John Wesley on the Punishments of Hell (Part 4) -- the Never-ending Punishment

TEXT: Isaiah 66:22-24

This is the sixth message in our series on Hell leading up to Halloween. People today, even many Christians, do not like to talk about Hell. However, I believe that if lost people become convinced about the reality of Hell, they would trust Christ as Savior. And if saved people believed in the reality of Hell, they would tell lost people how to be saved from Hell.
  
Today, we are going to looking at the never-ending publishment of hell from John Wesley. John Wesley was an Anglican minister and theologian who, with his brother Charles Wesley and fellow preacher George Whitefield, is credited with the founding of the movement known as Methodism. 
 
Regarding the never-ending publishment of hell, he said:
 
It remains now only to consider two or three circumstances attending the never-dying worm and the unquenchable fire.

First, consider the company wherewith everyone is surrounded in that place of torment. It is not uncommon to hear even condemned criminals, in our public prisons, say, "O, I wish I was hanged out of the way, rather than to be plagued with these wretches that are round about me!" But what are the most abandoned wretches upon earth, compared to the inhabitants of hell? None of these are, as yet, perfectly wicked, emptied of every spark of good; certainly not till this life is at an end; probably not till the day of judgment. Nor can any of these exert, without control, their whole wickedness on their fellow-creatures. Sometimes they are restrained by good men; sometimes even by bad. So even the tortures in the Romish Inquisition are restrained by those that employ them, when they suppose the sufferer cannot endure any more...

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