- Nov 3, 2012
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The scenes and transactions of earth must excite a wonderful interest in heaven. Angels desire to look into these things. O how the whole universe looks on with inquisitive wonder to see what Christ has done, and how the sinners for whom he has suffered and done all, requite his amazing love!
When they see you set your heart only the more fully to do evil, they stand back aghast at such unparalleled wickedness! What can be done for such sinners but leave them to the madness and doom of their choice?
God has no other alternative. If you will abuse Him, He must execute his law, and its fearful sentence of eternal death. Suppose it were a human government and a similar state of facts should occur; who does not see that government might as well abdicate at once as forbear to punish?
So of God. Although He has no pleasure in the sinner's death, and although He will never slay you because He delights in it, yet how can He do otherwise that execute his law if He would sustain it? And how can He excuse Himself for any failure in sustaining it?
Will you stand out against Him, and flatter yourself that He will fail of executing his awful sentence upon you? Oh, sinner, there is no possibility that you can pass the appointed time without execution.
Human laws may possibly fail of execution: God's laws can fail never! And who is it that says--"Their judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not?"
The Wicked Heart Set To Do Evil by Charles G. Finney
When they see you set your heart only the more fully to do evil, they stand back aghast at such unparalleled wickedness! What can be done for such sinners but leave them to the madness and doom of their choice?
God has no other alternative. If you will abuse Him, He must execute his law, and its fearful sentence of eternal death. Suppose it were a human government and a similar state of facts should occur; who does not see that government might as well abdicate at once as forbear to punish?
So of God. Although He has no pleasure in the sinner's death, and although He will never slay you because He delights in it, yet how can He do otherwise that execute his law if He would sustain it? And how can He excuse Himself for any failure in sustaining it?
Will you stand out against Him, and flatter yourself that He will fail of executing his awful sentence upon you? Oh, sinner, there is no possibility that you can pass the appointed time without execution.
Human laws may possibly fail of execution: God's laws can fail never! And who is it that says--"Their judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not?"
The Wicked Heart Set To Do Evil by Charles G. Finney