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I believe hell is real and I believe

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hell is a terrible place of torments.

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I believe hell is a lot worse than

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we can imagine.

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I believe hell is a very crowded place

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and that the majority of each generation since

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Adam is chained up in hell and smoking

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flames at this very hour.

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I believe every atheist that shook his fist

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in the face of God is remorseful in

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hell, but it's too late for them.

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I believe every person that God's spirit strived

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with, wooed and reproved, is very sorrowful in

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hell for rejecting God.

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I believe all the billionaires whose money was

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their God would give all their wealth back

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now if they could as they now regret

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the choices they made in life while they

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suffer in hell's agonies.

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I believe all the careless Hollywood celebrities that

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laughed in the face of God and mocked

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him with their lives are sorry for their

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actions as hell is a place of sorrow

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and regret.

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Jesus told us that hell is a place

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of sorrow and regret.

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Jesus said about hell there will be weeping

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and gnashing of teeth.

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Weeping speaks of deep sorrow and gnashing of

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teeth signifies great regret, but I believe some

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of the most miserable souls in hell at

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this hour are the ones who thought they

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were on the way to heaven.

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They were good church members for years.

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They did what the minister told them to

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do in what they thought was salvation, but

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they were misled by a false gospel and

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a blind guide who deceived them.

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I can't name all the times I've sat

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in churches in my long life and heard

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absolute heresy from the pulpit.

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I'm talking about seminary-trained men, some in

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high standing within their denomination, but liars and

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frauds just the same.

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To tell someone that all they have to

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do to be saved is to accept Jesus

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as a lie, to tell someone all they

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have to do to have eternal life is

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to believe that Jesus died for them and

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accept him as their personal Savior is not

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even found in my Bible.

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I believe many pastors have broadened the way

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of salvation in ways Jesus never did.

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I believe there are many folks who have

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mistaken church membership for salvation.

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I believe there be a multitude of surprised

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church members who will wake up in hell

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and hear Jesus say to them, I never

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knew you.

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Depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

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I believe hell is full of unsaved Baptists,

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unsaved Methodists, unsaved Presbyterians, and unsaved members of

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every denomination.

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They're crying out in sorrow and agony in

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hell at this very moment, but it's too

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late for them now.

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A surface Christianity will surely send you to

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hell, no matter how religious you are.

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And that's the title of my message today,

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friends.

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A surface Christianity will surely send you to

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hell.

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There are many religiously lost seminary professors and

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pastors and deacons and elders who walked a

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chalk line but who never got to Christ

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for salvation.

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This is serious business, friends.

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Eternity is no laughing matter.

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You better be sure you were saved while

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you were still in this world, because once

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you were taken out of this world by

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death, then it's too late for you then.

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I've been reflecting on my life lately.

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I reckon because I'm closer to leaving this

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world than I am staying in it.

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I wish I could go back and change

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things in my life, but I can't.

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I wish I could rewrite eighty percent of

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my life, but it's too late now.

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I've done hardly nothing for God in my

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generation, and my time is running out.

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I look at men like Whitefield and Moody

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and John Song, and I'm ashamed for my

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lack.

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You only have one life, and how you

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live it for Christ and the gospel is

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all that matters.

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I wish I could have done more for

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God, but my best years are behind me.

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What breaks my heart the most is a

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church that lives carelessly in a day that

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is full of evil.

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I've known a lot of surface Christians in

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my time.

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Their Christianity never went any deeper than a

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profession.

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I can assure you, friend, that a surface

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Christianity will surely send you to hell.

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God doesn't care how much you tied to

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your church, how many committees you served on,

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how many times you attended weekly worship and

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sang along to the hymns.

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If you did not know Christ, it was

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all dead works.

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There will just be wood piled up to

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fuel the fire that will burn around you

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in the devil's hell.

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You listen to me, friend.

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This stuff that passes for salvation and Christianity

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in our modern church today is not even

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remotely close to the one found in my

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Bible.

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In Matthew chapter 7 and verses 13 and

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14, Jesus said enter ye in at the

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straight gate for wide is the gate and

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broad is the way that leadeth to destruction

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and many there be which go in there

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at because straight is the gate and narrow

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is the way which leadeth unto life and

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few there be that find it.

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Now you can try and honeycoat that and

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lessen it but it won't help you in

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hell.

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The gate Christ is speaking of here is

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the straight gate of repentance and if you

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miss repentance, friend, then you will miss faith.

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The narrow way Christ is speaking of here

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is regeneration for no man can enter the

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kingdom of heaven unless he is born again.

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A man's duty of repentance and man's necessity

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of regeneration are the hinges that swing the

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gate open on some and shut it on

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others.

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I don't care if you're the popular president

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of your denomination.

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If you've never been born from above and

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washed in the blood, then your surface Christianity

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will surely send you to hell.

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Repent and turn to Christ while you still

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are in this world.

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Before you are taken out of it, I'm

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pleading with your friends.

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Repent and turn to the Christ of salvation,

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the pearl of great price.

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Christ is the way of salvation.

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Let us pray.