Hell Is Real

Hebrews 9:27

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 do dah 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 a

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 very much 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.



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 it, because if

you don't that's where you're going to go.



Brothers and sisters, 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 your 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 anybody's 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 this week I want you to

search the scriptures and see for yourself what the Bible says about

Hell.



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



Take the time right now and read these scriptures.



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. SEE 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." (kjv)



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 and one third 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?

Now 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.



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, you'll remember all the chances you had, the

scriptures you heard in hopes you would change, 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 (KJV) 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). 1 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 47th verse of 1Cor. "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."



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 1 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 why 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 the kingdom of God 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

into the kingdom of God, 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.



Stop and think for a moment and then ask yourself this question: "What

could be 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 sermon 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.



Don't let this offend you, for it is needed to be said at times to wake

us up to the truth for many churches today won't preach it. If you are

receiving this message and have not given your life truly to Jesus, and

want to do so. Take time and pray right now unto Jesus and ask Him to

come into your heart and ask for His forgiveness for your sins. If you

need more help there are many pastors available in your area to go to

for I know no true pastor that will turn anyone away in coming to

Christ if you ask them for help in this matter. If not you can write to us

and we will help you.