All right, we'll get to the preaching time. And we're in a series on who told you that. And so we're going to continue that. And so if you will, take your Bible to Luke, Luke chapter 16, Luke chapter 16. Now, it is a growing belief, a false belief today, that hell is not real. Well, that would be a false belief that the devil would want you to believe. And the argument quickly falls apart because if there's a place called heaven, there has to be a place called hell. And if you believe in heaven, then you must believe in hell. After all, why would you have a place named heaven if there wasn't no hell? Now, I know that's a little bit of a riddle, but that is because what we call good old-fashioned horse sense, just like there's chocolate cake, vanilla cake, banana pudding. There's a reason we put names on things is to distinguish it from something else. And so, heaven, and most everybody believes in heaven, unless you're atheist, but it is a growing belief today that people don't want to believe in hell or the negative side of God. Here's something you need to think about. If heaven is filled with the love of God, and it is because God is love, and heaven will be where we will experience the awesome, the greatness of God's love. Where in Ephesians he says that nor height, nor depth, nor width. He says, you know, we can't even measure it. Well, there's a place that's been made where you can experience the wrath of God. And just as great and just as awesome as God's love is, his wrath is just as great and awesome on the opposite spectrum. Hell. And so let's read some verses here. and we'll make a few points about this doctrine of hell. There's theologians that have written books about it. They make fun of them. The one that comes to my mind is No Hell Bell. He's a big famous preacher, preaches in one of these big churches, and he wrote a book about why there's no hell. And so he got tagged, no hell bell. And I got news for you, the man's lost. He's not right, he's not backslid, he's lost. Because you're gonna have to believe in hell before you can get saved. You say, oh, I'll preach. Well, yeah, we'll get to that in a minute. About the cross and why the preaching of the cross offends people. We'll talk about that in a minute. But let's read our text here, starting in verse 19 of Luke. Now, some would argue that this is a parable that Jesus spoke to teach a principle or a truth. I got news for you. And none of the parables that Jesus used, did he use proper names. This one he does, which means that it is a true story. The rest of the Bible backs up this place called hell. Today, hell is in the center of the earth. So verse 19 says, There was a certain rich man. So this is not a parable. He's telling you there was a certain rich man, not a rich man, but 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..." Let me get my page. My page is sticking together. There we go. Well, that ain't gonna work. There it is. My Bible's getting old. Your Bible get old, you use it a lot, the pages begin to stick. And don't worry, I got the next one. It's already in the works. I've been looking at it. He says in the crumbs, he desired to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores. I'd like you to pay attention to verse 22. I believe it teaches us a little something. And it came to pass that the beggar died. and was carried by the angels." Boy, ain't that comforting? If you're saved and you die, the angels are gonna come to carry you. But it also implies something. Read on, into Abraham's bosom, the rich man also died and was buried. So if the angels come, God's angels come to take the rich, the beggar to heaven or to Abraham's bosom, Who do you think came to take the rich man to his place? That'd be the devil's hordes, demons. The Bible teaches us that God's going to open the bottomless pit and those demonic hordes are going to come out and abuse the people on this earth during the tribulation. But right now they're in hell abusing the people that have been put there and they're experiencing and going to live out forever the wrath of God. I figured I'd throw that in there free, won't cost you any extra this week. Verse 23, and in hell he lift up his eyes. The Lord didn't say he lifted up his eyes as in past tense. He's still there today in the present tense, lift up his eyes, being in torments and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom. 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 received thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that they that would pass from hence to you cannot, neither can they pass to us that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore, Father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house. For I have five brethren, that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. And Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. Let us pray. Our gracious Father, we come, we thank you now for this day. allowing us, we are able to gather together. We're in a free country. Lord, we can come and go. We've got food in our belly. We have clothes on our back, homes to live in. We thank you for these blessings. But Lord, help us today as we look at this, this doctrine of hell. So many people don't believe in this place, but you spoke about it. Lord, If there be any here that's lost, let them see their need to be saved in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. All right. I got you. I know what happened. I'll tell you why. I'll just preach this one. I got a number of messages on hell and I pulled up the one a different one than the