Join us now for the chapel hour coming to you from the campus of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. Following the introduction by Dr. Bob Wood, our speaker will be Dr. Morris Gleiser, staff evangelist for Burge Terrace Baptist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. Today he'll begin a four-part soul winning series with the first message titled, Hell is Expanding Itself. The text is from Isaiah chapter 5, verses 11 through 14. This is a very, very special week for us. Can you imagine the potential of sending thousands and thousands and thousands of young people to all 50 states in the United States and more than 40 foreign countries, all with the knowledge of the gospel and a personal relationship with Jesus Christ? The people you'll meet that will be inquisitive, about where you go to school and about your relationship with the Lord will give you great opportunities to witness for Him. We consider this week one of the most important weeks that takes place on this campus every year, a time for our soul winning lectures. Personally, I believe that we could find no one in the world any better qualified to give us those lectures this year than Dr. Morris Gleiser. Dr. Gleiser came to know the Lord when he was six years old, answer the call of the ministry at 18, spent more than 14 years in ministry in Florida, seven years as a youth pastor, another seven years as an associate pastor. Then he went to Arizona to work for a while. He worked in a camp ministry and traveled as an evangelist, felt the Lord calling him back to a church ministry where he was at Tri-City Baptist Church in Kansas City for some time there. The Lord used him greatly in that ministry, and now a staff evangelist for Burge Terrace Baptist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. Brother Gleisen knows the heartbeat of the young people in America today. He has a burden for the gospel and a burden for the right kind of preaching. He has two young men that are here, his children, in school today, Andy, a member of the senior class, and Chad, a sophomore. His wife, Lynn, is visiting with him today. He found her here in 1975 when he graduated from Bob Jones University. We're in for a great week this week, and the week's following will be the proof of the ministry that the Lord has given to all of us to tell people about the Lord Jesus Christ. You give Dr. Gleiser your utmost attention as he comes and preaches for us this morning. Dr. Blyson. Isaiah chapter 5, please, this morning. Isaiah chapter 5. I agree with Dr. Wood. This is an extremely important week in your life, in the life of the student body here, and I'm thankful to be in some small way a part of this privileged time. I put myself as no example in front of you as someone who's a Master Soul Winner, I don't come to you today thinking that my years of experience as a tremendous witness is the greatest impact that I'll have here with you during this week. Really, Morris Gleiser is sitting here and learning and remembering and and being recharged in his own spiritual life regarding this matter of witnessing, as I trust you will be. The authority that we have about the matter of soul winning does not come from somebody's great experience or the authority of someone's abilities. The authority comes from that Bible that sits in your lap this morning. And every day we're going to come together and open its pages and be reminded of some things. This is going to be a great week. I hope it'll be a week of inspiration for you. I hope it'll be a week of instruction. We're going to try to do both in the limited time that we have together. And I'm just thrilled to death about having this extended time with you here in chapel. Now, I hope when you walk in the doors here every day that you don't carry in with you the baggage of all the things you have to do today. All the papers have to be done, the tests that have to be taken or the things that have to be studied or the girl that has to be broken up with or anything else. Put all that aside. You can take care of that later. And think about the fact of the matter that we're here to learn something from God's Word to help you be what you need to be. And it's my prayer that this time will be both timely and inspirational for each one of you here, and certainly also instructional. The book of Isaiah gives us a six-fold indictment upon the children of Israel. We're not going to read all the indictments that God gives to His people through the prophet Isaiah. It starts in verse 8. We're not going to start from there. I'm going to pull out one particular section of this indictment. God condemns these folks who lived in Israel in the days of Isaiah because of their pride, because of their blasphemous tongue, because of, believe it or not, drunken judges that lived in their day, because of their money-grabbing, land-grabbing lifestyle that they lived. Because of their drunken, lazy spiritual condition, God brings a great indictment upon them. And I want you to notice one particular phrase. We'll start reading in verse 11. The Lord says, "...Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, that continue until night, till wine inflame them, and the harp and the vial, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feasts, but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of His hands. Therefore, my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge, and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst." Now, notice verse 14. Therefore, hell. hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure, and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth shall descend into it. Therefore, hell hath enlarged herself." Anybody who's ever been involved with construction work knows that you don't build something without some type of measurements and some type of dimensions that you have to abide by. As you're building some particular project, something that you're putting together, you have dimensions of which you have to stay within. Nothing could be built without having some type of blueprint or some sort of guide so that you'll know exactly the size, the width, the length and the breadth and all that's involved with that particular structure. But this verse says, hell, has enlarged herself." Now notice it says, "...and opened her mouth like a wild beast without measurement." I don't know if you've ever gone through a remodeling expansion time at your own home. I know that one time in our life we were remodeling our home. We were rebuilding. We were adding on one room for my grandmother who was going to move in to live with us. And I was just a little guy. And I was told I couldn't get near anything. I couldn't get near all the construction. I couldn't get near all the boards that were laying up back there where the men were working and the blocks and the nails and everything. And I was caught up with the attraction of it. I would stand at the end of the hall and look down inside that room that we were building and be amazed with what was happening in there. I remember the concrete slab being laid and the structure of the beams and the trusses and everything that got put up there in place until finally it was enclosed, but there was still a lot more work to be done. And I remember standing there observing it and thinking about it and saw a door that was to lead outside. My grandmother, who was going to move in there, would hardly ever use that door, but we wanted to give her that sense of independence. And so my dad put a door there for that room that could go outside. I remember one night, it was a Friday night. I know it was a Friday night because my father was gone to a football game. And why I didn't get to go, I don't know. I was upset. I think that maybe I was coming down with some kind of a sickness and Mom, as good moms will do, kept me at home. And I wanted to be with dad. I love my mom and I wanted to be at the ball game. And I was there at home with my sister and my mother. And I was stuck up in the, excuse me, I was privileged to stay in the front living room with my sister and I was sitting there watching television with my sister and we were watching what I consider to be the most ridiculous program that comes on TV and it comes on every year. I think it's the most ridiculous thing that you could ever find on television. It's a joke. I'm I'm sitting there because my sister is older than I am sitting there watching the annual Miss America beauty pageant. All these yahoos walk across the platform with their phony smiles and answer questions about world peace, you know, and I'm thinking it might help if you got a brain first. But anyway, I'm I'm I'm watching all this take place. And I'm miserable watching this. I want to be at the ball game with my dad. Now, if you knew my mom, my mom is one of the classiest. I mean it. She is a very proper lady. My mom would be comfortable sitting at the table with royalty. And she's comfortable sitting with just plain country folk, just enjoying a meal with them. She is just down home, comfortable with anybody, but she's a very proper lady. Never out of sorts, never out of line. But this night, my mom was sick. And she had taken some kind of medicine that had put her nerves on edge. You ever taken any of that kind of medicine? I mean, she was just kind of, she was frayed. And everything just kind of set her off. And she was very frantic that night. And I remember she was cleaning, and I'm sitting up there watching this dumb program with my sister, when all of a sudden my mother hears something back there in that room where we were remodeling. Probably a board fell over or something. But remember, my mom's nerves are on edge. And my mom thought for sure somebody's breaking into our home. And I'm telling you, if you only knew my mom, this is so unnatural to her. My mom lost it. She just lost it. She took off running through the living room, screaming at the top of her lungs and ran right in front of my sister and I, right out the front door, just screaming right outside. Didn't even tell us what was going on. Just gone. Let the robbers have the kids. I'm out of here. Well, it doesn't take much for a girl to get excited. My sister didn't know what was going on, but she wanted to join the fun. So she jumped up and she started