one
and I was preaching
the gospel to this guy
and I started the conversation
and I didn't think
the guy really wanted
to listen to me.
It was one of those where
I was like,
well, he says he's listening
but I feel like
I'm wasting my time.
I was going through it
and it just seemed like
he was a really smart guy,
really intellectual.
He thought he knew something
and I think he was
secretly mocking me in his head.
I went through the verses
and I'm explaining it
and he was just kind of
a really confident guy
and really arrogant.
He knew what he was
talking about
and I remember
just all of a sudden
it was about 10 minutes
into the conversation
he just switched like that
from being very confident
to being very much like Felix.
All of a sudden
he was afraid.
Now, he didn't believe
what I was saying.
He didn't get saved
but all of a sudden
he started to get afraid
and he's like,
I don't want to talk
about this anymore
and he basically
just yelled at me
and I was like,
alright, it doesn't
change anything.
I was like,
the Bible says
you must believe
and if you don't believe this
you're going to go to hell
and this sort of guy
all of a sudden
being like this.
Why?
The word of God is power.
But I'm saying what?
We must talk about hell
because people like that
would never get saved
unless we brought up hell.
It scares them into reality.
Otherwise,
they'd never get saved.
Look, if we preached the gospel
and never talked about hell,
this is what would happen.
We would have a lot of people
pray with us
and none of them would get saved.
We must show them
that there is a hell.
I remember
when I first started
to preach the gospel
and I didn't really
want to do it.
So I was part of Campus Crusade
and their method was
going through the four
spiritual laws
and you start off and just say,
you know,
God has a wonderful plan
for your life.
So I'd follow this method
and it's like a
five-minute conversation
and I remember
when I first started doing it
because I was kind of naive.
I was going soloing
in the mountain layer
of West Virginia University
and an hour and a half
I preached the gospel
seven times and had eight saved.
I thought they got
saved at the time.
People don't get saved
if you just avoid
talking about hell
and avoid talking about that
you must change
what you believe
and believe on Jesus Christ.
They don't get saved
unless you're very clear
about that.
People will not get saved.
It's a necessity
for the sinner
otherwise they won't get saved.
It scares them
and then they're willing
to believe on Jesus Christ.
Obviously not all of them
but some of them are.
Turn to Psalm 66.
And so hell's a necessity
for the Savior.
It's a necessity
for the sinner.
But you know
hell is also a necessity
for the spiritual institutions.
What do I mean by that?
Well one, I'm trying to make this
an illiterate circle.
So spiritual institutions.
But basically if people
don't believe in hell
they start believing
some really weird things
about the afterlife
in terms of like
their version of a judgment.
In this country
what's the weird thing
people believe in?
Purgatory.
Right?
Most people in this country
believe in purgatory.
They believe that
after you die
no matter whether you believe
no matter how good you are
you're going to burn
for a little while
to help cleanse up
some of your sin.
That's why they sell Jesus
on a cross
because they just
don't get it.
They believe in purgatory
that when you die
you can't simply go to heaven.
But you've got to cleanse
out some of your sin
as you go.
Well in Psalm 66
this is risky on my part
because I'm going to give you
their heavyweight verse.
I'm afraid half of you
are going to leave
to go back to your
Catholic roots or something
after I give you this.
Psalm 66
let's look at the big argument
they have in verses 10 through 12.
Verse 10
For thou, O God,
hast proved us.
Thou hast tried us
as silver has tried.
Thou hast brought us
into the net.
Thou hast laid its
affliction upon our loins.
Thou hast caused men
to ride over our heads.
We went through fire
and through water
but thou brought us
us out into a wealthy place.
So they say
well you know
God's brought us through fire
which means everybody
goes to burn for a little while
before they get sick.
Now does that look like
a really solid argument?
No.
The first problem with this is
he's alive.
Okay?
He's writing this
he's not dead.
I mean if what they're
saying is true
then that means he'd be
writing from up in heaven
like man you brought me
through the fire
and now I'm here.
Look he's still alive.
I mean that's the best
argument you have.
It just shows that
the Catholics
they don't really believe this.
They're not basing
what they believe
in this Bible at all.
That's their big argument.
We'll turn to Psalms 103.
Psalms 103.
All it's saying is
we go through trials in life.
Yeah you know God's
led us through
I mean some through the water
some through the flood
but if we're gonna be saved
it's all through the blood.
Right?
