======================================================================== A MESSAGE ON HELL (1988) by David Wilkerson ======================================================================== Summary: This sermon passionately emphasizes the reality of hell as preached by Jesus, highlighting the consequences of rejecting God's salvation and the eternal torment awaiting those who do not repent. The speaker vividly describes the agony, darkness, and unending suffering in hell, urging listeners to turn to Jesus before it's too late. Topics: "Reality of Hell", "Urgency of Repentance" Scripture References: Luke 12:5, Matthew 5:22, Matthew 18:8, Revelation 20:15, Proverbs 5:5, Hebrews 10:31, Matthew 7:13, Revelation 14:11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This sermon passionately emphasizes the reality of hell as preached by Jesus, highlighting the consequences of rejecting God's salvation and the eternal torment awaiting those who do not repent. The speaker vividly describes the agony, darkness, and unending suffering in hell, urging listeners to turn to Jesus before it's too late. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why I preach about hell because Jesus preached about it Jesus preached about hell more than most liberal pastors. In fact, many evangelical pastors don't preach about hell anymore When I was a young man in early Pentecost, we heard a lot about hell. We heard about heaven. We heard about eternity We heard about hell Jesus preached it even to his friends You know you if you took the tape that I'm preaching tonight and you gave it to a liberal preacher who doesn't believe in the Virgin birth, for example, he wouldn't even listen to five minutes of it He'd get so beet red in his face is his veins would pop out in his neck And he said that's a bunch of garbage because Jesus is love and how could a God of love a Christ of love? Make a hell will people burn eternally. How can that be? Compatible to the love of Jesus Christ. They don't realize that not only is God a God of love but he's also a God of holiness. He's a God of justice and Jesus makes it very clear that there is a hell he even preached this message to his friends I'm reading to you from Luke 12 5 and I say unto you my friends. He's not talking to drug addicts alcoholics He's not talking to sinners He's talking to his own disciples and he's talking to them about hell and listen to what Jesus says about hell to his own friends I Say unto you my friends Be not afraid of them that kill the body and after that have no more that they can do to you But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear Fear him which after he's killed have power to cast into hell. Yeah, I send you fear him He has the power to cast in to hell Everyone who goes to hell will be cast there by Jesus now. I've always believed that Jesus gets no Joy out of the death of the sinner Isaiah said that he gets no joy out of the death of the sinner But my Bible makes it clear when the day of grace is finished Our Lord Jesus after he said they stand before the judgment seat of Jesus Christ is going to say depart from me He's going to have his angels by them hand and foot and cast them into hell They're going to be cast into hell by the hand of Christ himself Jesus warned even of hellfire. He's the first one introduced hellfire He talked about hellfire before all the Apostles preached it for whosoever Shall say thou fool shall be in danger of hellfire. That's what Jesus said Jesus taught that if your eye offends you pluck it out if your arm offends you cut it off better to go To heaven with a body that's Disfigured then to go into hell with a whole body that has been abused and that's what the scripture says If you're right, I'll fend you pluck it out Better that one of your members perish and not that your whole body should be cast into hell. That's Jesus preaching about hell again Jesus warned two cities that Satan and Capernaum he said Thou shall be brought down to hell if all the miracles I preached to other places had been preached in you They would have repented but because you've rejected me Thou shall be cast down to hell Jesus said that I'm giving you five times Jesus preached on hell Jesus warned the scribes and the Pharisees He said you serpents you hypocrites now Sometimes people don't like when I stand in the pulpit when other preachers that are preaching holiness They said you take such a strong stand. You sound almost mean I don't mean to be me I just matter to devil nobody else But if you think our message is strong listen to what Jesus said you serpents another you snakes you hypocrites He talking to the scribes and Pharisees you generation of vipers. How can you escape the damnation of hell? How will you ever escape? Alright, I preach hell tonight because Jesus preached hell I preach hell because I know the sinners going there I preach hell tonight because some of your unsaved loved ones are going there Some of you are sitting here tonight And you have an unsaved child a father a mother husband or wife and you've been sitting in front of a television set wasting hours instead of being on your face before God and if you believe there was an eternal hell if you believe what I'm going To preach tonight with all of your heart You would at least give equal time in a secret closet to weep and pray for those are going to hell out of your family Some of you're going to wake up one of these days to and realize it's too late. You wasted time You're going to stand before God and many loved ones are going to say why didn't you pray for it? Why didn't you bring heaven down to me? Why did you bring the conviction of the Holy Ghost upon my heart? All right. Let me tell you what hell I believe is going to be