Preached by Jonathan Edwards, 1721-1722
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgment. Hebrews 9:27
How solemn and awful a thing is it to receive an eternal doom and sentence. It is accounted an awful thing to receive sentence of an earthly judge; it is what has made the stoutest hearts to tremble. What, then, must it needs be to receive an everlasting sentence from the great God which will determine our condition without end?
1. The sentence of the Judge in the other world will determine to the everlasting happiness of the godly.
The godly in this world are oftentimes judged by temporal judges to pain and torment. Millions of godly men have been adjudged to tormenting deaths. But after the Judge of heaven and earth has past that blessed sentence upon them, Matthew 25:34, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world," they will be happy and inherit that kingdom, that glorious kingdom, in spite of all the regions of darkness, which will then be put everlastingly out of a capacity of molesting of them, and the godly will be exalted clear out of the reach of their molestations.
2. The sentence of the great Judge will determine the misery of the wicked to eternity.
O how dreadful and amazing will every word and syllable of that...
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Monday, September 13, 2010
The Importance of a Future State (Part 1)
Preached by Jonathan Edwards, 1721-1722
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgment. Hebrews 9:27
The scope of the chapter: to show how the things of the law and first covenant were types [and] shadows of things under the gospel state, and how much more excellent the antitypes.
There is a parallel run between the tabernacle and heaven: between the sacrifices of bulls, goats and calves, and the sacrifice of Christ, between their blood and his blood; between the high priests and Christ, between their entering into the Holy of Holies and his entering into heaven. But only, there is this difference: the high priests entered often into the holy place, but Christ the antitype of them entered but once into heaven, as in the two verses foregoing our text: "Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." And this is illustrated by the verse of our text, "As it is appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgment." That is, as man, for whom Christ died and was offered for, is to die but once, so Christ that died was offered but once to save him from death, from spiritual and eternal death, and from the sting and power of natural death.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgment. Hebrews 9:27
The scope of the chapter: to show how the things of the law and first covenant were types [and] shadows of things under the gospel state, and how much more excellent the antitypes.
There is a parallel run between the tabernacle and heaven: between the sacrifices of bulls, goats and calves, and the sacrifice of Christ, between their blood and his blood; between the high priests and Christ, between their entering into the Holy of Holies and his entering into heaven. But only, there is this difference: the high priests entered often into the holy place, but Christ the antitype of them entered but once into heaven, as in the two verses foregoing our text: "Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." And this is illustrated by the verse of our text, "As it is appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgment." That is, as man, for whom Christ died and was offered for, is to die but once, so Christ that died was offered but once to save him from death, from spiritual and eternal death, and from the sting and power of natural death.
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