The Sentence of Condemnation
Listen to Jonathan Edwards describe the state of the lost. In his famous sermon (Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God), he said, "They are already under a sentence of condemnation to Hell. They do not only justly deserve to be cast down [there], but the sentence of the Law of God, that eternal and immutable rule of righteousness that God has fixed between Him and mankind, is gone out against them, and stands against them; so that they are bound over already to Hell. John 3:18 [says] 'He that believeth not is condemned already.' So, that every unconverted man properly belongs to Hell; that is his place; from [there] he is, John 8:23: 'You are from beneath.' And there be is bound; it is the place that justice, and God's word, and the sentence of his unchangeable Law assign to him." There goes another minute. Gone forever. Go share your faith while you still have time.
