God Takes Sin Personally
"Ah, I will ease Me of Mine adversaries, and avenge Me of Mine enemies!" (Isa. 1:24). Human justice is to be meted out by juries of men and by judges, uncolored by personal feelings. Not so with God! As is not the case in human courts, it is the Judge Himself who has been wronged. It is His light that has been refused for darkness. It is His salvation , and that by His Son's blood , that has been despised. And it will not be justice merely, but the infliction of penalty by an outraged Being whose Name is Love, now aroused to righteous fury commensurate with the measureless guilt of the hideous haters of His holiness, the despisers of His mercy – it will be by the Hand of the Judge of all, Himself , that wrath will fall upon the guilty. As for the "great" pulpiteers of Christendom, the favorites of the rapidly apostatizing denominations of this day, the men who, by their ecclesiastical politics or personal ability, of so-called "scholarship,...