The Evangelist Job 27:9-10 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?… I. A MELANCHOLY FACT EXPRESSED. That the hypocrite will not always, that is habitually, pray. He lives in the total neglect, if not of the external acts, yet certainly of the spirit of prayer. Desire impetuously moves in every channel but that which might lead him to heaven. Why? 1. Because his heart is not in the business of religion at all. Untouched, unsanctified, unrenewed. 2. Because he is experimentally a stranger to those views of the Divine character which render devotion a delight. "Will he delight in God?" Intimating that a man must delight in God, before he can habitually desire communion with Him. 3. Because the progressive influence of sin assumes a predominant and prevailing ascendency. 4. Because he is judicially resigned to hardness and impenitence of heart. II. A SOLEMN WARNING, TACITLY PRESENTED. 1. Consider the danger and guilt of such a state. It is the symptom of something bad — omen of worse. It warrants most humiliating inferences as to our spiritual state. If we do not cry, we do not feel. Guard against the first symptoms. It inflicts a grievous loss; it is the forerunner of a heavy doom. 2. See how far the miseries of the ungodly extend. God will not answer their prayers in trial. "Because I called," etc. Even in prosperous hours there is no security. In the fulness of sufficiency — straits. He looked for much, but, etc. 3. See how long the doom of the ungodly lasts. Forever. God takes away the soul. 4. Anticipate the fearful disclosures of the last day. 5. Contrast with them the Christian's hope. (The Evangelist.) Parallel Verses KJV: Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? |
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