like First of all hell is going to be the home of Satan the Antichrist the beast all the demons and evil spirits of hell all false prophets and all the wicked transgressors of all times Now, I don't know where hell is some people teach that it's in the heart of the earth because when volcanoes erupt It's white hot lava and they get the idea that it might be in the pits of the earth Well, my Bible said there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth and in this new earth I don't think I want heaven on top of hell I don't think I would want to be in a heaven where hell was boiling in its bowels No, I really don't believe that's it When it Bible says that they're going to be cast into outer darkness. This may be a planet Do you know that out there above all the stars? There are galaxies and galaxies that outside of the Sun and moon. Those are just reflections of our Sun There's a darkness out there that you can't describe There's a darkness that the human mind can't comprehend and the Bible said hell is a bottomless pit I believe that that means the cosmos. I believe that means the atmosphere that I believe it may be a planet I don't know but this planet will be flung out into eternal space and it will float It will be cast further and further all through eternity It will drift further and further out away from the presence of God away from all that is of Christ It will go out into a darkness and I'm going to describe that darkness to you from the Bible in just a moment it's described as a furnace of fire and what that means is bondage because remember when The Israelites were in Egypt. The scripture says you were delivered from a furnace of fire. It meant you were delivered from slavery Everybody in hell is going to be enslaved They're going to be a slave to lust and I'll talk to you about that in just a moment But it's talking about the spiritual or whether the physical and spiritual slavery of everyone who's being cast into hell But you see the Bible calls hell a kingdom of darkness and his kingdom is full of darkness Revelation 16 10 there shall be Now, you know that in heaven there's not going to be any need for the Sun or the moon or the stars How many know that there's no need for the Sun anymore. There'll be no Sun. There'll be no moon because Jesus is the light That's what the scripture says and there shall be no night there. This is in heaven. There will be no There'll be be no Sun there'll be no other candle neither light of the Sun for the Lord God will give the light and the city has no need of the Sun neither of the moon to shine For the glory of the Lord shall lighten it and the lamb is the light thereof Hallelujah, we don't need the moon. We don't need the Sun because Jesus is the light of the world from that time on. Hallelujah But there's an eternal darkness without a speck of light It's a blackness that's reserved a darkness forever And that means there's a gloom in this darkness The Bible said this darkness is so heavy that they will gnaw their tongues for pain They will gnaw their tongues for pain only as a result of the feeling of the darkness in in Egypt When God sent the plagues the darkness was so powerful The Bible says they could feel it even a darkness which may be felt Exodus 10 21 It was a thick darkness a darkness that can be felt Now God is going to create a special darkness the darkness you see around you right now You can look around outside of the lights that we see if we turn them off There would be a lot of darkness here But that would be blazing sunlight compared to the darkness that God is creating God's word says he creates darkness And he creates light He's going to create a special darkness and this will be an absolute kingdom of darkness The fire of hell does not have light to it. It will not be light at all There are elements that we have not even discovered science is not discovered I believe there are thousands of elements that have not been discovered. There's a hellfire That is a liquid gaseous fire. That's never been known to mankind Specially created by God for hell. I've heard it said God didn't create hell for people The scripture said hell was created for the devil as angels But I want to show you something God's been changing my thinking on this we're going to the scripture Jesus warned but the children of the kingdom shall be cast into outer darkness There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth The weeping and the gnashing of teeth is because of the sense of this darkness when someone is damned Cast into outer darkness. It's that drifting away from the presence of God You know, it's only the Holy Ghost that keeps this world together right now If the Holy Spirit were gone if all the Christians were gone, there would be anarchy there would be murder There would be rape break loose all over the land and around the world. It's only the Holy Spirit that keeps it all together right now Saints when we're gone, there's no way to describe what's going to happen even on this earth. Let alone in hell It's also a spiritual darkness Everyone that goes to hell who once may have had a touch of Jesus They knew something in the gospel. They have a little bit of discernment I want you to know I used to think that when sinners go to hell our backsliders end up in hell They'd fall on their face They cry out to God for mercy hoping there'd be another chance But I believe that the moment Jesus cast The backslider the compromise of the sinner into outer darkness Suddenly there's going to be a spiritual darkness down over their eyes. The prophets say God will smear their eyes They're going to lose all discernment And there's going to be such a spiritual darkness that if God should send Paul the Apostle into hell