Can You Imagine This Preached Today?

Liberals, don't freak out on me!!!

Excerts from: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) Enfield, Connecticut July 8, 1741

Their foot shall slide in due time.-- Deuteronomy 32:35

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours.

You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment. It is to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to hell the last night; that you was suffered to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep.

And there is no other reason to be given, why you have not dropped into hell since you arose in the morning, but that God's hand has held you up. There is no other reason to be given why you have not gone to hell, since you have sat here in the house of God, provoking his pure eyes by your sinful wicked manner of attending his solemn worship.

Yea, there is nothing else that is to be given as a reason why you do not this very moment drop down into hell.

O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great fumace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as against many of the damned in hell.

You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder; and you have no interest in any Mediator, and nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment.

BROKENNESS!!!

The problem with declining church attendance isn't necessarily a lack of good preaching, or good music, it could be because the church (as a whole as well as the local congregation) is lacking this:

BROKENNESS OVER THE "LOSTNESS" OF OUR COUNTRY AND THE NEED FOR REVIVAL!!!

I. The Problem. A lack of concern for the unsaved!

II. The Symptom. No salvations, no baptisms & a stagnant church!

III. The Scripture. Psalm 51:17 & Psalm 34:18

IV. The Cure. Let us see the multitudes without, and be moved with compassion. Let our hearts be burdened for the desperate need of salvation for the people of our nation and the need for revival in our churches, and may we pray for and exercise true repentance.