Even on Jesus Christ.
Look yeah we all go
through trials in life.
That's all he's saying.
Every single person
goes through trials.
Psalms 103 verse 12
As far as the east is
from the west
so far hath you removed
our transgressions.
Amen.
See you know
you start going east
you're still going east
it never means west.
As far as the east
is from the west
because they never meet.
It's the same with our salvation.
Our sins are completely
gone when we get saved.
Our future sins
are wiped away.
They're done.
He's never gonna bring them up.
They're done.
We're on our way to heaven.
We don't have to spend
a little bit of time burning.
Spend a little bit of time
you know in purgatory
before we make it into heaven.
No you know
your soul is already perfect.
We have our soul
we have our body.
Our bodies are gonna sin
until the day we die
but our soul is perfect
immediately when we believe
on Jesus Christ.
It's completely cleansed.
We have no sins
that we have to account for.
We'll go to heaven.
Turn to Matthew 5.
Matthew 5.
Is that their number one argument
from what I saw?
Let's look at their
number two argument.
Okay.
Let's see if this one you know
maybe this is giving me
the nail in the coffin
and you guys leave
after this one.
Matthew 5.
And in verse 25.
It says in verse 25
agree with thine adversary
quickly whilst thou art
in the way with him
lest at any time
the adversary deliver thee
to the judge
and the judge deliver thee
to the officer
and now be cast into prison.
Verily I say unto thee
thou shalt by no means
come out then
till thou hast paid
the uttermost farthing.
So what they say is
well the prison is referring
to purgatory
and you're not getting
out of there
until you pay
the uttermost farthing.
Now that's just ridiculous.
If you want to just think
everything in the Bible
is symbolic
you can make it mean
anything you want.
Okay.
But you know the Bible
is very clear
in the Sermon on the Mount
in Matthew 7.
In the Sermon on the Mount
it's gonna disprove
what they say in Matthew 5.
Cause in Matthew 7 verse 13
Matthew 7 verse 13
It says in Matthew 7 verse 13
Enter ye in at the straight gate
for wide is the gate
and broad is the way
that leadeth to destruction
and many there be
which go in there at
because straight is the gate
and narrow is the way
which leadeth unto life
and few there be that find it.
There's only two places.
There's the broad way.
There's the narrow way.
There's the second death.
There's eternal life.
There's hell.
There's heaven.
There's no indication
of a purgatory
anywhere in the Bible.
Say well why do they
even have to be
in the broad way?
They're not gonna be
in the broad way.
They're not gonna be
in the broad way.
They're not gonna be
in the broad way.
Say well why do they
believe in a purgatory?
Because it makes them money.
Cause it used to make them
a lot of money.
It's like well we can pray
for your relative
to get out of purgatory.
Just give us 20 bucks
or it's probably
a lot of money back then.
But just give us
an amount of money
and we'll pray for them
to get out of purgatory.
That's the reason
why it exists.
And so all of a sudden
they form their doctrine
and then they say well let's
come up with the best verse
we can get.
Well those are their arguments.
Those are the best verses.
You ever wonder
how do they get purgatory?
I mean that's their
argument right there.
Another weird belief
in the afterlife
in terms of people that
well just weird belief
in the afterlife
is reincarnation.
Now turn to John 9.
John 9.
Now what's happening
over these last couple years
the last 10 years
is the religions of the world
are starting to come back together.
Right?
Catholic Church has created
so many harlots
but they're all coming
back tomorrow.
And so what they try to do
is combine all these
religions together.
And so what they're
starting to do now
is all these holy books
are teaching the same thing
according to them.
So they're weird beliefs
they try to morph into the Bible
like reincarnation.
Okay?
Well let's look at one of
their big arguments
for reincarnation here
in John 9 verses 1 and 2.
And it says in John 9 verse 1.
So this man was born blind.
And his disciples asked him
saying master who did sin?
This man or his parents
that he was born blind.
So think about the question
that they're asking.
They're saying this man
was born blind.
Did he sin?
Is that why he was born blind?
Now think about that.
That's a dumb question.
It's like you're saying
he sinned in the womb.
He committed some terrible sin
in the womb
that God made him blind.
Like that's what they're asking.
I mean what a stupid question.
Right?
And so what people that
believe in reincarnation
will say is well
you know obviously then
he must have lived
you know in another life.
And that's what they meant.
No it's just people
ask dumb questions sometimes.
