Doctrine: The church needs reminders of the awfulness of sin. It (sin) greatly provokes God and severely damages sinners.
Exegesis: Sin's slippery slope: first, practical atheism leads to haughty hearts (vv. 1-3); then, continued hardness leads to inevitable misery (vv. 4-7); finally, absolute unrepentence leads to hell itself (vv. 8-11).
Further application: The practical solutions to sin's tyranny: never despair of God's ability to forgive sins (in Christ), and always believe that God's ways (not ours) are best (and to be preferred).
Key phrase: v. 3a ''For because of the anger of the LORD this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, till He finally cast them out from His presence.''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.