Homilist Genesis 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh… I. A WONDERFUL FACT IMPLIED. The Holy Spirit strives with man. 1. Remarkable power. Man can refuse to obey the Creator. 2. Amazing Divine condescension. 3. Astonishing human obduracy. 4. A merciful reason. Why not abandon man? Love of God. 5. The benevolent purpose. That man may forsake sin. 6. The mysterious method. II. AN ALARMING PACT STATED. 1. A calamity of awful magnitude. 2. Most melancholy. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. |