The Crowded Road to Hell — E.A. Johnston

The Narrow Gate and the Few Who Find Life

Jesus made a truly shocking comment that goes against mainstream Christianity today. In Matthew chapter 7 and verses 13 and 14, he mentioned how hard it is to get into Heaven, how few there are in each generation that go to Heaven.

Listen to his words. Enter ye in at the straight gate, for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction. And many there be which go in thereat, because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

The Broad Road of Pleasure and Sin

Jesus is saying here, friends, that there is a crowded road to Hell, and he says it is an easily accessible road with many people on it. It's not hard to find, and it's easy to get on. Your very nature would prefer that road of pleasure and sin.

It draws like a magnet, and on that road is a long line of careless and deceived souls who will reach the end of that road, which stops at a pit, and everyone on that road at their time of death will drop into that black bottomless pit called Hell.

Jesus describes the road to destruction and Hell as a broad way. Listen, friends. The road to Hell is crowded with all the world religions. The road to Hell is jammed with those who are working their way to Heaven.

The road to Hell is paved with pleasure-seeking, sin-loving God-haters. The road to Hell is full with unconverted church members who rest upon a false foundation. The road to Hell is crowded with a multitude of individuals who don't believe God will punish sin, and the road to Hell is jam-packed with folks who believe they are good enough to get into Heaven.

False Conversion and the Narrow Way

If you believe the words of Christ, as they are found in my Bible here in Matthew chapter 7, then you will have to admit that there are very few people in this world right now who have found the narrow way that follows a crucified Christ to glory.

It bothers me when I go to a mall and see masses of people who are clueless to their eternal destiny and climb over each other's backs in a mad rush to get to Hell. And it grieves my heart to sit in church and listen to a false shepherd who's feeding his goats with the devil's gruel, when they can be sitting under a God-called preacher who warns them of the great danger of dying in their sins and entering a Christless eternity in a terrible region and chamber of horrors which is the devil's Hell.

At least somebody's got a chance to be saved under that kind of preaching. But there are very few who are truly saved and who travel the narrow way which goes against the world's ways. I feel sorry for this generation of teenagers who grew up in the church and who've never heard the true gospel preached to them by a God-called preacher.

Worldly Lifestyles and Empty Professions

Their lifestyle betrays their profession of faith for they can drink and cuss and do drugs and fornicate with one another on Saturday night and go to church on Sunday morning and sit in the sanctuary and clap their hands and sing about how they love Jesus.

And all they get to hear from their pastor is some light teaching mixed with a lot of humor. It's sad, friends, and it breaks my heart. I hope it breaks your heart enough to get on your knees and pray for this godless generation of young people today who party on the broad road to certain destruction.

A Diluted Gospel and an Unconverted Ministry

I believe we live in a day of a largely unconverted ministry that grew up being fed a diluted and perverted gospel that will only damn you instead of having any power to save. These are very serious times in which we live, friends.

Times when the light has almost gone out and society grows darker and darker and it's harder and harder for someone to sit under the sound of the biblical gospel and be saved. The crowded road to hell is an easy road to stay on.

The Crowded Corridors of Hell

You just get pushed along in a joyride that ends with doom and damnation. And hell itself is a very crowded place. It's been estimated that 83 people a minute die apart from Christ. That adds up to 5 ,000 people an hour.

Do the math. That comes to 120 ,000 souls a day that drop into the crowded corridors of hell. That adds up to over 800 ,000 people a week, friends. And every month another 3 million people are crammed into that smoking pit.

Do you realize that through the course of a year that comes to 40 million souls who are shut up in that burning prison to scream in agony? Let 10 years go by and another 400 million souls are locked up in that chamber of horrors.

Now think back in your mind of all the generations that have lived and died since the time of Adam and add up all the hordes of people who have died in their sins and occupy hell at this moment. Yes, friends.

Hell is a very crowded place and the road to hell is crowded as well. There is a final judgment that awaits all mankind where the judge of all the earth sits on a pure white throne and every mother's son will stand before that throne and have to give an account of their life to that judge.

The Great White Throne and the Lake of Fire

The crowded road to hell leads to this judgment day. My Bible speaks of this time in Revelation chapter 20. And I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them.

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 them and they were judged, every man, according to their works and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire this is the second death and whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire that is a solemn scene friend strive to enter in at the straight gate which is the person of Jesus Christ there is a bloody cross that stands at that gate and all who pass and get beneath the blood will have their sins washed away how about you friend how is it with you he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him that word abideth means forever and ever hell is forever repent of your sins and believe on Christ now before it's too late and you're swept along that crowded road until you make your bed in hell let us pray.