Six Surprises Waiting In Hell.
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SIX SURPRISES WAITING IN HELL.
SIX SURPRISES WAITING IN HELL.
What are we voting for?:
A church member had dozed off during the morning service. “Will all who wants to go to Heaven, please stand up? The pastor asked.” All stood, except the sleeping member.
After they sat, The pastor continued, “Well, will all who want to go to the other place please stand? At that moment, somebody suddenly dropped a hymnal, and the sleeping member jumped to his feet and stood sheepishly facing the pastor.
The sleeping member confused as what was going on. Said, “Well, pastor I don’t know what we’re voting for, but it looks like you and I are the only ones for it!”
43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Pray
I want to give you a little Introduction, before I get into the actual message.
I want to deal when this thought “Six Surprises Waiting in Hell.”
Six Surprises Waiting in Hell.
Someone in this room is next!
Someone in this room is next to die!
Might be me.
If not me, then it’s one of you!
Everybody in this room needs to recognize that someone in this room is next.
As I look across this congregation.
And I look at and I look at everybody in this room I just looked at the next one who will pass away, unless it’s me.
Someone is next.
That’s why it is important to be “Born Again.”
Because you do not know if your on the list to die.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
So, every man, and every woman, in this room has an appointment to meet God.
The most important thing in your life is for you to be ready when that day comes.
See there’s a major problems out there, we a lot of counterfeit confidence is what I call it.
Some people believe they can get to Heaven, because they have some kind of church affiliation and it is a-shame.
You can be a member of two or three churches and go yo hell.
You are not going to Heaven, by church affiliation.
You maybe a member of this church, but your not go to Heaven simply because your a member of Faith Bible Baptist Church.
You may have your membership some where else.
I don’t know.
I don’t know who is saved here and who isn’t.
But being affiliated to the church, but it give people a since of false confidence.
I’m confident preacher, I’m a baptist, that’s not going to get you to Heaven church.
You are not going to Heaven being affiliated with a church.
Another false confidence is being active in the church.
People doing thing around the church to help out, we appreciate it.
But, I want you to know the false confidence is this.
That a lot of people believe if they are working in the church.
if they are doing something and their active in the church that’s going to get them to Heaven.
They go home at night, go to bed, and they are confident because they are active in church and that’s going to get them to heaven.
False confidence is what that is.
Something else that is deceiving a lot people and that is “Living a Changed Life.”
You know a lot of you here even if you are not saved you could make up your mind and walk out of here and be a better person.
You got a conscience, now you’re not going to have a changed spiritual life, but a lot of folks can quit.
Drinking
They could clean up their language a little bit.
They believe because they have a change life and did it themselves, thats going to get them to Heaven.
False confidence and it saddens me to know people all over our baptist churches and across this country, that these people have this type of false confidence.
People may come down the alias say, “They want to improve their marriage.
The wife and I are not getting along.
They try to behave themselves a little better, they act right amongst each other.
Thinking that’s also going to guarantee them a place in heaven.
I want you to know that is a false confidence don’t let it deceive you.
Then, the exception clause.
God has a different plan for me, He looks at me differently.
I got a right to believe what I want preacher.
I am the exception, let me tell you something church.
It is Jesus Christ or nothing at all, I don’t care what the exception is,
I don’t care if you daddy told you were saved.
Your momma told you that you were saved.
Your grandmother told you were saved.
I want you to know your not saved, your not the exception, every man, and every woman, is going to is going to hell, unless they believe on and except the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal savior.
There are no exceptions.
But, it is a false confidence
Preacher I’m alright I feel it within my heart that I’m saved.
I want you to know hell is full of people who thought they were the exception.
People sometimes believe because they came out of a religious family, or either their heritage or whatever they want to hang on to is a false confidence.
This is damming souls to hell.
If your saved everybody has a place where it happen.
You can go back to the place you got saved.
If I was to ask to take me back to the place where know beyond a shadow of a doubt that’s the day you got saved tell me what happen.
If you take me back to the baptismal pool.
If you take me back to your conformation.
If you take me back to the church you joined.
Again that’s not salvation.
Everybody has a place to get Heaven, church it takes the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
Only the blood church, only the blood, can wash away our sins.
5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
There is no other way to get to Heaven.
The Lord Jesus Christ said He is the only to get to Heaven.
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
If I was to ask you where you got saved could you tell me?
Everybody in this room has a place where it happened.
Were you passed from death to unto life.
