What's Everybody Screaming About? — Greg Locke

Matthew 13:40–49 and the Reality of Judgment

Matthew chapter 13, let's stand together, please, out of respect for God's Word tonight. The book of Matthew, chapter number 13. We have a lot we need to say tonight, and so we must get right into our subject at hand.

Matthew chapter 13. Look, if you would, please, maybe you'll have to flip a page to verse number 40. Matthew chapter number 13 and verse number 40. And although there's much we need to deal with tonight, I'll give you tonight the same promise that Elizabeth Taylor gave her sick husband.

I'll not keep you very long. Matthew chapter number 13, please, and verse 40. Jesus is speaking, obviously, if you have a Red Letter edition Bible, it's in red. He says, Matthew 13 and verse 49. So shall it be at the end of the world.

The angels shall come forth and sever the wicked from among the just. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Tonight I preach the subject, What's Everybody Screaming About?

Thank you very much. You may be seated. Let's bow our heads and hearts and pray. And let's ask the Lord to bless our time together tonight. What's Everybody Screaming About? Now, Lord, tonight's subject at hand is not a subject that I enjoy as a preacher preaching on.

Just as Brother Robertson said, that as a singer, he and his family do not enjoy singing such songs, but it's Bible truth. And so, Lord, tonight it must be preached. It must be taught, and it must be conveyed to the hearts of this congregation that's performing tonight.

I pray for the one that is here, because, Lord, in a congregation this size, I have no doubt in my mind that there's one, maybe more here, who's never been saved by the grace of God. Father, I pray tonight that Your Spirit would sweep over them in mighty, mighty conviction, and they would not be able to leave this building until they get saved by the grace of God.

Then, dear God, for those of us who are saved, who know the Lord Jesus Christ, I pray, Lord, that You would convict us if there's areas of our lives that would keep us from having a testimony for the Lord Jesus Christ, and would cause us to live a life that would keep sinners from being saved by the grace of God.

So, tonight, I pray that You would convict. I pray that You would work. And, Lord, I know that the devil is going to do his dead-level best to distract us tonight. So, I claim the victory that we already have promised to us in the Word of God.

I plead the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, Your Word says they overcame him, that's the devil, by the blood of the Lamb. And so, tonight, I pray that You would help us to be conquerors and to overcome.

I pray that You would help this congregation as they listen to the Bible. And I pray that You would help me, Your servant, the priest, or as I preach the Bible, for just the next few moments. And we'll thank You, dear God, for everything that You say and do.

For we ask it in faith, and we pray it in the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. Let's suppose tonight that we were all to jump on a Brush Harbor Baptist Greyhound Church bus. All right? Let's say that we had one just kind of warming up out there in the parking lot for us.

And let's say that it was a real nice evening. And so, we all loaded up on the great big Brush Harbor Baptist Greyhound bus. And we got on that bus, and we were going to go 27 miles. Not a 37-mile trip, not a 147-mile trip, but a mere 27-mile little stretch of land.

Now, I'll be honest with you. To the average driver, 27 miles would probably only take about 25 to 30 minutes. Now, for your past understanding, it'd take about 5 minutes. But for the most of us who drive like normal human beings on the road and obey the speed laws, it would take most of us about 25 or 30 minutes, respectively, to drive 27 short little miles.

And let's say, ladies and gentlemen, that in those 27 short miles, that you and I were to see 247 big red road signs in 27 miles that said, warning, the bridge is out of hand. Warning, the bridge is out of hand.

Now, I don't know about you, but I believe that if I were to be driving 27 miles, I think I would probably see at least 100 of the 247 signs. To be honest with you, more than likely, I would like to think that I'm an alert enough a driver that I would probably see about 200 of those signs.

But I promise you, you're going to see some of them, because the signs being repeated over and over and over and over again would be a drastic way to get your attention. For example, we base our ministry out of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville.

Not too far from us, maybe 15, 20 miles, the Robertsons base their home and their ministry out of Beach Grove, Tennessee, one of those little poking plumb towns I was talking about the other night. But they live there.

I live in Murfreesboro. We're about 15, 20 miles apart. And just past them, if you drive maybe about an hour and 35, hour and 40 minutes, depending on how heavy your foot is, you're going to go to Chattanooga, Tennessee.

