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An Excerpt From The Sermon

Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

by Jonathan Edwards

O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in:

  1.  it is a great furnace of wrath,

  2.  a wide and bottomless pit,

  3.  full of the fire of wrath,

  4.  that you are held over in the hand of that God, 

  5.  whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you,

  6.  as against many of the damned in hell.

You hang by a slender thread,

  1.  with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it,

  2.  and ready every moment to singe it,

  3.  and burn it asunder;

  4.  and you have no interest in any Mediator,

  5.  and nothing to lay hold of to save yourself,

      a.  nothing to keep off the flames of wrath,

      b.  nothing of your own,

      c.   nothing that you ever have done,

      d.  nothing that you can do,

          1)  to induce God to spare you one moment.

And consider here more particularly,

Whose wrath it is:

  1. it is the wrath of the infinite God. 

  2. If it were only the wrath of man, 

        a. though it were of the most potent prince, 

        b. it would be comparatively little to be regarded. 

  3. The wrath of kings is very much dreaded, 

        a. especially of absolute monarchs, 

        b. who have the possessions and lives of their subjects wholly  in their power, 

        c. to be disposed of at their mere will. 

Prov. 20:2. "The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: Whoso provoketh him to anger, sinneth against his own soul." 

  4. The subject that very much enrages an arbitrary prince, 

        a. is liable to suffer the most extreme torments that human art can invent,

        b. or human power can inflict. 

  5. But the greatest earthly potentates 

        a. in their greatest majesty and strength, 

        b. and when clothed in their greatest terrors, 

        c. are but feeble, 

           1) despicable worms of the dust,

           2) in comparison of the great and almighty Creator and King of heaven and earth. 

       d. It is but little that they can do, 

           1) when most enraged, 

           2) and when they have exerted the utmost of their fury. 

        e. All the kings of the earth, 

           1) before God, 

           2) are as grasshoppers; 

           3) they are nothing, 

           4) and less than nothing: 

              - both their love and their hatred is to be despised. 

  6. The wrath of the great King of kings, 

        a. is as much more terrible than theirs, 

        b. as his majesty is greater. 

Luke 12:4,5. "And I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that, have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell: yea, I say unto you, Fear him."

        c. It is the fierceness of his wrath that you are exposed to. 

        d.We often read of the fury of God; as in 

Isa. 59:18. "According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay fury to his adversaries." 

So Isa. 66:15. "For behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire." 

              - And in many other places. 

So, Rev. 19:15, we read of "the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God." 

        e. The words are exceeding terrible. 

            1) If it had only been said, 

            2) "the wrath of God," 

            3) the words would have implied that which is infinitely dreadful: 

            4) but it is "the fierceness and wrath of God." 

            5) The fury of God! 

            6) the fierceness of Jehovah! 

            7) Oh, how dreadful that must be! 

            8) Who can utter or conceive what such expressions carry in them! 

            9) But it is also "the fierceness and wrath of almighty God." 

                    a) As though there would be a very great manifestation of his almighty power 

                   b) in what the fierceness of his wrath should inflict, 

                   c) as though omnipotence should be as it were enraged, 

                   d) and exerted, 

                   e) as men are wont to exert their strength in the fierceness of their wrath. 

          10) Oh! then, what will be the consequence! 

          11) What will become of the poor worms that shall suffer it! 

          12) Whose hands can be strong? 

          13) And whose heart can endure? 

          14) To what a 

                  a) dreadful, 

                  b) inexpressible, 

                  c) inconceivable depth of misery 

                  d) must the poor creature be sunk

                  e) who shall be the subject of this!

Consider this,

  1.  you that are here present,

      -        that yet remain in an unregenerate state.

