In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the importance of choosing the narrow path instead of the broad road that leads to destruction. He warns against false teachers and urges listeners to have a genuine, heartfelt repentance and hatred for sin. The preacher highlights the need for a personal relationship with God and a recognition of one's own wickedness. He also mentions the challenges faced by believers, including the influence of television and the constant battle against the devil. The sermon emphasizes the difficulty of reaching those who are comfortable in their religious routines compared to those who are desperate for salvation.

I tonight am going to read some scripture and talk on the subject going to hell in Rome. People go to hell that way. Sainted old T.T. Martin, God's greatest gift to the single church evangelism up till now. He's in heaven now, the old wife there. Man, sometimes he'd go to a place and three weeks, another half a convoy, have to have guards to guard him as he went to catch a train, people in town threatening his life and all of that. Next place he'd go, he'd have as many as a thousand people for baptism in a single church. And the evangelists of today are not like that. They get a lot of people to make confession everywhere they go. And any preacher who does that is not God's preacher. There are some times when the heavens are closed and God's preacher must pronounce judgment. And there are other times when it's harvest time. And the man who stays with the Word and stays with the tenets upon the Holy Spirit will find that he's the savior of life unto life, sometimes, and death unto death, sometimes. In other words, the preacher sometimes is sent to a place to seal the doom of people, not to open the door of salvation. We do not seem to realize these days that God Almighty is going to get glory out of the damnation of sin, as well as the salvation of sin. O. T. C. Martin stayed with the Book. Sometimes God used it in the brain judgment. Sometimes the brain blessing. None of us like to be a blessing. None of us like to be the instrument of God's judgment. But one of the purposes of the proclamation of the gospel is to damn people. Think how much worse hell will be if a man goes to hell having heard the gospel than if he never had heard it. It's a dangerous thing to preach the gospel, isn't it? And yet we're commanded to do it. God will assume all responsibility for the added damnation that comes on people who hear the story and reject it. O. T. C. Martin, that bravely used man. And the reason that is, Paul said, I don't know, this is a generation when we've got Jesus for savior. And if we can't get a quarter part of it, in the beginning of the 15th century, set in for a dime. By invitation, the man's first unconditional surrender. And men cannot quite meet. Who will ever seek to whittle down the terms of the gospel? Unless he is Lord, he can't. And our church is everywhere. It's stuck with me. Millions are in hell tonight waiting for millions to follow who trust it in a falsehood. Millions are in hell tonight waiting for millions to follow who trust in a falsehood. So much of my Lord's teaching was warning against trusting a falsehood. Warning against a profession that does not lead to a possession. Warning against a repentance that does not bring men to hate sin. And love Christ. Warning against the resignation that allows a man to quit some of his sins and to sin the rest of them. And go to hell, save he doesn't think it's any more hard to do this than he does the other. Warning, men and women, that a man must turn from all of his sins. You will not believe it, but turn from any. And that people in possession, in language, that make you have stand up on a straight hill. For wide is the gate. And they will faithfully remind us that every single person he's talking about who has entered this broad wide gate and is walking every last, every last one up is to hell. And the other is a straight. They enter a wide, and they think they're all. You enter a straight gate. Here's the gate. The straight gate leads to a narrow. And then in verse 15 he tells us how it is that people get in this broad road. Sin, your past. Everybody gets in. You enter in the straight gate. Once you get in that wide gate, what ends with men, they are rattling wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Ye shall know a false teacher by the kind of converts they have. If your converts live selfish lives. If they live trustless lives. If they live by not marked for self-denial. If they live fleshly lives. And I believe in the doctrine of election from the top of my head. For election is to rule with it. And we've got preachers all over this country talking that we've made that to stink in the very nostrils of God. In the word of the living God. You walk an easy going kind of respectable life and that kind of business leads straight. The men and women together preach and be comfortable in their sins. We must bring out our sins. You can tell it is. Does it belong to holiness? Or does it satisfy you? Does this preaching comfort you in rebellious obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ? Oh, better pick up our ears. I wouldn't listen to a false prophet. I wouldn't listen to a false prophet. I'd rather rear my child in a picture show than to rear my child in a church that has a false prophet standing in the booth. I sure would. Wouldn't you? I sure would. You shall know them by their