Let's look back at verse number six, where the Bible read,
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,
having the everlasting gospel,
to preach unto them that dwell on the earth.
And to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him,
for the hour of his judgment is come.
And worshiping them made heaven, and earth, and the sea,
and the fountains of waters.
And there followed another angel, saying,
Babylon has fallen, has fallen that great city,
because she made all nations drink of the wine
of the wrath of her fornication.
And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice,
If any man worship the beast and his image,
and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand,
the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God,
which is poured out without mixture
into the cup of his indignation.
And he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
in the presence of the holy angels,
and in the presence of the lamb.
And the smoke of their torment
ascendeth up forever and ever.
And they have no rest day nor night
who worship the beast and his image,
and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
And the title of my sermon this morning
is Nine Terrors of Hell.
Nine Terrors of Hell.
Now we saw in verse number six, we have an angel flying.
He's preaching the everlasting gospel.
And what is he doing?
He's trying to warn people of the judgment that is coming.
Now we have a loving God, we have a God who is love,
but he also has wrath.
He also has judgment.
And what's the purpose of preaching the gospel?
To warn people how to flee from the wrath of God.
And what is the wrath of God?
Look at verse number 10.
And they shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
in the presence of the holy angels,
in the presence of the lamb.
The Bible describes hell as a place of fire and brimstone.
You say, well, what is that?
What is brimstone?
Well, if you just look in a modern dictionary
or something like that, brimstone is sulfur.
And if you study the Bible, brimstone is liquid fire.
It's just, it's fire that's so hot, it's liquid.
Now, if you look at just the last part of this phrase,
though, it says in the presence of the holy angels
and in the presence of the lamb.
Now, who's the lamb here?
Is this talking about a literal lamb?
Is it really just like a statue of a lamb in hell?
No, it's talking about the Lord Jesus Christ,
the lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.
So some people would say,
well, hell is just being separated from God.
Maybe you've heard that before, right?
They've said, false prophets, false teachers,
they try to soften hell, and they try to say,
well, the reason why you don't wanna go to hell
is because you won't be near God.
You won't be in his presence.
You know, the atheist, that doesn't scare him.
He doesn't even wanna believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
You know, the sodomite reprobate,
he hates God, he doesn't wanna retain him in his knowledge.
The fact that he could get away from God
sounds pleasing to him.
But guess what?
You're not gonna escape God.
I don't care where you go,
if you dig yourself down into hell,
you can't escape his presence.
But guess what?
If you're in hell, you're in God's wrath.
That's the type of presence you're in.
And if you're in heaven, you're in the presence of his love.
He's gonna serve you, is what the Bible even says.
But we don't need to soften hell.
Look, hell is not a good place to go.
Hell is horrible, it's terrible,
and there's nine terrors I'm gonna prove this morning.
Some people say, well, it's just separation.
Or some people say, well, I think hell is this world.
You know, maybe they have a bad life.
Look, I don't care what's going on in your life.
Hell, it doesn't even compare.
And when we go through the scriptures,
and we look at the nine terrors of hell,
if you think your life is hell, you're mistaken.
They say, well, it's this earth.
You know, you live in Phoenix,
and you go out sowing, and you're like, this is hell, man.
It's like 120 degrees.
Look, it gets a lot hotter
where the Bible describes this place of hell.
And you know, even the atheists today,
they believe in a hell.
If you go to the science class today,
if you go to the college campus today,
they will teach you that the center of this earth
is full of magma, which is what?
Liquid fire.
They'll teach you that the inner and the outer core
is a lot of liquid fire.
Now, I looked up an article from the BBC.
It says humans have been all over the earth.
We've conquered lands, we've flown through the air,
we've dived in the deepest trenches in the ocean,
we've been to the moon, if you believe that.
It says, but we've never been to the planet's core.
We haven't even come close.
He says nobody's been to the core.
Nobody's even been kind of close, not even near it.
He says the central point of the earth
is estimated at 6,000 kilometers down.
So no matter where you are in the surface of the earth,
since we're on a sphere today, this morning, right?
We're on the circle of the earth, okay?
If you go to the center,
it's about over 6,000 kilometers deep.
And you say, well, what's the biggest hole
that somebody ever dug?
Like, how far have we gotten?
You know, like 5,000, did we get real close?
Look, the farthest pit,
or the farthest that we've ever drilled down
is 12 kilometers.
So to get to the center of 6,000,
the furthest we've ever gotten is 12.
That's 0.2%.
That's not even 1% of getting down to the core.
And when you get that far down,
human tools and instruments and knowledge is just so,
you know, we don't have, we're speculating.
We can't get drill bits that long.
We can't figure it out.
Look, you're not gonna drill all the way down to the core
with man's power.
In Wikipedia, it says that the earth's inner core
is primarily a solid ball with a radius of 1,200 kilometers.
It says, or 760 miles.
So according to Wikipedia,
they believe that the core of the earth is 760 miles
in its diameter.
It says the outer core, so there's an outer core.
It says it's 18, or I'm sorry, it's 1,355 miles deep.
And then they have what's called the mantle,
which is another 1,800 miles.
And then they say the crust of the earth
is about three to 40 miles.
So if you look at the earth, you have an inner core,
and then you have an outer core, what's called a mantle,
and then a thin layer of crust.
We reside on this crust.
Now the thing is, we've never gone past the crust.
We don't even know what's beyond the crust.
But you go to any science class,
you look up any article online,
they all agree there's fire underneath us.
And they've never seen it.
I mean, other than what's coming out of a volcano.
Now that's a pretty good indication
that there's fire down there, right?
But I'm just saying, they believe that.
What is believing?
It's when someone gives you a fact and you can't prove it,
and you just trust that it's true, right?
So there's people today, everywhere on this whole planet,
they all believe in a hell, a physical hell,
but they don't believe in the hell of the Bible.
They don't believe when Jesus Christ
is describing a place of fire that's down below us.
They didn't believe it.
Well, go if you would to Isaiah chapter number 30.
