I want you to open your Bibles to the 16th chapter Luke

the 16th chapter of The Gospel According to Saint Luke

and we're going to just take one verse at the moment for a text

Luke's gospel chapter 16 verse 23. and in hell you lift up his eyes being

in torments and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus

in his bosom Heavenly Father we thank you for your

precious holy word we thank you for the Revelation that

God's word brings us concerning heaven but we thank you also for the Revelation

that God's word brings us concerning hell

thank God we're a heaven bound but there's so those that in the world

particularly that are not heaven-bound and we need to reach them

let them know that there is a heaven to gain and there is a hell to shine

we thank you for giving us interest in the Holy Ghost

we'll give you all praise honor and glory for everything that's wrought

among us while we pray in the name of Jesus amen amen

now the word of God said here and in Hell talking about the rich man and in

hell he lift up his eyes being in torments and seeth Abraham are far off

and Lazareth in his bosom you know there is a book I don't know much about it

just heard about it and read a little bit about it called the Blue Book

folks of that's important I guess maybe here in America are listed in this blue

book and it's called Who's Who you see who's who well I want to talk about
who's who in Hell the word of God tells us that there is a hell many people

doubt the reality of hell but in Matthew the 25th chapter and the 46th verse it

says and these shall go away into Everlasting notice that into Everlasting

punishment but the righteous into life eternal

the words in the original language that the Bible is written in that are given

concerning hell are the words gehenna sheol and Hades

now these just simply are describing the different aspects so to speak of hell

and of punishment and you understand this that Hades

translated hell means a place of departed spirits and you understand that

when people who are unsaved leave this world

they go into this place where this rich man was when he lift up his eyes being

in torments and seeth Abraham afar off but that's not their Eternal home

they're all going to be resurrected and their Spirits are going to come back out

out of that place and then they're going to be cast into the Lake of Fire I sort

of liking it like this that Hades or hell

and all of it could be termed hell like this it's just simply the temporary

dwelling place for instance a criminal here is arrested and he's convicted and

put in jail well the jail is not the penitentiary but it's about the same

because he's he's there and then he's transported eventually into the

penitentiary well you see when you leave here unsaved you go down into the place

where the rich man was but you see they're going to be resurrected too and
their Spirits are coming out of that place and they're going to stand before

the great white throne judgment no the church shall not be at the great white

Throne judgment the Bible said the death and Hell gave up the dead which were in

them amen and they stand before their Throne Judgment of God and the books are

open and another book was opened which is The Book of Life and everyone whose

name was not found written in the book of lions is cast into the lake that's

the final place the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone but you see all

of it we're using it a general term all of it is hell all of it is eternal

punishment all of it is separation from God now in Mark the ninth chapter if you

have turn real quickly to the ninth chapter of the mark of the 43rd through

the 48th verse and if I hand defend thee cut it off it's better for thee to enter

into life mean than having two hands to go into hell into the fire that never

shall be quenched where their worm diet not and the fire is not quenched and if

I footth in thee cut it off it's better for thee to enter into haunt into life

than having two feet to be cast into hell in the fire that never shall be

quenched where their worms died not in the fire is not quenched and if I I

offend thee pluck it out it's better to thee to enter into the kingdom of God

with one eye than having two eyes to be cast into hell where their worm dieth

not and the fire is not quenched you see the word of God talks about that it's

better to have your eyes now you know he's not talking about just pluck your

natural eye out there are things in the flesh that you just need to cut off amen
it'll be better for you to go into heaven and into the kingdom of God than

to keep it and stay with it and go into hell and so he talks about then another

place of being cast into outer Darkness he talks about whether it's weeping and

wailing and nanishing of teeth and then the Lord Jesus Christ himself in the

16th chapter of Luke's gospel told this story in the most minute detail Luke the

16th chapter from which we took her text began to read with the 19th verse and he

said there was a certain rich man with his clothe in purple and fired

sumptiously every day and there was a certain Banker laid in his feet full of

souls desired to be fed from the crumbs which fell from his table moreover the

dog came and licked his sword and the beggar died and the angels carried him

away to Abraham's bosom and the rich man died and was buried and in hell he lift

up his by eyes being in torments and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazareth in

his bosom and he cried and said Father Abraham have mercy on me and sin lashes

let him he dipped the tip of his finger in water and cooled my tongue for I'm

tormented in this flame and Father Abraham said Son remember that found thy

lifetime receiveth thy good things and now Thou Art commented likewise lies

with evil and now he's comforted besides this is a great Guff fix between us and

you so that they cannot come from this to hence neither can they come from here

it's the vents and then he became concerned this rich man in Hell became

concerned about his five brothers who were back on the earth and he said them

send Lazarus you know back to the Earth that he might witness or testify to my
five brothers that they might not come to this place of tarmac and Father

