In brief,
Edwards considers all who will not turn from their own sin and wickedness and turn to God as
enemies. He gives these people a variety of names throughout his sermon. At times these are
"the foolish children of men", "many miserable human beings", or the
singular "unconverted man". Whatever the descriptor might be, the common
characteristics of the group are always the same:
- people who
sin - people who no better than to sin
- people who are
not choosing to give Christ their entire heart
These people can
be members of his congregation. Many people go to churches but do not actually believe in their
hearts. These same people act like they understand the morals being taught but choose not to
apply them in life. These seem to be the people that Edwards is trying to reach as he quotes
Scripture with direct references to this type of behavior. These are the people he would
consider enemies of God.
They not only justly deserve to
be thrown down there, but the sentence of the law of God, that eternal and unchangeable rule of
righteousness that God has fixed between Him and mankind, is gone out against them, and stands
against them; so that they are already bound over to hell. John 3:18, "Whoever does not
believe stands condemned already."
Those who do not
believe are enemies of God.
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