Revival Addresses

IX. REFUGES OF LIES

“The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies”- Isaiah xxviii. 17.

We have seen in a former address that every man needs a refuge from four things-from the accusations of his own conscience, from the power of sin within, from the power of Satan, and from the wrath to come. Almost every man has a refuge, that is, he has something in which he has put his trust to comfort him. The difficulty with most men is not so much that they have not a refuge, as that they have a false refuge, a refuge that will fail them in the hour of crisis and need; what our text characterizes as a “refuge of lies.” It was just so in Isaiah’s time; the men of Israel knew there was a coming day of judgment, and that they needed a hiding place from that coming judgment of God, and they made lies their refuge, and Isaiah -God’s messenger- proclaimed, “the hail shall sweep away your false refuge, the refuge of lies,” and I come to you with the same message, you men and women that have a refuge, but a false one. “The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies.”