“For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.” ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10
In 1741, evangelist and pastor, Jonathon Edwards preached a sermon twice within the New England area titled, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
This sermon literally scared the Hell out of these congregations and sparked the first Great Awakening.
This sermon emphasized one of the attributes of God that is important to understand- Wrath. Tradition says, Edwards was not even a designated preacher the days he preached.
Edwards had a deep understanding of God’s holiness and his crowd. As he prepped the sermon, he knew he was addressing a vain and introverted crowd.
Many of what history called “revivals” began from the work of these fearful messages.
A flavor of this sermon is in the following quotes,
“The bow of God’s wrath is bent,…
