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Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah

Name: Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah
Author: Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910

作者：Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910
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EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE
ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH
EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE
ISAIAH
CONTENTS
THE GREAT SUIT: JEHOVAH _versus_ JUDAH (Isaiah i. 1-9; 16-20)
THE STUPIDITY OF GODLESSNESS (Isaiah i. 3)
WHAT SIN DOES TO MEN (Isaiah i. 30-31)
THE PERPETUAL PILLAR OF CLOUD AND FIRE (Isaiah iv. 5)
A PROPHET'S WOES (Isaiah v. 8-30)
VISION AND SERVICE (Isaiah vi. 1-13)
THE EMPTY THRONE FILLED (Isaiah vi. 1)
A SERAPH'S WINGS (Isaiah vi. 2)
THE MAKING OF A PROPHET (Isaiah vi. 5)
SHILOAH AND EUPHRATES (Isaiah viii. 6, 7)
THE KINGDOM AND THE KING (Isaiah ix. 2-7)
LIGHT OR FIRE? (Isaiah x. 17)
THE SUCKER FROM THE FELLED OAK (Isaiah xi. 1-10)
THE WELL-SPRING OF SALVATION (Isaiah xii. 3)
THE HARVEST OF A GODLESS LIFE (Isaiah xvii. 10, 11)
THE FEAST ON THE SACRIFICE (Isaiah xxv. 6)
THE VEIL OVER ALL NATIONS (Isaiah xxv. 7)
THE SONG OF TWO CITIES (Isaiah xxvi. 1-10)
OUR STRONG CITY (Isaiah xxvi. 1-2)
THE INHABITANT OF THE ROCK (Isaiah xxvi. 3-4)
THE GRASP THAT BRINGS PEACE (Isaiah xxvii. 5)
THE JUDGMENT OF DRUNKARDS AND MOCKERS (Isaiah xxviii. 1-13)
A CROWN OF PRIDE OR A CROWN OF GLORY (Isaiah xxviii 3-5)
MAN'S CROWN AND GOD'S (Isaiah lxii 3)
THE FOUNDATION OF GOD (Isaiah xxviii. 16)
GOD'S STRANGE WORK (Isaiah xxviii. 21)
THE HUSBANDMAN AND HIS OPERATIONS (Isaiah xxviii. 23-29)
GOD'S WAITING AND MAN'S (Isaiah xxx. 18)
THREE PICTURES OF ONE REALITY (Isaiah xxxi. 5)
THE LORD'S FURNACE (Isaiah xxxi. 9)
THE HIDING-PLACE (Isaiah xxxii. 2)
HOW TO DWELL IN THE FIRE OF GOD (Isaiah xxxiii. 14, 15; I John iv. 16)
THE FORTRESS OF THE FAITHFUL (Isaiah xxxiii. 16)
THE RIVERS OF GOD (Isaiah xxxiii. 21)
JUDGE, LAWGIVER, KING (Isaiah xxxiii. 22)
MIRACLES OF HEALING (Isaiah xxxv. 5-6)
MIRAGE OR LAKE (Isaiah xxxv. 6-7)
THE KING'S HIGHWAY (Isaiah xxxv. 8-9)
WHAT LIFE'S JOURNEY MAY BE (Isaiah xxxv. 9-10)
THE TRIUMPH OF FAITH (Isaiah xxxvii 14-21; 33-38)
WHERE TO CARRY TROUBLES (Isaiah xxxvii. 14)
GREAT VOICES FROM HEAVEN (Isaiah xl. 1-10)
O THOU THAT BRINGEST GOOD TIDINGS (Isaiah xl. 9)
UNFAILING STARS AND FAINTING MEN (Isaiah xl. 26; 29)
THE SECRET OF IMMORTAL YOUTH (Isaiah xl. 30, 31)
THE BLIND MAN'S GUIDE (Isaiah xlii. 16)
THY NAME: MY NAME (Isaiah xliii, 1; 7)
JACOB--ISRAEL--JESHURUN (Isaiah xliv. 1, 2)
FEEDING ON ASHES (Isaiah xliv. 20)
WRITING BLOTTED OUT AND MIST MELTED (Isaiah xliv. 22)
HIDDEN AND REVEALED (Isaiah xlv. 15, 19)
A RIGHTEOUSNESS NEAR AND A SWIFT SALVATION (Isaiah xlv. 12, 13)
A RIVER OF PEACE AND WAVES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (Isaiah xlviii. 18)
