you. There has been too much trifling
with Jehovah by Archibald Brown from Amen, O Lord, 1894. Then
I answered and said, Amen, O Lord, Jeremiah chapter 11 verse 5,
or so be it, O Lord. Perhaps there is a secret contention
going on between you and God. God has spoken to you, but thus
far there's not been Jeremiah's response of, Amen, O Lord. Here you have the one response
which a man of God must ever make to the words of God. When
God says anything to him, there is nothing left for him but to
bow the head and say, Amen, O Lord, so be it. This response is the
only one that suits a creature's lip. When God speaks, there is
nothing left for man but to hear. When God decrees, there is nothing
for a man to do but acquiesce. When Jehovah gives a command,
what is there left for his creature to do but obey? Any other word
than Amen springs from rebellion. Any other response to the word
of Jehovah simply tells of a heart that wars with God. It is not
for men to judge God's words, far less to amend them. If it
pleases Jehovah to say anything, no matter how stern, how dreadful,
or how searching, there is only one position for man, that is
to bow his head and say, Amen, O Lord. Oh, says one in the proud
spirit of our times, you are making a bold bid for your God
this morning. I am. The sovereignty of God
needs to be brought to the front. There's been too much trifling
with Jehovah. Man needs to have the peacock's
feathers plucked out of his cap and be taught that he is a poor
little nothing. And that for God to speak to
him at all is infinite condescension. And that for him to say anything
else than Amen is boundless impudence. If God condescends to utter a
command, am I to go and judge whether the Lord has a right
to say it? Shall I take the word of Jehovah, my Maker, and weigh
it in my scales, and bring up His thoughts to the poultry bar
of my fallen reason, and enter my protest, unless I see a good
reason for God speaking as He does? When God promulgates a
decree, He does not send it to man to be revised. His claim
is this, I am Jehovah, I the Lord, speak that which is right,
and let man say, Amen, O Lord. we are living in the days of
the deification of humanity we hear so much about the glory
of humanity and the triumphs of humanity that God has become
a little better than a very inferior deity who runs after man and
tips his cap to him this is not the picture which God's book
gives God's claim is this. I am the Lord, and you are but
the creatures of my hand. The brightest of my angels are
but sparks struck off from the anvil of my creative omnipotence. When I speak, let men and angels
be silent, or if they must speak, let them say, Amen, O Lord. This is the only response that
suits a creature's lips. If you can conceive of a being
who is infinitely wise, all-powerful, infinitely righteous, absolutely
holy, inflexibly just, and all gathered up into boundless love,
that is God. If such a one speaks, then what
is there left for me but to say Amen? I am stark raving mad if
I dare question the utterance of infinite wisdom. I am unutterably
vile if I can dare to criticize the utterance of absolute love. The idiocy must have taken hold
of my brain and alas of my heart if I would amend anything which
His infinite holiness has declared. The very nature and character
of God declare that the only response for man when God speaks
is Amen, O Lord. Oh, for that grand attitude of
resignation and submission to God that bows before every word
of God, whether it be a silver note of mercy from heaven or
a thunderclap of denunciation. you.