And when you leave Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and you pass Beach Grove, and you pass Manchester, and you go over Montego Mountain, and you start going down into Chattanooga, that little hour and a half, hour and 45 minute track, you are going to see sign after sign after sign after sign that says, C-Rock City, C-Ruby Falls.

You've been there. C-Rock City, C-Ruby Falls. Every old red barn, C-Rock City, C-Ruby Falls. I mean on the sides of trees, C-Rock City, C-Ruby Falls. Great big billboards, C-Rock City, C-Ruby Falls.

And by the time you go from Murfreesboro, Tennessee to Chattanooga, Tennessee, you have seen so many signs that say C-Rock City, C-Ruby Falls. You could care less if you see either one of them because the signs have driven you crazy.

Why do they put those signs there? Because of the repetitive nature, it is something that gets your attention, and so it says to your mind, Hey, I bet when we get to Chattanooga, Tennessee, we could C-Rock City, and we could C-Ruby Falls.

So here we are on the Brush Harbor Baptist Greyhound Bunch, and we're driving down the road. 27 short miles. Only about, let's say, 30 minutes. One half of an hour, 27 miles, and yet there are 247 road signs that say, Warning, warning, warning, the bridge is out of hand.

The reason those signs would be so repetitive is to get your attention so you would wake up, so you would open your eyes, so you would turn the air conditioner on, get some coffee in your hand, and you would realize there is danger just a few miles down the road.

You say, now Brother Locke, why don't you begin your message from Matthew chapter 13 tonight with such a foolish illustration? I'll tell you why. Did you know there are 66 books in your Bible? I thank God for every one of them.

There is 39 in the Old, there is 27 in the New. You put them together and start counting words, you'll find out there are 791 ,328 words in your Old and New Testament Bible, and every one of them are straight from the very mouth of Almighty God.

But if you were to take away the 39 books of the Old Testament and just have the 27 of the New, did you know if you put the 27 books of your New Testament Bible between your fingers, ladies and gentlemen, you will not have a very, very thick amount of paper.

Matter of fact, the Old Testament is much, much larger than the New Testament, and so all you have is 27 little bitty short books of your New Testament. But did you know in those 27 books, there are 247 big red road signs that says, warning, there is a place that's called heaven.

Just the other day I was driving down the road and I was listening to Mr. Dobson and some of the people there that focus on the family, and don't get me wrong, they have some wonderful things, but there was a man on the radio and he was preaching about heaven, and I remember Mr. Dobson and the other guy kind of focused in there on the little discussion group after the message, and I'll never forget, Mr. Dobson said, you know what, that is such an overlooked message in the day and age in which we live.

He said, it just seems like nobody preaches on heaven anymore. He said, it just seems like nobody ever talks about heaven. He said, it seems like all the songs in our hymn books have been taken away from the doctrine of heaven.

And he said, I tell you, and he called the guy Mike, and he said, I tell you Mike, it just seems like heaven is an overlooked message in the day and age in which we live. Well, he's probably right, but I got news for you and Mr. Dobson, I believe something that's just a little bit more overlooked than heaven is the doctrine of eternal hell.

And there are very few people in our churches who actually hear a full-blown message on hell. It is the most overlooked and started around issue in all of the word of God. I want you to take your Bible tonight, let your fingers do the walk into Luke chapter 16.

Would you go there? It is the most doctrinal portion of Scripture in all of your Bible when it comes to the subject that we're dealing with tonight, the subject of hell. Luke chapter number 16, and when you get there, we're going to go to verse number 19.

Luke chapter number 16, and we're going to begin in verse number 19. I want to give you four simple, undeniable, irrefutable points about hell tonight. Number one, as my title implies, what's everybody screaming about?

Hell's Reality and the Rich Man's Torment

I believe, number one, the people in hell, they are bothered by, they are grieved by, they are overwhelmed by, and number one, the people in hell are screaming over hell's reality. Over hell's reality.

Just as real as the building in which we sit right this moment, so there is a place, according to the word of God, both mentioned in the Old, but more so in the New Testament, a place that is actually, physically, and factually called hell.