screaming. She didn't know what was going on. Now, I mean it. Honestly, the first thing I thought was, good, now I can watch what I want to watch. I started to turn the channel and it dawned on me, you know, there may be some reason why these two ladies are running down the road. Maybe I'll join them. And so I walked out the front door and saw where they were and I took off and tried to catch them. And we were running from one neighbor to another until finally we got into one house and my Mother announced to the neighbor and to us what was going on, that she thought somebody was breaking in. That night was a frightening night for me. That remodeling experience scared me to no end, but it was really ridiculous to do so. But young people, this is one remodeling program that ought to concern everybody in this building this morning. The remodeling of hell. Hell is expanding itself right now. Hell is expanding its borders without measure. And if there is a motivation that ought to stir the heart of any child of God to tell others about Christ, it ought be the reality of hell. Hell is real this morning. Hell was built, everlasting fire for the devil and for his angels, but hell is expanding itself today for those who have rejected Jesus Christ. Hell is a real place. Hell is a place of eternal isolation. Think about it. A person in hell will be completely isolated from God for time and eternity. Isolated from God's grace. Isolated from God's goodness. Isolated from God's love. Eternal isolation. Hell is a place of eternal duration. There's no time off in hell. There's no side door to go outside and catch your breath. There's no time off. There's no weekends off. There's no time off for good behavior. It's eternal duration will be quite painful. Not only is it a place of eternal isolation, eternal duration, it's a place of eternal affliction. The affliction of fire. The affliction of separation. The affliction of, get this, of memory. Memory. A person in hell will constantly remember the gospel message that they heard while they were When Abraham spoke to that rich man in Luke chapter 16, he said, Son, remember, thou and thy lifetime had thy good things. Remember the torment of remembering. A man or a woman in hell will suffer the torment continually of darkness and the torment of falling. Hell is a real place. And I know this is Monday morning, and I know we're just starting our week off, but I plead with everybody in this room this morning to understand that hell is expanding itself. May God give us a burden for souls. Hell is remodeling and opening its gates without measure. Why? Number one, because of unbelief. You know that I can't say anything differently to you. Oh, I know there are some people who would claim that hell is nothing more than just having a bad day. There are some people that you'll face this weekend and all the holiday weekends that will just say hell is is when a person chooses to be in his mind, separated from God. There'll be other people who will say, well, now, look, friend, you have your way to get to heaven and I have mine. We all have our own way. We'll see each other in heaven. And you know, that's not true. Hell is expanding itself because people do not believe. Unbelief. Unbelief. Unbelief in what? Jesus Christ and the eternal work of salvation on the cross of Calvary. The Philippian jailer rushed into the presence of Paul and Silas when the earthquake had opened up those doors. He thought everyone was escaping and he awoke from sleep and he began to take his own life. And Paul called out and said, Hey, hold it! Don't do it! Why? He saw a man about to take his life and Paul's burden and urge of life was to tell people of eternal life. Wait a minute, he said. Don't do that. We're all ok. And that Philippian jailer fell down in front of him and he said, Sirs, listen, what must I do to be saved? And Paul said the answer that everybody in this world needs to hear. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Belief in Christ. Understanding that you cannot save yourself. Understanding that your sin will take you to hell. Understanding that you're separated from God without Christ. Put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ. Why is hell expanding itself? Because of unbelief. Now, hang on. You had to understand that before I go to point two. Here's the second reason why hell is expanding itself. Because of an unclear message. For sake of time, don't turn to it, but if you want to write down the text, you can write down 2 Corinthians 4. 