The Bible already proved that there was liquid fire.
You would say, how could you look at this world today
and just come up with the conclusion,
you know, I think there's probably just liquid fire
underneath us right now.
I mean, that's kind of, you know, a strange hypothesis.
Now obviously you've seen a volcano erupt.
That gives you some kind of idea.
But before any of science tried to confirm this
or say this is true, look, the Bible already told us
that there was liquid fire.
Look at Isaiah 30 verse 33.
For Tophat is ordained of old.
Yea, for the king it is prepared.
He hath made it deep and large.
The pile thereof is fire and much wood.
The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone,
doth kindle it.
Now he's talking about a physical location,
but it's a symbol of hell.
He's saying Tophat is a picture of hell,
and he's saying God's breath is like,
is the stream of brimstone.
His wrath coming out is like liquid fire.
Go to Psalms chapter number 47.
That's why you read in Revelation, what does it call hell?
It says these were both cast alive
into the lake of fire, burning with brimstone.
Now according to the Bible, death and hell
will be cast into this lake of fire,
but we see a place called the lake of fire.
That sounds liquid to me, doesn't it?
We see the fires moving, it's swirling.
This is a horrible place.
In Revelation 20, 10 it says,
and the devil that deceived them
was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,
where the beast and the false prophet are,
and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever.
It says in Revelation 21, eight,
but the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable
and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters
and all liars shall have their part
in the lake which burneth the fire and brimstone,
which is the second death.
Look at Psalms 47, you say,
this sounds like a horrible place.
This sounds like a terrible place.
You're right.
Psalms 47, verse two,
for the Lord Most High is terrible.
He is a great king over all the earth.
You know one of the attributes of God
is that he's terrible.
And you say, what does that mean?
I thought terrible meant that someone's awful
or bad or wicked.
No, what the Bible's meaning here
is that the Lord is of great terror.
He is one to be feared.
When you would see the Lord,
terror would strike into your hearts.
If you had the thought of going to hell,
that should strike fear into your hearts
because the Lord is terrible.
The Lord is one to be feared.
Go to Psalms 90 now.
Flip over just a couple more chapters.
Go a couple more.
Look, God's described as terrible many ways in the Bible,
many times in the Bible.
He's the one that we should have fear of.
He's the one that created everything that we see today.
And his wrath, there is nothing to compare
unto the wrath of God.
No matter what man can do to you,
no matter what you could imagine, hell is worse.
What God has developed as his wrath is the worst.
Look at Psalms 90, verse nine.
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath.
We spend our years as a tale that is told.
The days of our years are three score years and 10.
And if by reason of strength, they be four score years.
Yet as their strength, labor, and sorrow,
for it is soon cut off and we fly away.
Who knoweth the power of thine anger?
Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
So teach us to number our days,
that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
So now go to Matthew chapter 13.
We'll start getting into my points.
I wanted to give an introduction.
Look, hell is a horrible place.
It's a terrible place.
We ought to fear the God who made it.
We ought to fear the God, his wrath.
The wrath and the judgment that is to come.
Jesus said this in Matthew 10.
Fear not them which kill the body,
but are not able to kill the soul,
but rather fear him which is able to destroy
both soul and body and hell.
Jesus said, look, there is nothing on this earth
that is anywhere close to you needing to fear
compared to hell, compared to the wrath of God.
What is my first terror?
It's fire.
If you haven't already picked that up
from what I've been describing to you,
hell is fire.
There's fire.
It's gonna burn.
There is heat.
Look at Matthew 13 verse 38.
The field is the world.
The good seed are the children of the kingdom,
but the tares are the children of the wicked one.
The enemy that sowed them is the devil.
The harvest is the end of the world
and the reapers are the angels,
as therefore the tares are gathered
and burned in the fire.
So shall it be in the end of this world.
Look at verse 50.
And shall cast them into the furnace of fire.
There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
The Bible describes hell as a furnace,
one that is burning with fire and heat.
Flip over to Matthew 18 now.
In Revelation 20, it says in death and hell
were cast into the lake of fire.
This is the second death.
So what is hell?
Hell is fire.
Look at Matthew 18 verse nine.
And if thy eye offend thee,
pluck it out and cast it from thee.
It is better for thee to enter into life with one eye
rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell.
Now some people will be labeled
as a fire and brimstone creature.
They will say, oh, you're just trying
to scare people with hell.
Yeah, I am.
Yeah, you should fear the Lord.
You should have the terror of hell.
You should realize this is the real place.
And you know who preached it more than anybody?
Jesus Christ.
You say, which prophet talked about hell the most?
Jesus Christ.
Don't listen to these liars that say,
oh, Jesus is so loving.
Oh, he just preached on love.
Look, he warned about hell more than anybody else combined.
Every, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
he's warning about hell over and over and over.
He said it's so horrible you would be better off
just ripping your own eye out right now than going to hell.
Can you imagine just getting a knife
and gouging out your own eye right now?
He says hell's way worse than that.
You better even, you don't even know how bad hell is.
He's warning.
You know what, and burning pain, fire, it's the worst.
I was looking up some information
about what this would be like.
It says thermal injury can be one of the most painful
and disfiguring forms of trauma.
It affects the skin, the largest and most visible organ.
It says that most burn patients require anesthesia.
I mean, anesthesia, an anesthetist,
someone who performs anesthesia
or gives anesthesia to people,
a large portion of their clients are burn victims
because they're in so much pain, they're in so much agony,
they have to inject them with all kinds of drugs
and all kinds of things just to get any kind of relief.
There's no relief from just the pains of burning.
They're not even on fire anymore
and they're still suffering from it.
Some descriptions of the pain.
This is what people who have been burnt,
they say this is what it feels like.
They say tingling.
They say they have stiffness.
It's like a cold and a freezing.
It's like cold and freezing and hot all at the same time.
They say it's numbness.
They say warmth.
It's like pins and needles.
It's like electric shock.
It's like cramping.
It's like itching.
