_Prophesy against them._ EVIL IN HIGH PLACES The spirit told Ezekiel that the princes were the men that devised mischief and gave wicked counsels to the city. How often have we seen this prostitution of great mental power and great official authority through the service of evil! Imagine the picture... [ Continue Reading ]
_I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them._ GOD’S KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN THOUGHT The union of omniscience with sympathy, Of active cognisance of human thoughts with infinite mercy, is expressed in Hebrews 4:12. There are no reflections more interesting than those connected with the... [ Continue Reading ]
_But have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you._ YIELDING TO ONE’S SURROUNDINGS Surely there is nothing walks the earth more contemptible, as well as more certainly evil, than a man who lets himself be made by whatever force may happen to be strongest near him, and fasten... [ Continue Reading ]
_Yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come._ GOD THE SANCTUARY OF THE AFFLICTED Philosophers have frequently remarked what may be called the doctrine of compensation: by which they mean, the tendency there is in nature and providence to keep things in a kind... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you._ THE NATURE OF GENUINE RELIGION I. God appropriates this work to Himself. Real religion is of a Divine original: it never would have had an existence in the world without the revelation of God; and it will never have an existence... [ Continue Reading ]
_That they may walk in My statutes._ PROPERTIES OF OBEDIENCE First, it must be hearty: the heart must be delivered up to the Word, as the apostle saith, to be framed and fashioned thereby; and then from an inward principle, obedience must be yielded to the will of God. Secondly, it must be sincere... [ Continue Reading ]
_The glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city._ DEPARTURE OF GOD FROM HIS TEMPLE I. How averse God is to forsake His people. Look we to His declarations; look we to examples. II. What are the different steps by which His departure may be discovered? He withholds-- 1. The manifestatio... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the Lord had shewed me._ BABYLON WITH GOD BETTER THAN JERUSALEM WITHOUT HIM He told them of the great wickedness he had seen at Jerusalem, and the ruin that was hastening towards that city, that they might not repent of surrendering them... [ Continue Reading ]