Jeremiah 6-8 • Be warned, O Jerusalem

let's pray as we get into this tonight heavenly father we are so thankful that you have preserved your word for us what a delight it is lord to dig into the scriptures and even though lord what we're going through here in jeremiah is pretty hard to read and and difficult to study we know it's important because it's part of the inspired word of god that you've preserved for us all these years and so lord i pray that we would be able to lay hold of it tonight and that you would speak to your children as you are so capable of doing and and and really minister your wisdom that we can put into practice in our lives we pray also father god for the groups that are going on in the other building we we thank you for our junior high group and how big it has gotten and we we thank you lord for all the kids that are over involved in the iwana program in the children's ministry building we pray for them tonight as well and we pray for all the leaders and teachers and and those who are just hanging out with the kids tonight and sharing jesus with them bless them as well father be with all the children open their hearts fill them with your word we look to you lord and we ask these things in jesus precious name amen amen as we begin our study tonight here in jeremiah chapter six i want to remind you of something that i think is important when we're going through a prophecy or a book like this i've mentioned many times that it's it's difficult to go through jeremiah from the standpoint that there's just prophecy after prophecy after prophecy after prophecy related to the confrontation of god to israel or in this case the southern kingdom of judah for their sin but one of the things you have to remember and this is an important reminder is that jeremiah was giving these series of prophecies over a period of probably 10 plus years so there's a protracted period of time in which jeremiah is speaking this message to the southern kingdom of judah god is giving them plenty of time to repent but for you and i it becomes kind of just this long string of negative prophetic statements which can be difficult to to read through i mean jeremiah if you've ever just sat down to read through the book of jeremiah chapter 1 through the very end it can be difficult in fact there's many parts of the bible that can be difficult and you know sue and i were kind of joking earlier today that you know people always make a new year's res well not always but often make a new year's resolution to start reading through the bible in january january 1st and uh we expect sometime around mid-february for our youtube numbers to jump up when people get to leviticus because they get into leviticus and they're like what how in the world and they can't they have a struggle some time figuring it out and that's when they start tuning in because they realize they kind of need help to make sense of it well jeremiah can be kind of that way because of all the things that are happening here but but but these warnings again you need to understand came through a lengthy period of time god is showing remarkable patience with his people speaking to them about their sin and their need to repent and he did so without holding anything back and that's why these chapters are are are difficult and if nothing else they remind us of how god views sin and they remind us the of the gravity of our sin which caused the lord to send his son to bear our sin on the cross and that's an important reminder it's never fun to look at sin i don't think anyone enjoys it we come to a place as christians where we get used to it and we know what to do when god reveals sin in our lives we bring it quickly to the cross and we find forgiveness there through the blood of jesus but but being confronted with sin is never a very fun thing and i'm sure this wasn't fun for jeremiah because the lord told him at the very beginning you have a message here that from me to my people and they're not going to receive it they're not going to accept what you have to say so from the get-go jeremiah knows that he's in for a very challenging ride as it relates to the communication that he is making to the people of the southern kingdom of judah so it begins here in chapter 6 with the words flee for safety o people of benjamin from the midst of jerusalem blow the trumpet in toccoa and raise a signal on beth harem for disaster looms out of the north speaking of the babylonian army which will come from the north and great destruction so here the lord is warning to those anyone who will listen that an invader is coming now the important thing for you and i to remember about this is that god warned them he didn't just say you know i've had it up to here with these people and so i'm going to raise up the babylonian army and i'm not going to tell them what's coming and they're going to think everything is just hunky-dory and then disaster is going to strike he didn't do that he gave them many years in fact to know about this notice what he goes on to say in verse 2 he says the lovely and delicately bread i will destroy referring here he says to the daughter of zion and then he says shepherds with their flocks and this refers to the babylonian commanders and their troops he but he calls them shepherds and their flocks shall come against her they shall pitch their tents around her they shall pasture each in his place in other words they're going to kind of take over now the following verses that you're going to look at here versus well it's really just verses four and five we begin to see the invasion from the perspective here in these two verses of the invading army all right so here's what they're saying prepare war against her arise let us attack at noon woe to us for the day declines for the shadows of evening lengthen arise let us attack by night and destroy her palaces and this is kind of an insight to the people of judah to remind them that the enemy is anxious to attack he's ready and anxious and and wants to come and and do this attack and then the lord speaks beginning in verse 6 saying for thus says the lord of hosts it says cut down her trees cast up a siege mound against jerusalem this is the city that must be punished there is nothing but oppression within her but notice here in