When you're on fire, it's pure panic.
There is no rest.
It says it consumes every thought.
There is nothing, when you're on fire,
you don't have any other thoughts.
It's every single one of your thoughts at that moment.
People are screaming bloody murder.
Men that you think are strong,
oh, some guy that's so big and strong,
oh, I'm real tough.
If he's on fire, he's gonna be screaming like a little girl.
He's gonna be screaming bloody murder.
There's some people that ascribe, they said burning.
It's the pain has an unpleasant warmth to it.
Eating at my stomach.
There's nausea too.
Just enough to make me hold onto the table for support.
Breath slow.
I've often prized myself in ignoring praying
and just rocking on regardless.
But just, it isn't possible right now.
It owns me, dominates every thought,
controls every action.
You can't even control your own body when you're on fire.
You're just screaming and wailing.
There's no control.
Says another person, says pain sears through my abdomen
better than a branding iron.
My mind conceding to the torment.
Unable to bring a thought to completion.
He can't even form a complete thought.
He's in so much agony.
His mind's racing.
Says without meaning to my body curls into something fetal.
Something primeval.
And while the pain burns, it radiates.
Go to Matthew chapter number 25.
Look, this is a real thing.
This is a real place.
Jesus Christ is preaching this because it's real.
That's why we go out and preach the gospel.
That's why you try to get someone saved.
Look, how could you want anybody to experience this?
A family member, a friend, a mother, a father, a child,
a grandparent, anyone.
Your spouse, yourself.
Matthew 25 verse 41.
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,
depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
prepared for the devil and his angels.
Now, do you think God loves the devil?
When he made hell, he was thinking of Satan.
How much hatred, how much wrath
does the Lord have for the devil?
And he's gonna send people there.
Go to Revelation 14.
Says in Mark 9, and if thy hand offend thee, cut it off,
it is better for thee to enter into life maimed
than having two hands to go into hell,
into the fire that never shall be quenched.
What's my second point?
That hell's eternal.
It's everlasting.
Just as much as I would love to have everlasting life,
you can have everlasting damnation in fire.
Look at Revelation chapter 14 verse 11.
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up
forever and ever, and they have no rest day nor night
who worship the beast in his image
and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Now, the Jehovah's false witness or other false religions
will say, well, you're just destroyed.
This doesn't say you're destroyed.
It's everlasting fire.
You say, what's the fuel source?
The people in there, the people that are in God's wrath,
the presence of the lamb.
Go to Mark chapter number nine.
It says in 2 Thessalonians chapter one,
inflaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God
and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who shall be punished with everlasting destruction
from the presence of the Lord
and from the glory of his power.
Again, the presence of the Lord.
Look, to say that it's separation from God,
you just don't even know what the Bible says.
It says you're in the presence of the Lord,
but you're with his everlasting destruction.
Look at Mark nine.
This is, again, Jesus preaching.
Look at verse 43.
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off,
it is better for thee to enter into life maimed
than having two hands to go into hell,
into the fire that never shall be quenched,
where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off,
it is better for thee to enter halt into life
than having two feet and to be cast into hell,
into the fire that never shall be quenched,
where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
And if thy eye offend thee, pluck it out.
It is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God
with one eye than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire
where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
You say, well, I just think they're gonna be destroyed.
Their worm dieth not.
Well, I think the fire's gonna burn out.
It's not gonna be quenched.
It's gonna go on forever and ever and ever.
Why?
Because they did not obey the gospel.
What does that mean?
They didn't believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
They didn't accept his free gift of eternal life,
so they get eternal damnation.
They get eternal fire.
God is a God of extremes here.
God is one of love and of wrath.
We oughta obey the gospel.
Go to Matthew chapter number three.
Go backwards.
It says in Matthew 25,
and thee shall go into everlasting punishment,
but the righteous to life eternal.
You wanna suffer eternal damnation,
eternal fire, eternal torment,
or do you wanna go with the righteous into life eternal?
Matthew chapter three, verse five.
Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea,
and all the region about Jordan,
and were baptized of him in Jordan,
confessing their sins,
but when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees
come to his baptism, he said unto them,
oh, generation of vipers,
who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Bring forth, therefore, fruits, meat for repentance,
and think not to say within yourselves,
we have Abraham to our father,
for I say unto you that God is able of these stones
to raise up children unto Abraham,
and now also the ax is laid under the root of the trees,
therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit
is hewn down and cast into the fire.
I indeed baptize you with water and repentance,
but he that cometh after me is mightier than I,
whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.
He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire,
whose fan is in his hand,
and he will thoroughly purge his floor,
and gather his wheat in his garner,
but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
The Bible says that hell is forever.
One of the worst, I think this is the worst thing,
the fact that it will never end.
When you say, well, they see the fire,
go to Matthew chapter 22.
Not only is it fire, not only is he gonna last forever,
they're not even gonna see it,
because the Bible says that hell is outer darkness.
It says that it's complete darkness.
In 2 Peter chapter two, verse four, it says,
for if God spared not the angels that sin,
but cast them down to hell,
and delivered them into chains of darkness,
to be reserved unto judgment.
Look at Matthew 22, verse 13.
Then said the kingdom of the servants,
bind him hand and foot, and take him away,
and cast him into outer darkness.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Go to the Ecclesiastes chapter number 11, if you will.
The Bible also said in Exodus chapter number 10,
when it's describing the wrath of God
that he poured out on Pharaoh and on the Egyptians,
it said, and the Lord said unto Moses,
stretch out thine hand toward heaven,
that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt,
even darkness which may be felt.
The Bible says there is a darkness that can be felt.
Imagine never seeing ever again.
What a horrible thing.
I mean, people today, they spend their whole life
watching TV, don't they?
Looking at images on the computer,
looking at their Instagram,
looking at all kinds of photos and pictures and movies.
They buy houses just to have a great view.
They take all kinds of photos.
They make photo albums.
Look, vision is a great gift.
Vision is a wonderful thing to be blessed with.
