DISCOURSE: 231 THE CHARACTER OF JEHOVAH Deuteronomy 32:1. _Give ear, O ye heavens, and I trill speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop at the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: because I... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 232 GOD’S REGARD FOR HIS PEOPLE Deuteronomy 32:9. _The Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob it the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 233 THE JEWS MOVED TO JEALOUSY BY THE GENTILES Deuteronomy 32:21. _They have moved me to jealousy with that which it not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolis... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 234 THE EXCELLENCY OF JEHOVAH Deuteronomy 32:31. _Their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges._ IT is not a little to the honour of those who serve God, that the more fully their principles are investigated, the more just will they appear, and worthy to be ad... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 235 JUDGMENT NEAR AT HAND Deuteronomy 32:34. _Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? To me belongeth vengeance and recompence: their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make hast... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 236 OUR EXTREMITY IS GOD’S OPPORTUNITY Deuteronomy 32:36. _The Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left._ IT is a certain truth that God is immutable in his purposes, whether of judgment o... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 237 GOD THE ONLY AUTHOR OF GOOD AND EVIL Deuteronomy 32:39. _See now, that I, even I, am he, and there it no strange god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither it there any that can deliver out of my hand._ THE Jews, from the time that they became a nation, turne... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 238 A MINISTER’S DYING CHARGE TO HIS PEOPLE Deuteronomy 32:46. _Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this Law. For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life._ THIS song... [ Continue Reading ]