“Hell – No – I will not go”
By
District Elder M.L. Maughmer, Jr.
OPENING:- Close your eyes and go with me on a journey in your spiritual mind that will change your life for all eternity. Imagine your life and everything is going well for you. You have a reasonable portion of good health, friends, money, your relationship is working out just fine. You are young or for your age you couldn’t feel better. Everything in your life is going just the way it should be and the way that you planned for it to go. In all actuality you are able to walk through life saying zip-a-dee doda zip-a-dee ah my o my things are going my way.
When all of the sudden you are dead. You see your body lying there and you begin to notice as your spirit begins to separate from your physical but dead body. As your spirit begins to separate from your body you begin to hear a sound in your ears that just keeps getting louder and louder. It’s the most horrific and gut wrenching screams you have ever heard. There is crying and weeping, screams of agony and torment, and yelling unlike anything you have ever heard before and it just keeps getting louder and louder.
As you drift farther and farther away from your dead carcass, all of the sudden sheer agony, torment, and pain hit you from the top of your head to the souls of your feet, you begin to scream because of the unbearable pain that you are feeling. You begin to grind your teeth together in agony and as you grind them harder and harder they literally begin to break off causing even more and more pain to your agony. Your spiritual eternal body begins to thrash violently because of the agonizing pain it is feeling, you begin convulsing from the pain uncontrollably, but the whole time you are vehemently aware of everything that is happening to you.
Suddenly your nostrils fill with the smell of sulfur and burning flesh, it’s a smell worse than the smell of death. Your body temperature begins to rise to an unbearable degree you scream in torment from the agonizing pain and the blistering heat that comes from your body. You notice that your skin begins to blister and crackle from the heat, the blisters begin to bust oozing out nothing but pain wrenching smoke, when suddenly out of every orifice of your body flames literally begin to shoot out you are burning but not being consumed.
In sheer agonizing torment, you begin to notice that you are now beginning to physically transform into the most hideous looking creature imaginable. You look like you, but the lower part of your body is transforming into what appears to look like a giant worm.
You scream out in total agony and disbelief realizing that you are in hell. You smell hell, see hell, feel hell, and you are hell. You cry out let me die I want to die when you recall you saw your physical body lying there and your spirit separate from it. You remember the scripture of Hebrew 9:27 “It is appointed once for man to die, but after this the judgment”.
You realize that what people have been saying all these years was wrong death is not the end of it all there is life after death. Eternal life that you will never die from, you’ll never grow old, you’ll never escape. Eternal life that will constantly keep you in the condition you are in now.
You cry out in total desperation God how could you let this happen to me, why didn’t you warn me about this place. When suddenly every message the preacher preached comes to your remembrance. You vividly recall hearing the words of Acts 2:38 “Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost”, but you felt you had plenty of time and didn’t bother to repent.
The mental anguish compounds on the torment you already feel. You hear the screams of other souls that have been punished to spend eternity in hell, but you can’t see them because darkness has engulfed you. You cry out God don’t you care I thought you were a loving God, how could you send me to this place. When you suddenly hear in your mind the words of John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten son that whosoever believeth on him shall not perish, but have everlasting life” you had your chance, but your life was going along just fine and you felt you had plenty of time so you refused to believe, now you are paying the price. You suddenly realize that John 3:16 was not all there was to that chapter. John 3:36 begins to ring in your mind and you hear these words “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him”. You rejected the love of God now His wrath abideth on you forever.
You cry out but I went to church, I paid my tithes, I gave more than 10%, I sang on the praise team every Sunday, but you only had a form of godliness. Sure you went to church, but you never developed a relationship with God. Therefore God said depart from me you worker of iniquity I never knew you.
You’re in hell, in torment, pain, agony, and a disgusting form. Hell is your abode and you are hell. You cry out Lord how long will I have to be here when you realize that this hell is eternal damnation. You remember the Bible says in Revelation 20:10 “And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever”. You are there forever and ever. There is no reprieve from hell. No parole board will ever set you free. You will never be released because of being wrongly convicted. You are there forever and ever. In pain and agony, every memory of every opportunity to receive Jesus runs through your head. Loneliness and despair, gnashing of teeth and agonizing pain are yours forever. You are constantly burning, but never burned up. You thirst, but never receive water to quench your thirst. You want to die, but your worm will never die. You hear the screams of others but never see anyone because utter darkness is surrounding you. You’re in Hell and it’s all, your fault.
However, you don’t have to go to Hell. The choice is yours.
SUBJECT: HELL – NO – I WILL NOT GO. (Start Power Points)
Today many Christians have been spiritually malnourished with a steady and unrelenting diet of self promoting piousness, prosperity propaganda, no punishment for sin, all tolerant, all inclusive junk food false doctrine until they are completely void of any spiritual discernment. Many today don’t believe in hell. There are many churches that don’t talk about Hell. Many preachers refuse to preach about hell, they rather preach a message to make people feel good and keep the membership of their churches high. There are some preachers that will say I don't have it in my heart to condemn people. I'm there to encourage them. I see myself more as a coach, as a motivator to help them experience the life God has for us, instead of a watchman for their souls. They fail to tell people that God is a Holy God and because He is holy he must punish sin and that punishment is in hell. Because they fail to cause people to believe in God and that He is just in righteousness and punishment are causing people to have the wrath of God abide on them.
