How easy it is to overlook or ignore the complete severity of hell and God’s wrath. We spend much of our time focused on the love and peace scripture speaks of—and how precious this truly is for believers—but often neglect the reality of hell. I think if we make ourselves more aware of this most terrible of places, it might motivate us all the more to courageously share The Good News that people do not have to go to hell!
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Infinite wrath And consider here more particularly whose wrath it is. It is the wrath of the infinite God. If it were only the wrath of man, though it were of the most potent prince, it would be comparatively little to be regarded. The wrath of kings is very much dreaded, especially of absolute monarchs, who have the possessions and lives of their subjects wholly in their power to be disposed of at their mere will. “The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion; whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul” (Pro 20:2). The subject who very much enrages an arbitrary prince is liable to suffer the most extreme torments that human art can invent, or human power can inflict. But the greatest earthly potentates, in their greatest majesty and strength, and when clothed in their greatest terrors, are but feeble, despicable worms of the dust in comparison with the great and almighty Creator and King of heaven and earth. It is but little that they can do when most enraged, and when they have exerted the utmost of their fury. All the kings of the earth, before God, are as grasshoppers; they are nothing, and less than nothing; both their love and their hatred are to be despised. The wrath of the great King of kings is as much more terrible than theirs as His majesty is greater.
“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 you shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him” (Luk 12:4-5).”
Excerpt From
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards
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