Most Folks Go to Hell

My Bible speaks of eternity along these lines as seen in Hebrews 9 27 and it is appointed unto men wants to die but after this the judgment. I spent a good part of my life in evangelism by handing out tracts to folks in cities and conducting door-to-door evangelism in neighborhoods ringing doorbells and asking folks if they thought they'd go to heaven when they die. Most of them will say yes.

They'll tell you that they are a good person. I had one lady from a Methodist Church tell me on her deathbed that the reason she was going to heaven was because she never robbed a liquor store or killed anybody. I'd say that nine out of ten people you ask about heaven they are convinced they are going there because they believe God grades on a scale like a scale of weights.

You put all the good works they've done on one side of the scale and put all the bad things they've done on the other half and the good will outweigh the bad. That's how folks think about heaven. If you don't believe me go out today and talk to some of them and you'll see what I mean.

Most folks don't give eternity much thought anyhow. If they do think about life after death they will think about heaven and its comforts. How God will see what a good person they are and open the gates and let them into heaven.

Folks seldom think about hell. If they do think about hell they think that it's only for really bad people like serial killers or sociopaths. My subject today friends is eternity.

The title of my message today is most folks go to hell and I want to walk you over to the brink of eternity right now and let you stand there a while and think about it. I want you to stand there on that preface and look up at heaven then lower your head and look down at hell because when you die you'll go either up or down. The angels will carry your soul up to heaven or demons will drag you down to hell and many of us will die sooner than we think.

I remember Adrian Rogers telling me he just got back from attending the funeral of a friend who died suddenly and in six months time I was looking at Adrian Rogers as he lay in his coffin. Your life is shorter than you realize friend. You may be in good health today and dead tomorrow.

When most folks come to die they rest upon a false peace and a hope of heaven. Very few will look down and see themselves in the torments of hell. Hell is a uncomfortable subject to most folks.

Most preachers refuse to preach about hell to their congregations because it don't want to disturb anybody much less upset the good deacons. Well I'm gonna preach on hell today and it's my intention to scare you so much that you won't want to go to hell. I have a three-point sermon today friends.

Number one most folks don't think about hell. Number two most folks don't think they're going to hell. Number three most folks go to hell.

Let's look at the first one. Most folks don't think about hell. They look upon hell as a uncomfortable place.

They seldom think of it and if they do they look upon it as a remote thing at a great distance and hell doesn't terrify them now because they have no real reality of hell. If they think upon it they soon change the subject or they'll view it comically like the world's portrait of a horned devil in a red suit with a tail holding a pitchfork in his hand as he pushes folks into hell. But most folks don't think about hell.

Why should they when they can watch all the hell they want to for free on their TV? Number two most folks don't think they're going to hell. Men sue themselves with false reasoning about God that their God wouldn't send anybody to hell much less themselves that God is a God of love and he won't send anybody there unless they're really evil people who deserve to go to hell. They consider themselves not evil enough to go to hell but they believe they are good enough to go to heaven.

If you don't believe me just go talk to a few Baptist deacons and ask them if their God would ever send anybody to hell. They'll shake their head no and they'll fight you if you disagree with them. No most folks don't think they're going to hell because they think they've already going to heaven when they die.

All you have to do is read the news the headlines when a Hollywood celebrity dies and their Hollywood friends say well he's up in heaven entertaining God now or she's up there looking down on us now. The absolute nonsense people have about heaven and death is staggering because they have no real reality of hell. I bet if you were in a large auditorium full of people and if you had the opportunity to ask each one if they thought they were going to hell when they died you'd come up empty but hell fills by the hour with such deceived sinners.

God requires perfection to get to his holy heaven and no man is perfect but all fall short of the glory of God. All men are guilty rebels who have broken the law of God by sin and God will one day hold up every man's works against the strictness and severity of his law and if you stand there friend in your own merits you will fail that test and be sent to hell because the sentencing of the law must be carried out upon all lawbreakers. Your only escape is to stand there in the merits of another the Lord Jesus Christ.

I know I am a sinner and I need a substitute for sin because I'm a sinner I deserve hell so I must get under his blood for forgiveness of sin. Number three most folks go to hell. I get choked up just making that statement but it's a fact Jesus declared that few are saved he said many are on the broad way to perdition.

Jesus spoke often on hell even if we preachers don't the Bible is full of warnings about hell. The main reason why most folks don't think about hell why they think they're not going to hell and why most of them are going to hell is because the church quit preaching on hell and quit warning folks to go there. Everybody just assumes they're going to heaven when they die even though they live like the devil now.

Listen friends I want you to hear this old preacher tell you what God says about hell and when God speaks of the wicked he's referring to anyone and everyone who dies outside of Christ even if it's your sweet old grandma who made you cookies. People don't fear hell today because preachers fear men more than God and refuse to make mention of hell but listen to hell now friends. Psalm 116 declares upon the wicked God will rain snares of fire and brimstone and a horrible tempest.

God says this about hell in Isaiah 30 33. Tophet is prepared of old he hath made it deep and large the pile thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lord as a stream of brimstone doth candle it. Jesus described hell as a region of outer darkness a bottomless pit where the worm dieth not.

Jesus declared depart ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels and in Matthew 13 42 Jesus said that God is the one who sends folks to hell he shall cast them into a furnace of fire there should be weeping and gnashing of teeth listen to me friends if preachers would just be honest with folks and warn them about hell maybe some old hypocrite would begin to tremble and shake in the anticipation of entering such a house of horrors maybe God would attend such honest preaching of his gospel by showing men their lost condition and awakening them to their great danger of dying in their sins and being bound hand and foot and cast into hell. This very scene is vividly described in Isaiah 33 14. Sinners in Zion are afraid trembling has surprised the hypocrites.

Let me pause here friends to say just look at that hypocrite's face as all the blood drains out of it and he goes weak in the knees beneath the terrors and miseries and warnings of hell and now listen to that old hypocrite as he realizes his guilt and danger as he cries out who among us can dwell with devouring fire who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings that most folks go to hell is confirmed by the Lord Jesus who contrasts the many and the few. Enter ye in at the straight gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in there at because straight is the gate and narrow is the way and few there be that find it. Yes friends the sad reality is that most folks go to hell.

Will you go there too? Let us pray.