Thursday, March 27, 2014

LESS TOLERABLE FOR THE UNITED STATES - J. C. O'Hair




LESS TOLERABLE FOR THE UNITED STATES

Pastor J. C. O’Hair



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Let us read in Mark 6:11 the solemn words of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is going to be revealed in flaming fire for vengeance upon them who will not have Him as Saviour, (II Thessalonians 1:7 to 10), being assured that this awful judgment is rapidly approaching:
“And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.” (Mark 6:11).
Compare with this His awful pronouncement upon Capernaum in very much the same language. The Lord referred to the mighty works that He had done in their midst. According to historians, terrible destruction fell upon Capernaum; but the words meant more terrible judgment than the destruction of that Christ-rejecting city. (Hebrews 9:27). (Luke 10:13 to 15).
Let us compare Genesis 19:24 and 25 and II Peter 2:6: “Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord of heaven: And He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.”
A more terrible judgment than God’s upon Sodom and Gomorrah was pronounced upon the people, who would not hear and heed the messages which Christ proclaimed by His messengers. That fire and brimstone destruction of Gomorrah was an example of the “fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Christ died to deliver us from God’s wrath to come. Read Hebrews 10:29 to 32 - I Thessalonians 1:9 and 10. Then read II Peter 2:6 with II Thessalonians 1:7 to 10.
Why more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah? Sodom and Gomorrah did not have a visit from the incarnate God, the Lord Jesus Christ. They did not see the mighty works of the Son of God and hear Him speak as never man spake. Think of it; the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed about 1900 B.C. That was more than 500 years before Moses was directed to write Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, the first five Books of the Bible. The inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah did not have God’s written revelation. 

They had the revelation of God in Creation (Romans 1:18 to 30). They had the law written in their hearts. (Romans 2:15). Just imagine the people of the United States without a line of the Bible and never having heard of Christ, His teaching, death and resurrection.
Surely Lot’s testimony was about worthless. What other prophets did they have? Compare our spiritual privileges and spiritual opportunities with those of Sodom.
If they were without excuse (Romans 1:20), think of the inhabitants of Capernaum and Jerusalem after 4000 years of God’s dealings with man. They had the thirty-nine inspired Books, the Holy Scriptures, and then a visit of their own Divine, eternal Jehovah, Who proved by fulfilling the Scriptures and by miracles, signs and wonders, and by speaking as never man spake, His unity and equality with God. He proved to His friends that He was Israel’s promised Messiah. Sodom and Gomorrah had little Divine light compared with Israel in the days of Christ.
Note what Christ declared by Paul some years later: “And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent.” Acts 17:30. Compare this with Hebrews 10:28 to 33.
This age will end in the most terrible judgment this earth has ever known (Matthew 24:21 to 24).
Now the United States has all that Capernaum had and also the complete revelation of God in the Bible, 1900 years of Christianity, and in this country think of the gospel by radio, the Bill of Rights. No nation has ever been blessed with such spiritual privileges and opportunities as has this country.
It will be less tolerable for the people who live in the United States in the day of God’s wrath than for the inhabitants of Sodom or Capernaum. Wake up! stupid sinner and sleeping saints.

This is THE GOSPEL!
Believing Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
Read Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4



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