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Today opens with geremia promising to the people of juda while standing outside the entrance of the temple, which is why chapter seven is referred due as his temple sermon. The people have come towards the guard who lives inside the temple, but outside the temple walls, they're sacrificing to idols and false gods, as though god isn't also outside the temple or can see through walls.
Apparently, the people were treating the temple like IT was some kind of protective icon. First four shows them repeating a phrase like an end cantation IT almost seems like temple worship instead of worship in the god in the temple. And that rebukes them for IT.
They seem to think that because the temple is there with him in the south, that's why they were protected against the assyrian attack that the israel lights in the north experienced. They've turned the temple into an idle. And in addition to that, gott says, you're pretty much breaking all the other commandments, deft murder, adult lies, worship of other gods.
He says they're making his house into a house of robbers. You might recognize that passage because jesus quoted in Matthew twenty one, when the people of his day are doing similar things to orel the poor and still the people, god drills down to the heart of things. He calls him to change the way they treat others and the way they treat him, and promises to bless them if they do.
He promises to cast them out. If they don't, what will they do? We get a hint based on what god tells jeremy.
After that, he tells him not to pray for the people. Profits, often inner seed, on behalf of the people. But here god tells him, don't waste your breath.
It's too late. Talk to them about me, but don't talk to me about them. God's assignment to jeremie, to rebuke of people is one that will fail to produce that result.
But that will still achieve god's plans. We've seen this before with other profits. The people have trusted in their own minds, walked in their own council, did what their stubborn hearts wanted instead of surrendering to god and his word.
And as a result, they've moved backward in their walks with him, not forward. In chapter eight, god continues to speak out against their autonomy. First six says, everyone turns to his own course.
Autonomy is idolatry, is looking to ourselves for guidance instead of to god and his word. But true wisdom and humility come from receiving the word inverse. Nine points to this.
IT says, behold, they have rejected the word of the lord. So what wisdom is in them? Even the scribes and the wise man of that day will be exposed as fools and liars.
They had access to the word and disregarded IT. The consequences of their scenes are so harshly that some will prefer to die instead of live. And while gold's methods may seem extreme, they're always righteous.
Jeramy a is so hearing ken over all of this, i've heard that when IT comes to sin, we should be angry at our own and heartbroken over others. It's not to say we shouldn't be heart broken over our own. It's more to say we should stay humble.
How easy is that to look at the since others commit and feel disgusted as though we're not signers to? It's arrogant so jeremias responses fitting he stays humble. He aches over judas actions and god makes IT clear that he's heart broken too, because he continues to point out that he wants their hearts, not they're grudging obedience.
Besides, the only kind of obedience that is complete and true is obedience that flows from a heart of love. God says, if all they are is circumcised in the flesh, there no Better than the pagan nations who don't even know him. He wants transformation at a heart level.
What was your god shot today? I loved that moment at the end of chapter or nine, where he tells us about himself directly. We saw a lot of judgment in these three chapters, and it's easy to just skim over and determine that he's harsh and unforgiving.
But here's what he says about himself in verse twenty four, let him who boasts, boasts in this that he understands and knows me that I am the lord who practice the steadfast love, justice and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, god leads with love, and he delights in love, justice and righteous ness. He is always acting out of his motives to display love, justice and righteousness on the earth. God not only does what he loves, but he is what he loves. And I can't think of anything Better to be, or do he's where the joy is.
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