THE GREAT SUIT: JEHOVAH _VERSUS_ JUDAH
THE STUPIDITY OF GODLESSNESS
I. This is a common attitude of mind towards God.
II. This attitude is strange and unnatural.
III. This attitude is voluntary and criminal.
IV. This attitude is fatal.
WHAT SIN DOES TO MEN
I. Sin withers.
II. Sin makes men inflammable.
III. Sin burns up.
THE PERPETUAL PILLAR OF CLOUD AND FIRE
A PROPHET'S WOES
VISION AND SERVICE
THE EMPTY THRONE FILLED
A SERAPH'S WINGS
I. The Wings of Reverence.
II. The Wings of Humility.
III. Lastly-The Wings for Service.
THE MAKING OF A PROPHET
I. If we see _God_ we shall see our _sin_.
SHILOAH AND EUPHRATES
I. The Gentle Kingdom.
II. The Rejection of the Kingdom.
III. The Allies who are preferred to the gentle King.
IV. The Allies becoming Tyrants.
THE KINGDOM AND THE KING
LIGHT OR FIRE?
I. The Essential Character of God.
II. The Different Attitudes which Men assume to that Character.
III. The Opposite Aspects which that Character accordingly assumes.
THE SUCKER FROM THE FELLED OAK
THE WELL-SPRING OF SALVATION
THE HARVEST OF A GODLESS LIFE
I. The Sin of a Godless Life.
II. The Busy Effort and Apparent Success of a Godless Life.
III. The End of it all.
I. Where does the world's food come from?
II. Where does the unveiling that gives light to the world come from?
III. Lastly, where does the life that destroys death come from?
THE FEAST ON THE SACRIFICE
I. The General Ideas contained in this Image of a Feast.
In the image are suggested:--
III. The Feast consists of a Sacrifice.
THE VEIL OVER ALL NATIONS
I. Sin veils God from men's sight.
II. To veil God from our sight is fatal.
III. The Veil is done away in Christ.
IV. The Veil is wholly removed hereafter.
THE SONG OF TWO CITIES
OUR STRONG CITY
I. The City.
II. Now note, secondly, the defences.
III. Lastly, note the citizens.
THE INHABITANT OF THE ROCK
II. Notice, secondly, the steadfast peacefulness of trust.
IV. Lastly, note the summons to trust.
THE GRASP THAT BRINGS PEACE
I. The Hostility.
II. The entreating Love that is not turned aside by hostility.
III. The grasp which ends alienation.
IV. The peace that this grasp brings.
THE JUDGMENT OF DRUNKARDS AND MOCKERS
A CROWN OP PRIDE OR A CROWN OF GLORY
Expanding then these thoughts, we have--
I. All godless joys are but fading chaplets.
II. Godly life brings unfading joys.
III. There will be a coronation day.
MAN'S CROWN AND GOD'S
I. The Possession of God is the Coronation of Man.
II. The Coronation of Man in God is the Coronation of God in Man.
THE FOUNDATION OF GOD
I. Note, then, first, the foundation, which is Christ.
II. Note next the tried preciousness of the foundation.
III. Note, next, the process of building.
IV. So note, lastly, the quiet confidence of the builders.
GOD'S STRANGE WORK
I. The work in which God delights.
II. The Task in which He does not delight, or His Strange Work.
III. The Strange Work of Redemption.
THE HUSBANDMAN AND HIS OPERATIONS
I. All things come from one steady, divine purpose.
II. That steady purpose is man's highest good.
III. That purpose needs great variety of processes.
The parable names three operations:--
IV. All the processes end in garnering the grain.
I. The returning.
II. Confiding nearness to God brings quiet rest.
1. See how confidence in God stills and quiets the soul.
2. Notice what this rest is not.
3. Notice the duty of being thus quiet and resting.
III. Confidence and rest in God bring safety and strength.
GOD'S WAITING AND MAN'S
I. God's waiting,
II. Man's waiting.
THREE PICTURES OF ONE REALITY
II. We note the reality meant by these pictures.
THE LORD'S FURNACE
I. In the Church, God is present as a great reservoir of fervid love.
THE HIDING-PLACE
HOW TO DWELL IN THE FIRE OF GOD
I. The World's Question.
II. And now, look next at the prophet's answer.
III. Let us take the Apostle's answer.
THE FORTRESS OF THE FAITHFUL
THE RIVERS OF GOD
JUDGE, LAWGIVER, KING
I. A truth for us, in both its more specific and its more general forms.
II. A lesson hard to learn and to remember.
III. A conviction which makes strong and blessed.
MIRACLES OF HEALING
I. Christ as the restorer of the powers of knowing.
II. Christ as the Restorer of the Powers of Action.
Christianity brings the Energising of the Soul--
III. Christ as the Restorer of Powers of Utterance.
MIRAGE OR LAKE
I. Christ brings the Supernatural Communication of a New Life.
II. This new life slakes men's thirst.
III. The Communication of this New Life turns Illusions into Realities.
THE KING'S HIGHWAY
I. The pathless wandering of godless lives.
II. The highway that God casts up.
III. The travellers upon God's highway.
WHAT LIFE'S JOURNEY MAY BE
I. Who are the travellers?
Jesus conceived of Himself as giving 'His life a ransom for the many.'
II. The end of the journey.
III. The joy of the road.
IV. The perfecting of joy at last.
THE TRIUMPH OF FAITH
WHERE TO CARRY TROUBLES
I. We have here an example of what to do with troubles and difficulties.
II. We have here an example of how God answers His servants' prayers.
GREAT VOICES FROM HEAVEN
O THOU THAT BRINGEST GOOD TIDINGS
I. What Nature and History tell men about God.
II. What Revelation tells Israel about God.
UNFAILING STABS AND FAINTING MEN
Note, first--
I. That sad contrast.
Secondly, my text suggests to us--
II. Another sad contrast, melting into a blessed likeness.
Lastly, one word as to--
THE SECRET OF IMMORTAL YOUTH
THE BLIND MAN'S GUIDE
THY NAME: MY NAME
I. What does God's calling a man by his name imply?
1. Intimate knowledge.
2. Loving friendship.
Moses, 'I know thee by name, and thou hast found grace in my sight.'
3. Designation and adaptation to work.
II. What does God's calling a man by His name imply?
3. Likeness.
The Biblical meaning of 'name' is 'character manifested.'
JACOB--ISRAEL--JESHURUN
FEEDING ON ASHES
WRITING BLOTTED OUT AND MIST MELTED
HIDDEN AND REVEALED
I. After all revelation, God is hidden.
1. Nature hides while it reveals.
2. Providence hides while it reveals.
3. Even in 'grace' God is hidden while revealed.
II. Notwithstanding all obscurity, God has amply revealed Himself.
A RIGHTEOUSNESS NEAR AND A SWIFT SALVATION
1. In general terms God keeps near us, however far away we go from Him.
2. The special reference to Christ's work.
II. A divine proclamation of a divine Work which is finished without us.
III. The proclamation of an all-sufficient Gift.
A RIVER OF PEACE AND WAVES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
I. The Wonderful Thought of God here.
II. Man's opposition to God's loving purpose for us.
III. The lost good.
Contrast--'Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.'
IV. The lost good regained.
EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE
ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH
CONTENTS.