The Bible says hell is darkness you will never see again.
What a horrible feeling.
What a feeling of complete misery.
You don't know where you're going.
You don't know what's around you.
You can't see anything.
You're in complete darkness.
What does light do?
It gives you information.
It gives you knowledge.
What does darkness do?
It gives you fear.
It gives you doubt.
It gives you worry.
It gives you uncertainty.
You don't know what's going on.
I don't like being in the dark.
Hey, if I'm walking around in my house and it's dark,
I'm gonna keep running into things.
I ran into the piano bench like two nights ago.
It hurt.
It's terrible.
I'm trying to feel around.
I'm like, I don't know where I'm going.
Look, this is a horrible thing to be in complete darkness.
Look at Ecclesiastes 11, verse seven.
Truly the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is
for the eyes to behold the sun.
The Bible says vision is great.
I like being able to look at things.
I like being able to look at the light.
I like for things to light up, but you know what?
They'll never get to experience that again.
Some people, you know, they really like to sleep
when it's dark, but guess what?
Go to Luke chapter 16.
There's no rest in hell.
It's not a place to get cozy and take your nap.
It's not a place to just, you know, go to sleep.
Look, I like to be dark sometimes and I go to sleep too,
but you're not gonna like this darkness.
You're gonna feel this darkness.
There's so much uncertainty, you can feel the darkness.
What's my fourth point?
There's no rest though.
This is not a place of rest.
Christ said, come unto me, all you that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
If you enter into Christ's rest,
if you enter into his salvation, it's rest.
In Hebrews chapter three, he said, so I swear in my wrath,
they shall not enter into my rest.
Revelation 14 says, and the smoke of their torment
ascendeth up forever and ever,
and they have no rest day nor night.
So imagine you're running on a treadmill
that's never ending.
I mean, some people hate running, right?
I mean, you get really tired, you get really annoyed.
Imagine it is never ending.
I mean, you just keep going, you just keep going.
I just wanna take a break, now you gotta keep going.
I just wanna take a break, I just keep going.
Never ending.
I mean, just running on a treadmill.
This is what I think about mothers
when their kids don't get to take a nap.
It's like no rest for the day, right?
I mean, look, there's no rest in hell.
Look at Luke chapter 16, verse 19.
There was a certain rich man,
which was clothed in purple and fine linen
and fared sumptuous every day,
and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus,
which was laid at his gate full of sores,
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs
which fell from the rich man's table.
Moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores,
and it came to pass that the beggar died,
and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom.
The rich man also died and was buried,
and in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments,
and see'd Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
And he cried and said,
Father Abraham, have mercy on me,
and sent Lazarus that 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 thy good things,
and likewise Lazarus evil things.
But now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
And beside all this, between us and you
there is a great goal fixed,
so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot.
Neither can they pass to us that would come from hence.
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, Father,
that thou would ascend to him, to my father's house.
For I have five brethren, that he may testify unto them,
lest they also come into this place of torment.
Abraham saith unto them,
They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them.
And he said, Nay, Father Abraham,
but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
And he said unto them,
If they hear not Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded
that one rose from the dead.
So now we have a long passage, and it's a parable.
You would say, do you think this really happened?
I think it's very possible that it happened,
but it would have been a miracle,
because this guy actually saw Abraham.
And we know that from the Bible it says
that hell is a place of outer darkness.
This is not a common occurrence from my opinion,
you know, of comparing scripture with scripture.
But in this special miracle, we see a guy,
he lifts up his eyes,
and all of a sudden he sees Father Abraham.
And he's like, hey, you know,
can you just get me a drink of water?
Can I just get something?
I'm tormented in this place.
And he says, look, you had comfort in this life,
in the life of the world.
He said, you receiveth thy good things,
and likewise, Lazarus, evil things.
But now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
This guy has no rest.
He can't get any relief.
He can't even get just a drop of water on his tongue.
Go to Zachariah chapter nine.
Keep your finger here in Luke chapter 16,
because I want to keep referencing different points in this.
Look, no relief, no rest.
You think that you're weary now.
You think that your boss pushes you now.
You think you didn't get enough sleep last night.
Look, you're not gonna be getting any sleep
when you're constantly on fire.
You're not gonna get any sleep
when there's no rest day nor night.
You think, oh, it's dark.
You're not gonna be getting any rest.
You're not gonna be getting any relief.
This guy's look up, I'm in torment.
You know, give me any kind of relief.
Give me any kind of comfort.
None.
He gets none.
Look at Zachariah chapter nine, verse 11.
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant,
I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit,
wherein is no water.
Not only do you have no rest,
you're in constant torment.
We see this guy, he's in torment.
He wants any kind of relief.
He wants just a drip of water.
There's no water in that pit.
Look, when there's everlasting fire,
when you're engulfed in flames, there is no water.
He can't get any relief.
It's constant torment.
You say, well, does it ever stop?
No.
You keep feeling agony after agony after agony after agony,
and nobody on this earth can ever experience that,
because God put certain things in your body
that stop this constant torment,
like adrenaline, like shock.
People that go through extreme traumatic experiences,
they have things like adrenaline and shock
that alleviate a lot of this pain.
Have you ever been in an accident or in so much pain?
The first, you don't feel anything.
You're just kind of like, all of a sudden,
you're kicked in high gear, and you're really alert,
and you're trying to work on the situation,
and then all of a sudden, when it's calm and you're ready,
now you start realizing you're in a lot of pain.
I remember when I was younger,
I was staying with my sister in Springfield,
and I was a pretty big skater,
just roller skates or whatever,
so I had these inline skates.
I'm going down this hill really fast.
Well, it was kind of like this corner
that I was gonna round.
I'm probably going, I don't know,
very fast, maybe 15, 20 miles an hour,
which on skates is pretty quick,
and I'm rounding this corner,
and a car comes out of nowhere,
and man, I just kind of tried to stop,
but I just slid on the gravel,
just like for five feet or something like that.
It just pretty much ripped all the skin off my leg.
