Over Breakfast we discussed a Jonathan Edwards Sermon
THE WARNINGS OF SCRIPTURE ARE IN THE BEST MANNER ADAPTED TO THE
AWAKENING AND CONVERSION OF SINNERS
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/14463.htm or http://www.jonathan-
edwards.org/Warnings.html
This sermon was chosen as it related to our discussion last week on
the 'Word of God' - Gruden Chapter 2
The basic thesis of the entire sermon was that we are saved by the
Word of God, not by the word or words of others. Edwards uses the
example of someone coming back from hell and testifying of its foul
and nasty nature, and how it wouldn't be enough to convince us that
hell is a bad place. Instead it is the Word of God that awakens
sinners and draws them to repentance.
Once again, I particularly found comfort in the truth that God has a
plan for our lives and that his plan is best for us. Clearly stated:
"But God, who knows our nature and circumstances, knows what is most
adapted to them. He who made the faculties of our souls, knows what
will have the greatest tendency to move them, and to work upon them.
He who is striving with us, to bring us to repentance and salvation,
uses the fittest and best means. In contriving and appointing the
means of our salvation, he chooses better for us than we should for
ourselves."
Our God is a Just God. His Justice makes Grace sweet. The ultimate sacrifice of his Son, for us. Christ placing himself on the mercy
seat as my atoning sacrifice wipes my sin away. All that done in the
presence of a Just God, who now sees me as blameless, makes his Grace
transforming in my Life.
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