The sermons that ought to reprove, rebuke and exhort are composed of the humanism of psychology. The sons of God have become so homogenised with the children of this world that one can scarcely discern between the two. Nations have forsaken the God of our fathers. We have forgotten the Rock from which we were hewn. We have lost our moral integrity in politics, in education, in entertainment, in economics, and in virtually every area of life.
People are almost unanimous in their unconcern for their souls.
Very few people have any desire to keep the Gospel alive for the next generation. We preach, and pray that they will turn from their sins, yet, after weeks have turned into months, and months into years, they remain as unconcerned as ever. Jehovah is not only the God of the whole earth, but the prophet here expresses deep, experiential, and personal knowledge of Him. He is the prophet's Lord, and it is owing to his relationship with Him that the prophet prays so humbly. It is He who has hardened their hearts.