Johnathan Edwards

Passage from "Sinners at the Hands of an ANGRY GOD":

"God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise to keep any natural man out of hell one moment. God certainly has made no promises either of eternal life, or of any deliverance or preservation from eternal death, but what are contained in the covenant of grace, the promises that are given in Christ, in whom all the promises are yea and amen. But surely they have no interest in the promises of the covenant of grace who are not the children of the covenant, who do not believe in any of the promises, and have no interest in the Mediator of the covenant. "

Reason:
This passage is my favorite because it completely contradicts society's veiws about God today. When people attend church they are constantly reminded that God is graceful and will not condem them to hell if they choose to live their lives based on his 10 Commandments. On the other hand, this sermon states that you have hardly any chance of going anyplace other than hell and that God is actually the almighty power that hangs you over it. In a way the sermon made me repulsed at the wicked images of God's sick game of torturing people. On the other hang I admire Johnathan Edwards for exposing the drastic reality that God may not be as graceful as we perseive him as. The truth is that no living human can judge the uncertainty of this mistery and therefore explaing the meaning of faith.