The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-04-24
GODS WRATH
AGAINST SIM
EVANGELIST M'cAsklLL DELrv-
Erred IMPRESSIVE DISCOURSE
LAST EVENING IN TENT-MucH
INTEREST IN SERIES OF MEET
INGS.

Last night Evangelist McCaskiu. fn
his tent at the corner of Gadsden
street and Sixteenth avenue, addressed
good congregation and much interest
has been shown in the series Of meet
ings. Speaking in part as follows, his
subject being Gods Wrath Against
Sim:
/ In 1 Peter Alb, Psalms e:17, and
Romans 1:1s, God says: IF the right
eous scarcely be saved, where shall the
ungodly and the sinner appear: for the
wicked shall be turned into hell and
all the nations that forget God For
the wrath of God is revealed from
heaven against all unrighteousness
and ungodliness of men who hold the
truth in unrighteousness.'
The doctrine of universal salvation
has no foundation whatever in Scrip
ture. / do not mean that God has
put upon ruined world the awful de-
cree Of fatalism that so many shall be
damned and so many shall be saved.
This world is lost world, fallen from
| the glorious state Of life and light in
which God created it into the woefu1
state Of death and darkness, superin-
/ duced by the fall. God reveals plainly
to us His attitude toward the world in
these simple words: God so loved
| the world that He gave His only be-
COTTON Son that whatsoever believeth
| in Him should not perish but have
! everlasting life; for God sent not His
/ Sen into the world to condemn the
world, but that the world through Him
might be saved He that believeth in
Him Is not condemned, but he that be-
lieveth not is condemned already, be-
cause he hath not believed in the name
/ of the only begotten Son of God: and
again is not willing that any should
perish but that all should come to re-
pentance. Here we have plainly the
! truth of Gods sovereignty and mans
free agency.
First, let us see something OF what
God says about sin and those who live
under its dreadful dominion. Hear
God In / Corinthians 6:9-11: Know
We not that the unrighteous shall not
| inherit the kingdom of God? BE not
deceived: neither fornicators, nor idol
aters, nor adulterers ncr effeminate
nor abuses of themselves with man
| kind, nor thieves, nor coveteous, nor
drunkards. nor revilers. nor extortion-
ers shall inherit the kingdom Of Cod
/ Ephesians 5:3-6: But fornication
and all uncleanlness or coveteousness,
ler It not be once named among you.
| as becometh saints; neither hlthiness,
nor foolish talking, nor testing, which
are not convenient, but rather giving
Of thanks. For this We know, that no
whoremonger nor unclean person, nor
coveteous man who is an idolater hath
any inheritance in the kingdom OF
Christ and of God. Let no man de-
ceive you with vain words. because of
! these things cometh the wrath of God
upon the children OF disobedience.''
| Again we notice that our text d.
vides the world up into three classes.
II says; "1f the righteous scarcely be
saved where shall the ungodly and the
/ sinner appear" Here are the three
| classes: the righteous. the ungodly and
the sinner. Let us first consider the
righteous man.
/ In / Timothy 1910 God shows us
| these three classes again and He tells
US that the law is not made for the
righteous man but for the lawless and
disobedient; for the ungodly and for
sinners, for unholy and profane, for
murderers of fathers and murderers of
mothers: for man slayers. for whore
mongers, for them that def1le them
selves. for liars, for perjured persons
and any other thing contrary to sound
/ doctrines. So we see the law is not
made for a righteous man.
Let us illustrate a, little: We have
laws in this city against stealing.
Now who is this law made for? Sure
| ly not for an honest man! An honest
/ man does not want to steal. Yet, we
! can truly say that it is impossible for
an honest man to steal An honest
!, man cannot steal You can repeal all
the laws against stealing and that
does not affect the honest man. The
law against stealing is made for the
| dishonest and not the honest man.
You say we have laws and jails to
make and keep men honest. 1t is
great mistake. These things never did
and never will make or keep men
honest We must have civil laws and
have then enforced and have jails and
| prisons, not to make men honest, but
| to keep dishonest men from breaking
over and destroying what little degree
| of human society we have. With all
| our jails and laws we are always sur
rounded by just as many dishonest
men as If there were no jails and
laws. Well, if the law of God Is not
! made for a righteous man, then what
! is a righteous man? All, the very
word answers itself. A righteous man
| is the man spoken of in Ephesians
4:22-24: HE has put off the former
life and character of the old man,
| which is corrupt, according to the de-
ceitfuI lusts and been renewed in Thy
shirt Of his mind and has put on the
new man which after God is created IN
righteousness and true holiness
righteous man is right because he has
| a right heart. He is right inwardly
and outward1y by the miracle Of the
new fat hChrist has wrought in him.
He does not even want to break the
| law.
Then the second class is the ungodly
man. The ungodly man is the moral
man, but who is trusting on his own