All false concepts of God must be laid
aside if a man has any hope of
getting to Christ for salvation.
It is very dangerous to hold to an
opinion that God does not send people to
hell, that God is such a loving God
that he will not punish sin is a
contradiction to my Bible.
All men outside of Christ ponder God's condemnation
and await a future day when the sentencing
of the law will be carried out against
them.
That man must be made aware of the
strictness of God's unbanding law so they won't
be exposed to its severity.
Men must be brought to see the malady
of the badness of their heart before they
will seek a remedy for sin in the
person of Christ Jesus.
But the modern church refuses to preach searching
sermons that awaken sinners to their lost condition
and perilous position outside of Christ's blood.
That there is a future judgment that awaits
all mankind where every mother's son will stand
before the judge of all the earth as
the books are opened and whosoever is not
found written in the book of life will
be cast into a lake of fire.
Eternal damnation is a terrible frightening thing where
God's wrath for sin is poured out upon
all guilty sinners.
In Malachi we read the dangers of damnation
and the fury of God's anger which will
burn as an oven for behold that the
day cometh that shall burn as an oven
and all the proud yea and all that
too wickedly shall be stubble and the day
that cometh shall burn them up saith the
Lord of hosts that it shall leave them
neither root nor branch.
When I was just a boy in high
school I worked at a local grocery store
and one of my duties was to take
the cardboard boxes that the produce came in
and flatten them out with a box cutter
and then stack them on a two-wheeler
and take them back to the back of
the store where there was a cast iron
furnace and then burn them.
I'll never forget the sensation I got every
time I opened that heavy furnace door because
as soon as I did my face would
be singed from the intense heat of those
white hot flames.
But men lie in their natural condition and
feel no danger as a man in a
deep sleep will not be brought out easily
from his lethargy.
Many men do not believe in a literal
hell and if they did they flatter themselves
that they're not bad enough to go there.
They believe that their God would never send
them to hell as to damn them in
eternal darkness and fire and God speaks of
such misled individuals who face being damned in
hell forever.
He writes in Psalm 36 too he flatters
himself in his own eyes until his iniquity
be found to be hateful.
A good preaching should imitate that of Christ
who warned against the dangers of damnation.
It is better that one of the members
should perish and not that the whole body
should be cast into hell.
Jesus warned his hearers abroad is the gate
and wide is the way that leadeth to
destruction and many there be that go in
there at.
Christ peppered his teachings with continual warnings to
avoid damnation and hellfire.
The angels shall cast them into a furnace
of fire.
There should be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
A good preaching will warn of the danger
of damnation and bring out its terrors to
such an alarming degree and be pressed with
such force as to make men to be
shot out of a cannon of carnal security.
The tears of the law and the threatenings
of damnation should drive men out of their
false hopes and false refuges and blast them
away.
Men must be brought out of themselves and
brought unto a bleeding and dying savior for
sin.
The shock and surprise of dying in one's
sins to wake up in hell will be
alarming as Isaiah declares.
The sinners in Zion are afraid.
Fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites who among us
shall dwell with the devouring fire.
Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings.
Men must be driven out of their carnal
security as Lot was driven out of Sodom
where they too will perish in the firestorm
of God's outpoured wrath on sin forever and
ever in a burning hell.
Repent before it's too late.