by Ciaran Fitzsimons
"You who remain in an unregenerate state, consider this: The fact that God will execute the fierceness of his anger implies that He will inflict wrath without any pity. When God beholds the unspeakable extremity of your condition and sees your torment to be so vastly disproportional to your strength and how your poor soul is crushed and sinks down, as it were, into an infinite gloom, He will have no compasssion upon you; He will not hold back the executions of His wrath or in the least lighten His hand.
There will be no moderation or mercy, nor will God then at all stay His rough wind. (see Isaiah 27:8) He will have no regard for your welfare, nor will He be at all concerned about your increasing suffering, except that you will not suffer beyond what strict justice requires. Nothing will be withheld with the reason that it is too hard for you to bear.
Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them (Ezekiel 8:18)
Now God stands ready to pity you; this is a day of mercy; you may cry now with some encouragement of obtaining mercy. But once the day of mercy is past, your most lamentable and miserable cries and shrieks will be in vain; you will be wholly lost and thrown away, and there will be no regard for your welfare.
God will have no other use to put you to, except to suffer misery; you will be allowed to exist for no other end. You will be a vessel of wrath, "Fitted to destruction" (Romans 9:22) and there will be no other use for this vessel, except to be filled full of wrath. God will be so far from pitying you when you cry to Him that He will only laugh at you. (see also Proverbs 1:24-33)" Jonathan Edwards Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. July 8 1741
It's amazing how one sermon read could have an effect on a person and change their view on understanding the true meaning of the Gospel. If you have never read the entire sermon above I would recommend it. The above sermon had such an effect on me that I cried out to God to find out why modern preachers never preach such sermons anymore. For over a year the Lord has opened my eyes to how far the modern teachers, pastors, evangelists have strayed from the true biblical way of salvation. There is now no difference between the church and the world in most cases. It is time we as body of TRUE believers begin to preach the true Gospel as Jesus and the apostles thought two thousand years ago.
We need more Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeons, John Wesleys and the George Whitefields. We need more modern preachers like John MacAthur, Ray Comfort, Alister Begg, Paul Washer, to speak the uncompromising word of God. The old preachers used the Law of God the Ten Commandments to convict a person of their sinful nature. They showed them that without Christ they are going to a lost eternity of hell forever.
The modern Gospel now says Jesus loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life were you will never have problems, you will have a five roomed mansion, a Rolls Royce in your driveway and a five star holiday every year. The Modern Gospel now is "Come to Jesus and get..." We come to Jesus because He gave His life to save us from hell, death and the grave. We are sinners in need of a savior, without Him we are seperated from God the Father.
The Lord has shown me how some churches are bringing people into the churches with worldly entertainment, even some of the Christian music channels are no different than MTV just the lyrics have been changed and half the time you can't understand them. Now we have the seeker friendly Gospel, don't mention hell, sin, wrath and punishment "we don't want to offend people", so we just don't "offend them" into hell thinking they are saved. We need a new reformation like Martin Luther did when the Catholic church at the time strayed from the biblical truth. Now the Evangelical church is slowly turning from the truth, I will explain this later in the book. We need to bring back the true gospel which the bible speaks of, not the man centered gospel. We need the Law of God.