Forgetters of GOD!
(Charles Spurgeon, "Treasury of David")
and all the nations that forget GOD!"
Psalm 9:17
How solemn is this verse, especially
in its warning to forgetters of GOD!
The moral who are not devout,
the honest who are not prayerful,
the benevolent who are not believing,
the amiable who are not converted--
these must all have their own portion
with the openly wicked, in the Hell
which is prepared for the devil
and his demons!
There are whole nations of such;
the forgetters of GOD are far more
numerous than the openly profane
or profligate!
According to the very forceful
expression in the Hebrew, the
nethermost Hell will be the place
into which all of them shall be
hurled headlong!
Forgetting GOD seems to be
a small sin, but it brings eternal
wrath upon the man who lives
and dies in it!
(The following is by Thomas Watson)
The ungodly at death must undergo
GOD'S fury and indignation. I have read
of a lodestone which has two corners--
with one it draws the iron to it, with
the other it thrusts the iron away
from it. Just so, GOD has two hands--
of mercy and justice: with the one
HE will draw the godly to Heaven--
with the other HE will thrust
the sinner to Hell!
And oh, how dreadful is that place!
It is called a fiery lake
(Revelation 20:15).
(Revelation 20:15).
A lake, to denote the plenty
of torments in Hell.
of torments in Hell.
A fiery lake, to show
the fierceness of them!
the fierceness of them!
Fire is the most torturing element.
Strabo in his geography mentions
a lake of such a pestiferous nature,
that it scalds off the skin of whatever
is cast into it. But, alas! that lake
is cool compared with this fiery lake
into which the damned are thrown!
To demonstrate that this fire
is terrible, there are two most
dreadful qualities in it:
It is sulphurous--
it is mixed with brimstone, which
is stinking and suffocating.
It is inextinguishable--
though the wicked shall be
choked in the flames,
yet not consumed.
of fire and brimstone, where the beast
and the false prophet are, and shall
be tormented day and night forever
and ever!" (Revelation 20:10)
Behold the deplorable condition of all
ungodly ones in the eternal world--
they shall have a life that always dies--
and a death that always lives!
May not this affright men out of their
sins, and make them become godly--
unless they are resolved to experience
how hot Hell-fire is!"
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