In this sermon, the preacher recounts a story of a little girl who had a powerful encounter with God during a church service. The preacher describes how the girl stood in awe and fear of God, and how she was deeply moved by the presence of the Holy Spirit. Despite not kneeling or praying, the girl held onto a pew tightly and wept uncontrollably. The preacher emphasizes the importance of repentance and warns of the judgment that awaits those who do not turn to God. The preacher also expresses a desire to warn sinners and urges listeners to fear sin and seek a relationship with God.

Christ depicts hell as a place where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched, as a furnace of fire. It's referred to as the lake of fire and brimstone. We cited that scene from Luke 16, and in hell he lift up his eyes being in torments and seeth Abraham afar off and he cried and said father Abraham have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame. Just give me a little drop on the end of his finger. I'm in torment. So often the Lord said it's a place of weeping and wailing. Can you imagine what it would be like if we could open the lid of hell and hear the weeping and the wailing of the damned? Pain I can't describe. I read about you know, I read about those that have suffered third degree burns, put in special burn units. I read about the debridement where they have to take away their dead flesh. I read about them groaning and crying and screaming because of the pain and then I think, will the man realize? I think the power and the depth of the wrath of God. Imagine every part of your body being on fire at the same time so that every fiber of your being is feeling the intense torment of being burned. But the most terrible thing about hell remains yet to be said, more awful than the fact that it is a place of torment and alleviated in both body and soul in varying degrees. Indeed the most awful thing that can be said about it, the inconceivably terrible thing about it, is that it's emptiness. You know and I know in this world it doesn't make any difference what the pain is. It may be something like a toothache, it may be a heart attack, it may be life, it may be excruciating. But if we can only say to ourselves, tomorrow it'll be better, in a year I'll be cured, or of whatever distress we have, we know that it ends with the grave. There's always some kind of pain, no matter what the pain, in the hope that it will cease. A time will come when it'll be over. On the other hand, if all you had was anything, it wouldn't make any difference, trifling, call it a toothache if you please, a headache, with a knowledge that you'd have it forever, would never get the slightest bit better. How terrible! That's what Jesus Christ says about the eternal, that's the awful, but it isn't, it's eternal. Jesus Christ has various ways of expressing. One figure he uses, you all know, the worm dieth not. You all know full well that it decays, but as soon as a maggot has, when Jesus Christ therefore describes hell as a place, when Jesus Christ, how could you think of fire is not quenched, the worm dieth not. People will not take the soul from hell and put it into heaven. Oh, the deceivers that these ecumenical ministers are, these flightless, but one day they'll read the Bible and find out what's going to happen to these lying clergymen that tell people that you never go to hell. Romans 1, 28, 32, and even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, deviant deceit, malignity, whisperers, back biters, haters of God, despiteful, proud bolsters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful, who knoweth, knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do they see them, but do them. Romans 1, verses 28 to 32. He's been down there all this time. Well, here's that fellow, the rich man's body, according to the scriptures, still in the grave, but his memory is with him in hell. And Abraham and I go seven years, more or less, and we pass by. He remembers how he was living in open lawless adulterous, and the lady's head down on a block, tormented by the head of the gun that backed his wife. While we pass by, he remembers being warned of his wife. He remembers that he and there he was. Some of you'll pray, but he never did get rid of the blood. Abraham and I pass by. We pass on, and there's a little girl, and she looks up. No, but then is screaming for mercy, and those tears, the Holy Spirit. I'm going to get into theology now. It's bigger than tongue. They'll never get away from it. In the presence of the Holy Son, in the presence of the Holy Ghost. And with God's holy book in my hand, I would cry out to you, flee, flee, flee from the wrath that is to come. The men who lived in the age before the flood never knew they were in large hell, but they did. The nation of the Jews never knew they were in large hell, but it did. The Christian church, by apostasy, never dreamed they were in large hell, but it did. Consider, dear sinner friend, this night, your latter end. Your end is near. Sinner awake before your doom is eternally and forever sealed. Beware of taking the first step. What is the first step to it? It's neglecting God's salvation. The Holy Word speaks nothing but God's eternal truth, and it asks the question, how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? The neglecting of salvation is taking a step which seals your loss of salvation forever. Your sins have put you in a lost condition. By neglecting salvation, you take the first of these three steps which will lead you to eternal damnation. Why do you neglect, dear sinner friend? Why do you neglect the salvation of your immortal soul? You know that you're a sinner. You know very well that the wages of sin is death. You know very well that after death, there is judgment. You know there is a heaven. You know there is a hell. You know that if you live in your sins, you will die in your sins. You will be buried in your sins. You'll rise again from the dead in your sins. You will appear before the God of heaven on his great white throne, judgment in your sins. And if you appear before God in your sins, you will go to that hell of which this chapter speaks, a hell enlarged to take your doomed and damned soul forever. You know all this, and yet you neglect God's salvation. Oh dear sinner, awake before it is forever too late. Oh immortal soul, listen to this solemn fact. If you do not turn from neglecting your soul, you will be damned forevermore. Withdraw your feet this very night from the broad road that leads to hell. Accept the cleansing blood of Christ, which purchased you for Christ upon his cross. Oh take God's grace now, the forgiveness of sins by the blood of the Lamb. It was Bishop J. C. Ryle, the first Church of England Bishop of Liverpool, who said this, the saddest road to hell is that which runs under the pulpit where the gospel is preached. Pass the Bible, for the gospel is recorded, and through the midst of warnings and invitations. Beware! Neglect God! Do not neglect.