As you continue to destroy the land of the free, and at the rate souls are going to hell, even the author of this blog will turn from his grave.

 

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

“Their foot shall slide in due time.” – Deut. 32:35

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of Hell but the mere pleasure of God.

By the mere pleasure of God, I mean his sovereign pleasure, his arbitrary will, restrained by no obligation, hindered by no manner of difficulty any more than if nothing else but God’s mere will had, in the last degree, or any respect whatsoever, any hand in the preservation of wicked men one moment.

The truth of this observation may appear by the following considerations:

1. There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into Hell at any moment. Men’s hands cannot be strong when God rises up. The strongest have no power to resist Him, nor can any deliver out of His hands.

He is not only able to cast wicked men into Hell, but He can most easily do it. Sometimes an earthly prince meets with a great deal of difficulty in subduing a rebel, who has found a means to fortify himself, and has made himself strong by the number of his followers. Not so with God. No fortress is any defense from the power of God. Though hand join in hand, a vast multitude of God’s enemies combine and associate themselves, they are easily broken in pieces. They are as great heaps of light chaff before the whirlwind, or large quantities of dry stubble before devouring flames.

We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; so it is easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that anything hangs by: thus easy is it for God when He pleases, to cast His enemies down to Hell. What are we, that we should think to stand before Him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown down?

2. They deserve to be cast into Hell, so that divine justice never stands in the way; it makes no objection against God’s using His power at any moment to destroy them. Yea, on the contrary, justice calls aloud for an infinite punishment of their sins. Divine justice says of the tree that brings forth such grapes of Sodom, “Cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground?” (Luke 13:7). The sword of divine justice is every moment brandished over their heads, and it is nothing by the hand of arbitrary mercy and God’s mere will that holds it back.

3. They are already under a sentence of condemnation to Hell. They do not only justly deserve to be cast down thither, but the sentence of the law of God, that eternal and immutable rule of righteousness that God has fixed between Him and mankind, is gone out against them so that they are bound over already to Hell. John 3:18 – “He that believeth not is condemned already.”

So every unconverted man properly belongs to Hell; that is his place; from thence he is. John 8:23 – “Ye are from beneath”; and thither he is bound; it is the place that justice and God’s Word and sentence of His unchangeable law assign to him.

4. They are now the objects of that very same anger and wrath of God that is expressed in the torments of Hell; and the reason why they do not go down to Hell at each moment is not because God, in whose power they are, is not at present very angry with them, as He is with many miserable creatures now tormented in Hell, who there feel and bear the fierceness of His wrath. Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth, yea doubtless with some who may read this book who, it may be, are at ease, that He is with many of those who are now in the flames of Hell.

So it is not because God is unmindful of their wickedness and does not resent it that He does not let loose His hand and cut them off. God is not altogether such a one as themselves, though they may imagine Him to be so. The wrath of God burns against them; their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared; the fire is made ready; the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. The glittering sword is whetted and held over them, and the pit hath opened its mouth under them.

5. The Devil stands ready to fall upon them and seize them as his own, at what moment God shall permit him. They belong to him; he has their souls in his possession and under his dominion. The Scripture represents them as his goals (Luke 11:21). The devils watch them; they are ever by them, at their right hand; they stand waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey and expects to have it, but are for the present kept back. If God should withdraw His hand, by which they are restrained, they would in one moment fly upon their poor souls. The old serpent is gaping for them; Hell opens its mouth to receive them; and if God should permit it, they would be hastily swallowed up and lost.

6. There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning that would presently kindle and flame out into hell fire if it were not for God’s restraints. There is laid in the very nature of carnal men a foundation for torments of Hell. There are those corrupt principles in reigning power in them and in full possession of them that are seeds of hell fire. The principles are active and powerful, exceedingly violent in their nature; and if it were not for the restraining hand of God upon them, they would soon break out; they would flame out after the same manner as the same corruption, the same enmity, does in the hearts of damned souls, and would beget the same torments as they do in them.

The souls of the wicked are in Scriptures compared to the troubled sea (Isaiah 57:20). For the present, God restrains their wickedness by His mighty power, as He does the raging waves of the troubled sea, saying, “Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further”; but if God should withdraw that restraining power, it would soon carry all before it.

Sin is the ruin and misery of the soul; it is destructive in its nature; and if God should leave it without restraint, there would need nothing else to make the soul perfectly miserable.

The corruption of the heart of the man is immoderate and boundless in its fury; and while wicked men live here, it is like fire pent up by the course of nature; and as the heart is now a sink of sin, so, if sin were not restrained, it would immediately turn the soul into a fiery oven, or furnace of fire and brimstone.