A message that talks about hell and warns people about the punishment of sin is not to condemn people, but expresses love. Hebrew 12:6-11 says “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby”. If you get offended by a message about the torments and eternity of hell get over because if you don’t that’s where you’re going to go.
People of God Hell is a real place and many will find that they will spend eternity there. There will be those that went to church every Sunday religiously, sang on the praise teams, even came to the altar every time altar call was made, they paid their tithes and offerings, yet they will be forever tormented in hell because they failed to develop a relationship with Jesus. They had a form of godliness, but denied the power thereof.
Hell is real, the suffering is eternal, there is no escape from there once you go, but you can miss hell altogether. Contrary to popular belief Hell is not going to be a place where you and your friends can just hang out and have a party. It is not a place you will go until you have paid you debt of sin and be released. Hell is real, it is eternal, and you will see hell, feel hell, smell hell, and be hell – the choice is yours.
Now I don’t want you to just take my word that Hell is real and you should never just take anybodies word. The Bible says in John 5:39 “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me”. So today I want you to search the scriptures and see for yourself what the Bible says about Hell.
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1. WHAT IS HELL – HELL IS A PLACE OF FIRE & TORMENT.
a). Luke 16:19-31
b). Revelation 20:11-15
c). Matthew 8:12
d). Matthew 22:13
**So we see hell is a dark place of fire and torment. Ain’t no party going on here.** Don’t be fooled you’re not going to have time to hang out with friends, but you will be in torment and agony. Hell is real – real bad.
2. WATCH WHAT JESUS SAYS ABOUT HELL.
Fire Matt.7:19, 13:40, 25:41
Everlasting Fire Matt. 18:8, 25:41
Eternal Damnation Mark 3:29
Hell Fire Matt. 5:22, 18:9, Mark 9:47
Damnation Matt 23:14, Mark 12:40, Luke 20:47
Damnation of Hell Matt 23:33
Resurrection of Damnation John 5:29
Furnace of Fire Matt 13:42, 50
Fire that never shall be quenched Mark 9:43, 45
Fire is not quenched Mark 9:44, 46, 48
Where their worm dieth not Mark 9:44, 46, 48
Wailing and Gnashing of teeth Matt 13:42, 50
Weeping and Gnashing of teeth Matt 8:12, 22:13, 25:30
Torments Luke 16:23
Place of Torment Luke 16:28
Outer darkness Matt 8;12, 22:13
Everlasting Punishment Matt 25:46
No place did Jesus say it would be a party or a reunion of old friends. But he described it a place of torment, fire, darkness.
Hebrews 9:27 says “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment”. Many people say there is no such place as Hell, but if Jesus, who is God manifested in the flesh spoke about hell and warns us about it – hang what any other man says about it. The Bible says in Romans 3:4 “let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged”.
3. THE NECESSITY OF HELL
1). Why did God create Hell.
a). Matt.25:41 says “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”. Because of sin (pride) Lucifer was kicked out of heaven 1/3 of the angels fell with him and are to be punished for what they have done in hell. Hell was the place where God was to deal righteously with the devil and all the fallen angels. Isa. 14:12-16.
b). John 5:29 says “And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation”
Don’t you let some jack-legged, money hungry, self-help preacher or anybody else tell you that once you die its all over Heb.9:27. We all must face what happens after death, some will receive eternal life and other will receive eternal damnation, the choice is yours.
4. WHERE IS HELL
No I know we have all heard the saying there can’t be a hell because Hell is right here on earth. That’s not true, but it is closer than you think.
1). Matt. 12:40 says “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”.
2). Eph. 4:9 says “Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth”.
3). Isaiah 14:9 says “Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations”.
So we can tell from these verses that Hell is in the earth presently. Hell is also called the pit in Isa 14:9, Ezek 32:18-21 and the abyss Rev.9:2. I like to watch the Discovery Channel and History Channel and sometime you catch episodes on Volcanoes. Have you ever seen the pictures of volcanoes erupting and forming literally a lake of fire, where the heat is so intense that it destroys everything simply from the heat itself. A volcano erupting would come close to describing hell.
3). In Numbers 16:31-33 the Bible describes people falling into hell in the earth.
5. HOW LONG IS HELL
1). Hell is Forever.
Matt. 25:41, 46 “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”. “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal”.
Rev. 14:11 “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”.
Jude 7,13 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever”.
Mark 3:29 says “But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation”.