That's what we see here.
They're asking a dumb question.
Now I like Jesus' response
though in verse 3.
Because Jesus answered
neither hath his man sin
nor his parents
but that the works of God
should be made manifest.
You know what Jesus
does not rebuke them
for asking something stupid.
He does say man you are so bobo.
Right?
He doesn't do that.
Yeah he's long suffering.
Sometimes in life you know
we're all going to say
stupid things.
And they just be long suffering
with people if they say
something stupid
or they think something stupid.
That's the way Jesus is here.
Because this is about
the dumbest question
you can possibly think of.
This guy was born blind
because he's such a bad sinner.
And so people that are trying
to morph reincarnation
into the Bible
they will teach this.
Another example of weird
beliefs on the afterlife
is some people believe that
you know what if you are
a really rude person
in this life
that you're going to be
have people be really rude
to you in hell.
Like it's not a literal fire.
They don't want to believe in that.
But you know if you're
an obnoxious bully
then you'll get bullied in hell
for all eternity.
Just these weird beliefs.
You know these are really
strange beliefs
but did you know that
the Baptists have
a really weird belief
in the afterlife as well?
See hell is a necessity
for spiritual institutions
including the Baptists here
because Baptists have
their version of purgatory.
And it's called this
Abraham's bosom garbage
that the Bible doesn't teach.
Turn to Revelation 13.
And you say well what are you
talking about about
Abraham's bosom?
You know I thought
bosom was a body part.
You're right.
It is a body part.
But what people believe is
that when people died
in the Old Testament
this is what most Baptists
the vast majority of Baptists
believe is
that when most people died
well not most
when anybody died
in the Old Testament
they didn't get to go to heaven.
You say well why didn't
they get to go to heaven?
Well because Jesus
did not die yet.
He hadn't paid for their sins
so they would have to
go to hell.
Okay you say wait a minute.
People that were saved
went to hell.
Well they went to
the good part of hell.
Because apparently
you know hell has like
you know a couple parts.
It's got the part
where they're burning
and right beside that
they're like on a
miniature golf course
just in paradise over there.
That's what according to
the Baptists
that's what they believe
that there's a good part to hell.
Now the average person
you talk to
and you ask them
what does hell make you
think of?
They're not going to
think it's a good place.
Can you imagine
you know a soul winning
in the Old Testament.
You know if you would
just believe in the coming
Savior you'll get to go
to hell forever.
I mean that's so stupid.
But they say well
Jesus did not die yet.
Well turn to Revelation 13.
You say well how did
they go to heaven
if Jesus hadn't paid
for their sins?
Revelation 13 verses 7 and 8.
And it was given unto them
to make war with the saints
and to overcome them
and power was given to him
given him over all
kindreds and tongues
and nations and all that
dwell upon the earth
shall worship him
whose names are not
written in the book of life
of the lamb slain from
the foundation of the world.
We must understand
Jesus or God is outside of time.
He's not within
our time system.
God has no beginning.
He has no end.
And God knew
from the very beginning
that you know what Jesus
was going to die
and pay for our sins.
It was the plan
from the beginning.
It's not like this
dispensationalist say
where basically you know
man screwed it up
and God had to keep
changing his mind
because he didn't know
what to do.
No I mean his plan
was the lamb slain
will have sinned
and come short
of the word of God.
We're all sinners
and that was the plan.
Turn to Acts 2.
And so my question is
if everybody went to hell
in the Old Testament
what was Elijah doing?
Because I mean he went up
into heaven.
Was he just kind of
hanging in outer space
just kind of seeing
what's going on?
And God's like sorry
you know you're gonna
have to just wait here
by the pearly gates
before he lets you in.
I mean that doesn't make
any sense.
I mean it's clear
he went up.
He went to heaven
when he died.
Why?
Because it's always
been the same.
There's heaven
and there's hell.
In Acts chapter 2 verse 31.
Now the reason why
they don't want to think
that anybody went to heaven
is because what they don't
want to do is think
that Jesus Christ
when he died
his soul went to hell.
Now look at what it says
in Acts 2 verse 31
about Jesus Christ.
He's seeing this
before the stake
of the resurrection of Christ
that his soul was not
left in hell
neither his flesh
did see corruption.
And see they don't
want to believe
that Jesus Christ
that his soul went to hell
so all of a sudden
they've decided
well there's a good hell.
There's a good part of hell.
