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  SENSITIVE TO WARNING
  by C.H. Spurgeon
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Summary: Being sensitive to God's warning and trembling at His Word can
spare us from the evil that is to come.

Topics: "Humility before God", "Sensitivity to God's Warnings"
Scripture References: 2 Kings 22:19, Psalm 119:120, Isaiah 57:1, Ezekiel 9:4

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C.H. Spurgeon emphasizes the importance of being sensitive to God's
warnings, as exemplified by King Josiah, who humbled himself and
trembled at God's Word. Spurgeon highlights that those who possess a
tender heart and practice self-humiliation will be spared from impending
judgment, as God marks those who mourn over the sins of their nation. He
reassures believers that even in times of great threat and infidelity,
they can find peace in God's promise of protection and eventual
deliverance. The sermon calls for introspection on whether one has this
godly fear and sensitivity to divine warnings.

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Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the
Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against
the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a
curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard
thee, saith the Lord. (2 Kings 22:19)

Many despise warning and perish. Happy is he who trembles at the Word of
God. Josiah did so, and he was spared the sight of the evil which the
Lord determined to send upon Judah because of her great sins. Have you
this tenderness? Do you practice this self-humiliation? Then you also
shall be spared in the evil day. God sets a mark upon the men that sigh
and cry because of the sin of the times.

The destroying angel is commanded to keep his sword in its sheath till
the elect of God are sheltered: these are best known by their godly fear
and their trembling at the Word of the Lord. Are the times threatening?
Does infidelity advance with great strides, and do you dread national
chastisement upon this polluted nation? Well you may. Yet rest in this
promise: "Thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace: and thine eyes
shall not see all the evil which l will bring upon this place." Better
still, the Lord Himself may come, and then the days of our mourning
shall be ended.

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