The great burden laid upon my soul this day is, to proclaim the Gospel of Peace to sinners. Many are busy in our day, as in the days of old, saying to sinners "peace, peace, when there is no peace" (Jer. 6:1414They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. (Jeremiah 6:14)), and are thus sending them to sleep upon the very brink of hell. O, that God would awake all such to a sense of their danger, and bring them to see their sins.
Are you at peace with God?
When I look abroad on this great multitude, my heart burns within me: I am constrained to lift up my voice like a trumpet. If God has not spoken peace to you, I would not be in your place for a thousand worlds. You are hanging over hell. The wrath of God is abiding upon your soul.
I know by sad experience what it is to be lulled asleep by a false sleep. Long was I lulled asleep; long did I think myself a Christian, when I knew nothing of the Lord Jesus. I used to pray nine times a day. I used to receive the sacrament every Lord's day; yet I knew nothing of Christ in my heart. I was not a new creature in Christ. I had not been saved.
O awake ye church professors, who have a name to live; arouse ye from a false security! You may perhaps have honest and outwardly moral lives, but if you depend on that morality, or join your works with your faith in order to justify you before God, you are by this making yourselves your own Savior.”
There is only one Savior for sinners-even Jesus Christ.