Somebody says, well, Brother Locke, I'll be real honest with you. I don't believe there's a hell, and I'll be real honest with you, it won't make it one degree cooler when you get there because there is a hell.

You can say that this building does not exist. You can say that the parking lot just outside the doors of this church does not exist. You can say that Virginia does not exist. But just you saying that it does not exist does not make it so, and you can try to miss a wave and fable away hell, but it is a reality that is in the word of God.

And in Luke chapter 16, Jesus is giving an actual, historical account. Now you hear me? Look me straight up in the face. This is not a made-up story. This is not a parable that Jesus is giving. Every time Jesus gave parables, He never used actual names, He never used actual places, and He never used actual references to real things, if you will, to actual objects which could be touched, or which could be talked to, or which could be seen.

He always was very, very vague when He gave parables, but in Luke 16, the last thing Jesus was, was vague. As a matter of fact, He was very meticulous, and He was very, very specific. Look what your Bible says, please.

Luke chapter 16 and verse number 19. The Bible says, There was a certain, notice the word, rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day. Now the color purple, if you study the book of Leviticus and the book of Numbers, you will find out that the color purple in your Bible is a color or a symbolization of royalty.

This was not your average Joe Blow, run of the mill type of a fella. Maybe he was a politician. Maybe he was some type of a theologian. I do not know what he was, but I do know he was a highfalutin man in society, because the Bible makes the little point that he wore purple robes or purple garments.

But the Bible also tells us that he was a very rich and influential man. It says that he fared sumptuously every day. Now that big fancy New Testament word, sumptuously, basically means, if he wanted a Big Mac, he ate a Big Mac.

If he wanted a hot dog, he ate a hot dog. If he wanted a 20-ounce T-bone steak, he had a 20-ounce T-bone steak. Whatever this man wanted, whenever he wanted, however he wanted, is what he received, because he was a rich man, clothed in purple, and fared sumptuously, not once a month, once a week, but every day.

But please look at verse number 20 if you would. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his, that's the rich man's, gate full of swords, and desiring to be fed were the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table.

Moreover, the dog came and licked his swords, verse 22, and it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. Please notice verse 23, Notice that phrase one more time.

And in hell he lift up his eyes. Being in torment, is it Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom? Here the Lord Jesus begins to give the historical account about two men. One was a very, very rich man who was not saved by the grace of God, and one was a very, very poor beggar man who was saved by the grace of God.

One went to heaven and one went to hell. Now let me fix an old-fashioned Baptist misnomer that's been around for many, many years that I believe needs to be fixed. The rich man did not go to hell because he was rich, and the poor man did not go to heaven because he was poor.

The poor man went to heaven because he was saved by the grace of God, and the rich man went to hell because he was lost in his sin and never repented and turned to the Lord Jesus Christ. And so it had nothing to do with their social status, but it had everything to do with their spiritual status in life.

And so here's one of them who is eating well every day. I mean, he's got a limousine, he's got an indoor swimming pool. I mean, he's got everything handed to him on a silver platter. I mean, he's got servants, and I mean, he's got people that bring him his silk pajamas and all that kind of stuff.

And I mean, here's a guy who is flat loaded. He's got money in the bank. He's got money in several banks, probably, but just outside the gate. Here's a little old beggar man by the name of Lazarus. The Bible says that the only satisfaction that he had, basically, was when the dogs would come by and lick those oozing, pussing sores from his skin as he had these protruding boils that were coming forth.

And all he wanted was just a few crumbs, but even the rich man had no time for that little skid row bum who was just outside the street, just outside his gate. And so one day we find out that the beggar died, and he was escorted by the angels of God into Abraham's bosom.

And just a little while longer, we find out that the rich man died, and there was no escort into heaven. Rather, the Bible says in verse 23, and in hell he lifts up his eyes, being in torment. Now, we're living in a day when people say, hell's just separation from God.

Now, please understand, one of the most terrible, awful things about hell is the fact that in hell you are separated from God because of your sins. Isaiah chapter 59, verses 1 and 2. Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save.

Neither is His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, that He will not hear. And so to be separated from God, no doubt, will be horrendous and will be horrible.