And he would preach repentance and say God has sent me to give you one last chance Nobody in hell would repent Nobody in hell would obey not one soul in hell would repent even though Paul the Apostle preached at the best of his ability Because the devil was so deceived them There'll be such a darkness a spiritual darkness in hell that they would believe That if they were to leave hell and go to heaven that that would be a worse hell than they already have That's the kind of spiritual darkness that's coming. I See that spiritual darkness right now when we go out the streets of New York you go out to those who are about dead on crack Prostitutes that are just able to keep themselves moving and you talk to them about a heaven you talked about a new body You talked to him about Jesus about being saved. Jesus will bring you to a new life They don't want anything to do with it They're already dark if people will not come to Jesus and accept heaven now where there's so much light What do you think they're going to do in hell even if I were there Paul was there even if Jesus himself Went into hell and preached redemption Not one sinner would repent in hell and accept heaven not one Because the darkness they would be so deceived the enemy would say you go there You think you're in hell now and I'll tell you what I have people come to Times Square Church And they're so miserable. They can't sit there. They can't sit there listening the choir And some of you don't know Jesus you're miserable here. You know, that's under the day of grace How miserable would you be then if you thought of being taken out of hell and spend time with Jesus the misery be? inexplicable to you Now hell is more than just being shut off from God I used to think that No, hell is where Jesus is going to take vengeance on the sinner who's reject He's going to take vengeance and he's going to repay those who've turned down his call time and time again I'm gonna read it to you in Flaming fire he will take vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ Who shall be punished? Hell is a punishment hell is a punishment. I Will The hands of the devil they're in the hands of Jesus all through eternity They're going to be in the hands of Jesus. They're going to be the Bible said the wages of sin is death. It's payday It's payday in hell And someone says well, they get the idea when God cast sinners into hell. He just forgets him and turns them over the devil That's not true at all. The Bible makes it clear that God is a God who hates it That's his nature. His nature will not change in eternity. You say how long will they'll be? Tormented hell as long as God lives as long as God exists the time eternal God will always hate sin He'll hate sin, even though we're in heaven He'll still hate sin and he'll still be taking vengeance on the sinner all the time that we're in heaven He's going to be taking vengeance. He will be punishing the sinner all through eternity Now you listen to me about God's ability to punish the sinner. Do you remember how God just spoke the word and The dust in Egypt became lice he just spoke the word and the frogs sprang up all over the land He spoke the word and the firstborn was killed by the angel overnight of all Egypt He spoke the word in the waters returned to blood my Jesus just spoke the word and fire fell from heaven and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah He spoke the word and the floods came and destroyed the earth. He can speak the word Can you imagine the destruction the punishment that God will pour out upon those who have heard and heard and rejected? especially on America America's had television and radio and the gospel baptized. We've had a flood of it You mean to tell me and have God's gonna have any mercy God's gonna have a special kind of destruction for American Christians I'd rather backsliders than those who rejected the gospel in America Bible says in hell Satan will be tormented night and day. He'll be tormented himself. I Want to tell you that I believe hell is a place of rage all through eternity Sinners are going to rage and curse against God. I Used to well, just let me read to you a scripture In fact, this is in Revelation I think it's the the fourth angel is sent forth to scorch men with heat now This is before eternity comes. These are the place. These are the tribulations These are the the great tribulations where God's trying to shake the world. He's scorching men with heat Now you remember the heat wave we had this past summer and they talked about a greenhouse effect You're going to get hotter and hotter But can you imagine a time when there's going to be an angel set forth and you're going to scorch men with heat? Now this is not even help. God just said I'm gonna give you a little taste of hell I'm just giving you a little taste of hell and he's just scorching men with heat. They're not in hell yet They're just being scorched with heat. You think people will repent when God starts sending judgment on America in the world Listen to what the Bible says and men were scorched with great heat but they blaspheme the name of God which had power over these plagues and They repented not to give him glory They blaspheme the God of heaven because of their pains and sores and they did not repent of their evil deeds Listen we have a ministry to AIDS victims in New York We have a young man that works with a fixed victims and some of our in our Timothy house minister to those with AIDS Would you think that a young man or woman who has AIDS he's a homosexual and a drug addict he's discovered he has AIDS What you think that he knows he's about he's about to die He's in a hospital you go in the room and you see a look that you haven't seen in anybody's