The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-10-11
CERTAINTY And NATURE OF JUDGMENT.

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II reply, 1 don't know
But / will tell you what / do
know, and it is infinitely more i'm
portant. ! know that some day the
Lord Jesus Christ will come back
lagain, and receive His waiting and
faithful people unto Himself, and i
know that there is going to be a
judgment day for the world, and
that judgment dag is the subject of
our thought tonight.
There are five things about the
judgment day that are set forth in
our text: First, the certainty OF iti
SECONDLY, the universally OF Il;
thirdly. the basis of It; fourthly, the
administration of it; and, lastly, the
issues of il.
Il. First, the certainty of tit
is absolutely certain that there is to
be a judgment day. God hath APP
pointed a day in which lie will
Judge the world in righteousness.
Men who are living in sin may laugh
at it; they cannot laugh it away.
in the days of Noah men laughed
at Noah's predictions that there was
to be a food, but the flood came and
swept them all away.
I'm the days of Lot the men OF
SOdom laughed at the idea that God
would rain fire and birthstone out
of heaven, and destroy Sodom and
Gomorrah and the other cities of
the plain; but the fire and brim-
stone fell. and these cities were
blotted out.
I'm the days of jeremiah the peo-
pie of Jerusalem laughed at Jere-
miahs predictions that Nebuchad-
nezzar would come and lay Jesu-
salem in the dust and destroy their
temple. But il all came to pass just
as God said, and just as jeremiah
believed and predicted.
In the days of Jesus Christ men
laughed at Christs prediction that
the armies of Rome under Titus and
Vespasian would lay Jerusalem's
wall even with the ground, and that
calamity would overtake that city
such as the world had never seen;
but historians outside the Bible tell
us that it all came to pass just as
Christ predicted, and that Jerusalem
was oyertaken with the most appan-
ing siege in the worlds history.
"All of Gods predictions about
judgment on individuals and nations
In the past have come true TO the
very letter in spite of all the false
hopes that were held out by false
prophets.
Judge by the Past.
IF we are to judge the future by
the past-and there is no other way
to judge it-God's predictions about
the future with regard to judgment
upon individuals and nations will
come true to the very letter, In spite
of all the false hopes held out by
the false prophets; that is, by the
liberal preachers of the day. 1t Is
absolutely certain that there is to
be a Judgment day for the world.
God has given us a special guar
antee of the judgment day, and that
special guarantee IS the resurrection
OF Christ from the dead. AS we
read in the text. God will Judge the
world in Righteousness by that man
whom He hath ordained; whereof
He hath given assurance unto all
men. in that He hath raised Him
from the dead
THE resurrection Of Jesus Christ
from the dead is an absolutely GER
tain fact of history. IL is not a
theological fiction; it is not a poets
dream; il is an established fact Of
history. If ! had time tonight to go
into the evidence. / could prove to
every fair-minded, thinking man
that, beyond question, Jesus Christ
rose from the dead. When we were