A Hammer

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What is a hammer like that for? For pounding things and breaking stones. Yes, and God asks the question in Jeremiah 23:2929Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? (Jeremiah 23:29): “Is not My word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?” As the hammer breaks hard rocks, so God’s Word breaks hard hearts.
I wonder if the Word of God has broken your heart? I can well remember when that Word came home to me with awful power and broke my heart. It was the text, “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” that broke me down. Hebrews 9:2727And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27).
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