Good morning and welcome in everybody. Today we are going to take a look at a passage of Scripture, but before we do that I wanted to tell you a little story.
The 1900 Great Galveston hurricane has been considered by some as the deadliest national disaster in United States history, killing between 6 and 12,000 people and causing up to 30 million dollars in property damage. It flooded Galveston with a storm surge that was up to 12 ft high, leaving in its wake around 10,000 people homeless. It was an incredibly devastating storm, and is one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes in history, But each year there are new storms that come tearing across the ocean, and those who have experienced them understand the danger of what is quickly approaching. They board up their windows, and fill up the sandbags, as they prepare for the day of its great fury, warning as many as they can to get ready for the terror that awaits them all.
This reminds me of the Christian Life.
The Apostle Paul understood the seriousness of what was coming in the future and was warning people to prepare themselves. Like a city sitting in the path of an oncoming hurricane, God’s wrath is going to wash over the entire Earth to punish all of those who have rejected the path of His Son Jesus. The Apostle Paul was turning people to the truth in Christ because he understood the severe consequences for those who wouldn’t. Jesus died so that we could have a new opportunity to repent, but those who don’t take advantage of His Mercy and prepare themselves accordingly, will be consumed by the fire of God’s wrath.
2 Corinthians 5 ⁹ Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. ¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. ¹¹ Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
Our God is perfectly just, and He will punish evil, both now and in eternity. Unless people repent and turn away from sinfulness, they will quickly meet His vengeance.
2 Peter 2 ⁴ For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; ⁵ And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; ⁶ And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; ⁷ And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: ⁸ (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) ⁹ The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
Like other men of God, Jonah warned Nineveh about God’s impending judgment upon them.
Jonah 3 ³ So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey. ⁴ And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. ⁵ So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. ⁶ For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. ⁷ And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: ⁸ But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. ⁹ Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? ¹⁰ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
John the Baptist was sent to warn the Jews about the fires of God’s justice.
Matthew 3 ⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? ⁸ Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: ⁹ And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. ¹⁰ And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Hebrews 12 ²⁸ Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: ²⁹ For our God is a consuming fire.
God knows everybody’s heart, and those who have no desire to repent of their sin will feel the sting of His righteous punishments.
Revelation 2 ²⁰ Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. ²¹ And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. ²² Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
Revelation 9 ²⁰ And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: ²¹ Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Galatians 6 ⁷ Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. ⁸ For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Revelation 21 ⁷ He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. ⁸ But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
It’s been claimed that Galveston was unprepared for the Great Hurricane because of a lack of forecasting tools and warning systems, but for thousands of years, men of God have been forecasting the fury of God’s judgment. People are out of excuses, as the day of the Lord is at hand. If they want to save themselves and their families from God’s wrath, then they need to prepare right now by turning away from sin and everything that is displeasing to Him. Today is the day of salvation, and the terror of the Lord quickly approaches, just like a….
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