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(4) God may use a series of instru mentalities in His service, but He is sure of success. (5) We need some bold, brave Baruchs today to tell the people the truth. ( 6 ) Men may bind the prophet and burn the Book, but God re-writes it and restores it. (7) The written Word is the record of God’s revelation. ( 8 ) God has His days of doom. One was announced for the antediluvians; one was set for Sodom; one was this judgment of Jerusalem; one was billed for Babylon; one will be the time of tribulation; and one is to be world' wide— the judgment o f the Great White Throne. v. 2. Take thee a roll of a book. Jere miah is commanded to commit all the words Jehovah had spoken to him to writing. It was for the purpose that the people might COMMENTS FROM hear of all the MANY SOURCES evil a n d that Keith L. Brooks they, might yet consider it and turn to the Lord to be forgiven. How gracious and merciful He is. He then dictated all the words to Baruch who wrote them down. But the critic asks, “How could Jeremiah remember all He had spoken?” The .same Spirit who had communicated the messages to him originally recommunicated them to him. — Gaebelein. Spoken against Israel. The love of God necessarily prophesies evil. The prophets of the ,01d Testa ment were all prophets of evil. They were watchmen,* seeing the sword and giving warning. No one ever spoke more plainly of the penalties of sin than did Christ. The authoritative revela tion of the consequences of wrong doing is an integral part of the Gospel. It is needful to have set forth the conse quences of sin in view of the sophistries buzzing around hs and nestling in our own hearts, of the deceitfulness of sin, of siren voices whispering, “ Ye shall not surely die.”—Maclaren. v. 3. May be they will hear. The conversion of sinners from their evil courses is that which ministers should aim at in preaching, and people hear the
the Bible, but when It comes down it always lights on its feet and runs faster than ever through the world. They overthrew the Bible a century ago In Voltaire’s time— entirely demolished the whole thing. “ In less than a hun dred years” said Voltaire, “ Christianity will have been swept from existence and will have passed into history.” Infidel ity ran riot through France, redhanded and impious. A century has passed away. Voltaire has “ passed into his tory” (and not very respectable his tory either) but his old printing press, it is said, has since been used to print the Word of God; and the very house where he lived is packed with Bibles, a depot for the Geneva Bible Society. Thomas Paine “ demolished” 1 the Bible and finished it off finally. But after he had done so, he crawled des pairingly into a drunkard’s grave in 1809. Poor little puny “ pocket-knife” critics have always played their little gain-saying game with God’s holy Word. But more copies of the Bible are in the world today than ever before. In nearly four hundred different dia lects, people are reading Jeremiah’s prophecies, which have been fulfilled to the letter. Men have derided it, diluted it, de famed it, denied it, destroyed it; but the Lamp glows with brighter light than ever before. The Bible is pass ing through the throes of a persecution today from professors and preachers, but these devil-deluded men will go their way, as did King Jehoiakim, and be forgotten. PRACTICAL POINTS (1) The Living Word sets His seal to the written Word— they stand for ever together. (2) God’s prophecies will be perpet uated after the world passes away. (3) A preacher of the truth must ring true to the prophetic Word.
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