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December 30th Evening
“Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end?” — 2 Samuel 2:26
If, O my reader! thou art merely a professor, and not a possessor of the
faith that is in Christ Jesus, the following lines are a true ketch of thine
end.
You are a respectable attendant at a place of worship; you go because others go, not because your heart is right with God. This is your beginning. I will suppose that for the next twenty or thirty years you will be spared to go on as you do now, professing religion by an outward attendance upon the means of grace, but having no heart in the matter. Tread softly, for I must show you the deathbed of such a one as yourself. Let us gaze upon him gently. A clammy sweat is on his brow, and he wakes up crying, “O God, it is hard to die. Did you send for my minister?” “Yes, he is coming.” The minister comes. “Sir, I fear that I am dying!” “Have you any hope?” “I cannot say that I have. I fear to…
stand before my God; oh! pray
for me.” The prayer is offered for him with sincere earnestness, and the
way of salvation is for the ten-thousandth time put before him, but before
he has grasped the rope, I see him sink. I may put my finger upon those
cold eyelids, for they will never see anything here again. But where is the
man, and where are the man’s true eyes? It is written, “In hell he lifted up
his eyes, being in torment.” Ah! why did he not lift up his eyes before?
Because he was so accustomed to hear the gospel that his soul slept under
it. Alas! if you should lift up your eyes there, how bitter will be your
wailings. Let the Saviour’s own words reveal the woe: “Father Abraham,
send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my
tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.” There is a frightful meaning in
those words. May you never have to spell it out by the red light of
Jehovah’s wrath!
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“Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end?” — 2 Samuel 2:26
If, O my reader! thou art merely a professor, and not a possessor of the
faith that is in Christ Jesus, the following lines are a true ketch of thine
end.
You are a respectable attendant at a place of worship; you go because others go, not because your heart is right with God. This is your beginning. I will suppose that for the next twenty or thirty years you will be spared to go on as you do now, professing religion by an outward attendance upon the means of grace, but having no heart in the matter. Tread softly, for I must show you the deathbed of such a one as yourself. Let us gaze upon him gently. A clammy sweat is on his brow, and he wakes up crying, “O God, it is hard to die. Did you send for my minister?” “Yes, he is coming.” The minister comes. “Sir, I fear that I am dying!” “Have you any hope?” “I cannot say that I have. I fear to…
stand before my God; oh! pray
for me.” The prayer is offered for him with sincere earnestness, and the
way of salvation is for the ten-thousandth time put before him, but before
he has grasped the rope, I see him sink. I may put my finger upon those
cold eyelids, for they will never see anything here again. But where is the
man, and where are the man’s true eyes? It is written, “In hell he lifted up
his eyes, being in torment.” Ah! why did he not lift up his eyes before?
Because he was so accustomed to hear the gospel that his soul slept under
it. Alas! if you should lift up your eyes there, how bitter will be your
wailings. Let the Saviour’s own words reveal the woe: “Father Abraham,
send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my
tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.” There is a frightful meaning in
those words. May you never have to spell it out by the red light of
Jehovah’s wrath!
To make sure you never miss an episode, please subscribe today wherever you listen to podcasts.
Producer: Todd Adkins
Voice Artist: Ian Cullen
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