But they try to nullify the fact that flames are in hell and that darkness is in hell and that there's weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. And you get these people who say, hell is only a mental state.

It is only a place where people go to be separated from God. But there's no such thing as flames in hell. And we've got that all over America. But I'd like to remind you, on almost every occasion, not every, but probably 95 of the time, when Jesus preached, when He taught, when He mentioned, or when He spoke about the doctrine of the reality of hell, He always mentioned there were physical flames.

Five years ago, there is an international evangelist who travels the world. He's very well known. And five years ago, he was on national television and somebody asked him, they said, Dr. So-and-so, what is your stand on flames in hell?

And he said, I believe whenever the Bible is depicting flames in hell, it is merely a reference to speak of the awfulness that it will be to be separated from God. And here's what he said. I didn't say it.

He said, but to say that there are literal flames in hell, we do not have enough Bible evidence to prove something like that. Now, I'm not giving you his name. I'll give you his initials. They're Billy Graham.

But the truth of the matter is this. If you study your Bible from Genesis 1 -1 to Revelation 22 -21, you're going to find out, ladies and gentlemen, that there is a real place called hell. It is a reality just as this building is a reality.

And there are claims in the very midst of this place called hell. And this man in Luke 16 wasn't having a party-hearty time. The Bible says three times he was in torment. Now, look in your Bibles at verse 24, would you?

Luke chapter 16 and verse 24. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me. And sin Lazarus said he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.

Did you notice that little phrase, Father Abraham? Here's a man, ladies and gentlemen, who was religious. Here's a man who had, if you will, the terms of endearment of the Bible. He didn't say, Mr. Abraham.

He didn't say, Hey there, Abraham. He said, Father Abraham. A religious terminology which was used all throughout the New Testament for religious people. But you'll notice, dear neighbor, his religion did not keep him out of hell.

Now, drunkenness is a horrible sin in the day and age in which we live. I think that any preacher who will not stand up and preach against liquor, and preach against booze, and preach against all that goes with it, I believe he ought to turn in his ordination certificate because he's a liberal, he's a modernist, and he's taking money under false pretense, and he's a hireling.

I believe all preachers ought to preach against liquor. I mean beer, I mean booze, I mean every bit of it. I'm against all of it. But I'm going to tell you something. Booze, and liquor, and drunkenness is not what's sending more people to hell in America.

You know that? Divorce is not sending that many people to hell in America. Immorality, and adultery, and fornication, and the rest of that mess is not what is sending most people to hell in America and around the world.

There are more people that go to hell in the name of religion than in any other religion. Because people have the idea, well, Brother Locke, if I'm a Baptist, I'll go to heaven. No, no. I'm not going to heaven because I'm a Baptist.

I just figure since I'm going to heaven, I might as well go first class. But the truth of the matter is this. I know a lot of Baptists who've never been saved by the grace of God. You say, well, Brother Locke, I'll have you to know I'm a Presbyterian.

I'm an Episcopalian. I'm a Catholic. I'm a Pentecostal. I'm a Charismatic. I'm a Church of God. And I'm among many other things. But I didn't ask you tonight, are you religious? Because religion will not get you to the kingdom of God.

Only a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. And here is a man who said, Father Abraham. He had religious terminology. But the problem was he had never been saved by the grace of God. And you can go to church all you want to.

You can repeat all the little prayers you want to. You can walk an hour, shake hands, sign a card. You can even give. You can get in the baptismal booth. But that does not ensure that you're going to the kingdom of God.

There must be a time in your life when you realize you're a hell-deserving rotten sinner. You have broken God's law. And the Holy Spirit of God puts you under old-fashioned conviction. And Ephesians chapter 2 and verses 1 says that He quickens you.

He shows you your need. And then and only then you are willing to turn from your sin. And by faith and faith alone turn to the Lord Jesus Christ. And if that has never happened to you, you may be religious.

But you've never been saved according to what the Bible says. Here is a man who was religious, but he was lost. But let's keep reading, if we shall, in verse number 25. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivest thy good things.

Likewise, Lazarus evil things, but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. Isn't it an interesting thing that here was a rich man who died and became a beggar. And here was a beggar who died and became a rich man in the kingdom of God.