Abraham said they have Moses and the prophets and if they hear not them

neither will they be persuaded though one arose from the dead the Bible said

in Psalm the 9th chapter and in the 17th verse the wicked shall be turned into

hell and All Nations that forget God I want you to notice that the wicked shall

be turned into hell everybody knows that you know if there isn't a hell they

ought to be one there ought to be a place for those that are wicked and

means and then there is we're sorry to say but there is but now wait just a

minute it says and All Nations that forget God you see you don't have to be

Wicked to miss heaven and go to hell all you have to do is just forget God all

you have to do is just leave God out of your life all you have to do just leave

God out of your plans all you have to do is just leave God out of your marriage

all you have to do is just leave God out of your future all you have to do is

just leave God out of your present just forget him just leave him out and you'll

go to hell and you'll split hell wide open just as quick as the worst threats

that ever walk the streets of the city amen amen and then over in the Book of

Revelation in the Book of Revelation the word of God gives us a catalog of those

who go to hell but the fearful Oh my he starts off not with the sinful but the

fearful and the unbelieving and the Abominable and murderers and

whoremongers and Sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in

the lake which burneth with firing Brimstone which is the second death amen
now notice let's read that catalog again but the fearful

and unbelieving and the Abominable and murders and whoremongers and sorcers and

idolaters and all lies that means Little Liars big Liars white

Liars black Liars all liars shall have their part in the

lake that's a final Abode the final hell in the lake which burneth with fire and

brimstone which is the second death well the scripture describes that place

these scriptures and tells us who's going there but let's take the actual

Bible list of those who have lived on this planet

those in hell first of all I want you to turn with me

to the 25th chapter of the Book of Matthew

Matthew chapter 25 beginning with the first verse

then shall the Kingdom of Heaven be likened unto ten virgins

which took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom

and five of them were wise and five were foolish

they were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them but the wise took

all in their vessels with their lamps while the bridegroom tarried they all

slumbered and slept and at midnight there was a cry made behold the

bridegroom cometh go ye out to meet him then all of those virgins arose and

trimmed their lamps and the food is said unto the wise give us of your all for

our lamps are gone out but the wise ancient sin not so

lest there be not enough for us and you but go ye rather to them that sell and
buy for yourself and while they went to buying the bridegroom came

and they that were ready I want you to notice that word ready went in with him

to the marriage and the door was shut afterwards came also the other virgin

saying Lord open to us but he answered and said verily I say

unto you I know you not watch therefore for you know neither the day nor the

hour when the son of man cometh not many people have taken this and it is just a

parable and they've tried to build a Doctrine you can't build a Doctrine on

any parable amen but you just have to understand

that there's just one truth that he's trying to get over it that one truth is

given in that verse where I want you to notice where it says they that were

ready they that were ready all you can get out

of this and don't add anything else to it or you'll be unscriptural all you can

get out of it is he's just simply talking about being ready

amen some of them were ready and some of them were not ready

ready for what to meet the master don't try to build anything else on it some

folks said well now oil's a type of the Holy Ghost and they didn't have all they

didn't have the baptism the Holy Ghost you can't build that on that that's

foolish and besides that unscriptural no he's just talking about the one thing

being ready and here we're at five foolish virgins

no they were not bad people they were virgins beautiful young ladies

virgins clean wholesome but they just weren't ready there are at least five
virgins in hell while you and I sat here in this

