Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God!
Jonathan Edwards, 1741

"Their foot shall slide in due time." Deuteronomy
32:35

OBSERVATION. "There is nothing which keeps wicked
men at any one moment out of hell—but the mere
pleasure of God."

 1. There is no lack of power in God, to cast wicked
men into hell at any moment.
 2. They deserve to be cast into hell.
 3. They are already under a sentence of
condemnation to hell.
 4. They are now the objects of that very same anger
and wrath of God, that is expressed in the torments
of hell.
 5. The devil stands ready to fall upon them—and
seize them as his own—at whatever moment God shall
permit him!
 6. There are in the souls of wicked men, those
hellish principles reigning, which would presently
kindle and flame out into hell fire—if it were not
for God's restraints.
 7. It is no security to wicked men for one
moment—that there are no visible means of death at
hand.
 8. Unsaved men's prudence and care to preserve
their own lives, or the care of others to preserve
them—do not secure them a single moment!
 9. All wicked men's pains and contrivances which
they use to escape hell, while they continue to
reject Christ—and so remain wicked men—do not secure
them from hell one moment!
10. God has laid himself under no obligation, by any
promise—to keep any unsaved man out of hell, for one
moment!

APPLICATION
1. Consider more particularly—WHOSE wrath it is!
2. Consider—that is the fierceness of God's wrath,
that you are exposed to!
3.  Consider—that the misery you are exposed to, is
that which God will inflict to that end—that he might
show what His almighty wrath is.
4. Consider—that it is EVERLASTING wrath!