The Great Day Of God's Wrath # 10

 The Great Day Of God's Wrath # 10

Use 2. EXAMINATION and self-trial. "Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves." (2 Cor. 13:5). Oh friends! how much does it concern you and I to examine our standing, that we may be able to stand in the day of God's wrath, which is coming so fast upon us.

Examine yourselves, and try your selves! Examine your faith, whether it is true! Examine your knowledge, whether it is sanctified! Examine your hope, whether it is purified! Examine your love, whether it is sincere! Examine your evidences, whether they are sound! Examine your hearts, whether they are gracious! Examine your desires, whether they are holy! Examine your lives, whether they are heavenly!

And all that you may be able to stand in the day of God's wrath, in the day of death, and in the day of judgment!

Use 3. EXHORTATION. I hope you will not think the time long - for this may be the last sermon that I may preach, or you may hear. Well, beloved, is it so, that the greatest part of men and women will not be able to stand in the great day of God's wrath? Let me therefore to exhort you to these three things:

First, Let me therefore to exhort who are lost sinners, to repent of your sins. "He who conceals his sins shall not prosper - but whoever confesses and renounces them shall find mercy. Blessed is the man who always fears the Lord - but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble." (Proverbs 28:13-14).

Oh, sinners! you have grievously sinned against God! You have deserved as many hells as you have committed sins! You have sinned against His mercies! You have abused His patience! You have resisted His Spirit! Oh, sinners! all this have you done - and yet the Lord has spared you. Oh, let His goodness lead you to epentance, that you do not die in your sins. Consider what I say! Why will you die - seeing God will have you live? Why will you damn yourselves? Why will you go to hell - seeing God would have you go to heaven?

Secondly, Let me exhort you to get a saving interest in the Lord Jesus, that you may be able to stand in the day of His wrath. There will be no standing before Christ without a saving interest in Christ. His Spirit is ready to assist you, and His angels are ready to attend you, and heaven itself is ready to receive you! 

Thirdly, and lastly, Let me now exhort you, who have turned from sin, are separated from the world, are espoused to Christ, are reconciled to the Father: to "walk worthy of God, who has called you to His kingdom and glory!" (1 Thess. 2:12). Oh, precious saints! let me exhort you to keep your lamps burning, your loins girded, your lives holy, your hearts upright, your judgments sound, your consciences pure, and your garments unspotted!

Therefore, O precious saints, you ought to be quiet, and to submit to the will of God, and to say as David, "I was silent; I would not open my mouth - for you are the one who has done this!" (Psalm 39:9).

Now, I beseech you, both saints and sinners, to consider of these things. May the God of heaven give you understanding in all things which concern His glory, and your eternal good.

~William Dyer~

(The End)