The Damnation of Hell - Part 2 (Compilation) — Compilations

Hell as a Place of Unending Torment

Christ depicts hell as a place where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched. As a furnace of fire. It's referred to as the lake of fire and brimstone. We cited that scene from Luke 16, and in hell he lift up his eyes being in torments and seeth Abraham afar off.

And he cried and said, Father Abraham have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame. Just give me a little drop on the end of his finger.

My throat is parched. I'm in torment. So often the Lord said it's a place of weeping and wailing. Can you imagine what it would be like if we could open the lid of hell and hear the weeping and the wailing of the damned.

I can't describe. I read about, you know, I read about those that have suffered third degree burns, put in special burn units. I read about the debridement where they have to take away their dead flesh.

I read about them groaning and crying and screaming because of the pain. Will the man realize, I think, the power and the depth of the wrath of God. Imagine every part of your body being on fire at the same time so that every fiber of your being is feeling the intense torment of being burned.

Imagine.

The Eternality of Hell's Judgment

The thing about hell remains yet to be said. More awful than the fact that it is a place of torment and alleviated in both body and soul in varying degrees. The whole thing that can be said about it, the inconceivably terrible thing about it is that it's empty.

You know and I know in this world it doesn't make any difference what the pain is. It may be something like a toothache. It may be a heart attack. It may be light. It may be excruciating. But if we can only say to ourselves, it'll be better.

In a year I'll be cured. Whatever distress we have ends with the grace. Some consolation. Not the pain. In the hope that it will cease. It'll come and there'll be no more. It doesn't make any difference.

Trifling. Call it a toothache if you please. Get up one morning and find it. Something like that. It'll always be with you. That's what Jesus Christ says about the world to come. Jesus Christ has various ways of expressing this.

I call your attention just to one or two of them. One figure he uses, you all know, he describes hell as a place where the fire is not quenched and the worms die if not. What's the meaning of that kind of image?

Jesus Christ refers to the place where the worms die if not. He is referring to one method of destroying the human body after it has died. Namely, by burying it in the earth and having it consumed by maggots.

We all know full well that when we do place a body in the ground, as soon as a maggot has died, there's no more food on which to sustain its own existence. Having been destroyed, Jesus Christ therefore describes hell as a place where the worms die if not.

The meaning is unmistakable. The worm is never destroyed. It doesn't die because that is never consumed. The fire is not quenched. It's a reference to the other method by which we dispose of dead bodies, namely cremation.

We know that when a body is burned, as soon as the body has been completely consumed, the fire goes out. It has no more fuel to sustain it. Jesus Christ describes this place as a place where the fire is not quenched.

The meaning again is unmistakable. The fire doesn't go out.

Because that which is burning is never consumed.

How could you think of language more graphic, more vivid, more unmistakably telling us that this abode of judgment and condemnation and woe and misery and anguish is an endless abode that quenches the worm dies not.

Condemnation of Those Who Deny Hell

Go to heaven. All the so-called good people will not take the soul from hell and put it into heaven. All the deceivers that these ecumenical ministers are, these ungodly men, these blinded men, will not tell the people what is going to happen to these lying clergymen that tell people that you never go to hell.

Romans 1, 28, 32. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, deviant, deceit, malignity, whisperers, back-biters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful, knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but a pleasure in them that do them.

Romans 1, verses 28 to 32.

The Torment of Memory in Hell

Oh, he's been down there all this time. Well, here's that fellow, the rich man's body, according to the scriptures, still in the grave. His old brain's long since decayed, but his memory's with him in hell.

I'll tell you, memories can be mighty sweet, or they can be awfully bitter. Son, remember? Remember? Lord, let's just be done with this now. What's done's done. Let's just forget about it. No, Abraham said, Son, remember?

To be condemned, to be harassed, and tormented, and tracked down, and trailed. Men have their memories in hell. You'll take yours there. I want you to join me tonight. I'm going to ask Abraham, say, well, take us on a tour of hell.

Abraham, if you don't mind, take me on a tour of hell. I want you to help me preach. I want you to help me warn sinners. I want you to help me brave the ridicule of this religious generation that says, well, that preacher is trying to scare people.

You're a dick, right? I sure wish I could scare you. I wish I could get you where you're afraid of sin. I wish I could get you where you're afraid of facing the Holy God. Oh, whether I can or not, I walk with tears.

