In this sermon, the preacher shares a powerful story about a man who experienced a tragic accident on an oil rig. Despite being mocked by a young man prior to the accident, the injured man selflessly saved him from the fire. The preacher then transitions to discussing the reality of hell and the importance of accepting Jesus Christ as the only way to salvation. He emphasizes that hell is a place of darkness, both literally and spiritually, and shares the story of Iranian young people who were deceived by false promises of paradise. The preacher concludes by urging listeners to accept the simple and free gift of salvation offered through Jesus Christ.

This message is one of the Times Square Church pulpit series. It was recorded in the sanctuary of Times Square Church in Manhattan, New York City. Other tapes are available by writing World Challenge, Post Office Box 260, Lindale, TX 75771, or by calling 903-963-8626. None of these messages are copyrighted, and you are welcome to make copies for free distribution to friends. Hell, of course, is the most hated truth in the world today. Most gospel ministers don't preach about it. Many gospel preachers don't believe it. In Pentecostal circles, they don't believe there is a hell. They say it's incompatible with the preaching of God's love. They say, how can a God of mercy send anybody to a burning pit of everlasting hell? But Jesus was the very first to warn of hell. He said, whosoever shall say, thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Jesus warned Capernaum, Bethsaida, and everyone who would reject his word, he said, you shall be brought down to hell. Jesus said, you serpents, generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell? Jesus preached more about hell than he did about heaven. Jesus was the greatest preacher on hell and all this living word. Now, let me try to explain to you from the word of God what hell is going to be like. Now, let me start by saying that when I preached this message for the first time here in New York City, a young man was visiting from Canada. And he had a bodysuit on, a flesh-colored bodysuit. The only flesh he had was in his hands and his face. He had been burned over 90% of his body. He had been one of 12 men on an oil rig in Canada when it caught fire. Now, just two weeks prior to this, he had joined this oil team and he was on this rig. And when they go back after all day work, they went back to the bunkhouse. And he was mocked and ridiculed because he was a good, strong Christian. He really loved the Lord. And he was particularly harassed by a young man on the job, who just night and day said, I don't want to hear any of this Jesus garbage. I don't want to hear anything you have to say about it. And he was the kind of one that boasted, well, when I die, just before I die, I'll get right with God. And folks, this is why this message has to be preached. Some people have the idea, well, even if there is a hell, at the last moment, somehow, I'll cry out to God. He'll have mercy and he'll save me. The mockery went on for two weeks. This young man made up his mind the next day to quit. He said, I can't handle this mockery anymore. He was about to leave, but just that night before he was to quit, there was an explosion on the oil rig. I think there were three who were killed instantly. The rest were burned, different parts. This boy was burned 90% of his body. And he heard the screaming and the flesh burning. He was running himself, but he saw this young man who had mocked him so much. And he saw him on fire, and he pulled him away from the blaze. And he was nothing, honestly, charcoal, he said. His hands frozen up. He had nothing left but his eyeballs. His ears were gone, his nose was gone, everything was gone. Did he cry out to God? He said, Brother Wilson, I'll tell you why your message so stirred me tonight. And why, out of all the times, I had to be here this night. And that's why I don't understand who God sent here to hear this tonight. You know what his last words were? He didn't say, forgive me for mocking you. He didn't say one thing. He knows he's about to die. You know what he said? Do I still have a nose? He was worried about his nose. He couldn't breathe. Instantly died. This young man burned over 90% of his body. He said, Brother David, they gave me morphine. They gave me every kind of drugs. And for three months I was in hell. I tasted, I could feel it. And God made it real to me. He said, I know there's a hell. I know there's a hell. Nobody can tell me any different. Let me tell you what I believe it's going to be like. The Bible says, first of all, it's going to be a kingdom of total darkness. Both literally and spiritually. His kingdom was full of darkness. That's Lucifer's kingdom. Now the Bible said in God's kingdom there's no need for, there'll be no night there. There's no need of a candle. No light of the sun. For the Lord God shall give the light. Jesus Christ will shine in his glory. He's the light of those in heaven. The city says, no need of the sun nor the moon to shine. For the glory of the Lord