Nehemiah 9:26-29 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their backs… I. HOW JUSTLY WE MAY BE CHARGED, AS THE JEWS IN THE TEXT, WITH HAVING WROUGHT GREAT PROVOCATIONS. This will be manifest if we consider — 1. To what a prodigious height all kinds of iniquity are raised amongst us. Atheism, infidelity, blasphemy, intemperance, impurity, commercial immorality. 2. What engagements we are under to abstain from all transgressions of the laws of God. 3. That our sins have been committed against the most prevailing attempts of the Spirit of God to restrain and reclaim us from them. 4. That our sins have been committed against many and great mercies. 5. That our sins have been committed against the discipline of God's rod and those many judgments He hath sent to teach us righteousness. II. THAT WE HAVE GREAT REASON TO FEAR THAT OUR GREAT PROVOCATIONS MAY BE PUNISHED BY GOD AS THOSE OF THE JEWS WERE. Conclusion: What is the most effectual means to prevent the punishment our great provocations threaten us with? (Lilly Butler.) Parallel Verses KJV: Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. |
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