FEEDING IN THE WAYS (Isaiah xlix. 9)
THE MOUNTAIN ROAD (Isaiah xlix. 11)
THE WRITING ON GOD'S HANDS (Isaiah xlix. 16)
THE SERVANT'S WORDS TO THE WEARY (Isaiah l. 4)
THE SERVANT'S OBEDIENCE (Isaiah l. 5)
THE SERVANT'S VOLUNTARY SUFFERINGS (Isaiah l. 6)
THE SERVANT'S INFLEXIBLE RESOLVE (Isaiah l. 7)
THE SERVANT'S TRIUMPH (Isaiah l. 8, 9)
A CALL TO FAITH (Isaiah l. 10)
DYING FIRES (Isaiah l. 11)
THE AWAKENING OF ZION (Isaiah lii. 1)
A PARADOX OF SELLING AND BUYING (Isaiah lii. 3)
CLEAN CARRIERS (Isaiah lii. 11)
MARCHING ORDERS (Isaiah lii. 11, 12)
THE ARM OF THE LORD (Isaiah liii. 1)
THE SUFFERING SERVANT--I. (Isaiah liii. 2,3)
THE SUFFERING SERVANT--II. (Isaiah liii. 4-6)
THE SUFFERING SERVANT--III. (Isaiah liii. 7-9)
THE SUFFERING SERVANT--IV. (Isaiah liii. 10)
THE SUFFERING SERVANT--V. (Isaiah liii. 11)
THE SUFFERING SERVANT--VI. (Isaiah liii. 12)
THE PASSING AND THE PERMANENT (Isaiah liv. 10)
THE CALL TO THE THIRSTY (Isaiah lv. 1-13)
THE GREAT PROCLAMATION (Isaiah lv. 1)
GOD'S WAYS AND MAN'S (Isaiah lv. 8, 9)
CAN WE MAKE SURE OF TO-MORROW? (Isaiah lvi. 12)
FLIMSY GARMENTS (Isaiah lix. 6; Rev. iii. 18)
THE SUNLIT CHURCH (Isaiah lx. 1-3)
WALLS AND GATES (Isaiah lx. 18)
THE JOY-BRINGER (Isaiah lxi. 3)
THE HEAVENLY WORKERS AND THE EARTHLY WATCHERS (Isaiah lxii. 1, 6, 7)
MIGHTY TO SAVE (Isaiah lxiii. 1)
THE WINEPRESS AND ITS TREADER (Isaiah lxiii. 2, 3)
THE SYMPATHY OF GOD (Isaiah lxiii. 9)
HOW TO MEET GOD (Isaiah lxiv. 5)
THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH
GOD'S LAWSUIT (Jer. ii. 9)
STIFF-NECKED IDOLATERS AND PLIABLE CHRISTIANS (Jer. ii. 11)
FOUNTAIN AND CISTERNS (Jer. ii. 13)
FORSAKING JEHOVAH (Jer. ii. 19)
A COLLOQUY BETWEEN A PENITENT AND GOD (Jer. iii. 21, 22)
A QUESTION FOR THE BEGINNING (Jer. v. 31)
POSSESSING AND POSSESSED (Jer. x. 16, R.V.)
CALMS AND CRISES (Jer. xii. 5, R.V.)
TRIUMPHANT PRAYER (Jer. xiv. 7-9)
SIN'S WRITING AND ITS ERASURE (Jer. xvii, 1; 2 Cor. iii. 3; Col. ii. 14)
THE HEATH IN THE DESERT AND THE TREE BY THE RIVER (Jer. xvii. 6, 8)
A SOUL GAZING ON GOD (Jer. xvii. 12)
TWO LISTS OF NAMES (Jer. xvii. 13; Luke x. 20)
YOKES OF WOOD AND OF IRON (Jer. xxviii. 13)
WHAT THE STABLE CREATION TEACHES (Jer. xxxi. 36)
WHAT THE IMMENSE CREATION TEACHES (Jer. xxxi. 37)
A THREEFOLD DISEASE AND A TWOFOLD CURE (Jer. xxxiii. 8)
THE RECHABITES (Jer. xxxv. 16)
JEREMIAH'S ROLL BURNED AND REPRODUCED (Jer. xxxvi. 32)
ZEDEKIAH (Jer. xxxvii. 1)
THE WORLD'S WAGES TO A PROPHET (Jer. xxxvii. 11-21)
THE LAST AGONY (Jer. xxxix. 1-10)
EBEDMELECH THE ETHIOPIAN (Jer. xxxix. 18)
GOD'S PATIENT PLEADINGS (Jer. xliv. 4)
THE SWORD OF THE LORD (Jer. xlvii. 6, 7)
THE KINSMAN-REDEEMER (Jer. 1. 34)