does light it. And the lamb is the light thereof. Hallelujah. Hell is eternal darkness, not a speck of light. And it'll be so tormenting, so suffocating. And this is going to be a darkness created by God. Created by God. They will gnaw their tongues for pain. Jude warned, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. There's a darkness that cannot be defined by human reasoning. Peter said, a mist of darkness reserved forever. It's a mist that God has created that falls upon those in eternal hell. There was a darkness, remember, in Egypt. Even a darkness which could be felt. It was a thick darkness. They didn't even move. They didn't even move in their house. The darkness was so thick they couldn't see anywhere in front of them. It was a darkness that was felt. Can you imagine the darkness, the literal darkness in hell? You say, well, if there's fire, there's light. Not the liquid fire that God has created in hell. There's no light to that fire whatsoever. Jesus warned, the children of the kingdom shall be cast into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. More than that, it's a spiritual darkness. Outer darkness describes being cast further and further away from God. Now, folks, I don't know where hell is. Some people claim it's in the heart of the earth. I can't accept that because the Bible says there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth. And I don't want my new earth to be encased in the bosom of a hell. I don't want hell in the middle of a new earth. It's impossible. No, I believe God's created. He will create a special planet. And when judgment comes and they are carried away by the angels, bound hand and foot and cast into outer darkness, they're cast into this planet. And when God has finally finished the judgments, he will fling it into an outer cosmos. And all through eternity, it will drift further and further away from the light. Jesus is the light. Hell will be a continual, everlasting, drifting into a black darkness, cast into outer darkness. That's why I say he's going to fling that planet into total outer darkness. And there will be a sense to everyone in hell that they're drifting further and further away from God. Now, the only thing that gives any comfort to any sinner in New York or any place on this planet today is the fact that God's people are still here. The Holy Ghost is still here and working. You take the Holy Ghost out of the earth right now, it'd be hell right here on earth. There is comfort. The Holy Ghost is a comforter. And even the sinners, wicked sinners, they don't know it, but they're feeling that sense of safety and comfort. They don't feel the sense of danger because the Holy Ghost is still here. The Holy Ghost will be torn away. There'll be no spirit. There'll be no life. This will be an eternal knowledge of ever drifting from the presence and the light of God away from every Christian who gives joy, cheer, anything that has to do with happiness, cheer, and joy. All gone. This will be a world of transgressors, of child molesters, and of Hitlers and Mussolinis and all of the dictators. It will be a world, the Bible said, numbered with the transgressors. Numbered. Can you imagine waking up in that kind of company and looking around and there's nothing but sinners. Nothing but the ungodly. And you are numbered among the transgressors. Backsliders and compromisers on earth. The thought of God, of holiness and purity is going to die. Men are going to prefer darkness. Now listen to this please. Believing a lie, reprobated, made to believe that heaven with the Lord would be worse than even hell. Now listen to me please. You may not believe this, but everything in the scripture proves it. I used to believe that if in hell God came with an offer to come, I forgive you, enter the gates of heaven, it would not be accepted by one person in hell. In spite of the torments, in spite of what hell is, the Bible said men prefer darkness rather than light. And men will believe a lie and the devil will have them so deceived that they would believe. Don't believe it, it's a trick. That light that he's talking about is going to be worse than you have here and the total deception will be that even if God offered it, it would not be accepted. Now hell is more than just being abandoned or forsaken by God. The Bible said those in hell are going to suffer the vengeance of God. The flaming fire taking vengeance, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power. Now listen to this, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. For we know him, he said, vengeance belongs to me. I will repay, saith the Lord, for it's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of the Lord. Vengeance is mine, I will repay. Now those that are in hell are not in the hands of the devil. They're in the hands of an angry God. Now just think for a moment. Satan himself is going to be tormented night and day. We have the idea that Satan is going to be the tormentor. He's going to be tormented himself night and day all through eternity. He's going to be occupied with his own torment. The