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ast 8 02 2026 posted on august 2 2026 by roland ledoux a common mistake and lame excuse 3 alexander maclaren 1826 1910 son of man look the house of israel is saying the vision that he sees is for many days from now and he prophesies of times far off therefore say to them thus says the lord god none of my words will be postponed any more but the word which i speak will be done says the lord god ezekiel 12 27 28 so then with the previous lesson in mind my text gives a very good reason for prizing and attending to the prophecy if it is true that god speaking through the facts of christ s death and resurrection and ascension has given to us the sure and certain hope of immortality and has declared to us plainly the conditions upon which that immortality may be ours and the woeful loss and eclipse into the shadow of which we shall stumble darkly if it is not ours then surely that is a reason for prizing and laying to heart and living by the revelation so mercifully made people do not usually kick over their telescopes and neglect to look through them because they are so powerful that they show them the craters in the moon and turn faint specks into blazing suns people do not usually neglect a word of warning or guidance in reference to the ordering of their earthly lives because it is so comprehensive and covers so large a ground and is so certain and absolutely true surely there can be no greater sign of divine loving kindness of a savior s tenderness and care for us than that he should come to each of us as he does come and say to each of us thou art to live for ever and if thou wilt take me for thy light thou shalt live for ever blessed calm and pure we then listen and say he prophesies of times that are far off oh is that not rather a reason for coming very close to and for grappling to our hearts and living always by the power of that great revelation surely to announce the consequences of evil and to announce them so long beforehand that there is plenty of time to avoid them and to falsify the prediction is the token of love now i wish to lay it on the hearts of you people who call yourselves christians and who are so in some imperfect degree whether we do at all adequately regard remember and live by this great mercy of god that he should have prophesied to us of the times far off perhaps i am wrong but i cannot help feeling that for this generation the glories of the future rest with god have been somewhat paled and the terrors of the future unrest away from god have been somewhat lightened i hope i am wrong but i do not think that the modern average christian thinks as much about heaven as his father did i also believe that his religion has lost something of its buoyancy of its power of its restraining and stimulating energy because from a variety of reasons the bias of this generation is rather to dwell upon and to realize the present social blessings of christianity than to project itself into that august future the reaction may be good i have no doubt it was needed but i think it has gone rather too far yet i would beseech christian men and women to try and deserve more the sarcasm that is flung at us that we live for another world would god it were true truer than it is we should see better work done in this world if it were so i say that he prophesies of times that are far off is a good reason for prizing and obeying the prophet to be continued alexander maclaren a common mistake and lame excuse in the beatitudes and other sermons public domain adapted and modified in some places to modern english usage unless otherwise noted scripture updated with the new king james version nkjv 1982 by thomas nelson used by permission all rights reserved posted in great sermons from the past tagged alexander maclaren bible christian christian sermons christianity church classic preaching classic sermons comfort encouragement faith god heavenly father holiness holy spirit inspiration instruction jesus christ life lessons lord reformed religion righteousness salvation scriptures sermons spiritual principles spirituality teaching truth word of god worship leave a comment prayer praise 8 02 2026 posted on august 2 2026 by roland ledoux robert hawker piercing heaven puritan s prayers is it not so much better that the people of jesus are what they are that they may be better suited for your glory and that their wants may give an opportunity for grace almighty sovereign if i were always poor needy or feeling my nothingness it would motivate me to come to you every day s necessities would offer a fresh chance to crown you lord of all in a day of grace until i come to crown you with the whole church the everlasting lord of all in heaven to the glory of god the father almighty father let my poor soul ever praise you love you obey you and adore you i praise you that you have fulfilled this covenant promise to your dear son and you have indeed subdued the natural stubbornness of my nature and made me willing to be saved your way and now blessed lord i want to bend the knee of my heart to jesus and every day every hour ascribe the whole of my salvation to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb that was slain forever blessed jesus what is it now but your favor that secures me in your love and gives me inexpressible mercy pardon and peace now and everlasting glory hereafter is not your favor better than life is it not more precious than rubies can there be anything better truly lord in you and your favor i have life for you are both my light and my life my heart trusts in you remember me then lord with the favor that you give your people visit me with your salvation amen posted in prayer and praise tagged believing bible body of christ brothers and sisters christian christianity church comfort confession direction faith god guidance heavenly father holiness holy spirit intercession jesus christ lord needs neighbors piercing heaven puritan s prayers praise prayer preparation promises provision redemption robert hawker salvation service sincerity sovereign lord spiritual spirituality thanksgiving truth unity wisdom word of god worship leave a comment great sermons from the past 8 01 2026 posted on august 1 2026 by roland ledoux a common mistake and lame excuse 2 alexander maclaren 1826 1910 son of man look the house of israel is saying the vision that he sees is for many days from now and he prophesies of times far off therefore say to them thus says the lord god none of my words will be postponed any more but the word which i speak will be done says the lord god ezekiel 12 27 28 from last lesson it is the great glory of christianity that it shifts the center of gravity so to speak from this poor transient contemptible present and sets it away out yonder in an august and infinite future there is no more mist other faiths even when they have risen to the height of some contemplation of a future have always seen it wrapped in nebulous clouds of possibilities but christianity sets it clear definite solid as certain as yesterday as certain as to day it not only gives us the knowledge and the certitude of the times that are afar off and that are not times but eternities but it gives us as the all important element in that future that its ruling characteristic is retribution it brings life and immortality to light and just because it does it brings the dark orb which like some of the double stars in the heavens is knit to the radiant sphere by a necessary band it