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Iconoclast · Nov 7, 2015

As Part of the godly mans portrait by ODT Thomas Watson

3. Those who live and die ungodly, have no right to the covenant of grace

"At that time you were without Christ, strangers from the covenants of promise" (Eph. 2:12). And to be outside covenant, is to be like anyone in the old world outside the ark. The covenant is the gospel charter, which is enriched with many glorious privileges. But who may plead the benefit of this covenant? Surely only those whose hearts are inlaid with grace. Read the charter: "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you . . . I will be your God" (Ezek. 36:26,28). A person dying in his ungodliness has no more to do with the new covenant, than a ploughman has to do with the privileges of a city corporation.

God's writing always comes before his seal. "You are declared to be the epistle of Christ, written not with ink—but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone—but in fleshy tables of the heart" (2 Cor. 3:3). Here is a golden epistle: the writing is the work of faith; the tablet it is written on, is the heart; the finger that writes it is the Spirit. Now, after the Spirit's writing, comes the Spirit's sealing: "after you believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit" (Eph. 1:13). That is, you were sealed with an assurance of glory. What have ungodly men—those who have no writing—to do with the seal of the covenant?
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The misery of ungodly men appears in nine particulars:

1. They are in a state of spiritual death

2. Their offerings are polluted

3. Those who live and die ungodly, have no right to the covenant of grace

4. The ungodly are spiritual fools

5. The ungodly are vile people

6. Their temporal mercies are continued in judgment

7. Their temporal judgments are not removed in mercy

8. The ungodly, while they live, are exposed to the wrath of God

9. The ungodly at death, must undergo God's fury and indignation

http://www.gracegems.org/Watson/godly_mans_picture6.htm

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