well-knited room there there in that Darkness

and in the torment and the misery where that rich man walks when you lift up his

eyes in torments the only accusation it brought against them was they weren't

ready are you ready thank God I'm ready

Hallelujah can you say amen and then of course there is at least one I'm sure

there are many but the word of God tells us that there's a rich man in hell we

just got through reading about it in this 16th chapter notice that the

scripture said there was a certain rich man which was clothed in purple and fine

linded and very sumptiously every day there's at least one rich man I'm sure

there's more but I know that there's one there the Bible tells us about it a rich

man in that awful place because he lift up his eyes being in torments and see if

Abraham before off and Lazarus and he recognized Lancers as the beggar that

leaded his gate begging and so he said send answers letting me dip the tip of

his finger in water to my tongue for I'm tormented the word of God said he lift

up his eyes being in torment hell is a place of Torment there's a rich man in

Hell there's a black lion farmer in Hell turned to the 12th chapter of the The

Gospel According to Saint Luke Luke's gospel chapter 12 the word of God tells

us and he spake a parable unto them saying

the ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully and he thought

with himself saying what shall I do because I have no room or to bestoware

my fruits or in other words my goods 12th chapter Luke 16 verse through the

20th verse and he said this will not do I'll pull down my Barns and build

greater and they will I bestowed all of my fruits are goods and my goods and I

will say to my soul soul thou has much Goods lead up for many years take thine

ease eat drink and be merry and God said unto him thy food thy food thy food you

know there's not many people in the Bible that God called a fool but you

remember in the Old Testament God said the fool has said in his heart there is

no God calls the man that says there's no God a fool and then he calls this

this black land farmer a fool thy food God said to him thy fool

this night thy Soul shall be required of thee then who shall those things be

which thou has provided this man's ground brought forth

plentiful he he didn't have space to store his Goods the fruit of his land he

said I know what to do I'll pull down my barns that would be a greater Barnes and

he did build greater Barnes and then he said to himself soul

take your ease thou has much Goods laid up for many years take thine knees eat

drink and be merry you know that's sort of the attitude of the whole world today

but my brother's sister God said to him thy food I wonder whom God's speaking to

today saying thy food those folks who are laying up Treasures for themselves

upon the Earth and saying take your ears eat drink and be merry thy food this

night thy Soul shall be required of thee and who shall these things be and so

there's a black land farmer in Hell must be the black land Farmer for his ground
to bring forth the richly and in all the fruits that it did now turn to the Book

of Revelation Revelation the 19th Chapter and the 20th verse the 19th

Chapter and the 20th verse and the Beast was

taken and with him the false prophet that wrought Miracles before him with

which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that

worship His Image these both were cast alive into a leak of fire burning with

Brimstone and so there's a prophet in hell and then the word of God said

you're right there in Revelation just turn right back to the book just before

Revelation the book of Jude just one chapter notice the sixth verse and the

angels Jude verse 6 and the angels which kept

not their first estate but left their own habitation he has reserved an

everlasting change under Darkness unto the Judgment of the great day and

they're going to be cast into that place and so there will be Fallen Angels cast

into hell now turn to the Book of Revelation and notice the 20th chapter

and the 10th verse and the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of

fire and brimstone where the Beast of the false prophet are and shall be

tormented day and night forever and ever and Satan

himself will eventually be cast into hell into the Lake of Fire where he

shall be tormented day and night forever and forever now turn back to the 25th

chapter of Matthew please Matthew chapter 25 we were there just a moment

ago notice again Matthew chapter 25. and let's begin to read with the 14th
verse for the Kingdom of Heaven is as a man

traveling into far country who called his own servants and delivered unto them

his Goods and until one he gave five talents to another two and to another

one to every man according to his several ability and straightly took his

journey and he that had received the five talents went and traded with the

same and made them other five talents and likewise he that received two he

also gained other tooth but he that had received one

went and digged in the earth and hid his Lord's money after a long time the Lord

of those servants cometh and reckoneth with them so he that had received five

talents came and brought other five talents saying Lord thou deliverest unto

me five talents behold I've gained besides them five talents more and his

lord said unto him Well done thy good and faithful servant thou has been

Faithful over a few things I will make thee rule over many things enter thou

into the joy of the Lord he also that had received two talents came and said

Lord thou delivers unto me two talents behold I've gained two other talents

besides them his lord said unto him well done good and faithful servant thou has

been Faithful over a few things I will make thee ruler over many things enter

thou into the joy of thy Lord then he which had received one Talent

came and said Lord I knew thee that thou art a hard man reaping where thou is not

