Great God, I come unto you by the
blood of your dear son, Jesus.
I beseech you, O Lord, to hear my
prayer and come and move in the heart
of some poor lost sinner here.
I can't get men lost.
Only you can do that.
Only you can attend the preaching of your
word by your spirit and come and disturb
folks, disturb some secure sinner here who is
resting upon a false foundation of an empty
religious profession.
Awaken and alarm them to the great danger
of dying in their sins outside the blood
of Christ Jesus.
Take some sinner here by the hand and
lead them to the very brink of eternity
and show them that dark void of that
bottomless pit before they topple over into it.
Open their ears to hear your voice as
it comes to them in majesty and authority.
Come, Lord Jesus, in your pungent presence, hear
and disturb the lost church member who never
made you Lord of their life.
Let them see Calvary and behold the bloodstained
Savior from sin.
I ask you to extend your grace to
some sinner here tonight and let them see
hell and let them see hellfire flash upon
their soul and see the demons reaching up
to grab them and pull them down to
a devil's hell.
You came to seek and to save that
which was lost.
Get a secure sinner here lost tonight so
they can feel their need of you and
believe on you by saving faith.
I pray these things in the strong name
of Jesus.
Amen.
Well, we live in a time, friends, in
America where we don't have any big evangelists.
Gone are the days of a Finney.
Gone are the days of a Moody or
a Sam Jones.
Sam Jones, the evangelist, did more good in
his generation than all of us put together.
When Sam Jones died, it shook the entire
nation as he had shook it when he
was alive.
Memorial services were held all over the country
and in Atlanta.
They laid his body in the Rotunda of
the Capitol where 30,000 people streamed by
his casket to look on him and pay
their final respects.
Wilbur Chapman said of Sam Jones, I first
heard him almost 20 years ago and I
can still repeat the outline and I can
still remember the sermon and what he said
as if it were preached yesterday.
Sam Jones faced fierce persecution for preaching hard
against sin.
When I went to his home in Cortisville,
Georgia, I found a old poster of him
hanging on the wall in the main room
there advertising one of his meetings and someone
had scrawled on it in capital letters HANG
HIM.
Sam Jones was at a railroad depot when
a man approached him and asked if he
was Sam Jones.
When Jones replied that that's my given name,
the man took his cane and began beating
him about the face.
Sam Jones preached hard against liquor and liquor
laws.
He paved the way for prohibition in this
country more than any other man other than
Billy Sunday.
Sam Jones preached repentance and the lordship of
Jesus Christ.
Sam Jones would say that being a Christian
meant quitting your meanness.
Well if that's true friend, why do we
have so many mean people in the church?
Sam Jones would comment in a sermon and
say there are 10,000 ways to hell
and only one to heaven and that's our
subject tonight friends.
My message is entitled 10,000 ways to
hell.
Well you don't have to frequent Dan's advice
to go to hell.
You don't have to be the biggest sinner
in town or be hell on wheels to
go to hell.
You just have to be distracted by something.
Something that keeps your eyes off of eternity.
It doesn't have to be a bad thing
like drunkenness or adultery or licentiousness or fornication.
It can be a good thing that can
send you to hell.
A thing that grabs you and keeps you
occupied until you die apart from Jesus.
The subterfuge of the devil is to keep
us from thinking about life after death.
Keep our attention away from our soul and
where we will spend eternity.
He may get you friend hooked on the
game of golf so that every spare dime
you have and every spare hour you have
supports that addiction.
I used to be addicted to the game
of golf until God showed me what golf
stood for in my life.
G-O-L-F.
Golden opportunities lost forever.
Something to this world that keeps you from
Jesus can be a pretty bad thing friend.
A minister told me about a man at
his church who always liked to talk about
Jesus.
That every time he saw this man all
he wanted to talk about was Jesus.
Until one day he began to collect stamps
and he became so fascinated by stamp collecting
it took up all his free time and
it took up all his extra money.
Finally he no longer wanted to talk about
Jesus.
He just wanted to talk about stamps.
One day he called my pastor friend and
said I want you to come over and
see my new stamp collection of British Colonials.
I paid fifty thousand dollars for them.
Well a little thing like a stamp got
between that man and eternity.
Yes sir there are ten thousand ways to
hell and only one way to heaven.
It's a narrow way with a straight gate
and few there be that find it.
But one of the ten thousand ways to
hell is paved by more religious church people
than any other way and that way to
hell is what I'm gonna preach on tonight
friends.
Because I believe the widest road to hell
and the most crowded road on the way
to hell is elbow to elbow with good
church members who deny the lordship of Jesus
Christ in their daily living.
They think they can get somehow to heaven
without Christ being their lord.
But their hope of heaven is only a
hole in the wall by which they will
one day by death fall through that paper
hole of outer darkness and wind up in
the very bowels of the furnace of hell.
Did you know that there are ten thousand
ways to hell but all you need is
to find one of them and get on
it and stay on it until you die.
That's how you go to hell friend.
Did you know that most folks will worship
a god that will let them live like
the devil and not bother them.
Did you know that most folks want a
Jesus who won't interfere with their daily living.
That's why they don't like to hear searching
sermons that probe the darkness and the badness
of their heart.
They just want a free ticket to heaven
and they just want to be left alone
and you better not pester their little gods
or monkey with their little pig pens.
That's why they hate two things.
They hate the doctrine of repentance and they
hate the doctrine of the absolute lordship of
Jesus Christ.