  2.  That God will execute the fierceness of his anger,

      a.  implies, that he will inflict wrath without any pity.

      b.  When God beholds the ineffable extremity of your case,

          1)  and sees your torment to be so fastly disproportioned to your strength,

2)  and sees how your poor soul is crushed,

3)  and sinks down,

4)  as it were, into an infinite gloom;

5)  he will have no compassion upon you,

6)  he will not forbear the executions of his wrath,

7)  or in the least lighten his hand;

8)  there shall be no moderation or mercy,

9)  nor will God then at all stay his rough wind;

10)  he will have no regard to your welfare,

11)   nor be at all careful

a)  lest you should suffer too much in any other sense,

b)  than only that you shall not suffer beyond what strict justice requires.

c.   Nothing shall be withheld,

-        because it is so hard for you to bear.

Ezek. 8:18. "Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them."

   3.  Now God stands ready to pity you;

       a.  this is a day of mercy;

       b.  you may cry now with some encouragement of obtaining mercy.

       c.   But when once the day of mercy is past,

          1)  your most lamentable and dolorous cries and shrieks will be in vain;

          2)  you will be wholly lost and thrown away of God,

-        as to any regard to your welfare.

   4.  God will have no other use to put you to,

        a.  but to suffer misery;

        b.  you shall be continued in being to no other end;

        c.   for you will be a vessel of wrath fitted to destruction;

        d.  and there will be no other use of this vessel,

-        but to be filled full of wrath.

   5.  God will be so far from pitying you when you cry to him,

-        that it is said he will only "laugh and mock," Prov. 1:25,26.

   6.  How awful are those words, Isa. 63:3,

       a.  which are the words of the great God.

"I will tread them in mine anger, and will trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment."

   b.  It is perhaps impossible to conceive of words

      1)  that carry in them greater manifestations of these three things,

          a)  contempt,

          b)  and hatred,

          c)  and fierceness of indignation.

   c.   If you cry to God to pity you,

       1)  he will be so far from pitying you in your doleful case,  

       2)  or showing you the least regard or favor, that instead of that,   he will only tread you under foot.

   d.  And though he will know that you cannot bear the weight of omnipotence treading upon you,

       1)  yet he will not regard that,

       2)  but he will crush you under his feet without mercy;

       3)  he will crush out your blood, 

       4)  and make it fly,

       5)  and it shall be sprinkled on his garments,
                - so as to stain all his raiment.
       6)  He will not only hate you,
       7)  but he will have you in the utmost contempt:
           a)  no place shall be thought fit for you,
           b)  but under his feet to be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

The misery you are exposed to is that which

God will inflict to that end,

1.  that he might show what that wrath of Jehovah is.

2.  God hath had it on his heart to show to angels and men,

    a.  both how excellent his love is,

    b.  and also how terrible his wrath is.

    3.  Sometimes earthly kings have a mind to show how terrible their wrath is,

        a.  by the extreme punishments they would execute

        b.  on those that would provoke them.

    4.  Nebuchadnezzar, that mighty and haughty monarch of the Chaldean empire,

        a.  was willing to show his wrath

        b.  when enraged with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego;

        c.   and accordingly gave orders that the burning fiery furnace

           1)  should be heated seven times hotter than it was before;

           2)  doubtless, it was raised to the utmost degree of fierceness that human art could raise it.

    5.  But the great God is also willing to

        a.  show his wrath,

        b.  and magnify his awful majest

        c.   and mighty power in the extreme sufferings of his enemies.

Rom. 9:22. "What if God, willing to show his wrath,
and to make his power known, endured with much 
long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to
destruction?"

     d.  And seeing this is his design,

        1)  and what he has determined,

        2)  even to show how terrible the unrestrained wrath, the fury and fierceness of Jehovah is,

        3)  he will do it to effect.

     e.  There will be something

        1)  accomplished and brought to pass

        2)  that will be dreadful with a witness.

     f.    When the great and angry God hath risen up

        1)  and executed his awful vengeance on the poor sinner,

        2)  and the wretch is actually suffering

                 -        the infinite weight and power of his indignation,

        3)  then will God call upon the whole universe

            a)  to behold that awful majesty

            b)  and mighty power that is to be seen in it.

