Judgment Day
Acts
Judgment is God's strange work; but it is
God's work. There is a day appointed by God when all men must be judged.
"Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord," I want to persuade you to
flee to Christ by faith and find refuge in him from the wrath to come. Will you
take a moment of time to think about eternity, divine judgment, and your
immortal soul?
Judgment is coming. Soon you and I must
stand before the awful bar of God's inflexible justice. Soon we must meet the
holy Lord God in judgment! The appointed day of judgment
is a matter of certainty. It will come with suddenness, unannounced and without
warning. God's judgment will be in exact accordance with strict justice. You
will be examined by the eye of omniscience. If the holy Lord God finds upon you
one spot of sin, or one wrinkle of moral infirmity, he will pour out upon your
helpless soul the terror of his unmitigated wrath forever! When you meet God in
that day, if you have not been reconciled to him by faith in Christ, if you
have no substitute whose blood and righteousness alone can make you acceptable
in God's sight, you must be damned forever! Your conscience tells you that this
is so. God's holy law warns you of his wrath. His word points you to Christ and
calls you to repentance and faith in him, promising eternal life to all who
believe and eternal death to all who believe not. Why do you hesitate? Repent,
or perish! Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and live forever! Come to him
without delay!
This world you so much love will soon be
destroyed because it is defiled with sin. All that you have lived for, worked
for, and sought in this world will vanish before your eyes like a puff of
smoke. Then your immortal, sin-cursed soul will stand in helpless terror before
the judgment bar of God. The messenger of judgement in that terrible day will
be Christ himself, whom you have despised and rejected (John
Don Fortner