Message to Sinners
Romans 3:10-12 (KJV)
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is
none that doeth good, no, not one.
Here we get a clear and haunting description of man, how sinful he really is, and that all men fall under this condition of sinful, none excluded.
Romans 3:23 (KJV)For all have sinned, and fallen short of the glory of God.
That covers everybody even me, David says in
Psalms 130:3 (KJV)If thou, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
The picture we have of man from these passages, shows us that man is utterly wicked and in despair, unrighteous, unprofitable, doing no good. Man clearly and undeniably finds himself here placed under the wrath of God’s awaiting the day of judgement.
I Corinthians 6:9 (KJV)Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, no effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God, and such were some of you.
God frowns on sin and that those who commit such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God, but be placed under God’s wrath for eternity in hell. You may be here tonight and be prideful and boastful in your sins, saying,"God has done nothing to me and I have been sinning for years. Solomon gives us some insight into this:
Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 (KJV)Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of man is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Cast down your foolish pride, do not eye the wicked with envy, because their day is coming, for their day is as a shadow, then shall they stand before God and those dreadful words, "depart from me into eternal damnation, prepared for the devil and his angels." Oh what a dreadful and sorrowful day, when men will se the holy God of the universe and eye the blessed Saviour who died on the cross, then to be cast into the fiery pits of hell.
Psalms 7 gives us a picture into God’s wrath; how that he is angry with sin and if men repent not he is ready to strike them.
Psalms 7:11-13 (KJV)God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked everyday. If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready. He hath also prepared for him the instrument of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
You see God is prepared to execute his wrath on sinners, and to send them to the prepared instrument of death which is hell. Well one may ask how is it that God executes his wrath on sinners? One of the worst ways he knows how, by giving men over to commit sins. Removing his restraining grace which did keep them from the most wicked and heinous acts of sin, which they were capable of sinning.
Psalms 7:15 (KJV)He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he has made.
You see the Lord allows them to dig their own ditch and to fall into it. Romans 1 allows us to see more clearly how it is that God does this:
Romans 1:26-32 (KJV)For this cause (because they did not worship the true God) God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And like-wise also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error (and has fallen into that ditch which he has made) which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, frornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant-breakers, with out natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgments of God, that they which commit such things are worth of death, not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them.
So if you are thinking that you are fine and God has not poured his wrath out on you, think again. For your days are as a shadow, and your enjoyment of sin is only securing your eternal damnation in the ultimate judgement of hell, fire, and brimstone. If you are here and you are a Christian, you have no right to judge the lost, and be puffed up with pride, because it is God who saved you and kept you from sinning to you greatest capability. If you say, well I am glad that I did not commit that sin or that sin, remember you have only God to thank, that he did not give you over to such and such sins
If you are here tonight and the Spirit has opened your eyes, enlightening your heart to your sinfulness, seeing that there is nothing good in you, nothing righteous, and that all your ways have been in sin, do not fight and kick against the Spirit and what he is revealing to you, because you are not without hope tonight.
I Timothy 1:15 (KJV)This is a faithful saying, worthy of all acceptation, that Christ came into the world to save sinners; of who I am chief.
That is a truth worth pronouncing, that I am the chief among sinners, but I don’t have to die one, because Christ came into the world to save sinners. Look to Jesus, call out to him for he alone can save, not me or anything you or I could do.
John 3:16-18 (KJV)For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. But; he that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth no is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son.
These scripture can give life to those who will believe and cast their weary souls of Jesus, and find a new power to overcome the sin which before placed them under God’s wrath. Yet if you do not take Jesus as your Savior, then it can only be concluded from the scriptures that you are condemned to an eternity in hell under God’s wrath to carry your sins forever. Do not think that your sins are to many, and God does not want you, because no one has ever been refused that came to Jesus and believed, and all who came found that all of their sins were covered by the blood of Jesus. Just remember:
I Timothy 1:15 (KJV)This is a faithful saying, worthy of all acceptation, that Christ came into the world to save sinners; of who I am chief.
