Gospel Full of Hell Fire — E.A. Johnston

The Counterfeit Gospel and False Christians

The tragedy of this hour, friends, is a counterfeit gospel produces counterfeit Christians who live unto themselves and are full of the world and wedded to their sins and who mistakenly believe they are saved and on their way to heaven.

False Assurance Built on a Diluted Gospel

But when the sad reality is they swallowed a diluted, perverted gospel that will only harden them in their sins and damn them to hell when they die. They have a false assurance and a false peace produced by the devil as they rest upon a false foundation of sand and sit upon a rotten plank board of coronal security because all they had was an empty religious profession without Christ.

And they joined a church believing church membership was salvation. They listened to a pastor or evangelist who said God loves you, friend. Just accept Jesus as your personal Savior and put your trust in Him.

Just place your trust in Him, friend, like you trust that chair you're sitting on to support you. Being saved is as simple as that. Come and accept Jesus now, friend, and make it public because Jesus said for whosoever should be ashamed of me and my words, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed.

So come forward, friend. Come forward and come down front and make it public and say yes to Jesus. That's right. Come to Jesus and you can be assured that heaven is yours. And the sad fact is, friends, many came and walked that aisle and accepted Jesus like they would take a piece of chewing gum and chew it on them for a little while until the flavor went out of their religion.

But that's how most folks got in our churches today. And they got in the church because they did what the preacher told them to do and they believed the preacher when he told them they were now saved.

Repentance and the Danger of Dying in Sin

They swallowed a gospel full of hellfire. And I believe in my heart they are. There's entire congregations in hell at this hour and their pastor's name is just a cuss word in hell. I believe the product of the modern gospel for the last 60 years has filled hell with unconverted church members who were never warned of their great and imminent danger of dying in their sins outside of Christ and having a terrible judgment await them.

That God commands all men everywhere to repent and that unless and until they repent and turn to the Lord in their utter helplessness they will surely die in their sins beneath the condemnation of a holy God and be sent to a devil's hell because they were never washed in the blood and born from above.

They missed Christ entirely and missed heaven for all eternity. To tell a sin loving, holiness hating, wicked sinner that all he has to do to be saved is to just accept Jesus is not true because God's word is plain that sinners must repent and turn from their wicked ways.

Jesus declared unless you repent ye shall all likewise perish. And in Isaiah 55 we read let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon.

Judgment, False Works, and Religious Profession

I feel sorry for the good men now dead who preached a perverted gospel and realized too late in eternity an eternity of regret that their entire ministry was merely wood, hay and straw. And I feel sorry for the unconverted church member right now who is still in this world and still loves this world and still in their sins and their hope of heaven is nothing more than a hole in the wall that all their good works are just to be repented of for they were done in the flesh as they climbed and scratched their way to heaven on a rope of sand and that the foundation they rest upon is nothing more than a rotten plank board soon to break as they fall headlong into that bottomless pit, clutching only an empty religious profession that when they face Christ on judgment day all they will hear him say is depart from me all ye who work iniquity away from me I never knew you because the gospel they swallowed was full of hellfire preached by men who were lost themselves and who together burn in the agonies of hell's fire forever and ever.

Saving Faith, Repentance, and the New Birth

Now listen to me friend before it's too late I have been true to your soul and I have warned you to escape the penalty of sin and to exercise repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who is the substitute for sin.

I know I am a sinner and I need a substitute for sin in the person of Jesus Christ and so do you friend so do you for the gospel to be applied you must feel your need. You must admit you're a lost sinner who deserves nothing but hell and you need to take your place at the foot of the cross and come to a sovereign empty handed and helpless as a seeker of mercy.

If you get saved friend it's because God gave you saving faith. Those who come under Holy Spirit conviction repent of their sins and turn from their wicked ways and come to Christ believing on Him. Listen friend you must be born again.

What this means is you must be washed into blood and born from above. As I close this message it is my hope and prayer that God opens your eyes and performs the work of grace in your heart and that you take your place before Him as a lost guilty sinner in need of a savior.

Christ as the Only Way to the Father

Now listen to the words of Christ Jesus. I am the way the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Listen friends the gospel is for the hungry the weary and the thirsty.

The Invitation to Come and Receive Living Water

Are you hungry for God. Are you weary of your sins. Then come lay your burden down. Are you thirsty for Christ. Then listen to God's invitation and the spirit and the bride say come and let him that heareth say come and let him that is a thirst come and whosoever will let him take the water of life freely listen to the words of Christ.

If any man that means any man thirst let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me as the scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. Listen to me awaken. Sinner friend Christ is the bread of life.

He invites poor sinners to come to him and believe on him. The duty required is to come to Christ and he has a pure gospel promise to all who come and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

Let us pray.