The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant. Sermons
I. SIN COMES FIRST. God always begins with Eden. The Eden of bright happy youth in every man's life. There is no suffering where there is no sin. Thorns and briers come when man has acted in willfulness. Suffering has no mission save as the corrective of sin and sin's consequences. Our first parents disobey, and then suffering comes. Man follows the "devices and desires of his own heart," and then the corrective Divine judgments come. And suffering has always this justification, that sin has come first. Illustrate in the case of King Saul. II. SIN MAY HAVE A LONG TETHER. This often creates confusion in men's minds. They think the sin cannot be evil because the punishment is so long delayed. So the uncleanness of cities goes on for years, and seems to be no serious evil; but presently the plague comes and sweeps its thousands away. Israel presumed on the holding over of its national judgments, but presently overwhelming destruction came. We can often sin on for years with apparent impunity, never with real impunity. Storms are gathering, though they wait their time for bursting. III. SUFFERING KEEPS SIN COMPANY ON ITS WAY. It is always present; always ready to give signs of its presence; always making monitions. It is held back only in the long-suffering of God's mercy, the "goodness of God thus leading men to repentance." IV. SUFFERING PLAINLY STAMPS THE EVIL OF SIN IN THE END. AS in the case of the drunkard, the sensualist, the dishonest. You can tell the value of a thing by its wage, and the "wages of sin is death." You can estimate a thing by its issues, and "sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death." This lesson the history of individuals and of nations, ancient and modern, teaches, but teaches in vain to the sons of men. We say, "Ah, yes! It may be true of sin, but it is not true of our sin." - R.T.
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof. The inhabitants of the earth pollute it by their sins: the children of Israel defiled God's land by filling His inheritance with the carcasses of their abominable things, with their idolatries, with their wicked inventions and corrupt ways.(R. Macculloch.) (R. Macculloch.) (G. A. Smith, D. D.) The covenant is that with Noah, and the law that against bloodshed (Genesis 9:5, 6).(A. B. Davidson, LL. D.) People IsaiahPlaces Jerusalem, Mount Zion, TyreTopics Age-during, Agreement, Broke, Broken, Changed, Covenant, Defiled, Disobeyed, Eternal, Everlasting, Inhabitants, Kept, Laws, Lies, Orders, Ordinance, Polluted, Statute, Statutes, Thereof, Transgressed, Unclean, Violated, VoidOutline 1. The doleful judgments of God upon the land13. A remnant shall joyfully praise him 16. God in his judgments shall advance his kingdom Dictionary of Bible Themes Isaiah 24:5 1140 God, the eternal Library June the Twenty-Fifth Desolations Wrought by Sin"The Lord hath spoken this word." --ISAIAH xxiv. 1-12. "The Lord hath spoken this word," and it is a word of judgment. It unveils some of the terrible issues of sin. See the effects of sin upon the spirit of man. "The merry-hearted do sigh." Life loses its wings and its song. The buoyancy and the optimism die out of the soul. The days move with heavy feet, and duty becomes very stale and unwelcome. If only our ears were keen enough we should hear many a place of hollow laughter moaning with … John Henry Jowett—My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year The Knowledge of God and of Ourselves Mutually Connected. --Nature of the Connection. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, A Clearing-Up Storm in the Realm Isaiah Links Isaiah 24:5 NIVIsaiah 24:5 NLT Isaiah 24:5 ESV Isaiah 24:5 NASB Isaiah 24:5 KJV Isaiah 24:5 Bible Apps Isaiah 24:5 Parallel Isaiah 24:5 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 24:5 Chinese Bible Isaiah 24:5 French Bible Isaiah 24:5 German Bible Isaiah 24:5 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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