He might say, 'Grant that it is the chief for wickedness, yet God hath chosen it. Grant that that soul is the chief oi sinners, yet the LORD is sovereign. This is the argument of Christ. The second argument Christ employs is, the brand is already plucked out of the fire. Christ here says, 'Whatever that sinner may have been, he is now plucked out of the fire.'And thus all Satan's arguments are urged in vain.
All unconverted souls are in the fire.
There is as it were a great pile of wood on which you are placed, and it is set on fire. The fire indeed has not yet reached you, though soon it will. Your hell is already begun. Just as the children of God have their heaven begun, so you have got your hell begun. Observe that Christ plucks the brands out of the fire, and grafts them into the living vine, that they may be made to glorify God by bearing fruit.