ALL-TIME FAMOUS SERMONS: "SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD" BY JONATHAN EDWARDS (CIRCA 1741)

See our playlist "Charles H. Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards, Our Spanish Videos" at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE91032ED05E42487&feature=plcp. This rendition of Jonathan Edward's famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God," is performed by Jackson Boyett, pastor of Dayspring Fellowship in Austin, Texas (website: http://www.DSF.ORG). Larry Wessels, director of Christian Answers of Austin, Texas/ Christian Debater (YouTube channel: CANSWERSTV at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ_EDvOtDAAWfCvGUhd6y3A, websites: http://www.BIBLEQUERY.ORG, http://www.HISTORYCART.COM & http://www.MUSLIMHOPE.COM) & studio producer for this presentation, has attended Dayspring Fellowship in Austin, Texas (5500 Avenue G, Austin, TX 78751) from 1981 to the present & Jackson Boyett has been the pastor there the entire time. Pastor Boyett earned a B.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in English & in 1973 had a "call to ministry" from the Lord, thus enrolling in the Austin Presbyterian Seminary where he earned a Master of Divinity degree by 1976. By 1977 he was licensed & ordained by the Assemblies of God. Between 1976 & 1978 he worked in the Teen Challenge organization (a ministry to help young people) & became director of Austin Teen Challenge. He also worked at the local Christian radio station in Austin as a DJ & a talk show host on a program called "Inner View." By the end of 1978 however he left Teen Challenge & the Assemblies of God over doctrinal differences over the baptism in the Holy Spirit and the "initial physical evidence" of speaking in tongues while continuing to work at the radio station into the 1980s. Since then he has pastored his own independent Baptist church (following the first "London Confession of Faith, 1646 Edition"). Pastor Boyett has also been very active in the Pro-Life movement & has recited & performed the entire Gospel of Mark from memory before audiences in various churches & public speaking arenas. To see other sermons & messages by Jackson Boyett go to the Dayspring Chapel website or type "JACKSON BOYETT" in the YOUTUBE search box. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon written by American theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut. Like Edwards' other sermons and writings, it combines vivid imagery of the Christian concept of Hell with observations of the secular world and citations of scripture. It remains Edwards' most famous written work, and is widely studied both among American Christians and historians, due to the glimpse it provides into the theology of the Great Awakening of c. 1730--1755. Doctrine"There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God." Most of the sermon's text consists of ten "considerations". They are as follows: 1.God may cast wicked men into hell at any given moment. 2.The Wicked deserve to be cast into hell. Divine justice does not prevent God from destroying the Wicked at any moment. 3.The Wicked, at this moment, suffer under God's condemnation to Hell. 4.The Wicked, on earth - at this very moment - suffer the torments of Hell. The Wicked must not think, simply because they are not physically in Hell, that God (in Whose hand the Wicked now reside) is not - at this very moment - as angry with them as He is with those miserable creatures He is now tormenting in hell, and who - at this very moment - do feel and bear the fierceness of His wrath. 5.At any moment God shall permit him, Satan stands ready to fall upon the Wicked and seize them as his own. 6.If it were not for God's restraints, there are, in the souls of wicked men, hellish principles reigning which, presently, would kindle and flame out into hellfire. 7.Simply because there are not visible means of death before them, at any given moment, the Wicked should not, therefore, feel secure. 8.Simply because it is natural to care for oneself or to think that others may care for them, men should not think themselves safe from God's wrath. 9.All that wicked men may do to save themselves from Hell's pains shall afford them nothing if they continue to reject Christ. 10.God has never promised to save us from Hell, except for those contained in Christ through the covenant of Grace. Application: In the final section of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Edwards wishes to show his theological argument at work throughout scripture and biblical history. This is done at length, invoking stories and examples throughout the whole of the Bible and comprises the bulk of this section. Edwards ends the sermon with one final appeal, "Therefore let everyone that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come." Without explicitly saying, Edwards indirectly gives a sense of hope to those currently out of Christ. Only by returning to Christ can one escape the stark fate outlined by Edwards. John 14:6