0276. Belshazzar in Death: (D) His Death Was Under Condemnation

Belshazzar in Death: (D) His Death Was Under Condemnation

"Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting" (Dan_5:27).

Belshazzar died undeceived. He knew where he was going. He knew that he was lost. He was found wanting.

If the sinner will only stop and consider he will find himself under the curse. Above him are the thunderings of the broken Law.

Illustration: A man who had driven the four-horsed mail and stage coach, over the Adirondacks for many years, lay dying. He was a Godless man, a Christ-rejecter and a blasphemer. As he died he was in a delirium. He imagined that he was going down the mountain side, and the night was dark. The lightnings were flashing about him and the thunders were sounding with deadening roar. Then he thought he had lost control of his stage. The horses were rushing madly down, and he could not find the brake. He cried to his wife, something like this: "Quick, I am going down, down, down, and I cannot find the brake." He moved his foot under the covers, he raised up in the bed, he pressed his foot this way and that, and died as he cried once more, "Quick, I am going down, down, down; and I cannot find the brake."

Oh unsaved, beware lest your death find you unprepared, and that you also with God’s sentence of condemnation hanging over you, go down to eternal death and to never-ending despair.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR