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2008

On Missing the Profound

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14 Jul 2008

As I was preparing a sermon on John 3:14-21 I came across this quote by Jonathan Edwards concerning the nature of the eternal life that God provides hell deserving sinners through Jesus Christ. Edwards wrote:

There is an answerableness between the greatness of the misery of hell and the happiness of heaven, and the greatness of the things that have been done that sinners might be saved from hell and obtain heaven. 1

This is a profound thought that you may not have considered before. God could have brought us back to the place we were with Adam before the fall. He could have pardoned our sins and given us another covenant of works. But God answered the eternal punishment due to us with the eternal life He provides in Christ.

[1] Jonathan Edwards The Works of Jonathan Edwards ed. Harry S. Stout (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003) vol. 22 p. 539


About Post Author

Nick Batzig is the senior pastor of Church Creek PCA in Charleston, SC and an associate editor for Ligonier Ministries. Prior to serving at Church Creek, Nick was a pastor at Wayside PCA on Signal Mountain, TN. Formerly, Nick served as the founding pastor of New Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Richmond Hill, GA and as the editor of Reformation21 and the Christward Collective--sites of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. He frequently writes for Tabletalk Magazine, Reformation 21, He Reads Truth, and the Christward Collective. Nick was also the host of East of Eden, a podcast devoted to the Biblical and Systematic Theology of Jonathan Edwards. You can friend him on Facebook here and follow him on Twitter @nick_batzig

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