The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - “Nations That Forget God Will Be Turned Into Hell”

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00:00:28.200 This is Matthew Henry.

00:00:29.280 He says,

00:00:29.900 Hereby was typified the final and eternal destruction of all the impenitent,

00:00:35.460 implacable enemies of the Lord Jesus,

00:00:38.280 who, having slighted the riches of his grace,

00:00:41.080 must forever feel the weight of his wrath.

00:00:43.700 Talking about the Canaanites.

00:00:45.520 And shall have judgment without mercy.

00:00:48.840 Nations that forget God shall be turned into hell.

00:00:53.780 I'll say that again.

00:00:54.620 Matthew Henry, God bless him.

00:00:56.320 nations that forget God shall be turned into hell. The land is defiled. It is unclean and it turns

00:01:05.720 against its own inhabitants, spewing them out. Nations that forget God shall be turned into hell

00:01:12.440 and no reproach at all to God's infinite goodness. This doesn't mean that God's not kind or not good.

00:01:19.400 It simply means that he is just and that he will not be mocked. We reap what we sow. What Matthew

00:01:24.780 Henry is saying here in the final analysis is that our text, Joshua chapter 10, where Joshua

00:01:30.320 and Israel annihilate all these Canaanite tribes, men, women, children, the whole nine yards,

00:01:37.100 driving them out and putting them to death with the edge of the sword, is that in some sense,

00:01:41.960 this is a typological text. That is, it's a symbol that points towards an eternal ultimate reality.

00:01:47.900 And the ultimate reality of the Canaanites and the destruction that God brings upon them through

00:01:52.640 Israel, that reality is the reality of eternal hell. That God is tolerant, but he is not eternally

00:01:59.940 tolerant. He is not indefinitely tolerant. God is slow to anger. God is abundant in mercy, but God

00:02:07.960 is just. And eventually he does pour out his just, that is fair, proportional wrath on all his

00:02:17.160 enemies. He may wait for 400 years, but eventually he will do justice. And when he brings his justice

00:02:24.320 for those who don't repent, for those who do not submit to him, when he brings his justice,

00:02:30.560 it will be swift and it will be severe and it will be without an ounce of mercy.

00:02:37.100 There was no mercy given to the Canaanites. Every man, woman, and child put to the edge of the sword

00:02:42.360 and so too in a spiritual and eternal sense,

00:02:45.980 this is God's character to this day

00:02:48.540 and for all days, to the end of the age,

00:02:51.240 those who do not repent of their sin

00:02:53.100 and call out to Jesus Christ by name

00:02:56.320 as a King of kings and Lord of lords,

00:02:59.180 asking for his forgiveness because of his life,

00:03:02.040 his death and his resurrection.

00:03:04.260 Those who do not turn to him like the Canaanites,

00:03:07.320 God will eventually deal out justice with his sword,

00:03:11.020 his wrath in hell, and there will be no quarter. There will be no surrender. There will never be

00:03:16.340 a peace treaty offered. They will be eternally punished. And this in no way detracts from God's

00:03:21.640 goodness. If anything, it only exemplifies it. God is good. And because he's good, he punishes

00:03:28.480 the wicked. It's an eternal principle. It's also a tangible, earthly, temporal principle.

00:03:36.060 It applies to individual people.

00:03:37.980 It applies to collections of people.

00:03:41.240 And these things from the Old Testament are massively relevant to this day.

The NXR Podcast - September 11, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - “Nations That Forget God Will Be Turned Into Hell”

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