these verses that god is the instigator of the punishment of the babylonians and he's saying here this this must happen because i find nothing but oppression within the walls of this city verse seven as a well keeps its fresh excuse me it's water fresh so she keeps fresh her evil violence and destruction are heard within her sickness and wounds are ever before me be warned or as the new king james says be instructed o jerusalem lest i turn from you in disgust lest i make you a desolation an uninhabited land you'll notice here in verse 8 god is still giving a warning and still holding out hope that they're going to change he says lest i bring destruction even while he's speaking of the coming of the babylonian army to destroy them he says it's not too late lest i uh respond this way please turn from your ways verse 9 thus says the lord of hosts they shall glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of israel like a grape gatherer pass your hand again over its branches now this is an interesting verse because i don't know if you've ever gleaned grapes i haven't but i've learned that you know in the law god told his people that when they go out to glean whether it's in the vineyard or in the wheat fields or whatever the gleaners were not to go thoroughly through the crops they were to leave some fruit on the vine they were to leave some wheat on the stalk so that those who were poor could come behind the gleaners and they could also get enough they and this was this was god's welfare program essentially and it was a good one and it it commanded the people of israel to be gracious to those who were poor and and you'll remember that the book of ruth talks about this that's how she ended up meeting boaz she found her way into boaz's field and there she followed the gleaners and boaz even instructed them to leave stuff on the ground he said when you pick some stalks with wheat on it just drop them drop them on the ground because i want to make sure they get plenty and particularly this woman ruth and so it's it's really a beautiful picture of god taking care of poor people notice what he says though about the enemy who is going to come and figuratively glean from the vine of the southern kingdom of judah he says that he's he's telling the the gatherer to pass his hand again over the vine and that is a way of saying that the enemy is going to come and thoroughly attack the land in terms of his destructive work and he's not going to leave anything untouched he's not going to leave anything behind he's going to destroy and it's going to be a complete destruction verse 10 to whom shall i speak and give warning that they may hear god ask the question behold their ears are uncircumcised they cannot listen behold in fact he says the word of the lord is to them check this out an object of scorn and they take no pleasure in it and of course that's a very serious charge from the lord verse 11 therefore i am full of wrath the wrath of the lord i am weary of holding it in pour it out upon the children in the street and upon the gatherings of young men also both husband and wife shall be taken the elderly and the very aged their houses shall be turned over to others their fields and wives together for i will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land declares the lord wow now the lord gives jeremiah yet another message saying for from the least to the greatest of them everyone is greedy for unjust gain and from prophet to priest everyone deals falsely they have treated the wound of my people lightly saying peace peace when there is no peace and what he's talking when he says they they've healed the wound of my people lightly it's you know the picture is like putting a band-aid on a compound fracture something as ridiculous ridiculously out of sync as that would be he says were they ashamed when they committed abomination no they were not at all ashamed they did they did not know how to blush in other words no regrets no conviction no sense of wrongdoing therefore they shall fall among those who fall at the time that i punish them they shall be overthrown says the lord thus says the lord stand by the roads and look and ask for the ancient paths where the good way is and walk in it and find rest for your souls but they said we will not walk in it i set watchmen over you saying pay attention to the sound of the trumpet but they said we will not pay attention that speaks of the prophets therefore hero nations and know o congregation what will happen to them hear o earth behold i am bringing disaster upon this people the fruit of their devices because they have not paid attention to my words and as for my law they have rejected it can i stop you there for just a moment this is kind of an important distinction the lord does bring up quite often throughout the course of jeremiah's prophecies the specific sinful actions that the the people were guilty of but i want you to notice in these last several verses we've looked at the main key is not sin from the standpoint of deeds it's sin from the standpoint of stubbornness it's sin from the standpoint of unwillingness to respond to the word of god that is brought through the prophet saying repent for their sin in the camp the people refused to listen and what we see in these last verses is that's what grieved the lord so much it was that the people were stubborn and when they were confronted with their sin they they just shrugged it off or ignored it completely i think there's a lot of people who struggle understanding why god calls david a man after his own heart they look at the life of david in the pages of scripture and they say wow look at some of the things he did i mean you know it killed a lot of people most of whom in a sense of justice but he did commit adultery with another man's wife he then arranged to have that man essentially put into a place where he would die in warfare and he wasn't that great of a father his kids pretty much went astray and some of the people you know read what david did over the course of his life and they say wow a man after god's own heart huh and what they're expecting is some kind of almost moral perfection that goes along with that statement well david was not a morally perfect man in any stretch of the word none of us are i