Some people got saved at the church.
Some people got saved on the lake.
Some people got saved in their home.
But, everybody has a place were they realized, they were a sinner and they trusted Jesus Christ as their savior.
There is no other way to be saved.
If you are trying to take me back to the place.
Where you want to take me back too, does not have a relationship with Jesus Christ.
It is false and you need to come up and get saved this morning.
Hell is a prepared place.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Hell is a prepared place, when God created Hell it wasn’t for you, it was not for me, it was not for man.
But tell Jesus Christ tells us the God prepared a place to send the devil and his angels who were cast out of Heaven.
One day that’s where they are going to be.
That’s their final penitentiary if you please.
The devil and his angels will go to hell.
hell is a prepared place.
Another thing about hell is it is getting larger.
14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, And opened her mouth without measure: And their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, And he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
You say, “Bro. Mike why those hell keeps getting bigger?”
Because there are more people rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal savior.
You can tell by the way people are living.
The way people are talking.
You can people have no desire for church.
They believe they are waisting their time come to the house of God.
Most people think you are crazy because you believe the Bible.
More and more of that is happening.
I want you to know hell is enlarging herself for a bunch of people who believe that they don’t need to be born again .
4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
God Wants everyone saved, not only that but, the Bible tell us in.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Surprise,
What’s a surprise?
I looked it up and a surprise could mean: happening suddenly.
Surprise, caught them off guard.
The word surprise means: happening unexpectedly.
Something happen that you didn’t expect.
Another definition of surprise is: Without warning.
Something else about surprise and catching someone unprepared.
Church someone went to hell last night.
Someone probably in Pine Bluff, Arkansas went to hell last night.
They were caught off guard.
They were shocked.
They were surprised.
They thought that the stuff that was in my introduction would have guarantee them heaven.
Hell is full of people that were surprised.
They didn’t know they were going
They thought they had it made.
I’m going to tell you something church, without Jesus Christ you ain’t it made!
He’s the only one that can make it made for you.
Let’s look at the six things, the six surprises.
Some folk will be surprised hell exist.
For year they have told themselves that it didn’t exist.
Say, “Preacher what causes that” They listen to somebody.
Maybe they listen to an atheist.
Maybe they listen to someone on television.
Maybe they listen to some liberal tv evangelist or something like that.
Maybe they watch somebody on television that convinced them there was no hell, that it is just a set of words.
Maybe their college professor convinced them that hell is just some made up story in the Bible.
And only some preacher and a bunch Christians are stupid enough to believe it.
We’ll count me in.
I believe the Bible is the word of God.
I’ve been preaching for years now!
And I’m not about to change my mind about it.
This Book you can count on it.
And when God says there is a hell there’s a hell.
A lot of folks don’t believe hell even exist.
I was thinking while I was putting this outline together.
I really wish we could call this auditorium one big elevator.
And God said, “I’m going to take all of us on a little trip.”
And this building becomes and elevator.
And we all begin to go down in the ground a little at a time, a little at a time.
And we are all going together inhere, we’re sitting down we are waiting, we’re going to get to see what’s going to happen, and it starts to get a little stuffy and a little bit warmer.
You go down, and go down, and all of a sudden you begin to get way down into the ground.
And you notice it’s getting a whole lot hotter.
And it gets worse, and gets worse.
And as the elevator of the church begins to going down, all of a sudden you begin to hear voices.
You begin to here people screaming.
You begin to hear people say, “pick me up in that elevator, I want out of this place.
And they are begging and you can hear them screaming.
They are gnawing their tongues because of pain.
They are suffering and we can hear it in this church building that’s now and elevator.
And all of a sudden we look at each other and say, “the Bible is certainly true.” the screaming, and all of sudden it begins to get real hot in this church.
Because we are getting into the fire. and smoke begins to come in the windows here. you can’t seal it out.
And suddenly it begins to get pitch black, because the Bible says, “that the blackness and darkness in hell.
and all of a sudden we can’t see each others face, as we go deeper, and deeper into hell.
And we hear the screaming of men and women saying, “one more chance, just one more chance, I didn’t listen one more chance.
And all of a sudden we begin to look at each other and what do I do wrong why didn’t I take this thing about hell seriously, I got born again, I’m saved, but I never took it seriously.
I know there is a hell but, I never took it seriously.
And suddenly God begins to resurrect this building.
He starts to bring us back up together and it starts to get light again as we get closer to the surface.