face It's a look of rage It's a look of hatred and anger and he's cursing God and you go to his bed You say you're about to die. Don't you want to meet God, right? And he's mad at God He has his fist clenched and you won't find anyone except a few who've repented who have AIDS There is a rage against God and they die cursing God They die cursing God Can You imagine the rage that there's going to be in hell, let me tell you why they're going to be mad enough Let me tell you why they're gonna they're gonna shake the fist of God and blaspheme the God of heaven all through eternity. I Said what what what's going to cause the real pain in hell and God gave me the answer. It's the cross of Jesus Christ Because the cross is the offense of the gospel. Let me tell you what it's going to be like when sinners wake up in hell They're going to learn That the way of salvation though, they wouldn't accept it here Was a simple look up and live all you had to do is look to the cross of Jesus and live But they're going to be thousands and thousands of Jews who say Oh God, I kept 613 commandments I kept the sukkah. I had that little booth on my roof and I stayed there for seven days I washed my pots in my pants. I I was afraid it I would not pollute myself With the Gentiles, they'll be Hasidic Jews there who said I did not shake hands with a woman I did not even let go in to eat a meal till I wash my hands. I Didn't touch a Gentile. I Did everything the law told me to do and they're going to they're going to find out in hell It was not by works. It was just look up and live It was the cross of Jesus that I'm the way the truth in the life Salvation by faith is not your works and that's great. That's going to be the offense in hell. They're saying God you tricked us It's too easy. You made it too easy Iranians 2 million Iranian soldiers some of them 12 and 14 years old who came against the Iraqi guns and the ayatollah Khamenei Khamenei said you go and I give you a paradise You'll have as many women you'll have all of all the booze that you can drink You can have all the sex all through eternity and they thought by going out there and giving their lives for the ayatollah They would have paradise. They're going to wake up in hell one day and Jesus They're going to hear from the portals of heaven that thunderous voice of God not by works Not if you give your body to burn at the stake, but through Jesus my son in the cross, that's the offense of hell I 'll be millions of Catholics and I'm not down on Catholics, but many Catholics who've not come to Jesus They're going to be people. So I went to mass every morning. I said millions of Hail Mary's I went and told the priest all my sins But then you're going to hear this only one mediator between God and man Jesus Christ You missed the cross you missed the cross you miss salvation by faith And they're going to be millions in hell shocked and surprised saying I worked I did everything I could I was a good man I was charitable. I did everything and they're so God you tricked us. It was too easy It's the offense of the cross of Jesus Christ Perhaps if I told you tonight you could be saved if you got your hands and knees and walk from here to Harrisburg there'd be thousands of people willing to do it if they could get the eternal soul saved But that's simple look up and live Like quickly, I'm gonna give you three other things that I'm gonna I believe describe what hell is going to be like Hell is a place where your lust is going to burn out of control and never be satisfied. I Heard people say well brother Dave. Wait a minute if the darkness is so thick It's so gloomy that they know their tongues with pain It's a darkness that you can feel if there's going to be a lake of fire if there's going to be such slavery There's gonna be such raging against God. How can there be a lust that's raging out of control? All I've seen it right outside the door of Times Square Church You look at You look at the man that came to our church a few months ago dying with AIDS He was skin and bone. His tongue was black. His lips were parched his Eyes something in his head looked like a walking skeleton. Somebody had to hold him up Now don't clap tonight because it has a tragic end to this story But he gave his heart to Jesus and the Lord did something in him in the next two weeks his health came back He gained about ten pounds. He came he started coming to Times Square Church. You couldn't even believe the change in him It was incredible. We thought we had our first healing of AIDS And when he got his health back He went right back to the bus station and started connecting with his homosexuals He went out with filthy homosexuals right in the bus stations and went right back to it And now that man is right. In fact, he may be dead. Now last I heard he was a skeleton again. I Was in a hospital in Houston, Texas My wife was there for Consultation on Cancer It's one of the major cancer hospitals in New York in Houston, Texas There was a woman being wheeled out She'd had I think a lung removed and her throat was removed and she had a little hole right here little hole where a little voice box little hole right here with the little plastic opening She was a chain smoker They're willing her out. The woman is almost dead You know, I don't know if it was her husband was standing they were willing her into the ambulance and she said smoke smoke They lit up a cigarette and she held it to the hole and puffed it in the hole Don't tell me in hell there won't be desire There will be these poor They're going to be bodies. You're not going to be just a spirit in hell the Bible calls them vessels of wrath fitted destruction Vessels of wrath that's going to be a fresh and bone person just