Jeremiah 2:19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you… I. IN THE DEALINGS OF GOD WITH GOOD MEN. 1. Neglect secret devotion, and God will refuse His blessing on other means of grace. 2. Indulge secret sin, and God will bring that sin into open light and condemnation. 3. Idolise created good, and God will take from us an idol, or make it a plague to us. 4. Act with faithlessness to others, and God will permit us to suffer from the treachery of others. 5. Undutifulness to parents punished by the defiance of our own children. 6. Indifference as to home piety returned upon us in the irreligion of those in the home. II. IN THE DEALINGS OF GOD WITH WICKED MEN. 1. Those who resent religious persuasions, and strive to stifle conviction, are deprived of godly parents and friends, and left to a fatal peace. 2. Those who repel the Gospel because of its humiliating truths, are allowed "to believe a lie," etc. 3. In death and judgment, the punishment of the sinner will reflect his sin. (Andrew Fuller.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. |
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