What main point does Edwards want his listeners to understand?

Confronted
in a Colonial setting where materialism and commerce began to supplant zealous religious
worship, thinkers like Edwards were confronted with a disturbing reality.  The mishap of justice
through the Salem Witch Trials also helped to decrease the passion of religious worship
throughout the colonies.  In response to this waning was the Great Awakening.  The premise of
this movement was that the Colonial lack of intensity regarding religion had made God angry, and
this anger could only be abated with consistent and driven spiritual worship.  Thinkers like
Edwards used large outdoor revivals as setting to raise the awareness of the audience as to how
they have sinned in the eyes of God and how these transgressions have made God angry and this
form of anger will result in a display of Biblical and cataclysmic proportions.  The main point
of these sermons, most famous being "," was for individuals to recant and change their
ways and move from a commercial based frame of reference into a religious one to provide meaning
into their lives.  It also served to make men like Edwards assume power as the moral center or
leader throughout these individuals' lives.