Here are the 10 considerations from this message you keep touting.....I will do the first one as an example of where the Bible Refutes the first consideration and it will be in bold red: Most theologians agree that this message likely induced thousands of false conversions and the great awaking was based solely on an angry God casting people into hell....It is the same tired old lie, that we lived through in the late 60's, all through the 70's, 80's and 90's and still is used by certain denominations as a weapon today....
I don't know how many I have prayed with at the altar or on a prayer line who said they were scared into salvation.
Jesus has strong words for those who use scare tactics to induce false conversions The emphasis should not be placed upon hell but by the fact that God came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ to show His love for mankind...This is why understanding of grace is so important....
ten "considerations" from the message "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
- God may cast wicked men into hell at any given moment.
refuted by 2 Peter 3.9 which says:
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
- The Wicked deserve to be cast into hell. Divine justice does not prevent God from destroying the Wicked at any moment.
- The Wicked, at this moment, suffer under God's condemnation to Hell.
- The Wicked, on earth - at this very moment - suffer the torments of Hell. The Wicked must not think, simply because they are not physically in Hell, that God (in Whose hand the Wicked now reside) is not - at this very moment - as angry with them as He is with those miserable creatures He is now tormenting in hell, and who - at this very moment - do feel and bear the fierceness of His wrath.
- At any moment God shall permit him, Satan stands ready to fall upon the Wicked and seize them as his own.
- If it were not for God's restraints, there are, in the souls of wicked men, hellish principles reigning which, presently, would kindle and flame out into hellfire.
- Simply because there are not visible means of death before them at any given moment, the Wicked should not feel secure.
- Simply because it is natural to care for oneself or to think that others may care for them, men should not think themselves safe from God's wrath.
- All that wicked men may do to save themselves from Hell's pains shall afford them nothing if they continue to reject Christ.
- God has never promised to save us from Hell, except for those contained in Christ through the covenant of Grace.
There are some truths in this message but it is overshadowed by the error that God will throw anyone in hell at any moment.