The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently. Sermons
I. THE SUBJECT OF THE SONGS. "Glory to the righteous." How could this otherwise end, than in glory to God? For he is the righteous God, and there is no word by which the Psalms oftener describe him. Thus in praising the righteous we are led onward to praise the righteous God, as the God who inspires righteousness in the hearts of others. Thus we read that "in every nation he that worketh righteousness is accepted of God." No word reaches deeper. We may sing songs to the valiant, and the heroic, and the patriotic, and the brave; but righteousness speaks, not only of courage, but of conscience too. II. THE DISTANCE FROM WHICH THEY COME. "From the uttermost parts of the earth." Prophecy of the time when all nations shall call Christ blessed, and when his praise shall be heard from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof. We have this sound from the distant places, because in the end all true lovers of righteousness will hail Christ, when he is revealed to them, as containing all the fullness of God. III. THE GLORY OF WHICH THEY BREATHE. There are divers kinds of glory. But God's glory is the glory of the cross! There is an empty glory of self-righteousness, but that is not the glory of the righteous. Far from it. The glory of strength is to help the weak. The glory of wisdom is to enlighten the, ignorant. The glory of righteousness is to shape into order that which is wrong or wrung," from which idea of being twisted and bent from the straight course the word "wrung" comes. Yes. Glory to the righteous! For they are the salt of the earth, the safety of the nation. The Lord our Righteousness is revealed in Christ, whose holy life was not for our admiration only, or for our honor and worship, but was "lived" for us and "laid down" for us, that we might be filled with his strength, and become holy as God is holy. - W.M.S.
The foundations of the earth do shake. (preached in 1756): — The works of Creation and Providence were undoubtedly intended for the notice and contemplation of mankind, especially when God "comes out of His place," that is, departs from the usual and stated course of His providence to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquities; then it becomes us to observe the operation of His hands with fear and reverence. To this the Psalmist repeatedly calls us: "Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations He hath made in the earth." "Come, and see the works of God; He is terrible in His doing toward the children of men." This world is a state of discipline for another; therefore chastisements of various kinds and degrees are to be enumerated among the ordinary works of Providence — pain, sickness, losses, bereavements, disappointments. But when these are found too weak and ineffectual for their reformation; or when, from their being so frequent and common, men begin to think them things of course, and not to acknowledge the Divine hand in them; then the universal Ruler uses such signal and extraordinary executioners of His vengeance, as cannot but rouse a slumbering world, and render it sensible of His agency. These extraordinary ministers of His vengeance are generally these four: the Famine, Sword, Pestilence, and Earthquakes.I. Let the majestic and terrible phenomenon of earthquakes put you in mind of THE MAJESTY AND POWER OF GOD AND THE DREADFULNESS OF HIS DISPLEASURE. II. This desolating judgment may justly lead you to reflect upon THE SINFULNESS OF OUR WORLD. III. This melancholy event may carry your minds gratefully to reflect upon THE PECULIAR KINDNESS OF HEAVEN towards our country, in that it was not involved in the same destruction. IV. That which I would particularly suggest to your thoughts from the devastations of the late earthquake, is THE LAST UNIVERSAL DESTRUCTION OF OUR WORLD AT THE FINAL JUDGMENT. Of this, an earthquake is both a confirmation to human reason, and a lively representation (S. Davies, M. A.) (Sir E. Strachey, Bart.). People IsaiahPlaces Jerusalem, Mount Zion, TyreTopics Apart, Asunder, Broken, Clean, Completely, Crumbled, Dissolved, Entirely, Exceedingly, Moved, Parted, Pieces, Rent, Shaken, Split, Thoroughly, Torn, Tottereth, Trembleth, Utterly, ViolentlyOutline 1. The doleful judgments of God upon the land13. A remnant shall joyfully praise him 16. God in his judgments shall advance his kingdom Dictionary of Bible Themes Isaiah 24:17-21Library June the Twenty-Fifth Desolations Wrought by Sin"The Lord hath spoken this word." --ISAIAH xxiv. 1-12. "The Lord hath spoken this word," and it is a word of judgment. It unveils some of the terrible issues of sin. See the effects of sin upon the spirit of man. "The merry-hearted do sigh." Life loses its wings and its song. The buoyancy and the optimism die out of the soul. The days move with heavy feet, and duty becomes very stale and unwelcome. If only our ears were keen enough we should hear many a place of hollow laughter moaning with … John Henry Jowett—My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year The Knowledge of God and of Ourselves Mutually Connected. --Nature of the Connection. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, A Clearing-Up Storm in the Realm Isaiah Links Isaiah 24:19 NIVIsaiah 24:19 NLT Isaiah 24:19 ESV Isaiah 24:19 NASB Isaiah 24:19 KJV Isaiah 24:19 Bible Apps Isaiah 24:19 Parallel Isaiah 24:19 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 24:19 Chinese Bible Isaiah 24:19 French Bible Isaiah 24:19 German Bible Isaiah 24:19 Commentaries Bible Hub |