devil was cast in the lake of fire and brimstone and he shall be tormented day and night, Revelation 20. But you see, this word vengeance is retaliation. God said, I'm going to repay. Now what kind of vengeance, what kind of payday for mockers and scoffers like those who produce these movies like The Last Temptation of Christ and The Mockery of Jesus Christ? I can't even conceive in my mind the kind of vengeance that God will have prepared. If God can just speak a world and the world is destroyed by a flood, if he merely breathes his breath and fire falls on the whole population of Sodom and Gomorrah, if he just speaks the word and dust turns into lice, and he speaks the word and serpents cover the wilderness, and Egyptians are covered with boils, and all of that when God's anger was restrained, that wasn't the wrath of God. It was just a touch. Can you imagine what his wrath will be? The Bible says that those who are in hell are going to have special bodies prepared, instruments of unrighteousness. They're going to prepare bodies, instruments of unrighteousness, instruments of destruction. God, even though we get a new body, there will be a new body for those who are cast into hell, an eternal body that cannot be consumed. It has a worm that will never die. I'll explain what that worm is at the conclusion of my message. Hell is a place of rage and hatred toward God. The Bible says those who just taste a little bit of fire, before and during the great tribulation, this won't even be the full wrath of God. But here's what men are going to do. Men, when they were scorched with great heat, they blasphemed the name of God, which had power over these plagues, but they repented not to give Him glory. They blasphemed the God of heaven, because of their pains and sores, and they repented not of their deeds. You go to Roosevelt Hospital up here, you go to this hospital just two blocks from here, what's the name of that? St. Clare's? It's all AIDS now? And you go in there to the AIDS ward, like I have many times, and you'll see the most hatred for God you've ever seen by men and women with AIDS. They're about to die and they curse God. You will hear more cursing of those, they have been plagued and they will curse God. Now I'm not talking about homophiliacs, I'm not talking about those who got it without being involved themselves into gross sin. But those who've been in gross sin and they're suffering the vengeance, they have an anger toward God, even though they're about to look God in the face. There's an anger there. Even on the streets I've seen men dying with AIDS, banging their heads against the stone, against the curb and cursing God. There's no repentance. Do you think men will repent if they won't repent with the restrained anger of God? Are they going to repent when the full anger of God comes? I asked the Holy Spirit to show me what was the greatest cause of torment in hell. And I was shocked at the answer He gave me. Why are they going to be railing and gnashing and gritting their teeth? Why this terrible rage in hell? Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. The greatest torment in hell is going to be the cross of Jesus Christ. Because it's an offense. Here, now, in time, can you imagine the offense it will be in hell when the whole story is told? When they, in eternity, standing before the judgment, learn how simple the cross was, how simple grace was? When all the good deeds and charitable works and self-will created a sense of false security? The Jews will say, I kept 613 commandments. I went to synagogue. I washed my hands. I washed my pots. I washed my pans. I studied the Torah. I studied it all. And then, to have this revelation that Jesus said, just look and live. It was so simple. Millions of Iranian young people, almost two million of them, that listened to the promises of the Ayatollah Khomeini, Khomeini who said, if you'll pray five times, if you will rush in against the Iraqis, I guarantee you paradise. They were told that they'll have all the liquor they can drink and all the beautiful women all through eternity. And those 15, 16-year-olds died by the hundreds of thousands. Can you imagine when they wake up in hell? When they wake up and learn the truth of the cross of Jesus Christ that was offered so simply and so freely, they will curse God. You made it too easy. It was too simple. I was tricked. And many of you, some of you have heard enough gospel to save China. And we preach the simple gospel of Jesus Christ. You hear it on radio, television, everything. You got it coming out your ears. Can you imagine what it's going to be like when you wake up in eternal hell and remember the simplicity of the cross of Jesus Christ? That's the torment. I missed something, so something. If it had been hard, you could explain it or you could excuse it in your mind. But you can't excuse the simplicity of the cross of Jesus Christ through an eternity. For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins. Satan will rage forever because the cross cost him his power, put him to open shame and destroyed