sown and Gathering where thou has not strong and I was afraid

and went and hid that talent in the earth remember we read the catalog of
those in hell it headed up with the fearful and I was afraid and I went and

hid thy talent in the earth Lo there thou Hast that is thine

his Lord answered and said unto them thy Wicked and slothful servant thou knowest

that I reap where I sowest not and gather where I have not strawed thou

just therefore to put my money to the exchangers and then at my coming I

should have received mine own with usury or interest

take therefore the talent from him and give it unto him which have ten talents

For unto everyone that ha that hath shall be given and he shall have

abundance but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he

has think about that

and cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer Darkness

then shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth

my friends the Bible at least gives us this who's who

that there aren't five foolish virgins in hell

that there's a rich man in hell that there's a prosperous probably

Blackland farmer in hell that there will be a prophet in hell

that fallen angels will eventually be there that Satan himself will eventually

be there and that there is a servant of God in hell this man here he said take

it casting into the outer Darkness there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth

amen I remember I used to after I was raised

up from the bed of sickness and raised up and healed by the power of
God in 1934 as a young baptist boy and I just had to preach in me now I

went back to high school because I had missed one year I was bed fast but I'll

tell you I was constantly preaching amen if you've got it in you I don't

understand some of thee for God called me to preach

and they're just sitting around well there's a difference in sitting

around and preaching I'll tell you I wasn't but 17 years old and we walked to

school they didn't have school buses and we didn't have any kind we I'm talking

about 1934 you see and we didn't have any kind of buses running in the city we

just walked to school depression days a little town of maybe ten thousand or

eleven thousand twelve thousand people and there's not all that much traffic

because folks just don't have cars and Automobiles like to do today and I mean

a bunch of us have just walked down the middle of the street we'd get over if we

had to but sometimes we'd walk a mile and ever meet a car and just walk down

the middle of the street well I didn't just go along and push something off on

somebody but if somebody give me a knee I mean if they open the door just to

crack I stuck my foot in it and start preaching to them and then we'd get to

school and you couldn't go in school until the bell rang the doors were

locked and at a certain time and the old-fashioned school high steps you know

but you she then asked me questions and that'd give me an opportunity I'd get up

on those steps until every morning preach to him praise God forevermore

somebody said you can't do that today well I'd still do it today if folks ask
me I'd answer them amen somebody said they put you in jail and I'd preached to

him in jail glory to God hallelujah amen if the priest is in you you just got to

preach amen you can't stop a preacher from

preaching anymore you can stop a rooster from growing

it's just as natural for a preacher to preach as it is for a rooster to Crow

amen praise God and sometime in those days

where depression days you know 34 35 mid depression day no work I mean the

streets are full of them you could have a street service every day because men's

got nothing to do they're just standing around on the streets the streets are

full of people I mean it's like it is you know on a real busy trade day like

Saturday or something you know I mean they're there

well I just walk up to somebody sometimes on the street and I'd say did

you know I mean just the stranger didn't even know but did you know that I know

there's a hell if I didn't have a Bible they'd look at me and they say how do

you know and I told them this story and you know

while I'm talking folks that just keep coming I mean they're getting around to

hear me before you do it I got the whole street nearly blocked praise God here's

the story right in my own Hometown you see and I'm standing on the courthouse

Square telling the story and they knew because they lived there I said my right

over here at 405 North College Street and I had today in the City of McKinney

Texas and this is 34 and 35 but you see this is 1933 so it was just a year
before to them I said Saturday night Saturday night 7 30. 405 North College

