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  THE SWORD OF HIS PURE, INFINITE, AND INCENSED WRATH
  by Thomas Brooks
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Summary: The sermon highlights God's infinite and pure hatred of sin,
demonstrated in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, which is the ultimate
sacrifice for sin and the highest manifestation of God's hatred.

Topics: "Sacrifice of Christ", "God's Wrath"
Scripture References: Psalm 88:7, Isaiah 53:5, Matthew 27:46, John 3:16, Romans 5:8, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Galatians 3:13, Hebrews 9:28, 1 Peter 2:24, Revelation 14:10

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Thomas Brooks emphasizes the profound depth of God's wrath against sin,
illustrated by the extreme suffering inflicted upon His beloved Son,
Jesus Christ. He argues that while God has shown His hatred for sin
through various judgments throughout history, the ultimate demonstration
of this hatred is seen in the crucifixion of Christ, where all the
weight of sin's curse was placed upon Him. Brooks compares this act to a
father punishing his innocent son, highlighting the unimaginable
severity of God's justice and the love behind it. The sermon calls
believers to recognize the gravity of sin and the immense sacrifice made
for their salvation.

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To see God thrust the sword of His pure, infinite, and

incensed wrath through the very heart of His dearest Son,

notwithstanding all His supplications, prayers, tears, and

strong cries--is the highest manifestation of the Lord's hatred

and indignation of sin--which ever was, or ever will be!

It is true God revealed his great hatred against sin . . .

by turning Adam out of paradise, and

by casting the angels down to hell, and

by drowning the old world, and

by raining hell out of heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah,

and by the various and dreadful judgments which He has

been a-pouring forth upon the world in all ages. But all this

hatred is but an emblem of hatred, compared to that hatred

which God manifested against sin in causing the whole curse

to meet upon our crucified Lord. It is true God reveals His

hatred of sin by those endless, easeless, and remediless

torments, which He inflicts upon devils and damned spirits.

But this is no hatred--compared to that hatred against sin,

which God revealed when He opened all the floodgates of

His envenomed wrath upon His Son--His own Son, His only

Son, His Son who always pleased Him, His Son who never

offended Him.

Suppose you saw a father who had but one son--such a son

in whom he always delighted, and by whom he had never

been provoked. Now suppose you should you see this father

inflicting the most intensified pains and punishments, tortures

and torments, calamities and miseries upon this, his dearest son.

Would you not wonder at the cause of the father's exercising

such amazing, such matchless severity, fury and cruelty upon

his only beloved son?

Now cast your eye upon the actings of God the Father towards

Jesus Christ, and you will find that He has inflicted more and

greater torments upon the Son of His dearest love, than all

mortals ever have or could inflict upon others. God made all

the penalties and sufferings that were due to us--to fall upon

Jesus Christ. God Himself inflicted upon dear Jesus whatever

was requisite to the satisfying of His justice, to the obtaining

of pardon, and to the saving of all His elect!

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