7. It is no security to wicked men for one moment that there are no visible means of death at hand! It is no security to a natural man that he is now in health and that he does not see which way he should now immediately go out of the world by any accident, and that there is no visible danger, in any respect, in his circumstances. The manifold and continual experience of the world, in all ages, shows this is no evidence that a man is not on the very brink of eternity and that the next step will not be into another world.

The unseen, unthought-of ways and means of persons going suddenly out of the world are innumerable and inconceivable. Unconverted men walk over the pit of Hell on a rotten covering, and there are innumerable places in this covering so weak that they will not bear their weight, and these places are not seen. The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.

God has so many different, unsearchable ways of taking wicked men out of the world and sending them to Hell that there is nothing to make it appear that God had need to be at the expense of a miracle, or to go out of the ordinary course of His providence to destroy any wicked man, at any moment. All the means that there are sinners going out of the world are so in God’s hands and so universally and absolutely subject to His power and determination that it does not depend at all the less on the mere will of God whether sinners shall at any moment go to Hell, than if means were never made use of, or at all concerned in the case.

8. Natural men’s prudence and care to preserve their own lives, or the care of others to preserve them, do not secure them a moment. To this, divine providence and universal experience do bear testimony.

There is this clear evidence that men’s own wisdom is no security to them from death; that, if it were otherwise, we should see some difference between the wise and politic men of the world and others, with regard to their liableness to early an unexpected death; but how is it in fact? “How dieth the wise man? as the fool” (Ecclesiastes 2:16)

9. All wicked men’s pains and contrivances which they use to escape Hell while they continue to reject Christ and so remain wicked men, do not secure them from Hell one moment. Almost every natural man who hears of Hell flatters himself that he shall escape it; he depends on himself for his own security; he flatters himself in what he has done, in what he is now doing, or what he intends to do; everyone lays out matters in his own mind, how he shall avoid damnation, and flatters himself that he contrives well for himself, and that his schemes will not fail. They hear indeed that there are but few saved, and that the greater part of men who have died heretofore are gone to Hell; but each one imagines that he forms plans to effect his escape better than others have done. He says within himself that he intends to take effectual care and to order matters so for himself as not to fail.

But the foolish children of men miserable delude themselves in their own schemes and in confidence in their own strength and wisdom; they trust to nothing but a shadow. The greater part of those who heretofore have lived under the same means of grace, and are now dead, are undoubtedly gone to Hell; and it was not because they were not as wise as those who are now alive; it was not because they did not lay out matters as well for themselves to secure their own escape.

If we could come to speak with them and inquire them, one by one, whether they expected, when alive and when they used to hear about Hell, ever to be subjects of that misery, we doubtless, should hear one and another reply, “No, I never intended to come here: I had arranged matters otherwise in my mind. I thought I should contrive well for myself. I thought my scheme good. I intended to take effectual care. But it came upon me unexpectedly; I did not look for it at that time and in that manner; it came as a thief. Death outwitted me. God’s wrath was too quick for me. O my cursed foolishness! I was flattering and pleasing myself with vain dreams of what I would do hereafter; and when I was saying peace and safety, then sudden destruction came upon me.”

10. God has laid Himself under no obligation, by any promise, to keep any natural man out of Hell one moment. God certainly has made no promises either of eternal live, or any deliverance or preservation from eternal death, but what are contained in the covenant of grace, the promises that are given in Christ, in whom all the promises are yea and amen.

But surely they have no interest in the promises of the covenant of grace who are not the children of the covenant, who do not believe in any of the promises and have no interest in the Mediator of the covenant.

So that, whether some have imagined and pretended about promises made to natural men’s earnest seeking and knocking, it is plain and manifest that whatever pains a natural man takes in religion, whatever prayers he makes, till he believes in Christ, God is under no manner of obligation to keep him a moment from eternal destruction.

So that thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God over the pit of Hell. They have deserved the fiery pit and are already sentenced to it. God is dreadfully provoked. His anger is as great towards them as those who are actually suffering the execution of the fierceness of His wrath in Hell; and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger; neither is God in the least bound by any promise to hold them up for one moment. The Devil is waiting for them; Hell is gaping for them; the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them and swallow them up. The fire pent up in their own hearts is struggling to break out. They have no interest in any Mediator. There are no means within reach that can be any security to them. In short, they have no refuge, nothing to take hold of. All that preserves them every moment is the mere arbitrary will and uncovenanted, unobliged forbearance of an incensed God.

- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) -

THE MOST FAMOUS SERMON EVER PREACHED IN AMERICA
The place : Enfield, Connecticut
The date : 08 July 1741
The Subject : “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
The results : Phenomenal!

As Edwards preached (actually, he read the manuscript to the congregation), strong men and women held onto the pews and cried out for mercy, pleading with the preacher, “Is there no way of escape?”

