Ezekiel 2:8-10 But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; Be not you rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth… I. SORROW IS MIGHTILY PRESENT IN OUR WORLD. Here is a book — 1. The product of many lands and ages, expressing in manifold forms the sorrows of those lands and ages. 2. Intended for all lands and times, speaking in the tones of sorrow constantly, and yet expecting to be understood, anticipating that to none will sorrow be a foreign language.This reflection should — 1. Stir our thought. Sorrow is meant to startle, to arouse, to prompt the questions, "How? Why? What?" 2. Cultivate our soberness, "Rejoice with trembling." 3. Quicken our sympathies. We cannot, if we rightly know this book, be self-contained. II. Sorrow is present in the world BECAUSE OF SIZE. 1. Sorrow is here as the result of sin. 2. Sorrow is the penalty for sin. This rises in individual cases, to the clearness of a demonstration. 3. Sorrow is one means of purification from sin. (U. R. Thomas.). Parallel Verses KJV: But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee. |
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