All right now, turn to Luke, chapter 16, and we're continuing our series called the end, dot, dot, dot, what happens next?

So, isn't that great to hear right now? In South Lake Camp so I can hear pages turning.

That's wonderful. Thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing your Bibles.

Luke Chapter 16. The first week I talked about a tough question, the

second week some easy questions. If you haven't heard those, go back and

listen or get the CDs. This week I'm calling it a tough message

because I'm going to talk to you about hell and it's a tough message for me to

talk about. I believe it was also a tough message for Jesus. But Jesus

did preach about hell. Jesus actually preached about hell 33 times. He talked

more about hell than he did about heaven. That's pretty amazing.

And I believe he did it because he didn't want anyone to go. So think about this, he had a three-year

ministry and he preached on hell 33 times. So almost once a month he would

bring a message on hell. You might not have wanted to attend his church because you would have heard so much but why do he do that he had to

just been filled with compassion to keep people from going to this difficult place

the Bible talks about hell 167 times. A hundred and 67 times.

Yet many theologians, many pastors, many denominations are distancing themselves from hell today and even denying

the existence of it.

And in a recent survey, many people said they do not believe in a literal health.

As a matter of fact in the survey I read 35% of Baptist,

54% of Presbyterians, 58% of Methodist,

and 60% of Episcopalians do not believe in the literal hell.

But the Bible talks about it 167 times and Jesus preached 33 messages on hell that we know of that we have recorded in

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