Alright, Psalm 139 and verse 19.
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God!
Depart from me, therefore ye bloody men, depart from me, therefore ye bloody men.
Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee?
And am not I grieved with those that rise up against me?
Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee?
I take against thee wickedly, for they speak against thee wickedly.
And thine enemies take thy name in vain, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Do not hate them, O Lord, I hate thee. Do not hate them, O Lord, I hate thee. And they are not those that rise up against thee.
Do not hate them, O Lord, I hate thee. Hate them with perfect hatred. Hate them with perfect hatred. Can't me, I can't the me's. Do not hate them, O Lord, I hate thee. Hate thee.
With those that rise up against thee. Do not hate them, O Lord, I hate thee. Do not hate them with perfect hatred.
And I looked, and lo, a lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him an hundred, forty, and four thousand, having his father's name written in their foreheads.
And I heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder, and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps. And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders.
And no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. These are they which were not defiled with women, for they are virgins.
These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God, and to the Lamb.
And in their mouth was found no guile, for they are without fault before the throne of God.
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come, and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of water.
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, the great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
And the third angel followed them, saying, with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast in his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation.
And he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone, in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their turban is scented up forever and ever. And they have no rest, day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receive it the mark of his name.
Here is the patience of the saints, here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus Christ. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Bright, blessed are the dead, which die in the Lord, from henceforth. Yeah, save the spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.
And I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of
man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on
the cloud, "Thrust in thy sickle and reap, for the time has come for thee to reap, for
the harvest of the earth is ripe."
And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
And another angel came out of the temple, which is in heaven.
He also having a sharp sickle.
And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire, and cried with
a loud cry to him that had a sharp sickle, saying, "Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather
the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe."
And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth,
and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
And the winepress was trodden without the city, and the blood came out of the winepress
even unto the horses bridle by the space of a thousand and six hundred furloughs.
But Robert, if you can pray for the sermon.
Amen.
All right.
Is my mic working, brother?
Okay, great.
Well, thank you all for being here.
It's great to be here again.
It's been a couple years since I last visited here, and thank you, Pastor Thompson, for
being so gracious and inviting me and flying me out here and all the accommodations.
Everything's been great.
You guys have a really beautiful city here.
I am sorry for bringing the Texas heat.
I am very sorry about that.
But you know, without the humidity, it actually feels just fine to me.
The breeze is cool.
The shade is cool.
So yesterday I went out on a hike and I was walking around town and everyone looked like
they were dying.
And I was like, this is great.
This is fine.
So it's a lot worse in Portland today, I hear.
It's like 115 or something like that.
So craziness, but it's very great to see everyone faces that have been here for many years and
lots of new faces as well.
So keep up the fight and keep being faithful to the local church.
Now today we are in revelation chapter 14 and the title of my sermon is hell on earth.
Hell on earth.
Have you ever been out soul winning and you ask someone, you know, Hey, God forbid if
you were to die today, are you 100% sure that you would go to heaven and have you ever had
someone say, well, I'm in hell right now, we're in hell right now.
Now look, that is one of the most stupid things a person can say because nothing a person
can experience on this earth can be even close to the terrors and to the horrible, horrible
nature of the real hell, the real literal physical hell in the center of the earth.
But you hear this all the time.
And honestly, when I hear someone say that my heart does go out to them because the reason
that they're saying something like that is because they have a really messed up life.
Is that not why they're saying it?
They're saying, Hey, I have a really screwed up life and you know, my life kind of resembles
hell in a sense to where I feel like I'm living a hell on earth.
And let me make it very clear again, no suffering that you can experience on this earth can
be even close to as bad as hell.
But there are things in our life that we can experience that share some of the same attributes
of things that the people experience in hell to where you can experience things in your
life that are similar in nature to what people experience in hell to where you could actually
have hell on earth for yourself.
You could be living, your life could be a living hell in a sense.
Now I made it very clear, hell is a lot worse than anything on this earth.
But I want to talk about some ways that we can make our lives a living hell, some way
that people make their own lives a living hell today.
And the goal of the sermon is that we don't make decisions in our lives that would make
our life a living hell.
That is not what we want for our lives.
That is not what God wants for our life.
So what is one of the attributes that people experience in hell?
What's one of the negative things about hell?
Well number one, the turmoil of having no remedy for your actions.
People in hell have no remedy for their actions.
They can't take anything back.
They can't fix any mistake they made.
They can never get things right.
They can never escape the past.
They will forever, for all of eternity, have the turmoil of having no remedy for their
actions.
You're in Revelation 14, look at verse number 10.
It says, "The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without
mixture into the cup of his indignation, and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever, and they have no rest day
nor night, who worship the beast in his image, and whosoever receive it the mark of his name."
Now these verses specifically in context are talking about people that take the mark of
the beast, but this is just as true for every person who has ever been in hell or whoever
will be in hell.
They have no rest day nor night, their smoke of their torment ascends up forever and ever,
and every single person in hell will for eternity have the turmoil of having no remedy for the
things that they've done.
They'll never be able to fix anything.
It's a horrible, horrible aspect of hell.
Go to Revelation chapter number 20, Revelation chapter number 20.
Look at verse 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 forever and ever."
You say, "Hey, when is the torment going to stop for the people in hell, Brother Dillon?"
Never.
Forever and ever.
The beast, the false prophet, and all the unsafe people in Spokane, Washington that
are going to go to hell, and all the unsafe people in all this world, their torment will
never end, they will have no remedy for their actions forever.
It's hell.
That's a horrible, horrible aspect.
Go to Luke chapter 16, let's look at this again.
