in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;I also will laugh in the day of your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
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of evil. May God bless this word to our hearts and all God's people said, amen. You may be seated. Strong words, my goodness. What do we do with strong words in the Bible? Yeah, good word. We take heed. We eat them up. We deal with them the way that God wants us to deal with strong words. You're going to see, in my opinion, a lot of parallels between being a parent and God speaking to us. Both are authorities. Both are lovers of their children. And both have something to say. And Solomon is a great example of this. He's writing this to his son. And we learned that in the introduction. But we're looking at wisdom speaking to us. And there's some things we've learned in our study, our last time together, and that is wisdom is speaking. And we saw from verses 20 to 22, two very key points. And they were these key points. That is, wisdom is speaking wherever you go. And of course, that shouldn't surprise us. …
And all God's people said, Amen. You may be seated, church. Wisdom is speaking to you. it's amazing to me, I remember when I first gave my heart to Jesus Christ, when I heard the gospel, I've told you many times before, I didn't quite understand what I was doing, I just knew that it was something that I needed to do, and that is immediately, first of all, was to give my life to Christ, because I didn't want to go to hell, I had heard the message, Greg Laurie was the one preaching it. And he gave that message and I listened and I was convicted and my first response to God was what some people say is fire insurance. I ran straight to the Lord because I wanted to go to heaven. But that one step began a movement or a journey in life and I know that many of you, I hope, I wish I could say for all of us, I don't know all of you, but I hope by the end of this message, it would be true for all of us, that we began a journey of pursuing God and God revealing himself to us. …
I believe that throughout eternity the punishment of the guilty will be aggravated forever by the privileges against which they have persisted in sinning. To sink into perdition from the shadow of the Gospel is possible. To go down with warnings of judgment and wooing of mercy sounding in one's ears is suicidal! To leap into the Pit headfirst and to find out the deepest depths of dire despair is dreadful beyond description! To think of it conjures up thoughts from which we recoil. Oh, call it not a fatal mistake, for it is a foul crime! The heathen, who never heard of Christ, cannot accuse them- selves of having wasted Sabbaths and rejected a Savior. But Sabbath after Sabbath you who have had the Gospel delivered in your hearing—you will have to bear a reproach like this, "You knew the Gospel, but loved it not!" This shall be the perpetual worm that shall never die. There was a time when God called. He himself said it, "I called, but you refused; I stretched out My hand, and no man regarded it; therefore, I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your fear comes." In like manner Jesus says, "Woe unto you, Chorazin; woe unto you, Bethsaida; it shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for you." The privilege in each instance clenches the responsibility. Oh, may this solemn Truth of God abide with each of us! …