one I wanted to preach. I'm gonna preach this one. Apparently, that's not by accident. It was the one there. But what I wanted to say, and I knew it was different when I'm looking, and I said, where'd my introduction go? And so I figured the computer ate it, because we've been talking about computers, but it's not. I just pulled up another one, because I was looking at multiple of them. And I believe it's been a few years since I preached on hell. The last time I remember preaching on hell here was when we was on the series of What is Sound Doctrine. So that's been 2020, 2021. It should be, I should be preaching on hell at least one time a year, if not a couple of times a year. And I'll tell you this, There was three subjects that our Lord and Savior preached during this earthly ministry. Money. The Lord preached a lot about money. He preached a lot about the kingdom of heaven. He preached on hell. Some people say he preached on hell more than any other subject. I find it's close between money and hell, the two subjects that Christ preached on the most. I put it to you like this, he preached more on hell than he preached on heaven. And I don't think that we spend enough time on the subject of hell, which could be why people just don't really want to believe in hell. Have you noticed that people don't like negativity? They don't like negative news. And they also don't want to be around people that might be honest and truthful with them. You'll hear it like this, I'm getting rid of all people that are negative. I'm only going to be around positive. I got news for you. A battery won't work if it's just all positive. There has to be a little negativity. The Bible says the formula for preaching and pastoring in church is two negative messages, one positive. That's how it's supposed to work. Reprove, rebuke, and exhort. But let me get back because I'll ad-lib my intro on why the preaching on hell is so offensive is because when you talk about the cross, The cross, and it's lit up behind me this morning. When you talk about the cross, it confronts man about sin. And sin, and it also reminds man of where sinners go that reject a just and a righteous and a loving God. And it's called the place called hell. Jesus taught us that hell was created originally for the devil and his angels. But when you say no to God, when you say no to God's love, which is the Gospels, you are saying yes to the devil, and that's who you want to follow, that's who you want to be with, because he lets you do whatever you want. God has some standards. God has some boundaries for His children to live by. And it's not a problem to live by because the new nature, the Holy Spirit of God, lives down inside of the believer. You can come back this evening, we'll be talking about those that are Jesus-indwelt tonight. We've been on those that are demon-possessed, and about half the society lines up with the maniac of Gadara. You go over there and look at what he was doing. Kind of go to Walmart, look at what they're doing. You're like, I know what's wrong with this mess. Somebody, I think, got open the doors of the bottomless pit a little early. I mean, this crime is rapid. And there's people that turn a blind eye to crime. They're letting murderers loose in our streets, and they're just killing and maiming and hurting people. You say, what is that? That's demon-possessed people that are godless. And God says, I'm going to put them all and cast them all into the lake of fire, into this place called hell. And when you talk about the cross, and when you start preaching the gospel, you must confront man with his sin problem. And man don't like the negativity of being confronted with his sin problem. That what is wrong with him? You hear it all the time. People say, well, judge not. Judge not. Don't judge me, preacher. You can't judge me. I don't have to judge you. The Bible's already judged you. God's already judged you. You've been condemned. You're waiting on sentencing. And when you reject God, and you reject the gospel, and you reject God's love, that's going to be where you go. The cross confronts us. about sin. The cross confronts us about judgment to come. The cross also shows us that Jesus is only going to meet you at the foot of the cross. You're not going to get into heaven. You're not coming to the Father any other way but by the Lord Jesus Christ. And God has already said, according to this book, that the only way he's going to meet with a sinner is at the foot of the cross. You're going to have to acknowledge and admit that you're a sinner. You're going to have to see and understand and believe that you deserve hell. You deserve to be cast into outer darkness. But because of God's love, because of God's plea deal, you're going to have to meet Him there where the blood flows. For it's the blood of the Lamb that has redeemed us. It's God shed His blood. So that when we trust Him, it's the only way in. It's the only way to heaven. It's the straight and narrow way. It's the straight gate. Most people today, they want to go the broad way. It's the easy way. It's the way of no convictions. It's the way of no standards. It's the way of live for yourself and do what you want. They're just like this rich man who the Bible says, was dressed in fine linen. He had plenty of money. He dressed the parts. And he said he fared sumptuously every day. That means he was rich. You say, how do you know? Do you go out to eat when you don't have money? You don't if you got good sense. So I just put it on a credit card. That's gonna backfire on you. He fared sumptuously