Jeremiah 5:23-24

Jeremiah 5:23

I. One of our besetting sins is the habit of overlooking God's hand in the midst of His own works. It is a sin of very old standing in the world, and it has its root in unbelief, because men will not trust God's word will not in their hearts believe that He careth for them.

II. Note the practical lessons brought home to us by the return of the season of harvest. (1) One lesson is a lesson of patience, of trustful waiting upon God, arising out of a conviction that He will not fail in anything He has said; that "whilst the earth remaineth seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." (2) Another lesson which this season teaches us is a lesson of thankfulness. God has reserved to us the appointed weeks of the harvest. He has again brought food out of the earth, and bread to strengthen man's heart. Surely we should praise the Lord for His goodness, and lift up our hearts with our hands to Him in the heavens. (3) "The harvest is the end of the world." And why is it so? Because it shows forth what will happen in the end what will be the proceedings of the day of judgment. Everywhere we are taught that the day of judgment will be a day of sifting and separation. If the righteous scarcely be saved in that day, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

R. D. B. Rawnsley, Village Sermons,2nd series, p. 80.

References: Jeremiah 5:24 Plain Sermons by Contributors to "Tracts for the Times," vol. viii., p. 185; Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. xv., No. 880; Preacher's Monthly,vol. iv., p. 179; R. Tuck, Christian World Pulpit,vol. ii., p. 216; J. B. Heard, Ibid.,vol. xx., p. 294; E. Blencowe, Plain Sermons to a Country Congregation,1st series, p. 318. Jeremiah 5:25. Clergyman's Magazine,vol. xiii., p. 140.