No Peace

Now one thing is certain, and that is, that as long as you are unconverted, you must remain a perfect stranger to peace. There are but two classes in the world in the sight of God, the righteous and the wicked. All in the natural state are classed among the latter. The righteous, are those who are accounted righteous by God through faith, and walk in practical righteousness. Unconverted, you are found amongst the wicked. You may not be an open infidel, blasphemer, or immoral person, heaping up wrath against the day of wrath, No, you may be very correct in your moral life, a good citizen, amiable, kind, and everything that is desirable in nature; but, unconverted (I press it home upon your conscience), your heart and mind are estranged from God. You are His enemy (Rom. 5:10). There are degrees and measures of wickedness, but amongst the ranks of the wicked you are found.
And what saith the Scripture? “The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked” (Isa. 57:20, 21). Oh! poor Christless reader, what an awful condition you are in. Troubled, restless, and sinful, a perfect stranger to peace. The troubled restless sea casts up its mire and dirt. And the hearts of troubled restless sinners of this world, cast up nothing but sin and iniquity in the sight of God. There is no peace. How can there be? God’s Word is ever true. Where is the sinner in his sins to be found, who knows what peace is? All are complete strangers to true peace. No peace, no peace.
“There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.”