O sinner! The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. His wrath towards you burns like fire. He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire. He is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight. You are ten thousand times more abominable in His eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. O sinner! You have offended Him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but His hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment. O sinner! It is to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to hell the last night; that you were allowed to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep. And there is no other reason to be given, why you have not dropped into hell since you arose in the morning, but that God's hand has held you up. O sinner! There is no other reason to be given why you have not gone to hell, since you have sat here in the house of God, provoking His pure eyes by your sinful wicked manner of attending His solemn worship. O sinner! Yes, there is nothing else that is to be given as a reason why you do not this very moment drop down into hell. O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in! O sinner! It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over, in the hand of that God whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as against many of the damned in hell. O sinner! You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder. And you have no interest in any Mediator, and nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment!

Jonathan Edwards

Post published:December 20, 2022

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Leviticus 5

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5:1 ¶ Ki te hara tetahi, mona i rongo ki te reo whakaoati, he kaiwhakaatu nei ia mo tana i kite ai, i mohio ai ranei, ki te kahore e whakaaturia e ia, na me waha e ia tona hara:

5:2 Ki te pa tetahi ki te mea poki, ki te tinana ranei o te kirehe poke, ki te tinana ranei o te kararehe poki, ki te tinana ranei o nga mea ngoki, ara o nga mea poki, a e huna ana i a ia, a ka poki ia, na ka whai hara ia.

5:3 Ki te pa ranei ia ki te poki tangata, ki nga tini poke e poke ai te tangata, a ka huna i a ia; ina mohiotia e ia, ka whai hara ia:

5:4 Ki te oati ranei tetahi, he mea puta ohorere i ona ngutu, kia mahi i te kino, i te pai ranei, i nga tini mea ranei e puaki ohorere mai i te tangata ina oati, a e huna ana i a ia; ina mohiotia e ia, na, ka whai hara ia i tetahi o enei mea:

5:5 A ki te mea kua whai hara ia i tetahi o enei mea, na me whaki tona hara i taua mea;

5:6 A me kawe e ia tana whakahere mo te he ki a Ihowa, mo tona hara i hara ai, he uha no te kahui, he reme, he kuao koati ranei, hei whakahere hara; a ma te tohunga e whakamarie mona, mo tona hara.

5:7 ¶ A, ki te kahore e taea e ia i ona rawa he reme, me kawe e ia ki a Ihowa mo tona he i he ai, kia rua nga kukupa, kia rua ranei nga pi kukupa; ko tetahi hei whakahere hara, ko tetahi hei tahunga tinana.

5:8 Me kawe raua e ia ki te tohunga, ka whakahere ai e ia, ko te mea mo te whakahere hara ki mua, ka kikini ai i tona pane i te ritenga o tona kaki, otiia kaua e motuhia rawatia.

5:9 Na ka tauhiuhi ai ia i tetahi wahi o nga toto o te whakahere hara ki te taha o te aata; ka whakate ai i te toenga o te toto ki te turanga o te aata: he whakahere hara tena.

5:10 A ko te rua me tuku hei tahunga tinana, kia rite ki te tikanga: a ka whakamarie to tohunga mona, mo tona hara i hara ai, a ka murua.

5:11 A, ki te kahore e taea e ia i ona rawa te kawe nga kukupa e rua, nga pi kukupa ranei e rua, na me kawe tana whakahere e te tangata i hara, te whakatekau epa paraoa, hei whakahere hara; kaua e meatia ki te hinu, kaua ano e meatia he parakihe ki r unga: he whakahere hara hoki.

5:12 Na me kawe e ia ki te tohunga, a ka aohia ake e te tohunga, kia ki tona ringa, he whakamahara no taua mea, ka tahu ai ki runga ki te aata, ki runga ki nga whakahere ahi ki a Ihowa: he whakahere hara tena.

5:13 A ka whakamarie te tohunga mona, mo tona hara i hara ai ki tetahi o enei mea, a ka murua: a ma te tohunga te toenga, ano he whakahere totokore.

5:14 ¶ I korero ano a Ihowa ki a Mohi, i mea,

5:15 Ki te kino te mahi a tetahi, he hara pohehe, ki nga mea tapu a Ihowa; na, me kawe e ia tana whakahere mo te he ki a Ihowa, kia kotahi hipi toa, hei te mea kohakore, no te kahui hipi, me whakarite ano e koe ona utu ki te hekere hiriwa, hekere o t e wahi tapu, hei whakahere mo te he:

5:16 Ka utu ai i tona hara ki te mea tapu, me tapiri ano ki te wahi whakarima, ka homai ki te tohunga: a ka whakamarie te tohunga mona ki te hipi toa e whakaherea ana mo te he, a ka murua tona.

5:17 A ki te hara tetahi, ki te poka ke i tetahi o nga whakahau a Ihowa, he mahi poka noa; ahakoa e kore e mohiotia e ia, kua hara ia, a ka waha ia i tona kino.

5:18 A me kawe e ia he hipi toa ki te tohunga, he kohakore, no te kahui, kei tau te utu, hei whakahere mo te he: a ka whakamarie te tohunga mona, mo tona pohehe i pohehe ai ia, a kihai nei i matau, a ka murua tona he.

5:19 He whakahere tena mo te he: he pono tona he ki a Ihowa.

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