Lessons From Hell

God wants you to be saved today. The people in hell want you to be saved today. I want you to be saved today, and I hope and pray that if you are lost that you want to be saved today.

YOU’VE GOT ALL THE INFORMATION YOU’RE GOING TO GET IN ORDER FOR YOU TO BE SAVED.

When the rich man asked Abraham to send Lazarus back to warn his brothers, notice what Abraham said. "Your brothers have all the information they’re going to get." They had Moses and the prophets. All they had to do was be willing to pay attention to the information they already had. The same is true today. People are always asking questions about things that don’t really matter as though to say, If I just knew the truth about this or that, then I would believe.

If I knew who Cain married…if I knew about dinosaurs…if I could just see Noah’s ark…if they could just find the Ark of the Covenant…if, if, if… Listen, God has said all He’s going to say. John 20:30-31 tells us that Jesus did so many things they just couldn’t all be recorded for us, "But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name."

If you can read all the Bible has to say and still not believe, there’s nothing else that will do it either. You see, it’s a matter of faith. Will you believe? You know, I’ve been studying this Bible for 12 years now, have been preaching it for about 2 now, and I still don’t know the answers to a lot of questions. In fact, I have more questions now than I did when I started, but I don’t have to know all the answers to understand that if I had died without having placed my faith and trust in Jesus Christ, I would be lost and condemned to hell. What do I have to do or say to convince you that today is your day of salvation?

Before I finish, let me address those of you who are saved today.

If we knew what they know we’d be too bothered not to share our faith.

I believe that. What we as God’s children need is a fresh glimpse of the torments of hell. I am thankful today that Luke 16 is about as close to hell as I’ll get from now on. It didn’t used to be that way. I too once hung by that slender thread, and by God’s grace I responded to His invitation to accept His Son as the ransom for my sin debt. Every one of us knows someone who has never been saved. It may be a mother or father, a brother or sister, a son or daughter. It may be a friend; it may even be an enemy. Regardless of who it is, that person needs to be saved, and our responsibility is to tell them how.

That rich man had no one to blame for being in hell but himself. He knew that. You notice he didn’t plead for a second chance. He didn’t cry out injustice, he pled for the salvation of those who we live among today. No one is coming back from the dead to share their faith, its up to you and me.

Conclusion

Have you ever accepted Christ as your personal Savior? Have you repented of your sin and asked Him to save you? If you can look back over your life and not remember a time when you did that, you need to settle it today. You need to be saved. Don’t count on having more time. If you are lost today, whether you’re young or old, man or woman, a child, middle-aged or a senior citizen, rich or poor, good or bad, answer the loud calls of God today. He is pleading with you. He is tugging at your heart; will you let go and trust Him? Will you give in and be saved? Will you come to Him in simple child-like faith, trusting, believing in what He has done for you?