Psalms 50:21. These things hast thou done, and I kept silence;
God, in his long-suffering, bears with these sinners. "Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself." These men came at last to say, "Pooh! the prophets make too much fuss about holiness. You can serve God, and yet, after all, live as we do. So long as we give God a tithe, it matters not how we get our property. If we offer him the bulls, he will be quite content." Ah! to what do men degrade their God! Some made him of old to be like unto a bullock that hath horns and hoofs; but many men now-a-days think God to be like themselves, and that is worse.
Psalms 50:21. Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
"I will lay thy sins out before thee - parcel them out, ‘Item this’ - Item that.’ I will classify them: I will set them like a dreadful army in array before thee. I will let thee see that, though I had patience with thee, I was neither blind nor deaf, but heard and saw all that thou hast done, and noted it all." Oh! what a vista this opens up for unholy professors - for ungodly members of Christian churches!
Psalms 50:21. These things hast thou done, and I kept silence;
God, in his long-suffering, bears with these sinners. "Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself." These men came at last to say, "Pooh! the prophets make too much fuss about holiness. You can serve God, and yet, after all, live as we do. So long as we give God a tithe, it matters not how we get our property. If we offer him the bulls, he will be quite content." Ah! to what do men degrade their God! Some made him of old to be like unto a bullock that hath horns and hoofs; but many men now-a-days think God to be like themselves, and that is worse.
Psalms 50:21. Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
"I will lay thy sins out before thee - parcel them out, ‘Item this’ - Item that.’ I will classify them: I will set them like a dreadful army in array before thee. I will let thee see that, though I had patience with thee, I was neither blind nor deaf, but heard and saw all that thou hast done, and noted it all." Oh! what a vista this opens up for unholy professors - for ungodly members of Christian churches!