That's why some of you here can sit
here tonight and enjoy your porno and drink
your booze and reject Jesus as lord and
still call yourself a Christian.
Why doesn't God just cut you off and
send you right now to a burning hell
because your cup of iniquity is not full
yet and today is still a day of
grace.
God is long-suffering and merciful and he
will woo you by his spirit to bring
you to Christ Jesus.
But if you keep resisting him and if
you keep refusing to surrender to Jesus as
lord, then that day of grace will one
day close and you will live under a
shut heaven and you will be like the
man of Sodom just going about their sins
and waiting their day of destruction when God
rained down fire and hell upon them and
burnt them up for their wicked ways.
You see most preachers today are just professionals.
You don't know God and they don't know
what salvation is.
They will present you with a Jesus different
from the one found in my Bible.
But the Jesus of the Bible is a
risen Lord who sits at the right hand
of the Father and he earned that right
by way of a bloody cross and he
is Lord.
And if you want him friend you must
bow to him as Lord and surrender all
you are to all he is and he
is Lord.
The lordship of Jesus Christ cannot be ignored
by men and women and still get to
heaven when they die.
You better sit up and listen to me
friend and you better pay attention to what
I have to say to you.
This sermon is a solemn warning to you
about what true salvation is because in this
day of modern evangelism we don't know what
salvation is.
God almighty demands as a condition of salvation
on the part of the sinner repentance toward
God.
And repentance toward God means that the love
of sin must die.
That if you want Christ then you must
turn from your sin and renounce it and
repudiate it and forsake it and turn from
it all of it and cry to God
for deliverance from its power.
But the other condition of salvation is that
God almighty requires of sinful men absolute saving
faith and that saving faith means utter surrender
to Jesus Christ as Lord and trust in
his atoning work as Savior.
You better get the wax out of your
ears friend and you better get the cobwebs
out of your eyes and put it down
big plain and straight that Jesus he is
a living Lord.
He is Lord.
I'm telling you friend that Lordship of Jesus
Christ is the doorway to the kingdom of
God.
There is no other way in that God
requires total submission to Jesus as Lord and
he will take nobody nobody who tries to
get into the kingdom and denies the Lordship
of Christ in his life or her life.
I don't care friend if you're the chairman
of the deacons if you can't have my
Jesus as Savior if you deny him the
place of absolute king and Lord and master
and ruler of your life he cannot be
yours without that you're just a baptized rat
living in sin scrambling your way to hell.
Jesus must reign.
Salvation comes when self is dethroned and another
isn't thrown there but the Lord Jesus Christ.
Salvation means that God Almighty conquers your rebellion
and establishes a new disposition in your soul
for holiness but you can sit there and
listen to me with a smug look on
your face because I can't save you.
Only God can come and disturb you out
of your false peace.
Maybe some of you are so hardened in
your sins that your day is past and
God's spirit will no longer strive with you
but there is no hope for the Christ
rejecter and if you want Christ you better
take him as Lord or you will be
none of his.
He will say to you on that day
I never knew you depart from me ye
that work iniquity.
You just keep on going friend and you
just keep on working your iniquity friend by
hugging your most beloved sin and you just
go tell God and me to go on
to hell but I'm clear your blood from
my hands tonight because I preach the gospel
to you tonight.
The problem is you've never heard it before.
You thought you had salvation by a physical
response.
You made some time way back yonder and
you've been pointing to that thing as the
proof of your salvation when deep down if
you were really honest with yourself you know
that all is not right with your soul.
This foolish generation of biblically ignorant church folk
denies my Jesus the rightful place he demands
and he demands absolute lordship in your life.
My heart breaks over you friend.
George Whitfield used to tell his hearers if
you are too hard-hearted to weep over
your souls George Whitfield will weep for you
and that dear man would hang his head
and weep like a baby until he was
too overcome to continue his sermon without stopping
to regather himself.
Don't go to hell friend.
You've been warned.
I've been true to your soul.
It is my prayer that God will reveal
to you a bleeding and dying Christ so
you can cast yourself upon him and come
to him in repentance confessing you are a
sinner and own him as your savior and
lord.
He is lord and I pray that you
will know him and that you will know
that if Jesus ever becomes the absolute lord
of your life he will demand perfect obedience
and holiness and hard obedience to him.
He is not a cruel task master but
a loving sovereign who must rule and reign.
He will have no rebels in his holy
heaven.
You better get real and come to that
place friend where you admit that Christ has
rights and claims on your life for if
you are his you were bought with a
price and that price was his blood and
you must come to him in submission to
him as a total master and say I
can resist him no longer.
God has plenty of mercy for the vilest
sinner here dead and thirst dead.
Jesus Christ God almighty son died on Calvary's
cross for sinners and there is wonder work
and power in the shed blood of Jesus
Christ to cleanse a man's heart to get
his sins under the blood and get entrance
into the kingdom of God.
You get saved when Christ's life is laid
down and applied to you but you must
get to Christ friend there is mercy for
guilty sinners and Christ's reception of sinners is
a real deal.
Jesus said all and that means you friend
all that the father giveth me shall come
to me and him that cometh to me
I will in no wise cast out.
Yes there are ten thousand ways to hell
friend but only one way to heaven his
name is Jesus Christ he is the only
remedy and refuge for sin he is the
pearl of great price we're selling all for
and losing all for so he may be
gained he is the bright and morning star
he is chief among ten thousand he is
lord he is lord