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Coronation of Christ
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of the Most High. Those pretended fathers of the church have an
account to render to God from which they would fain be excused.
Too late they are made to see that the Omniscient One is jealous of
His law, and that He will in no wise clear the guilty. They learn now
that Christ identifies His interest with that of His suffering people;
and they feel the force of His own words, “Inasmuch as ye have
done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it
unto Me.”
Matthew 25:40
.
At the Bar of Judgment
The whole wicked world stand arraigned at the bar of God, on
the charge of high treason against the government of heaven. They
have none to plead their cause; they are without excuse; and the
sentence of eternal death is pronounced against them.
It is now evident to all that the wages of sin is not noble inde-
pendence and eternal life, but slavery, ruin, and death. The wicked
see what they have forfeited by their life of rebellion. The far more
exceeding and eternal weight of glory was despised when offered
them; but how desirable it now appears. “All this,” cries the lost soul,
“I might have had, but I chose to put these things far from me. Oh,
strange infatuation! I have exchanged peace, happiness, and honor
for wretchedness, infamy, and despair.” All see that their exclusion
from heaven is just. In their lives they declared, We will not have
this Jesus to reign over us.
As if entranced, the wicked have looked upon the coronation
of the Son of God. They see in His hands the tables of the divine
law, the statutes which they have despised and transgressed. They
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witness the outburst of wonder, rapture, and adoration from the
saved; and as the wave of melody sweeps over the multitudes without
the city, all with one voice exclaim, “Marvellous are Thy works,
Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of
saints” (
Revelation 15:3
), and falling prostrate, they worship the
Prince of life. 427
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