Luke chapter number 16, we get a story of a man in hell, look at verse number 19, Luke
16, 19.
"There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously
every day.
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate full of sores, and
desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table.
Moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores, and it came to pass that the beggar died and
was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom.
The rich man also died and was buried.
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus
in his bosom.
So we have here two men, one went to Abraham's bosom, which is heaven, and one is in hell.
And this is what he says in verse 24, and he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy
on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue,
for I am tormented in this flame.
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivest thy good things,
and likewise Lazarus' evil things.
But now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
Verse 26 is the key.
And beside all this, between us and you, there is a great goal fixed, so that they which
would pass from hence to you cannot.
Neither can they pass to us that would come from thence.
So the rich man in hell, he had one desire.
He had the desire that someone would drip their finger in a glass of water and just
drop a little drop on his tongue to cool him from his flame, just to give him some relief.
But guess when that remedy is coming for him?
Guess when that relief is coming for him?
Never.
There's a great goal fixed.
Those that would go to him can't.
Those that would go from him to Abraham's bosom can't go.
It's eternal and they have no remedy for their actions for all of eternity.
It's a horrible, horrible thing, but you know what?
There's people on this earth that can make certain decisions in their life to where when
they cross a line, when they commit certain sins, when they make certain decisions in
their life, they can be living with those consequences for the rest of their life and
there will never ever be remedy for that person.
There will never ever be relief of the consequence that they've caused for themselves.
Let's go to Proverbs chapter 29.
When you get to this place in your life, you're living a special kind of hell on earth when
you have no remedy for your actions.
Proverbs 29, look at verse 1, "He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly
be destroyed and that without remedy."
The Bible says if you're a person that's being reproved and you're hardening your neck, you're
resisting the reproof, you're resisting the correction, you're resisting the wisdom.
You're going to be destroyed.
And here's the worst part about that destruction is that destruction is going to be without
remedy, meaning you won't be able to fix what happens as a result of that sin.
Now let me just tell you, that's a place you do not want to get in your life.
Stay there in Proverbs chapter number 29 and I'll read for you.
Second Timothy 3, 16, it says, "For all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable
for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness."
One of the aspects of the word of God, one of the purposes of the word of God is to reprove
us, is to correct us, is to say, "Hey, here's what you're doing.
Here's why it's wrong.
Here's what's right.
Here's how to do it right."
That's what the word of God does for us.
Okay?
But here's the thing, if you're the type of person where the word of God is always trying
to correct you, the word of God is always trying to reprove you, your pastor's trying
to approve you, the preacher's trying to approve you, your parents are trying to approve you,
your husband's trying to reprove you, and you want to harden your neck, you don't want
to listen to the correction in your life, guess what the Bible says is going to happen
to you?
The Bible says your destruction is going to come and that without remedy, meaning there'll
be no fixing it, no solution.
And that is a special type of hell.
Let's go through a couple of Proverbs on this Proverbs six, verse 23, and we'll just rattle
off a few of these Proverbs six, 23.
The Bible says for the commandment is a lamp and the law is light and reproofs of instruction
or the way of life.
So the Bible, the commandment is a lamp.
It illuminates for us.
It tells us where we should go in our life and it gives us instruction.
Go to Proverbs 10, 17, flip the page there, Proverbs 10, 17.
He is in the way of life that keep it instruction, but he that refuseth reproof, ereth.
So again, the Bible is painting this picture.
You want to be the person that takes the instruction, takes the reproof, and don't refuse the reproof.
Proverbs 12, 1, flip over another page, Proverbs 12, 1.
Who so loveth instruction loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
You know what brutish means?
It means stupid.
It means idiotic.
He's saying, if you're a type of person that hates being reproved, that hates being corrected,
that hates being challenged, then you are stupid.
That's what God said.
Now, here's the thing.
I love what Pastor Shelley says.
He says that you can either receive reproof and feel stupid or hate reproof and actually
be stupid because here's the thing.
If you're reproofed for something you did wrong, you're going to feel stupid because
you got reproved because you were doing something wrong because you're believing something wrong.
You were teaching something wrong.
You were whatever you were doing that was wrong.
And now you're learning.
Okay, this is what's right.
You're going to feel stupid.
But if you don't receive the reproof, you know what?
You just are stupid.
I mean, imagine if a person is just like preaching a sermon and just preaches all this false doctrine
and the pastor never corrected it, it's like he might feel like he did a really great job.
Oh, man, I preached a really great sermon, but it's like, no, actually you're stupid.
And we can all fall into the trap of doing things that are stupid, believing things that
are stupid, saying things that are stupid, making decisions in our life that are stupid.
But if we love reproof, at least we'll just look stupid for a minute and then not experience
the death of having no reprieve from our mistakes, from our decisions that we make.
Or you could just refuse reproof and actually be stupid, and actually experience all this
shame in your life.
Turn the page to Proverbs 13, 18, Proverbs 13, 18, "Poverty and shame shall be to him
that refuseth instruction, but he that regardeth reproof shall be honored."
You know what's coming for people that despise reproof?
Poverty and shame.
Those are two things that people don't want in their life, yet there's a lot of people
that experience those things.
Why?
Because they don't like the reproof.
That's why.
They don't like the Bible correcting them.
They don't like the preacher correcting them.
They don't like anyone correcting them.
And so they're just inviting for themselves to invite a living hell on their life is what
they're doing.
Good Proverbs 15, 10.
Proverbs 15, 10.
"Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way, and he that hateth reproof shall
die."
Proverbs 15, 32.
"He that refuseth instruction despises his own soul, but he that hearth reproof geteth
understanding."
The Bible has a pretty reoccurring theme here.
Don't be the person that despises the correction, that despises the reproof.
If you're a wise person, if you love your own soul, you'll take that reproof.
And here's the thing, the same reason why people go to the literal hell is the same
reason why people create a living hell for themselves in this world.
It's their pride because they don't want to be corrected.
They don't want to accept that the Bible says salvation is by faith alone.
They don't want to accept that Jesus Christ died on the cross for their sins and that it's
a free gift.
They don't want to accept that there's a God in heaven that is going to judge them for
their life.
And when they die, they will be judged.
They don't want to accept that reproof.
And the same people that create a living hell for themselves in this life are the same people
that refuse God's reproof.
They're too prideful to listen to correction.
They're too prideful to listen to what the Bible says is best for their life.
And people can make decisions to where they have to live with the consequences of their
sin.
And guess what?
There's no remedy ever, ever.
What's an example of this?
How about fornication?
I'll read for you in first Corinthians, stay there in Proverbs, Proverbs five.
I'll read for you first credit in six, 18.
The Bible says, excuse me, I'm losing my voice here.
First Corinthians 16, 18, flee fornication.
Every sin that a man do it is without the body.
But he that committed fornication, sinned against his own body.
I find it funny how the Bible says that the person that despises correction despises reproof
Sins against his own soul.
And here we're told that the person that commits fornication sins against their own body.
Now here's the thing, if you're going to Sure Foundation Baptist Church, I guarantee you,
you've heard this reproof many times.
You've heard the preaching against fornication.
Hopefully you've read the word of God and read that the Bible says to flee fornication.
Now is that is that the reproof that the world's giving today?
Absolutely not.
The world's saying, oh, if you love them, it's fine.
One night stands are fine.
It doesn't matter if you're married or not.
You can just go sleep with whoever you want.
But the Bible says, flee fornication.
And if you commit fornication, you're actually sinning against your own body.
You're sinning against yourself.
What does that make me think of?
Oh, someone that's brutish, someone that's stupid, that would sin against their own body.
If you commit fornication, you're stupid.
You're going to take the reproof or are you going to despise the reproof and create a
living hell for yourself that you can never escape?
Proverbs five verse one says, "My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow down thine ear to
mine understanding, that thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than
oil."
So oil and a honeycomb is a picture of something that's good, something that's desirable.
And the Bible says that the strange woman could be desirable to you.
But just because something's desirable to your eyes or to your flesh, does that mean
that it's something that's good for you?
Absolutely not.
Verse 4, "But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword."
Verse 5, "Her feet go down to death, her steps take hold on hell."
Sounds like a living hell to be with this type of a woman.
Verse 6, "Lest thou shouldst ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, that thou canst
not know them."
Hear me now therefore, O you children, here's God's word begging to approve you, begging
to correct you, "and depart not from the words of my mouth, remove thy way far from her."
Reminds me of flea fornication in 1st Corinthians 6, "and come not nigh to the doors of her
house, lest thou give thine honor unto others, and thy years unto the cruel."
When the Bible here is talking about honor, it's talking about your substance, your money.
The Bible says that if you go to this type of woman, you're going to be giving your honor
unto others.
Sounds like alimony.
Sounds like child support.
How long does that stuff last with you again?
Usually the rest of your life.
Oh, is the court just going to excuse you?
It's okay.
You didn't know.
You don't have to pay alimony.
You don't have to pay child support.
No.
You know what it is?
It's something that's not going to be reprieved.
You're not going to have any remedy for that.
Verse 10.
"Less strangers be filled with thy wealth, and thy labors be in the house of a stranger.
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, and say, 'How have
I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.'"
Not only can fornication cause you to give your wealth, your substance, to other people,
but also it could destroy your flesh and your body.
When are you going to have reproof from that?
When are you going to have remedy from that?
Oh yeah, never.
That's why it's like a living hell.
I'll read for you some statistics from the CDC.
This is 2018 numbers.
It said one out of every five Americans have an STD.
You go out and you see all these people around, one in five of them have an STD.
68 million people in our nation have one.
Nearly half of newly acquired STDs came from those aged 15 to 24 years old.
There will be an estimated $16 billion of lifetime medical costs for those infected
in 2018 alone.
Not including all the people that were infected back in the '60s that are still alive, in
the '70s that are still alive, in the '80s, but just the people that were infected in
2018 will have $16 billion of medical costs in their lifetime.
That's just unbelievable to me.
And you know, teenagers, they think that they know what's best for them.
They want to just allow the flesh to run rampant and you say, "I don't care what my pastor
says.
I don't care what the Bible says.
I don't care what my mom and dad says.
I'm just going to sow my wild oats and I'll make things right in the future."
Hey, maybe not.
Maybe God will be gracious to you.
Maybe God will be merciful to you.
But the Bible says, "Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom
he receiveth."
So if you're one of God's children and you decide you want to go out and commit a fornication,
I bet you you're going to be the one in five that gets the STD because God has already
told you and because you've hardened your neck.
And so then that destruction comes, but you know what the worst part about that destruction
is?
Without remedy.
That destruction comes and it's without remedy.
Now, let me list to you a couple names of these diseases and I'm not going to get into
the symptoms because I only want to know what the symptoms are, to know that I don't want
to have these.
Who would like to have chlamydia, gonorrhea, hepatitis, herpes, HIV, AIDS, human papilloma
virus, pelvic inflammatory disease, syphilis, trichomoniasis, scabies, lice, mycoplasma
genitalium, lymphogranuloma verinium, cankroyd?
I don't even know what half of those things are and I don't care what they are to know
that I don't want to have them.