I walk with authority. I walk with passion. The world is not of something I thought of, but of the eternal consequences.

Of the fact that God's a holy God,.

And He's got to punish sin. So I want Abraham to take us tonight on a tour of hell. And Abraham and I go down the elevated land in hell, and immediately we're in bedlam. And I see a multitude of people over to my right, and they're knocking open.

Noah's Ark and the Memory of Rejected Warnings

And I say, what on earth going on over there, Abraham? What they trying to do? Oh, he said, they're knocking on the door of Noah's ark. I say, well, I don't see Noah's ark yet. He said, oh no, Noah's ark's not in hell, but they think it is.

It's in their memory. And all they do is go around 24 hours a day, day in and day out. I said, well, there's no door there. Nope. In their memory. Lived unrighteous lives. How you know? Wouldn't believe them.

Through the nail in the ark is a saying, judgment coming, judgment coming, judgment coming, judgment coming. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all of them. That's judgment coming, judgment coming.

Get him in the ark. Get him in the ark. Get him in the ark. But nobody did. Nobody did. Nobody did. Seven years, more Noah said, seven days later, still nobody got in the ark. He condemned the world. He said to both rockin' boys, this ain't not going on forever.

The wrath of God can be, can come to its end sometime. It's piling up, wrath on wrath, vengeance on vengeance. The judgment coming, the judgment coming. He will be said to his generation and repent. But nobody did.

Nobody did. When the flood came, scientists tell us there were three billion people on the earth at that time. I don't know whether they're telling the truth or not. I have no reason to doubt it. Three billion people.

At least as many people as live on this earth now. And you know how many of them passing by the only ark of safety and drowning under their rebellious spirit living the cries of the prophet of God. Crying righteousness.

They'll never get away from it. God sent three billion of them to hell. I know. I know. And we don't believe that. A good God wouldn't send three billion people to hell one time. That ain't so. But he did.

He did. God help us. Throw our Bibles away and just face it. God won't catch up with sin some of these days. That's right. And we pass by and Abraham says remember remember that's all I got to do remember remember remember we pass on through the corridors of hell and I see a man over there and he said take it away take this thing away and I say who's that Abraham he said that's heaven.

Herod's Memory of John the Baptist

I said what is he trying to do he said he's trying to get somebody to take the head of John the Baptist away so he carries around with him and tries to get somebody to take it and it's burning and he can't forget.

I said well Abraham I don't see the head of John the Baptist. Abraham said no Rob the head of John the Baptist is sitting in hell but it's in the memory of heaven he can't get away from it. He remembers how he went out to get John the Baptist preached and he feared him and called him a just man and he quit chewing tobacco and drinking liquor and stealing money and a few other things but one day John said Abraham you're living in open law that's adulterous relationship with your brother Odius would have killed but you couldn't had a drunken party his step daughter dance party and in his cup she was pleased and he he was going to give her a present and she slipped in the curtain said mom what you want me to ask.

The old man said ask the head of that preacher. And so he came out. He said I'll give you anything you want on behalf of my kingdom. He said well give me the head of John the Baptist. He sent a couple of boys down and locked the jail door and took John the Baptist the greatest man that ever lived what the scripture said.

And he laid his head down on a block like the old turkey gobbler and severed it off and put it in a big charger and took it and brought it to that wicked woman old Herod or Nancy by the head of the John the Baptist wife.

Well I'm speaking to you now. You can't get away from it. We passed by and Abraham said son remember put that on. And there's a man going around screaming whoa we're back at death's gate. No Abraham. Who's that.

Pilate's Memory and the Guilt of Rejecting Christ

Well that's father. What's the matter with him. He's trying to get the blood off his hands and I walk up close and I don't see Abraham. I don't see any blood. Oh no there's no blood on his hands. It's in his memory.

It's in his memory. He remembers he remembers being warned of his wife. He remembers that experience when he tried that fellow Jesus according to the law of the Roman Empire the justice law the world had ever known and found not a thing on earth to condemn him over as he would have released him.

He said no sir. And there he was. Would he lift in Caesar. Would he offend the Jews. Or would he release that innocent man. And so he weighed the situation carefully. Some of you will have to weigh it tonight that sore spot in your life.

It's got to go. If you get to Christ and you're going to weigh it. Some of you will trade your hope for salvation one more time for that rotten spot in your life that kept you from Christ all these days.

And so he got him a basin of water and he washed his hands but he never did get rid of the blood. And it's still there in his memory. He remembers. And Abraham and I pass by. And Abraham says my son remember.

