INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 8
"God keeps a particular account of the messages he sends to us, because he will shortly call us to account about them." "The more we retreat from the world, & retire into our own hearts, the better frame we are in for communion with God; those that sit down to consider what they have learned shall be taught more." "A minister's house should be a church for all his neighbours." "God's servants, wherever they are & whithersoever they go, ought to carry about with them a believing regard to the glory of God & to set that always before them; & those that have seen God's power & glory in the sanctuary should desire to see them again" "The more glorious we see God to be the more odious we shall see sin to be, especially idolatry, which turns his truth into a lie, his glory into shame" "God is jealous, & the Lord revenges, Nahum 1:2." "He that doeth evil hates the light." "The sins of leaders are leading sins." "If we have forgotten the name of our God, & stretched forth our hand to a strange god, will not God search this out?" "Those are ripe indeed for ruin who have arrived at such a pitch of impudence as to lay the blame of their sins upon God himself." "An abominable thing indeed, that any should choose rather to serve an idol in tears than to serve the true God with joyfulness & gladness of heart!" "When men turn their backs upon God's institutions, & despise them, it is no marvel if they wander endlessly after their own inventions." "God will now be as deaf to their prayers as their own idols were, on whom they cried aloud, but in vain." "It is not the loud voice, but the upright heart, that God will regard." CHAPTER 9 "Those that regard not the counsels God gives them in a still small voice shall be made to hear the threatenings, to hear & tremble." "It is a matter of great comfort to all good Christians that, in the midst of the destroyers & the destructions that are abroad, there is a Mediator, a great high priest, who has an interest in heaven, & whom saints on earth have an interest in." "A work of grace in the soul is to God a mark upon the forehead, which he will acknowledge as his mark, & by which he knows those that are his." "Those who keep themselves pure in times of common iniquity God will keep safe in times of common calamity." "When God has gathered his wheat into his garner nothing remains but to burn up the chaff, Matthew 3:12." "...the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God, & hates sin most in those that are nearest to him." "Wherever sin has gone before judgment will follow after" "Sinners sink & perish under the weight of their own sins; it is their own way, which they deliberately chose rather than the way of God, & which they obstinately persisted in, in contempt of the word of God, that is recompensed on them." CHAPTER 10 "The people would not hear the oracles which God delivered to them from his holy temple, & therefore they shall thence be made to hear their doom." "Ezekiel sees the glory of God shining in the sanctuary" "The Spirit of God directs all the creatures, both upper & lower, so as to make them serve the divine purpose. Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes." "God removes by degrees from a provoking people; &, when he is ready to depart in displeasure, would return to them in mercy if they were but a repenting praying people." CHAPTER 11 "Where Satan cannot persuade men to look upon the judgment to come as a thing doubtful & uncertain, yet he gains his point by persuading them to look upon it as a thing at a distance, so that it loses its force" "The greatest kindness ministers can do to secure sinners is to preach against them, & to show them their misery & danger, though they are ever so unwilling to see them." "When sinners are flattering themselves into their own ruin, it is time to speak, & to tell them that they shall have no peace if they go on." "...there is no peace to those that have left their God. If they have by their sins driven God from his house, he will soon by his judgments drive them from theirs" "Those shall be made to know by the sword of the Lord who would not be taught by his word what a hatred he has to sin, & what a fearful thing it is for impenitent sinners to fall into his hands." "If we do not give honour to God by executing his judgments as he has commanded, he will get him honour upon us by executing his judgments as he has threatened; & thus we shall know that he is the Lord, the sovereign Lord of all, that will not be mocked." "God takes notice of, & is much displeased with, the contempt which those that are in prosperity put upon their brethren that are in affliction." "God prepares all for heaven whom he has prepared heaven for" "Their hearts shall no longer be, as they have been, dead & dry, & hard & heavy, as a stone, no longer incapable of bearing good fruit, so that the good seed is lost upon it as it was on the stony ground." "It is better to be in Babylon under the favour of God than in Jerusalem under his wrath & curse." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 791 - 812.
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September 2023
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