And he had everything that money could buy, but he didn't have the one thing. And what shall a profitable man if he gained the whole world and lose his own stomach? Then we pick up our reading in verse number 26.

Abraham said, And beside all this between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot. Neither can they pass to us that would come from thence. There's the idea of separation.

There was a great valley that was there, and he said, I can't come to you. Son, you can't come to me, verse 27. Then he said, notice, please, the discourse. Then he said, I pray thee, therefore, Father, that thou wouldst send him to my father's house.

Here's the reason. For I have five brethren, or brothers, that he may testify, preach, exhort. He may testify unto them, lest they also come to this place of torment. You see, nobody in hell tonight wants any company, that's for sure.

It goes on in verse 29. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them. And he said, Nay, no, he's arguing. Nay, Father Abraham. But if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.

And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. He said, Son, you're not going to get out of a mess that you're in. He said, You didn't receive the Lord Jesus Christ, no matter how religious, no matter how good looking on the outside you may have been, and how much money, you didn't receive the Lord Jesus, and so now there's no help for you whatsoever.

I can't come to you, you can't come to me, and nobody's going to dip their finger in water and cool your tongue. You will be tormented for all of eternity in the flames, and eventually hell will be cast into the lake of fire, Revelation chapter 20 tells us.

But then he looks at him and says, Okay, there's no help for me, but there is some hope for my brothers. He said, I never had a burden for those boys when I lived on earth. Could have cared less for them.

We never went to church, never cared anything much about the Bible. We tried to be a little bit religious. That was just kind of the outward facade. That was just kind of the thing that went with life.

And we wanted to do our own thing, drive our own cars, and we enjoyed the fast-paced lifestyle of wickedness, wine, and women, and the rest of it that goes with it. And my brothers saw a sorry, sorry character in me, and since I can't go back and tell them, why don't you let Lazarus come back from the dead, and if he has the smoking smell of death upon him, he comes back with the flaming eyes of fire, and he'll come back and open up the Word of God, and preach to my brothers, and beat on their doors, and beg them to get saved, and beg their boys and girls, and beg their wives to get saved, and beg their families to get saved.

Why don't you send somebody back and let my brothers know the reality of this awful place in which I find myself. And Abraham said something to him that is very, very interesting. He said, if they hear not Moses in the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

So he argued with them. No, nay, Father Abraham, but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. It's interesting to me, people in hell believe in repentance, and we got Baptist preachers around America that don't.

Here's a man who didn't want to repent in life, but I promise you, he wanted to repent the moment he lifted up his eyes in hell. And repentance is a part of the gospel. Jesus did not say, believe and repent.

He said, repent and believe the gospel, because you won't believe the gospel until you repent and change your mind about that mess you've been believing all of your life, until you're willing to turn from your sin, until you're willing to learn, turn from all that religion, and all that stuff that's been pumped into you all of your life.

You can never believe the gospel, because you must be enlightened by the Holy Spirit of God that you need something, and when you make that change, when you change your mind, then it's when you believe the gospel.

And that's what this man wanted to do. He was willing to turn from his sin. He was willing to turn from his religion. He was willing to turn from what he had learned and had pumped into all of his life, but now there was no hope, and so he argued with Abraham and said, I didn't repent, but my brothers still have time.

Let somebody, let some wild-eyed evangelist go back and tell us. There's a real place called hell, and he told them again, if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

I'm going to say something. Those are weighted verses, very, very heavy verses in your mind. You know what Moses and the prophets was when Abraham was speaking in Luke 16? It was the equivalent to all of the word of God that they had.

You see, there was no completed canon when you have the event of Luke chapter number 16. They did not have the ink pen of inspiration running out in Revelation 22. They did not have that, ladies and gentlemen.

All they had during the historical time of Luke chapter 16 was Moses and the prophets, and that was the equivalent to the word of God, and Abraham looked at him and said, if they won't do what the word of God says, they're not going to be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

And did you know, ladies and gentlemen, we are living in the very same days. We are living in the days when people want to see the mighty miracles, but they don't want to listen to what the word of God has to say.

Now, last night I did my little bit and preached on Benny Hinn, so I'm not preaching on him tonight, but you know what I'm talking about when you watch these fellas on television. Everybody wants to see the raising of the dead.

