0497. 488. Judgment

488. Judgment

Jeremiah 25

The language in the chapter is most emphatic in its statements. Sixteen times the word “will” is found in the Revised Reading, as declaring what God will certainly do. In Jer_25:6, by way of promise, “I will do you no hurt”; and fifteen times the words “I will” and “He will,” as declaring God’s acts of judgment.

1. The Messenger of Judgment. “I will send” (Jer_25:9).

2. The Scope of Judgment. “I will destroy” (Jer_25:9).

3. The Misery of Judgment. “I will take from them the voice of mirth” (Jer_25:10).

4. The. Stroke of Judgment. “I will punish” (Jer_25:12).

5. The Desolation of Judgment. “I will make it desolate” (Jer_25:12).

6. The Certainty of Judgment. “I will bring to pass all My words which I have pronounced” (Jer_25:13).

7. The Righteousness of Judgment. “I will recompense them according to their deeds” (Jer_25:14, R.V.).

8. The Effect of Judgment. “Be mad because of the sword that I will send among them” (Jer_25:16).

9. The Crushing of Judgment. “Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send” (Jer_25:27).

10. The Awfulness of Judgment. “He will mightily roar” (Jer_25:30, R.V.).

11. The Place of Judgment. “Jehovah will roar from on high” (Jer_25:30, R.V.).

12. The Shout of Judgment. “He will give a shout” (Jer_25:30, R.V.).

13. The Universality of Judgment. “He will plead with all flesh” (Jer_25:31).

14. The Subjects of Judgment. “As for the wicked, He will give them to the sword” (Jer_25:31).

By: DR. F. E. MARSH