Isa. 33:12-14. "And the people shall be as the burning of lime, as thorns cut up shall they be burnt in the fire. Hear ye that are far off, what I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge my might. The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites, "

Thus it will be with you

   1.  that are in an unconverted state,

   2.  if you continue in it;

   3.  the infinite might, and majesty, and terribleness of the omnipotent God

       a.  shall be magnified upon you,

       b.  in the ineffable strength of your torments.

    4.  You shall be tormented

       a.  in the presence of the holy angels,

       b.  and in the presence of the Lamb;

       c.   and when you shall be in this state of suffering,

          1)  the glorious inhabitants of heaven shall go forth and look on the awful spectacle,

          2)  that they may see what the wrath and fierceness of the Almighty is;

       d.  and when they have seen it,

          1)   they will fall down

          2)  and adore that great power and majesty.

Isa. 66:23,24. "And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord. And they shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me; for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh."

It is everlasting wrath.

    1.  It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God one moment;

        a.  but you must suffer it to all eternity.

        b.  There will be no end to this exquisite horrible misery.

        c.   When you look forward,

           1)  you shall see a long forever,

           2)  a boundless duration before you,

           3)  which will swallow up your thoughts,

           4)  and amaze your soul;

           5)  and you will absolutely despair

               a)  of ever having any deliverance,

               b)  any end,

               c)  any mitigation,

               d)  any rest at all.

           6)  You will know certainly

               a)  that you must wear out long ages,

               b)  millions of millions of ages,

               c)  in wrestling and conflicting

                   -        with this almighty merciless vengeance;

               d)  and then when you have so done,

               e)  when so many ages have actually been spent by you in this

               f)   you will know that all is but a point to what remains.

               g)  So that your punishment will indeed be infinite.

           7)  Oh, who can express what the state of a soul in such circumstances is!

           8)  All that we can possibly say about it,

              a)  gives but a very feeble, faint representation of it;

              b)  it is inexpressible and inconceivable:

   2.  For "who knows the power of God's anger?"

Max McLean reciting Jonathan Edwards message Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

Li'l Red Riding Hood

The year was 1965 and a newly formed rock and roll band called Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs released a cute little novelty song called Wooly Bully  Wooly Bully climbed to #2 on the music charts; never reaching the coveted #1 spot. But just the same Wooly Bully became a huge hit for Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. The following year Sam and his group released another tune called Li'l Red Riding Hood.


It too charted all the way to #2 on the charts, and over the years went on to be covered by other artists such as The Coasters, The Metors, and Johnny O and the Jerks.
More recently a cover of Li'l Red Riding Hood was recorded by Amanda Seyfried for the 2011 dark fantasy thriller movie she starred in titled Red Riding Hood.


Earlier this year, 2012, the Volvo car company came out with a commercial using Sam the Sham’s song as a back drop portraying a subtle message about their cars safe engineering  The car company asked Laura Gibson to record the Li’l Red Riding Hood song for the Volvo commercial.


Because of the commercial’s appeal, Gibson was encouraged to release the recording, which she did - along with three other songs - on her Little Red Riding Hood album.



She has also released several other albums including: Six White Horses: Blues & Traditionals Vol. 1, Bridge Carols, If You Come to Greet Me,

Beast of Seasons, Sweet Deception, 

and La Grande: La Grande..

Israel-Hamas War:

The Most Recent Chapter in the Clash of Civilizations

Algemeiner   November 23, 2012 1:39 PM

Israel’s battle against Hamas constitutes the most recent chapter in the clash of civilizations between Western democracies and Islamic terrorism. This battle highlights the role of the Jewish State, as the national security and high-tech beachhead of the US, in a region which is critical to vital US defense and commercial interests. The role of Israel as a national security and high-tech producer, for the US, is doubly pertinent at a time when the US is experiencing a military and economic contraction.