believe what made god say that david was a man after his own heart was david's willingness to hear the lord when he spoke and respond david had a soft heart and even though he was guilty of some pretty heinous sins against the lord when he was confronted with his sin he didn't make excuses he didn't get angry and become abusive to the people who were speaking to him like some of the other kings who came after him david broke and he said you're right i've sinned against the lord that was what he said when nathan came to respond about the sin of adultery with bathsheba i've sinned against the lord and that i believe is what makes for a beautiful connection there are a great many christians i've come to learn who labor under what i think is a misunderstood idea of their need to walk in some level of holiness in order for god to love and accept them i believe it's a it's a misunderstanding on their part that they need to attain to some level of holiness they need to attain to some level of moral rightness in their actions words thoughts and so forth in order for them to come to a place where god is going to really truly accept and love them and so forth and i find that the people who give into this sort of thinking are miserable in the extreme and they struggle and their walk with the lord is one of difficulty and heaviness and weariness and they come to me as a bible teacher and pastor and they want to know what they can do to be a better christian pastor paul what can i do to be better because they're trying to attain this level of goodness you know but they know nothing of grace they know nothing of god's grace which is his unmerited favor favor that is given to the believer by faith not according to merit but by god's goodness mercy tenderness and so forth and they know nothing of it and i try to communicate as best i can that god looks to the heart and what he wants out of his children most of all is tenderhearted children who tremble at his word and who respond when the word brings conviction not with this terror that says oh no i'm done for but who quickly run into the arms of their loving heavenly father and say i'm not what i should be but i know that jesus died on the cross that my sins might be forgiven i come to you that i might be cleansed and washed and renewed and i ask you to strengthen me to live the life you've called me to live that's what god's looking for out of his kids that kind of open-heartedness that quickly comes to the lord when we mess up rather than staying away from god thinking oh i can't go to god he's mad at me listen he poured out his wrath on his son and that wrath has been poured out and it's no longer aimed at you now when you're convicted with sin go quickly to the throne of grace to find that peace and forgiveness we all sin you guys we every one of us continue we will not be free of our sinful nature until we leave these bodies behind i wish that there was such a thing as true complete holiness this side of the veil but it doesn't exist i wish it did and every hundred years or so a movement comes along that says that it's possible and then it goes down in flames because people realize it's not possible i can't attain to that level of holiness but what i can do is i can come quickly to god i can be responsive to his word i can say yes lord you're right i've sinned i need forgiveness i know that you accept me because of what jesus did on the cross i know that my righteous standing before you is already mine through him i have received the robe of righteousness and i stand before you cleansed and renewed and full of hope because of what you've done not because of what i have not been able to attain to so it's very important as we see in these verses god is talking about this disaster to come upon the people because they paid no attention to his words verse 20 what use to me is frankincense that comes from sheba or sweet cane from a distant land your burnt offerings are not acceptable nor your sacrifices pleasing to me so here are the people literally living in in the throes of paganism and yet they're bringing sacrifices to the lord as if everything's good and god is saying to them i don't want this we're not right so you're bringing these thank offerings and you're doing these sacrifices and i'm not accepting them therefore verse 21 thus says the lord behold i will lay before these people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble fathers and sons together neighbor and friend shall perish thus says the lord behold the people is coming from the north country a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth they lay hold of bow and javelin they're cruel and have no mercy the sound of them is like the roaring sea they ride on horses set in a ray as a man for battle against you o daughter of zion we have heard the report of it our hands fall helpless anguish has taken hold of us pain as of a woman in labor go not out into the field nor walk on the road for the enemy has a sword terror is on every side oh daughter of my people put on sackcloth and roll in ashes make mourning as for an only sun most bitter lamentation for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us then another message given to jeremiah i have made you a tester of medals among my people that you may know and test their ways they are all stubbornly rebellious going about with slanders they are bronze and iron all of them act corruptly the bellows blow fiercely the lead is consumed by the fire and if you don't really kind of know much about how they purified metals back then it doesn't make a whole lot of sense but they would put lead into the crucible when silver and gold were put in there and heated up because the lead would attract the elements uh the impure elements of the metals and they could you know bring them away but here he says the lead is consumed by the fire and he goes on to say that in vain the refining goes on in other words it's not working for the wicked are not removed in other words the lead which is was put in there to do its work isn't doing anything so he says in verse 30 rejected silver they are called for the lord has rejected them wow chapter 7 goes on the word of the lord came to jeremiah from the lord we don't know how long there was between these two chapters