So I would rather just listen to God's instruction to flee fornication.
Flee fornication the Bible says.
I'll take that over whatever the hell all this stuff is.
Because guess what?
That stuff has no remedy.
You know when it's going to be cured?
Never.
You have it for the rest of your life.
You never get to get rid of it.
Here's another thing that can cause you to have a living hell on earth to where there's
no remedy for your action.
How about adultery?
Go to Proverbs chapter number 6.
Proverbs 6, Proverbs 6.32, the Bible says, "But whoso committeth adultery with a woman
lacketh understanding."
And notice this familiar phrase again, "He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul."
Sounds like the same thing that was said about fornication.
Sounds like the same thing that was said about someone that refuses instruction.
"A wound and dishonor shall he get," and notice this, "and his reproach shall not be wiped
away."
A sin as a person who committed adultery is going to have their reproach wiped away.
It's not going to happen.
Now, obviously, it's a sin that can be forgiven by God.
All your sins are washed under the blood when you believe in Jesus Christ, but this reproach
in the eyes of man is never going to go away.
This reproach in the eyes of your spouse is never going to go away.
What is reproach?
The dictionary definition of reproach is disgrace, discredit, or blame.
You will always have a disgrace of being an adulterer if that is something you've done.
You'll always have a discredit.
A pastor cannot be someone that's an adulterer.
He's not blameless at that point.
You have a blame.
Now that doesn't mean that adulterers can't serve God.
Obviously they can.
And obviously they can walk away from those sins in the past and move on and forget those
things which are behind, pressing forth those things that are before, aiming at the high
mark of Jesus Christ.
That's what we should do.
But your blame is still there.
You're not going to be a pastor if you've committed adultery.
You're not going to be a pastor if you have multiple wives, if you've divorced one and
have another.
Your approach is not going to be wiped away.
And so take this as a warning that there's things you can do that can cause your life
to be a living hell.
Why?
Because you have no remedy for that action.
Look at verse 34.
"For jealousy is the rage of a man, therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
He will not regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts."
You know, you commit adultery with another man's wife, that might be a reproach.
That might be a mistake that you're not going to have any remedy from because you might
be able to beg for mercy from that man all you want, but he might just kill you.
He might just murder you dead on the spot if you commit adultery with another man's
wife.
He's like, "What if I ask for forgiveness?
What if I get on my knees and beg?"
He's not going to regard any ransom, though you give him many gifts.
He might just kill you right then and there for doing it.
And so guess what?
There are some actions that you can take in this life to where if you do them, you might
never have a reprieve from that action.
And you know, your spouse, you know that if, so if your spouse commits adultery on you,
you know what the right thing is to do?
Obviously, the Bible says that adulterers should be put to death.
That's not happening in our culture, but if your spouse commits adultery on you now, should
you divorce them?
No, you should forgive them.
You should still love them.
You should still forgive them.
You should stay with your spouse.
You should love them.
But let me just tell you reality.
That doesn't mean that's what every person's going to do.
You see, there's right and wrong, and then there's reality.
The right thing is if you commit adultery, the right thing is for your spouse to stay
with you.
But let me just tell you the reality.
Your spouse may not stay with you.
Your spouse may not forgive you.
And so you want to play that you want to roll the dice on that.
Guess what?
You go commit adultery.
You might have a judgment on your life that you're never coming back from.
You're never going to be able to fix that situation.
Just like the people in hell can never fix anything that they do.
There's some things you could do on this earth to where you cannot fix them.
Not everything, but there are some things.
How about alcohol?
Go to Proverbs 23, Proverbs 23.
People that drink alcohol can do some things, can commit sins that causes them to live with
the consequences of that action for the rest of their life.
Look at Proverbs 23, 29, the Bible says, "Who hath woe, who hath sorrow, who hath contentions,
who hath babbling, who hath wounds without cause, who hath redness of eyes, they that
tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine, look not thou upon the wine when
it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright; at the
last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange
women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth
down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken
me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not. When shall
I awake? I will seek it yet again. So the Bible lists all these horrible things, all
this woe, misery, sorrow, redness of eyes, getting in fights, having pains in your body,
your eyes beholding strange women, as things that happen to people that do what? Tearing
long at the wine. People that drink alcohol have all these horrible things happen to them
in their life. And you can actually commit things while you're drinking alcohol that
can cause you to live with the consequences of that for the rest of your life, like committing
fornication, like committing adultery, like, I don't know, getting your car, driving down
the road and killing someone's daughter, killing someone's son, killing someone's mom, killing
someone's wife. Wait, how are you going to bring them back? Oh yeah, you can't because
it's something that you do that you can't fix. But guess what? It would have never happened
if you listen to the reproof of the Bible. It wouldn't have never happened if you would
have listened to the proof of your pastor. It would have never happened if you listen
to the proof of your mom or dad or whoever in your life is giving you sound wisdom. And
so be very careful not to despise the reproof in your life, whether that's from God or from
any authority that God has given you. Do not despise that reproof, because let me tell
you what, you're going to eventually make your life a living hell. And you know what?
When we go out soul winning and we say, they say that stupid phrase, I'm in hell right
now. This is the kind of crap that they're dealing with because their life kind of is
a living hell because of all of these things. You want to talk about a group of people whose
life is a living hell since we're in the month of June, since it's pride month. Let me tell
you about a group of people whose lives are a living hell. People who have no remedy for
their actions. And that is the sodomites. The sodomites have no reproof. They can never
fix themselves. They can never change themselves. They can never go put away the decisions that
they've made or fix the things in their life. They're stuck. They're cursed. They're damned.
