This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in the land of Egypt--in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis--and in the land of Pathros: Sermons
Jeremiah 44:1-14 Jeremiah 44:1-14 (vide Jeremiah 43:8-13). The condition of hardened sinners desperate. I. WHY IS IT SO? 1. Because repeated warnings have been rejected. (Vers, 4, 5.) These have been inspired and infallible. Had they believed ever so little they might have trusted implicitly what was spoken, accompanied as it was with such miraculous credentials. We, in these last times, have had the Lord himself. He has revealed the heart of the Father. (2) They were sufficiently numerous and seasonable. God "rose up early and sent them." He sent them all. No opportunity or peculiarity of individual influence was emitted. Christ is greater than all the prophets put together, and his gospel is universally declared and universally authoritative over the consciences of men. God cannot send another messenger, nor would it avail if he could. 2. Because the lessons of experience have been ignored. (Vers. 9, 10.) How terribly severe had not these been! It was scarcely possible for greater temporal punishments to be inflicted. Yet it was in the discipline of these judgments they were to have been saved. The path of transgressions, as the sinner looks back upon it, is marked by ruin and death. Yet will he not repent. 3. Their persistent disobedience is an intolerable offence to God. (Ver. 8.) God's judgments are not exhausted, but his patience may be. The history of offence and punishment will not repeat itself indefinitely. There are abysses of wrath. There is an eternal fire. Let them beware lest they be utterly consumed. II. WHAT ARE THE SIGNS THAT IT IS SO? 1. The Word of God is wholly against them, The indictment has no redeeming feature. 2. The pathos and pitifulness of God's entreaty. (Vers. 4, 7.) There is compassion in the Divine mind because of the consequences that impend. Who so able to understand the sinner's circumstances as his Father? He who can see before and after, and who can fathom the mystery of iniquity, fears for his erring child. III. WHAT ELEMENT OF HOPE, IF ANY, IS STILL LEFT FOR THEM? 1. God still pleads. Silence would mean hopelessness. Whilst his servant is authorized to speak, there may remain a way of escape. 2. The fatherly compassion his voice betrays. There are tears in the entreaty: "Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate!" It is the birth cry of an evangel; a prophecy of Jesus. Mercy may move and melt where judgment has failed. "For the love of Christ constraineth us," etc. (2 Corinthians 5:14); "But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). - M.
Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brick kiln. A London Minister. I. THEY PREACHED OF THE HISTORIC PAST.1. From the soil in which they were found. They were stones of Egypt. 2. The place where they were buried — the brick kiln — must have carried their thoughts back to the hard labour of their ancestors under the lash of the taskmasters (Exodus 9:8). 3. The burial of the stones beneath the ground might have suggested the past condition of Israel in this same land; they were buried under the oppressive tyranny of the heathen monarch and his people, and had been raised, as it were, from a grave of degradation and lifted into a new life as a free people by the mighty hand of God. II. THEY PROPHESIED OF THE FUTURE. 1. The only refuge from the displeasure of God is to be found in God Himself. 2. Unbelief in the Divine Word will not prevent the fulfilment of it. 3. The true minister of God will not be deterred by opposition from declaring the judgments, as well as the mercies, of God. (A London Minister.). People Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh, ZedekiahPlaces Babylon, Egypt, Jerusalem, Memphis, Migdol, Pathros, TahpanhesTopics Dwell, Dwelling, Dwelt, Egypt, Jeremiah, Jews, Lower, Memphis, Migdol, Noph, Pathros, Saying, Tahpanhes, Tah'panhes, UpperOutline 1. Jeremiah expresses the desolation of Judah for their idolatry11. He prophesies the destruction of those who commit idolatry in Egypt 15. The obstinacy of the Jews 20. For which Jeremiah threatens them 29. and for a sign prophesies the destruction of Egypt Dictionary of Bible Themes Jeremiah 44:1Library God's Patient Pleadings'I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.'--JER. xliv. 4. The long death-agony of the Jewish kingdom has come to an end. The frivolous levity, which fed itself on illusions and would not be sobered by facts, has been finally crushed out of the wretched people. The dreary succession of incompetent kings--now a puppet set up by Egypt, now another puppet set up by Babylon, has ended with the weak Zedekiah. The … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture Man's Misery by the Fall That Whereas the City of Jerusalem had Been Five Times Taken Formerly, this was the Second Time of Its Desolation. A Brief Account of Its History. Man's Inability to Keep the Moral Law The Mercy of God Nature of Covenanting. Original Sin Jeremiah Links Jeremiah 44:1 NIVJeremiah 44:1 NLT Jeremiah 44:1 ESV Jeremiah 44:1 NASB Jeremiah 44:1 KJV Jeremiah 44:1 Bible Apps Jeremiah 44:1 Parallel Jeremiah 44:1 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 44:1 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 44:1 French Bible Jeremiah 44:1 German Bible Jeremiah 44:1 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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