stand in the gate of the lord's house and proclaim there his word all right now this now you got to think about this in your mind's eye because what jeremiah is being told to do is to stand in the gate of the temple to go into jerusalem and stand in the gate and proclaim these words and you can imagine that that would take some courage on jeremiah's part here's what he was told and say hear the word of the lord all you men of judah who enter these gates to worship the lord thus says the lord of hosts the god of israel amend your ways and your deeds and i'll let you dwell in this place do not trust in these deceptive words this is the temple of the lord the temple of the lord the temple of the lord the reason that that is spoken thrice that way is because the people had a belief that since god dwelled in the temple that his presence was manifest in the temple that it could never be destroyed and therefore the people of the city would always be safe you know they probably had some reason to think that might be the case because you know both jerusalem and the temple was spared about a hundred years earlier when the assyrians came in and conquered the northern kingdom of israel but the southern kingdom of judah was spared jerusalem was spared the temple was spared and now the people are literally convincing themself there's no way there's no way the enemy can get in here there's no way god's going to let the enemy come in here because this is the temple of the lord and yet they're not even really truly worshiping all right so they go on here for if you truly amend your ways and your deeds verse five if you truly execute justice one with another if you do not oppress the sojourner the fatherless or the widow or shed innocent blood in this place and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm then i will let you dwell in this place in the land that i gave of old to your fathers forever notice god is still holding out a promise to protect and keep his covenant people if they will repent behold you trust in deceptive words to no avail will you steal murder commit adultery swear falsely make offerings to baal and go after other gods that you have not known and then come and stand before me in this house which is called by my name and say we are delivered only to go on doing all those these abominations has this house which is called by my name become a den of robbers in your eyes behold i myself have seen it declares the lord go now to my place that was in shiloh where i made my name dwell at first and see what i did to it because of the evil of my people israel now let's stop there for a moment i think most of you if you know your old testament know that before the temple and the well actually even the tabernacle was established in jerusalem the really the center of israel's worship was in shiloh and that was where the tabernacle of meeting and the altar of god were originally set up but he's challenging them and he's saying go back to shiloh why don't you take a little road trip get the family together put some picnic stuff together and just make a little road trip to shiloh see what you find there they would have found nothing because it had been abandoned and the place of the lord was obviously no longer standing and he's referring to them their own history you'll remember back at the period of time that was very close to the end of the judges during the high priesthood of eli when samuel was also assisting eli at that time eli had two very wicked sons named hoffney and phineas very wicked and the philistines were coming against the israelites and you'll remember that they went out to fight against the philistines and they basically got kicked so they decided they were going to take the the ark of the covenant out in battle with them and they figured they were using it like a lucky rabbit's foot well we're going to take the ark out and then we'll be victorious so they had this great cheer among them and everybody their morale was boosted and they went out to war and they got beat by the philistines who not only beat the army of israel they took the ark of the covenant and took it back to philistine territory and that was the end of shiloh essentially so god is is reminding them this this thing you have going on in your head where you think that just because the ark of the covenant is there there's no possible way you can be defeated by your enemies what does your history tell you verse 13 and now because you have done all these things declares the lord and when i spoke to you persistently you did not listen and when i called you you did not answer therefore i will do to the house that is called by my name and in which you trust and to the place that i gave to you and your fathers as i did in shiloh there god is saying here he's going to let the enemy destroy the temple he's telling him right there prophesied i'm going to let this happen and i will cast you out of my sight as i cast out all your kinsmen all the offspring of ephraim referring to the northern kingdom of israel and the lord made good his word and now as we get on in verse 16 and following the lord's going to speak directly to jeremiah we're not sure how long this message came after the previous one was delivered but he says as for you do not pray for this people or lift up a cry or prayer for them and do not intercede with me for i will not hear you do you not see what they are doing in the cities of judah and in the streets of jerusalem the children gather wood the fathers kindle fire and the woman the women need dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven and they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke me to anger is it i whom they provoke declares the lord is it not themselves to their own shame therefore thus says the lord god behold my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place upon man and beast upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground it will burn and not be quenched and then comes another message from the lord thus says the lord of hosts the god of israel add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the flesh for in the day that i brought them out of the land of egypt i did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices but this command i gave them obey