They're living a living hell on this earth. You know, I bring these people up because
today this morning at Steadfast Baptist Church, all these sodomites were protesting our church
and I looked at the security camera and from what I could count it looked like it was between
30 and 40 sodomites. But let's see what the Bible says about these people. Go to second
Peter chapter two. You know, Pastor Shelley preached a sermon last Sunday and Steadfast
Baptist Church has pretty much been getting a phone call or a message or an email almost
every five minutes for seven days straight by these freak sodomites for Pastor Shelley
preaching the word of God against them. But let me tell you, these people, their lives
are a living hell. They hate themselves. They hate everyone else. And when they die, they're
going to go to the living hell, the real hell, the literal hell there. Everything about them
is just a hell. Look at 2 Peter chapter 2 verse 12. But these, as natural, brute beasts,
you know what brute beast means? It means dumb animal, stupid animal. And let me tell
you, these people are some of the most stupid human beings alive on the planet. It's like,
you preach against the sodomites, they're like, oh, you must be a closeted sodomite.
You must be a self-loathing sodomite. You must be really, really gay since you preach
against fags. And it's like, does that logic work anywhere else? It's like, okay, faggot.
Does that make you an independent fundamental Baptist since you hate us so much? Us so much.
It's like, oh, I guess you're a closeted Baptist preacher because you hate Pastor Shelley so
much. Does that make any sense? What the hell? But you know what the Bible says? Brute beasts,
stupid animals. That's why they message us saying, do you speak Latin? Do you know that
the Old Testament was written in Latin? It wasn't written in Latin, you brute beast,
stupid dog. You don't know anything. You're a stupid animal. That's why they hate themselves
so much. Made to be taken and destroyed. He said, what are these people's purpose? To
be taken and destroyed. They speak evil of the things that they understand, not like
the word of God, like Jesus Christ, like blaspheming him in every single email, message, phone call
that they send. And I love it when these people do that. You know why? Because it proves the
Bible true because the Bible says that they speak evil of those things, which they know
not. And guess what? When they open their mouth, it's like, ta-da, Bible's true. Here
you go. Opening your stupid brew beast mouth again, showing us exactly who you are and
shall receive the reward of unrighteousness. You know what that reward is? Hell. How are
they going to escape it? How are they going to escape that reproof? They're not. It's
inescapable. It's a hell on earth. As they account it to pleasure, as they account it
pleasure to ride in the daytime spots, they are in blemishes, sporting themselves with
their own deceivings while they feast with you, having eyes full of adultery. When are
they going to stop being adulterers? When are they going to stop sinning? Oh yeah, look
at the next phrase. And that cannot cease from sin. They cannot stop. You say, when
is the reprieve coming? When is the relief coming? When are they going to be able to
change themselves? Never. They cannot cease from sin. Beguiling unstable souls and heart,
they have exercised with covetous practices. Cursed children. They're cursed. They're
damned. There's no hope for them. They are damned to hell. Jude says that they're twice
dead. Go to Romans chapter one. These sodomites really are living a hell on earth. They are
experiencing a hell on earth. And the judgment that God has given them of being turned over
to reprobate mind, the judgment that God has given them of being given over to those vile
affections, they're never escaping that judgment. There's no, there's no getting help for it.
There's no rehabilitating them. There's no changing them. It's something that's there
forever and they can never change it. Romans one 21. The Bible says because that when they
knew God, they glorified him not as God. Neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations
and their foolish heart was dark. And you see, the Bible says that they knew God, but
they glorified him not as God. This is the type of person that they heard the reproof
of God's word. They heard the reproof. Even creation itself, the Bible says, you know,
declares that the Godhead, you know, and so there's a lot of things you can understand
just by creation itself. And there's a lot of things that God declares just by creation
itself. But even that little reproof, these people didn't want to retain in their knowledge.
Even that little reproof, these people hated. Proverbs chapter one talks about how they
would none of my reproof. And so that's why these people end up becoming reprobates is
because for the same reason why everyone else has turned their life into a living hell that
we've talked about. What's the root cause? They would none of the reproof. That's the
reason why they became the way that they are. Verse 22, professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like
to corruptible man and to birds and four footed beasts and creeping things. Wherefore God also
gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own
bodies between themselves who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and
served the creature more than the creator who is blessed forever amen. For this cause
God gave them up unto vile affections for even their women did change the natural use
into that which is against nature and likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the
woman burning their lust one toward another men with men working that which is unseemly
and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was me. So these vile
affections that they were given over to the recompense of their error their vile affections
their reprobate mind all the sick things they do all of that is the recompense of their
error all of that is the punishment that God has given them and when is the remedy for
when are these people getting remedy never they're cursed they're twice dead they're
brute beasts they're never able to change and that is why the Bible says that they should
be put to death. Look at verse 28 and even as they did not like to retain God in their
knowledge God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient
and it says being filled now that phrase is very important because the Bible doesn't say
that they are filled Bible says that they're being filled so every single day that these
reprobates are alive they're getting worse and worse they're getting more wicked than
the word that the day that they were before just like how every single Christian has a
moment in time where they became became born again every single reprobate has a moment
in time where they became twice dead where they became a child of the devil and let me
tell you just like how a baby Christian is not going to be on the same spiritual level
as pastor Thompson a baby reprobate someone that was just given over to rep a mine yesterday
isn't going to be Jeffrey Dahmer quite yet isn't going to be all of these extreme psychopaths
quite yet but they do have that capacity and here's the thing they're being filled with
it every day every day that they're allowed to live on every day that they're allowed
to live on this earth they're getting more and more wicked being filled with all unrighteousness
fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murder debate deceit malignity
whispers they're being filled with all these things every day back fighters haters of God
despiteful proud boasters inventors of evil things disobedient to parents without understanding
