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I read an event from the life of the famous English preacher Jonathan Edwards, who it seemed had very strange habits. In a very brief and very brilliant biography his life, Edwards, whom this writer believes to be one of the greatest preachers that ever preached in America or England, carried in his pocket a handful of precious stones… a diamond, a sapphire, a ruby, an emerald, and so forth. He would walk into a park and take one of those precious stones and hold it up to the light of the sun, moving it around, seeking different shades or different illuminations from it as the sunlight hit it. And as the people would go past, particularly the children, they would all shake their heads indicating that they thought this fellow was just a little bit odd. Back in 1700s Edwards preached one of the greatest sermons ever preached in America under the anointing of the Holy Ghost called “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
The anointing was so strong on Edwards that according to accounts written later of that solemn moment of eternity people fell off their seats and clung to the pillars that were holding the gallery up – crying out in despair. And he didn’t say, “Oh friends, please excuse me. I never meant to embarrass you like that.” There was a reason for his power and anointing that day, because before he preached, he prayed. Over and over and over again he prayed, “Oh God, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.” I don’t know anybody else who’s ever prayed it. Maybe we in this modern atmosphere of this so-called syrupy Christianity of today have said it – but if God should stamp eternity or even judgment upon our eyeballs, I’m quite convinced we’d be a very different group of people as well a different group of preachers and ministry leaders! Someone once said to that great scholar, Daniel Webster, “You have a colossal mind.
What is the greatest thought that you have ever had?” He said, “I’ve thought about many things, but the most awesome, the most terrifying, the most shattering thought I’ve ever had, is my personal accountability to God one day.” There are roughly ¾ million words in the Word of God and one hymn writer calls the Bible, “A golden casket where gems of truth are stored. The heaven drawn picture of Christ, the Living Word.” I suggest, like Jonathan Edwards selected a precious stone and lifted it up to the light of the sun, we select one word out of this “golden casket” and hold it up to the light of eternity – and that word is “Judgment.”Some reading this may not be concerned about what this writer has to say which is ok; this website has been up for 10 years without fear of who liked us or not. We got tickled in the late summer of 2007 when someone wrote us an email with the subject line saying “you need to change the subject of your website,” because they didn’t like the subject we were writing about.
That’s the beauty of owning your own site. You can say what you want to and not care what the religious or backslidden church says to you. We bathe what we write in love but we write at ALL times with eternity in mind. We write believing that the chance is always there some poor soul seeking for answers may come across this site seeking the truth. WOE unto this writer if I preach NOT the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ on this website. WOE unto us if we point you to some self-help guru’s 12-step program or new age philosophy instead of pointing you to the Cross of Christ for the salvation of your soul! God help us in this modern hour.
God help a church that is powerless and Christ-less yet claims it is rich, increased with goods and in need of nothing. That is the definition of “lukewarmess,” a condition of the church at Laodicea that the Lord warned would warrant Him vomiting them out of His mouth. He’d rather them be cold or hot – NOT in between. The church is not warning the masses about the accountability of eternity but I declare unto you today – there is a JUDGEMENT coming for all – both saint and sinner – and ALL men shall stand before a living God. For the child of God our Judgement will be the Judgement seat of Christ; the sinner will stand at the Great White Throne Judgement as recorded in the book of Revelation.
Of course because the church has stopped preaching the Bible and has elected to pass out printed copies of the Purpose Driven Life to their members we don’t hear sermons on this any more. Preacher I say this with love but say it with a burning heart. You will stand accountable to God for the souls placed under your care and concern as a shepherd. If you fail to warn men of the consequences of willful sin and do not present the CROSS and the Cross ALONE as man’s only hope of salvation and deliverance – YOU WILL STAND accountable before God with the blood of those souls on your hands! Are you hearing me neighbor?
You may not like this writer or even care about this website but if you’ve made it this far in this journal I hope you will at least say, “Please Lord, will You give me some new illumination on this awesome fact of judgment?” Read the entire message on our mother site: www.spiritjournals.com