his kingdom. They're going to rage, shake their fist against the cross of Jesus Christ. And all through eternity, it was too obvious, it was too simple. How could I have known it was so simple? Now, there's some other aspects about hell I want to talk about. It's a place where men's lust will burn forever and never be satisfied. Now, this is hard for us to comprehend, but I want you to think about it for just a minute. The lust that now indulges the sinner is going to burn worse through hell. These bodies fitted for destruction will still be lusting away in hell. You say, well, how could there be a lust problem in hell when there's weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth? You explained to me how Rock Hudson, who knew he was dying with AIDS and still skin and bone, got on an airplane from Los Angeles and went to the bars in San Francisco and was still connecting, just before he died, still connecting with homosexuals in gay bars, about to die. He's still burning in his lust. There are men walking like skeletons out here. Walking skeletons, still trying to work a trick. I saw a woman being carried into a hospital in Houston. She's being operated on for cancer in her lungs. I think one lung had been removed and they're working on another, and she had a little hole they'd cut in her throat here so she could breathe. And they're wheeling her, her husband's following her into the operating room, and I'm standing there. I think Debbie was being operated there at MD Anderson Hospital, and she turns to her husband, and she says, Smoke! Smoke! He lights a cigarette. She holds it to the hole and sucks it in through the hole. I'm standing there in total disbelief. She may not even survive the operation, but smoke! Sucking it through a hole in her neck. It's going to be hell. The lust will rage and can't be satisfied. The Bible said hell's a lake of fire. Five times the scripture calls hell a lake of fire. A fire which burneth. God has elements that we don't know anything about. So don't try to figure it out by human elements that exist today. These are elements, supernatural elements. It has no light. Elements we know nothing about. The Bible said men shall seek death there and won't be able to find it. Hell, the Bible said, will never end. It's everlasting. If you stop and think that God never was and never will be ended, if you stop any day and try to stretch your mind back as far as you can go and find there's no beginning of God, you can go crazy. I don't do that. God had no beginning. He has no end. It's a circle. You can't find any cut in it. But a Puritan tried to describe what eternity is going to be like. He said, suppose the whole earth 25,000 miles in circumference was a ball of sand. 25,000 mile ball of sand. And once every million years a little bird came in from the cosmos and took away one grain of sand. It would take billions of years to fill a cup. And eternity would just be beginning. It would just be starting. Our minds can't conceive the everlastingness of hell. We can't even calculate it. Now, who's going there? The Bible says the majority of mankind is going to hell. The disciples said, Lord, are there few that will be saved? Jesus said, Enter at the straight gate, for wide is the gate, broad is the way that leads to destruction or to hell, and many there be which go in thereat, because straight is the gate, narrow is the way which leads to life, and few there be that are going to find it. Now, you think of New York City and 16 million people, most of them are going to hell. Paul visited the New York City of his time, Athens. Now, while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him when he saw the city, holy, the whole city given over to idolatry. Athens went to hell. Rome went to hell. All the great cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, all the cities that have gone to hell. New York is going to hell. The majority are going to hell. I thank God that we're one of many lights He's raised up here in New York City, especially this bright light right on Broadway, because the Lord, just like He's standing at the gates of hell, where men are falling into hell, He's established His arms stretched out by you and me. We are here at Broadway, stretched out His arms. He says, Come, look and live. Don't go this way. God's trying to push back the hordes that are rushing into hell. In Noah's day, how many were saved? Eight. Lot, his wife and two girls. And we know that we are of God and the whole world lies in darkness, John said. Now, I'll tell you what, I believe the majority of nominal churchgoers are going to hell. Many, many people are going to hell who are so blinded, they are not living for God. They can tell you they got saved some time way back. They may have even joined a church and shaken hands with somebody, but they're not living for God. When we think of hell, we think of those going there are the obvious, the Bible said, the fearful, the unbelieving, the abominable, murderers, warmongers, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars. But the Bible said, whoever