Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

     The story, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, was very intriguing. I started reading it today and thought it would be another boring story we had to take notes on, but it turned out to be very different, but good at the same time. It's about God's wrath and Him holding people over the burning flames of hell. It goes into a lot of detail. For example in lines 15- 18, it says "the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. The glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath opened its mouth under them..." Another metaphor I thought was very interesting was in lines 40-42. It says, "...without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood." It's just so descriptive and in depth. I didn't expect it be like that. At the end of the story it says that this is the case for anyone who was not born again, so we should encourage everyone to repent and be free from the eternal wrath of God.

The original sermon by Jonathan Edwards