as you see me here Just as you see those around you there will be bodies that will not be consumed in the fire They will fill the fire never be consumed all through eternity But there will be a lust if you think you have a desire now for sex or drugs or alcohol You may be able to rob and steal if you have to to get it But there'll be no satisfied that lust will grow and grow through eternity and never be satisfied I Walk Hudson the movie star. He knows he died with AIDS He knows his days are being counted and he walks into gay bars in San Francisco and connects with homosexuals Even though he knows he's dying and spreading the disease The Bible said it's going to be a lake of fire five times in the Bible it calls it it calls it a lake of fire You Don't want to believe it's called a lake of fire Because the Bible says on the Judgment Day and I'm going to read it to you I saw a great white throne and him that set upon From whose face the earth and the heavens fled away and there was found no place For them no place for them to rest Now if you're out in the middle of a lake, you know, there's no place to lay down If you're and I don't know how if this is describing a fiery gas There there's a fire that we know nothing about a painful fire. I believe in a literal fire Walk Hudson the movie star. He knows he's dying with AIDS He knows his days are being counted and he walks into gay bars in San Francisco and connects with homosexuals Even though he knows he's dying and spreading the disease The Bible said it's going to be a lake of fire five times in the Bible it calls it it calls it a lake of fire You don't want to believe it's called a lake of fire Because the Bible says on the Judgment Day and I'm going to read it to you I saw a great white throne and him that set upon it who from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away and there Was found no place For them no place for them to rest Now if you're out in the middle of a lake, you know, there's no place to lay down If you're and I don't know how if this is describing a fiery gas There there's a fire that we know nothing about a painful fire I believe in a literal fire and I'm going to show I believe also in a supernatural kind of fire a Inner fire as well as an outer fire But you see when the Bible said there's no place for them When they stand before the great white throne judgment, the Bible says from that day on there's no place for them There's no place to rest No place to lay their head and they're going to be wondering about in this lake of fire with no place to sit No place to lay their head and the Bible said they're going to seek death and not be able to find it The most welcome friend in hell would be death or if I could but die if I could end it They'll be the ripping of the flesh. There will be every attempt to kill and destroy this body, but this body will be indestructible Hell will never end it's everlasting Think of it no end of hell the Puritans tried to describe what Eternity's like and what Puritan preacher said Imagine that the earth was one big ball of sand all the mountains all the lakes all the seas One big ball of sand 25,000 miles in circumference and Suppose that once every million years a little bird would come in and take away one grain of sand Disappear a million years later. He comes he gets another grain of sand he disappears After about a billion years. He's taken away the little birds taking enough sand to fill a shoe Not even a shoe and if he were to remove and come once every million years and take away one grain of sand and trillions and septillions of years years Beyond our comprehension He were able to move this 25,000 miles round of sand Hell would just begun Eternity would just be starting It would just be the beginning of this everlasting thing that our minds can't even accomplish Don't even try to think about it men have lost their minds trying to reach the end of eternity You can't reach it. It's a circle. I had a young man Hear me announce this message I preached it a few weeks ago in our church He was visiting from Vancouver Canada And he opened his shirt, and he said look and he pulled up his sleeve he had a body suit on It's called a body suit It's a flesh toned like a rubber suit because he'd been burned over 80% of his body. It's a skin colored suit In fact that he rolled it up in his skin. It was horrible He had 80% of his body bird Shave his head and take skin off his scalp to put on his face And he said brother Dave. I want you to know that I spent weeks experiencing a taste of hell He said I got a job on a oil rig there were 12 of us on this rig I Worked there for two and a half weeks. I was going to quit the next day The day before we went out to the rig I Was witnessing to a young man about Jesus and a boy that was sitting next to him one of the riggers jumped up angry He said don't you ever preach Jesus in this place again? I don't want to hear that garbage I never want to hear the name of Jesus, and he threatened him. He said don't preach Jesus. I want to hear nothing about it And he was ready to hit this young man The next day in the afternoon They're out of the rig and the rig blew up Two were killed burned to a crisp instantly and the other ten were burned. I mean This young man was burned over 80% of his body spent four months and on three four months in the hospital implant after implant And he said brother Dave when I was running from the fire I looked down and this young man who'd cursed me said I never want to hear Jesus again His body was so charred his hands were coming up like this They were black and he was holding them up His hair was burned his face was black and all you could see was the white and blue of his eyes And he was trying to