Hundreds were converted as they heard that sermon – a subpoena from the skies.

 

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Scared?... You are not alone...

 

ICEMANRULZ

(The Dead Poets' Society)

 

DID YOU KNOW THESE FACTS?

  MAYBE NOT UNTIL NOW…

Death is certain but the Bible speaks about untimely death!

Make a personal reflection about this....
  Very interesting, read it until the end.....

It is written in the Bible (Galatians 6:7):
  "Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
     for whatsoever a man soweth,
        that shall he also reap.

Here are some men and women who mocked God:

John Lennon  (Singer):
Some years before, during his interview with an American Magazine, he said:  

"Christianity will end, it will disappear.
  I do not have to argue about that. I am certain.
Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple,
  Today we are more famous than Him" (1966).

Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more
  famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times.

 
Tancredo Neves  (President of Brazil ):
During the Presidential campaign, he said if he
  got 500,000 votes from his party, not even God
  would remove him from Presidency.

Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day
  before being made President, then he died.

Cazuza  (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet):
During A show in Canecio ( Rio de Janeiro ),
  whilst smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some
  smoke into the air and said:
"God, that's for you."

He died at the age of 32 of AIDS in a horrible manner

The man who built the Titanic
After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked
  him how safe the Titanic would be.

With an ironic tone he said:
  "Not even God can sink it!"

The  result:
  I think you all know what happened to the Titanic.

Marilyn Monroe  (Actress)
She was visited by Billy Graham during a 

  presentation of a show.
He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her.
After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said:
  "I don't need your Jesus".

A week later, she was found dead in her apartment.

Bon Scott  (Singer)      
The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 

  songs he sang:
"Don't stop me, I'm going down all the way, down
  the highway to hell".

On the 19th of  February 1980, Bon Scott was
  found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit.

Campinas  (IN 2005)
In Campinas , Brazil a group of friends, drunk,
  went to pick up a friend.....

The mother accompanied her to the car and was
  so worried about the drunkenness of her friends,
  and she said to the daughter - holding her hand,
  who was already seated in the car:

"My Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect You.."

She responded: "Only If He (God) Travels In The Trunk, Cause Inside Here..... It's Already Full"

Hours later, news came by that they had been
  involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died,
  the car could not be recognized as to what type of
  car it had  been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact.

Police said there was no way the trunk could
  have remained intact.
To their surprise, inside the trunk was a crate of
  eggs, none was broken.

Christine Hewitt  (Jamaican Journalist and entertainer)
Said the Bible (Word of God) was the worst book
  ever written.

In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond
  recognition in her motor vehicle.

Many more important people have forgotten that
  there is no other name that was given so
  much authority as the name of Jesus.

Many have died, but only Jesus died and rose
  again, and he is still alive.

 
                "Jesus"

I once wrote a blog about hell... Out of nowhere, a satanic gnostic came to pick a fight.  Started to blaspheme our Lord Jesus Christ...  Take your pick... Blue or Red. 

 

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THERE IS A PLACE CALLED HELL -- OR IS THERE?

 

I don't think so...

…And he was sent by Jehovih his father to earth, to save mankind and he “THE LORD” came and his name was Fragapatti … this happened 10,000 thousand years before the myth of Jesus. (Note the similarity between Jehovih and Jehovah from the Old Testament.)

Jesus never existed his myth is a copy of a copy of a copy repeated throughout generations in many different eastern cultures, and I would like to site one of many books I have read about the subject. From:”THE JESUS MYSTERIES” by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy: “We have become convinced that the story of Jesus is not a biography of a historical Messiah, but a myth based on perennial Pagan stories, Christianity was not a new and unique revelation but actually a Jewish adaptation of the ancient Pagan Mystery Religions”

The Jews plagiarized 90 percent of the Old Testament from sacred text from other cultures that were written hundreds and thousands of years before. It is a historical fact that the Jewish where not a highly cultured people, in comparison to other more advanced civilizations that lived and thrived at the same time. They lacked breadth of literature, music, painting and philosophy, preferring to stick to trade, traveling continuously around the Middle East adopting and adapting from other cultures. That’s the way the Old Testament come about, when they settle in the new occupied land of Canaan after conquering it. (By the way, I have Semitic ancestry, so don’t even go there with anti-Semitism.)

So the New Testament, which was based in the Old Testament, came about during Constantine’s time. This was the time when the myth of Jesus was establish in a generalized way; although the origin of this myth began with the sect call Q, which settled in the north of what is now called the Holy Land, approximately 87 A.C. They created it for occultist reasons, but that is a whole other posting. (Could it possibly be that the all western civilization it is based on Jewish plagiarism?) But lets get back to the Jesus factor and the book I mentioned.