every day. What the Bible is saying here is he didn't have a care in the world. He didn't care about those that were around him. He didn't care about the poor. He didn't care about Lazarus who was sitting there at his doorsteps, at his gate, begging for food. And he wasn't even feeding the crumbs that fell from the table that he fed his dogs with. That's all Lazarus wanted was just a little food. He wanted just something, a little bit to eat. He's not like a lot of the people that we run into today that want a little change or some money. It's been more than once I've been approached by these people that live in on the street and they're hungry and they want food. I say, look, let's go. Let's go to McDonald's. Where do you like to eat? I'll buy you one of everything on the menu. They don't want that. They don't want that. What they want is money for the next drug fix or the next drop of alcohol. They're not wanting food. We're not talking about a poor man like that. We're not talking about a beggar like that. We're talking about a man that would have took you up on that offer and went in there and you could have bought him some food. All he wanted was the table scraps. I don't know about you, but back in the day, we used to feed our dog table scraps. Of course, I was a teenager and there was seven of us. and I'm not too proud to eat right out of the scrap bucket. So sometimes the dog didn't get his table scraps. I'm telling you, my mama had some pretty fine table scraps, I'm gonna tell you now. He said, oh, preacher, yeah, you'd do it too, teenage boy, you know you did. You'd beg mama to help clean the table off so you could eat the macaroni and cheese off everybody else's plate, because you love pasta, or the leftover, you know you did. I know I'm not the only one. You can't fill up teenage boys. This man was rich and he didn't have a care in the world. He didn't care about his family. He didn't care about his family, why he's living. He didn't care about God. He knew God, he knew who Abraham was, didn't he? He knew Abraham as soon as he opened his eyes in hell, as soon as those demons drug him down there, and he opens his eyes, he sees Father Abraham. And lo and behold, he sees Lazarus over there in paradise. That's where paradise used to be, is in the center of the earth, and it was separated by the bottomless pit. Abraham calls it a great gulf. That's why they didn't jump the ditch. Because there's no bottom to that. They couldn't get across it. And so he seen him, he could identify him, so he knew it. He was a Bible reading man. He was Jewish for all practical purposes because he calls him Father Abraham. So he knew. I mean, I wouldn't know what Father Abraham looked like. He did. That tells me he knew something about the coming or life after death, but he didn't care. He was living for the day. And so, he gets down there. He dies. Lazarus dies. Lazarus, it looks like he had boils. And when he died, he's carried by the angels. They come, pick him up, carry his soul. I dare say the body was left behind. Somebody had to deal with that, that decaying body. But all of a sudden, the rich man died and he was buried. I just think that the demons drug him down probably because of what I've seen in my life. I don't know if you've ever been by the bedside of a lost person that went into eternity screaming. They said that something that was on fire was dragging them down, drowned, and dragging them off the bed. They're screaming and saying, can't you see it? Can't you see it? Can't you see it? I can't see it. I can't see it. I'm trying to win them to Christ. And they've done sinned away their day of grace, and they've thumbed their nose at God. They've been a thorn in the side to the man of God. They've lived a wicked life. They didn't think that this Bible and the preacher and the church was important. And all of a sudden they're struck on their deathbed and the first thing they do is call for the preacher man. And I got news for you. There is a sin unto death. and go in there and try to help them and try to help them see the light and give them the gospel, and they're so reprobate, they can't get saved, and all of a sudden, they start screaming because something's in the room. You can't see it, I can't see it, but they can see it, and it grabs them, and they drag them, and they're laying, their body's laying in the bed, and they're screaming, and they're crying out. There's nothing you can do. And all of a sudden, they're gone. I'm gonna tell you what it is. It's the demons coming to take its own. I don't know about you, but I don't want no devils come and take me. I want God's angels to come help me across the River Jordan. I've seen the saints of God as they pass over on the other side. I remember Sister Charlotte as she lay there in that bed and we was there about 10 minutes right before she died. We'd been visiting her every day. And she was quoting Psalms 23, and she began to describe what she was seeing. She described a city, and she said, it's just bright. I can just see the brightness of the city, but I see a river that I've got to cross. And she's talking to herself, but she's talking out loud, and Jen and I were sitting there, and she begins to see and identify family members that had died before her. And she's sitting there, and she'd talk about her family members. She's seen her mother and a father, and I think she's seen a brother there. She's seen somebody else. And then all of a sudden, she'd quote a little more scripture. And then she'd come back, she says, I see an angel. So she's seen that somebody was