I'm just looking at my leg and just bleeding,
blood just going everywhere, but I didn't feel anything.
I just kind of popped up, and I'm like,
I need to go back home, and the guy gave me a ride,
and I got back home, and then I knocked on the door,
and I was like, as soon as I knocked on the door,
I'm safe, all of a sudden pain just everywhere in my body,
but before then, I didn't feel anything.
Why, because the body has natural protection
to help give you this type of relief called adrenaline.
It's also called epinephrine.
It's a hormone released by your adrenal glands
and some neurons.
The adrenal glands are located at the top of each kidney.
They are responsible for reducing many hormones,
including adolescent, cortisol, adrenaline,
and no adrenaline.
Adrenal glands are controlled by another gland
called the pituitary gland.
The adrenal glands are divided into two parts,
outer glands and inner glands.
The inner gland produces adrenaline.
Adrenaline is also known as the fight or flight hormone.
It is released in response to a stressful,
exciting, dangerous, or threatening situation.
Adrenaline helps your body react more quickly.
It makes the heart beat faster,
increases blood flow to the brain and muscles,
and stimulates the body to make sugar to use for fuel.
When adrenaline is released suddenly,
it is often referred to as an adrenaline rush.
So what is adrenaline?
I mean, it's basically God built this extra mechanism
in your body that when you have a heightened sense
of awareness, like something's wrong,
or I'm in danger, or there's something bad,
certain hormones will be released in your body
and you become like a super you.
All of a sudden, you're a little bit stronger,
you're a little bit faster, you can think clearer.
I mean, you can just, you can react
in a situation when it's dangerous.
And not only that, it can protect you
from whatever feelings of pain you have.
Have you ever been in so much pain,
you can't like use your hand, you can't use your leg,
you can't use your arm?
The adrenaline will just overcome that.
All of a sudden, hey, that doesn't matter
what's going on with your leg, it can be half torn away,
but the adrenaline's just gonna keep you going, right?
And people do all kinds of crazy stuff.
They lift cars, they do all kinds of things.
God put this in your body to help you
overcome intense pain.
It even says an adrenaline rush
is described as a boost of energy.
It says rapid heart rate, sweating,
heightened senses, rapid breathing,
decreased ability to feel pain,
increased strength and performance,
dilated pupils, feeling jittery or nervous.
After the stress or danger is gone,
the effect of adrenaline can last up to one hour.
So it's saying basically you get this one hour boost,
now all of a sudden I can react to certain situations.
You know what happens in hell?
No adrenaline.
No shock.
You don't have this God gift of adrenaline
to just prevent all this torment.
No, you're in constant torment.
There's no relief.
There's no adrenaline.
There's no epinephrine.
There's no shock.
There's no anything.
You're just constantly feeling the worst pain
over and over and over and over.
Never ends.
Look at Luke chapter number 13.
Go to Luke chapter 13.
It says there's weeping and gnashing of teeth.
They're in so much agony.
They're in so much pain.
They just are biting their mouth to pieces.
They can't even do anything else.
It says but the children of the kingdom
shall be cast into outer darkness.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth
because they're in constant torment.
Constant pain.
No relief.
Look at Luke chapter 13 verse 28.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth
when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob
and all the prophets in the kingdom of God
and you yourselves thrust out.
So he's saying in the white throne judgment
when everybody's there and he sees all the great prophets
that they thought were their prophet,
they thought they were of Abraham,
they thought they were of Isaac,
they thought they were of Jacob,
and then they're cast into outer darkness.
They're cast into the lake of fire.
They're judged according to their works.
You know what they're gonna have?
A lot of regret.
They're gonna have a lot of regret
for the way that they lived their life
not believing the gospel,
not believing on the Lord Jesus Christ,
not believing the true God, the God of the Bible.
Go back to Luke chapter 16 where I had you
just a few chapters forward.
It says in verse 27,
then he said I pray thee therefore father
that thou would have sent him to my father's house
for I have five brethren that he may testify unto them
lest they also come into this place of torment.
Look, this guy, he says not only did I screw up my life,
you know what else is life I screwed up?
All my brethren.
I'm gonna suffer for all of eternity
but because I didn't believe the gospel,
because I didn't get saved,
because I didn't preach my brethren the gospel,
they're gonna come here too
and they're gonna experience this pain
and torment forever and ever.
Please, even though it's too late for me,
just save my brethren.
He says look, if they won't believe the Bible,
it doesn't matter if Lazarus comes back from the dead.
You know what, a Lazarus did come back from the dead,
a different Lazarus and they still didn't believe him.
He's like let's put him to death too.
Let's kill him because people might start believing
in Jesus and go to heaven and escape the torments of hell.
What a bunch of wicked, evil, false prophets.
Go to Revelation chapter nine.
Revelation chapter number nine.
So what have we looked at?
It's fire, it's eternal, it's darkness.
There's no rest, you're in constant torment
and you're gonna be filled with regrets
for yourself and for your family
and for every person that's in hell with you.
Not only that, it's a bottomless pit.
Look at Revelation chapter nine, verse number one.
And the fifth angel sounded
and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth
and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
And he opened the bottomless pit
and there arose a smoke out of the pit
as the smoke of a great furnace
and the sun and the air were darkened
by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Now a lot of people, they have the fear of heights.
They have a fear of falling.
The Bible describes hell as a bottomless pit,
falling forever and ever and ever.
That feeling you like on the rollercoaster,
it's not gonna end.
And you're not gonna like the fact that it doesn't end
because guess what, you don't even know where you're going.
You can't even see.
You just constantly have this gut,
this feeling in your gut that's just reaching at you.
You don't know what's happening.
You're constantly falling in this bottomless pit.
How horrible.
It even says that when the dead are judged,
they ascend out of the bottomless pit,
meaning what, it's down below us.
And if you imagine, look, there's nothing in the center.
How is gravity affecting them?
They're just constantly falling.
They're in constant torment and flames.
They have no idea what's happening.
Go if you would to Matthew 26.