“At the heart of the mysteries (Pagans) were myths concerning a dying and resurrecting goodman, who was known by many different names. In Egypt he was Osiris, in Greece Dionysus, in Asia Minor Attis, in Syria Adonis, in Italy Bachus, in Persia Mithras. Fundamentally all this godmen are the same mythical being … We were able to construct Jesus’ supposed biography from mythic motif previously relating to Osiris-Dionysus:

# Osiris-Dionysus is God made flesh, the savior and “Son of God”
# Osiris-Dionysus’ father is God And His mother is a mortal virgin.
# Osiris-Dionysus is born in a cave or a humble cowshed on December 25 before three shepherds.
# Osiris-Dionysus offers his followers the chance to be born again through the rites of baptism.
# Osiris-Dionysus miraculously tursn water into wine at the marriage ceremony.
# Osiris-Dionysus rides triumphantly into town on a donkey while people wave palm leaves to honor him.
# Osiris-Dionysus dies at Easter time as a sacrifice for the sins of the world.
# Osiris-Dionysus: After his death he descends to hell, and then on the third day he rises from the dead and ascends to heaven in glory.
# Osiris-Dionysus’ followers await his return as the judge during the Last Days.
# Osiris-Dionysus’ death and resurrection are celebrated by a ritual meal of bread and wine, which symbolize his body and blood”

Now these are more than similarities with the “life” of Jesus. This is what was plagiarized. It was even more obvious after Constantine (350 A.C. to 400 A.C.) the time they really took up the task of inventing Jesus Christ for the masses.

 

 

Better think about it dude... 'coz if not, you'll be spending eternity there. Your mind and beliefs are so twisted now that truth can no longer make even a single dent on the twisted fallacies you had just written. Here are some things to prove you're wrong:

 

"…And he was sent by Jehovih his father to earth, to save mankind and he “THE LORD” came and his name was Fragapatti … this happened 10,000 thousand years before the myth of Jesus. (Note the similarity between Jehovih and Jehovah from the Old Testament.)" Is this more of a fact or a belief? This is your belief... no person had ever lived even before 10,000 years ago... even documents or your own records can not prove that. You may read the Bible so that you'll be enlighten by the truth and the Word of God. Now, here's what I believe... I believe that 6,000 years ago the earth was created by God... [The universe (UNI, meaning One; and VERSE, meaning Word) is from God]... and 4,400 years ago there was a flood... and 2007 years ago our saviour the Lord Jesus Christ was born... and the rest is history. I have proofs (my own life) and I have the records (the Bible). Now, who's statement will stand? Don't worry... I'll take note of your blog and wave at you from heaven while you suffer in hell.

 

"Jesus never existed his myth is a copy of a copy of a copy repeated throughout generations in many different eastern cultures, and I would like to site one of many books I have read about the subject. From:”THE JESUS MYSTERIES” by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy: “We have become convinced that the story of Jesus is not a biography of a historical Messiah, but a myth based on perennial Pagan stories, Christianity was not a new and unique revelation but actually a Jewish adaptation of the ancient Pagan Mystery Religions” Dude, don't believe anything you read, specially this Freke and Gandy gossip. Start reading the Bible! Particularly the King James Bible! Then you'll know what is right from what is wrong. You can also read the Trail of Blood... so the physical deaths of millions of Christians will bring shivers to your bones while you gnash your teeth in hell. And in hell you'll understand the meaning of your pagan beliefs.

 

"The Jews plagiarized 90 percent of the Old Testament from sacred text from other cultures that were written hundreds and thousands of years before. It is a historical fact that the Jewish where not a highly cultured people, in comparison to other more advanced civilizations that lived and thrived at the same time. They lacked breadth of literature, music, painting and philosophy, preferring to stick to trade, traveling continuously around the Middle East adopting and adapting from other cultures. That’s the way the Old Testament come about, when they settle in the new occupied land of Canaan after conquering it. (By the way, I have Semitic ancestry, so don’t even go there with anti-Semitism.)" I'm not Jewish, but I can say that you may be holding the bastardized version of the Old and New Testament as all you said here are wrong. The Bible was purified seven times. It was written through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, by great and ordinary people who may not have seen (or have been in the same generation with) each other (you still do not believe it's Amazing Unity?, or you just cannot accept that you are wrong?). You can blaspheme the Son, you can blaspheme the Father, but if you'll blaspheme the Holy Spirit, I'll tell you right here, right now, your headed straight to hell. Now how can you disprove that the 66 books of the Bible were not linked and tied-up to each other just to give you the Amazing Grace of Salvation? Choice is yours dude. I don't care about your ancestry. You can't tell that to God when you personally account for your life after your physical death. Hey, another truth (and you can check this out in reading the Bible): Canaan is the first GAY in the history of mankind. The land of Canaan was cursed because of their sinful nature. Don't be such a gnostic. The truth is in your face. Believe it, and I'll pray that even a small seed of truth in your heart will save even a lot more lost souls like you. I was once a lost soul like you. Now, I have the assurance of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

