Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. "To Shechem were all Israel come to make him king." Jeremiah 10:1-25 KJV. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. He decrees the issue of all things, and carries them on to their accomplishment by his providence; I, "If we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us" (1 John 5:14). This holds true of very much of the …Arthur W. Pink—The Sovereignty of God, JeremiahThe interest of the book of Jeremiah is unique. God is unchangeable in his essence, and he-is unchangeable in his decrees; his counsel shall stand. The life and being of many things consists in union,--separate them, and they remain not the same, or they lose their virtue. If thou be called to the government of a family, thou must not hold it sufficient to serve God and live uprightly in thy own person, unless thou cause all under thy charge to do the same with thee. New King James Version. 1 Kings 11:43. There are some people, who are very much like. Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. It will not be amiss to speak of this fulness of Christ …John Brown (of Wamphray)—Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life, Meditations for Household Piety. Darby Bible Translation. We ought daily to renew our vows, and to kindle our hearts to zeal, as if each day were the first day of our conversion, and to say, "Help me, O God, in my good resolutions, "Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead." Lyman Beecher, who attributed his conversion to him, says: "He was of noble form, with a noble head and body, and had one of the sweetest smiles that ever you saw. I have already spoken something concerning the decrees of God under the attribute of his immutability. It will not be amiss to speak of this fulness of Christ, 1. The life and being of many things consists in union,--separate them, and they remain not the same, or they lose their virtue. King James Version. It is much more thus in Christianity, the power and life of it consists in the union of these things that God hath conjoined, so that if any man pretend to …Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. On the one hand, it is our most reliable and elaborate source for the long period of history which it covers; on the other, it presents us with prophecy in its most intensely human phase, manifesting itself through a strangely attractive personality that was subject to like doubts and passions with ourselves. King James Bible. Hugh Binning, The CreationQ-7: WHAT ARE THE DECREES OF GOD? The well-nigh universal tendency now, is to magnify man and dishonour and degrade God. Among those present was Jeroboam the son of Nebat --the same Jeroboam who during Solomon's reign had been known as "a mighty man of valor," and to whom the, We come now to speak more particularly to the words; and, first, Of his being a way. "We come now to speak more particularly to the words; and, first, Of his being a way. The life of a Christian ought to be adorned with all virtues, that he may be inwardly what he outwardly appeareth unto men. The prophet speaks of a fact that was well known to him. At his call, in 626 B.C., he was young and inexperienced, i. A: The decrees of God are his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he has foreordained whatsoever shall come to pass. Lyman Beecher, who attributed his conversion to him, says: "He was of noble form, with a noble head and body, and had one of the sweetest smiles that ever you saw. For the performance of this duty God was so well pleased with Abraham, that he would not hide from him his counsel: "For," saith God, "I know him that he will command his sons and his household after him that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon, Rom. viii. If thou be called to the government of a family, thou must not hold it sufficient to serve God and live uprightly in thy own person, unless thou cause all under thy charge to do the same with thee. At his call, in 626 B.C., he was young and inexperienced, i. 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KJV: King James Version Our design being to point at the way of use-making of Christ in all our necessities, straits, and difficulties which are in our way to heaven; and particularly to point out the way how believers should make use of Christ in all their particular exigencies; and so live by faith in him, walk in him, grow up in him, advance and march forward toward glory in him. God warns, "Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, for the Gentiles are dismayed at them" (Jeremiah 10:2). For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." God is unchangeable in his essence, and he-is unchangeable in his decrees; his counsel shall stand. 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