Not only is it constant regret,
not only is it a bottomless pit,
the Bible says that going to hell is worse than non-existence.
You would rather have not even existed.
It says in Matthew 23, verse 14,
woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,
for you devour widows' houses
and for pretense make long prayer.
Therefore, you shall receive the greater damnation.
He's saying woe unto you guys.
What's headed for you in the future is horrible.
Look at Matthew 26, verse 24.
The son of man goeth as is written of him,
but woe unto that man by whom the son of man is betrayed.
It had been good for that man if he had not been born.
Look, Judas Iscariot,
he wishes he had never even been born.
Why?
Because hell is so awful.
It's such a horrible existence.
It's so much misery and pain.
I don't care what pleasures you have in this life.
I don't care if you had all the money
and all the lusts of the flesh
and every desire was satisfied
and you enjoyed every single meal,
which if you ate at McDonald's,
you already did enjoy every single meal.
Look, it's nothing to compare to having eternal punishment
in hell.
Go to Daniel chapter number nine.
We'll look at my last point.
Said ye serpents, ye generation of vipers,
how can you escape the damnation of hell?
Saying look, some people are going to this place.
They've already sealed their fate.
It's a worse fate than having never been born.
Here's my last point.
Daniel chapter 12, verse number one.
And at that time shall Michael stand up,
the great prince would stand for the children of thy people
and there shall be a time of trouble
such as never was since there was a nation
even to that same time.
And at that time thy people shall be delivered,
every one that shall be found written in the book
and many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth
shall wake, some to everlasting life
and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
What's my last point?
Shame.
The people that are in hell
are not only going to be hating the fact
that they're being tortured,
they're going to feel bad about it too.
They're going to feel a lot of shame and ridicule and guilt
for the mockery of the fact that they're in hell.
Look, some people, you know, like the Benny Hinns
and the Kenneth Copelands and the Joel Osteens,
these guys that are praised as the great men of God,
what shame that they're going to be burning
in the lowest parts of hell
because they keep damning people to hell
by teaching false gospels, by perverting the true God,
by teaching all kinds of witness,
they're going to be burning in the lowest parts of hell.
Murderers are going to be way above those guys.
You know, adulterers and all these other people,
look, these false prophets, they have the greater damnation
because they're damning souls,
they're damning people to hell.
Look, there's not anything I could do to someone physically
that compares anything to hell, any part of hell.
I can't hurt somebody anywhere close to hell.
Look, God is a terrible God.
God is the one that we should be fearing.
Not man, not any person, not some apartment manager.
Hey, you're not allowed to preach a gospel here.
Hey, what are you doing?
Look, these people are going to burn in hell.
Do you not care?
Do you not believe the Bible?
Do you not even believe the science class?
Look, there's no rest.
There's constant torment.
You know, I don't care if these people come to my church,
but I don't want them to go to hell.
I don't want them to be in this constant torment,
having all this shame.
Go to Revelation chapter 20.
And look, when I thought about this,
even though everlasting is the worst,
the shame is going to be really bad
because the Bible says in the great white throne judgment,
you're going to be judged according to your works.
So imagine you getting up
in front of just our church this morning,
and we just start reading your laundry list of your sins.
How would you like that?
How would that make you feel?
How would you like your mom and your dad
to be read every single one of your sins?
You know what the Bible says?
The thought of foolishness is sin.
Oh, you mean all those thoughts I had?
All those thoughts are going to be presented before me?
What shame.
What horribleness to have everybody sit there
and get to hear all of your wicked filth.
They're going to find out
what kind of filthy rags you really have.
Oh, you think you're righteous?
Let's list out all your sins, buddy.
Let's see how you did according to the book.
Let's see how your thoughts lined up with God's word.
And they're going to have so much shame and so much guilt.
That's going to be wicked.
That's going to be horrible for them.
Going to be terrible.
Look at what I had you look at verse 12.
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.
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.
That's horrible.
I don't want to be judged by my,
I don't want anybody to know.
I just go to the Lord in prayer and, you know,
try to ask for mercy and long suffering
and ask, beg for forgiveness.
Look, I'm a wicked vile sinner that needs to be saved
by grace and praise the Lord that my sins
will not be mentioned to me.
They're separate as far as the east is from the west,
but for the damned, they're going to be judged
according to their works.
They're going to be at this laundry list.
Hey, let's see what you really did.
Let's see what you're really like.
All those things you did in secret,
all those things you did when you didn't think
anybody was looking from your whole life.
Man, that's going to get big real quick, isn't it?
Go if you would to Psalms chapter 119.
So what have we learned so far?
We've learned the nine terrors I had of hell.
And look, there's more.
Like I didn't cover everything about hell.
I'm just giving you nine things that terrified me,
that give me all kinds of worry about hell.
There's fire.
I mean, there's so much flame.
I can't even imagine what it would be like
to be burning alive, let alone for all of eternity.
Second point is forever.
There's darkness.
You don't even get to see the fire.
You just feel it.
There's no rest.
They're in constant torment.
They're filled with regret.
It's worse than having ever been born.
They're in like a bottomless pit
and they will be filled with shame.
Shame and guilt.
Look at Psalms 119 verse 104.
Through thy precepts I get understanding.
Therefore I hate every false way.
How do you know so much about hell?
Through God's word.
What he told me.
Not because of science class.
Not because of my own personal opinion.
Not because I think people deserve this.
Not because of anything of myself.
But through God's word, I learn what hell is like.
And I believe the Bible this morning.
I'm trying to get you to believe the Bible.
Do you really believe this place exists?
Do you really believe the God of the universe
made this place?
It should affect your habits.
It should affect your mentality.
Why?
He hates every false way.
Look, you oughta hate people that pervert the gospel.
You oughta hate the false prophets.
You oughta hate all these churches in this complex
that are damning people
and sending them to hell every morning.
Sending all kinds of people
to this place of eternal fire and damnation.
Look, because of God's word, I hate these people.
Why?
