“God is angry with the wicked every day” Do you preach it?
Published July 3rd, 2008 by Jon Sharp in Evangelism, Excellent Articles, False Teachers, God's Judgment, Gospel, Living in The WayFrom Arthur Pink’s "Gleanings in the Godhead"
When I consider how the goodness of God is abused by the greatest part of mankind, I cannot but be of his mind that said, The greatest miracle in the world is God’s patience and bounty to an ungrateful world.
If a prince hath an enemy got into one of his towns, he doth not send them in provision, but lays close siege to the place, and doth what he can to starve them. But the great God, that could wink all His enemies into destruction, bears with them, and is at daily cost to maintain them.
Well may He command us to bless them that curse us, who Himself does good to the evil and unthankful. But think not, sinners, that you shall escape thus; God’s mill goes slow, but grinds small; the more admirable His patience and bounty now is, the more dreadful and unsupportable will that fury be which ariseth out of His abused goodness.
Nothing smoother than the sea, yet when stirred into a tempest, nothing rageth more. Nothing so sweet as the patience and goodness of God, and nothing so terrible as His wrath when it takes fire (William Gurnall, 1660).
Pastor Jon Sharp’s notes:
American preachers have been guilty of "prophecying lies" to "our friends", the rebellious and unrepentant sinners, for over 100 years. (Jeremiah 20:6) We have given them a false hope, telling them that God loves them and has a wonderful plan for their life, when God plainly told us to tell them to "repent from their wicked ways."
How much longer will you so-called preachers break the wooden yokes (Jeremiah 28:13) off of the wicked by continuing to preach this false, loving, squishy god who winks at sin and who watched His Son be crucified for nothing?
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