say something This boy dragged him out further away from the fire and he leaned over and he was trying to say something You know what the last words of this boy was The last words he's about to go to hell You know what? He said he could hardly speak. He said do I still have a nose? I feel my nose is burned off. Is my nose still there? All I could think about was his nose He's in hell This young man that was in at our church, this is just Ten days ago He said brother Wilkerson when I was burned over 80% of my body. The Lord gave me a taste of hell He's put such a fear in my heart. I know there's a little hell I didn't want to go to sleep night or day because I thought I'd slipped into it He said I've tasted of that in my physical body. I've known what it was that no morphine No drug could stop the pain. There wasn't a drug. No, I was in agonizing pain for three months He said one night I couldn't take it anymore I Thought it slipped into hell because he was thinking over all of his past life and his compromises he wasn't in danger, but God was putting his marvelous fear in his heart and He prayed Oh Jesus I can't take it anymore and the Holy Spirit came down to the room one night and said Trust me. Just trust me trust the blood and he said yes, Jesus I'm saved by the blood not by my works of righteousness and the Holy Spirit came upon him and he fell asleep And the Lord took all the pain away and the Lord did a marvelous work in setting his mind at ease And that young man took me by the hand. He said David. Thank God you're preaching about hell. I tasted it. It's real Who's going there I'll tell you what the majority of people on this earth are going to help the majority You think of New York City now 16 million people and The majority of that 16 million people are going to hell They rejected the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ Do you remember when the disciples came to Jesus and they said Lord are there few that are going to be saved? Remember what Jesus said to his disciples? Entered in at the straight gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and many there be that are Going in there at but straight is the gate narrow is the way that leadeth unto life and few there be that find it you say Is that fair of God to let a whole city like New York going to hell? What if Paul the Apostle lived today? Wouldn't he have the power to bring that city to its knees Well, Paul did go to the New York City of his day. He went to Athens that great city prosperous Intellectual political influenced the whole world The scripture says now while Paul waited for them at Athens His spirit was stirred in him when he saw the whole city given to idolatry The whole city and Paul preached and only a handful were saved in fact the Bible names the number the scripture says certain men clave unto him and believe and God goes on the Bible goes on to name about four of them How many were saved out of Sodom? How many were saved out of Sodom? There were four souls saved out of Sodom How many people were saved when the flood came to the earth the Bible said eight souls were saved The majority are going to hell now, thank God in these last days God has a church There's a mighty army of redeemed, but that mighty army of redeemed I mean though there are millions of it They represent a drop in the bucket compared to the population of the whole world If God sent a revival right now to New York City and a million people were saved in the next 30 days That wouldn't even be a 10th out only be 5% of New York City be 5% just a tiny remnant The majority are going to hell the Bible says John said we know that we are of God and the whole world lies in darkness. The whole world is in darkness the Bible said the fearful Unbelieving are going there the abominable the murderers now you saw I'm not a murderer But my father said if you hate your brother, you're a murderer And now what it says? If you believe that say man If you hate your brother your murder all murderers all war whore mongers That's harlotry fornication sexual debauchery all sorcerers That means those who sell and produce or distribute illegal drugs all idolaters Hey, don't tell me your television sets not an idol. Why is all the furniture facing it? Why do you sit there eat in front of it All Idolaters all idolaters and all liars all liars. So have their part in the lake of fire So have their place in the lake of fire the Bible says those who visit prostitutes are going to hell Those who visit prostitutes are going to listen to it now for the lips of a strange woman Now who's a strange woman? anyone but your own Any woman who's not yours is a strange woman The Bible says for the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb and her mouth is smoother than butter But her end is bitter her feet go down to death her steps take hold of hell Proverbs 27 27 her house is the way to hell Proverbs 8 9 18 her guests are already in the depths of hell There are men sitting here right now Some of you saved from New York City, perhaps Isn't it true that when you were in the world you thought that you weren't cheating on your wife if you visited prostitute We've got all kinds of Christians who believe that I don't I don't mean Holy Ghost Christians, but those dead Babylonian Christians believe that they're not even cheating on their wife if they go visit a prostitute My Bible says those who visit prostitutes are damned Whosoever is not found written in the book of life will be cast into hell For whosoever is not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire There there's a book in heaven it's called the Lamb's Book of Life and those who are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ and Walking by faith in his