fruits. And then he tells us in verse 21 of listening to false prophets and entering in an easy profession and walking a nice comfortable respect at the judgment day. He says not everyone walking that broad road entering that easy going religion. Not everyone that says unto me Lord, Lord, everybody from that broad road they started out plainly Jesus is Lord. The New Testament knows nothing about accepting Jesus as Savior. The New Testament talks about surrendering to Him Lord. You want a Savior? Well the Lord Jesus can save you. But nobody else can. And they had to make a profession. Then he called him Lord. Today we will be called Lord. You had no right to take our practice unless you knew Him as Lord. And so they called Him Lord. He said not everyone that says unto me Lord, Lord, shall enter in to the kingdom of heaven. But who shall even do it? The will of my Father which is in heaven. You say but Father is that salvation by words? No sir. But it's not salvation apart from words. He that doeth my will that's the fellow that will enter in to the kingdom of heaven. And saved in faith is the kind of active obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ that sets a man in the path of minding the Lord and doing the will of the Father. He said that just saying Lord won't get the job done. A man who in his life puts into expression the Lordship of Jesus Christ that will enter in to the kingdom of heaven. He said many will say to me in that day Lord, Lord they'll call Him by the right name. They will be dared to not do that. They'll say have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out demons and in thy name done many wonderful works and then will I profess unto them I never knew you that far from me ye that were convicted the vast majority of those who believe they're saved are not saved says Jesus here. Our Lord warns about people going to hell depending upon a false hope. They go to hell hoping for eternal bliss because they listen to false preachers teachers not preaching the truth disease carriers misleaders and damners of souls. It's better my friends to come to the Bible to make no effort to lead people to be saved than to lead them into a false hope. May God I repeat that now. It's better that you never never make an effort to lead people into salvation than to lead them into a false hope. It's better not to make any effort than to make profession of faith in the Lord Jesus than to get them to make a profession out of salvation. The Lord, God says of his people in Old Testament days that they've committed two great evils. My people he says have committed two evils. First, they forsake the need as that enough. Second, they kill our system. Dig your well of your own and drink from that from a false hope. God doesn't know God but he can punish it that way if he says he knows God and don't know it. We've got a lot better chance to win a man to salvation who has no hope than to have a man who's been butchered up who's got a hope that will not hold when the judgment bar the bar of God. A man who has no hope has eight times better chance to get saved when the Lord says when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walking through dry places seeking rest and find it not. He just got one devil and to drive him out and here is the fellow the devil's driven out he walks through dry places not the watery places. He's lost the devil but he hasn't gotten anything. He quit drinking but he hasn't got Christ. The place is still dry. There's no water in there. There's no spirit in there. The man had a monster spirit. He's not dead. We've got eight times better chance to be saved than the fellow who's got eight devils to contend with. And he's eight times more a child of hell than when he started out. My friends, it's part of being a man who has a hole in the church or aisle without an open hole. Now, that sounds like an old school to do. You say, well, what you needed is better enough to try to win, man, than to win with a false hope. Yes, if you don't care to have a false hope, man, they will lay hold on the Lord Jesus. And we must hope that we'll not be disappointed. When you talk a man to a false hope, there's no hope at all. We've told in the scripture, thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil, but you make one of these deeds a profession. You walk the narrow way, near the unpopular, I know that. He means business, I know that. Millions are in hell tonight, waiting for millions to follow him, who went there claiming to have a false hope. They didn't do the will, so they followed him. The name of the profession was mighty ease, it was mighty wrong. And they walked the Christian road, they called it that. But it was all damaging quickly. It was very, very wrong. After my Lord cast him away, he said, I never knew him. Then he followed the redeeming word, verse 1 and 4. Therefore, whosoever heareth these things of mine, and doeth them. They were trying to translate the New Testament into one of the languages over somewhere in Africa. A very difficult dialect over there. And they came across the word faith in our Bible, and they tried to translate the word faith into the language of the people. And they found that in that language, there was no single word that they could use to express the meaning of our word faith. They found they put two words in that language to express the meaning of faith. Hearing and doing. And that's what faith is. Hearing and doing. Be not hearers of the word, only