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False Peace
Jeremiah 6:9-17
Non Stop Pleasure
And Frivolity
Always some excursion
Never happy unless
you are being entertained
Surely any man would have peace whose heart
was as hard as stone.
What pain does a
stone feel?
What storm is
going to move the stubborn heart of a granite mountain? No difficulty in solving the
riddle of how you have peace. PEACE, PEACE, WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE. There are nobler
things for people to do than to kill time.
- It is like the ocean being tossed into a tempest in order to float
a feather or drown a fly.
Imbibing Infidel Notions
There are two sorts
of infidels:
- Those who know they never could distinguish themselves by anything
that was right; they attempt to gain glory by pretending to believe and defend a lie.
- Those who do not like the Bible
because it does not like them.
It will not let them be comfortable in
their sin.
A pillow of
thorns.
They Blaspheme
The more they brag,
blaspheme, curse, and argue; the more apparent it is they are trying to silence the groans
of an uneasy spirit.
- The Chinese hung tigers’ heads.
They believed the English would not attack.
So these men string blasphemies and impieties imagining that conscience will not attack.
PEACE, PEACE, WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE.
Careless &
Determined to Let Well Enough Alone
They command
conscience to be silent. When the minister disturbs them...
- They neglect the true peace being extended.
The farmer and the dog (Spurgeon, 7, 183).
God warns you. Your faithful conscience is doing its best
to save you.
And you try to
kill your only friend. It is not your conscience that is
guilty of the turmoil that is in your heart.
PEACE, PEACE, WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE.
Put out the enemy of sin.
Peace Through Resolutions
I will turn to God
when I retire. Apprentice...Journeyman Journeyman...Master
- All debts are still unpaid. Hearts grow harder, Sin grows stronger.
- No easier to surrender to God later.
- You are fool enough to believe that you will repent by-and-by. sop’s fable of a man crossing a river (Spurgeon: 7, 185). I
have probably missed some of you; I will sharpen my point.
Crying Peace,
Peace, When There is no Peace
Men are taught to
believe in a certain set of sentiments for salvation.
- They are not warned that it is all in vain without a real living
faith in Christ.
Believe what I tell you and you will be
saved.
This lie is
growing in popularity. The greatest damnation goes to the
self-deluded soul who believes he is a child of God, but does not escape from his life of
sin. They speak of sovereign grace while they live in sovereign lust.
If you do not hate
sin, it makes no difference what doctrine you claim to believe.
Men Whom God Has
Given Up
Hosea 4:17
I do not say there is
one like that here today. But there are those who have been given over to the damnation of
the lie because they would not receive the gospel of Christ.
- He hears a sermon which he does not heed.
- He is never troubled, never pricked. PEACE, PEACE, WHEN THERE IS NO
PEACE. Examine yourself.
- There is as sure a road to hell along the highway of morality as
there is in the swamp of vice.
Make certain that you build on nothing but
Christ. If you do, your damnation is just as sure as if you were in the lake already.
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