Why Must the Church Preach About Hell

The sermon centers on the necessity of preaching God's justice and the reality of hell as a foundation for appreciating the gospel, arguing that God's fairness demands punishment for sin, which is both temporal and eternal. Drawing from Jude, Romans, and the Heidelberg Catechism, it emphasizes that sin is not excusable, that God's justice is revealed in history—from the fall of angels and the flood to the destruction of Sodom and Egypt—and that unrepentant sinners will acknowledge God's judgment as just. The sermon confronts modern denial of divine punishment by affirming that God's wrath is not arbitrary but righteous, and that the horror of hell—eternal, agonizing, and marked by the absence of divine favor and the presence of divine anger—only makes the grace of Christ more profound. Ultimately, the call is to contend for the faith, to have compassion on the lost, to warn others of impending judgment, and to respond with gratitude and love to Christ, who bore the eternal punishment we deserved, so that we may live in joyful obedience and evangelistic urgency. 1. Remembering God's Justice 2. Remembering God's Judgement 3. Remembering God's Gospel