14
Jul
2008

On Missing the Profound

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


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