Broken Down Altars # 7 (and others)

Broken Down Altars # 7 (and others)

Elijah called upon the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; the God who made the ravens feed him every morning and every night; the God who made the clouds obey Him; the God who made the stars witness that He was true; the God who burned Sodom and Gomorrah with fire; the God who drowned the world with a flood; the God who saved Noah; the God who said, "Let there be light"; the God who shut the lions mouths for Daniel; the God who didn't let the fire burn Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the furnace because they wouldn't bow down to Nebuchadnezzar and his idol of gold.

The prayer that Elijah offered to God that brought fire down from Heaven was short - only sixty-three words - and it burned up and consumed everything. When the fire fell, everyone on the mount knew it was the fire of the Lord. It licked up the water; it licked up the dust; it licked up the stones; and the people fell on their faces - all except these 450 stiff-necked, uncircumcised, black-hearted, white-livered false prophets of Baal.

Oh, hear me! God has plenty of the same kind of fire up in Heaven to pour down on us! And He will give it to us and to our country just as freely as He poured it down on the altar on Mount Carmel.

When the fire fell, how soon there was purity on the mountain! Oh, let God's blessing fall and there will not be a house of ill-fame; there will not be a drunkard; a thief, a panderer, a prostitute, there will not be a stick-up or a gunman to do the job. There will not be one blasphemer left on God's dirt. Everything that stands in the way of the Lord will be consumed.

The idolatrous prophets - all of them - had to die before dark. What happened then will always happen when God has a chance to reveal Himself. The prophets of Baal must die. When God appears on the scene, other things must go. It won't do to parole there prophets of Baal on their good behavior. They had to do what they did on Mount Carmel - put them to the sword. They had to be slain.

You will have to slay uncleanliness; you will have to slay lasciviousness; you will have to slay adultery; you will have to slay enmity; you will have to slay strive; you will have to slay jealousy; you will have to slay wrath; you will have to slay divisions; you will have to slay heresies; you will have to slay these infamous lies that men are preaching from their pulpits that lead people away from God. You will have to slay envy; you will have to slay drunkenness; you will have to slay lying; you will have to slay stealing; you will have to slay reviling. Before the fire from God comes, the prophets of Baal must die, sir! 

Do you want God's blessing? Do you want it on your home? In your church? On your city/ On America? Then slay utterly! Repair the altar of the Lord that is broken down!

~Billy Sunday~

(The End)
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Merrily On In the Way To Hell

"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life" (Matthew 25:46).

Certainly there is a hell, a place of torment provided and prepared for all wicked and ungodly people.

Ah, how many are there that rejoice to do evil, and delight in their abominations, and take pleasure in unrighteousness! But could men do thus, dared men do thus - did they really believe that hell was prepared and fitted for them, and that the fiery lake was but a little before them?

Heaven is a place where all is joyful - and hell is a place where all is doleful. In heaven there is nothing but happiness - and in hell there is nothing but heaviness, nothing but endless, easeless, and remediless torments. Did men really believe this, how could they go so merrily on in the way to hell?

~Thomas Brooks~
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Despair

Continual imprisonment in hell, arises from man's not being able to pay the price. The wicked go to hell as their prison, because they can never pay their debts. The damned must bear the wrath of God to all eternity, because they can never satisfy the justice of God for sin. Therefore they must lie in hell, world without end.

Despair is an unavoidable companion, attending the pains of the second death - as all reprobates do experience. Desperation is an utter hopelessness of any good, and a certain expectation and waiting on the worst that can befall; and this is the lot and portion of the damned in hell. The wretched sinner in hell, seeing the sentence passed against him; God's purpose fulfilled, never to be reversed; the gates of hell made fast upon him; and a great gulf fixed between hell and heaven, which renders his escape impossible - he now gives up all, and reckons on nothing but uttermost misery in his remediless, woeful condition.

~Thomas Brooks~