2 Corinthians 4, verses 1 to 3, and then verse 6. Maybe you remember that text. The Bible says, Paul says, therefore seeing we have this ministry, we faint not. He says, but we've renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in crackiness, nor handling the Word of God deceitfully. but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." Now listen to verse 3. He said, "...but if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost." He says, if our gospel be veiled, if it's covered, if it's unclear, it is made unclear to those who are unsaved, those that are lost. Why is hell expanding itself this morning? Because of an unclear message on the part of so many of God's people. Young people, when somebody sees you over the Christmas holiday, will they see a distinctive, different type of person because you know Christ? Or will they receive an unclear message? Will they see somebody whose walk with the Lord is as deep and genuine and as real as it ought to be? Or will they see somebody who's home just to make money? Now, I understand the need to make some cash to pay some school bills, but you mark it down. People will be able to tell if you've got a clear message of what you really believe. Will they see a clear message of somebody who's in deep love with the Lord, who bows his head before a meal and prays God to bless his life and bless that food to his body and giving him strength to serve him better? Or will they see somebody who's embarrassed about being a Christian? Will they see somebody listen to the same kind of music that the world listens to? Will they see somebody attired as the world is attired? Will they see somebody walk their walk like the world walks? Or will they see a distinct difference? I'll tell you why hell is expanding itself. Because our gospel is hidden to them that are lost. Verse 6 of 2 Corinthians 4 says, oh, young people, listen to this. It says in verse 6, for God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness. It's talking about creation. For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts." Those of us who know Christ as Savior. That same powerful light that shined in creation has shined in our hearts. Listen now, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in Jesus Christ. To give the light. To give the light. Somebody will go to hell because we blocked the light. And somebody behind us wanting to discern the light of Christ, wanting to know how they can go to heaven, they look at us and we block the light with an unclear message. Our language, our lifestyle, the way we carry ourselves. Oh, listen, young people, you will face grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins and friends and people you work with this holiday break. They'll need to see somebody who is distinctively different. Someone who expresses to them that you believe sincerely that Christ is the only way to salvation. People, don't go home with a dirty heart. Don't go home with a dirty life. Don't go home with an unclean heart. Don't go home with a testimony that's disappointing to the cause of Christ. Hell is expanding itself and opening its gates without measure. Because of unbelief. Because of an unclear message. And because of unconcern. Unconcern. Morris Gleiser needs this as much as anybody in this room needs it. Listen, young people. I wish I wish I could come up here and say, hey, young people, I found a new verse that this will challenge it. Go. Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. No new verse. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always. No new verse. And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard, and how shall they hear? without a proclaimer? A preacher? How should I hear? I have a preacher friend that's in the ministry. He said that when he was 17, he walked an aisle, put his arms around his daddy who was at the altar, and he simply said, Dad, I've got to go into the ministry. I've got to be a preacher. And his dad said, Son, how do you know that? And here's what his answer was. Are you ready for this? All those people go into hell. I've got to preach. When I was a youth pastor in the state of Florida, young people, I was very busy, as I suppose everybody in this room knows what busyness is all about. I had a lot on my platter. I had a sizable youth ministry. I must admit that. There was a lot going on in our youth group. I was busy counseling. busy with activities, busy with events of their life, and I was just very much involved with things going on in their world. Because of the size and structure of our ministry there in the Tampa area, I lost my concern for lost souls. I hate to tell you, but I did. I got too busy doing good things, doing appropriate things. But I lost my burden for lost teenagers. I was sitting in my office one morning when the report came that one of my friends, on his way to our Christian school, he was bringing his young people, his own children, to our school. As he was driving to school, it was a foggy Florida morning, he did not see some teenagers horse-playing around at a bus stop. That bus stop was just down the street, listen, from the church where I was working. The word came to us that our friend, who was driving on that foggy Florida road that morning, as he was driving along, did not see that 16-year-old boy get pushed out into the road. Neither did the boy see the car coming. It was an extremely foggy morning. My friend hit that boy straight ahead, lifted him up in the air and took him several feet and knocked him unconscious, almost killed him. The word came to our offices where it had taken place, and I asked, Where did that happen? The secretary said, just down the road. Do you know where those young people live? I didn't even know. And I was rebuked. I rushed to