Once upon a time Jonathan Edwards preached a sermon entitled Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. This was during the First Great Awakening in the 18th century in America. Such sermons are almost unheard of today. Yet when Jonathan Edwards preached that sermon, great conviction of sin came over the people who heard it. One who was there reported "how the people, whom he characterized as 'thoughtless and vain', were so changed before the sermon was ended that they were 'bowed down with an awful conviction of their sin and danger'." Should we not need sermons like that today or are we so sophisticated as a society that we no longer need to flee the wrath of God?