my voice and i will be your god and you shall be my people and walk in all the ways that i command you that it may be well with you i want you to stop there for a minute let me explain what the lord is saying to the people through jeremiah because the statement needs a little explanation for a modern audience the lord is reminding jeremiah that when he brought israel out of slavery in egypt before he ever got around to talking to them about sacrifices and burnt offerings he basically just took them to mount sinai and gave him the law the ten commandments and he basically said obey my voice that was the first and most important thing god said to his people oh bae my voice it was much later that the sacrifices were then enumerated and clarified and so forth so god literally said at the very first i told them obey and what we're kind of seeing here in these verses is a form of hebrew argument that allows for the denial of one thing in order to highlight and focus on the other thing and we don't usually argue this way because we don't have a method of arguing that encompasses this sort of a sort of a system because we would come back and say oh yes you did tell us about sacrifices but he's saying not at first and so the the point of what he's saying here to them is the very first thing i told you was obey me later much later on we got on to talking about sacrifices here you are doing sacrifices and you forgot the paramount issue of obedience so you don't obey me and yet you sacrifice right you've rejected the primary in favor of the secondary verse 24 but they did not obey or incline their ear but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts and went backward and not forward from the day that your fathers came out of the land of egypt to this day i have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them day after day yet they did not listen to me or inclined their ear but stiffened their neck they did worse than their fathers so you shall speak all these words to them but they will not listen to you there it is right there you shall call to them but they will not answer you and you shall say to them this is the nation that did not obey the voice of the lord their god and did not accept discipline truth is perished it is cut off from their lips cut off your hair and cast it away raise a lamentation on the bear heights for the lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath you know the statement here to cut off hair was probably as an expression of mourning verse 30 for the sons of judah have done evil in my sight declares the lord they have set their detestable things in the house that is called by my name to defile it and they've built up the high places of topheth which is in the valley of the son of hinnom to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire which i did not command nor did it come into my mind therefore behold the days are coming declares the lord when it will no more be called topheth or the valley of the son of hinnom but the valley of slaughter for they will bury in topheth because there's no room elsewhere and the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth and none will frighten them away and i will silence in the cities of judah and in the streets of jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride for the land shall become a waste you know by the time jesus came along the valley of the son of hinnom or the or ben hinnom was basically a dump ground and it smoldered constantly and that constant smoldering of fire in this dump area became a picture of of hell hades because about hades in hell it says that the fire is never quenched it constantly burns and so that became a a visual picture chapter 8 at that time declares the lord the bones of the kings of judah the bones of its officials the bones of the priests the bones of the prophets and the bones of the inhabitants of jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs and they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven which they'll have loved and served speaking of the pagan deities which they have gone after and which they have sought and worshiped and they shall not be gathered or buried they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground you know we've made the point on several times before that a proper burial to a jew was considered to be a sign of god's blessing and an improper burial where someone was refused burial was considered to be a sign of god's curse and so the lord speaks of the fact that even these people who have been who have died before their bones will be exhumed and they will be left out on the on the ground to be bleached in the sun as a as a perpetual sign of god's curse upon the land he says in verse 3 the death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where i've driven them declares the lord of hosts now jeremiah has given another message beginning in verse 4 he says the lord says you shall say to them thus says the lord when men fall do they not rise again if one turns away does he not return why then is this people turned away in perpetual backsliding they hold fast to deceit they refuse to return you know god is kind of making the point here when people backslide it they they come back they eventually like the the prodigal son see the error of their ways and they return but he says not my people they never return there's a perpetual backsliding verse six i have paid attention and listened but they've not spoken rightly no man relents of his evil saying what have i done everyone turns to his own course like a horse plunging headlong into battle even the stork in the heavens knows her times and the turtle dove swallow and crane keep the time of their coming speaks of the instinctive knowledge of the birds concerning the seasons and their migrations he says but my people know not the rules of the lord so how can you say we are wise and the law of the lord is with us but behold the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie a scribe was a copyist but they also came to be known as experts in the law and yet god says they've been conveying what is false and not what is true the wise men shall be put to shame they shall be dismayed and taken speaking of when the enemy comes behold they have rejected the word of