rebelled against it, we become children of disobedience. The Word of God says that for this cause cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. And if we go on in disobedience oft- times I think we become children of the Devil — apostate. In an apostate position, we do not want to accept Jesus as our personal Saviour so we turn to one of the cults— and they are legion — that will tell us how we can get to heaven even though we reject Christ. They count His sacri fice for sin as bein^ unworthy of ac ceptance. If an unsaved person listens to them they become a child of the Devil . . . tares among the wheat. Paul called Demas the sourcerer, the child of the Devil — and the Lord Jesus called the Pharisees, who tried to keep the people away from Him, children of the Devil. I would like to have you remember that you cannot be a professing Chris tian without knowing God — for you must be born again of God’s Spirit. You can be a child of wrath and you are under the mercy of God, but if you are a child of disobedience and continue to be a child of disobedience, there comes a time when the mercy of God is ended. Did you know that? The Lord said, “My Spirit will not always strive with man.” Look at the instance of the Flood. God’s patience became exhausted at their re fusal of His Word and He opened up the fountains of the great deep and heaven poured out its rain and the wa ters covered the earth. When God got through with His judgment there was only a little ark floating on the waters', and all the breathing life that was left was in that ark. If you think that God is easy or indifferent, look at the story of the Flood. He brought this awful flood, but thank God, there was mercy. God said He would never destroy the world by a flood again. However, there is going to be another destruction — another judgment. Why not cast yourself upon His mercy. God has made it possible by His amazing Grace. 29
faith are children of God — everybody is not a child of God. I want you to examine, for just a moment, these children of disobedience because we have so many of them to day, I fear. A lot of people have come to me and said, ‘"I do not think it is fair that God should cast into hell, men from the heart of Africa, India etc., who have never heard the Gospel. How can they ever be saved? Do you believe that God would do a thing like that? In my reply I usually caution that they wait foi a while and not try to be God and share the responsibility of judging the world. You remember the Word of God says that the God of all the earth shall do right. But the Word of God also says “There is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.” The wicked shall be cast into hell and all the nations that forget God. So I do not see any hope for the man of Africa or the man from India apart from Christ, because “Christ is the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by Me (Him).” If I had to stand before God today without being saved, if I sought any mercy at all, I would rather stand there as an African who had never heard the Gospel, or a man from the teeming millions of India who had n e v e r heard the truth, than I would from anywhere in America where the Gospel has been preached into my ears from babyhood and I had disobeyed the promptings of the Spirit of God. Here is a truth, once you hear the Gospel and the Spirit of God speaks to you and you know your need of Christ, then you turn your back upon Him and go out away from God, you are more than a child of wrath, you are by nature a child of wrath. You were born undei sin. David said, “Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother con ceive me.” We are bom in sin — we are under the wrath of God from the beginning. But there is something more, when we have heard the Gospel and
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