Ecclesiastes 11:9-10 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart… I. THE JUDGMENT TO COME IS CERTAIN, AND CANNOT BE AVOIDED. The very heathens had some notices of it; and the consciences of mankind in general forespeak it (Psalm 73.). And the scriptures of truth clearly and fully confirm the certainty of the future judgment. II. THE JUDGMENT TO COME IS A JUST, STRICT, AND IMPARTIAL JUDGMENT. III. THE CONSEQUENCES OF THAT JUDGMENT ARE MOST IMPORTANT AND ETERNAL. They are either life, or death; unutterable joy and blessedness, and that not for a year, an age, or but a few ages, but for ever and ever. IV. THIS AWFUL JUDGMENT WILL QUICKLY COME. You may put the evil day far from your thoughts, or look upon it as at a vast distance; but it wilt quickly overtake you, and may come upon you before you are aware. There will then be an eternal entire end of all your sinful pleasing vanities; but not an end, happy would it be for you if there were, of your bitter remembrances of them; of your stinging reflections upon them, and of your overwhelming sufferings for them; these will stick close by you, and abide for ever with you. (J. Guyse, D. D.). Parallel Verses KJV: Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. |
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