Street in the South bedroom just as Grandpa's old clock

struck 7 30. my heart stopped I was lying in bed I'd been sick all the week

in fact I'd been sickly all my life never ran and prayed like other little

children who else limitedly but not fully and and the doctors had been

called doctors made house calls but Dr weissong oh Dr wsy song senior he was

over at the hospital well they contacted him there and he said he'd come to our

house as soon as he got through at the hospital making his calls so they're

waiting for him to come and Grandpa's Clock Struck 7 30. my heart stopped

faster than I can tell you the circulation cut off way down at the end

of my my toes just suddenly like your feet go to sleep they just went numb

faster than I can tell it my toes my feet my ankles my knees my hips and my

stomach and I leaped out of my body like a man would leap off of a diving board

into a swimming pool I leaped out of my body and I began to descend like I was

going down in a well or in a cavern I could look back up and see the lights of

the Earth above me because they put off a certain amount of light I remember

later on my mother my grandmother and my younger brother who was nine years of

age all said to me because I said goodbye to them I knew I was already

going down in the pit but I said goodbye but they all three said later on when

you said goodbye it sounded like it was a way down in a well or something

well I had it in my mind to say goodbye and I leaped out too fast and so when I
did say goodbye evidently my voice picked it up and they said you sound

like he was way down in a well and so I'm descending feet first descending

down down down down down down until the lights of the earth faded away

from above me until Darkness encompassed me around about darkness is so dark you

couldn't see your hand if there's one inch in front of your face Darkness it

was so dense that it seemed if you had a knife you could just cut a chunk of it

out and the further down you went the darker and the hotter it became

floating down feet first till finally way down beneath me on the

wall of Darkness I can see fingers of light playing on the wall of Darkness

and in a few seconds seem like an eternity but it had to be

only a few moments I came to the bottom of the pit when I came to the bottom of

the pit see the word of God we read it talks about being cast into outer

Darkness where there's weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth and talks

about fire and talks about torment different kind of fire of course you

understand that what we know of a fire in a stove or something like that but

you can see great white Crest Great orange Flames with a white looking Crest

when I came to the bottom of the pit there was some kind of a creature that

meant me I never looked at it I knew he was there just like I can look straight

ahead if I'm standing here without looking him out of the corner of my at

least see the pulpit that's there and the reason I didn't look was that we

approached the gates into hell itself we came to the bottom of the pit and then
there's just an incline that goes down further and you're floating towards

those Gates and some way or another you knew that once you went through those

Gates you couldn't come back but that creature when we came to the

gates I endeavored to slow my descent down and did to some extent and that

creature took me by the arm now I didn't know until years later that the word of

God says in the book of Isaiah held from beneath is moved to meet thee at thy

coming it stirreth up the dead for thee and so that creature met me but thank

God when he put his hand on my arm to escort me in there was a voice that

spoke way above the darkness away above that place

I don't know what he said it was not spoken in the English language it was a

foreign tongue to me and I don't know what he said or how many words he spoke

there may have been a half a day there have been nine ten or twelve words but

whatever was spoken when those words were spoken that whole place just shook

like there was an earthquake on that creature took his hand off of my back

there was like a suction to my back part and I came floating back away from the

Gates of Hell floating back and then I came up head First floating up I could

see the lights of the earth before I came to the top of the pit then I came

up on the porch outside the South bedroom I could see the giant cedar

trees there in the yard I could see Grandpa's porch swing there on the porch

and then I seemed to just come right through the wall and jump inside my body

like a man would slip his foot inside of his boot in the morning time and when I
got back inside my body then my said to my grandmother my voice this natural

voice picked up the word I said granny I'm going again

and I won't come back she said son I thought you weren't coming back that

time I said where's Mama I want to tell her goodbye she said I told your mother

that you were gone and so she rushed outside praying we lived one of those

old-fashioned houses like they used to build in this part of the country of the

porch you know nearly all the way around there and she was over on the North side

I heard her then coming around to the South Side praying at the top of her

voice and I said granny my grandmother said I'll go get her and I said well I

want to tell her goodbye and so she got up because she was holding me in the

arms she laid my head on the pillow and started to leave and I grabbed a hold of

her some way another you want somebody with you when you come to cross over

you'll want somebody with it and you see I was afraid and so I got a hold of her

and I pulled her back and I said no granny don't leave me don't leave me

don't leave me well thank God we won't have to Cross Jordan Alone Hallelujah

because Jesus said I'll never leave you nor forsake you did you notice this

story here that we read about the rich man in beggar the word of God says that

there was a certain rich man that's clothed in purple and fine then it is

fair Champions every day and there was a certain bag of laid in his gate full of

swords and desire to be fed from the crown of his failed in this table

moreover the dog came and licked his swords and the beggar died and the
angels the Angels the Angels the Angels the Angels the Angels even in the Old

