5 Thus saith Yahweh; Cursed [Arur] be the man [gever] that trusteth in man [adam], and maketh flesh his arm [basar his zero'a], and whose heart departeth [lev turneth away] from Yahweh.

Duty

Ascertain from the Word your duty,‭ ‬and then go forward unflinchingly—regardless of human praise or condemnation.‭

To obey God should be the object of our lives.‭ ‬To test whether we will do this,‭ ‬is the end and aim of our fiery trial.‭ ‬The lover of the Word fixes his choice on God,‭ ‬and is cheered and gratified when his fidelity wins the commendation of those around.‭ ‬When it does not—when it incurs the reverse—he is pained,‭ ‬but not moved.‭ ‬He endures,‭ ‬having‭ "‬respect unto the recompense of reward.‭"

Such an one exhibits single-mindedness,‭ ‬reliability,‭ ‬and candour.‭ ‬He is of service to God,‭ ‬and is a blessing to man.‭ ‬It is this character that will successfully stand the probationary testing.

---A‭TJ

‭The Christadelphian, Mar 1887. p104 ...

9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

An evil heart is the natural inheritance and life-long companion of every one. "The heart of man," says Jeremiah,

"is desperately wicked and deceitful above all things" (17:9).

How few have the courage to face this Bible truth! Most people rob the passage of its value by the introduction of unnecessary and unwarrantable qualifications. The heart of man is radically bad—incomparably subtle. It needs no spurring to keep it up to its ungodly work. It easily finds excuses for wrong doing, and is not slow to quote and misapply Scripture in support of the same. Let the wise note their enemy and take heed.

By the power of the word the evil heart of man can be held in check and controlled. Paul did this, though he occasionally failed (Rom. 7:19–20). The apostle's faithful attitude is eloquently set forth in his letter to the Corinthians,

"I buffet my body and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected." (R.V.)

The man who permits his evil heart to govern him (and it will govern him apart from an agonising tussle), instead of him governing his heart, will most assuredly reap the fruit of his doing.

Bro AT Jannaway

The Christadelphian, Sept 1889

16 As for me, I have not hastened [away] from being a pastor [ro'eh (shepherd)] to follow Thee: neither have I desired [did I lust for the] the woeful day; Thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.

...they were organised into a nation, on the basis of a law direct from God. They had been settled in the land for nearly a thousand years when Jeremiah appeared in their midst...

The surrounding circumstances show us a timid man who has no pleasure in messages of evil...He was almost scared into silence by the public scorn.

"The Word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me daily, therefore I said, I will not speak any more in His name, but His Word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing and I could not stay (17; 20:8-9).

He was sick of life through the bitterness of his work:

"Woe is me, my mother, that thou has borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth. I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury. Yet every one of them doth curse me" (15:10),

"Cursed be the day wherein I was born . . . wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?" (20:14-18)

He was finally overwhelmed with sorrow at the public calamities:

"Oh, that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people" (9:1; and all Lamentations).

Bro Roberts - Causing Men to Hear His Word

27 But if ye will not hearken [pay heed] unto Me to hallow the sabbath [Shabbos] day, and not to bear a burden [massa], even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem [She'arim of Yerushalayim] on the sabbath [Shabbos] day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates [ eish in the she'arim] thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem [fortresses of Yerushalayim], and it shall not be quenched.

'...the fire went out when its work was done; and Jerusalem was rebuilt, and continued for several hundred years, until it was again consumed in another unquenchable fire, which has also in like manner ceased to burn for ages past (Mark ix. 43,44).

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