is not written in the book of life, whosoever is not written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. The only people who are saved are those whose names are written in the book of life. There's a great white throne judgment and there's a book. The Bible said, I saw the dead small and great stand before God. The books were opened. Now the book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged out of those things written in the books according to their works. Jesus made this promise, He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed with white raiment. I will not blot out his name out of the book of life. I'll confess his name before my Father and all his angels. Do you know your name is written in the book of life tonight? Hallelujah. You see, in hell, this is something the Holy Spirit showed me, and I've never heard it from anybody anywhere in the world. The Holy Spirit revealed it to me, that when Christians get to heaven, you don't suddenly get everything that heaven is. It's not static. You don't suddenly get the full revelation of Jesus. You don't say, well, I've arrived, and suddenly you get all the glory. No, heaven is an ever-increasing glory. All through eternity, it's going to get better and better, richer and richer. Jesus is going to become more and more real, more light. We're going to learn all through eternity, and we'll never get it all. All through eternity, we're still learning, still being blessed. The joy is going to be ever greater. The ecstasy is going to grow and grow and grow. You don't get it all when you get there. You just start. And you will have an ever-increasing knowledge of being saved, an ever-increasing knowledge of joy. He will wipe out all memory of those on this earth so that there'll be no suffering over your unsaved loved ones. But in hell, there's also an ever-increasing knowledge of damnation and being lost and being cast further and further away from God. And there'll be an ever-increasing knowledge of what was missed. It's not static. You suddenly get to hell, and that's it. This is the torment, and it stays at this level. There's an ever-increasing torment, an ever-increasing knowledge that you were lost, an ever-increasing sense of being cast away from the presence of God for an eternity. Boy, there's going to be a surprise multitude in hell, though. The biggest multitude in hell will be in shock. Those who went to hell because of the sin of neglect, they just neglected. Just didn't take the time. They just neglected. How shall we escape damnation if we neglect so great a salvation? You did not lay these things to your heart. Neither did you remember the latter end. You're given to pleasures. You're living carelessly. Therefore, evil shall come upon you. You will not be able to stop it. Desolation shall come suddenly. Isaiah 47, 7 to 11. You didn't lay it to heart. You heard it and dismissed it. All of... There's going to be a number of you walk out of here tonight, and you're going to forget everything I said except the last part. I'm going to give you just a few moments because you'll never forget it. God, by His Spirit, is going to burn it into your brain because He loves you. I'm not railing at you. I'm not jumping all over the stage. I'm just standing here calmly telling you that there is a living hell, everlasting hell. Now, let me tell you how I see it. Now, folks, God gave me this verse. I hear preachers all over America using this now. I've heard it on radio. They don't even tell where they got it from my tape. I'm not bragging. I'm just telling you that I saw this and it shook me up and I'll never be the same. It's called instant replay. It's called the worm that never dies. And that's your conscience, the conscience. Can you imagine waking up in hell? Can you imagine the touch of eternal death on your shoulder and the stench and the feel of a darkness that I've described to you and then to hear the roar of the adversary, you're mine, eternally. And the sense of being lost and this sense of being ever more cast away from the presence of God, I don't think it's, in my limited vocabulary, I can't describe to you what it's going to be like for a person to suddenly be in hell. I am in hell. I'm lost. Now, if you could say to this person, well, ten million years from now, you get a week's break, they may endure it. Or they say, this could last billions of years, but at the end, you'll have a little bit of hope. But there's no hope, no other chance. I am in hell. And then suddenly, the worm turns, the conscience, because you will remember every service you've been in, you'll remember every scripture that was ever quoted to you, you'll remember every wooing of the Holy Spirit, you will relive it and live it, you will relive my message. The message I preach right now, I preached in Puerto Rico a couple weeks ago to about 8,000 people. And I screamed over the microphone, you will hear me preach this through eternity! And a shockwave went through that stadium. And I say the same to you. You will hear it. Every message you've ever heard, every radio