Judgment Day                  

Acts 17:31

 

     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 5:22). Today he bids you seek his grace. In that day he will say, "Depart, ye cursed!" Why will you die? Why do you choose wrath and despise mercy? God help you now, oh, may he sweetly force you by irresistible grace to come to Christ and be saved! "Ye sinners seek His face, whose wrath ye cannot bear; Fly to the shelter of His cross, and find salvation there!"

 

 

Don Fortner