Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you? I. WHAT ARE VAIN THOUGHTS? 1. Unprofitable imaginations. 2. Unscriptural opinions. 3. Unholy desires. 4. Unseasonable ideas. II. THE SOLEMN INQUIRY. "How long?" 1. Shall it be till some temporal judgment be sent to awaken you out of your carnal security? 2. Till habit rivets these vain thoughts, and makes repentance and conversion harder than ever? 3. Till the grieved Saviour forsakes thee, and the resisted Spirit ceases to strive with thee? 4. Till the sentence goes forth, cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground? (J. Jowett, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? |
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