walking across that River Jordan. And she's describing this, and she says, I see an angel. He's coming. He's coming to get me. He's taking me over. And I told Jen, she's about gone. She's going to be gone here in the next few minutes. So we prayed and we kind of left, and she's describing an angel coming, and the angel took her hand. She just kind of shut up and didn't say much. I come out and talked to her with the healthcare nurse that was there. I said, she'll be gone in less than 30 minutes. She says, how do you know? I said, trust me, I know. We didn't get home. You know where Sister Charlotte used to live? We was living up here. We didn't get home. She called, she says, preacher, she's gone. I said, yeah, amen, I know where she's at. The angels had come and took her. So I've seen the two, and that's why I stand here and say, I'm telling you, if it's the angels of God coming to take his children away, and I've been more than by the death side of one Christian that described an angel or God being in the mountains and God being here and then slipping off into eternity, I assure you the devil comes to take his own because he has a blood claim on their soul. They've rejected Christ. And this rich man rejected Christ. He rejected the gospel. And so, he dies and he's in hell. And all of a sudden, he gets to hell. And he gets religious, if you haven't noticed. He begins to describe this place of torment. So yes, you will have a body in hell. People want to try to tell you that hell is a state of mind. It'll be a figment of your imagination. I got news for you. He says he lift up his eyes. So he has eyes down there. He has ears down there. He has a tongue down there and he's craving water. He has some cravings down there. So he sees Father Abraham. He says, oh, Father Abraham, have mercy on me. All of a sudden now he wants mercy. He had never showed mercy to anybody in his life. He only cared about himself and what he was doing. Now all of a sudden he wants mercy. He says, send old Lazarus over. Just let him the dip of his tip of his finger and a little water. That tells me he could see water over there in paradise. All the water you could ever have. But he couldn't get to it. He was dying here of thirst. He was gonna perish for all eternity. And he says, just send Lazarus to dip the tip of that finger in some water to come to cool my tongue with a drop of water. Abraham said, son, remember? So you're going to remember. You're going to remember when you hit hell. You're going to remember every time you've rejected the gospel. You're going to remember every time that you thought bad about the preacher and about the preaching of the gospel and about the cross and church and the things that you didn't like as you snubbed your nose up to God. You're going to remember that and you're going to cry out for mercy, but there will be no mercy. It'll be too late. So here he is. And he says, now look, Lazarus in his life suffered. And now he's being comforted. But you lived a life of comfort and ease. You didn't care about the things of eternity. You knew about them, but you didn't care. You didn't care about others, so he did not have the love of God in him, because the Bible says, when you have God in you, you'll love your brothers and sisters in Christ. He had no love for Lazarus. And so, they had to remember that. Abraham describes this gulf that they couldn't cross, neither one of them could. Then all of a sudden, he gets missions-minded. Verse 27, you see that? He gets missions-minded. He said, Oh, I pray thee, therefore, Father. Boy, he's addressing him right now, ain't he? He's showing respect now, ain't he? Yeah, it's funny what hell does to people. He's being respectful to Father Abraham. He said, Father Abraham. Man, he says, send him to my father's house. All of a sudden now he's worried about his family. Worried about his family. Well, he wasn't worried about him while he was living. He didn't care. He didn't give two hoots about him. All he wanted was all for him, more for him, get all he can, canned all he could get. And he didn't take any of it to eternity with him. I've seen people work their lives away, abandon their family for work, for the almighty dollar, live cushy lives, and then all of a sudden go to retire and say, now I'm going to live my life in ease and dead in six months. I got news for you. I don't want to go that way. I was praying the other day and I told the Lord, I was thinking about this message, I don't have to have a lot of money, but I sure love good health. And I was thinking about my grandbabies, because I was thinking about the little kids we sometimes pray about these little kids. They get cancer and they have to need a liver transplant and they get hurt. I don't know that I can handle all that. I'm going to tell you there's more to God's blessing than money. Amen. I'll take good health over money any day. And I thank God for my good health, and I thank God I was praying for the health of my grandbabies and my children and my daughter-in-law and my wife and myself. Lord, we don't have to have a lot of money, but I sure would like a little good health. It's a blessing of God. I've heard people say, well, I don't think God blessing down there. You're looking in the wrong places. God's a good God. And all the money in the world ain't gonna do you no good when your body's stricken with cancer. And I guarantee you this rich man would have traded all that he had, he would have traded places with Lazarus in a heartbeat for another chance. All of a sudden he got missions, man. What I'm saying to