In the ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Sermons
I. THE SIN OF THE CITY. As described in this passage, the errors of Jerusalem may be classified under three headings. 1. Lies. By which we must understand the corruption, the deceits and frauds, the political insincerity, which had eaten away the very heart of the citizens. 2. Lewdness. Or the prevalence of sensual sins and of carnal luxury, opposed to that purity and simplicity of domestic life in which the moral health of a nation ever consists. 3. Blood-guiltiness. Or violence and murder, which at this time were rife in Jerusalem, each man seeking his own interests, even at the expense of the life of his neighbors. These three classes of iniquity are chosen by the prophet as peculiarly heinous and obtrusive, not as exhausting, but simply as exemplifying, the city's sinfulness. II. THE JUDGMENT OF THE CITY. As the flesh and bones are placed in the cauldron, and boiled and seethed by the fire being applied beneath, so the inhabitants of Jerusalem are enclosed within the walls, the besieging army surrounds them, and the citizens are abandoned to all the privations and fears and sufferings, and finally to the destruction, incident to so miserable a condition. The instrument of chastisement is appointed to be the nation into whose idolatries Judah had been seduced, the nation whose protection might for a time have availed to avert further evils, had not the catastrophe been hastened by the treachery and rebellion of prince and people. The Divine Judge never lacks instruments for the carrying out of his own purposes. "Heap on wood; kindle the fire!" III. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY. Previous punishment has been of the nature of chastisement, of correction; this is of the nature of consuming. All the calamities which have come upon Jerusalem have failed to produce true repentance and radical reformation; it remains now to execute the threats and to complete the ruin foretold. The language coming from the Almighty Ruler, who had taken Jerusalem under his especial patronage and care, is frightful indeed. "I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord God." It is evident that the purpose of God is this - that the era of rebellion shall come to an end, that there must be a break in the continuity of the national life, that a future revival must be a new beginning unaffected for evil by the habits and traditions of the past. To this end the people and all their ways and practices, all their rebellions and idolatries, all their oppressions and immoralities, must first be cast into the cauldron of judgment, and many must be consumed and destroyed. - T.
Set on a pot. I. THE SINS OF ANY CITY ARE AN OFFENCE TO GOD.1. Seen by Him. The whole city in its greed for gain, its intemperance, its hollowness, its lust. 2. Seen by Him with anger. He is a Moral Governor, and has the moral nature that breaks into the sunlight of a smile on goodness, and gathers into the thunder cloud of a frown upon wickedness. II. THE SINS OF ANY CITY WILL ENSURE ITS DOOM. 1. History illustrates this. The cities of the plain, the dynasties of the old world. 2. Prophecy predicts this. 3. The law of causation involves this. The disease of sin naturally works the death of destruction. III. THE SINS OF ANY CITY CONCERN EVERY INDIVIDUAL INHABITANT. 1. They bring sorrow on all. 2. They give a mission to all. Hence learn — (1) (2) (Urijah R. Thomas.) A London Minister. 1. Those who profess a true religion and possess a bad character defile their creed by their character. The youth who belongs to an honourable family and lives a vicious life brings the very name of his family into ill-repute. The man who calls himself a Christian, and lives an un-Christlike life, defiles the name he bears.2. The possession of a correct creed will not preserve a nation or an individual from moral degeneration unless it has its outcome in a life in accordance with it. The child who has a Bible given to it by his father may treasure the book carefully and boast of his possession. But the mere holding of the book will not save him from going down in the scale of morality. To do this he must translate the law of God into life, and thus create a new thing in the earth — a holy character which is all his own, and which he would not inherit from his parent. 3. There are higher claims than those springing from human relationships. The man who descends into the depths of a coal mine to rescue another who is perishing, while his wife stands at the pit's mouth, beseeching him not to venture his life, recognises this law. So does the citizen soldier who leaves his home and family to fight for the oppressed, and the doctor who from choice follows the army on campaign to relieve the sufferings of the wounded. (A London Minister.) People EzekielPlaces Babylon, Jerusalem, SamariaTopics Month, Ninth, Saying, TenthOutline 1. Under the parable of a boiling pot6. is shown the irrevocable destruction of Jerusalem 15. By the sign of Ezekiel not mourning for the death of his wife 19. is shown the calamity of the Jews to be beyond all sorrow Dictionary of Bible Themes Ezekiel 24:1-13Library Divine Sovereignty. In this discussion I shall endeavor to show, I. What is not intended by the term "sovereignty" when applied to God. It is not intended, at least by me, that God, in any instance, wills or acts arbitrarily, or without good reasons; reasons so good and so weighty, that he could in no case act otherwise than he does, without violating the law of his own intelligence and conscience, and consequently without sin. Any view of divine sovereignty that implies arbitrariness on the part of the divine will, … Charles Grandison Finney—Systematic Theology The Jews Make all Ready for the War; and Simon, the Son of Gioras, Falls to Plundering. That the Ruler Should not Set his Heart on Pleasing Men, and yet Should Give Heed to what Ought to Please Them. The End How those who Fear Scourges and those who Contemn them are to be Admonished. How Christ is the Way in General, "I am the Way. " The Seventh Commandment Ezekiel Links Ezekiel 24:1 NIVEzekiel 24:1 NLT Ezekiel 24:1 ESV Ezekiel 24:1 NASB Ezekiel 24:1 KJV Ezekiel 24:1 Bible Apps Ezekiel 24:1 Parallel Ezekiel 24:1 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 24:1 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 24:1 French Bible Ezekiel 24:1 German Bible Ezekiel 24:1 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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