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Jan 15, 2014 · And I think that an inordinate focus on the fire and brimstone messages of Scripture does damage to people’s faith. Whether I’m talking with an 83 year old woman on a retreat, a group of high school kids in a theology class, or a mom in her mid 30’s over a glass of wine, I find that people’s faith has been scarred by a fear of God and the threat of hell.
F. (:33) Retribution Will Be the Culmination of Prepared Fire and Brimstone “For Topheth has long been ready, Indeed, it has been prepared for the king. He has made it deep and large, A pyre of fire with plenty of wood; The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.” MacArthur: Lit. a place of abomination.
Mar 13, 2016 · And recall what happened to Sodom. It was destroyed by fire and brimstone! Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven. (Genesis 19:24, KJV) And Jude says this about it: Grace Baptist Church 965 E. Union Street, Nokomis, IL 62075
Jun 3, 2014 · Hellfire and Brimstone. “There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of Hell, but the mere pleasure of God.”. Rev. Jonathan Edwards, 1741. From time to time, trying to make sense of what you read is like seeing words through a kaleidoscope, with shifting bits of glass and color creating first one image, then another, each ...
A warm fire, and a happy family gathering may well make us think of those shivering in the cold without; I charge thee, believer, forget not thy poor unconverted children. Let thy highest and most rapt moments of communion with Christ, be just the times when thy soul shall speak to God as Abraham talked to his Father and his Friend, and pleaded for the sinners of Sodom.
God bestows His grace upon us not merely so we can get a fire ticket out of hell. In fact, in preaching fire and brimstone, the Lord graciously provides us with a bad impression of ourselves so that we might be offended by our sin and turn to Him in repentance and faith through Christ.
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Mar 28, 2024 · The figurative use of brimstone symbolizes God’s punishment, destruction, and terrible suffering of the unfaithful. The figurative use of the word brimstone is associated with the wrath of God’s judgment. It references being cast into a lake of fire, burning wind, and great hailstones of a metaphorical “rain of fire.”.
