 Alright, James chapter 2, you're going to keep your place there and we're going to come back there in just a few minutes. But James chapter 2, just let me say a couple things, even regarding the sermon this morning with James chapter 2. I was getting a little long-winded this morning, so I didn't go to this verse. But if you look down at James chapter 2 in context of this morning's sermon, looking at Proverbs 20 in verse number 6 where it says, Every man proclaims his own goodness, every man says that he is great, every man says and the words that he says are great. But the thing is that men don't act faithful in regards to this morning's sermon. But basically meaning to be a faithful man, to be trustworthy is to actually do the things that you say you're going to do. Which is a big context of the book of James, especially James chapter 1, James chapter 2. Talking about actually doing what you say in verse number 12, he says, So speak ye and so do. What that means is like when you say you're going to do something, you should do it. It's like do the things that you say. And then James chapter 2 continues from there talking about how our works, our religiosity as it is kind of defined in James chapter 1. Just saying that you're religious and being a religious person in your words, it doesn't profit anybody. It doesn't help anybody talking about your brother here, talking about your faith. If there's not works with it, you're not going to be profitable to anybody. So that's just kind of more on top of this morning's sermon. But this evening we're talking about salvation roadblocks, salvation roadblocks. We talked about works based salvation. I'm kind of going through these on the things that you'll see the most when you're out soul winning and kind of going down the list. So as we do more and more of these sermons, you'll see less and less of these particular things. But tonight you will see, you go soul winning long enough. You won't have to go soul winning that long to see this one as well. We talked first about works based salvation. That is the one, the first time you go soul winning, you're going to run into that. Because that's what everybody believes out there. That's something people have to let go in order to be saved. They have to stop trusting in their own works and they have to trust on the Lord Jesus Christ. The next one, what do we talk about? Believing that the Bible is the Word of God. So you can't get saved if you don't believe the Bible is the Word of God. Why? We went through this last Sunday night because Jesus is the Word. So you can't trust in the Word or you can't trust in Jesus if you're not trusting the Word because they're one and the same. Jesus is the Word, become flesh. We looked at that in John 1, verse 14 and other places. So that was the second one that we looked at. You're going to run into people that have been confused. Look, and rightly so. This is why we're doing this sermon series is so when we run into these people that are confused about these things. Look, there's 60 different Bibles in the English language that all say different things. Do you blame somebody that doesn't know that one of them is true and the others aren't? Do you blame somebody that's confused by that? When you say, well, the Bible is the perfect Word of God. What are you talking about? There's all these different Bibles. They all say different things. How can it all be the same perfect Word of God? This is why we're King James only. So you'll run into that. We're doing this series so we can help these people. So we can help these people that want to know the truth that are confused on these things. Turn to Romans chapter 3. You're going to keep your place in James chapter 2. So what's the next one? What's the next one? Well, we're going to talk about tonight. And of course, all of these things are subsets of not believing the Bible. We were specifically looking at not believing that the Bible is God's Word, that it wasn't written by man. But all of these are subsets of that. But tonight I want to talk about the person. The person that you talk to at the door that doesn't believe. Go to Romans chapter 3 and look at verse number 10. The Bible says in Romans 3, 10. The Bible says, as it is written, there is none righteous, no not one. Tonight, we're going to talk about the person that doesn't believe they deserve to go to hell. If you go soul winning for, you won't have to go soul winning for that long to meet this person. Now look, Romans chapter 3 and verse number 10 says that there's none righteous. In Romans chapter 3, later on it says, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. You're not going to meet that many people that won't admit that they're sinners. I mean, that's a rarity. Look, you will meet that person and that's an entertaining experience in itself to meet the person that literally thinks that they're perfect. I mean, you will run in to this person if you go soul winning long enough, but that's really kind of a needle in a haystack. Why is that? Why is it a needle in a haystack? Turn to Romans chapter 2 and verse 15. I often talk about Romans chapter 2 and verse number 15. Let's just turn there and let's just look at it. Most people are going to know that they're sinners. You are not going to have to... When you read Romans 3, 10 to people, there is none righteous, no not one. Most people are going to agree with you, yes, I'm not perfect. Like 99.9% of people that