Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God By Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards, and early American pastor, is remembered today for his speech, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Edwards’s sermon was one of the greatest awakenings or events that occurred in early America. “Next to the Pilgrim’s first Thanksgiving, Edwards’s preaching of this sermon is one of the most famous events in colonial history.” (Kessee and Sidwell; 63) Jonathan Edwards was a man ‘on fire for God’ and his sermon effected the lives of many individuals. While “Sinners in the Hands of and Angry God” may have seemed like and extreme way of painting the position of unsaved man. Man’s insecure life separate from a saving belief in Jesus, it was a highly effective sermon and began one of the greatest revivals in history.
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One main point Edwards uses is the truth that at any time God could decide to take a person or a person could die at any moment. “As he that walks in slippery Places is every Moment liable to fall; he can’t forsee one moment whether he shall stand or fall the next; and when he does fall, he falls at once, without Warning.” (Edwards) Edwards continues with saying that a man is “always exposed to destruction” (Edwards) and “the Reason why they are not fallen already, and don’t fall now, is only that God’s appointed Time is not come. For it is said, that when that [. . .] appointed Time comes, their Foot shall slide,”

“ASnd now you have an extraordinary Opportunity, a Day wherein Christ has flung the door of mercy wide open…” Edwards continues with and invitation to salvation. He explains that their neighbors are already at Heaven’s feast. Edwards addresses the fact that God surpasses the king o =f England and is King of Kings. “Children in the Land are converted, and are become the holy and happy Children of the King of Kings?” Edwards concludes his sermon with “Therefore let everyone that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come.”