Homiletic Magazine Jeremiah 48:28 O you that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock… I. GOD SHOWS MUCH COMPASSION NOT ONLY TO FRIENDS BUT TO FOES. 1. It is for Moab — guilty, apostate, persecuting Moab — that God expresses all this compassionate concern. 2. The New Testament is filled with warnings, invitations, and promises, addressed to those who are farthest off from God, intermingled with signal instances of the conversion of hardened transgressors. II. GOD WOULD HAVE US FORSAKE FALSE REFUGES AND AVAIL OURSELVES OF THE TRUE. The wild doves and pigeons of the East delight in cool and inaccessible places. They build their nests in cliffs and caverns, overhanging fearful precipices, where man cannot tread. Learn the importance of shunning false confidences, and of resting our hope of salvation where alone it can be safe. God would have human weakness rely on almighty strength; human ignorance on almighty wisdom; human sinfulness on almighty mercy. The finite needs the Infinite; the sinner, the Saviour. III. CONTEMPTUOUS NEGLECT OF WARNINGS AND MERCIES AGGRAVATES FINAL CONSEQUENCES. This was the case with Moab. 1. We may not presume on God's mercy and forbearance. The longer the judgment delays, the heavier its weight of woe. 2. Despair is to be banished. The atonement is all-sufficient. 3. Delay must be avoided. God's voice is always "To-day"; Satan's. To-morrow." 4, We must not be satisfied with our own safety, but aim at leading others to flee as doves to "the Rock." (Homiletic Magazine.) Parallel Verses KJV: O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth. |
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