Thousands of Godly young people, including some of our best and brightest, want to get married, are ready to get married, and should be married… their church has prepared them for marriage, for early, fruitful marriage… there is no persecution, no law, no physical infirmities … they are well beyond the flower of their age… but they are not married. This is beyond a crisis, it is a catastrophe.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Adult Children Obeying their Father? Horrors!

Calvin on Jer 35:18 
Here the Prophet, that he might affect the Jews more deeply, promises a reward to the sons of Jonadab, because they obeyed their father; and he promises them a blessing from God. Nor is it to be wondered at, for this commandment, as Paul says, is the first to which a promise is annexed. (Eph_6:2) God promises generally a reward to all who keep the Law, for every command has in general connected with it the hope of reward; but this is in a special manner added to the Fifth Commandment: “Honor thy father and thy mother, that thou mayest prolong thy life,” etc. It is, then, nothing strange that God promised a reward to the Rechabites, because they followed the command of their father, for he had promised that in the Law.

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