Sermon 398 "Do you Believe God?" January 2, 2005

"How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors." (Psalm 73:19)

Notice, I said do you believe God, not do you believe in God. The laws of the universe and nature declare that God does exist. If the awesome destructive power of this current earthquake and resulting tsunami is as some say "an act of nature" that's pale in comparison to the incredible awesome power that God possesses. As the laws of the universe declare God is. Consider the stars. Also if man in all his space walks were not tethered to the shuttle he would float out into space and be extinguished.

Space is weightless and man is required to be weighted down while on the moon or he would drift into the everlasting expense. There is a God. The God that placed the stars and planets where they are. Many are shocked at the huge death toll from this current disaster are you? My friends, I'll tell you what to be afraid of and shocked over, that is the huge death toll of those every day dying without the saving grace and redemptive work of Christ!

60,000 deaths are but a grain of sand on the beach that sucked thousands away on the day after, compared to the trillions a day dying the death of deaths. Weep and mourn for the lost souls damned to hell forever! O sinner, hell will rise to meet you, and consume you in your sins, you hover over hell daily until you repent! If God, who made heaven and earth, and is more powerful than a thousand earthquakes requires repentance and you don't, what will be your end? Be terrified of the tsunami that can consume your soul.

God has declared thousands of times to you that you are filled with sin, and yet you still reject the only saving remedy available to mankind-Jesus Christ. Why do you stand afraid of natural disasters, terrorist attacks, wars, famine, and other kinds of misery but are not afraid of the wrath of the living God?

"How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors." (Psalm 73:19)

The chains of sin encompass you, you believe not because you need not. God stretches his hands out to you daily, and you slapped them away? In such a manner do you think you will be accepted in that day? You go the way of others; you believe foolishness and lies and are not in terror of the Lord. You cannot see the stains of sin, you cannot comprehend your blackness of heart, the almighty declares "there is no one good no not one." All are filthy in your present state you are corrupt and stink to God more than the millions of dead bodies.

You are so vital compared to our Holy God that nothing less than the sufferings of hell can be good enough for you. The sufferings of eternal damnation that await those unrepentant are so horrible words cannot adequately describe it. If the Holy Scriptures say there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repents, do you not think that hell and its occupants scream to get out? Nothing on this earth can be compared to the misery, hopelessness, pain, and despair that awaits those that go there. The screams of the damned will be heard through the universe, not so much for the pain and agony, but the utter despair for an exit from such a place.

Without God and the saving grace He mercifully bestows, such is the experience and state that awaits those whose rejection of Him seals their fate. Repent, repent! Before it's too late, what time will you have when the flames of hell suck you down? The children of God will be taken to his side in the "twinkling of an eye" your descent into the fiery abyss will be no less quick.

As Achen and his family were swallowed in a blink whole into the portals of hell, so too will you for the innumerable evils you have treasured in your life. There is a time coming, friends, when God's mercy doors will be shut forever. Do not think that it will extend for all time, I tell you it will not, "and the doors were shut and they cried Lord, Lord open to us and He said away I never knew you." Be not deceived that time is on its way. O Earth, Earth tremble at the power of our God fall at his feet beg for his eternal mercy that only He can give.

I have declared the truth to you, I pray that it will affect your heart, and you would repent! Amen.