the hospital, young people praying all the way as I was going. I didn't even know what I was going to do. I rushed in the emergency room and I found the man who was the father of this boy. I walked up to him and I said, Sir, you don't know me. But I'm the youth pastor at the church just down the road from you here. And I said, I've never met your son Troy, but I'm burdened about him and I want you to know that I'm going to pray that God will keep him alive because I want to talk to him. The man looked at me with strange and yet somewhat grateful eyes and he said, alright, thanks. I turned and walked out of the hospital and I went back to my office. And young people, I'm going to tell you something. Every day of my life, every moment of every day, I was thinking about Troy in that hospital. And all day long, I was praying, God, keep him alive. Lord, keep him alive. Please don't let him die. Lord, I'm sorry I never told him. He lives right down the street from our church. Lord, I'm sorry I never invited him to church. Lord, keep him alive. I remember the day when I called the hospital and they told me that he'd come out of his unconscious state. I felt like there was some new hope. I again wept in my office and said, Lord, please, thank you. I pray, please keep him alive. Day after day, I called the hospital and talked to nurses and found out the condition of that boy. Until finally one morning I called and they said, sir, we just released him. He's on his way home. In fact, they may be home by now. They just got away and they're on their way. If not there, they're almost there. I waited a few more moments and asked God for his power and I got in the car and drove down. I didn't even have to drive. I could have walked. It was just down the road. I pulled up in that driveway of where their house was, I got out and folks, I could hear laughter. I could hear talking inside the house. Well, of course, there was laughter. I walked up to the door and knocked on the door. The father came to the door, I remember him, I knew he wouldn't remember me. I said, hi, sir. I said, you don't remember me, but my name is Maurice Gleiser. I said, I'm the youth pastor down here at the church and I met you at the emergency room in the hospital a month ago. Oh, he said, yeah. I said, I know. Can I see? He said, yeah, sure. We just got home. He opened the door. I said, sir, I prayed for this moment. He said, yeah, I remember you said that. Come on in. I sat down on the couch and I met Troy, whose head was still bandaged from some surgery that he had had. Big old smile from one side to the other. I looked at him and I said, how are you doing, Troy? He said, OK, I'm a little weak, but I'm all right. I introduced myself to him. I said, Troy, I'm sure people have asked you, do you remember anything that happened that day? He said, oh, yeah, I get asked all the time. He said, I don't remember anything. I said, well, let me ask you this. If you would have died that day, Do you know what you would have done? Would you have gone to heaven? He said, I don't know. He said, I thought about it. I took my Bible, young people, and I showed him how he could know Christ as Savior. You know what? Just like that, he accepted Christ. A few weeks later, I had the privilege of introducing him to our youth group. I can't tell you what a joy it was to see him walk in that door. God had to wake me up. Hell almost got another one. Hell hath enlarged herself and opened her mouth without measure because of unbelief, because of an unclear message, because of our unconcern. Hold it now. Are you thinking of somebody right now back home? May God give us a fresh vision and burden for lost souls. Let's bow our heads for prayer. Take just a moment, young people. Name that person in prayer. And maybe even after chapel, you need to take a little more time with the Lord. Do so. Don't walk away from here and just let this be nothing but another message. Let God do a finished work in your heart. May God give us a fresh concern. Finish this time together as you see fit, I pray. Lord, don't let me get in your way. Do whatever you want to do in our hearts, not only today, but this week. Lord, help us to understand that people need to put their faith in Jesus Christ. May we not muddy up the message by an unclear message on our own life, in our own life. Lord, may we go home not just burdened about relaxing, not just burdened about making some cash, not just burdened about being with friends and family and church friends. Lord, help us to be passionate about souls going to hell. Finish the work in our hearts, we pray. Do what only you can do. In Jesus' name we ask it. Amen. God bless you. You've been listening to the Chapel Hour coming to you from the campus of Bob Jones University. Our speaker was Dr. Morris Gleiser of Burge Terrace Baptist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. If you'd like a cassette copy of today's message, send a check for $6.50 to Campus Store, Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina 29614. Be sure to mention the name of the speaker and today's date. The Chapel Hour has been sponsored by Bob Jones University.