FEEDING IN THE WAYS
THE MOUNTAIN ROAD
I. The Path through the mountains.
II. The Pasture on the mountains--lit. 'bare heights.'
THE WRITING ON GOD'S HANDS
THE SERVANT'S WORDS TO THE WEARY
I. The purpose of Christ's mission.
II. The training and preparation of the Messiah for His mission.
THE SERVANT'S OBEDIENCE
I. The secret of Christ's life, filial obedience.
II. The yet deeper mysteries which that perfect obedience discloses.
III. The glorious gifts which flow from that perfect obedience.
1. It gives us a living law to obey.
2. It gives us a transforming power to receive.
3. It gives us a perfect righteousness to trust to.
THE SERVANT'S VOLUNTARY SUFFERINGS
I. The sufferings of the Servant.
II. His patient submission.
III. His submission to suffering in obedience to the Father's Will.
THE SERVANT'S INFLEXIBLE RESOLVE
I. The need which Christ felt to exercise firm resistance.
II. The perfect inflexible resolve.
III. The basis of Christ's fixed resolve in filial confidence.
THE SERVANT'S TRIUMPH
Keeping up the metaphor, we mark here--
I. Messiah's lofty challenge to His accusers.
II. The Messiah's expectation of divine vindication and acquittal.
III. The Messiah's confidence of ultimate triumph.
We are 'justified' in His 'justification.'
