In this sermon, the speaker shares a personal experience of almost dying and going to hell. He describes feeling a deep darkness and terror, unlike the common experiences of light and warmth that others have reported. He emphasizes that Jesus warned about the reality of hell and that even his disciples should fear being cast into it. The speaker fought all night long to stay alive and was told by doctors that his chances of survival were slim.

As I'm laying there in bed, I would begin to fade away. I would begin to fade away, and as I would fade away, I would begin to go down. Now, it was like darkness. It was like, it was so, so dark. It was like the very darkness just penetrated into you, very, very big. And as I left, and I can tell you I left my body because I remember when I came back into my body. You know, I don't know where I was out of my body. Now, there are people that talk about a light. There are people that talk about floating above. There are people that talk about a feeling of warmth and love. I didn't feel any of that. I felt none of that. I felt on-toe terror. On-toe terror. Because I knew that if I ever went all the way, if I slipped all the way, I would never get back. Now, in my beings of beings, I knew that. And so I fought all night long. They told me later on, I not only pulled the mattress cover off of the mattress, I pulled the mattress up on me because I had to stay. I had to wait. I had to wait till Ron got there. Whatever he had to do, I had to wait. But again, then I would leave, and I would be going down like a deep, deep, dark terror. Now, my skin began to get cold. Now, it's not like cold when you walk out into the air. It's like bone-chilling cold in my lower extremities. And you can feel the coldness begin to come up the legs. And again, I would begin to leave. Now, and I would be in that darkness, and I would be in that void. And I remember one time entering back in my body because when I entered my body, it was like, just like that. I felt my body thud. My physical body thuds when I entered back in. Now, I, believe me, believe me, that is the most horrifying, terrifying experience that I've ever encountered. And I thought all night long, and the next morning, somewhere 9.30, 10 o'clock, in came Ron. And Ron came in, and he says, Dr. Whittaker, what do they say to your chances? I said, Ron, they tell me I have none. He says, now's the time. And I said, you're right. I mean, I cursed him. I'd spit at him. But now was the time because I had to have whatever he had because I had a short period of time on earth. And I didn't know, I had any idea when I might make that trip and go all the way. God has prepared a place. It was prepared originally for the devil and his angels. And it is a place prepared by God where the damned of all ages will suffer the full indignation, the wrath, the anger, the torment, the pain, all that a creator God can imagine in his fine, infinite mind. God is creating, God has created a hell of torment, indignation, for his wrath. And boy, when I began to see this, it changed my whole concept of hell. It changed the way I preach it. You say, how could a loving Jesus create a hell so horrible it's beyond imagination? Where his full wrath for eternity is going to be spent on the ungodly and the sinful. Jesus warned about this over and over again. Jesus preached hell more than any Pentecostal Baptist preacher on the face of the earth. He preached it to his friends. I'm going to take you to St. Joseph, don't turn to follow me. I'm going to take you to Luke 12, 5. Listen to what Jesus said to his friends. He's not talking to prostitutes and alcoholics now. He's talking to his disciples. Listen to what he said. And I'm saying to you, my friends, do not be afraid of them that kill the body and after that have no more power in what they can do. But I'll tell you who you shall fear. Fear him which after he's killed the body has power to cast you into hell. Yea, I say unto you, fear him. Who said that? Jesus said that. That's what Jesus said and I have a right to preach it. Every preacher in America should be preaching because Jesus preached it. He preached it to his friends. He preached it to those who were saved. He said, I'll tell you who to fear. Fear him who after you're dead he can cast you into a hell. Fear him. Jesus was first to warn of hell fire. He said in Matthew 5.22. But whosoever shall say thou fool shall be in danger of hell fire. Jesus called it a danger. Be in danger. Be warned. Jesus taught it's better to cut off your right arm or your right eye than to be cast into godless hell. He said if your eye offends you, cut it out. If your leg offends you, your arm or leg offends you, cut it off. It's better to go into hell crippled than to be cast into, in heaven as a cripple than to be cast into hell with all your parts. Very clear. If your right eye offends you, cut it out. Better that one of your members perish but not that your whole body should be cast into hell. Again he's talking about hell. Jesus warned the cities of Capernaum and Bethsaida and all those who heard his message and rejected him. He said all Capernaum and Bethsaida thou shalt be brought down to hell. He says that to New York City. He says it to any city that rejects him. You'll be brought down to hell.