Day 220 (Jeremiah 4-6) - Year 6
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Today we open with jeremy a continuing the plea for juda to repent. Throughout this section, we see god repeating the theme that he doesn't just want them to change their actions or offer up empty sacrifices like venom logie. They baked repentance before, and he didn't buy them either.

He's after their hearts. We sit in verse four where he's comparing this change of heart to the way he marked him with circumstance. He says, remove the four skin of your hearts and inverse fourteen, he says, old jerusalem, wash your heart from evil.

How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you? And in verse nineteen, your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and IT is Better.

IT has reached your very heart. Their sin yielded this consequence, and god's problem with their sin goes far beyond their actions. IT goes to their very hard. So his consequences due to then in verst n jeremy seems to be accusing god of lying.

It's a confusing time to be alive, because up until this point, all the so called profits of the land have been telling all the people of juda paid on sweat at things are going to be fine. They keep proclaiming peace and safety when things are actually speeding tour Cliff at one hundred miles an hour. And this is the first time Jeremiah is actually hearing the truth, and it's coming directly from god himself.

He seems to feel kind of experiences by IT at all. But he eventually comes to realize that those profits weren't speaking the words of god. They were just saying what they thought the people wanted to hear.

I've had many a well meaning province spoken to me, and almost all of them have been wrong. IT took me a long time to come, determined with the fact that god hadn't lied to me. Those people had good desires for me, but they were speaking out of their own hopes and hearts, not his.

That's just a fraction of what Jeremiah was probably going through here as jeremy ya is giving these warnings to the people. He's also getting pretty intense visions of the destruction jerusalem will encounter or at least IT seems to be geremi inversus eighteen to twenty one and he's disturbed by at all. He can hardly sleep at night because it's so disheartening.

And this sit home for me too. I love jerusalem. Its one of my favorite cities.

If I had to put myself in gear on my issues and imagine IT being destroyed like that, i'd need some niki el too. And I don't even live there. Next, god has some pretty harsh words for his people.

He says they are fools and that they use the little wisdom they have to be crafted in singing din. Jeremy's has a vision in versus twenty three, three twenty eight that described an undoing of creation. Reversing all guddle work in the genesis is one account that has to be pretty terrifying.

But god promises not to annaly the earth. IT will still be there, just emptied. And jerusalem is portrayed as a desperate woman tries in vain to save herself.

But god says IT won't be possible in chapter five, the struggle continues. The people of jerusalem are pros at offering up religious phrases and actions, taking old and guidance name and what not. But they don't keep any of their religious language can come from a corrupt heart.

Jeremiah thinks, hey, maybe this is because they're poor and they can't afford to keep their oath, or maybe they just weren't educated enough to know Better. But then he finds that the same problem exists with the rich people. They're all rebelling.

Godd says nothing they have will be safe from his destruction. That their income, food, drink, family or sense of security, nothing is untouchable. Everything can be shaken or taken.

But again, this is all the consequence of their sin. Inverse twenty five, he says, your sins have kept good from you. The first time I read that, I thought you said your sense have kept you from good and that's true too.

But it's far more posting the way it's really written, which basically says thin is a deef. IT steals good things from you. Wow, thin is a thave.

And not only does their sin keeps good things from them, but IT keeps good things from the poor too. That's because the rich have gotten rich off their cells. Sh ness and IT turns into a total lack of concern for the poor.

They lead and govern within justice. But god will finish this too, because a rigidly judge has to punish sin. In chapter six, we see some of the prior themes repeated.

Jerusalem will be destroyed, that profits will offer false compared. The people will refuse to repeat. And we'll a complete lack of understanding that what they are doing is totally wrong.

Guy pleads with him to remember the ancient paths of their forefathers, to turn back to the ways he has already marked out with them. But they refused to listen. My god, chat today came from just thinking about how this book came together.

Gd picked this man. Jeremy's to beg his people to repent, knowing full well that they wouldn't cherami a endured sleepless nights and anguish and deep mourning to communicate this message to guards people. And he wasn't the only one.

We've already read a few other profits so far who were sent to the same people with the same message. What does IT reveal about god's heart that he keeps sending this message decade after decade, begging them to repent? I see his patience in this.

I see his persistence in this, and not to get to a literates here. But I also see his planning in this. He knew they wouldn't repaint. He knew the day was coming when he'd excel them, and he also knew the day was coming when jesus would claim Victory over all the sense of his people passed present and future, got the father and got the son, both and during a lot, to bring us into a peaceful relationship with god himself. He is where the joy is.

The fall is coming up quick, which we are very excited about here in texas because IT has been hacked. Anyway, if you a church is still trying to figure out what curriculum to use this fall or even next year, I would love to suggest the bible recap discussion guide. IT covers our entire year of reading.

So if they start this fall, they can flip over to the new testament, which we begin on october first. And they start in the new year, they can jump in at janus is one on january first. T, B, R, discussion guide has seven to ten weekly questions for a group to discuss, and how gray would have be to not be doing this alone, to have somebody you can talk to about this every week. If you want to find out more, check out the discussion guide in the stalling on our website at the bible rec cp dot com, or click the link in the show notes.