covenant breakers without natural affection implacable unmerciful who knowing the judgment
of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death not only do the same but
have pleasure in them that do them want to know why they're worthy of death because there's
no remedy for them there's no changing them they're getting there being filled more and
more every single day all they're doing is getting more and more wicked every day and
since there's no hope for them anyways they are worthy to be put to death they should
be executed by the government it's not something that we would ever take into our own hands
they like to lie and rail against us say that we're that we say you know our congregations
should murder homosexuals that's never what any preacher in our movement has ever said
what we've always said is leviticus 2013 teaches that a government should put these homosexuals
to death that is always what we have said but why bring them up because doesn't that fit our point
of the of the the hell of never having a remedy for your action that's the sodomites right there
but there's another aspect that the people in hell experience that we can experience and people on
this earth can experience obviously on a much lower level but it's also the feeling of being
alone the feeling of being alone is something that people in hell experience and it's something that
people on this earth can experience as well go to second peter chapter number two second peter chapter
number two second peter two verse four for if god spared not the angels that sinned but cast them
down to hell and deliver them into chains of notice this word darkness to be reserved under
judgment you know the bible often uh refers to hell as outer darkness hell is a place that is
completely dark and if you're in a place that's completely dark if you couldn't even see the hand
in front of your face you know you're going to feel alone alone even though there's fire in hell
even though people are burning in hell they can't see it's dark that's a horrible horrible thing
isn't it that's a scary thing go to uh turn to mark and i'll read for you revelation 1411 it says
and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever now have you ever seen a really really big
fire a building fire a power plant or something like really big there's a lot of smoke in that
right or i know there's often uh woodland forest fires here and when that happens sometimes you
can't really see right well hell is just contained and it's just smoke filled and so the people in
hell can they can't see anything and so they feel alone they have this feeling of being alone you're
there in mark uh did i have you turn to mark i'm sorry turn to luke 15 luke 15 this is something
that people can experience on earth obviously the feeling of being alone and when people tell us
when we're all soul winning i'm in hell right now this is also one of the things that often
is going on in their life where they're alone but just like the first point we talked about
how it was their own fault for rejecting their proof oftentimes the reason why people experience
this type of hell in their life of feeling alone sadly it's because of their own fault
obviously you know if you're being persecuted for righteousness sake and your family and your friends
forsake you then that's not your own fault but let's just be honest most people that are alone
in their life are alone because of their own fault it's their own fault that they're experiencing
that type of hell now look at luke 15 is the story of the prodigal son in verse 11 it says
and he said a certain man had two sons and the younger of them said to his father father give me
the portion of goods that falleth to me he divided under them his living so this son is very
short-sighted he wants his inheritance right now give it to me now i want to experience the pleasures
of life right now and so he's willing to flush away his future for the pleasures that he's
receiving right now and this is often the mistake that people make who end up being alone in their
life is the give it to me now mentality look at verse 13 and not many days after the younger son
gathered all together and took his journey into a far country and there wasted his substance with
riotous living so he's being irresponsible let me ask you a question is him wasting his substance
with riotous living his dad's fault is it his brother's fault is it his church's fault or is
it his own fault it's his own fault he's wasting his inheritance he was stupid to ask for his
inheritance early and he's stupid for wasting it all it's his own fault that he's gotten himself
into this situation look at verse 14 and when he had spent all there arose a mighty famine in the
land and he began to be in want and he went and journeyed himself to a citizen of that country
and he sent him into the fields to feed swine and he would feign have filled his belly with the husks
that the swine did eat and no man gave unto him guess what he feels alone right now he's here with
the pigs he's you know barely staying alive he's starving pretty much and no man is giving unto him
this is a feeling of being alone now why did he get in this situation because of his own
irresponsibility because of his own selfishness and oftentimes people make selfish decisions
people make irresponsible decisions in their life to where now they're dealing with the consequences
of what being alone and that's kind of a hell on earth is it not the people in hell they can't see
anything they feel alone and the people on this earth that make this mistake they feel alone too
and when we're talking to people that's usually what they're dealing with verse 17 when he came
to himself he said how many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare and i perish
with hunger and so now he's suffering with that regret that regret of the foolish decisions he's
made but just because he's sorry just because he regrets it does that change his reality nope
life is tough and life will teach us real quick when we make decisions like this when we don't care
about making responsible decisions it'll teach you real quick because it'll put you in a spot
like this where you're alone so how can we avoid being put into this situation how can we avoid
coming to a spot in this world where we just feel alone obviously it's by investing in other people
it's by being a selfless person now hey like i said if you find yourself alone because of
righteousness sake i mean jesus christ was alone jesus christ was forsaken of all of his
disciples he was forsaken of god the father he was alone but that wasn't because of his fault
that was because he was taking all of our sins in himself but look here's how you avoid being alone
for that except for that rare exception of persecution for righteousness sake invest in
other people invest in other people how about your children psalm 127 i'll read for you verse 3 says
lo children are in heritage of the lord and the fruit of the womb is his reward as arrows are in
the hand of a mighty man so are children of the youth happy is the man that hath his quiver full
of them they shall not be ashamed but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate you want to
know why a lot of people end their life alone because they didn't have any kids and i'm not
saying through any uh not any faults of their own like you know their infertile their wife can't bear
children or anything like that if some sort of physical problem or god just doesn't bless them
but i'm talking about people that just don't have kids because they're selfish because they don't
want to have kids because you know i had a family member of mine who he got married and as a
