actually, yes. preachers are supposed to stir up emotions so ppl can look beyond the superficial surface of things & rly get to the heart of the issue so they can deal with it head on at it's core. see, the elite are pretty much bent on deception. they see us as scientific experiments; pawns in the system to be pushed around & they download all kinds of lies into our subconscious minds from birth to make us blindly follow their patters into their own evil satanic agendas. the truth has always been there to thwart that evil enterprise. preachers don't rly care too much about circumstance, opinion, subjective relativism, or anything shallow, they care about what's true objectively outside of human opinion; what's based on the unchanging character of Holy God who is sovereign to this finite system altogether. it's like this: when I did bad stuff as a kid, I felt secure if I got away with it. If I got confronted, I was pissed. why is that? because I hate accountability, just my human nature in a fallen world. It's convenient to self-deceive & not have to deal with the reality of an issue & I hate when ppl take me out of my comfort-zone of the false security that there's no consequence to my bs. that's my naturalistic side. spiritually, I'm always looking for a way to war against my own lying heart bc I hate untruth passionately: "a righteous man hates falsehood." the reason preachers are so harsh is bc they understand that a soft message produces a hard heart. now, I just go to GTY.org & download a bunch of John MacArthur sermons & he's so explicit & so clear about everything, it's made me not afraid to deal with my own sins & such powerful preaching pretty much shocked me into focus & made me see more clearly. it's a process though.
Don is right: only God knows who goes to Hell or Heaven, we don't have clue #1 the ultimate purposes of God for the individual. for example: I use to be convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that I would never change bc I was sooo corrupt & just blatantly evil. then I got to the point of self-righteousness thinking that if I act all moral in the sight of man, God would be pleased. then I began to get into scripture itself apart from all the hear-say & tradition & I learned the truth of what Paul wrote: "that which is highly esteemed in the sight of man is an abomination to God" & then I was like whoa! the religious priests of Jesus day were the most hypocritical of all. Jesus was nicer to the sinners than he was to the moralists bc sinners know they're evil as self-righteous moralists think they're good. so you never know who goes to heaven or hell, I've seen some pretty bad ppl transform completely so you never know. preachers can only say that if you keep rejecting Christ your whole life, you'll die in your sins. actually, Jesus said that to the pharisees: "ye shall seek me and shall die in your sins. where I am going, ye can not come. I said therefore to you that unless you believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins." so it's not the preacher's word, it's God's own revelation that only faith & understanding of the true God & the true Christ can produce true salvation from death & Hell. everything else is contradictory to the truth in some way or another.