Israel is designated by Hamas, the PLO, as well as most Muslim/Arab regimes in the Middle East, as “The Little Satan,” due to its values and unconditional alliance with “The Big Satan,” the USA.  Israel confronts Hamas, which – just like the Arab Middle East – is increasingly dominated by the intolerant, supremacist 7th century aspects of Islam. The 2012 Arab Street in Gaza, Ramallah and throughout the Middle East is growing more Islamic and less democratic.  Contemporary Middle East Muslim societies embrace Jihad (Holy War), execution of apostates, “honor killing” of women by their own relatives and the genital mutilation of (90% of young Egyptian) women. While Western democracies cherish life, Hamas and the PLO consecrate Shuhada – martyrdom and suicide bombing – and the virulent use of human shields.

Unlike Western democracies, Hamas, the PLO and the Arab Middle East enshrine hate-education and fanatic bigotry towards the “infidel” Christian, Jew, Buddhist or Muslim of different persuasion.  Contrary to the ideal of peaceful co-existence, Hamas, and Islam at-large, intend to bring Muslims and all “infidels” to total spiritual and physical submission (the root word for Islam is “al-Silm,” which means “submission” or “surrender).”  Therefore, Middle East Arab/Muslim regimes consider the lifeline of democracy – freedom of expression/criticism, religion, speech, press and political association – a lethal threat. The Middle East has never experienced Muslim democracy during the last 1,400 years.

Israel is urged to conclude an agreement with Hamas, a serial violator of prior agreements with Israel and with fellow Arab/Muslim organizations.  Moreover, the culture of compliance is foreign in the Middle East, which has not experienced intra-Muslim compliance with most intra-Muslim agreements for the last 1,400 years.  It is a culture that reveres the 7th century Muhammad’s Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, stipulating that treaties are not in perpetuity. Treaties may be violated – in order to achieve the overriding goal of bringing enemies to submission – upon amassing sufficient power to overcome the enemy. The non-compliant nature of the Middle East has most recently been highlighted by the violent abrogation of political and social accords on the Arab Street.

Israel, the only Western democracy in the Middle East, an unconditional ally of the USA, is confronted by the non-democratic Palestinians who aligned themselves with America’s enemies: Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, North Korea, Hugo Chavez, Khomeini, the Communist Bloc and Nazi Germany, as well as with America’s rivals: Russia and China.

Israel has been the role model for countering-terrorism, facing the PLO, Hamas and Hezbollah, which have been the role model for international terrorism and anti-US terror organizations in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Israel’s power projection contributes to the stability of pro-US Arab regimes, threatened by anti-US rogue and terrorist regimes. For example, the 1967 Israeli devastation of the pro-Nasser of Egypt, aborted the latter’s attempt to topple the House of Saud. In 2012, Israel’s posture of deterrence bolsters Jordan’s pro-US Hashemite regime. The Hashemites are currently threatened by the surging trans-national anti-US Muslim Brotherhood, the “parent” organization of Hamas, which is using Russian-manufactured military systems, supplied by Iran through the anti-US Sudan.

A strong Israel extends the strategic hand of the US in the Middle East, at a time when Arab allies of the US are increasingly threatened by Hamas-like terrorists. On the other hand, a stronger Hamas or PLO would deepen the penetration of Russia, China and North Korea into the Middle East.

Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas terrorism highlights Israel’s added-value to the US national security and economy via the “Iron Dome” air defense system. The ground-breaking Israeli-developed “Iron Dome,” which is co-financed with the US, will be eventually employed by the US and its allies, such as South Korea and India, which face the threat of low-level missiles. The Iron Dome and medium-level air defense systems are systematically developed and upgraded by the battle-tested, time-efficient and cost-effective Israeli laboratory, which is at the disposal of the US.  They will be co-manufactured by the US and Israel, expanding employment, research and development and the export base of the US.

This Israel-Hamas confrontation underscores the broad implications of Israel’s national security challenges.  It underlines the mutually-beneficial, win-win US-Israel defense and commercial relationship at this time of strain on the US budget.

This article originally appeared in Israel Hayorn.
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