Hell is forever. The most horrific aspect about hell is that it’s eternal. Hell will last forever. We cannot comprehend just how long eternity is. If you could imagine being in a place of torment and pain, constantly burning but never burning up for a million years and then realize that after a million years you still haven’t began to work time down off of eternity. Revelation 20:10 said “shall be tormented day and night forever and ever”. There’s no hope in hell for you rejected your only hope Jesus Christ that’s why you are there in the first place. There is no hope in death, for death is thrown in the lake of fire as well. There’s no hope in being reprieved, there’s no hope of annihilation for your worm shall never die. You are forever and ever torment in hell. Every thought mentally anguishes you, your eyes are able I believe to see into glory and you watch the saints of God rejoice and you could have been there, but you made the choice now Hell is your abode. You want to die but can’t, you want water but none is given, just imagine and this last forever and ever.
6. WHAT HAPPENS TO PEOPLE IN HELL.
Now let me say before I even begin to try to teach this portion here that there are many different interpretation on this particular aspect; however, I am going to show you with the Word of God how I come to this particular description.
1). Mark 9:44, 46, 48 says “Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched”. Here Jesus is referring to the scripture in Isaiah 66:24.
2). 1st Corinthians 15:53-54 “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory”.
To fully grasp this you must go back up to the 47 verse “The first man [is] of the earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from heaven. As [is] the earthy, such [are] they also that are earthy: and as [is] the heavenly, such [are] they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory’
WATCH THIS:- Here Paul is explaining the rapture and he says “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption” then he says “the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed….for mortal shall have put on immortality” In order to inherit the kingdom of God our bodies have to undergo a change from mortal to immortality. Well since every coin has a flip side I believe that those that are raised to the resurrection of damnation must also receive a change in their mortal body to an immortal one, for it is the body that feels. God cursed this body in Genesis 3:19 “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return” Since the body must go back to the dust and a spirit is not able to feel a bodily form of somewhat needs to house the spirit damned in Hell.
Remember 1st Cor. 15:47-48 says “The first man [is] of the earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from heaven. As [is] the earthy, such [are] they also that are earthy: and as [is] the heavenly, such [are] they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly”. Since we will have a bodily form like our heavenly father would it not be that those doomed to hell have a form like their father.
John 8:44 says “Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it”
Genesis 3:14 says “And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life”.
The serpent we know today as a snake. If the devil, Satan, Lucifer, the father of the damned has the form of a snake would it not be likely that the body of those in hell take the form of a snake as well.
Let’s look at some scripture to back this theology up.
Job 25:6 says “How much less man, [that is] a worm? and the son of man, [which is] a worm”.
Psalms 22:6 says “But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people’.
Now look at Isaiah 66:24 says “And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh”.
Their worm means it is personal and carcases are not always something that is dead Deuteronomy 14:8 and Ezekiel 6:5 use the word dead with carcase, if a carcase was always dead way did the Bible have to mention a dead carcase.
I truly believe that those that are doomed to spend eternity in Hell will have an abhorring bodily form like that of a snake and human combined. If you remember a movie, back in the 70’s called “SSSSSSSS” the story line was “A fanatically dedicated snake expert (Strother Martin) takes his obsession to diabolical extremes when he begins injecting his unwitting research assistant (Dirk Benedict) with a supposed immunization serum to protect him against his venomous subjects. Only when the young guinea pig's skin begins to shed does he discover the truth--the doctor is changing him into a snake! At the man (Dirk) at the end of the movie began to transform from the waist up he was human, but was scaled like a snake and even green in color, from the waist down he had turned into a snake. He literally was an abhorring abomination. I believe that is somewhat the immortal bodies of those in hell will look like according to Isaiah 66:24. Their conscience mind is aware of everything that is going on. They remember every opportunity they ever had to repent. They are hideous and tormented physically, mentally, and spiritual forever and ever.
7. JESUS SAYS NOTHING IS WORTH GOING TO HELL.
1). Mark 9:4, 45, 47 says “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 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 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”.
2). Mark 8:36 says “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul”.
Here Jesus is saying nothing is worth you going to hell. If your hand were to send you to hell it would be better to cut it off and receive eternal life than go to hell with two hands.
CLOSING:- Stop and think for a moment and then ask yourself this question
“WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE WORTH ETERNITY IN HELL”.
There is a place called hell and sadly many people will spend eternity there simply because they refused to repent and turn from their wicked ways and accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior.
You may have made some terrible decisions in your life and even committed sins that you think are unimaginable and unforgiveable, but the reason you are still here is that you may have yet another opportunity to repent.
Don’t wait until you think you have it all together. Don’t say I will come tomorrow because tomorrow might be too late. The Bible says in Proverbs 27:1 “Boast not thyself of tomorrow for thou knowest not what a day bring forth”. Just like at the beginning of this lesson when I said imagine your life and all of the sudden you’re dead.
Don’t feel that you have all the time in the world. Don’t feel that God will not punish sin just because you feel as though you have gotten away with everything this long. The Bible says in 2nd Peter 3:9-10 “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 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up”.
Nothing is worth spending an eternity in hell.
Remember Hebrew 9:27 says “It is appointed once for man to die, but after this the judgment”. At the Great White Throne Judgment every person that ever lived will stand before God. Revelation 20:12 says “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works”. Revelation 20:15 says “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the Lake of Fire”.
Is your name written in the book of life. If not it needs to be, it’s Hell if it’s not.
Hell is real – The Choice is Yours.
