_Run ye. .. and see. .. if ye can find a man._ A MAN; OR, THE DIVINE IDEAL UNREALISED I. The Divine idea of a man. One “that executeth Judgment, that seeketh the truth.” This involves-- 1. A righteous working out of the Divine will so far as it is apprehended. 2. An earnest endeavour for further... [ Continue Reading ]
_O Lord, are not Thine eyes upon the truth?_ TRUTHFULNESS The allusion is not to doctrinal truth, or truth in the abstract, but to practical truth as it should exist in the hearts and lives of men. The Lord bade them produce a single truthful man in all Jerusalem, and Jeremiah answers that if trut... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shall I not visit for these things?_ UNSANCTIFIED AFFLICTION FOLLOWED BY HEAVIER JUDGMENTS The physician, when he findeth that the potion which he hath given his patient will not work, he seconds it with one more violent; but if he perceive the disease to be settled, then he puts him into a course... [ Continue Reading ]
_Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s._ STORMING THE BATTLEMENTS I. I shall regard this text as spoken concerning the Church. The Church has very often gone to king Jareb for help, or to the world for aid; and then Go... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will make My words in thy mouth fire._ THE POTENTIAL WORD Three elements of the power of the Gospel are here found. I. The I will of the Almighty. That will is an ocean deep and wide as eternity and infinity. In that shoreless deep all the mighty orbs, suns, systems floated first by mere will... [ Continue Reading ]
_When ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the Lord our God these things unto us?_ IN THE TIME OF TRIBULATION I. Acknowledgment of God as that Supreme Ruler of all from whose hand afflictions come. It is one great secret of that peace which passeth all understanding to mark the hand of God in all the cha... [ Continue Reading ]
_O foolish people, and without understanding._ GOD’S JUDGMENT OF SELF-WILL The text is part of a message which was to be declared in the house of Jacob, and published in Israel. It shows that three results were produced by self-assertion against the rule of God; will the same cause produce the sam... [ Continue Reading ]
_But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone._ ISRAEL’S APOSTASY Our state of heart and mind toward God is shown, not by those emotions which are kindled in us on receiving any extraordinary mercy, nor by what we do under the influence of those emotions, but... [ Continue Reading ]
_Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: He reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest._ THE FORMER AND THE LATTER RAIN Such are the climate and soil of Palestine, that all agricultural operations are most manifestly dependent upo... [ Continue Reading ]
_As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great and waxen rich._ WICKED PROFESSORS THE BANE OF THE CHURCH I. God has a people on earth. 1. His creation. 2. Called by Him from darkness to light. 3. Privileged, pardoned, regenerated, adopted. II.... [ Continue Reading ]