sermon, every witness you've had, every song that you've heard or sung, everything that had to do with Christ or His gospel, you will replay it. The conscience will turn. That's the worm that never dies. That's the conscience. That's the memory. Oh yes, there's a memory in hell. You will remember it all. And suddenly, as this worm turns, I believe the worm means that a man will go between time and eternity. He drifts back and forth for quite a while before he realizes what's happening until the worm has finished its work. This worm will turn and suddenly the lights go on and suddenly there's light and he wakes up and he's back in his living room at home. And there's a Billy Graham special on television and there's a little girl who's playing with a doll and he can't believe it. He pinches himself. He said, I'm alive. I can't be in hell. And his wife is in the kitchen and he sees her and he says, Honey, quick, come in. And she's bringing a cup of coffee. This is the end of side one. You may now turn the tape over to side two. He said, Honey, put the coffee down. Please, on the coffee table. I've got to talk to you. I'm having some kind of incredible... I must have drunk something. Something's wrong. I have had a fit. I was in hell. I had a dream. I was in hell. I had a nightmare. Please tell me I'm alive. And she passes. Are you okay? Here, drink your coffee. And he fills the warm coffee. He said, I'm alive. And Billy Graham was saying, Come to Jesus. And he says, quick, on your knees. And he gets down on his knees and he's about to cry Jesus. And he can't get the word out because just as he's about to get the words out and feel the warmth and the peace of the gospel of Jesus flood his soul. It goes dark and he wakes up. He's in hell. He said, it wasn't a dream. I'm in hell. I'm lost. And he said, Oh, God, never again. Don't send me back into time. A little while goes by and the lights go on again. The worm is turning. This time he's back in church. He's sitting in the same seat that he once sat. And he's reliving a gospel message. He's singing. And he's sitting there stunned. He looks around. He said, If this is a nightmare, if someone has put drug in my drink, God, let me wake up. That man screams, God, don't let me go to hell. He's screaming, Save me. The preacher's trying to preach. He's screaming at the top of his voice. And he's looking around at him. He's looking at the lights. He's counting the people. He's looking at the colors of their clothes. And he's pinching himself. He's pulling his ears. He's pulling his hair. He wants to feel. And he feels the pain. He says, How can I be dead? Or how can I be eternally dead? How can I be in hell? When I feel the pain, I hear his voice. Oh, God, I can't take it anymore. And he runs down the aisle. And he throws himself on his knees. And this time, Jesus, I've got to get through. He gets the word Jesus out. And he's about to raise his hands and cry, Have mercy. But he can't get it out. Because it goes black. And he says, No, God, I'm in hell. I am in hell. He's got to go all through eternity. Reliving every scene until finally it's dragged in. And he sits through it. And it's nothing but torment. Because he said, I wake up in a moment of hell. There's no relief. And all it is, is added torment. And all through eternity. Sinner, I'm going to tell you something. Backslider. You walk out on God. You're going to be back in this seat. A billion, billion times. Back and forth. Back and forth. And never be able to utter the word Jesus. Never be able to repent. Because the worm never dies. Never dies. Or you said, Brother, are you trying to scare me? You know what Peter said? Knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. If I saw you in a building down Lower East Side, and it's on fire, and you're up there, and you're just sitting there, on a flat roof, and you're sunning yourself, and there's a fire down there, do you think I'm just going to stand there and say, I think it'd be a good idea if you got off that roof? I'd go, fire! And I'm screaming fire. You never heard hell preached in 35 minutes. But I'll tell you what really saddens me, more than anything else. I think the worst torment of all has to be those who are going to be tormented with opportunities lost and missed. Just like tonight. So Brother Dave, wouldn't the love of Jesus be better? This is the love of Jesus. He loves you so much that he would bring you to a service and change the pastor's message just to reach you. Just to reach you. I'm an evangelist at heart. And a pastor. But God knew you'd be here. Set you right in this seat. And you may think it's thunder and a piercing sword, but it's nothing but his arms reaching out to embrace you. Saying I'm warning you in love while there's time. I'm warning you. Now for those that are flaunting your sin in the face of God, he's warned you time and time again, don't play with sin. He's calling you to make a move tonight. Make your calling and election sure. Hallelujah. Holy Spirit have me say this last thing. I hate to say it, but I must. Some of you that are sitting