brings to light with life and immortality death and woe it is true he prophesies of times far off and it is the glory of the gospel of christ s revelation and of the religion that is based thereon that its center is beyond the grave and that its eye is so often turned to the clearly discerned facts that lie there but is that all that we have to say about christianity many representations of it i am free to confess from pulpits and books and elsewhere do talk as if that was all as if it was a magnificent thing to have when you came to die as the play has it i said to him that i hoped there was no need that he should think about god yet because he was not going to die but i urge you to remember dear brethren that all that prophesying of times that are far off has the closest bearing upon this transient throbbing moment because for one thing one solemn part of the christian revelation about the future is that time is the parent of eternity and that in like manner as in our earthly course the child is father of the man so the man as he has made himself is the author of himself as he will be through the infinite spaces that lie beyond the grave therefore when a christian preacher prophesies of times that are afar off he is prophesying of present time between which and the most distant eternity there is an iron nexus a band which cannot be broken nor is that all not only is the truth in my text but a half truth if it is supposed that the main business of the gospel is to talk to us about heaven and hell and not about the earth on which we secure and procure the one or the other but also it is a half truth because large and transcendent eternal in their duration and blessed beyond all thought in their sweetness as are the possibilities the certainties that are opened by the risen and ascended christ and tremendous beyond all words that men can speak as are the alternative possibilities yet these are not all the contents of the gospel message but those blessings and penalties joys and miseries exaltations and degradations which attend upon righteousness and sin godliness and irreligion to day are a large part of its theme and of its effects therefore whilst on the one hand it is true blessed be christ s name that he prophesies of times far off on the other hand it is an altogether inadequate description of the gospel message and of the christian body of truth to say that the future is its realm and not the present to be continued alexander maclaren a common mistake and lame excuse in the beatitudes and other sermons public domain adapted and modified in some places to modern english usage unless otherwise noted scripture updated with the new king james version nkjv 1982 by thomas nelson used by permission all rights reserved posted in great sermons from the past tagged alexander maclaren bible christian christian sermons christianity church classic preaching classic sermons comfort encouragement faith god heavenly father holiness holy spirit inspiration instruction jesus christ life lessons lord reformed religion righteousness salvation scriptures sermons spiritual principles spirituality teaching truth word of god worship leave a comment great sermons from the past 7 31 2026 posted on july 31 2026 by roland ledoux a common mistake and lame excuse 1 alexander maclaren 1826 1910 son of man look the house of israel is saying the vision that he sees is for many days from now and he prophesies of times far off therefore say to them thus says the lord god none of my words will be postponed any more but the word which i speak will be done says the lord god ezekiel 12 27 28 human nature was very much the same in the exiles that listened to ezekiel on the banks of the chebar and in manchester to day the same neglect of god s message was grounded then on the same misapprehension of its bearings which profoundly operates in the case of many people now ezekiel had been proclaiming the fall of jerusalem to the exiles whose captivity preceded it by a few years and he was confronted by the incredulity which fancied that it had a great many facts to support it and so it generalized god s long suffering delay in sending the threatened punishment into a scoffing proverb which said the days are prolonged and every vision fails ezekiel 12 22 to translate it into plain english the prophets had cried wolf wolf so long that their alarms were disbelieved altogether even the people that did not go the length of utter unbelief in the prophetic threatening took the comfortable conclusion that these threats had reference to a future date and they need not trouble themselves about them and so they said according to my text the house of israel is saying the vision that he sees is for many days from now and he prophesies of times far off it may be all quite true but it lies away in the distant future there and things will last our time so we do not need to bother ourselves about what he says so the imagined distance of fulfilment turned the edge of the plainest denunciations and was like wool stuffed in the people s ears to deaden the reverberations of the thunder i wonder if there is anybody here now whom that fits who meets the preaching of the gospel with a shrug and with this saying he prophesies of the times that are far off i fancy there are a few and i wish to say a word or two about this ground on which the widespread disregard of the divine message is based notice that the saying of my text in the application which i now seek to make of it is a truth but it is only half a truth of course ezekiel was speaking simply about the destruction of jerusalem if it had been true as his hearers assumed that that was not going to happen for a good many years yet the chances were that it had no bearing upon them and they were right enough in neglecting the teaching and of course when i apply such a word as this in the direction in which i wish to do now we do bring in a different set of thoughts but the main idea remains the same the neglect of god s solemn message by a great many people is based more or less consciously upon the notion that the message of christianity or if you like to call it so of the gospel or if you like to call it more vaguely religion has to do mainly with blessings and woes beyond the grave and that there is plenty of time to attend to it when we get nearer the end now is it true that he prophesies of times that are far off yes and no yes it is true and it is the great glory of christianity that it shifts the center of gravity so to speak from this poor transient contemptible present and sets it away out yonder in an august and infinite future it brings to us not only knowledge of the future but certitude and takes the conception of another life out of the region of ifs perhaps possibilities dreads or hopes as the case may be and sets it in the sunlight of certainty to be continued alexander maclaren a common mistake and lame excuse in the beatitudes and other sermons public domain adapted and modified in some places to modern english usage unless otherwise noted scripture updated with the new king james version nkjv 1982 by thomas nelson used by permission all rights reserved posted in great sermons from the past tagged alexander maclaren bible christian christian sermons christianity church classic preaching classic sermons comfort encouragement faith god heavenly father holiness holy spirit inspiration instruction jesus christ life lessons lord reformed religion 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