Testament they didn't have to Cross Jordan Alone do you know what I mean the

Angels carried him away the Angels carried him away but blessed be God now

under the New Covenant Jesus himself the first martyr you remember the seventh

chapter of the Acts of the Apostles the word of God tells us about Stephen that

was stoned to death and that when he died he said I see Heaven open and Jesus

standing on the right hand of the father glory to God glory to God no it won't

have to Cross Jordan Alone but you and you don't know him when you don't know

him you're afraid when you don't know him you're are afraid when you don't

know him you're afraid and so I was afraid and I was a church member but I

didn't know him and I was afraid and I so I said granny granny granny don't

leave me don't leave me and so she came back well actually she

called out she took again and rung her arm under my head and shoulders and held

them in her arms and she called my mother but she couldn't make her hear

though she yelled quite loudly she couldn't make her hear because she was

my mother was praying so loud she couldn't hear anything and so I just

simply said to her tell Mama I said goodbye tell Mama I said I love her tell

Mama I said I appreciate her staying with we children when my daddy forsook

us when I was just six years old tell Mama I appreciate her trying to make a

living for four children until she finally had a complete nervous physical

and mental breakdown and and I said Tell Mama that I said if I've ever put a
wrinkle in her face or a gray hair in her head I'm sorry I asked her to

forgive me tell Mama I said goodbye and then I said granny When Mama's Health

fail I came to live with my grandmother on my mother's side when I was nine

years old and you've been a second mother to me and I appreciate that and

my grandmother would also always say my granny would always say kiss me right

there kiss me right there and so I kissed her on the cheek and my heart

stopped and and I felt the circulation cut off way down at the end of my toes

faster than you can say it ankles knees starts hip stomach and out I leaped out

of my body down I went to the lights of the Earth above me faded away down down

down down down I know it was only a few seconds but it seemed like an eternity I

know it happened 50 some odd years ago but it seemed like it happened last

Saturday night it's just as real if this had happened to me last night spiritual

things never grow older down until the darkness encompassed me around about

until you couldn't see your hand if there's one inch in front of your face

and the further down you went to 100 it became until finally down beneath you

you saw fingers of light playing on the walls of darkness and you came to the

bottom of the pit and then there's an incline that goes down further and down

you floated towards those Gates I can see them yet once you go through those

Gates I knew it couldn't come back I slowed down my descent that same

creature met me that same creature put his hand on my arm right arm to escort

me in and thanks be unto God there was a voice that spoke it was a male voice not
a female or woman a man's voice but he said I don't know it was a strange

tongue but when he spoke that whole place shook like there's an earthquake

on that creature took his hand off of my arm and there was like a magnet would

have pulled you to my back I just came floating backwards just floating

backwards until I got back to the bottom of the pit and then I came floating up

and the only difference was the first time I came up on the porch outside the

of the room South bedroom the second time I came up at the foot of the bed

for just a second faster you snapped your finger I could see my body line

there on the bed I could see my grandmother she held me in her arms and

I leaped from the foot of the bed inside my body through my mouth like a man

would slip his foot inside of his boot in the morning time and I got backside

of my body and we say in the world and so I said granny I'm going again and the

third time's charm I won't be back and again she said son I didn't think he was

coming back that time and I said where's grandpa I'm going to tell him goodbye

she said son you know Granddad went down to the end Down East part of town to

collect rent from some of his houses and I said oh I knew that I'd forgotten that