Because they're just ruining people's lives
for all of eternity.
Look at verse 128.
Therefore, I esteem all thy precepts
concerning all things to be right.
And I hate every false way.
This church is gonna constantly preach
against all the false religions, all the false prophets.
Why?
Because of hell.
Because the reality of hell.
I don't want anyone to go to hell for any reason.
Look, that's not my desire.
Go to Luke chapter number 11.
And everything that God said is right.
As unfathomable as hell is,
we ought not decide just because it's so bad.
Because it's literally the worst thing imaginable
that the Bible's not true.
Because just because it's the worst thing imaginable
doesn't mean it's not true.
Look, that's the God of the Bible.
That's the one that we worship and we serve in this church.
That's the God that's written in these pages.
The same one that says 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
is the same God that's ascribing the hell
that we're reading this morning.
I'm not giving you my opinion.
I'm giving you what the Bible says.
It says in Matthew 15,
"'Let them alone, they be blind leaders of the blind,
"'and if the blind lead the blind,
"'both shall fall in the ditch.'"
You say, well, I think some of these guys,
they're getting people saved.
People are still going to heaven
from these false prophets long.
The blind leaders cannot lead anybody but to hell.
They'll just cause people to go into the ditch,
to go into the pit, to go into hell.
They're not even saved.
Look, they don't even know what they're teaching.
Look at Luke 11, verse 52.
"'Woe unto you, lawyers,
"'for you have taken away the key of knowledge.
"'Ye entered not in yourselves,
"'and them that were entering in ye hindered.'"
You know what?
If all these churches didn't exist right here,
more people would probably just come to our church,
wouldn't they?
Like, if there just wasn't another option, right?
But all these false prophets,
they're hindering people from going to heaven
because they have a false version.
They have a false option.
Hey, come to my church.
Come hear me preach a false gospel.
That's why I get so angry when we go out soul-winning
and I hear someone say,
hey, I don't wanna take you away from a good church.
What?
This person's going to this church and they're not saved?
You think that's a good church?
You think, hey, I don't wanna take you
from the Catholic church.
I don't wanna take you from this church
that's damning your soul to hell.
What?
I don't want you to ever go to that church again.
I say, if you don't come to my church,
you know, at least don't go to that church.
I say, you'd be better off never going
to any of these churches, you know, than to not go.
Look, go to my church.
Go to a church that's, you know, preaching the gospel right.
Go to a church that believes the Bible,
but don't, for sure as hell,
don't go to one of these damnation churches.
One of these ones damning your soul,
damning other souls.
Look, God has this wrath on a church
that's damning souls today.
I don't wanna be any part of it.
I don't wanna be anywhere near it.
Go to Matthew 23.
Say, why do you pick on these false prophets?
Why do you name people by names?
Because I don't want people to go to hell.
Do you want people to go to hell?
I wish that when I was growing up,
I heard more people preaching against some
of the pastors I liked so that I could be warned,
so I could realize that they were a liar
and a false prophet and damning people to hell,
so that the family members in my life
that are already dead,
that I'm not able to give the gospel to,
maybe I could've given the gospel to.
Maybe I could've made sure that they were saved.
You think I want my mom to be burning in hell this morning?
Not at all, not a part of me.
You know what, I can't give her the gospel anymore, can I?
I can't, you have a family member, don't you?
You have a friend that you can't give the gospel to anymore.
Don't you wish maybe somebody had woken you up
a little bit sooner?
You know what, the truth needs to wake some people up.
God's word needs to get preached in this city
so people get waked up and they can hear the gospel,
they can believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and they can get saved.
Look at Matthew 23, verse 15.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,
for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte,
and when he is made, you make him twofold more
the child of hell than yourselves.
What do these false prophets do?
The only thing they do is damn people before they die,
making people reprobate before they even are dead.
They're already a child of hell.
They're already a son of Belial.
And look, there's more false prophets than we can count.
There's more people preaching a damnable heresy
than we can count.
And look, we need to be the light.
We need to be the ones going out and preaching the gospel.
I have two more places I want you to return this morning.
Go to Psalms 126.
If you believe hell is a terrible place,
if you believe what I just showed you from the Bible,
if you believe the Bible, if you're saved this morning,
then here's my question.
How can you go your whole life
never giving one person the gospel?
How could you say that you believe
in this horrible place called hell
and you never even try to save and warn one person?
You don't even try to get,
look, how many Christians today
have never tried to give anybody the gospel ever?
Not even one time.
Are you kidding me?
Are you reading your Bible?
Do you know about hell?
How horrible it is?
How terrible it is?
I think we need some more hellfire and damnation preaching,
some more fire and brimstone preaching to wake people up,
to warn them, to say,
hey, do you believe your Bible this morning?
The atheist believes there's a hell.
Do you believe God's word?
Look at Psalms 126, verse six.
He that goeth forth and weeping,
bearing precious seed,
shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,
bringing his sheaves with him.
Look, I could have a tear in my eye this morning
when I think about what I just said,
when I think about the nine terrors of hell
and somebody happening to go there,
somebody that I know,
even just an innocent person,
just a normal, your average Joe.
He wants to hear the gospel.
He wants to get saved this morning,
but he went to the Pentecostal church.
And the Pentecostal church told him
he can lose his salvation.
He has to be perfect.
He has to do all these works to be saved,
just trying to damn his soul.
And if you don't go out there and preach him the gospel,
if you don't go out and bear the precious seed,
if you don't preach the word of God,
how's he gonna get saved?
Who's gonna warn him?
Who's gonna give him the gospel?
And you're just gonna let this guy go to hell.
You say, oh man, my life's hard.
Is it as hard as hell?
Is it as hard as anything we read here?
Oh man, going out and preaching the gospel for one hour,
it's just so difficult.
It's just tough.
Look, do you really believe the Bible this morning?
Look, anything in your life pales in comparison,
pales in any agony or pain or discomfort
or suffering we have in this life.
It can't even come close to hell.
And if you have a mouth this morning
and you're saved, you have the ability to give the gospel.