are not saved are going to freely admit to you that they are not perfect and that they are sinners. This is an easy one. So, they're not saved, they don't even believe the Bible, but they're still going to know that they're sinners. Why? How is that? Isn't that amazing? I mean, some people, you'll run into people that don't go to church. They don't believe the Bible is the Word of God. They think that, you know, if you're good, you're going to go to... They'll have everything wrong, but they will know that they are sinners. They will know that they have made mistakes in their life that they are not perfect. How is that? How would they know that? Here's how they know. Look at verse number four. Actually, let's go to verse 14. I quote this all the time, or I reference this concept all the time. The reason that people know that they're sinners is because everybody started with this. Look at verse number 14. The Bible says, for when the Gentiles. So Paul is talking about, you know, bringing the Gospel to the Gentiles. We're seeing this in the study of Acts. We're seeing the Jews get the Gospel. The Jews reject the Gospel. The Gospel goes to the Gentiles and the Gentiles. Many of them are accepting the Gospel. But Paul is explaining here that the Gentiles had something. Look at verse 14. It says, for when the Gentiles which have not the law. So what was the advantage of the Jew? Enrollments. What advantage hath the Jew? The Bible says, they had the oracles of God. They had the law. So they had the Bible. But the Gentiles, they did not have the Bible. It says the Gentiles which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law. So here, they didn't have the Bible, but they knew it was wrong to murder. They knew it was wrong to steal other people's things. If you looked at their laws or their societies, they had laws against stealing, against killing, against all these different things. But look at verse, it says, they do by nature the things contained in the law. How is this possible? These having not the law are a law unto themselves. Look at verse 15. Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience. Also bearing witness in their thoughts, the mean while accusing or else excusing one another. Who wrote the law in their hearts? God. God wrote the law in every man's heart. This is what the Bible is saying here. So the Bible is saying that every man, this is, what is it called? It's called your conscience. And God gave every man a conscience. Whether they know the Bible, they believe the Bible or not, every man has a conscience. Now the conscience can be seared, it can be scarred, it can be, you know, this is where you get psychopaths and all this unnatural things and all this stuff, right? But that's not the topic of tonight's sermon. But the point is, this is how people know their sinners. Because God wrote the law in their heart. So you're not going to run into a lot of people out there that don't admit that they're sinners. All right? I did meet one man one time, giving the gospel in church at Verity. He was a visitor and we, very much the same as we do here. We had personal workers, I was a personal worker, visitor came, I sat down with him and I gave him that, I was giving him the gospel, we asked him. We always try to get everybody saved that comes to church here. We did the same at Verity. I sat down with him and I started to write out with Romans, Romans chapter three, as we always do, Romans 310, Romans 323. And you know, I asked him, you know, hey, you're not perfect, right? And he's like, no, I am actually. I don't sin. I used to, but I don't anymore. And you know, at that point, we're done here, right? He's like, I was trying to explain to him from the Bible that everyone's a sinner. We've all sinned. You know, there's plenty of verses on this in the Bible. And he's saying, are you telling me that the pastor of this church is a sinner? And I was like, yeah. He's like, that's crazy. I'm like, okay, anyway, but the point is, is you're not going to run into that many people. I can count people that I've run into that say that they're not sinners on, I think, probably on one hand. It's a very rare thing, but you will run into people. You will run into people that you can explain hell. You can explain the second death. You can explain, you know, the wages of our sin and that spiritual death. You can explain that. And there's people that think, yes, I'm a sinner, but I don't deserve that. You will meet these people. You know, this is a fairly common thing to run into. And this is also, you know, the importance of recapping with people. Because many times, you'll go and you'll go through the wages of sinners and the wages of sin and the penalty of hell. Then you'll go back into the gift of salvation and then you'll go and recap with people. And you're like, so you believe you're a sinner and you deserve to go to hell. Many people will say to you, yeah, I believe I'm a sinner, but I don't think I deserve that. I don't think I deserve that. Look, this is a roadblock to salvation if people do not accept this. All right? So it's important to recap with people, first of all. You know, we want to be thorough always. We want to be having conversations with people always. We're very thorough soul winners here. So if you're going to learn to soul win somewhere, this is the place to learn it because we're very thorough. You know, we are not giving seven-minute gospels. We're out there being