I. Faith our light in the darkness of the world.
1. The call to faith is the true voice of all our sorrows.
2. The call to faith echoes from the voice of the Servant.
3. The substance of the call.
4. The blessed results of such faith.
II. Faith, our light in the darkness of the soul.
III. Faith our guiding light in every stage of Christian progress.
DYING FIRES
I. A sad, true picture of human life.
II. The vain attempts at light.
We may apply these thoughts to--
1. Men-made grounds of hope before God.
2. Men-made attempts to read the mysteries.
3. Men-made efforts at self-reformation.
4. Men-made attempts at alleviating sorrow.
III. The light from God.
THE AWAKENING OF ZION
The juxtaposition of these passages suggests for us--
II. The twofold explanation of these variations.
III. The beginning of all awaking is the Church's earnest cry to God.
IV. The answering call from God to Zion.
A PARADOX OF SELLING AND BUYING
I. The reality of the captivity.
II. The voluntariness of the captivity.
III. The profitlessness of the captivity.
IV. The unbought freedom.
CLEAN CARRIERS
I. The Pilgrims of this new Exodus.
II. The priests.
Proclamation. Intercession. Thus follows
III. The separation that becomes pilgrims.
IV. The purity that becomes priests.
MARCHING ORDERS
I. First, then, we have it set forth as a march of warrior priests.
II. Note the separation that befits the marching company.
THE ARM OF THE LORD
THE SUFFERING SERVANT-I
I. The Servant's lowly origin and growth.
II. The Servant's unattractive form.
III. The Servant's reception by men.
IV. The Servant's sorrow of heart.
THE SUFFERING SERVANT-II
I. The Burdened Servant.
III. The deepest ground of the Servant's sufferings.
I. The unresisting endurance of the Servant.
II. The misunderstood end of the Servant's life.
III. The Servant's Grave.
THE SUFFERING SERVANT--IV
I. The mystery of God's treatment of the sinless Servant.
2. The staggering mystery of His sinlessness and sufferings.
II. The Servant's work in His sufferings.
Now there are three points here:--
III. The work of the Servant after death.
THE SUFFERING SERVANT--V
I. The great work which the Servant carries on.
II. The preparation for that making of us righteous.
III. The condition on which He imparts righteousness.
IV. The grand sweep of the Servant's work.
V. The Servant's satisfaction.
THE SUFFERING SERVANT--VI
II. The foundation of the Servant's dominion.
THE PASSING AND THE PERMANENT
THE GREAT PROCLAMATION
I. To whom this offer is made.
II. In what this offer consists.
III. Lastly, how do we obtain the offered gifts?
GOD'S WAYS AND MAN'S
WE SURE OF TO-MORROW? A NEW YEAR'S SERMON
FLIMSY GARMENTS
I. Sin clothes no man even here.
II. The rags are all stripped off some day.
III. Christ will clothe you.
THE SUNLIT CHURCH
I. Now, as to the fact.
III. Lastly, notice here the confident promise.
WALLS AND GATES
I. Salvation is to be the city's wall.
II. Praise is to be the city's gate.
THE JOY-BRINGER
The first point I would make is that--
Let us suggest a second, that--
II. Jesus Christ transforms sorrow because He transforms the mourner.
III. Jesus gives joy after sorrow.
THE HEAVENLY WORKERS AND THE EARTHLY WATCHERS
MIGHTY TO SAVE
I. The mighty Saviour as made known in the past and present.
II. The mighty Saviour as to be manifested in the future.
III. The saving purpose of even that destructive might.
THE WINEPRESS AND ITS TREADER
I. The treading of the winepress.
II. The Treader of the Winepress.
III. Why the winepress is trodden.
THE SYMPATHY OF GOD
I. The wonderful glimpse opened here into the heart of God.
II. The mystery of the divine salvation.
HOW TO MEET GOD
THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH
GOD'S LAWSUIT
I. The reason for God's pleading.
II. The manner.
III. The purpose.
IV. The patience.
STIFF-NECKED IDOLATERS AND PLIABLE CHRISTIANS
II. That contrast carries with it a rebuke.
FOUNTAIN AND CISTERNS
I. The irksomeness of a godless life.
II. The hopelessness of a godless life.
III. The crime of a godless life.
FORSAKING JEHOVAH
I. The universal indictment.
II. The special aggravation.
III. The bitter fruit.
It drags after it manifold bitter fruits. 'The wages of sin is death.'
IV. The loving appeal.
A COLLOQUY BETWEEN A PENITENT AND GOD
II. The loving divine answer.
III. The happy response of the returning soul.
A QUESTION FOR THE BEGINNING
III. Thirdly, here is a question especially directed to you young folk.
POSSESSING AND POSSESSED
I. The mutual possession.
II. The human response by which God becomes ours and we His.
III. The blessedness of this mutual possession.
CALMS AND CRISES
I. Think of what may come to us.
III. Think of the power that will fit us for all crises.
AN IMPOSSIBILITY MADE POSSIBLE
I. The unchangeableness of character, especially of faults.
II. The great hope for individual renewal.
III. The completion in a perfectly renewed creation.
TRIUMPHANT PRAYER
SIN'S WRITING AND ITS ERASURE
I. The handwriting of sin.
II. Sin's writing may be erased, and another put in its place.
THE HEATH IN THE DESERT AND THE TREE BY THE RIVER
I. The one is in the desert, the other by the river.
II. The one can take in no real good; the other can fear no evil.
III. The one is bare, the other clothed with the beauty of foliage.
IV. Lastly, the one is sterile, the other fruitful.
A SOUL GAZING ON GOD
II. Note, further, the soul rapt in meditation and this vision of God.
TWO LISTS OF NAMES
I. The principle on which the two lists are made up.
II. The significance of the lists.
YOKES OF WOOD AND IRON
WHAT THE STABLE CREATION TEACHES
II. The use commonly made of the facts.
III. The lesson which they are meant to teach.
WHAT THE IMMENSE CREATION TEACHES
II. The effects which this immensity often produces on men.
III. The true lesson.
A THREEFOLD DISEASE AND A TWOFOLD CURE.
Now for the first of these. There is here--
I. A threefold view of the sad condition of humanity.
II. The twofold bright hope which shines through this darkness.
THE RECHABITES
I. Men's love to men condemns their lovelessness towards God.
II. Men's faith in men condemns their distrust of God.
JEREMIAH'S ROLL BURNED AND REPRODUCED
I. The love of God necessarily prophesying evil.
III. The impotent rejection and attempted destruction of the message.
IV. The neglected message made harder and heavier.
ZEDEKIAH
I. A weak character is sure to become a wicked one.
III. God's love is wonderfully patient.
IV. The long-delayed judgment falls at last.
THE WORLD'S WAGES TO A PROPHET
THE LAST AGONY
EBEDMELECH THE ETHIOPIAN
I. The identity in all ages of the bond that unites men to God.
II. The contrast of a formal and real union with God.
IV. The safety given by such uniting faith.
GOD'S PATIENT PLEADINGS
I. God's antagonism to sin.
II. The great purpose of all His pleadings.
III. God's tender and unwearied efforts.
IV. The obstinate resistance to His tender pleadings.
I. God's antagonism to sin.
II. The great purpose of the divine pleadings.
III. God's tender and unwearied efforts.
IV. The obstinate resistance to God's tender pleadings.
THE SWORD OF THE LORD
I. The shrinking from the unsheathed sword of the Lord.
II. The solemn necessity for the unsheathing of the sword.
III. The sheathing of the sword.
THE KINSMAN-REDEEMER
II. Notice the grand mysterious transference of this office to Jehovah.