Second Coming: Consequences for the Ungodly

Driving home: That which sets man apart from the God who made him is the knowledge of the God who made him. The beast above all other things is that man was made with a capacity to know God, made with a capacity to have fellowship wit…

Paul's use of the phrase 'who know not God' in 1 Thessalonians 4:5, Galatians 4:8, and Ephesians 2:12 is given as an example of a technical term for unconverted Gentile nations without God's saving revelation.

of the revelation of God in the scriptures and through the prophets. Notice how this very phrase was used in chapter 4 of 1 Thessalonians and verse 5. Speaking of the subject of sexual purity, he uses a contrast and says, not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God. Notice similar terminology in the book of Galatians chapter 4 and verse 8. Speaking of their pre-Christian condition, how be it at that time not knowing God. Ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods. And then in Ephesians 2.12 he speaks of those who are without God. And so it seems

8:19 - 9:19 Read in full sermon

Driving home: My friend, I don't know what that means, but that scares me.

The use of 'recompense' in Luke 14:14, where Jesus advises inviting those who cannot pay you back, illustrates the meaning of 'to pay back' in the context of God's judgment.

The term is nothing less than that of affliction. And the context and the verb literally means God will pay back. The word recompense means to pay back. It's used in precise, precisely that way in Luke 14, 14, where our Lord is saying, don't just invite people that can invite you back into their own homes and so recompense you and so pay you back.

31:40 - 32:10 Read in full sermon

Driving home: My friend, I don't know what that means, but that scares me.

The analogy contrasts the false idea of God passively allowing sin's consequences with the biblical truth of God's active, positive infliction of retributive justice, like the Thessalonians' afflictors actively intruding upon them.

The whole idea that the judgment of God is nothing more or less than God passively sitting back, holding his arms and letting sinners feel the full weight of the inevitable results of the self-destructiveness, self-destruction, self-destruction, self-destructiveness of sin is not a biblical concept and it's gaining ground even in evangelical circles in our day. What were the Thessalonians getting from their afflictors? Was it just that the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles were standing back and watching them work out the inevitable result of their Christian faith? No.

32:13 - 32:53 Read in full sermon

Driving home: My friend, I don't know what that means, but that scares me.

The metaphor of 'the hand that threw galaxies into space' being 'turned against me' is used to convey the terrifying power of God's affliction upon the ungodly.

The hand that threw galaxies into space to have that hand turned against me.

33:23 - 33:32 Read in full sermon

Driving home: My friend, that will not do justice. It will not do justice to the language of the Holy Ghost. At the revelation of the Lord Jesus, He will render vengeance. He will pay out vengeance, would be perhaps a more literal tra…

Examples of Christ's tenderness and compassion—weeping over Jerusalem, inviting the heavy laden, not condemning the adulterous woman, restoring Peter—are listed to highlight the shocking contrast with Him 'rendering vengeance'.

Think of it. The very Son of God who wept over Jerusalem, the Son of God who stood and said, Come unto me all ye that labored or heavy laden, the very Son of God who stood and said, Come unto me all ye that labored or heavy laden, the very Son of God who wept over Jerusalem, the very Son of God who wept over Jerusalem, the very Son of God who said to a woman taken in adultery, neither do I condemn thee, go sin no more. The very Son of God who restores one of His own, who cursed and swore and denied that He knew him in a moment of weakness, and restores him to Himself and to service. Peter, do ...

36:10 - 36:49 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Three specific elements are highlighted: affliction from the hand of God, a positive infliction of retributive justice; vengeance from the Son of God, a wrathful paying back of…

The 'hell of hell' is described as banishment from Christ, the source of all light, life, and joy, contrasting with the saints' delight in seeing Him as He is.

They say, the human has the means to be done, impressed, requested, and the body to be made perfect for He who is the most far-sighted, most wise, most powerful, the lord in other words from all that jesus christ is in the glory of his grace in all the plenitude of his mercy and compassion he who is the source of all light and life and joy for the scripture says in the world to come there'll be no need of the sun for the lamb himself will be the light of that state there'll be no night there and they shall see him his name should be in their foreheads they shall follow the lamb whithersoever h...

38:40 - 39:58 Read in full sermon