thorough. We're making sure people understand the simplicity of the gospel and we're making sure that people are really getting saved out there. And it's a great thing. It is the first works. We're going to do it right. All right? You will find these people that think that, you know, they'll agree with most things, but they just like, I don't think I'm that bad because look, hell's pretty bad and you're going to explain, you're going to explain hell to people when you're out soul winning. It's going to be one of the first things. I'm a big proponent on really like getting this right, getting hell explained properly and correctly up front because if you can explain that correctly to somebody, you've got their attention for the next however long you need to finish the gospel. But look, it begs the question. It begs the question from the Bible. Do all sins deserve hell? Right? I mean, we obviously know this answer. I mean, think about it though. There's a lot of really nice people out there. I mean, there's people all the time. These are the people that just, it just bothers me. You go out soul winning and you just meet a lot of really nice people. They're super nice people. You can tell they're, you know, he's a FISA. This guy's a family man. He loves his wife. He loves his children. You know, he just, he probably even goes to church. But, they just don't believe. They just don't trust on Jesus or they believe in works or whatever. Does that really during the John chapter 3, does that really, I mean, does that guy really go to hell? Does that guy really deserve hell? Turn to John chapter 3. Turn to John chapter 3. This is the importance of the Bible. There's a lot of really nice people out there, folks. People that you walk away from their door. They're not interested in hearing the gospel. Where I walk away and I'd be like, I'm, that guy seems like a nice guy. You know, that guy seems like somebody who would fit in at church, who would get along with people that I get along with. There's a lot of really nice people that you're going to meet out there. But look at John 3, 36. The Bible says, What sends a man to hell? It says, He that believeth on the sun, hath everlasting life. He that believeth not, the sun, shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. It is believing on, or believeth not, that sends a man to hell. It is believeth, it is he that believeth not, that sends a man to hell. It's, it's not a man that is not nice. That is nothing to do with it. So that nice man, that nice man that does not believe. Yes, he's going to go to hell and yes, he deserves it. So that is what people need to understand. And it's funny because I'll give an analogy to people. People have a hard time with this. People have a hard time with this because there's too many liberal churches out there that don't preach the Bible. There's too many liberal churches that have made God something that he's not. You know, I'll tell people out there, I'll give an analogy you know, their niceness or being good is going to get them to heaven and I know that this isn't necessarily what the sermon is about tonight, but I'll just give an analogy on like, you know, what if I stole that guy's car right there? I stole his car and I wrecked his car and then I got arrested and they brought me in front of a judge and this was a good judge and the judge says, Pastor Jared did you steal that car? And I said, well judge, I did steal the car but I'm really nice and every time the person that I say that to, they laugh because they're like, no judge is just going to let you go because you're nice. You have to pay for the car that you have to pay for the crime that you've committed. This is the problem that we're at. Turn to Matthew chapter 12. Or I'll just read Matthew chapter 12 and verse number 36 for you. You turn to James you go back to James chapter 2 and Matthew chapter 12 and verse number 36 this is the problem. Jesus says, but I say unto you we give account thereof in the day of judgment. This is the problem. The problem is that every sin that you've committed you will have to give account for and being nice can't cover up for the sins that you've done. That's it. I don't care how nice you are the Bible says that you must, we owe a payment for our sin. The wages of sin is death. It doesn't say the wages of sin is death but every nice thing cancels out a bad thing. It doesn't work that way. It doesn't even work that way where the reason people laugh when I give that judge analogy about the stealing of the car is because the law written in their heart doesn't match that. They know that if you've done something wrong it has nothing to do with some nice thing that you did over here. It's apples and oranges. That's the problem. Now look at James chapter 2 and verse number 10. This is really the verse that you would use to explain to somebody that look unless you've kept the whole law. Look if you've never sinned like if that guy that guy was a liar because the Bible says that nobody's perfect. Nobody has not sinned but theoretically if somebody had never sinned they wouldn't be guilty. Look at James chapter 2 and verse number 10. The only person that's ever done that is Jesus. Look at James 2 and verse number 10. The Bible says for whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point. This is the idea that is trying to get that God is trying to get across to us here. This guy keeps the whole law. This guy's really, really