"So the New Testament, which was based in the Old Testament, came about during Constantine’s time. This was the time when the myth of Jesus was establish in a generalized way; although the origin of this myth began with the sect call Q, which settled in the north of what is now called the Holy Land, approximately 87 A.C. They created it for occultist reasons, but that is a whole other posting. (Could it possibly be that the all western civilization it is based on Jewish plagiarism?) But lets get back to the Jesus factor and the book I mentioned. “At the heart of the mysteries (Pagans) were myths concerning a dying and resurrecting goodman, who was known by many different names. In Egypt he was Osiris, in Greece Dionysus, in Asia Minor Attis, in Syria Adonis, in Italy Bachus, in Persia Mithras. Fundamentally all this godmen are the same mythical being …

 

We were able to construct Jesus’ supposed biography from mythic motif previously relating to Osiris-Dionysus:

# Osiris-Dionysus is God made flesh, the savior and “Son of God”

# Osiris-Dionysus’ father is God And His mother is a mortal virgin.

# Osiris-Dionysus is born in a cave or a humble cowshed on December 25 before three shepherds.

# Osiris-Dionysus offers his followers the chance to be born again through the rites of baptism.

# Osiris-Dionysus miraculously tursn water into wine at the marriage ceremony.

# Osiris-Dionysus rides triumphantly into town on a donkey while people wave palm leaves to honor him.

# Osiris-Dionysus dies at Easter time as a sacrifice for the sins of the world.

# Osiris-Dionysus: After his death he descends to hell, and then on the third day he rises from the dead and ascends to heaven in glory.

# Osiris-Dionysus’ followers await his return as the judge during the Last Days.

# Osiris-Dionysus’ death and resurrection are celebrated by a ritual meal of bread and wine, which symbolize his body and blood” Now these are more than similarities with the “life” of Jesus. This is what was plagiarized. It was even more obvious after Constantine (350 A.C. to 400 A.C.) the time they really took up the task of inventing Jesus Christ for the masses." Baseless and won't hold waters, even in man's modern courtroom. Gnostics like you tried to stop the spread of the Word of Truth by contaminating it with man's own knowledge. Do not think and act like you know everything as you are sounding more like a fool now. Constantine was created by Catholics. By now he is already suffering in hell, and to be thrown in the lake of fire to forever suffer there for all eternity. Salvation is by grace, through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Accept him as your personal savior, and you'll know more on the truth why you are living here on earth. "...not of works, lest any man should boast". [Eph. 2:8-9]. I'm praying for your lost soul while there's still a chance... after your death, sorry to say that your time is up. How about me? Don't worry about me, I'm SAVED!

 

 

From Mr. Perry F. Rockwood...

 

1. HELL IN TODAY'S WORLD

 

An evangelist once encountered a skeptic who, when asked to receive Christ, said, "I'm not afraid of Hell - all the Hell we will ever get is right here on earth!" The preacher's reply was quick and devastating, "I'll give you three reasons why this cannot be Hell. First, I am a Christian, and there are no Christians in Hell! Secondly, there is a place just around the corner where you can quench your thirst, but there is no water in Hell! Thirdly, I have been preaching Christ to you, and there is no Gospel in Hell!"

 

Dr. R.A. Torrey, who succeeded D.L. Moody, believed in the plain Bible teaching on Hell. He said, "We know absolutely nothing about future punishment but what God has been pleased to tell us in the Book; just as we know absolutely nothing about the future blessedness of the saved except what God has been pleased to tell us in this Book. If you are truly logical and not merely sentimental, if you give up what the Bible teaches on one subject, you will give up what it teaches on the other. If a man will believe that part of the Bible that he desires to believe and rejects that part of the Bible that he does not desire to believe, in plain unvarnished English, he is a fool."

 

If the Bible is not true, we have no real proof that there is either a Heaven or a Hell. If the Bible is true about Heaven, it is also true about Hell.

 

Whenever I speak on this subject of Hell there are those who are bound to write and ask, "How do you reconcile the doctrine of Hell with the fact that God is a God of love?' I answer with this question, "How do we know that God is love?" We know this only from the Bible. If the Bible is not true we have no proof that God is love. Friend, if you reject what the Bible says about Hell you must in simple logic give up your belief that God is love.