you, you men that wanna work your lives away and never spend no time with your family, I got news for you. You're not taking none of that money with you. Spend that time with your family and your grandkids and enjoy them a little bit. Now, don't leave God out, don't desert God on me. But I got news for you, you're not taking your money with you. But you can take your family with you. You can lead them to Christ. By the way, in my book, as a pastor, I'd wanna saturate my children with church. and the preaching and the teaching of God. And to me, and in my opinion, it'd be more important than anything else I could do. When it come to church time, we're going to church because if evil communications corrupt good manners, then you want to marinate your children in the good graces of God's love in the gospel. Because the longer they're marinated in it, the better chance they got to accept Christ. Think about it like this. I had this thought this morning as I was getting dressed. How many times did it take for you to hear the gospel before you got saved? Five, 10, once, twice, a hundred times? Let's say it took a hundred times. Well, guess what? Then you better get them children in the church, because if it's gonna take a hundred times for them to hear the gospel and the preaching, you better start counting them down And I believe there's a lot of parents that don't care about the souls of their children and they wanna involve them in everything but leave God out. And by the way, if it's gonna take 100 times for them to hear the gospel and they don't get there before their life is over, whose fault's that gonna be? Yeah, amen. You can take your family with you. Just lead them to Christ. Can't take your money. All of a sudden he's concerned about his family. It's a little too late. He's missions minded now and not so much maintenance minded. That's why I want to change the direction of our church. I want us to be more mission minded than maintenance minded. That's about the gospel. We're leaving out the Great Commission on being missions-minded. And we've become, in America, I almost preach as the Five Rivers Fellowship, the preachers preach against these big, fancy churches. Not that because I don't have one. I'm telling you, we're too maintenance-minded and not mission-minded. We don't care enough about souls. We get all upset over air conditioning, electric, and padded pews, and new songbooks. Things that we can consume upon ourself and their souls dying. Our families are dying and going to hell. You'll be mission minded in hell. This man's mission minded. Here's what Moses said. He said, man, I got five brothers. He said, I need you to send Lazarus back. that he may testify unto them. That tells me that Lazarus was a witness to this rich man. That's why he wanted to take Lazarus. He says, send Lazarus back. Send him back, he said. Send him back. Send him back, he said. Let him preach to my brothers like he used to preach. He said, well, he didn't say preach to him. Why do you think he wanted Lazarus and not King David? David's down there. He wanted Lazarus. Why? Because Lazarus, more than likely, what we gather from the text, told him about Jesus. Amen. Amen. This man, send him back. Send him on a mission's journey. Abraham saith unto him, there in verse 20, and they have Moses, and the prophets let them hear them. Say, well, who's that? Moses has been dead a long time. He's talking about the Bible. Moses and the prophets is the Bible, the Old Testament. He says they got Moses and the prophet. That rich man knew about Moses and the prophet. He knew about the, he had a Bible. He said, no, he didn't. How do you know that? You're reading too much into the text. How do you think he knew who Abraham was? That's right, he didn't grow up in a jungle somewhere. He was an educated man. And Abraham says, look, they got Moses and the prophet, they got a Bible. And he argues with Abraham, he said, no, nay, father, but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. He said, they'll get right if you let Lazarus rise up. Moses said, or Abraham said unto him, if they hear not Moses and the prophets, that means if they won't listen to the Bible preaching, Neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead." You know, I thought about that. You know, here I am preaching the Bible, Moses and the prophets. We now have a New Testament. One has rose from the dead. That's the lovely Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, and people still won't believe it. Old Father Abraham was right, didn't he? He says they won't believe him, even if Lazarus rise from the dead. He said they're not gonna believe him. If they won't believe this Bible, and they won't believe the preaching of the book, they're not going to believe somebody who rose again from the dead. And we're still right in that dilemma today. Jesus has come. He lived. He died. He was buried. He rose again. And people still want to refute it. People still don't want to believe it. People still want to live their rich, cushy lives. They don't care about nobody but themselves and their own little world and the dynasty they're trying to build. And the world and people are dying, lost and going to hell. I got news for you. You'll be mission minded one day. And it'll be too late. And here's this old preacher preaching to you from Moses and the prophets. People still don't want to believe. Hell is a real place. Yep. Just as real as heaven. Now this rich man could have avoided going there. but he didn't care enough to listen to old Lazarus as Lazarus was telling him about