But it's very clear
in this verse
that his soul
was not left in hell.
But I want you
to understand something.
The way this is worded
is your flesh
seeing corruption
is that a good thing
or a bad thing?
Is it good or bad
if your flesh corrupts?
It's bad isn't it?
It's not good
if your flesh
corrupts.
And so when he's
mentioning two things
his soul was not
left in hell
neither his flesh
did see corruption.
These are both
very bad things
that are happening.
Okay?
It's a very bad place
going to hell.
His soul was not
left in hell
neither his flesh
did see corruption.
Because of the fact
that he did rise again
his flesh did not corrupt
because he was dead
less than four days.
Lazarus was dead
four days
and behold he's naked.
Jesus was dead
three days.
His flesh didn't corrupt.
Okay?
And his soul was not
left in hell either.
So it would not make
sense in here
when it says hell
to say well this is a good hell.
Not only is there
nowhere in the Bible
that would say that
it just wouldn't make
sense with the grammar
here in this verse.
Now turn to Luke 16.
And in Luke 16
this is their big argument
for believing in this
Abraham's blossom of nonsense
that when people died
in the Old Testament
they went to the
good part of hell.
Okay?
Now I got saved
when I was 18 years old
and if somebody had told me
you know there's a good part
to hell
I would have just
made fun of them.
I'm like are you kidding me?
Because everybody knows
that hell is a terrible place.
Yeah.
Suggesting that there's
a good hell it's like
are you kidding me?
I mean
I'll be honest
you know these Baptists
need to start listening
to the Pope
because the Catholics
got this right.
They understand
Jesus went to hell.
They got that part right.
And the Baptists
they just don't want
to believe that Jesus
went to hell.
Well you know what
I'm glad
that he did go to hell
to pay for my sins
because he's saving us
from that judgment.
Luke 16 verses
23 and 26
And in hell
he lift up his eyes
being in torments
and see it Abraham afar off
and Lazarus in his bosom
and he cried and said
Father Abraham
have mercy on me
and send Lazarus
and he may dip
the tip of his finger
in water
and cool my tongue
for I am tormented
in this flame.
But Abraham said
son remember that
thou in thy lifetime
receiveth us like
good things
and likewise
Lazarus evil things
but now he is comforted
and now are tormented.
And beside all this
between us and you
there is a great golf fix
so that they which
would pass
from hence to you
cannot
neither can they pass to us
that would come
from thence.
And so in this story
you're basically
seeing a conversation
between heaven and hell.
Now here's the thing
if Abraham's bosom is true
basically what they're saying
is this was a common occurrence
that people just used
to talk to each other
from heaven
from hell to paradise
all the time
that's what they teach.
This is what
what God's doing here
is giving us a special glimpse
into hell.
Okay.
He's giving us an idea
the mind of an unbeliever
who dies and goes
to hell forever.
This was not a common occurrence
that he allows us
to actually see this
but you notice in this verse
where it says
there's a great golf fix
in verse 26
there's a great golf
between heaven and hell.
Okay.
So those in hell
they're never gonna be able
to go to heaven
and those in heaven
they're never gonna be able
to go to hell.
So Baptist would like to point
to this Baptist purgatory
in this verse
in this passage
but there's so much scripture
in the Bible
that would say that
when somebody's saved
whether it's in the Old Testament
or new
they go straight to heaven
and if they're not saved
they go straight to hell.
And so in this passage
it's interesting though
because it says in verse 26
they which would pass
from hence to you
cannot.
You see when people die
and they go to hell
they're never gonna be able
to go to heaven.
But you know what
we have the opportunity
to spare people
from going to hell.
Amen.
They want people
to talk to their loved ones.
In this story
the rich man is asking
for somebody
to talk to his brothers.
He's asking for somebody
but you know what?
He's not gonna send him
to rise again or Lazarus
because once you go to heaven
you're there forever.
Right.
See hell's a necessity
not only for the savior
and for the sinner
and for the spiritual institutions
it's a necessity
for the soul winner.
Hell's a necessity
for all of us.
You know why?
Because hell is what motivates us
to rest the gospel.
Look at Luke 16 verse 27.
Then he said
I pray thee therefore father
that thou would ascend him
to my father's house
for I have five brethren
that he may testify unto them
lest they also come
unto this place of torment.
So he's pleading for him to go
and then tell his brothers
Abraham saith unto them
they have Moses in the prophets
let them hear them.
