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"...With Exactness Grinds He All” ( Jeremiah 8:8-13 )
Jeremiah says the pen of the scribes is false; he accuses them of expounding the Word of God in a lying manner, prophesying falsely. We have an exact counterpart to-day. The modern scholar pretends to be expounding the Word of God, but in reality he is writing with a lying pen, he builds his wisdom out of his own rationalism, and takes out of the law of God only what agrees with it.
“The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken”—those who hold themselves wise shall be dismally deceived in their hopes when the great calamity comes upon the sin-hardened people. The way we get mystically infidel is when we allow sentiments in our spiritual life to be insubordinate to God’s written Word, vague speculations which we refuse to pin down to God’s law. These develop a sentimental view of God —“God knows how simple our hearts are, and these calamities will never come to us.” But God’s Word goes through all those sentiments and points out directly where we went astray—there was one point where we would not obey the truth. Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel all say the same, that it is the prophet and the people together who corrupt one another.†† Paul says the same to Timothy—“For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts” (2 Timothy 4:3). It is true to our very doors to-day.
“And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people lightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace” (Jeremiah 8:11†). That is the perpetual peril at all times, relieving present pain by a temporal fictitious cure, when what is needed for an effectual cure is a surgical operation.
Chambers, O. (1999, c1936). Notes on Jeremiah (electronic ed.). London: Oswald Chambers Publication Association, Ltd.
The Complete Works of Oswald Chambers
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