 

Of course today the words "Hell" and "damn" are a part of the everyday language of most people--including our politicians, radio announcers and TV personalities. The use of such four-letter words portrays their lack of education and inability to express themselves forcefully in the English language. Such conversation surely reveals a mental vacuum.

 

"See you in Hell tonight!" cried one friend to another. They planned to meet in a night club which chose this name for the sake of publicity. Hell   is fast becoming a joke word and people are laughing at the very idea of such a place. They scoff at the Word of God which teaches the eternal punishment of all who reject the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour.

 

"Why, man, I'm getting my Hell here upon the earth!" This is what a business man said to me recently. I replied, "Sir, the Hell you are getting upon earth is but a Sunday school picnic compared to the eternal torments you will suffer unless you repent of sin and turn to the Lord."

 

A young man carelessly boasted, "Well, if I go to Hell think of all the company I'll have." I said to him, "Don't deceive yourself. There is no company in Hell. It is a place of total separation from everyone. Although there may be many famous people there, they will give you neither joy nor pleasure. Hell is a place of suffering and there will be no companionship whatever to help relieve the agony."

 

A common expression used by many people who are rude in their speech is, "Go to Hell." The same ones, however, say they are not sure there is a Hell. They live and act as though death ends all or as though they can get by without meeting God. The very fact that they tell people to go to Hell shows an inner conviction that those who do wrong should be punished.

 

THIS LIFE DOES HAVE MANY TROUBLES--BUT THIS IS NOT HELL

 

Perhaps you are thinking, "But Pastor, you do not understand my situation. My life is truly a Hell on earth." Oh, but I do try to understand. The mental anguish and heartache caused by unhappy circumstances is very painful. Many are constantly struggling with difficult situations. Life is hard. Yet, there is some relief here upon the earth. There is some charity, some mercy, some easing of pain by drugs and sleep--and there is always hope. But in Hell there is only suffering--absolute physical and mental torment--and there is no hope.

 

Most seminaries and theological colleges either play down the Bible teaching on Hell or do away with it altogether. This has resulted in the subject hardly ever being mentioned from our modern-day pulpits. When was the last time you heard such a message in your church?

 

Today we have a movement called Neo-Evangelicalism or New Evangelicalism which teaches that the Bible is not the literal, verbally inspired Word of God but that it contains the Word of God. If you will look at the proclamations issued by various Evangelical groups over the past fifteen years, you will see that the majority make no mention of the plenary inspiration of the Scriptures, or of the inerrancy of the Bible, or of its preservation.

 

The late Bishop J.C. Ryle, who died in 1900, said:

 

"If you would promote faith, defeat the devil and save souls, preach Hell!"

 

"The conscience of man cries out of Hell. Go to the bedside of some dying child of the world and fear not to talk to him of God's judgment upon sin and wrath upon the sinner. Preach to him of a Saviour who went into the   yawning jaws of Hell that forgiveness might be purchased at great price-- His own shed blood--and offer him mercy but only by faith in that blood; and watch his restless anxiety about the future turn to calmness, and marvel as he departs in peace.

 

"The interests of holiness and morality cry out of Hell. Tell men it matters how they conduct themselves, that there is an eternal difference between Abraham and the sodomites, between Paul and Nero, between the drunkard who dies unrepentant and a Baxter, a Wilberforce, or a McCheyne. Preach Hell as the final end of men who will not have the Christ in whom they may 'live soberly, righteously, and godly.'"

 

"The Bible speaks of Hell from beginning to end. Hundreds of texts in God's Word remind us of the wages of sin, the end of the flesh and the reward of ungodliness. Jesus cried that the gate to Hell is wide, the road is broad and well travelled. When you stand before the people, preach that!"

 

Thank God for those who have stood for Biblical inspiration among the scholars and believed in Hell. I think of Dr. R.A. Torrey who said, "I claim to be a scholarly preacher. I have a right to so claim. I have taken two degrees, specializing in Greek in one of the most highly esteemed universities in America. I have also studied in two German universities. I have read the Bible in three languages every day of my life for many years.

 

I have studied a large share of what has been written on both sides of the question in English and in German. I have written thirty or forty different books which have been translated into many languages. Yes, I believe in scholarship and I believe in the old-fashioned doctrine regarding Hell."

 

Yes, and we could mention other men, greatly used of God, who believed in Hell.

 

D.L. Moody, "The same Christ that tells us of Heaven with all its glories, tells us of Hell with all its horrors."

 

Henry Ward Beecher, "The thought of future punishment for sinners which the Bible reveals is enough to make an earthquake of terror in every man's soul.

This is vey real! Think about it. Ponder it. Meditate upon it. This may be your last call. Thank you very much Mr. Jonathan Edwards. See you in heaven.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

“Their foot shall slide in due time.” – Deut. 32:35

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of Hell but the mere pleasure of God.