You have the ability to go out and preach the word of God,
give somebody a chance to escape the dangers of hell.
You know what, we oughta be sincere.
Look, I sincerely believe hell exists.
That makes me wanna be real sincere
when I'm giving the gospel.
Not wanna make shortcuts either
just to come back to the soul-winning leader and say,
oh, I got five, oh, I got six.
I wanna make sure this person's not going to hell.
I wanna make sure this person believes right.
I wanna make sure that what I said makes sense,
that I'm an effective soul-winner,
that I know what I'm saying.
Look, I hate it when people get real defensive
about the gospel.
Oh, why'd you give me some kind of correction?
Look, it's people's souls, it's people's eternity.
We oughta never be resistant
to someone trying to help us give the gospel better,
even if it's not true, even if you don't agree.
You should take it with love and patience
and be like, thank you, thank you for trying to help me.
Thank you, thank you for checking this person,
making sure they're still on their way to heaven.
Because I didn't want them to go to hell.
If you wanted them, if you get offended by someone
checking to make sure the person you just gave the gospel
is really saved, your heart's in the wrong place.
Because your heart should be,
I want this person to go to heaven.
I don't want him to go to hell.
Go to Jude chapter number one.
The Bible says, he that believeth on the Son
shall not have everlasting life.
And he that believeth not the Son shall not see life,
but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Look, every person in this world
that does not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
has God's wrath on them right now,
and if they were to die, they will split hell wide open.
That should motivate us to wanna go out
and preach the gospel, to get people saved.
When you look at a person, when I walk in a busy area,
when I walk in a mall, or I walk in Walmart,
I just think all these people are damned.
I don't see a bunch of saved Christians.
I don't see a bunch of people going to heaven.
It worries me.
It makes me feel for this city.
You know what?
Maybe God just keeps flooding this city,
saying, hey, look, you need to turn back to me.
He's bringing a hurricane.
We need to be the light and say,
hey, God, we'll preserve this city.
We'll be the salt of the earth.
We'll go out and give the gospel.
Spare us.
Spare this city.
Let us be the light.
Let us wake people up.
Let us bring our sheaves in with us
so we can get more people saved.
Look at Jude chapter one, verse 22.
And some have compassion making a difference.
If you never give the gospel, you have no compassion.
You have no love.
If you don't preach the gospel to anybody,
you have no love in your heart today.
You have no compassion.
I'm not saying you're not going to heaven,
because it's just by faith.
We just received a free gift.
You know what?
You can't say you're a loving person.
Can't say you have any compassion,
because virtually every single person
outside this building is on their way to hell.
You can't even say, hey, can I show you how to go to heaven?
And there's so many people that'll say yes.
Please, show me.
Thank you.
It's not even like, they're not going to get
really mad at you.
Like, that happens like one out of a thousand,
that something gets really mad at you.
You know what, it doesn't affect me at all.
I just move on, okay.
I'll show the guy that really wants to know,
the guy that's really interested.
And look, it's not because I want that guy to go to hell.
But look, we need to go out and try to make a difference.
Look at verse 23.
Others saved with fear, pulling them out of the fire,
hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Now that a family member accused me,
oh, and y'all go soul winning.
You're trying to scare people into heaven.
Yeah, I am.
Yeah, yeah, it's a terrible place.
Yeah, we have a terrible God.
We ought to go out and preach, hey,
if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you're going to hell.
You know what, I don't walk up to them screaming.
I'm not preaching at them like I would this morning, okay.
I'm trying to speak the truth in love.
You know what, it's unloving not to warn someone
they're on the way to hell.
It's unloving not to try and show them
how to escape the dangers of hell.
And the Bible even says, look, some people,
they save with fear.
I'd rather be the guy that saved thousands with fear
than be the guy that loved everybody to hell.
Oh, I'm so loving.
Look at my lifestyle evangelism.
Look at how clean a life I live.
Hey, if you didn't really believe in Jesus Christ,
we'll figure out how clean a life you live.
We'll figure out what you really were like, weren't we?
You know what, and you don't have to preach the gospel
to anybody to be saved, right?
How can you say you have love in your heart?
How can you say you have any compassion in your heart?
That's why I preach soul winning times a week.
That's why I say, hey, if none of those times work,
come see me.
I'll help you go preach the gospel.
It's that important.
Yes, it is.
Why, because hell is real this morning.
Hell is a terrible place.
I don't want anyone to go there.
And we ought to not, as a church, want anyone to go to hell.
That's why we're gonna constantly go out
and preach the gospel.
Oh, is that gonna build our church?
Is that gonna just bring the droves in?
No, because people, after you get them saved,
they're like, oh, I'm coming to your church.
I'm gonna be there.
You'll see me.
Never see them.
You know what?
At least I won't see them in hell.
At least I'll see them in heaven.
You know what?
We have a soul winning time, two o'clock today.
We have a soul winning time on Saturday.
We have a soul winning time on Wednesday.
If you've never been soul winning, my encouragement,
just pick a time, go soul winning once a week for one hour.
Can you do that?
Can you at least just, I mean, we just learned about hell.
You can't even just go soul winning once a week
for one hour and preach the gospel.
Save somebody, pull them out of the fire.
Do you really believe in the fire this morning?
We oughta be terrified of the God of the Bible.
Let's close in prayer.
Thank you, Father, so much for your word.
Thank you for giving us warning, giving us instruction,
giving us your precepts so we could know of your judgment,
we could know of your wrath,
and that you've given us just the free gift
to escape that wrath, that anybody who believes
in your son would never have to enter
into this horrible, terrible place of hell.
But I pray that we wouldn't be so selfish
to save ourselves, but we'd also look
at our fellow brethren, we'd look at the fellow world
that we live in and decide it's more important
for me to pull people out of the fire
than to just watch TV, than to satisfy the lust of my flesh,
than to just do whatever I want,
but rather I could have some compassion,
I could have some love in my heart
and go out and preach the everlasting gospel.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.