June 19, 2008

• Jeremiah 5:1-31

  Jer 5:1  Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

  Jerusalem so corrupt. Find one man doing right. I will pardon the city.

  Jer 5:2  And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.

  Like Jesus finding the fig tree without fruit. All religion and no fruit.

  Jer 5:3  O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

  They have become so hardened in sin. They don’t want to hear it.

  Jer 5:4  Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
  Jer 5:5  I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

  They have shaken off God’s word. If you know what is right but don’t do it, that is more serious offense. That grieves God worse.
  
  Jer 5:6  Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

  God will bring judgment.

  Jer 5:7  How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

  God fed them. He gave them everything and then they went and made idols and forsook Him.

   Jer 5:8  They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

  Thou shalt not commit adultery. They knew that. They knew the 10 commandments.

  Jer 5:9  Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
  Jer 5:10  Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD’S.
  Jer 5:11  For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
  Jer 5:12  They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

  They refused to take God at His word.

  Jer 5:13  And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
  Jer 5:14  Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

  False prophets. What you say Jeremiah, your words will devour them. Your words will burn them.

  Jer 5:15  Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

  God says I will judge you. God has the right to judge. God is consistent. If we reject salvation judgment will come. He gave His son to spare us. If you don’t accept it, you will be judged. Blood atonement. Jesus died for your sins.

  Jer 5:16  Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
  Jer 5:17  And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
  Jer 5:18  Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
  Jer 5:19  And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

  They forsook God. What you sow you shall reap.

  Jer 5:20  Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
  Jer 5:21  Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

  They became like the idols. They were stubborn.

  Jer 5:22  Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

  God bound the sea with sand.

  Jer 5:23  But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
  Jer 5:24  Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
  Jer 5:25  Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

  Your iniquities have robbed you of God’s blessing. We do the same thing. Why is that? Sin withholds the blessing.

  Jer 5:26  For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

  Your friends affect you. It is important who you hang out with.

  Jer 5:27  As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
  Jer 5:28  They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
  Jer 5:29  Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
  Jer 5:30  A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
  Jer 5:31  The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

  False prophets lying to the people and the people loved it. They tickled their ears telling them what they wanted to hear. To many churches are doing the same thing.

  Hab 1:1  The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
  Hab 1:2  O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
  Hab 1:3  Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
  Hab 1:4  Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
  Hab 1:5  Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
  Hab 1:6  For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
  Hab 1:7  They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
  Hab 1:8  Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
  Hab 1:9  They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
  Hab 1:10  And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
  Hab 1:11  Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

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