_NO! NOT ONE!_ ‘If there be any that executeth judgment.’ Jeremiah 5:1 I. A NATION’S MORAL RUIN.—The desperate condition of the Hebrew people is described in moving terms. Both high and low were equally corrupt, therefore judgment could not be delayed (Jeremiah 9:9; Jeremiah 44:22). When men bec... [ Continue Reading ]
_A BARRIER OF SAND_ ‘Which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by an everlasting ordinance, which it cannot pass.’ Jeremiah 5:22 (R.V.) I. WHAT AN INSIGNIFICANT ATOM IS A GRAIN OF SAND!—But God has chosen to arrest the advance of the mighty billows by a barrier of sand-grains. Let the... [ Continue Reading ]
_GRATITUDE FOR HARVEST_ ‘The appointed weeks of the harvest.’ Jeremiah 5:24 The inspired writers, in urging the claims of God and of religion upon those to whom they addressed their messages, sometimes made use of facts which were familiar to all, in order to support those claims. Whilst there we... [ Continue Reading ]