HELL The Greatest hell Preacher of all times

HELL

The Greatest hell Preacher of all times was the Lord Jesus Christ; while on earth He only spoke once about Heaven in John 14: 2 but He spoke no less than 14 times in the Bible describing hell. There are 260 chapters in the New Testament and hell / judgment are either referred to or described some 234 times. If we were on a highway 260 miles long and on the highway there were 234 sign boards warning of danger, surely we would have brains enough to seek another road.

Once during a Christian Fellowship meeting on the campus of a university, when some 80 brilliant law, medical and engineering students were asked, “How many of you have given your hearts to Christ FOR the great Love of God? Not a solitary hand went up! “How many of you know there is a hell and the only way to flee it is through Lord Jesus Christ? ” And every hand went up!

WHY WE BELIEVE THERE IS A HELL • Firstly because Christ said so and He does not lie. • Second , would the Creator of all the Universe come to the earth and let men spit on His face and nail Him to a cross to save us from an imaginary place?

THOSE IN THE BIBLE WHO SPOKE ABOUT HELL DAVID Psa 116: 3 – ‘. . . cords of death entangled me, . . . anguish of grave came upon me. ’ Psa 86: 13 – ‘. . . depths of the grave. ’ Psa 9: 17 – ‘The wicked return to the grave, ’ Psa 11: 6 – ‘On the wicked He will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot. ’

PAUL He never mentions the word hell, as if it seemed to awful to him Philippians 3: 19 – ‘Their destiny in destruction. ’ I Thessalonians 5: 3 – ‘. . . destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. ’

THERE IS MORE IN THE BIBLE ABOUT HELL THAN ABOUT HEAVEN I. Gnashing of teeth- Luke 13: 28 Gnashing of teeth speaks of great anger. For many ages, ungodly had their own way of persecuting and tormenting the Godly. But when they see the Godly being welcomed to Heaven and they themselves cast out; they will gnash teeth in an unending age.

II. ‘. . . furnace of fire’ – Mathew 13: 42 III. ‘their worms that don’t die. . . ’ – Mark 9: 48 Three times the Lord said the same thing VI. ‘. . . everlasting Fire’ – Mathew 25: 41 V. Thirst – Luke 16: 24 This is something man has been suffering from, for the last 2000 years

THE WHOLE ISSUE OF ETERNITY RESTS UPON OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS ONE PERSON • Mathew 10: 28 – ‘Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. ’ • Luke 12: 5 – ‘But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you in to hell. Yes I tell you, fear Him. ’

• John 3: 36 – ‘Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on Him’

We need to learn about hell so that • we can escape it ourselves • rescue others from it as well Jesus was the greatest preacher on hell of all the Bible teachers. Therefore the only place to learn about hell is through His Word

Mathew 5: 22 – ‘. . . danger of the fire of hell. ’ Mathew 10: 28 – ‘. . . destroy both body and soul in hell’ Mathew 13: 40 - 42 – ‘…. thrown into a fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ’ Mathew 23: 33 - ‘. . . condemned to hell’

LUKE 16: 19 -31 19 “There was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury everyday. 20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 And longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In hell

where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24 So he called him, “Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire. ’ 25 ”But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in

agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us. ’ 27 ”He answered, then I beg you, father , send Lazarus to my father’s house, 28 for I have five brothers. let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment. ’

29 ”Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them. ’ 30 ” ‘No, father Abraham, ’ he said, ‘but if someone form the dead goes to them, they will repent. ’ 31 ”He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead. ’ "

POINTS TO PONDER 1. Even if Lazarus rose again and came to the rich man’s brothers ; the brothers will laugh saying “hey you did not die in the first place!” Lord Jesus Christ rose again on the third day and if people could not believe that, How can they believe otherwise? 2. Do not think the rich will go to hell and the poor to heaven. Abraham was a rich man – yet he is in heaven. There are many poor people too who are wicked.

