Passionate Theology Moments Ep. 4 #shorts "London's Lamentations" by Thomas Brooks
Passionate Theology Moments Ep. 4 #shorts "London's Lamentations" by Thomas Brooks. In this episode we will hear what Brooks says about Gods Divine wrath.
Transcript
Today, during Passionate Theology Moments, we are going to be taking another look at Thomas Brooks'
works from the Great London Fire of 1666,
particularly in light of God's divine wrath
and judgment.
There is a knowledge of God by his works as well as by his word,
and by his judgment as well as by his mercies.
In his dreadful judgments, everyone may run and read his power,
his justice, his anger, his severity, and his
indignation against sin and sinners.
It is irrevocable sins which bring irrevocable judgments upon sinners.
While men hold on in committing great iniquities, God will hold on
in inflicting answerable severities.
When God cannot prevail with men to desist from sinning, men shall not
prevail with God to desist from destroying them, their
habitations, and all their pleasant things.
Lions have roared, they have growled at him, they have laid waste his land, his towns
are burned and deserted.
Have you not brought this on yourselves by forsaking the Lord your God when he led you
in the way? Jeremiah 2 .15 -17.
Brooks goes on here to say, when Neciphorus Phocas had built a mighty
strong wall about his palace for his own security, in the night time he heard a voice crying
unto him, O Emperor, though you build the wall as high as the clouds,
yet if sin is within, it will overthrow all.
Sin, like those traitors in the Trojan horse, will do cities and countries more hurt
in one night than ten thousand open enemies could do in ten years.
Cities and countries might flourish and continue as the days of heaven and be as the
sun before the Almighty if his wrath is not provoked by their profaneness
and wickedness, so that it is the loose lives, the ungracious lives,
and the enormous sins of men which lay cities and countries
desolate.
The scripture states,.
And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come upon me?
Why has the Lord sent plague, sword, famine, and fire to devour and destroy
and to lay all in ashes? Jeremiah 13 .22.
The answer is, For the greatness of your iniquity, God
will in flames of fire reveal his anger and his indignation
against sin and sinners.
Thanks for spending this passionate theology moment with us.