The Girl Who Delayed Repentance

We pass on and there's a little girl and she looks up and she sees me. And she said that's Ralph Barrett. And I said Abraham I know that girl. And he said yes sir everybody in hell knows who you are. And I said that little girl just spoke him all the time.

Abraham I'm not in hell. No no. But you are according to her. You're in her memory. She can't forget you. She can't forget that time in Arkansas. One night there the God fell on the congregation. Multitudes were swept into the kingdom of God.

The whole congregation became agited primating Christians praying for souls and sinners screaming for mercy. It was the work of the sovereign spirit. That little 16 year old girl didn't kneel but she stood there and grabbed the pew in front of it.

The veins in her hands were burst and a great pool of tears were at her feet and she held her own foot dear life in that sort of atmosphere where God's people spoke to her and the spirit honored her. And she stood there and she trembled and she wept.

And that service passed away. And finally the people began to go home. And I couldn't have kept from it if the devil and all his angels were there as the congregation was melting. She kept standing there going on to that seat and weeping and I flipped up to her and would have a word to say.

And she turned and looked at me and said no don't talk to me said I'm going to be saved tomorrow night said I'm going to get saved tomorrow night said I'm not going to be saved tonight said I know you don't tell me I'm not going to be saved tonight.

And the tears melted and she turned loose. And all I could think of probably was 27 -1 post. Not by 7 tomorrow cause I know it's not what her day will ring for. And she went home. And at 10 o 'clock the next morning she was the star basketball player girl basketball player right through the team and she was practicing and she got right in the exact middle of the court and she gave a great agonizing cry to the fellow on the floor by the time the players got to her.

She was dead tomorrow. She died. Oh she said the night before don't talk to me. I'm going to get saved tomorrow night. Tomorrow night she is in hell. And she can't forget Abraham said she quotes coverage.

27 -1 post. Not by 7 tomorrow cause I know it's not what her day will ring for. I know people don't believe that. But still so that little girl in hell was quoting that scripture trying to get people to get me out of hell.

I'm in her memory. And that scripture is in her memory. And that night is in her memory. And those tears the Holy Spirit produced her in her memory. Had to hang on to that seed to keep from yielding to the spirit ruling.

She'll never forget it. And we pass by the little girl. And Abraham says son remember. I'm going to get into theology now bigger than I am for just a minute. But the memory of the love of God will be the most terrible thing to torment you.

The Love of God and the Call to Flee Wrath

Oh the love of God. Don't limit it greater far than tongue or pen can ever say to save to God. The world has to give men despise it take it for granted. Now it'll haunt them the reaches of eternal day.

They'll never get away from it. In the presence of the Holy Father in the presence of the Holy Son. In the presence of the Holy Ghost. And with God's holy book in my hand I would cry out to you. Flee flee flee from the wrath that is to come.

Adam and Eve never knew they would enlarge hell but they did. The man who lived in the age before the flood never knew they would enlarge hell but they did. The nation of the Jews never knew they would enlarge hell but it did.

Christian church. Consider. Dear sinner friend the end is near. Sinner awake before your doom is eternally and forever sealed. Beware of taking the first step. What is the first step? We neglect so great salvation.

Neglecting Salvation and the Certainty of Judgment

The thing of salvation is taking us by neglecting salvation. You take the first of these three steps which will lead you to eternal damnation. Why do you neglect? Why do you neglect the salvation? You know that you're.

You know very well that the wages of sin is death. You know very well that after death there is judgment. You know there is a heaven. You know there is a hell. You know that if you live in your sins you will die in your sins.

You will be buried in your sins. Rise again from the dead in your sins. You will appear before the God of heaven on his great white throne. Judgment in your sins. If you appear before God in your sins you will go to that hell of which this chapter speaks.

A hell enlarged to take your doomed and damned soul forever. You know all this. You neglect salvation. Oh dear sinner awake before it is. For to this solemn fact from neglecting you will be damned forever more.

Withdraw your feet this very night from the broad road that leads to. Except the cleansing blood of Christ purchased you for Christ upon his cross. Oh the blood of the lamb. It was Bishop J .C. Ryle the first Church of England Bishop of Liverpool who said this.

The saddest road to hell is that which runs under the pulpit where the gospel is the Bible where the gospel is recorded and through the midst of warnings and invitations. Beware. Neglect God