Football Players in the Hands of an Angry God

I give you the following points to consider:

1. There is no want of power in God to cast football players into hell at any moment in time.

2. Football players deserve to be cast into hell: so that divine justice never stands in the way, it makes no objection against God's using his power at any moment to destroy them.

3. Football players are already under a sentence of condemnation to hell.

4. Football players are now the objects of that very same anger and wrath of God that is expressed in the torments of hell: and the reason why they do not go down to hell at each moment, is not because God, in whose power they are, is not then very angry with them; as he is with many of those miserable creatures that he is now tormenting in hell, and do there feel and bear the fierceness of his wrath.

5. Satan stands ready to fall upon football players and seize them as his own, at what moment God shall permit him.

6. There are in the souls of football players those hellish principles reigning, that would presently kindle and flame out into hellfire, if it were not for God's restraints.

7. It is no security to football players for one moment, that there are no visible means of death at hand.

8. Football player's prudence and care to preserve their own lives, or the care of others to preserve them, do not secure them a moment

9. All football player's pains and contrivance they use to escape hell, while they continue to reject Christ, and so remain wicked men, don't secure them from hell for one moment.

10. God has laid himself under no obligation by any promise to keep any football player out of hell one moment.


So, given these considerations, I think we can all agree that the football players should not be thanking God for the success of a particular pass or game, but rather they should pray only to him out of gratitude for not destroying them and in hope that he might spare them from his stupendous wrath.

I think they should be posted in the Pro Football HOF! ;)

In all seriousness I could see thanking God for coming through a game uninjured I suppose but I think thanking God for winning a football game is more than a little tacky.

and you're onto something.

by Jonathan Edwards. The original was delivered from the pulpit just a short 20 miles (in Enfield, CT) from my place of birth. Very fire and brimstone. You'd think he yelled it from the content, but he delivered it in a tone just above whisper according to the history.

Now let me touch you on your forehead and then fall over and act like I've healed you, ok.

I mean a JVS tract.