Posted on 11/28/2021 10:21:39 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy” (Proverbs 29:1).
Sometimes we do not take the Lords reproof and rebuke with the kind of seriousness that we ought. It says there, “He being often reproved hardeneth his neck.” The good part about this is usually that the Lord is real good about being longsuffering and merciful. He rebukes, rebukes, rebukes, rebukes, reproves, reproves, reproves, reproves. One day, enough is enough, right? It says there shall “suddenly be destroyed, and that (interestingly enough) without remedy”
There is three times in the word of God that “that without remedy” shows up. We sometimes take what we are and what we are supposed to be too lightly. We take it as if it is some sort of a theoretical ideal, and we get accustomed to God being longsuffering and tender and just reproving and reproving and reproving and reproving. Well, the fact of the matter is is that there is an end of all things and one day the Lord says, “Enough,” and the next step is far more serious. Right? And sometimes folks are destroyed without remedy.
“A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy” (Proverbs 6:12-15).
“Suddenly shall he be broken without remedy,” again, “without remedy.” There is one more “without remedy.”
This is the swan song of Israel, with God having dealt with him through prophets and Kings and priests for all those years and finally “they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy” (2 Chronicles 36:16).
There came a point where even in Josiah's day, it was common knowledge that Israel would fall. Josiah had led one of the greatest revivals there had ever been, or ever would be, and still in his day it was still a set thing that after he was gone, Israel was going to be destroyed because of the evil things that Manasseh had done before him.
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