of the truth. And the man simply said he believes truth. That truth isn't translated into activity. He's mystic. He doesn't know saving faith. And my Lord said, I'm going to tell you something now. I'm going to tell you something. Listen. The fellow that listens to these false prophets. Listen. The fellow that listens to these false prophets, who makes a profession. Listen. Listen. And doesn't do the will of my Father. He's like the fellow. I'm like the fellow that builds his house on a rock. He's like the fellow. Verse 26. Everyone that hears these sayings of mine, doest them not. Doesn't put them into practice. This generation of people, oh boy, they don't care what they're doing. The devil believes in God and trembling. But he don't repent. He don't repent. He that hears these words of mine, and doest them not, shall be like unto the foolish man which builds his house upon the sand. I have one quick saying. Let's see, brothers, a quick historical. What my saying to say it is, let's take a quick historical. He doesn't have to build a house. He can move God's will. The rain descends. And the floods keep pouring upon that house. It takes a flood to do it. And it keeps raining, raining, raining. And the house of the Lord God. It takes a big wind to do it. That's what the devil is in my face. My Lord has not spoken about people yet. My Lord has. This generation, they don't know what a good foundation, a foundation so strong that it takes a real storm. He said, these people on this broad road, they're not a bunch of fools. They built on one another. They sent on a good foundation. It scares me, my friend. It scares me, my friend. My friend, that's not something to just spit out and throw away. He comes out a bunch of fools. They ain't all right. And I think that millions are in jail now. They'll have a whole lot more evidence to save than a lot of us. I think we better listen to the Lord Jesus Christ. He ain't talking about some fool who goes out and hangs up a house to his family. I repeat what I've said over and over. 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That's another false hope and that's a man who is not trusted. Look at it, an experience that is not real, an experience that didn't change them and doesn't keep on changing them. Listen to me, we need a return to the truth that salvation is an experience. It is a conscious experience. We do well if we have some all time. Tell that experience. I only go to whom? And then the fire began to bless and a lot of people prayed. Then what do you do? You love it. Nod your head. You want to be a mediator? Nod your head. You want to baptize? You want to judge? Nod your head. What do you do? You heard his statement. He said he hadn't heard a word. He hadn't heard words. But we went back to that. Listen to me, the great things of the past. You can tell me for the Lord of Man to have experience and fear. They don't want it. Experience is real. All that work. Bless you Lord, ninety four years old. Remember, if my church, I have the honor of being pastor. All that work and all that evidence. He'd always had a new experience for the Lord. You know, I'll listen to your old experience, and I'm scared to death of you. I ain't interested in one that happened 30 years ago if you've never had any folks. Sound to me like you know a dead beast. The old man had always, you know, he just, you couldn't be around him without recognizing he was with somebody who'd been with the Lord. And he always had something. The least little thing was, before he'd sit down, before he'd sit down, and sure enough he was. Well, when he used to have Saturdays, you know, and they'd preach in the morning at half-past three and turn everybody out to church. They had a ballpark right there, you know. And then that night was, ain't got nobody to turn nobody out now because everybody's living like the devil. Nobody's going to turn them out then. And he said that morning, the preacher, he said he fixed his eyes on me, and he said he was the meanest fellow I've ever seen. He said he'd seen me alive, sitting down naked before that group of people. He said I never suffered so in my life. He said every time he owned me. He said the way he abused me was a bitch. He said I walked all the way home. I felt proud of myself because I didn't go back to him. And he said I went back that afternoon. He took another picture. He started in on me. He said I ain't good. He said I hate you. He said that night my wife was poor. I hated him with all of my heart. And then I began to miss him. And then he said I went up to the preacher and said, preacher, he said I love you better than anybody. And he sent the stars. To my mind. I don't believe. No change in that man. Because he didn't have an experience. But I must bring my message to a close. Let me say this. People who serve God out of faith. Out of hope. Only people who love. Because they love him. Are saved. That man who does right out of fear. Admits Christ. Ends up being fulfilled. That man. Who pleads. Listen to me. Through a profession of faith. Listen to me. In a Savior. Whom he doesn't know. And to whom he has vowed in surrender. When you listen to the preacher. You cannot trust. Somebody you don't know. And where we've missed it in this day. We've made salvation. Depend upon the decision. Salvation depends upon the revelation. My Lord. Must reveal in sin. Sinner you shut up. To the Lord Jesus. Revealing in sin. Oh. You better start crying. Wow. Mother. Now I'm cold.