I. ALL IN CHRIST ARE SPARED ONES. Spared from: 1. The condemnation due to sin. 2. The abiding tyranny of sin. 3. The crushing power of sorrow. 4. The misery of alienation from God. 5. The might of death. II. TO SUCH THIS THREEFOLD CHARGE IS ADDRESSED. 1. They are to "go away, stand not still." As Israel from Babylon that had enslaved them, so these from the sins which. God has forgiven them. "Let him that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity." Many Jews despised this charge, and stayed on in Babylon. Some not merely stayed in Babylon as Jews, but probably far more of them were "mingled with the heathen, and learned their ways." "Evil communications corrupt good manners." Even those who disobeyed only the letter of the command suffered, whilst those who disobeyed both the letter and the spirit were simply lost, cut off from the house of Israel. And they who have received Christ, if they do not break away from their old sins and from all that would hold them in bondage to such sins, will lose their religion and are in sore peril of apostatizing from Christ. Therefore let such put further and further distance between themselves and their former life, lest again they be entangled and. overcome. 2. To "remember the lord afar off." In their sin and misery God seemed afar off to Israel. "My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God" - such was their grievous lament. But they were to remember him, turn their thoughts and prayers toward him, and believingly wait his promised answer. And to the believer now "it doth not yet appear what we shall be;" we are far off from that; but we are to remember the Lord, though we be yet in condition and character so far off from him. Remember him in our meditations, prayers, purposes, and aims; wait on him, and so renew our strength. 3. "Let Jerusalem come into your mind." How blessed to be there! how she demands our earnest service! - her joys, her sanctity, her children, her employ; our place there prepared for us, and our preparation for the place. So remember her, and so be delivered from being wearied and faint in our minds. - C.
For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God. You would think, according to the teaching of some, that Christ s members kept lopping off something like the limbs of lobsters, and that new ones were constantly growing. There is nothing in Scripture to warrant such a notion as that. You remember Mr. Bunyan's parable of a child who is in a room, and a stranger comes in, and says, "Come hither, child, I will cut off thy finger." "No," says the child. "Yes, but I will; I will take off your little finger. Here is a knife, I will cut off your little finger." "No," again says the child, and begins to cry. "Oh, but," says the stranger, "that is a poor little finger that you have. I will cut it off and I will buy you a gold finger, such a brave gold finger. I will put it on your hand instead of your little finger." "Oh," says the child, "but it would not be my finger; I cannot lose my little finger." Whereupon Mr. Bunyan says, "If Christ could have better people than those He has, He would not make the change," for, saith He, "they are not My people; they are not a part of My own living self." So the Lord Jesus would not change you for a golden saint, for one much better than you axe. That new finger would not be what the Father gave him, nor what He bought with His precious blood. "Thou shalt not be forgotten of Me," means that God will never cease to love His servants.( C. H. Spurgeon.) ( C. H. Spurgeon.) People Ashchenaz, Ashkenaz, Babylonians, Jacob, Jeremiah, Maaseiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadrezzar, Neriah, Seraiah, ZedekiahPlaces Ararat, Babylon, Chaldea, Euphrates River, Jerusalem, Leb-kamai, ZionTopics Affirmation, Age-during, Almighty, Armies, Awake, Awaking, Captains, Caused, Chiefs, Commanders, Declares, Deputies, Drink, Drunk, Eternal, Forever, Governors, Hosts, Mighty, Officers, Ones, Overcome, Perpetual, Prefects, Princes, Rulers, Says, Sleep, Slept, Wake, War, Warriors, Wine, WiseOutline 1. The severe judgment of God against Babylon, in revenge of Israel59. Jeremiah delivers the book of this prophecy to Seraiah, to be cast into Euphrates, 64. in token of the perpetual sinking of Babylon Dictionary of Bible Themes Jeremiah 51:57 5327 governors Library The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-PalThe Medes and Cimmerians: Lydia--The conquest of Egypt, of Arabia, and of Elam. As we have already seen, Sennacherib reigned for eight years after his triumph; eight years of tranquillity at home, and of peace with all his neighbours abroad. If we examine the contemporary monuments or the documents of a later period, and attempt to glean from them some details concerning the close of his career, we find that there is a complete absence of any record of national movement on the part of either Elam, … G. Maspero—History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 8 'As Sodom' How those who Fear Scourges and those who Contemn them are to be Admonished. Christian Meekness Covenanting Adapted to the Moral Constitution of Man. A Discourse of the House and Forest of Lebanon Jeremiah Links Jeremiah 51:57 NIVJeremiah 51:57 NLT Jeremiah 51:57 ESV Jeremiah 51:57 NASB Jeremiah 51:57 KJV Jeremiah 51:57 Bible Apps Jeremiah 51:57 Parallel Jeremiah 51:57 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 51:57 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 51:57 French Bible Jeremiah 51:57 German Bible Jeremiah 51:57 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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