good but then he offends in one spot. First of all is there really anybody like that? No there's not. But look say there was. There was somebody that kept the whole law and yet offended in one point. He's guilty of all. Look then in verse number 11 it explains it even further. For he that said do not commit adultery said also do not kill. So here's a guy that says don't kill, don't commit adultery. Now if thou commit no adultery and he doesn't commit adultery yet if thou kill thou art become a transgressor of the law. So what James chapter 2 in verse number 10 is saying is if you keep the whole law and you offend in one point you are a transgressor of the law. That's what James 2 10 is explaining. Alright. James 2 10 is saying look if you're going to be justified through the law the whole thing which no one can do because we are all sinners and the law in your heart says that. That's what James 2 10 is explaining. Alright. Now let me just address like some false doctrine that people will use James 2 10 to come up with. And this is a huge false doctrine today and it needs to be shut down. It's this doctrine of all sin is equal. This doctrine that churches today teach that all sin is equal so whenever somebody does some wicked horrible thing it's just like oh we're all sinners all sin is equal they'll use James chapter 2 in verse number 10. But is that what the Bible said in James chapter 2 in verse number 10? Did James chapter 2 in verse number 10 say all sin is equal? No. James chapter 2 in verse number 10 and again if you ever like read a verse in the Bible or somebody is reading a verse in the Bible there's no false doctrine to it. Basically all you really have to do most of the time is read a verse before and a verse after. In this case it's the verse after. What James chapter 2 in verse number 10 is saying is that if you keep the whole law and you offend in one point you are a transgressor of the law that is what it is saying. All sin is equal is easily proven false from the Bible. Let's take a few minutes and just look at this. First of all that's not what James 2 10 said to Matthew chapter 23. Let's look at a couple of things. All it's saying is if you offend in one place or if you say keep the whole law then he uses the example of adultery and murder and you know so the guy that in verse number 11 he's saying don't kill don't commit adultery and he keeps one of them he's like 50% on the law. He's one out of two on the law. The Bible says he's guilty he's a transgressor of the law. Not all sin is equal that has nothing to do with what James chapter 2 is teaching. James chapter 2 is probably the chapter in the Bible that people pull the most false doctrine today that I've seen from. They pull workspace salvation from this and then this wicked doctrine of all sin is equal. This is an evil false doctrine today and I'm going to explain to you why. First of all does it match your conscience? Does it match the law written in your heart that somebody who murdered 50 people should have the same punishment as someone that stole a paperclip is ridiculous. It's laughable but this is what churches are teaching today. This is what churches are teaching today. You say what's the big deal? What's the big deal pastor why are you making such a big deal out of? Because it is a wicked person that would try to tell you that murdering people is the same as stealing a paperclip. It's somebody that's a wicked person that's trying to equate themselves with normal people and it's an evil thing. It's trying to creep into churches. It'll let evil creep into churches. I'll explain to you in a few minutes. Look at Matthew 23 and look at verse 13. Is it true? Let's just look at the Bible. It's easy to prove this one false. Look at Matthew chapter 23. Jesus is rebuking the Pharisees here. He says, but woe unto you scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites. For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men. Neither you go in yourselves, neither suffer them that are entering to go in. He's rebuking them harshly. He's like you're the leaders. Now this should wake us up as men too as the spiritual leaders of our families. He's rebuking these false prophets that aren't believing in him and he's saying you're the leaders. He's like not only are you wicked you're stopping other people. You're stopping other people from knowing the truth. It's just rebuking them harshly. Just like the sorcerer in Acts chapter 14 that was trying to stop the governor of Cyprus from hearing the gospel. That's why Paul for that sorcerer he said to him he's like you're a child of the devil he called him because he was trying to stop somebody from getting saved. Jesus is rebuking harshly the Pharisees for largely the same reason here. They're false prophets and they're literally stopping people from getting saved because they're the leaders. They have the ability to influence people and they're influencing people for evil. So look what he says woe unto you. Scribes and Pharisees verse 14 hypocrites for you devour widow's houses. He's like they're stealing they're taking people's money. They're just like using this influence to just rob people and for pretense make long prayer they're trying to make themselves look spiritual. He says therefore he's like because of this ye and now he's talking to more than one of them he's talking to a bunch of these guys he says greater damnation. I mean that's a huge phrase right there. He