By the mere pleasure of God, I mean his sovereign pleasure, his arbitrary will, restrained by no obligation, hindered by no manner of difficulty any more than if nothing else but God’s mere will had, in the last degree, or any respect whatsoever, any hand in the preservation of wicked men one moment.

The truth of this observation may appear by the following considerations:

1. There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into Hell at any moment. Men’s hands cannot be strong when God rises up. The strongest have no power to resist Him, nor can any deliver out of His hands.

He is not only able to cast wicked men into Hell, but He can most easily do it. Sometimes an earthly prince meets with a great deal of difficulty in subduing a rebel, who has found a means to fortify himself, and has made himself strong by the number of his followers. Not so with God. No fortress is any defense from the power of God. Though hand join in hand, a vast multitude of God’s enemies combine and associate themselves, they are easily broken in pieces. They are as great heaps of light chaff before the whirlwind, or large quantities of dry stubble before devouring flames.

We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; so it is easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that anything hangs by: thus easy is it for God when He pleases, to cast His enemies down to Hell. What are we, that we should think to stand before Him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown down?

2. They deserve to be cast into Hell, so that divine justice never stands in the way; it makes no objection against God’s using His power at any moment to destroy them. Yea, on the contrary, justice calls aloud for an infinite punishment of their sins. Divine justice says of the tree that brings forth such grapes of Sodom, “Cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground?” (Luke 13:7). The sword of divine justice is every moment brandished over their heads, and it is nothing by the hand of arbitrary mercy and God’s mere will that holds it back.

3. They are already under a sentence of condemnation to Hell. They do not only justly deserve to be cast down thither, but the sentence of the law of God, that eternal and immutable rule of righteousness that God has fixed between Him and mankind, is gone out against them so that they are bound over already to Hell. John 3:18 – “He that believeth not is condemned already.”

So every unconverted man properly belongs to Hell; that is his place; from thence he is. John 8:23 – “Ye are from beneath”; and thither he is bound; it is the place that justice and God’s Word and sentence of His unchangeable law assign to him.

4. They are now the objects of that very same anger and wrath of God that is expressed in the torments of Hell; and the reason why they do not go down to Hell at each moment is not because God, in whose power they are, is not at present very angry with them, as He is with many miserable creatures now tormented in Hell, who there feel and bear the fierceness of His wrath. Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth, yea doubtless with some who may read this book who, it may be, are at ease, that He is with many of those who are now in the flames of Hell.

So it is not because God is unmindful of their wickedness and does not resent it that He does not let loose His hand and cut them off. God is not altogether such a one as themselves, though they may imagine Him to be so. The wrath of God burns against them; their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared; the fire is made ready; the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. The glittering sword is whetted and held over them, and the pit hath opened its mouth under them.

5. The Devil stands ready to fall upon them and seize them as his own, at what moment God shall permit him. They belong to him; he has their souls in his possession and under his dominion. The Scripture represents them as his goals (Luke 11:21). The devils watch them; they are ever by them, at their right hand; they stand waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey and expects to have it, but are for the present kept back. If God should withdraw His hand, by which they are restrained, they would in one moment fly upon their poor souls. The old serpent is gaping for them; Hell opens its mouth to receive them; and if God should permit it, they would be hastily swallowed up and lost.

6. There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning that would presently kindle and flame out into hell fire if it were not for God’s restraints. There is laid in the very nature of carnal men a foundation for torments of Hell. There are those corrupt principles in reigning power in them and in full possession of them that are seeds of hell fire. The principles are active and powerful, exceedingly violent in their nature; and if it were not for the restraining hand of God upon them, they would soon break out; they would flame out after the same manner as the same corruption, the same enmity, does in the hearts of damned souls, and would beget the same torments as they do in them.

The souls of the wicked are in Scriptures compared to the troubled sea (Isaiah 57:20). For the present, God restrains their wickedness by His mighty power, as He does the raging waves of the troubled sea, saying, “Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further”; but if God should withdraw that restraining power, it would soon carry all before it.

Sin is the ruin and misery of the soul; it is destructive in its nature; and if God should leave it without restraint, there would need nothing else to make the soul perfectly miserable.

The corruption of the heart of the man is immoderate and boundless in its fury; and while wicked men live here, it is like fire pent up by the course of nature; and as the heart is now a sink of sin, so, if sin were not restrained, it would immediately turn the soul into a fiery oven, or furnace of fire and brimstone.

7. It is no security to wicked men for one moment that there are no visible means of death at hand! It is no security to a natural man that he is now in health and that he does not see which way he should now immediately go out of the world by any accident, and that there is no visible danger, in any respect, in his circumstances. The manifold and continual experience of the world, in all ages, shows this is no evidence that a man is not on the very brink of eternity and that the next step will not be into another world.