righteousness not partaking of the things of this world. Their names are written in the book of life But the Bible said there's a set of books I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were open and Another book was open, which is the book of life see their books and another book The other book is the book of life. That's the Lamb's Book of Life. Do you have your name written there tonight folks? I Said is your name written in the book? Those whose names are not written in last book of life have their own set of books They're going to stand before eternal judge and give an account of every sin the Bible said he that overcomes The same shall be clothed with white raiment and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life But I will confess his name before my father before all his holy angels You're not going to be something when Jesus says father meet your son meet my child. This is ours He is ours. She is ours. He's going to introduce us to the father. Hallelujah Let me let me tell you what I believe Before I close now, you're going to be the most incredible Aspect of hell Well, the Lord showed it to me one day and I've never been the same it shakes me you say brother Wilkerson Are you afraid of hell? Yes, I fear God I Fear God. I love him I have the love of God in my heart and it's perfect love that cast it out all fear But I have a righteous fear of a holy God. I know that I know better. I know that I've seen the light I know that I can't watch pornography. I know that I can't watch that film I know I can't do some things and others may allow them because I have the light and I know I have a holy God I'll judge me for it and you and I have the light And then you sit against that light There's a payday Not trying to put a guilt trip on anybody There's security in the blood of Jesus Christ but my Bible says the grace of God leads to holiness the grace of God leads to holiness and if there's not a practical holiness in You you don't even know what grace is grace is meant to draw you to Jesus to give you power to live a holy life Now There's in hell. There's a Bible. The Bible said there's a worm that never dies. You know what that worm is that never dies It's the memory. It's the conscience It's the memory of every chance you've ever had every gospel message you've heard every scripture head every song you heard You know that if you go to hell, you've got to answer and replay what you heard tonight The message I preach now is going to be preached all through eternity. It's going to ring through the portals of hell My voice will be heard over and over again All the preachers that are preached under the unction anointing of the Holy Ghost with purity in their hearts Their messages are going to ring Paul's messages are going to ring all through hell You is going to be like There's a sinner stands before God He's numbered with transgressors He's answering to every sin that he's ever done and the Lord Jesus will say bind him binder castor into outer darkness And I don't know what that passage of outer darkness is like, but you're cast into a passage called outer darkness And then you wake up this suddenly that's going to come on you. I'm in hell. I'm in hell There'll be a darkness that I've described That veil those smeared eyes will happen to you a moment in just a moment of time But in that agony There will be weeping Jesus said no any preacher that says this is Sensationalism any preacher that says this is foolishness or it's garbage Then they don't know what Jesus said They don't believe Jesus because Jesus is the one who said there's going to be weeping and wailing and ashing of teeth Jesus said it. I've got a right to preach because Jesus said that but can you imagine when it's going to be like when the conscience begins to turn and I call it instant replay and here's a man. He wakes up in hell And I can't describe to you I don't have words to describe what it's going to be like to wake up in hell I can't describe what it's going to be like to have total darkness Darkness that is this been created for lost mankind. I Don't know what it's like to be associated with demons. I don't always like to have the devil put his hand on my shoulder We talked about demon possession now. We've seen the effect. We've seen people froth at the mouth. We see people curse We've seen people can't sleep for a whole week. What's it gonna be like when he puts his hand out and claims the soul? I Don't know what it's going to be like but this man who is grieving this man was cursing this man who's lost us and I'm Lost I'm in eternity. I'm in hell suddenly the worm turns Suddenly this man wakes up and he's back on God's mountain And I'm back here preaching And he said He pitches himself and he feels the pain He looks around he touches someone next to him says it was a nightmare. I thought I died went to hell I'm not in hell something happened. I'm back in time And he doesn't wait now. He said I've had a vision of hell I'm going to get right with God and he comes running down and just he hears me saying Jesus loves you Come to Christ and he says I will I will and he comes running to Christ and just is about to say save me Jesus and about to feel the relief it goes back again And he said I'm in hell I am in hell that was just a memory He goes on Suddenly he's back in his living room The lights are on Billy Graham some television Billy Graham crusade little girls playing with a doll His wife's coming in with a cup of coffee And he's sweating. He said honey, please tell me I'm alive. I Go back and forth between time and eternity One minute. I'm a hill one minute. I'm in church one minute. I'm in a crusade. I hear these angels singing I hear preachers preaching. I hear every