says he says you are going to and look he says greater damnation. He's not talking about something that's going to happen to them on this earth. He's talking about something that's going to happen to them. Where's damnation happen? It happens in hell. So Jesus here is teaching the Bible is teaching that there's a greater damnation. There's a greater damnation for people that do that. That makes sense to us. That makes sense to our conscience and look that'll make sense to people at the door too. People that are wondering oh you know it'll make sense to people that there's a greater punishment in the afterlife depending on how wicked people were. Alright turn to first John chapter 5. Actually I'm going to Luke chapter 12. I mean this is all over the Bible let's just look at a few verses about it. This isn't just Luke chapter 12 and verse number 47. So obviously you look at somebody throughout history you know the nice guy the nice guy that you met soul winning last Saturday that you know he dies not believing in Jesus but you know he thought he was a good man and all this and he was living a decent life. Obviously he's not going to have the same damnation that you know Joseph Stalin is or Hitler or whatever people that killed literally millions of people. And for these people and you know what that makes sense to us that makes sense that matches our conscience look at Luke chapter 12 verse 47. The Bible says and that servant which knew his Lord's will and prepared not himself neither did according to his will shall be beaten with many stripes. So here's somebody does something wrong and the master is going to punish him greatly then look at verse 48 but he that knew not and did commit things worthy of him. So this has you know you could compare this to Paul you compare this to you this is this is the downside being in a Bible preaching church the Bible here is saying is that you know as God chastises his his his children which is us the saved people this is saying look if you know something's wrong and look you listen to preach from the Bible you read the Bible you study the Bible you're going to know what's wrong and the Bible here is saying salvation you're going to be punished there's a different punishment this is just to show you the philosophy of God God's philosophy it's fair it's fair okay turn to first John chapter 5 first John chapter 5 even the civil law even the civil law to govern the children of Israel it didn't just have one punishment for everything I mean it wasn't like anything that happened it's just like execute him I mean it just there was different punishments from the Lord it just shows you the philosophy of God here look at first John chapter 5 verse number 16 the Bible says if any man see his brother we're talking about you know civil law you know a brother in Christ see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death so we have a sin that is not unto death alright he shall ask and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death and then look at it says it says there's a sin unto death I do not I do not say that he shall pray for it the only point I want to make here is there are sins that are not unto death and there are sins that are unto death in the Old Testament in the civil law of you know the book of Leviticus the book of Exodus you had you had a law you had sins like adultery murder rape sodomy you know men stealing men stealing would be you know the equivalent of kidnapping stealing would be the equivalent of like the slavery of you know of early America that was men stealing you're going over and you're just like stealing people look those are all capital offenses those are all capital offenses in the Bible but then you had others like in Exodus chapter 22 you have all the property laws you have all the property laws like if you steal an ox from somebody you have to pay him back five oxes if you steal a sheep from somebody you have to pay him back if you steal a sheep you know obviously you know sheep are less valued in the Bible for some weird reason I don't know why but anyway if you trespass like if you sue somebody in Exodus chapter 22 if you sue somebody and it's like it's like a false it's like a false accusation you pay double you pay double to that person that you know you were trying to get money from if you light a fire somewhere if you start a fire like arson like the Bible covers all these details like a fire somewhere and you burn up a bunch of property you have to pay for all that you have to pay restitution the Bible says for that so there's all these different levels of punishment for different crimes in the Bible there's sins unto death there's sins not unto death turn to Psalm chapter 86 look and if you can't pay if you can't pay say I go and I steal a bunch of of oxen from you know brother Alex or whatever I go I steal his ox and he's like I steal his box and I'm like I can't pay I don't have anything then I'm then I'm sold into servitude that is not men stealing that is me like having to go work off my debt that's what the Bible teaches about that because that's the thing that's the thing that the Bible is super fair about you don't have nothing to repay somebody you always have your labor you can always work that debt off and work that payment just imagine if we had that today just imagine if we had that people would just steal everything today I mean if you're like close your eyes for five seconds people will steal