God's Wrath
Is Coming
Are You Ready?
Saving faith is the desperate thrust of a helpless soul
upon the arms of an almighty Saviour!
Are you doing what Jesus - who speaks the words of the Father -
are you doing what He says?
Seek first the Kingdom of God!
Are you taking every step necessary to stop feeding your lust?
In God’s name, why, why, why, why
will you sit through another service
and stand by a signpost that points you away from hell and the wrath of God,
and points to Heaven and life and forgiveness,
and hug death to your breast?
Oh the madness of sin.
You are a vile, filthy, helpless, hell deserving,
wretched son or daughter of Adam.
You know nothing of true repentance,
and therefore of true and saving faith.
Or you just occasionally have a little whimper in the closet
when your conscience gets so active you can’t live with it.
And you whimper and cry, and ask God for a little help,
and then you go right back, with your hand and your eyeball firmly attached.
Oh yes, once in a while, you’ll take a dull parry knife and scratch your hand,
and occasionally, you scratch around your eyeballs.
But you haven’t even begun to
cut off and pluck out!
You’d better listen to the words of Jesus,
“Not everyone who says ‘Lord, Lord’ shall enter,
but he that does the will of my father in heaven.” [Matt. 7:21]
“If you by the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live;
if you live after the flesh you’ll die.” [Rom 8:13]
The cross does not give us a minor shift or two
with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and religious values.
The cross radically disrupts the very center and citadel of your life,
from self, to Christ.
And if the cross has not done that,
you’re not a Christian!
My friend, face it!
Young or old, you’re not a Christian!
Until the cross has radically disrupted the very center and citadel of your life!
And brought you from a life of commitment to serve self,
whether it'ss religious self, moral self, proud self, covetous self,
lustful self, prideful self, unforgiving self, lazy self...
It doesn’t matter!
What are the focal points of the reign of your self?
If you’ve gone to the cross in union with Christ, it’s been shattered!
I want you, in that day,
When you stand with me before the judge of the world,
to have him say, “Come, be blessed, come you blessed” [Matt. 25:34]
I don’t want to look at you standing there saying,
“Lord, Lord!” “Lord, Lord!"
“I named you on earth, I named you before the elders,
I named you before the church, I named you in prayer meeting,
I named you in witness, and Lord now, Lord, Lord!
Did I not this, did I not that?”
I don’t want to hear Him say,
“Depart from me, I never knew you, you worker of iniquity.
You never were made a doer of the will of God.
You learned enough, and you learned what to say properly enough
to be accepted for what you professed yourself to be on earth,
but now the day of judgment has come,
and the truth is now to be known.”
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