prerequisite to his wife getting married to him he made her tie her tubes before the marriage
you know what that is a selfish person a person who may end up in their life completely alone
and guess whose fault it's going to be their own because they didn't invest in anyone else
because they wanted to go and and waste their substance with riotous living instead of buckling
down getting a job you know protecting your wife providing for your wife and raising your children
in the nurture and admonition of the lord hey when you do that the bible says you're happy
when your arrow when your quiver is full of those arrows you're happy and guess what you're not
going to be alone you know a lot of times big families they'll complain oh it's so loud in here
i can never get time to myself you know what though it'd be a lot worse to be alone it'd be a
lot worse to be alone sometimes it is hard having all the kids screaming okay i'm glad that i don't
have to write my sermons at home because i don't know how i would do it sometime but look i would
rather the screaming the turmoil the chaos whatever it is than being alone because i didn't invest in
my children because i was too selfish to have kids because i didn't want to invest in other people
how about your parents i'll read for you exodus 2012 honor thy father and thy mother that thy days
may be long upon the land which the lord thy god giveth thee the bible says it's a commandment to
honor your father and your mother it doesn't say honor your father and your mother if they're
fundamental baptists that believe everything like you do it's not what the bible says the bible says
to honor your mother and your father and you know what people are so prideful that they want to just
ditch their parents they just want to throw them behind their back after raising them for 18 20
and these days sometimes 30 35 years after all that they've done for you and just throwing them
behind your back it's wicked as hell and you know what you reap what you sow and if you want to not
invest in your parents you want to not invest in your children you might just find yourself in a
place where you're alone and your life is a living hell how about your friends go to uh go to john
three and i'll read for you 20 proverbs 27 10 thine own friend and my father's friend forsake
not you know it's hard it's really hard nowadays to find a good friend it's really hard nowadays
to find a faithful friend and when you've found that friend don't don't just forsake them don't
just just give up on your guys's friendship because you had a fight once because you disagree on one
tertiary doctrine because you don't believe that the two witnesses are brother josh and brother
tony in vancouver okay i'm just kidding look don't just forsake your friends just because
you have differences it's good that we have differences i have many great friends you know
a lot of them at sure foundation and instead fast and guess what i don't agree every single thing
that all of my friends believe and say and do but i love my friends and i'm not going to just forsake
them and people shouldn't just forsake their friends for the stupidest things because when you
don't when you do that kind of stuff when you don't invest in your friends and you just care
about yourself you want to be selfish you might end up in your life in a place where you feel
alone and you have no friends why because of your own faults and guess what now your life is as a
type of living hell because you feel alone how about church you know not forsaking the assembly
of ourselves together invest into your church don't just throw away your church after all
all that god has blessed you with over the years all the souls that are being saved all the people
that are growing in the lord all the new faces look when god is building this church when you're
investing into it don't just give up on it don't just turn on it don't just turn your back on it
or or become a rebel and start just going against the church because guess what you reap what you
sow and when you throw away all the blessings that god gives you like this young man the prodigal son
you might just find yourself completely alone so look god has blessed you with this church don't
throw it away invest into it love it you know instead of complaining about everything why don't
you make it better why don't you actually instead of just complaining and giving all these problems
why don't you just offer solutions why don't you try why don't you keep your mouth shut and
actually do something help clean the building help lead to soul-winning time rather than just
turning your back on the church and just criticizing the church criticizing the pastor it's wicked the
last thing the last thing that people on earth can experience that's an attribute of hell is the pain
of being unforgiven the pain of being unforgiven and this closely ties to what we just talked about
about investing in other people but you're in john chapter 3 let's look at john 3 18 it says he that
believeth on him is not condemned but he that believeth not is condemned already because he
hath not believed in the name of the only begotten son of god he that believeth on the son of god
hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the son shall not see life but the wrath of god
abideth on him you say when will the people in hell just be forgiven for what they've done when
will they be able to just live it down a little bit the cross word that they said the impure thought
that they had cutting someone off in traffic and cursing them or whatever all the things that
they've done when are they going to be able to live it down never the wrath of god abides on
these people in hell for all of eternity they're never forgiven they never have any relief of
having their sins forgiven hey isn't it blessing to be saved and to have all of your sins forgiven
every single thing you've ever done in the past right now and in the future all of it's forgiven
you don't have to experience that type of hell that kind of pain of being unforgiven have you
ever had someone not forgive you when you wanted them to forgive you when you're asking them to
forgive you when you have a right heart towards them and they don't forgive you that sucks that's
a type of hell aren't you glad that jesus didn't do that to you when you called upon the name of
the lord when you asked him to forgive you of your sins and you called upon him for salvation
he didn't say no i don't forgive you but guess what that's what he says to everyone in hell
that's what he says to everyone that refuses the reproof of the word of god that doesn't want to
accept him they'll never experience forgiveness go to second thessalonians one second thessalonians
one verse eight inflaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not god and that obey not the
gospel of our lord jesus christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the
presence of the lord and from the glory of his power when will these people stop being destroyed
never it's everlasting destruction it's god taking vengeance on you for eternity for your sins
that's hell and guess what sometimes people on this earth experience this type of hell when they
have the pain of being unforgiven the people in hell can never be forgiven and sometimes people
on this earth are unforgiven but just like the other two examples you want to guess whose fault
this normally is is usually their own fault not saying every single time but usually when people
don't forgive you it's because you're reaping what you've sown it's because you weren't forgiving to
other people and now people aren't being forgiving to you go to mark i'm sorry let's skip that for
sake of time let's go to luke chapter 17 luke 17 let's understand the commandment of god in regards