the shirt right off your back but they're just stealing everything imagine if in Fresno somebody walked into Home Depot and stole a hundred dollars worth of stuff and they had to pay back four hundred dollars like you think you think stealing would go on for very long well I don't have any money well now you have to work now you have to work for the city cleaning up garbage for you know forty hours ten dollars an hour and you'll have that debt paid back man you would have no theft anymore and you know God's law is perfect folks but the point is the point is that there's different punishments for different crimes okay so it makes sense that there would be you know different levels of damnation as well alright look at Psalm chapter 86 verse 13 the bible even talks about a lower hell for great is thy mercy towards me and thou has delivered my soul from the lowest hell so David is saying I mean it's such a great verse because what David is saying is he's like God you're so merciful to me why? he's like I feel like because look we all deserve hell and David's being very humble where the Psalmist says for great is thy mercy towards me and thou has delivered my soul from the lowest hell so David is saying I mean it's such a great verse because what David is saying to me why? he's like because not only does David think he deserves hell he's like I deserve the lowest hell he's like I am the I am the chiefest of sinners he's like I am just a you know I'm a terrible sinner is what David is saying here so even David even people in the Old Testament knew that there was a lower level of hell alright so look the point is is I mean I don't know if you could be a Christian that knows much about the Bible and repeat this but I remember as a Lutheran being told this all the time alright but look beware of people teaching this because look it's an evil person it comes from an evil place it comes from an evil place it's trying to justify evil people it's trying to justify evil things this is how you end up with churches full of you know this is how you end up with child masters in a church I've heard stories of children being heard in churches and the people still being in the church because because this doctrine was used well are you perfect brother are you perfect like they just made like all sin is just equal and like there's not natural and unnatural things alright so this is the importance of just knowing that all sin is not equal yes it is true that one sin is enough to condemn a man to hell but all sin is not equal the bible does not teach anything close to that alright one sin is enough james 210 is just saying one sin is enough to make you a transgressor of the law and deserving of hell that's it okay turn to loop chapter 16 turn to loop chapter 16 so you say how bad will it be how bad will it be how bad will hell be for the nice guy you know that just doesn't believe okay how bad will it be I mean the words that the bible uses I mean phrases the bible uses to describe hell is like the fire that shall never be quenched you know it's like you know tormented day and night forever you know everlasting chains hell is called I mean these are some pretty well this one no rest day or night I mean it sounds really really bad no matter what level you're at alright but look at loop chapter 16 verse number 22 say how bad will it be look at verse 22 of loop 16 of course this is talking about the man who went to hell the rich man who he died and he opened his eyes when do you go to hell as soon as you die immediately you will wake up in hell for the unbeliever verse number 22 and it came to pass say Abraham's bosom the rich man also died and was buried and in the next verse and in hell he lift up his eyes and he's checking in and he's at the gates of hell and he's like they're asking if no like right away look at this right away being in torments imagine this you die you die and right away I have to believe that people that are not saved that still have the law written in their hearts right before they die I have to believe that they're terrified I have to believe that they're terrified because what is coming in literally seconds after they die is they're going to lift up their eyes and they're going to be in hell and immediately they're going to be in torments this is the person I mean this is how close these people are to torments when the unsaved is about to die you think we should go soul inning and then look and see if Abraham are far off and Lazarus in his bosom so you can see the people in heaven that's got to make it even worse 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 what I am tormented in this flame so look here's the thing it's going to be bad it's going to be bad I don't know guess what I don't know and nobody in here hopefully is going to ever know how bad the upper versus the lower is going to be because we're not going to hell but here's what I know there's no doors when you're there Abraham goes off to explain to him you're there there's nothing we can do for you you're there you can't come out ever just that thought alone is scary no matter how bad it is that upper level or that lower level is forever it's for eternity it's a very scary thing and look if you get people to realize this you do a good job of realizing that they do deserve hell and that this is what hell is you will have their attention for as long as you need it when you're at the door this is why we need to thoroughly explain