Sermons on Proverbs 1:28

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. …

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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. …

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Yet tremble at the same time, Sinner, for this great King can as readily slay as He can spare. One turn of His hand, no, not as much as that—He need not even lift His little finger—He has but to will your death and then where would you be? He who has been so strong to spare can be just as strong to smite! He has not yet taken up the axe, but when once He lifts it and its sharp edge falls upon the tree that is still barren, what will become of it? "The Lord reigns; let the people tremble." If He were to come to you tonight and lay judgment to the line, and righteousness to the plummet, it would be all in vain for you to attempt to resist Him! The breath of your nostrils is so absolutely under God's control that all the physicians in the world could not extend the lease of your life if He were to say to you, "This night shall your soul be required of you." So tremble at the recollection that "the Lord reigns," for you are as completely in His power as a moth would be in yours if you held it in your hand knowing that you could crush it any moment that you pleased! Another instance of Divine Sovereignty which may cause you both to rejoice and to tremble, is this—God has sent the Gospel to you. Think of this fact, my Hearer! There are millions upon millions of your fellow creatures who have never heard the Gospel and who are going down to their doom in utter ignorance of the great salvation! Their idol gods cannot save them. Their blocks of wood and stone cannot hear their cry of hopeless sorrow. But unto you is the word of this salvation sent! Many in this great London of ours are born and nurtured amid scenes of vice and iniquity—they never enter the House of Prayer and possibly even the voice of the street preacher never reaches their ears. But some of you heard the name of Jesus mingled with the hush of your first lullaby! You were dandled on the knee of piety, and carried even as a baby in the arms of earnest prayer. It is a most gracious Sovereignty that has accorded you such great privileges as these! It is the Lord, the Lord who reigns, to whom you owe all this! Therefore rejoice, yet tremble as well, for these high privileges involve corresponding responsibilities—and He will require of you a strict account of the way in which you have used these advantages which others have not possessed. One of these days He will make inquisition and will say to you, "I gave you light—did you rejoice in it? I sent the Gospel to you—did you listen to the joyful sound, or did you shut your ears to it and turn away from it with contempt and provoke Me to anger against you?" Besides, Sinner, although you are able to hear the Gospel, today, you may not be allowed to hear it tomorrow! Instead of the message to you being as it is today—"Believe and live," tomorrow it may be—"Depart you cursed." Instead of the entreaty being addressed to you as it is today, "Turn you, turn you, for why will you die?" Tomorrow the dread sentence may be pronounced by Jehovah the King, "Then shall they call upon Me, but I will not answer; they shall seek Me early, but they shall not find Me: for that they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord: they would have none of My counsel: they despised all My reproof." Mercy's day lasts not forever! God's Gospel shall not always be trifled with! You may for a time remember to listen to the loving, tender, wooing voice of the Savior, but I would have you remember that He will not always quietly submit to your rejection of His gracious invitations! Tremble, I beseech you, lest the music of the silver trumpet of the Gospel should give place to the harsh clangor of the knell announcing that you have been driven from the Presence of the King to that dread prison where the voice of love and mercy shall never be heard! Thus I bid you rejoice in your present privileges, but also tremble, lest if you do not prize them and use them aright, they may rise up in judgment to condemn you! …

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