of forgiveness luke 17 verse 3 this is jesus speaking he said take heed to yourselves if thy
brother trespass against thee rebuke him and if he repent forgive him and if he trespass against
thee seven times in a day and seven times in a day turn to thee saying i repent thou shalt forgive
him so the commandment of god the commandment of our lord jesus christ is that if your brother
trespasses against you he repents he asks you for forgiveness thou shalt forgive him it's not
optional you don't get to think ah should i forgive my brother when he asked me for forgiveness should
no it's thou shalt there's no exceptions you must forgive your brother now what happens if you
don't forgive go to mark chapter number 11 mark chapter number 11 so we understand what the command
is well what's the consequence if you don't mark chapter 11 verse 24 mark 11 verse 24 therefore i
say unto you what things soever ye desire when you pray believe that you receive them and ye shall
have them and when you stand praying forgive if you have ought against other any that your father also
which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses but if you do not forgive here's the consequence
neither will your father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses so again we see what happens you
reap what you sow when someone sins against you they ask you for forgiveness and you don't forgive
them god's going to then not forgive you obviously not in regards to salvation but in regards of
having a daily uh walk with the lord having fellowship having a close relationship with
the lord if you're not forgiving your brothers he's going to be hanging everything over your head just
like you hang everything over your brother's head every word that you say every impure thought that
you have he's going to be spanking you and coming down on you twice as hard why because that's how
you are to other people and so guess what the people in their lives where they're like man no
one forgives me i have this pain of being unforgiven do you forgive others because you might be in that
position because of your own doing and so if you find yourself in that position whether today or
sometime in the future you know ask yourself why did i get to this spot is it because of something
i did let me tell you most likely that is the answer most likely it's because you weren't
following what jesus said and so now your father in heaven is hanging everything over your head
just like you hung everything over your brother's head go to luke 15 i'll read for you psalms 18
verse 25 the bible says with the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful with an upright man
thou wilt show thyself upright hey great news if you're merciful and upright god's going to be
that way with you okay here's the bad news or here's still some good here with the pure that
will show thyself pure here's the bad news with the foward thou wilt show thyself foward so you
want to be foward you want to be against everything you want to be against everything your brother does
well god's going to be against you god's going to be foward to you luke 15 so we read the beginning
of the story of the prodigal son but notice how it ends here luke 15 18 i will arise and go to my
father and will say unto him father i have sinned against heaven and before thee and i'm no more
worthy to be called thy son make me as one of the hired servants so he's in his heart here he's
planning to go ask for forgiveness he's planning to make things right which is the right thing to do
verse 20 and he rose and came to his father but when he was yet a great way off his father saw him
and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him so the father he wasn't waiting for
him to get down on his hands and knees and forgive him a great ways off he had compassion on his son
that's how forgiving this father was and that's how forgiving God is to us right that's how forgiving
Jesus Christ is for us but guess what that's the same way you should be don't make your brothers
and sisters get on their hands and knees and grovel and beg you three times a day for forgiveness look
a simple I'm sorry it should be done flush it get it gone because if you don't then that's how God's
going to treat you verse 21 and the son said unto him father I've sinned against heaven and in thy
sight and am no more worthy to be called thy son you see life life humbled this man didn't it life
showed this man what's up verse 22 but the father said to his servants bring forth the best robe and
put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet bring hither the fatted calf and kill
it and let us eat and be merry for this my son was dead and is alive again he was lost and is found
and they began to be merry i love the reaction of this father because he's so happy to have his son
back he's so happy to have his son learning his lesson and getting things right in his life and
so you whether it's your son whether it's your mom your dad your brother in christ when they come to
you for forgiveness be happy about it don't hang it over their head you know the bible doesn't tell
us you know how god you know blessed this father in the future but i guarantee you that god was
very merciful with his dad because this dad was very merciful to his son so if that's how you
want to be treated by god treat others that same way don't create a living hell in your life where
no one will forgive you just like the people in the literal hell because you wouldn't forgive others
so just in review here what are some things that people experience in hell that can be experienced
on earth number one the turmoil of having no remedy for your actions never being able to fix
things that's something that we don't want to have in our life number two the feeling of being alone
number three the pain of being unforgiven you know thank god if you're saved in this room today
you'll never have to experience those pains and those turmoils in the literal hell thank god for
that and when we're out soul winning when people tell us i'm living in hell right now just think
this is the kind of stuff that they're probably dealing with and yeah it is probably their fault
and yeah they did probably despise reproof from their pastor from the bible from their friends
from their mom and dad and yeah they probably were selfish and didn't invest in other people's lives
and you know what they probably are unforgiven by other people because they treat other people like
jerks but that shouldn't stop us from loving them because even though we were that way spiritually
god still reached out and forgave us and so we need to continue to go out and preach the gospel
to them so that they don't experience a hell that's literal and so that their life can get
better so their lives won't become a living hell and with that let's have a word of prayer lord
thank you so much for this day and thank you for the word of god that can reprove us that can
instruct us that can correct us and thank you for pastor thompson that does the same for this
congregation and all the godly authorities and examples in this room and in our lives
that can lead us in the way we should go i pray that we would always accept the reproof that
you give us i pray that you would bless this church in the remainder of our day
in jesus name we pray amen father thank you for the message that brother aus gave us
i ask that you just uh bring us our hearts that we go to we remember what he said that um that we
don't make our life a living hell that we uh do the things that are pleasing his sight i just ask
that you bless the food and fellowship coming up and you'll bless his soul winning afterwards
in the name of jesus i pray amen