Psalms 50:17. Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
As if they were worthless things to be thrown away - as if they were obnoxious things to be thrown behind thy back where thou couldest not see them. "Dost thou talk about worshipping me, whilst thou art neglecting my words?" Now it is a very solemn thing when a man boasts about the covenant, or about the doctrines of grace, or about outward ceremonies, and yet there are parts of God’s Word that he neglects - there are portions of God’s will that he dares not look in the face. If ever I meet a text that I am afraid of, I begin to be afraid off myself; and if I feel any tendency to take away from a text any of its swooping charges or its strong demands, I feel that surely I must have quarreled, with this text, because it has quarreled with me. How can we think we are offering to God acceptable sacrifice when any of his words are cast behind our backs?
Psalms 50:17. Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
As if they were worthless things to be thrown away - as if they were obnoxious things to be thrown behind thy back where thou couldest not see them. "Dost thou talk about worshipping me, whilst thou art neglecting my words?" Now it is a very solemn thing when a man boasts about the covenant, or about the doctrines of grace, or about outward ceremonies, and yet there are parts of God’s Word that he neglects - there are portions of God’s will that he dares not look in the face. If ever I meet a text that I am afraid of, I begin to be afraid off myself; and if I feel any tendency to take away from a text any of its swooping charges or its strong demands, I feel that surely I must have quarreled, with this text, because it has quarreled with me. How can we think we are offering to God acceptable sacrifice when any of his words are cast behind our backs?