but I said tell Grandpa I said goodbye tell a grandpa I love him tell Grandpa I

appreciate him when I had no home he gave me one he's the only daddy I've

ever known tell him I love him tell him goodbye I left a word for my sister only

sister and then my two brothers and my heart stopped and and the circulation

cut off and I leaped out of my body and I began

to descend and I'll be honest with you I thought till this third time you know

this isn't real it's just an hallucination

this can't be right but as I went down through that Darkness

I was afraid I cried out in the darkness God

I belong to the church I've been baptized in water

I'm trying to tell you I shouldn't be going this way I listened for an answer

there was no answer only the sound of my own voice and said echoed through the

darkness you ever been in Carl's Bad Caverns or any caverns and Shout out

something your voice will come ricochelle and back so to speak to you

and so then again the second time I cried a little louder God

I belong to the church I've been baptized in water

I listened for an answer but there's no answer and the third time if I could do

it just the way I did it I'd scare you out of your wits I literally screamed

God God God I belong to the church I've been

baptized in water but there's no answer I believe in

belonging to the church I believe in being baptized in water but my friends

it'll take more than that for you to miss hell and go to heaven you must be

born again you must know Jesus as your own personal Lord and savior

amen until the third time I came to the bottom of the pit and the third time

that creature met me and the third time thanks be unto God that voice spoke and

who who whatever it was he said it worked that creature took his hand off
my arm I came floating back I came floating up as I came up through the

darkness I began to pray you see that inward man's a real man the spirit man

and I began to call on God In The Name of Jesus to save me and to forgive me

and to cleanse me and the only difference was first time I came up on

the porch the second time at the foot of the bed the third time right beside the

bed leap right inside my body when I got back inside my body my natural voice

picked up my prayer right in the middle of a sentence and I continued to pray so

loud now this is 1933 22nd day of April Saturday night and we live just just

about a block and a half off of what they call millionaire rule that's the

richest people in town live there and folks telling me that traffic was

blocked and you didn't have all the traffic foreign but you see this is a

better part of town and more people had on a woman they tell me that traffic was

brought from two blocks around from every side of our house me and mama was

praying so loud amen amen somebody said was you scared

you better bet you you're scared amen amen we prayed so loud we brought

traffic for two blocks around but thanks be unto God hallelujah it felt to me

like a two-ton weight rolled off of my chest and I was born again and I looked

at the clock on Grandpa's mantle piece and it said 20 minutes till 8 o'clock

and all of that happened in 10 minutes now you can understand why if you've

been in any of our Crusades if you've been in any of our music you understand

why every single time I give an article every single time I call attention to
the people there is a hell to shun there is a heaven to gain amen and I pray that

God will help them to know that and to understand that did you notice that the

word of God said the fearful I was afraid to begin with the the catalog of

those in hell it begins with a list of the fearful the fearful and then

secondly unbelieving I never will forget here's a sequel to 100 I'm talking about

when I was bed fast my grandmother had a cousin so we lived in McKinney just 32

miles north of McKinney Texas was another county seat of the county where

my wife was born the city of Sherman in Grayson County

and and my grandmother lived in McKinney and her cousin had lived in Sherman 32

miles away in Texas for 35 years and didn't know any kin folks was close they

came from Tennessee originally you see out to Texas way back there the four

Bears did but eventually been through contact with some other kin folks that

found out that here a cousin is living just 32 miles away so they got in

contact with one another and they'd go to visit one another case and when I was

bed fast ain't lies as we called her along with her daughter Lorena would

come to visit us now you didn't mention God you see the last time I'd seen I

guess she was over 60 years of age somewhere under around 60 I guess and so

she said but you didn't mention God to her I mean

her daughter would just get her stopped some way another she had just taught

rant and ready every preacher ought to be shocked why there is no God why when

you're when you're dead you're just dead like a dog there is no God there is no
Heaven There is no hell every preacher ought to be shot every church house

ought to be burned down they're just fooling people getting the money out of

them they're just in it for their money and ranting the Rave their daughter to

get up sometimes and you know just get to working with him finally get her to

shut up you know and get the conversation off something else so so

we'd learn through the year don't don't ever bring up the subject of God to the

Bible or Jesus or anything to eat lies because she'll just go to ranting and a

raven well I was healed in 1934 and in the year 1934 she had come to visit us

every once in a while sit in the sick room with the rest of them because

they'd sit in there to visit so I could get in on it and so in the process of

time then about 10 years later so she must have been about 62 about 10 years

later during World War number two my wife and I were out on the field in

field Ministry holding a Revival meetings going from church to church and

and my wife's folks lived in Sherman and between meetings sometime we'd go and

stay with him sometime the grandparents would keep the the children because you

know they were younger not in school you had to get tired of traveling like to

stay with Grandma but anyway we were in and my mother-in-law said to me and

daddy-in-laws because the daughter had married she's about 30 years old before

she got married said you know so and so lorino yeah yeah well said she said if

Kenneth comes get have him to come have him to come to see us and so it's

important and so on and they will seem to be such an urgency about it until we
got the address and my wife and I she was with me knocked on the door the door