scripture. I've had and then suddenly I'm back in demon power I'm back in a living hell. My body's in pain. There's a darkness. I can't describe I don't know if I've had LSD slipped into a drink. I don't tell me I'm alive. He takes his little girl He can feel her body. He sees that little doll. He touches the doll. His wife says drink your coffee, honey Everything's okay. He can feel the hot coffee going down his esophagus and he says, oh, thank God. I'm alive said honey Please if I'm alive, I need Jesus quick that he's on his knees and Jesus saved me But before you get the words up, he's back in hell Now he says No, God, but you see all through eternity He's going to replay it and the next time he knows it's real and yet he knows There's no hope and he's going to replay it and replay it all through eternity Let me tell you something about eternity Christians when you and I get to heaven and we see Jesus, they're going to be such a glory That our physical minds can't comprehend it But it's not going to be just one blast of glory and we live on that blast of glory all through eternity No in eternity, there's going to be an ever-increasing Ecstasy of Jesus, they're going to be an ever-increasing Ecstasy of grace They're going to be ever-increasing knowledge of what we've been saved from and ever-increasing knowledge all through eternity Jesus is going to be teaching of his glory and all through eternity. We won't even scratch the surface It's going to grow and grow the joy is going to grow the glory is going to grow the beauty of Jesus is going to grow It's not just a level static thing. It's going to be ever-increasing glory of Jesus Hell is not just one blast and suddenly you're there The darkness will increase The pain will increase The worm that turns will increase the memories will increase Intensify all through eternity as our joy increases their doom and terror and judgment increases No wonder the Bible says it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God Why would Jesus say that why would the Word of God say that if that was not hell? He's not talking about Christians is he Fearful thing. No, it's a joyful thing for a Christian to fall in the hands of a living God But it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God. Oh Yes, this is why I preach it I'll scream it if I have to I'm gonna write it I'm going to preach it because what got to stand before God an answer and I'm telling if you're here tonight and you have Rejected the Lord you've gone your own selfish way. You've heard sermon after sermon. You've had preacher after preacher No, I'll tell you what saddens me I see a hardness coming down over people that hurt so much last night in our prayer meeting We had some 600 people at prayer meeting. We have it every Friday night. Hundreds are getting to pray But last night a man who came up there one of our pastors had a spirit of revelation come upon him and said brother You're going to hell because you have a hard heart. We've seen him sit in church for six months now getting harder and harder He sits in the front row that man. Here's us thunder against sin that man Here's a broken-hearted pastor after pastors down there And that man has a hardness in him he just sit there and stand there and blink He's not even in hell yet, and he's hard Well, some of you are getting hard your hearts hardening So that nothing could touch you Jesus Christ himself could stand here in the flesh and not move some of you tonight because your heart has already gotten hard But if you feel yourself slipping into that hardness cry out to God old Jesus take out of me a hard heart Give me a heart of flesh. Give me a heart that feels give me a heart that can weep Give me a heart that sorry for my sin. Give me a heart. Oh Lord that can cry out reach out to you Hallelujah If you I don't even know my eyes are not accustomed to the dark out there I can't even see because these lights But I'd sure like to pray with you tonight If you're not ready to meet the Lord If there's a hardness that the devil's trying to put in you If this message brings fear to you, you know, say brother David. I'm not right I'm not where I once was the fire of the Lord is not burning in my heart And I feel God's Spirit speaking so clear The word is coming like a knife to your heart The words I speak now are not mine They're of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit's trying to show you how much Jesus still loves you and he brings this message to You out of love not because he's angry at you because he loves you The man who loves you is not the man who flatters you in your sin The man who loves you will cry out against your sin to save your soul from eternal hell If You feel the pull the tug of the Holy Spirit you say brother Dave I need a touch of God tonight I'm sick of the way it's been going get right up out stand right up and come and stand here at the front Wherever you're at just come and stand here. Let me pray with you We're gonna believe Jesus for a miracle in your life tonight all over up on the hillside Wherever you're at. We've got hundreds of people here tonight Jesus wants to send his fire to your soul. He wants to restore his joy to you He wants to remove all the hardness all the hardness. He wants to take it away We don't need any music Just as the Holy Spirit Deals with you and speaks to you wherever you come on on the hillside up there all over the right and the left ======================================================================== Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/q8-iNOFD6lc.mp4 Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/david-wilkerson/a-message-on-hell-1988/ ========================================================================