3. The rich man did not even give half a shekel! He did not help Lazarus …like put him in a hospital or government home etc. He did not use his riches for the extension of God’s kingdom. 4. No angels waiting for him – even though his picture may have hit the local papers with condolences from big time managers of those days! 5. Lazarus believed in God, repented of his sins and by faith became the son of Abraham

6. Lazarus’ name was mentioned because he was His sheep. And the Shepherd knows His sheep. 7. The rich man enjoyed daily…. Good cloths, food, the works. 8. Certain rich men have plentiful for their retirement, but … WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU LOSE YOUR SOUL TODAY? ? ? !!! 9. There is no mention whether Lazarus even had a burial

NAMES GIVEN TO HELL IN THE GOD’S WORD 1. Sheol, Hades (Tartarus, Hades of Gehenna) These are the original Bible words in Hebrew and Greek Luke 16: 23 2. Fire – When God speaks of Heaven, He calls it Paradise, a City which has Foundations, Golden Streets and Pearly Gates. When he speaks of hell, it’s a furnace of fire and a bottomless pit. Isaiah 33: 14

3. Another name given to hell in the Word is “falling into the hands of God” Hebrews 10: 31 4. Second death Revelations 20: 14 5. Outer Darkness Mathew 8: 12

HELL OF THE BIBLE IS NOT ANNIHILATION I. There will be no annihilation, when we read the cries of the damned Luke 16: 24 Mathew 22: 13 II. Hell will not be total annihilation when we consider that there will be different degrees of suffering. Mathew 11: 22

There are no stops between death and hell. Luke 16: 22, 23 suggests Christians who die go immediately to the happy presence of God. When the thief on the cross died, he went with Jesus to paradise according to the promise of Jesus

Notice in Luke 23: 43, the torment of the rich man mentioned here, took place during the life time of his brothers not in the distant future. When a lost man dies, he goes immediately to hell and torment as fast as a saint goes to paradise. THIS IS THE PLAIN TEACHING OF THE WORD Hell is a place of unbearable suffering as indicated in Luke 16: 23, 24

Five minutes in the lost world made this godless man want to be a soul winning preacher of the Gospel and an evangelist to his family. This man had never given the souls of his brothers a thought in his lifetime; but now all he could think of is his brothers are lost and heading for hell. He cannot save his own soul but at least wanted to save his 5 brothers.

Five minutes in hell, rich man seemed to have learned the following lessons. • He saw reality and finality of the place called hell • He saw that all the arguments he had ever heard against hell were utterly false and empty. • He saw that if a man shuts God out of his heart in this life, God will shut the man out of His heavenly home for eternity

• He saw that the cardinal folly of a man’s existence is how he takes care of his body and does nothing for his undying soul • He saw the urgent necessity of something desperate ought to be done by believers on earth to saved his unsaved brothers; and that something unusual must happen to save them

Lord Jesus Christ declared the reality of Hell. Every unsaved man in the congregation, who closes his eyes in death, opens them in hell Consider the pain the rich man went through in hell a. He recognized Lazarus b. He remembered his brothers c. He remembered that he did not repent

d. He has same bodily desires … he wanted to cool his tongue e. He did not have his body yet in hell, but certainly retained his bodily senses f. Remembering is one of the torments of hell

g. Suppose the rich man had died in Jesus’ time that would mean for 2000 years he has been remembering, that urged him to seek the Lord h. Physical bodies will go to hell There will be a time when the unsaved will come form hell and take up their bodies from the earth or waters and stand for judgment and then be cast forever into the lake of fire Mathew 5: 22

CONSIDER WHY THESE SPOKE SO PLAINLY ABOUT HELL? • • Because it is all true – Christ is a true and faithful witness When Jesus appeared on the earth, He came with love. He came to tell sinners of hell to scare them from hell. Paul had not shunned to declare al the Counsel of God.

• • Because they were so full of love towards sinners Mathew 23: 37 So it was with Paul II Corinthians 5: 11 That they might be free form blood guiltiness Acts 20: 26

EVERYONE THAT I’VE PREACHED TO TODAY, WILL BE SENT EITHER TO HEAVEN OR HELL Revelations 20: 11 -15 11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from His presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what

they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them and each person was judged according to what he had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 If anybody’s name was not found written in the book of life, He was thrown in of the lake of fire

John 3: 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him