Jesus. But while I got you this morning, I'm gonna tell you about Jesus. How you can not go to the devil's hell. It's the devil's hell. What never created for you as a human being, you will be an intruder in the devil's hell if you reject Jesus. You need to understand that you're a sinner and you're part of the devil's rebellion. That's what happened back there in the garden. You're a sinner. All of us are. And you need to ask Jesus to forgive you of your sins and come into your heart. Here's what the Bible says. The Bible says it like this. Because there's this controversy today, and I see it online. I don't engage with it. I'm careful about engaging on social media. And I warn you to be careful because they'll drag you down to their level of stupidity and beat you with experience. You've got to be careful. But there's people that want to cheapen the gospel and say, well, all you've got to do is believe, believe, believe. Well, the devils believe in tremble. They're not saved. This rich man believed. Remember, I give a whole message on that word believe. It means to pledge yourself to. It's an old English word. It's a two part word. Be and then the old English word leave. It means to pledge oneself to. But here the Bible says it like this in Romans chapter 10. Very clear verse of scripture on how to get saved. that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth. So there's something your mouth's going to do. The Lord Jesus, that's a title. That means you're gonna confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, Jesus is God. You can't get saved if you don't believe that Jesus is God manifest in the flesh. And shalt believe in thine heart. There's something that your heart's gonna have to do. that God has raised Him from the dead. Amen. You're gonna have to believe that Jesus bodily resurrected from the dead. Say, I don't believe that. Then you're lost. Well, I don't wanna believe that I'm lost. You're lost. Not because of my opinion, but because the Bible says so. I'm not trying to be mean and nasty. I'm telling you, Jesus is only gonna meet you at the foot of the cross. that God has raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Watch what happens. He goes back and emphasizes the heart part. You can say all the empty words you want, but if your heart's not in it, you're not saved. There's been hundreds of thousands of millions of people that have said a little sinner's prayer, thinking that that's what they needed, and they didn't believe five minutes with their hearts. and they're going to go to hell. It's called easy-believism. Now, I'm not saying if you said a sinner's prayer, you're not saved. I said there's something that your mouth needs to do. There's something that your heart needs to do. They work together. People take oaths of office all the time. They don't believe the oath they took. People take marriage vows all the time, and they have no intention on keeping them. People lie. They say things with a mouth they don't mean. But buddy, when you believe it in your heart and the mouth confesses it, it's real. Now watch what he does in the next verse. For with the heart man believeth. That's where true belief happens. That's the belief that brings change. He says, for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness. You see that? When you believe with the heart, you start a new journey immediately and it's in the direction of righteousness. That's right living. That's anything that's within the character of God. Well, that clears up a lot of false doctrine, don't it? When someone truly gets born again by believing with their heart, their new direction is towards righteousness. So it wouldn't be less church, it'd be more church. It wouldn't be less Bible, it'd be more Bible. You see? It wouldn't be less preaching, it'd be more preaching. And with the mouth, so he links the two. Something the mouth does, something the heart does. With the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. Amen. You won't be able to be quiet about it when your heart believes. There'll be a total 180 in your life. The things you used to want to do, You won't want to do them no more. Why? There's a new nature down inside of you. There's something down inside of there that craves and desires the things of God. That's how you can miss hell. You don't have to be like this rich man. There's two types of people that go into eternity. The saved who are carried by the angels and the lost, who I think are carried by the devils, and in hell, they'll lift up their eyes in torment. The Bible says it like this, the quick and the dead. That's the two types of people that go into eternity. So which one of these two people groups are you? Are you like Lazarus? Or are you more like this rich man? There is hell. There's judgment coming. And there's a way to miss it. There's a way to have God's angels escort you across the River Jordan to glory land. And that's by meeting Christ. at the cross. That's the only port of entry. You have to come through the door. Jesus is the door. There's only one way in. You're going to have to come through the Lord Jesus Christ. You're going to have to confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. And you're going to have to believe in your heart, pledge yourself to that God has raised him from the dead. He's alive, he's alive, he's reigning, he's at the right hand of the Father, and he's gonna live forevermore, and you can too. Let's all stand this morning. Hell is real. I don't wanna see people go there. Oh, as I get a song that can play here in the background,