THE NECESSITY OF PREACHING ON HELL

THE NECESSITY OF PREACHING ON HELL

(Friday Church News Notes, August 19, 2011, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org) –

The following is from James Wigton, “Lee Roberson: Always about His Father’s Business”, pp. 272, 273:

“In his sermon, Do We Need A New Gospel? Dr. Roberson stated that he did not enjoy preaching about hell--that he would rather preach about God’s love and about heaven. ‘But one day I shall give an account of myself and of my ministry to God,’ he said. ‘In that day I do not want my hands to be stained with the blood of others. Therefore, I must faithfully proclaim the truth of God’s wrath upon all who reject the Savior.”

Roberson recalled the day when he preached strongly on hell in a week-long series of revival meetings at Woodlawn Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Many people were saved in the meetings. The church was the second largest church in Birmingham at that time. ... Roberson related the story in his sermon, Seventy-One Years of Fundamentalism.

‘[The pastor] called me back in his office one night toward the end of the week,’ Roberson remembered. ‘He said, I promised the deacons when I came to this church that I would not preach on hell. So, I have not preached on hell one single time in these five years! Now, I regret it so much when I see what God has done here in just a week’s time. My church has been dying because I have been holding back from them the Word of God!’”

To My Fellow Pastor,

Are you holding back from your brethren in your church God’s Precious Pure Word? When was the last time you preached on the Doctrine of Hell? Remember, we who are called to preach the Gospel is not only responsible but ACCOUNTABLE to Him who called us even our God and Saviour the LORD Jesus Christ! There is a day of reckoning.

Evangelist Emmanuel P. Salvador