The Great Day of Their Wrath

The point: Allow the realities of God's coming wrath and your candidacy for it to grip you, making other diversions lose their savor.

Compares the pressing burden of being a candidate for wrath to Christian leaving the City of Destruction, unable to find repose or delight due to his burden.

I ask you, has that truth of the second statement ever gripped you? Ever become a haunting, pressing, wearisome burden? That's exactly how Bunyan describes Christian leaving the city of destruction. that burden upon his back that burden which he knew would press him down to hell did he remain in the city of destruction he could no longer work without being distracted by it he could no longer enjoy the legitimate pleasures of his wife

32:28 - 33:14 Read in full sermon

The point: Allow the realities of God's coming wrath and your candidacy for it to grip you, making other diversions lose their savor.

Recalls the scene in Acts 2 where Peter's preaching 'stabbed' the hearers' hearts, leading them to cry out, 'Men and brethren, what shall we do?' as their only concern.

Isn't that the description we were given in Acts chapter 2 of those who came together for a festive Jewish holiday?

33:33 - 33:40 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Your sin has blinded you to the ugly open sores of your moral degeneracy. The marred image of God and the stench of your sin is accurate in the nostrils of God.

Illustrates the blindness of a sinner who denies deserving God's wrath by comparing them to a blind, leprous man looking in a mirror and saying, 'I don't look so bad,' while others turn away in disgust.

Now, I'm not perfect. And I know I've said some bad things and I've done a few bad things. And to have God give me a few frowns or a few whacks on the behind, that's fair. but the notion that God would cast me into hell and make me an eternal monument of His holy wrath I don't deserve that my friend the way to be delivered from the wrath of God is not to deny that you deserve the wrath of God it's your own sinfulness that blinds you to the horror of your sinfulness can you imagine a leprous man whose face is an ugly mass of open, rumming, putrefying sores whose leprosy has made him blind

42:12 - 42:59 Read in full sermon

Driving home: You will cry out, Who is able to stand? And the answer is, None shall be able to stand, except those who are clothed in the virtue of the perfect life and the substitutionary death of the Lord Jesus...

Quotes Count Zinzendorf's hymn to illustrate the confidence of a believer who is 'fully absolved' and can stand boldly on the day of wrath.

You will cry out, Who is able to stand? And the answer is, None shall be able to stand, except those who are clothed in the virtue of the perfect life and the substitutionary death of the Lord Jesus who have come to repent of their sins and believe on the Lord Jesus who have kissed the Son and taken refuge in Him have become His willing bond slaves and follow Him where'er He goes they shall say with count Zinzendorf bold shall I stand in that great day. For who ought to my charge shall lay

55:13 - 55:59 Read in full sermon

The point: Live in loving gratitude for Christ bearing the wrath due to us, so that others will see that you belong to Him.

Compares Satan to birds that follow a sower, waiting to snatch away the gospel seed, emphasizing the need for God to bind this 'foul fiend of hell'.

We pray that the seed sown will not be plucked away by that wicked one, for we know that he is present wherever the gospel seed is sown. Like birds who follow the one who sows seed. Just waiting to snatch away the seed. O God bind that foul fiend of hell.

66:11 - 66:33 Read in full sermon