Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry? Sermons
I. THOSE WHO FORSAKE GOD DO SO BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN PERVERSITY AND NOT BECAUSE OF GOD'S NEGLECT. "Is his arm shortened that it cannot save?" is a question we ought to ask ere we make up our minds to leave God. The secret of spiritual disaffection and apostasy is in ourselves and not in God. II. APOSTASY FROM GOD IS A TRANSCENDENT INSTANCE OF INGRATITUDE. 1. The providences of God have been unceasing, manifold, and overflowing. They have come without effort of man. Yet the sinner has gone away and obstinately continues in his sin. 2. But in the grace of God there are elements that appeal to our deepest affection and trust. It is so rich, undeserved, and free. Why should he have chosen any one? How often has he healed the backslidings of his people! The cross of Christ is the grandest expression of love of which we know. It "passeth knowledge." III. WHEN SINNERS FORSAKE GOD IT IS TO THEIR OWN INJURY. 1. By their pursuit after sinful gratifications they forfeit the enjoyment of Divine mercy. Providential mercies may not always be withdrawn, but their beneficial effect is destroyed. The fellowship and presence of God are lost. His favor and help cannot be expected. 2. The sources of pleasure they apply themselves to are disappointing and fatal. Sinful pleasures soon pall. There is no enduring rapture in the gratification of sense, but an enduring sting remains. The constitution of the sinner is sapped and undermined by his excesses, and the general, social, and political life of the nation corrupted. There is no sorrow so profound and incurable as that which results from the abuse of religious privileges and the loss of the heavenly birthright; it "worketh death." But, in addition to all this, the anger of God is kindled, and who shall extinguish it? He himself can. With him is forgiveness that he may be feared, and plenteous redemption that he may be sought unto. "His mercy endureth forever." It is only needed that we change in heart and life to recover our lost estate and experience again more than our lost joy. - M.
Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the lock Of the field? The idea of the text is that a man will cut himself off from the main, will cut himself away from the eternally feeding snow of Lebanon, and will begin to make himself a little cistern — ah me, a broken cistern, a cistern that can hold no water. Let us think of the suicide of isolation, the madness of amputating our life, of leaving the inexhaustible, the eternal, the infinite — and living little, miserable, self-devouring lives. "Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon and the fountain that rises from the rock?" You would not allow it in business. Shall I tell you what I have heard some of you business men say? Did not one of you point out a man to me, and say, "You see that man crossing from the Mansion House to the Bank of England?" "Yes." "Very singular case," you say; "that man is living on his capital." I said, "What harm is there in that?" "Why, he is eating himself up, consuming himself. He ought to have his capital so invested that it will bring him in revenue day by day, year by year, and the capital should be kept intact if possible, and still the income should be accruing." "I see!" That is the text from a secular point of view. "This man is living on his capital, he has cut himself off from payable, remunerative, compensative agencies, and he is eating up what he has." The worst thing that can happen in military operations is for the enemy to get behind and to cut off the supplies. That is the horrible possibility and the dreadful mischief, that the supplies should be cut off. Take care how you dwell upon this as an instance of misfortune. I charge you, in the presence of God and the holy angels, foolish man, with doing this very thing. You have cut off your supplies, you have dismissed prayer, you are trying to live on your own miserable individuality and selfhood. Get back to your supplies — back to God, back to the fountain. Live and move and have your being in God, and then no man can impoverish you, until he has impoverished God.(J. Parker.) People JeremiahPlaces Jerusalem, Lebanon, SirionTopics Afar, Cease, Cold, Cool, Crags, Distant, Dried, Dry, Fail, Failed, Field, Flow, Flowing, Foreign, Forsake, Forsaken, Leave, Lebanon, Mountain, Mountains, Open, Plucked, Rock, Rocky, Run, Sirion, Si'rion, Slopes, Snatched, Snow, Sources, Strange, Streams, Vanish, WatersOutline 1. Under the type of a potter is shown God's absolute power in disposing of nations.11. Judgments threatened to Judah for her strange revolt. 18. Jeremiah prays against his conspirators. Dictionary of Bible Themes Jeremiah 18:14Library The Sins of Communities Noted and Punished. "Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation." This is predicated of the judgments of God on those who had shed the blood of his saints. The Savior declares that all the righteous blood which had been shed on the earth from that of Abel down to the gospel day, should come on that generation! But is not this unreasonable and contrary to the Scriptures? "Far be wickedness from God and iniquity from the Almighty. For the work of man shall be render unto him, and cause every … Andrew Lee et al—Sermons on Various Important Subjects The Hebrew Sages and their Proverbs The Sick Person Ought Now to Send for Some Godly and Religious Pastor. The Hindrances to Mourning The Ninth Commandment John Bunyan on the Terms of Communion and Fellowship of Christians at the Table of the Lord; Jeremiah, a Lesson for the Disappointed. Of the Decrees of God. Degrees of Sin Jeremiah Links Jeremiah 18:14 NIVJeremiah 18:14 NLT Jeremiah 18:14 ESV Jeremiah 18:14 NASB Jeremiah 18:14 KJV Jeremiah 18:14 Bible Apps Jeremiah 18:14 Parallel Jeremiah 18:14 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 18:14 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 18:14 French Bible Jeremiah 18:14 German Bible Jeremiah 18:14 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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