All To Save You From The Wrath To Come! (and others)

All To Save You From the Wrath to Come! (and others)

Christians, spend your days in admiring the transcendent love of Christ - in undergoing hellish punishments in your stead! Oh pray, pray hard that you "may be able to comprehend what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of that love of Christ, which passes knowledge!" (Ephesians 3: 18-19).

The love of Christ put Him upon these bodily and spiritual sufferings - which were so exceeding great, acute, extreme, and universal - and all to save you from wrath to come! His miseries, sorrows, and sufferings are unparalleled, and therefore Christians have the more cause to lose themselves in the contemplation of His matchless love. Oh, bless Christ! Oh, kiss Christ! Oh, embrace Christ! Oh, cleave to Christ! Oh, follow Christ! Oh, walk with Christ! Oh, long for Christ - who for your sakes has undergone insupportable wrath and most hellish torments!

Oh, look up to dear Jesus, and say, "O blessed Jesus, You were accursed - that I might be blessed! You were condemned - that I might be justified! You underwent the very torments of hell - that I might forever enjoy the pleasures of heaven! Therefore I cannot but dearly love You, and highly esteem You, and greatly honor You, and earnestly long after You!"

~Thomas Brooks~
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They Will Not Believe It Until They Feel It!

"Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?" (Luke 3:7).

"Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath" (1 Thess. 1:10)

1. The coming wrath is the greatest wrath. It is the greatest evil which can befall a soul. "Who knows the power of Your wrath?" (Psalm 19:11). The coming wrath is such wrath as no unsaved man can either avoid or abide. And yet such is most men's stupidity, that they will not believe it until they feel it!

As God is a great God - so His wrath is a great wrath. If the wrath of an earthly king is so terrible - oh how dreadful must the wrath of the King of kings then be!

The greater the evil is, the more cause w have to flee from it. Now the coming wrath is the greatest evil, and therefore the more it concerns us to flee from it!

2. The coming wrath is treasured up wrath. Sinners are still treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath" (Romans 2:5). While wicked men are following their own lusts, they think that they are still adding to their own happiness. But alas, they do but add wrath to wrath! They do but heap up judgment upon judgment, and punishment upon punishment! Look! as men are daily adding to their treasure more and more, so impenitent sinners are daily increasing the treasury of wrath against their own souls.

3. The coming wrath is pure wrath. It is judgment without mercy." The cup of wrath which God will put into sinners' hands at last, will be a cup of pure wrath - all wrath - nothing but wrath. It is poured out undiluted into God's cup of wrath. And they will be tormented with fire and burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb" (Rev. 14:10).

Look! as there is nothing but the pure glory of God - which can make a man perfectly and fully happy; just so, there is nothing but the pure wrath of God - which can make a man fully and perfectly miserable. Reprobates shall not only sip of the top of God's cup - but they shall drink the dregs of His cup! They shall not have one drop of mercy, nor one crumb of comfort! They have filled up their lifetime with sin - and God will fill up their eternity with torments!

4. The coming wrath is everlasting wrath. "And the smoke of their torment ascends up forever and ever" (Rev. 14:11). They shall have punishment without pity, misery without mercy, sorrow without support, crying without comfort, mischief without measure, torment without ease - where the worm dies not, and the fire is never quenched" The torments of the damned shall continue as many eternities as there are stars in the skies, as there are grains of sand, as there are drops of water in the sea! When the present worlds are ended, the pains and torments of hell shall not cease - but begin afresh.

Oh the folly and vanity, the madness and baseness of poor wretched sinners - who expose themselves to everlasting torments - for a few fleshly momentary pleasures!

Oh! who can stand before His fierce anger? Who can survive His burning fury? His rage blazes forth like fire, and the mountains crumble to dust in His presence! (Nahum 1:6).

How should these things work poor sinners to flee to Christ, who alone is able to save them from the coming wrath. (1 Thess. 1:10).

~Thomas Brooks~