“Art thou become like unto us?” — Isaiah 14:10

What must be the apostate professor’s doom when his naked soul appears before God? How will he bear that voice, “Depart, ye cursed; thou hast rejected me, and I reject thee; thou hast played the harlot, and departed from Me: I also have banished thee for ever from my presence, and will not have mercy upon thee.” What will be this wretch’s shame at the last great day when, before assembled multitudes, the apostate shall be unmasked? See the profane, and sinners who never professed religion, lifting themselves up from their beds of fire to point at him. “There he is,” says one, “will he preach the gospel in hell?” “There he is,” says another, “he rebuked me for cursing, and was a hypocrite himself!” “Aha!” says another, “here comes a psalm-singing Methodist — one who was always at his meeting; he is the man who…

boasted of his being sure of everlastinglife; and here he is!” No greater eagerness will ever be seen among Satanictormentors, than in that day when devils drag the hypocrite’s soul downto perdition. Bunyan pictures this with massive but awful grandeur ofpoetry when he speaks of the back-way to hell. Seven devils bound thewretch with nine cords, and dragged him from the road to heaven, in whichhe had professed to walk, and thrust him through the back-door into hell.Mind that back-way to hell, professors! “Examine yourselves, whether yebe in the faith.” Look well to your state; see whether you be in Christ ornot. It is the easiest thing in the world to give a lenient verdict whenoneself is to be tried; but O, be just and true here. Be just to all, but berigorous to yourself. Remember if it be not a rock on which you build,when the house shall fall, great will be the fall of it. O may the Lord giveyou sincerity, constancy, and firmness; and in no day, however evil, mayyou be led to turn aside.

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Producer: Todd Adkins
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