And we look at each others facial expressions and we realized that the Bible is certainly true.
We always said we believe it, but as we get higher and higher back on the earth.
I guarantee when we get to the top and this door opens up, we will never be the same again.
We are saved, and we have been set free and you got a taste of hell.
The problem is Gods not going to give that to us.
It’s in the Bible here.
Would that change your life if that happen here in this room.
If it happen this morning and I would have to sit down and not preach anymore and go with you and we experience this together.
Oh’ friend if anything happens because of this sermon.
I pray every Born Again Christian will wake up to this truth.
Some say, “hells on earth” have you ever heard that before?
Preacher, I know what hell is like it’s on earth.
Wrong, you can drink water while your in hell on earth.
If hells on earth, you can get a glass of water anytime you want it.
But the hell your going if you never been born again has no water there.
There is nothing to drink in hell.
Oh you think that this is your hell.
I want you to know this will be your Heaven, if you don’t get saved.
This is the best place will ever live if your not going to get saved.
Because, for you say,”that this is my hell. I want you to know that people right now will give their right arm to be where you are at.
They would love another chance to go to church.
On earth it so different compared to hell.
By the way we all deserve to go to hell.
We have done somethings before we were saved that ought to send us to hell.
The true of the matter we all have done some things after we been saved that ought to send us to hell.
I’m telling you church, none of us deserves to go to Heaven.
If I got what I deserve I would go to hell and split hell wide open.
There is not a man or women here today that deserves to go to Heaven.
It’s all by the shed blood, it is by the blood of Jesus Christ that I can stand up this morning and say, “I’m saved, I’ve been born again, my name is written down in the Lamb’s Book of Life.”
I’m not going to hell, I’m Heaven bound, thank God for Jesus Christ at calvary.
Some people are going to be surprised that they are there.
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Notice the argument here in vs 22-23
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
I want you to listen to the argument here.
They just didn’t say Lord.
They said it twice. Lord, Lord.
Something about that word master.
Have we not prophesied in thy name?
We told people of the future.
We told people what was going to happen in the Book of Revelation.
And they literary was going to get them to Heaven.
And when they die and go to hell their going to be surprised.
“Have we not cast out devils in your name?”, that’s interesting.
Do you know a lost person can cast out demons?
Did you see that, lost people can cast out demons.
That doesn’t mean there saved.
I want you to know something else they said, “We have done many wonderful works”
Jesus Christ will profess out of His mouth the most horrible words a person could ever here. “I never knew you”
Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name?
Lord, Lord, have we not cast out devils in your name?
Lord, Lord, have we not done many wonderful works in your name?
We deserve to go to Heaven, but Jesus is going to say, “I NEVER KNEW YOU!”
Church 1,000’s of people went to hell last week all over this world.
People die every 3 seconds.
Someone takes their last breath.
Here’s the key it’s either Heaven or hell there is no in between.
Church those who are born again need to wake up and realize that this doctrine is true.
If anything is accomplished in your life this morning is for you to wake up and realize.
You have friends.
You have family.
You got people that you love.
Unless you get them saved they are going to hell one day!
1,000’s went to hell last week.
There are good people there.
Hang on church there are good people there.
I’ve seen how some Christians live.
They don’t always do the right thing do they?
Aren’t you glad your not saved on how good you are?
There is a lot of people who didn’t do much cussing that’s there.
You got people that live clean lives there.
And they thought that was going to get them to Heaven.
There are people you admired there.
There are people that thought their religion would send them to Heaven.
There are people there right now that was good moral people.
But, ladies and gentlemen you got to be born again!
I don’t care what you think you got to be born again.
Jesus said you must, you must be born again.
Jesus told Nicodemus
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Church listen to me you got to be saved.
Most of you in this church has been going to church a long time.
You make sure you got the real thing.
Don’t you be embarrassed to come up and get saved if all this time you had a counterfeit.
People need to wake up and realize that life is very short.
There are going to be a lot of people surprised their in hell.
Some people will be surprised how fast they came to hell!
Most people don’t plan on dying when they do.
Let’s faced the music right there.
Most people in this room your planning on dying this week.
Here is the thing about death.
You are alive on moment.
If your not saved hell the next.
Most people have intentions to get born again.
But they keep putting it off, and putting it off.
You have good intentions you plan to get saved before you die.
And you forget how easy it is for people to die.
I have been by the bedside holding peoples hand, praying while they were dying.