Everybody wants to see the blinded eyes mended. Everybody wants to see the ears that are unstopped because they've been deaf all of their lives. Now, you hear me, I do not discount healing one bit. I've seen people healed from cancer.

I've seen God raise people off the deathbed of affliction. I believe God is the great physician, and I believe he can heal, but I don't believe in divine healing. I believe in divine healing, just as sure as this Bible's black tonight, but I don't believe any man's got a monopoly on God.

I don't think any man's got some special touch in his hand or in his handkerchief or in his spit or whatever it may be where he can raise people from the dead. God does not work that way in the day and age in which we live.

There is one way that sinners are brought under conviction, and there is one thing that shows people how to be saved. In Romans 10, 17, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. And if they will not hear what God's Word has to say, then they'll not be saved.

You see, Jesus said in John 14 and verse number 6, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by me. And if a man cannot place simple faith in the Word of God, I promise you, he's not going to place any faith in some miracle of some divine healing.

Scripture, Miracles, and the Sufficiency of God's Word

Now, here's what bothers me about the day and age in which we live. You go to the obvious, you know, the normal Christian bookstore, you know, down here where they call this place, you know, they got Lifeways now, you know, they got this little place over here, this shopping mall.

And it's real hard, I'll be honest with you, it's real hard to find real good, solid, biblical Christian books and bookstores in the day and age in which we live. I mean, they sell just about anything you can imagine, especially their fancy music, but nonetheless.

You go in the bookstores, and right now, I guarantee you, right now, tomorrow, you go over there right now, there'll be six books on the shelf about the Bible code. They got books out about it. They got movies out about it.

You're going to say, well, you know, in certain parts of the Bible, if you put all this stuff into a compute, it kind of spits out all these prophecies. And, you know, if you kind of read it from here to here, you know, you take 37 verses, you know, take about four words out of each one and kind of lump it all together, you'll see that it was prophesied that Princess Diana was going to die in a tunnel.

And, you know, you'll find out that it's prophesied that, you know, Bush is going to be the president, which he is. And it's prophesied that Bill Clinton was going to be a fornicator, which he was. And it's prophesied that this was going to happen.

And they come up with all these spooky, kooky, just ridiculous things, and they call it the Bible code. Now, here's what bothers me about that. If you believe in the Bible code, God bless you, have at yourself.

But I'm going to tell you something. What bothers me about people that write books on the Bible code is they believe Bible code, but they won't believe the basic words of the Bible themselves. They've got to come up with some formality.

They've got to come up with something extra. And they've got to have something in there somehow that makes it somehow ring true. I'm going to tell you something. I don't need any Bible codes, buddy. I've got something right here that is a code within itself.

There's things in this book I don't understand. And I don't care if Princess Diana is mentioned in here. I don't care if Thelma Bin Laden and the rest of that crowd is mentioned in here. I know somebody that's mentioned in here.

It's the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. It's the Lord Jesus Christ. And I'm not looking for a bunch of codes. And I'm not looking for a bunch of ins and outs and a bunch of backwards and forwards and a bunch of diagonal stuff and trying to put a bunch of puzzles together.

I'm telling you, if you will not do what the Word of God says, you're not going to place faith in a bunch of other stuff like that. And Abraham said they have Moses and the prophets. They have the Word of God.

And if they won't listen to what God's Word says, you're not going to be able to help them with any of your miracles, though one even rose from the dead. And by the way, one did rise from the dead, and they still don't believe.

And his name is the Lord Jesus Christ, and they still won't listen to what he has to say. So if you don't get it from the Bible, you're not going to get it at all. And so number one, the people in hell are grieved, bothered, and screaming, if you will, over hell's reality.

Hell's Locality and the Separation of the Dead

Please write this down, number two. Put it in your noggin. Secondly, I believe they're screaming over hell's locality. Here's the question, according to, you know, Bible historians, Bible scholars, where really is this place called hell?

Now, I'm going to be honest with you about something tonight. Follow me, okay? Have a little Sunday School lesson here. I do not know, nor does your pastor, nor does any other preacher that may be in here tonight, nor does any theologian, any Bible scholar.