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is
none that doeth good, no, not one.
Here we get a clear and haunting description of man, how sinful he really is, and that all men fall under this condition of sinful, none excluded.
Romans 3:23 (KJV)For all have sinned, and fallen short of the glory of God.
That covers everybody even me, David says in
Psalms 130:3 (KJV)If thou, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
The picture we have of man from these passages, shows us that man is utterly wicked and in despair, unrighteous, unprofitable, doing no good. Man clearly and undeniably finds himself here placed under the wrath of God’s awaiting the day of judgement.
I Corinthians 6:9 (KJV)Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, no effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God, and such were some of you.
God frowns on sin and that those who commit such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God, but be placed under God’s wrath for eternity in hell. You may be here tonight and be prideful and boastful in your sins, saying,"God has done nothing to me and I have been sinning for years. Solomon gives us some insight into this:
Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 (KJV)Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of man is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Cast down your foolish pride, do not eye the wicked with envy, because their day is coming, for their day is as a shadow, then shall they stand before God and those dreadful words, "depart from me into eternal damnation, prepared for the devil and his angels." Oh what a dreadful and sorrowful day, when men will se the holy God of the universe and eye the blessed Saviour who died on the cross, then to be cast into the fiery pits of hell.
Psalms 7 gives us a picture into God’s wrath; how that he is angry with sin and if men repent not he is ready to strike them.
Psalms 7:11-13 (KJV)God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked everyday. If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready. He hath also prepared for him the instrument of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
You see God is prepared to execute his wrath on sinners, and to send them to the prepared instrument of death which is hell. Well one may ask how is it that God executes his wrath on sinners? One of the worst ways he knows how, by giving men over to commit sins. Removing his restraining grace which did keep them from the most wicked and heinous acts of sin, which they were capable of sinning.
Psalms 7:15 (KJV)He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he has made.
You see the Lord allows them to dig their own ditch and to fall into it. Romans 1 allows us to see more clearly how it is that God does this:
Romans 1:26-32 (KJV)For this cause (because they did not worship the true God) God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And like-wise also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error (and has fallen into that ditch which he has made) which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, frornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant-breakers, with out natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgments of God, that they which commit such things are worth of death, not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them.
So if you are thinking that you are fine and God has not poured his wrath out on you, think again. For your days are as a shadow, and your enjoyment of sin is only securing your eternal damnation in the ultimate judgement of hell, fire, and brimstone. If you are here and you are a Christian, you have no right to judge the lost, and be puffed up with pride, because it is God who saved you and kept you from sinning to you greatest capability. If you say, well I am glad that I did not commit that sin or that sin, remember you have only God to thank, that he did not give you over to such and such sins
If you are here tonight and the Spirit has opened your eyes, enlightening your heart to your sinfulness, seeing that there is nothing good in you, nothing righteous, and that all your ways have been in sin, do not fight and kick against the Spirit and what he is revealing to you, because you are not without hope tonight.
I Timothy 1:15 (KJV)This is a faithful saying, worthy of all acceptation, that Christ came into the world to save sinners; of who I am chief.
That is a truth worth pronouncing, that I am the chief among sinners, but I don’t have to die one, because Christ came into the world to save sinners. Look to Jesus, call out to him for he alone can save, not me or anything you or I could do.
John 3:16-18 (KJV)For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. But; he that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth no is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son.
These scripture can give life to those who will believe and cast their weary souls of Jesus, and find a new power to overcome the sin which before placed them under God’s wrath. Yet if you do not take Jesus as your Savior, then it can only be concluded from the scriptures that you are condemned to an eternity in hell under God’s wrath to carry your sins forever. Do not think that your sins are to many, and God does not want you, because no one has ever been refused that came to Jesus and believed, and all who came found that all of their sins were covered by the blood of Jesus. Just remember:
I Timothy 1:15 (KJV)This is a faithful saying, worthy of all acceptation, that Christ came into the world to save sinners; of who I am chief.
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