JUDGMENT
Justice may at times leave the courts of man, but it abides upon the tribunal of God.
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Where judgment finds thee, there eternity shall leave thee. 191.216
Men whine out their abhorrence of God’s justice, and scout the idea of future
punishment with the question, “Would a father do thus and thus with his children?”
The question needs no other reply but fact. All men die. Would a father suffer his
children to pine in sickness and die, when it was in his power to prevent it? Certainly
not. Since, then, the great God evidently permits much pain, and even death to
happen to his creatures, he is evidently not father merely, but something more. To
ungodly men Jehovah reveals himself in the light of a judge; and a judge too whose
stern severity has brought to pass the terrible doom of death upon every man of
woman born, with two exceptions, from the fall of Adam even until now. This is the
God of love; but not the newly-devised God, who is love and love alone. 682.170
Peter says, “If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner
appear?” by which he means, I think, first, that if even the righteous are so severely
tested, what short work will God make with the unrighteous;—if the wheat must
thus be winnowed, how certainly will the chaff be destroyed:—if the gold must pass
through the fire, how assuredly will the dross be consumed! The God who tries and
tests the best will certainly not wink at the worst. 3047.330
But though I cannot make you see sin, yet I can leave this truth with you,—you will
one day feel what sin means, unless you repent of it, for he that spared not his own
Son will not spare you. If the Judge upon the throne smote Christ, who had no sin of
his own,—smote him so sternly for other men’s sins,—what will he do with you? If he
spared not his beloved Son, what will he do with his enemies? 3056.437