{"id":4034,"date":"2009-02-16T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/ch-spurgeon\/matthew-2439"},"modified":"2009-02-16T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T00:31:00","slug":"matthew-2439","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/02\/16\/matthew-2439\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 24:39"},"content":{"rendered":"
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""And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away: so
       shall also the coming of the Son of man be."" 
              — Matthew 24:39 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Universal was the doom, neither rich nor poor escaped: the learned and
the illiterate, the admired and the abhorred, the religious and the
profane, the old and the young, all sank in one common ruin. Some had
doubtless ridiculed the patriarch-where now their merry jests? Others
had threatened him for his zeal which they counted madness-where now
their boastings and hard speeches? The critic who judged the old man’s
work is drowned in the same sea which covers his sneering companions.
Those who spoke patronizingly of the good man’s fidelity to his
convictions, but shared not in them, have sunk to rise no more, and the
workers who for pay helped to build the wondrous ark, are all lost
also. The flood swept them all away, and made no single exception. Even
so, out of Christ, final destruction is sure to every man of woman
born; no rank, possession, or character, shall suffice to save a single
soul who has not believed in the Lord Jesus. My soul, behold this
wide-spread judgment and tremble at it. <\/p>\n

How marvellous the general apathy! they were all eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, till the awful morning dawned. There
was not one wise man upon earth out of the ark. Folly duped the whole
race, folly as to self-preservation-the most foolish of all follies.
Folly in doubting the most true God-the most malignant of fooleries.
Strange, my soul, is it not? All men are negligent of their souls till
grace gives them reason, then they leave their madness and act like
rational beings, but not till then. <\/p>\n

All, blessed be God, were safe in the ark, no ruin entered there. From
the huge elephant down to the tiny mouse all were safe. The timid hare
was equally secure with the courageous lion, the helpless cony as safe
as the laborious ox. All are safe in Jesus. My soul, art thou in him? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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