Some were saved, but there may have been one or two that was never been born again.
What a horrible thing, I’m going to say this,
“If someone has never been saved and they wait until the last minute, their still not going to be interested, because they still have hope that their heart is still going to stay beating.”
Many have intentions on get saved, but they forget that their heart can be turn off just like turning off a light switch, just that easy for you to die.
You say, “God is not fair to send people to hell.”
Let me just throw this in if you feel that way.
God was fair to you, when He gave His only begotten Son.
That never sinned one time.
That never messed up one time.
He has proven how much He loves you and I.
God proved it, if you want to call God unfair fine.
But, God was fair to you because He loves you.
Oh’ church we got to remember this doctrine.
I have to remind you of it every once in a while of this doctrine.
Because, many today are not ready to take their last breath.
God is fair, He gave you His Son.
I thought about this while I was preparing this message here.
You know a lot of folks are embarrassed to come up.
They don’t want people to know their not saved.
I think this is the devils tool right here.
I’m going to throw something in here I never said in my years of preaching.
If you really don’t know your saved, want you call me.
Call me and I promise you this it will be confidential.
It will be between you, me and God.
I’m not going to say look who called me or came by my house or who wanted me lead them over the phone.
If you want to get save, I’m not going to embarrass you, i not going to talk about you, I am confidential when I talk to you.
Jesus Christ want you to get saved.
It’s not your fault you were born a sinner.
It was past on by your parents.
You dad’s blood it was passed on.
It keeps on being passed on it’s not your fault you were born a sinner.
But it is your fault if you don’t take God’s vaccination.
People are talking about when we are going to get the vaccination for the Cova-19, I’m look for that too.
But, I want you to know that everyone needs the vaccine that going to keep them from going to hell.
And that vaccine is mixed up with the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
And everyone needs that thing put into their heart.
If you get a shot of that it will keep you immune from hell for the rest of your life.
It more important to get God’s vaccination then the one for Cova-19.
At least you will go too Heaven if you die.
Are’t you glad your saved, I glad I’m saved. thank God for the blood of the lamb.
Jesus is the door, and I say this, “If there were a fire in this building and there was a door back there that was wide enough for everybody to go through.
If you don’t take that door it’s your fault.
I want you to know if you die and go to hell it’s your fault.
Jesus is our door, Jesus said he was the door.
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
Some will be surprise on who they find in hell.
I thought about that.
People in Noah’s day will be there
King Harried no doubt
We know the rich man will be there.
We figure Saddam Hussein will be there.
Adolf Hitler will no doubt be there.
Movie stars and athletes will be there.
Priest will be there .
Pope’s will be there.
Baptist Pastors will be there.
Baptist people will be, a long with other denominations.
Relatives people that you love will be there.
It will be a surprise to some people who will be there.
I’m not saved this morning because I am a preacher.
I recognize that.
I thank God for the Blood, and it’s because of the blood that i’m standing here today preaching to you.
I’m not saved because I gave up something.
I saved because I trust the Lord Jesus Christ as my savior with no regrets.
I’m going to Heaven, there is nothing you can do about or the devil do about I am sealed until the Day of Redemption.
Some will be surprised of the torment that is waiting for them in hell.
I not going to take you through all the Scripture from Luke chapter 16:19-31.
That’s about the Rich Man and Lazarus, do you remember that from last week.
Here are some of the torments.
vs 21 the rich man could see.
vs 24 he prayed for mercy.
He prayed for water.
He prayed for his family.
He suffered physically, he said he was tormented in these flames.
He was suffering mentally, his memory tormented him.
He was suffering hopelessly separated from God.
Notice this the torment of what’s not in hell.
No children.
No Christians.
No churches there.
No compassion in hell.
No comfort in hell.
No cool water in hell.
There are no chances in hell.
This morning if you are here in this room you have a chance to get saved, but if you reject it and go home and you die without Jesus Christ you will be in hell.
Some will be surprise that God will let the torments to continue.
say, “what do you mean pastor.”
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Some people think that the torment is going to end, things are going to get better preacher, I’m looking forward to the future I know things are going to get better.
How many time have we said that in our lives.
A person goes to hell to torments will keep going and going.
Burning forever, and ever, ever.
And there surprise that the Bible is true.
The price that kept us out.
6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Isn’t that great while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Ever bit of this took place and that’s why we are saved.
If your not saved your welcome to come when the music starts, and say, preacher I would like to get saved.