I have been doing a lot of reading lately on the subject of Great Awakenings, times of spiritual renewal that transformed society in a very short period of time. Maybe some of you have heard of a very famous sermon that was preached during one of these awakenings. You may have even read this sermon in a literature class in college. It’s called “Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God,” and it was written and preached by one of the most brilliant men in American history, Jonathan Edwards.
Let me share an excerpt (which I paraphrased). Unsaved people “are not the object of that very same anger and wrath of God this is expressed in the torments of hell. There are people in hell right now who are experiencing God the flames of God’s wrath. If you are unsaved, the wrath of God abides on you. As long as you refuse to believe He has the exact same feeling toward you and your sin that He does for those in hell at this very moment. In fact, because of the nature of your sins, God is angrier at some of the people in the room than He is toward some of the people already in hell. The wrath of God burns against you. Your damnation does not slumber – just the opposite! The pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is prepared for you and the flames rage and glow.”
“You may think that you are safe right now. You may be in good health and free from danger. But the reality is that you are not safe. Your next breath, your next step could be your last. There is not one single minute that goes buy that some fool who thought that he was safe dies unexpectedly and is dragged screaming down into the flames.”
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