{"id":2763,"date":"2016-03-15T13:29:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T13:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keirtayler.com\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2016-03-15T13:29:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T13:29:16","slug":"a-sermon-from-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keirtayler.com\/a-sermon-from-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"A SERMON FROM HELL."},"content":{"rendered":"

Four things need to be preached afresh:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Jesus Christ as Savior.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Jesus Christ as Healer.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. The Holy Spirit.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. The 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A voice from hell: a man is overheard speaking in hell for the only time in the history of the world.
    \n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Never in history has there ever been a sermon from hell; as given by a “Mr. Dives”, (a name given for the unknown man in hell).<\/p>\n

    “In hell (Greek, Hades) he lifted up his eyes being in torment” (Luke 16:28). It is an awful cry, “Cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.” Four times (the word ‘torment’ is asserted)<\/p>\n

    \u2022 When the unclean spirits cowered before our Lord in Gadara, “they entreated Him that He would not command them to depart into the abyss,” saying, “Art Thou come to torment us before the time?” (Luke 8:31, Matt. 8:29, R. V.) “These demons also believe and shudder” (James 2:19, R. V.)<\/p>\n

    Unbelief in a coming hell is a snare leading straight to hell according to one who is there.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Christ lays the whole emphasis throughout on a physical contrast:
    \n\u2022 here and hereafter,
    \n\u2022 beneath which lies a far profounder spiritual contrast, in
    \n\u2022 two men who exchange positions in the world to come.<\/p>\n

    \u2022 Abraham’s answer sums it up:
    \n‘Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receives thy good things”\u2014reached your own ideal that\u2014”none may pass.”<\/p>\n

    NO THOUGHT OF ESCAPING FROM HELL<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u2022 Now, what does a man who finds himself there say in hell?
    \n\u2022 What he does not say is overwhelming.
    \n\u2022 Unutterable volumes lie in the sudden silence of the soul who, on the other side, knows he ignored his chance.
    \n\u2022 He was told that no spirit can cross the gulf that divides the good from the evil dead.
    \n\u2022 He has to be told that a good spirit sent out on the earth would not convince. But he needs no one to tell him that there is no escape out of the place of the lost for one who has died unrepentant.<\/p>\n

    LIVE WlTHOUT GOD – DIE WITHOUT GOD<\/strong><\/p>\n

    There is one word which we can hardly imagine a soul, thus plunged into catastrophe and involved in fearful ruin,
    \n\u2022 Not uttering\u2014the name of the One who controls the universe.
    \n\u2022 It is one word in which hope alone can survive. Yet in all the dialogue in those fateful shades the, word God never escapes his lips.
    \n\u2022 The man who lives without God, dies without God.
    \n\u2022 Lips that never pray on earth are mute in hell.
    \n\u2022 His only other cry, besides that of pain, is a cry that involves complete self-despair:\u00a0 “Send to my father’s house.”
    \nThe dead know that there is hope for the living, but none for the dead.<\/p>\n

    REMORSE BUT NO REPENTANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Now the sermon of a lost soul issues from the rich man’s lips.
    \n\u2022 “Send him (Lazarus) “\u2014
    \n\u2022 how remarkably he does not say, “Send me,” for he knows the gates of Hades are locked\u2014”to my father’s house, lest they also come into this place of torment: if one go to them from the dead, they will repent.”
    \n\u2022 \u201cDives\u201d is anxious for his brothers to repent. But not once does he speak of his own repentance, for he is keenly aware that repentance will keep his brothers from hell,
    \n\u2022 Yet he never dreams that repentance will pluck a man out of hell.
    \n\u2022 It is impossible to carry our sins into heaven, and the moment we are in the other world we shall know it.
    \n\u2022 \u201cDives\u201d suffers from remorse, not from repentance. 2Cor 7:10
    \n\u2022 Not one word of admission of sin;
    \n\u2022 not one word of regret of sin;
    \n\u2022 not one thought for the cleansing from sin;
    \n\u2022 not one cry for the pardon of sin.
    \n\u2022 Hell holds no sense of sin, and
    \n\u2022 therefore no absolution from sin.<\/p>\n

    Dives himself manifestly had never believed that there was a hell.<\/p>\n

    In it, he infers that all who conceal or deny the fact are doing men a fearful wrong.
    \nAnd his one appeal for his brothers is that they should be told that hell is a fact, and that they may escape it he concentrates all on one word\u2014REPENT! That is what a dead man thinks every living man ought to do.
    \nIt is sin that fills hell, and it is only repentance that can escape it. Dives was sure that if only his brothers knew the facts of the other world, they would move heaven and earth to avoid the torment The Savior Himself has warned us in words that could not be more clear or sure, and no lost soul who ever entered the gloomy portals but knows that they are true:
    \n“Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:5).<\/p>\n

    MIRACLES WILL NOT CONVINCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The startling fact in Abraham’s answer is that the five brothers had in their hands something more convincing, more saving than an evangelist walking straight into their house from out of a ruptured tomb.
    \n“If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if one rise from the dead.”
    \nAbraham’s reply reveals what alone will save any man, in any epoch of the world, anywhere.
    \n\u2022 God Himself can give no more than He has given.
    \n\u2022 Christ Himself never once appeared to an unbeliever after His resurrection.
    \n\u2022 I do not need news from hell, but pardon from heaven.
    \n\u2022 A messenger from Hades cannot cleanse my foul soul, but the Scriptures can (John 15:3, Eph. 5:26).
    \n\u2022 They proclaim the efficacy of the cleansing blood of Christ (I John1:7).
    \n\u2022 No messenger from the other world could make goodness more loveable,or hell more terrible, or Calvary more cleansing or
    \n\u2022 Christ more divine, or
    \n\u2022 duty more clear, or
    \n\u2022 decisions more urgent, or
    \n\u2022 eternity more solemn, than the Scriptures do which we hold in our hands.
    \n\u2022 The dead might lie.
    \n\u2022 The Scriptures cannot.
    \n\u2022 We have all the proof that almighty wisdom sees to be the right proof, and we have enough proof. Any more would only deepen condemnation.
    \n\u2022 And no more proof will ever be given.
    \n\u2022 The Bible we have is all the Bible we need.<\/p>\n

    IMMEDIATE DECISION NECESSARY<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The warning of our Lord \u2014 perfectly unique in the history of the world \u2014 focuses everything on immediate decision.
    \nSamuel Wilberforce has said,
    \n“The experience of many deathbeds has convinced me that, so far – from the deathbed’s being the place where you will see the greatest sincerity, there are fewer places where you will often see men as hypocrites. Very few times and very few places where men are more desperately striving to deceive themselves, because they feel that now it is almost hopeless to turn.”<\/p>\n

    NOTE: Awake oh Sleeper!
    \n<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u2022 How few words our Lord devotes to these two men’s lives.
    \n\u2022 How He concentrates all on their hereafter!
    \n\u2022 Two men, traveling the same earthly way, pass at once into opposite abodes, as surely as vapor rises and water falls.
    \n\u2022 And between their eternal habitations there is a gulf fixed which
    \n\u2022 no reasoning can hide,
    \n\u2022 no time can remove,
    \n\u2022 no angel can bridge,
    \n\u2022 no eternity can destroy.
    \n\u2022 no traffic to cross; it is impossible, for the good will not cross when the day of mercy is closed,
    \n\u2022 and the bad may not, when the day of opportunity is gone.
    \n\u2022 And all around are walls unscalable, unpierceable, unmovable.<\/p>\n

    From the Pentecostal Evangel, writer unknown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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