this if they have questions you need to thoroughly understand this so you'll see 10-10 1 sin and they will know it's not just one sin 1 sin makes you a transgression of the law and you deserve this you say why does it matter for salvation Turn to Ephesians chapter 2 turn to Ephesians chapter 2 most of you probably have this memorized turn to Ephesians chapter 2 Ephesians chapter 2 because, I mean logical exercise you say why does it matter you know for salvation the reason it matters for salvation because if you look at Ephesians chapter 2 probably the most powerful verse that you could use out soul winning is Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8 and 9 the bible says for by grace are ye saved through faith and not of yourselves it is the gift of God for by grace are ye saved saved from what if you don't believe you deserve to go to hell what are you saved from you can't be saved if you don't think you need to be saved it's like trying to convince somebody to put a parachute on when they're not in an airplane it's like going into somebody's living room when they're on their couch saying this parachute on hey it's really unsafe on your couch there please put this parachute on in case you fall off your couch they're gonna be like get out of here man what are you talking about people have to believe they're in an airplane and the airplane's going down that's why they need to believe that they deserve hell otherwise I mean look I mean if they didn't deserve hell what was the point of what's the point of everything why would God send his son to go through all this to die for us raise him again from the dead if there's no need to save us from anything why would Jesus's soul go to hell I mean why did these things happen if we don't deserve hell look folks here's the thing you need to understand hell only seems harsh hell only seems harsh because of this this flavor of Christianity that has been that has been spread throughout America especially this Christianity we talked about this morning a little bit this long hair Jesus there's no judgment there's just like Jesus has got long hair he's wearing a dress he's a feminine he's carrying a sheep around there's no don't judge don't ever judge anybody which is the stupidest statement ever that me basically means like don't ever decide right from wrong what in the world people judge every single day of their life every single moment of their life they make judgments when you drive in your car you make a judgment when their light goes green you make a judgment like it's green now I'm gonna go that's a judgment judgment is part of life there's just righteous judgment there's unrighteous judgment the Bible is very clear about this but this this liberal Christianity today is look you can even have a church that has the right gospel that's doing damage to people by by just not teaching the judgment of God by not going out and soul winning and telling people that hell's a real thing they never preach about hell they never talk about hell they never I mean they just skip over those parts of the Bible that's pretty negative look if you're gonna skip over the negative and the wrath and the judgment in the Bible you're gonna not read much of the Bible because it's all over the Bible why do you think Jesus talked about hell so much why was Jesus constantly talking about hell the real Jesus the red words in the Bible talk about hell and judgment ten times more than they talk about anything else why because it's a warning because God doesn't want people to go to hell Jesus didn't want people to go to hell it's a real thing it's not plastic it's not made up it's again it's literal why we must read the Bible for what it's telling us we can't be these people that are like oh well you know this is the Jehovah's Witnesses they're like oh yeah that's they've made up their own God then they just yeah that's that wasn't literal what in the world are you talking about the Bible talks so much about judgment about eternal judgment about damnation about greater damnation it's a very serious thing everyone deserves hell you and I as we sit here saved we deserved hell and the only reason that we are not gonna go to hell is because the blood of Jesus Christ is covering us that's why the only difference so see look everybody deserves hell the only difference is that some people are gonna realize that punishment and it's a scary thing and that's why we need to just always have a heart for the lost because this is a this is a real thing that's gonna happen to a lot of people Garrett did a sermon a couple years ago about how many people die every minute and just thinking about if the vast majority of those people are saved how many people are going to hell every minute of every day and that's why people need to realize that they deserve hell because then when they realize the punishment that they deserve because of what they did it's not a it's not a mean God it's they deserve the punishment because what they did because of their sin that they know they've committed why do they know they've committed it because God gave them that knowledge that's why God gave them that gift for free in their heart to know that they have done God wrong and that should be enough to drive them to the Savior and then through us we go out we tell them the truth and game set match so we have to get people to realize this otherwise save from what James 210 let's bar heads and have a word of prayer