He said nay father Abraham
but if one went unto them
from the dead
they will repent.
He said unto them
if they hear not Moses
in the prophets
neither will they be persuaded
though one rose from the dead.
In verses 30 and 31
it mentions the word repent.
In verse 31 it clarifies
when it says
will they be persuaded
because what it's saying
by repenting
is changing their mind.
They're persuaded
of what they believe
in Catholicism
to believing the right thing.
It's not talking about
repentance of sins.
What it's saying is
that you know what
he's saying that hey
they'll change their mind
they'll repent
and he says no
they won't be persuaded
they won't change their mind
though one rose from the dead.
Obviously later on
we know that Jesus Christ
did rise from the dead.
But you know we see this
story in the Bible.
I believe the main story here
is not only to give us
a picture of what hell is like
but for us on a daily basis
to know this story
and realize this rich man
is in hell forever.
And nobody can do
anything about that.
That's a done deal.
You look and see
and this is not a parable
he uses real names
this is a real story.
This person is in hell forever.
And that's the sad reality
for 99% of people.
And he wants people
to preach the gospel
to his brothers.
Well who's going to preach
the gospel to his brothers?
We are.
We're the only people
to do it.
See hell is a necessity
for the soul winner.
Because you know what
quite honestly sometimes
you know you just kind of
get cold hearted
and you just kind of just
don't feel like going soul winner.
You just kind of feel like
going about your week
and the attitude comes across
all of us from time to time
that you know what
we're doing more than
99% of Christians.
Right?
It's like I've already won
more souls to the Lord
than 99% of Christians
will ever win.
So you know what
I've done enough God
I can just throw in the towel.
You know we can never
throw in the towel.
Because the sad reality
is there's people like this
all the time
that would just beg
and plead for somebody
to preach the gospel
to their relatives.
Turn to Hebrew 7 or 11.
Hebrews chapter 11 verse 7.
I mean I would say
that the vast majority
if not all of us in this room
we know people
we know family members
that you know what
they're in hell right now.
I can say that.
You know my granddad
you know he was agnostic
or atheist until the day he died.
You know you say
well you know
God made an exception for him.
No he didn't.
If you don't believe on
Jesus Christ you go to hell.
And you know what
he would have never wanted
to listen to the gospel
here in this life
but I'm sure he changed his mind
once he died and went to hell.
That's the reality.
You know what
hell is a motivator for us.
It's a necessity for us
to think about hell
and realize it's a real place.
You know I was thinking
about this sermon last night
because I like to review
and practice my sermons
and I was just sitting down
in the chair just trying
to think about hell
for a little while.
Hell is kind of unimaginable.
It's kind of hard
I mean we know it's real.
It's what the Bible teaches.
It's really hard to comprehend
though hell.
I mean you just think about
that 99% of this world
is going to die and go to hell.
It's almost unimaginable.
It's hard for us
to even really take it in.
It's hard for us
to comprehend it.
I don't think we'll ever
be able to fully comprehend it.
That's what the Bible teaches.
Hebrews 11 verse 7
By faith Noah being warned
of God of things
not seen as yet
moved with fear
prepared an ark
to the saving of his house
by the which he condemned
the world
and became heir
of the righteousness
which is by faith.
What is it that motivated Noah?
He was moved with fear.
You know what
we need to be moved with fear.
We need to realize
hell is a real place
and be moved by that,
be motivated by that.
I don't want to see
anybody go down there.
Just think
when you walk around here
there's so many people
here in Manila
just look around
and realize almost
all of these people
are going to die
and burn in hell forever.
We must be moved with fear.
We can never just become
desensitized
to the reality of hell.
We need to always
remember the reality of hell.
Turn to Jude 1.
I've said this before
and this is the truth
that the reason why
I started preaching
the gospel
was because of the fact
I didn't want to see
people go to hell.
I didn't necessarily
have an interest
to not be worldly
at the time.
I didn't have an interest
to quit listening
to rock music
or things like that.
But I was motivated
to see people get saved.
That's really
the start of everything
because when you realize
hell is a real place
and you don't want to see
people go to hell
it's going to change
who you are.
The question
all of our family members
want to know, right?
They ask you
why are you so extreme?
Why are you going
all the way to this church?
I mean there's a Baptist
church on every corner.
It's not the same thing.
We're moved by fear.
Jude 1 verses 22 and 23.