The unseen, unthought-of ways and means of persons going suddenly out of the world are innumerable and inconceivable. Unconverted men walk over the pit of Hell on a rotten covering, and there are innumerable places in this covering so weak that they will not bear their weight, and these places are not seen. The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.

God has so many different, unsearchable ways of taking wicked men out of the world and sending them to Hell that there is nothing to make it appear that God had need to be at the expense of a miracle, or to go out of the ordinary course of His providence to destroy any wicked man, at any moment. All the means that there are sinners going out of the world are so in God’s hands and so universally and absolutely subject to His power and determination that it does not depend at all the less on the mere will of God whether sinners shall at any moment go to Hell, than if means were never made use of, or at all concerned in the case.

8. Natural men’s prudence and care to preserve their own lives, or the care of others to preserve them, do not secure them a moment. To this, divine providence and universal experience do bear testimony.

There is this clear evidence that men’s own wisdom is no security to them from death; that, if it were otherwise, we should see some difference between the wise and politic men of the world and others, with regard to their liableness to early an unexpected death; but how is it in fact? “How dieth the wise man? as the fool” (Ecclesiastes 2:16)

9. All wicked men’s pains and contrivances which they use to escape Hell while they continue to reject Christ and so remain wicked men, do not secure them from Hell one moment. Almost every natural man who hears of Hell flatters himself that he shall escape it; he depends on himself for his own security; he flatters himself in what he has done, in what he is now doing, or what he intends to do; everyone lays out matters in his own mind, how he shall avoid damnation, and flatters himself that he contrives well for himself, and that his schemes will not fail. They hear indeed that there are but few saved, and that the greater part of men who have died heretofore are gone to Hell; but each one imagines that he forms plans to effect his escape better than others have done. He says within himself that he intends to take effectual care and to order matters so for himself as not to fail.

But the foolish children of men miserable delude themselves in their own schemes and in confidence in their own strength and wisdom; they trust to nothing but a shadow. The greater part of those who heretofore have lived under the same means of grace, and are now dead, are undoubtedly gone to Hell; and it was not because they were not as wise as those who are now alive; it was not because they did not lay out matters as well fro themselves to secure their own escape.

If we could come to speak with them and inquire them, one by one, whether they expected, when alive and when they used to hear about Hell, ever to be subjects of that misery, we doubtless, should hear one and another reply, “No, I never intended to come here: I had arranged matters otherwise in my mind. I thought I should contrive well for myself. I thought my scheme good. I intended to take effectual care. But it came upon me unexpectedly; I did not look for it at that time and in that manner; it came as a thief. Death outwitted me. God’s wrath was too quick for me. O my cursed foolishness! I was flattering and pleasing myself with vain dreams of what I would do hereafter; and when I was saying peace and safety, then sudden destruction came upon me.”

10. God has laid Himself under no obligation, by any promise, to keep any natural man out of Hell one moment. God certainly has made no promises either of eternal live, or any deliverance or preservation from eternal death, but what are contained in the covenant of grace, the promises that are given in Christ, in whom all the promises are yea and amen.

But surely they have no interest in the promises of the covenant of grace who are not the children of the covenant, who do not believe in any of the promises and have no interest in the Mediator of the covenant.

So that, whether some have imagined and pretended about promises made to natural men’s earnest seeking and knocking, it is plain and manifest that whatever pains a natural man takes in religion, whatever prayers he makes, till he believes in Christ, God is under no manner of obligation to keep him a moment from eternal destruction.

So that thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God over the pit of Hell. They have deserved the fiery pit and are already sentenced to it. God is dreadfully provoked. His anger is as great towards them as those who are actually suffering the execution of the fierceness of His wrath in Hell; and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger; neither is God in the least bound by any promise to hold them up for one moment. The Devil is waiting for them; Hell is gaping for them; the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them and swallow them up. The fire pent up in their own hearts is struggling to break out. They have no interest in any Mediator. There are no means within reach that can be any security to them. In short, they have no refuge, nothing to take hold of. All that preserves them every moment is the mere arbitrary will and uncovenanted, unobliged forbearance of an incensed God.

- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) -


THE MOST FAMOUS SERMON EVER PREACHED IN AMERICA
The place : Enfield, Connecticut
The date : 08 July 1741
The Subject : “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
The results : Phenomenal!

As Edwards preached (actually, he read the manuscript to the congregation), strong men and women held onto the pews and cried out for mercy, pleading with the preacher, “Is there no way of escape?”

Hundreds were converted as they heard that sermon – a subpoena from the skies.