John Wesley on the Punishments of Hell (Part 1)

Luke 12:4-5: "And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him."

This is the third 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.
 
Regarding Luke 12:4-5, Dr. John Walvoord and Dr. Roy Zuck write: ‘Jesus taught that His disciples should be fearless because God would take care of them. Instead of fearing men who could kill their bodies, they should fear God, the One who has the power to throw one into hell.’
 
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Today, we are going to consider the punishments 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 foundation of the movement known as Methodism. 
 
Regarding the punishments of Hell, he said:
 
Every truth which is revealed in the oracles of God is undoubtedly of great importance. Yet it may be allowed that some of those which are revealed therein are of greater importance than others, as being more immediately conducive to the grand end of all, the eternal salvation of men. And we may judge of their importance even from this circumstance -- that they are not mentioned once only in the sacred writings, but are repeated over and over. A remarkable instance of this we have with regard to the awful truth which is now before us. 

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