Think of how easy an ember blown from the fireplace can start the dry wood house on fire. It is just as easy for God to blow us down to Hell where we would start on fire. I tell you, unless you are in the saving grace of the triune God you will not be saved. All you unconverted are in God's wrath, and the only thing that keeps him from blowing you to the flames of Hell is his grace. Every day you make the Lord angrier until he can barely contain his wrath anymore. You do not know the height of your deeds. You know that it makes the Lord angry, and yet you continue to sin fervently.
His wrath burns against you, and there is nothing that you yourself can do to stop it. You have already been condemned. You provoked him so much, yet he holds on to you only to prolong your despair. The flame has blown, it has caught, and it is too large to extinguish now. There is not a thing that you can do, for even if you did, he would still punish you, and you deserve it, because you provoked him to extreme anger.
However, the Son, the one who mediates for us and the Father, he has left himself open. For without him you will surely perish in God's wrath, but God has given his Son so that you may be saved. If you only confess to what you have done he will spare you. If, though, you do not listen to the will of his Second Chance, his Son, Mediator, Savior, then you will truely be condemned to Hell by the Great Judge.
Great fire and brimstone!
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