The Wrath to Come ~ Flee to the LORD JESUS Today!

    “But when he (John the Baptist) 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?” (Matthew 3:7).  


Remember the tremendous and overwhelming fact, that the wrath of God does not end with death.  This is a truth which the preacher cannot mention without trembling, nor without wondering that he does not tremble more.  The eternity of punishment is a thought which crushes the heart.  When an unbeliever dies, you have buried the man, but you have not buried his sins.  His sins live, and are immortal: they have gone before him to judgment and they will follow after him to bear their witness as to the evil of his heart and the rebellion of his life.  The Lord God is slow to anger, but when He is once aroused to it, as He will be against those who finally reject His Son, He will put forth all His omnipotence to crush His enemies.   


“Consider this,” saith He, “ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver” (Psalm 50:22).  It will be no trifle to fall into the hands of the living God.  He will by no means clear the guilty.  For ever must His anger burn.  We have nothing in Scripture to warrant the hope that God’s wrath against evil doers will ever come to an end.  Oh, the wrath to come!  The wrath to come!  The wrath which after ages and ages will still be to come, and still to come, and still to come!  Well might that mighty pleader, George Whitefield, when he preached, lift up his hands, and with tears streaming from his eyes and with breaking heart cry to the crowds — “Oh, the wrath to come, the wrath to come!”

 

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