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Edited By W. T. P. Wolston.
IF you are not prepared to face the righteous judgment of God, the supreme concern of your history and destiny is yet neglected. Be sure of this, that “God will render to every man according to his deeds.... Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil; but glory, honor, and peace to every man that worketh good: for there is no respect of persons with God” (Rom. 2:5-115But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life: 8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; 10But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: 11For there is no respect of persons with God. (Romans 2:5‑11)).
There is nothing arbitrary, unjust, or partial in the judgment of God. It is according to truth, righteousness, and holiness. It is simply and eternally the working out of this law which, like that of the Medes and Persians, alters not―that “whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
But such a judgment as this―unbending in righteousness and absolute in holiness―leaves no loophole of escape for a sinner. It arraigns him at its bar; it exposes every secret of his heart; it finds him guilty in a thousand points; and it passes upon him a sentence from which there can be no appeal. Weighed in the balances of divine judgment, the best of men must be found wanting, and the solemn yet certain issue of that judgment must be eternal ruin for all who come into it. Hence the Psalmist says, “Enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified” (Psa. 143:22And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. (Psalm 143:2)).
Oh, sinner, make haste to repent. Confess thyself guilty and undone. Justify God and condemn thyself. On thy knees acknowledge to God that thou deservest to reap what thou hast sown, but that to do so will bring thee into everlasting misery. Cast thyself upon His boundless mercy and grace, and verily thou shalt obtain mercy.
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