here tonight are going to wake up in hell. Because in spite of the Holy Ghost here, in spite of the word, you allow the enemy to come and pluck it away from you. I want you to resist the devil. Right now resist him. He'll flee from you. The Bible says he'll get away from you. Say devil get away from me. I want the word to get in my heart. I want the word into my heart. And let him deal with you tonight in love. Will you stand, please? Jesus, send the Holy Ghost mightily right now. Settle over this congregation, the balcony here on the main floor, and just quietly deal with us now. There's some, Lord, that have turned away from you. I know that. There are people here tonight that have turned away. There are people, Lord, that you have just arranged to be in this meeting. You've arranged this whole night for this very moment. And now when I give an invitation, Lord, the very fact that you had me preach this must mean that you've already prepared somebody to open their hearts. Reach out, Holy Spirit, now all over this congregation. Bring in the backslider. Bring in those that are running. Bring in those that are cold of heart. Bring in those that are drifting. Bring them home, Jesus. Oh, you said flee from the wrath of God. Run from it. Flee. Run as fast as you can. Run from the wrath of God. We ask you, Lord Jesus, to come in your love now. I don't want any music. The Holy Ghost is dealing with you. Folks, I don't know why, but I'll know in just a few moments. Up in the balcony in here, get out of your seat. When the Spirit of God touches you, say, Brother Dave, that message is one I had to hear. God's been dealing with me. I want you to get out of your seat. I want you to come down here right now and say, Jesus, I give it all to you tonight. I surrender. I surrender everything. Get right out of your seat. Up in the balcony, here in the main floor. And if you're a Christian and you brought somebody, why don't you just whisper, look, I'll go with you. Do you want to go? I'll go with you. Come with them. Walk down the aisle with them. Move in close, please. There could be a lot of people coming. Hallelujah. Why don't you say, save me, Jesus. I'll open my heart to you. Come on. I'll open my heart. I'm coming home, Jesus. I'm coming home. The worst thing you could do is to shake off the Holy Ghost conviction. Just shake it off. Don't shake it off. Obey the Holy Spirit. This may be the best opportunity you've ever had to get things right. Come on. Don't be afraid to cry, son. That's all right. Let it out. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Bless you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Folks, in our overseas crusades, sometimes it takes a half an hour just for the altar call. For people just now, they keep coming because the Holy Spirit keeps working. I don't want to carry this burden anymore. I really want to change. I want you, Jesus. And I failed you, but I really do love you and I need you. I want you. I'm coming to you. He said, if you come to me, I'll no way cast you out. Never. I will not cast you out. That's his wonderful promise. Then after the Holy Spirit's wooed you, loving you, and he's convicted you, then he comforts you. And that's what this whole meeting's about, that you can get the comfort of knowing your sins are forgiven and the blood of Jesus Christ can be on your sins and wipe them out completely. And you can walk out of this church and no devil in hell can touch you, no demon in hell can touch you. You can walk out and say, I'm redeemed. I'm ready for heaven. The Lord's going to keep me by his power. He can do all of that right now. How many of you that have come forward have never been here before in this church your first time? Will you raise your hand, please? The first time to be in this church. Okay. Yes, yes. How many others? Quite a few. All right. I think I'm beginning to understand now why he put this in my heart. How many are not from the greater New York area? Raise your hand. You're not from the New York area. Keep your hand raised. Where are you from? Over here. Indiana. Where are you from? Huh? Switzerland. Who else had their hands? Where are you from? California. Where else? Huh? Okay. Where are you from? Pennsylvania. Where else? Anyone else have their hands raised? All right. Let all who came forward just lift both hands to the Lord. Just lift up your hands to Jesus right now. I want you to pray. Pray from your innermost. Pray from inside. Pray this. Jesus, I know you save. I know you can keep me. So I come to you, Jesus, like a little child to confess I need you, to lay my sins at your feet, to ask for the cleansing of the blood, cover my sins, wipe them clean. I confess Jesus as Lord of my life. I surrender completely all my sins, my doubts, my unbelief, and in Jesus' name I call you Lord. I call you Lord. Possess me. Cleanse me. Jesus, I receive your promise and by faith I am saved, I am forgiven, and He's my Lord. Now in your own words, won't you thank Him right out loud? Just thank Him. I thank you, Jesus. Lord, I thank you. This is the conclusion of the tape.