the lord so that what wisdom is in them therefore i will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain from prophet to priest everyone deals falsely they have healed the wound of my people lightly saying peace peace when there is no peace so a second reference here to um the people healing the wound of uh or the prophets rather healing the wound of the people lightly and he's speaking there of the words of the prophets promising peace and victory from the lord when in fact uh there was none now i want you to think about that for just a moment you've got prophets over here and there's a bunch of them and they're saying peace and victory and security and prosperity and you've got jeremiah over here and he's going the enemy's coming and if you don't repent it's going to be bad now which one would you want to believe which one would you follow which one would you be drawn to well in my flesh i know exactly what i'd be drawn to the message about prosperity and peace and goodness and good times and yeah jeremiah can go talk to himself somewhere in a corner and yet he's the one speaking the truth the one speaking the truth and yet the people are believing the message about peace were they ashamed when they committed abomination no they were not at all ashamed they did not know how to blush therefore they shall fall among the fallen when i punish them they shall be overthrown says the lord when i would gather them declares the lord there are no grapes on the vine no figs on the fruit tree in other words no fruitfulness even the leaves are withered and what i gave them has passed away from them isn't that an interesting statement and quite sad what i gave them has been frittered away it's passed on now the people speak why do we sit still gather together let us go into the fortified cities and perish there for the lord our god has doomed us to perish and he has given us poisoned water to drink figuratively speaking there of course because we have sinned against the lord we looked for peace but no good came for a time of healing but behold terror so this is kind of a a preview of what the people are going to say when the enemy comes to attack they're going to say we longed for peace we looked for peace because that's what we were told by these false prophets would be coming but we found none only terror now the lord responds the snorting of their horses is heard from dan remember dan is the northernmost tribe and so that he's going to obviously see these things first at the sound of the naying of their stallions the whole land quakes they come and devour the land and all that fills it the city and those who dwell in it for behold i am sending among you serpents otters that cannot be charmed and they shall bite you declares the lord now jeremiah speaks and i want you to hear what he has to say because he's brokenhearted he says my joy is gone grief is upon me my heart is sick within me behold the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land is the lord not in zion is her king not in her why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and with their foreign idols the harvest is past the summer is ended and we are not saved for the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded mourn and dismay and dismay has taken hold of me is there no balm in gilead that's an interesting question isn't it gilead was a region that was known for its healing balsams and and yet we really don't even know what made up the balm of gilead it's interesting it was obviously some kind of soothing ointment but he goes on and asks also is there no physician there why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored and so jeremiah ends this chapter with a question although i think he probably knew the answer to it so you can see how jeremiah labored and was wearied under the prophecies that the lord brought through him to the people and he was brokenhearted to see his nation knowing that they were on the road to destruction and they refused to see it or to repent so that's where we're going to stop for tonight wow can't believe it we got through three chapters amazing we'll continue on next week lord willing i understand there was an inauguration today i got news for you though god is still on the throne he still rules and reigns he is still sovereign he is the eternal lord and his purpose is no one can thwart and you and i can trust in that and put our hope in him no matter what heavenly father thank you so much thank you so much for your word thank you for your love lord thank you for understanding even as we go through these chapters in jeremiah as difficult as they are we know lord that your heart is for people that they might live that they might choose life that they might choose the lord lord we pray for our nation tonight in the name of jesus as we begin a new term with a new leadership we ask you father god to lead this nation we ask you god to forgive this nation we ask you lord to forgive our sins for they've been grievous in your sight we've forgotten the lord and we've walked away from your word much like we've read tonight concerning the southern kingdom of judah we have ignored the word of god and truth has stumbled in the streets father we ask you to forgive us cleanse us we ask you lord god to lead us in the right way and we pray in jesus name that you would bring a spirit of truth that would invade the land we asked father god that the hearts of people would be softened to hear your voice that the stubbornness and stiff-necked condition that we see around and so prevalent would be soothed and that people would open their hearts and open their eyes to see the truth lord we pray that people would come to a knowledge of the cross and what jesus did there in sacrificing himself for our sins that the wrath of god might be taken away on our behalf we thank you lord we praise you we pray for your spirit to guide us and direct us through jesus christ our savior amen you

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Keywords: Bible, Bible teaching, Thru-the-Bible, verse by verse, Calvary Chapel, Bible study, Christianity, New Testament, Old Testament

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Length: 47min 35sec (2855 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 22 2021