opened and I recognized Lorena because she hadn't seen me since last time she

saw me on his bed fast weighed 89 pounds and so I told her I said I'm Kenneth

oh she said Kenneth oh I'm so glad to see you open the door then the door was

open but unhook the screen you see and shook hands with me and shook hand to

the mind I'll introduced but this is my wife and she said she took one of my

hands in both of hers and began to cry said oh Kenneth Kenneth Kenneth

the reason I wanted to come said please talk to Mama

now Lorena had become converted and Born Again child of God

and she said you know how mama was you just don't mentioned God to her I said

yeah she said she's here in the bedroom in her in a hospital bed and at home the

doctor just left a few moments ago she's in a coma if we can stir up would

you talk to her please would you talk to her

the doctor said she won't recover 70 some odd years old now

and I said well sure now I will if I can I sure will

and so she led me both of my hands or my one hand and both of hers up to a door

took one hand opened the door my wife followed and we went inside and there

this dear woman 70 something odd years old lying there on the hospital bed

you looked at her eyes were open but they looked like marbles her mouth

opened but there's a rattle in her throat

shruggling for breath deaths upon her doctors just left some minutes before
and said she'll not come out of it Lorena souped over and said Mama

there's no no sign her eyes didn't blink there just opened they never did blink

mama no sound

hollered a little louder the inner ear mama no sound

shook her a little bit and got down there said mama mama mama

somewhere another mouse stayed open all the time they didn't shut it somewhere

another way down inside all right all right I understand she

said what is it she said This is Lorena

she out of some way another down inside she said yeah my baby never never moved

your lips just with someone another way down in my way I

she said Mama you remember Aunt Sally and her daughter

Lily and you remember Lily's boy that was bed

fast so long Kenneth the one that made the preacher

when she said preacher she never batted her eyes

but she raised up

her mouth still open but she made an effort to raise up and Lorena helped her

and she reached to him and said Ken Kent where are you where are you well you can

where are you I took her hand she said okay kid

I said there was no God said there's no hell

you're a preacher tell me there's not any hell tell me there's nothing I'm so

afraid it's dark it's not it's so dark it's so dark I'm so afraid it's so dark
you're a preacher you ought to know tell me he's not any help

but I couldn't tell because he's not any hell

I was going to tell her there's a heaven and she can go there but she exhausted

what strength she had and fell back on the pillar unto unconsciousness and died

and went to hell and while we're in this well I did room

enjoying the pressures of this life that poor dear soul is down there in the

Darkness crying out why didn't I listen the

fearful and the unbelieving will be turned into hell whether it's weeping

and wailing and gnashing of teeth ever had bowed ever I close

one of these days there may not be mine we're everyone going to leave here

there is a hell to shun there is a heaven to gain

dear father God as we wait in your presence

prayer Adventure there's a man or a woman

a young man or a young woman that's lost

that's unsaved that's on the road to hell

I ask you right now speak to their hearts by your Holy Spirit

help them to know there's a heaven to gain in a hell of the sun may they come

to Jesus and be saved and make heaven dear father God

should there be those like a church member but not saved

oh Father God speak to that dear church members heart help them to know there's

a new birth
be born again and come to know the Lord Jesus Christ

personally and is their own personal savior oh dear father

should there be those that have known the Lord

that have been in fellowship with him and in Father's House

we call them backsliders but like The Prodigal Son of old

who was in his father's house who was in fellowship with his father but he left

and went away from him and he went out into the practice of sin and wrongdoing

speak to that Prodigal Son speak to that prodigal daughter

by your Holy Spirit that they may like The Prodigal Son of

old arise and come back home and say father I've sinned against you forgive

me oh Father

dear father I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ

that not one single person will miss heaven and die and go to hell

but may every single person under the sound of my voice make Heaven their home

I ask it in Jesus name for more information about Kenneth Hagin

Ministries call

1-888-283-2484 or visit our website at rhema.org

or write Kenneth Hagin Ministries P.O box

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and in Canada visit rhemacanada.org or write Kenneth Hagin Ministries P.O

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