And if some have compassion
making a difference
and others saved with fear
pulling them out of the fire
hating even the garment
spotted by the flesh.
See the Bible says
we ought to have compassion
on people
and then it says
others save with fear
pulling them out of the fire.
Now we talked about
how the unsaved person
they need help
to make them realize
they need to get saved.
But you have to understand
that most people
don't realize
they're in a burning building.
Most people do not realize
they're drowning
and on their way to hell.
Now we can try to motivate them
and show them help
but you know what?
Oftentimes they don't
get moved with fear
but we ought to be
moved with fear
doing everything we can
to rescue them
from going to hell.
We ought to be moved with fear.
We ought to save them
with fear.
Not only that we're showing them
about hell
but that we are moved by fear.
Amen.
We save them with fear
because we're afraid.
We don't want to see them
go to hell.
Why don't we go
soul winning every week?
Because we're afraid of hell.
We don't want to see people
die and go to hell.
We're moved with fear.
And you know what?
If hell doesn't motivate people
what is going to motivate you
in life?
I mean you say
well you know I go to a church
that preaches the gospel
isn't that good enough?
No it's not.
We're all expected
to preach the gospel
and last I checked
it's still 99 plus percent
in this country
and it's unsaved.
You say yeah we got
400 people saved in 2018.
That's a small drop of water
in the bucket my friend.
How often do you run
into a saved person
out soul winning here?
Not very often.
We're getting
a lot of people saved.
That's a small drop
in the bucket.
We need multitudes
of churches started
in tons of soul winning
until the day we die
because there's going to be
a lot of work to do
until the day we die.
So what can we learn
about this?
Number one,
that as a recap you know
hell is a necessity
for the Savior.
How can you balance
right and wrong
if there is no hell?
It doesn't make
any sense whatsoever.
Hell is a necessity
for the sinner though.
They must believe
in hell to be saved.
They can't say
well you know I believe that
you know it's just by Jesus
but I don't believe
anyone goes to hell.
I've never run into that
scenario in my entire life.
If they're willing
to believe on Jesus
and believe it's eternal life
only in him,
they're going to believe
hell is a real place.
Hell is a necessity
for us to remember this,
to keep this in mind.
There's a reason why
we're doing this
missions trip.
Because of the fact
there is a hell
and most people
are going there
and if we don't do work
who's doing it?
You say well I go
so many more than
you know I go so many
for four hours every week.
We ought to do
as much as we can
until the day we die
because there's a lot
of unsaved people out there.
Every single one of us.
Let's go to the word of prayer.
Dear heavenly father,
thank you for allowing us
to be here today
and help us to remember
this sermon and obviously
we know hell is real
but honestly this is
more us than anybody else
because we're the ones
that are going to be
the soul winners
and go out there
and preach the gospel.
Help us to be moved with fear.
Help us never forget
how real this is.
Help us not to try
to just wish it away
like a lot of people do
and kind of pretend
it's not a reality.
The truth is that
99 plus percent
of this country
is going to die
and go to hell
and it's our job
to go out there
and preach the gospel.
Help us have a great day
soul winning today God
but help us to have
a wonderful week
and get tons of people saying.
We ask you to hold off
the weather
and we'll coach you
on your own.
Thank you.
All right, let's sing
our last song.
Turn your hymnals
to song number 306,
song number 306,
Have Thine Own Way Lord.
Song number 306.
Song number 306
Have Thine Own Way Lord.
On the first now. Ready?
Have thine own way, Lord, have thine own way.
Thou art the powder, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after Thy will.
I am waiting, yielded and still on the second.
Have thine own way, Lord, have thine own way.
Search me and try me, Master today.
Wire that snow, Lord, wash me just now.
I see thy presence, humbly I bow on the third.
Have thine own way, Lord, have thine own way.
Wounded and weary, help me, I pray.
Powerful power, surely is thine.
Touch me and heal me, Savior divine.
On the last now. Have thine own way, Lord, have thine own way.
Hold on me, absolute sway.
Fill me thy spirit, till all shall see.
Christ only, always living in me.
Where am I?
Where God gave me for this day. Thank you, Father, for allowing us to be here.
If I may refer to you, we ask for your paper to be called.
So if you would like to ask for the paper to us,
that's only be successful, so we may introduce you this week.
We ask this this day. Amen.
Amen. All right. We're dismissed.
Amen.