"Jeremiah 1" Bible Study at Faithful Word Baptist Church Tempe, AZ

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Jeremiah chapter number 1 verse .

Number 1 the Bible reads the words of Jeremiah the son of milk I of the priests that were in anitha in the land of Benjamin doom the word of the lord came in the days of josiah the son of Amon king of Judah and the 13th year of his reign it came also in the days of joy come the son of josiah king of Judah onto the end of the 11th year of Zedekiah the son of josiah king of Judah under the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month now tonight as we start a brand-new book Jeremiah and our bible study and we go through this whole entire book verse-by-verse let's start out just by noticing that in the first three verses here.

God explains to us the timeframe that Jeremiah is preaching and this is always very important when you're understanding these books God didn't just put this at the beginning just to fill up a couple of verses he's actually telling us important information about the context here now the last bunch of wednesday nights we've been going through Zechariah that was at the end of the Babylonian captivity the 70-year captivity of the children of Judah had ended and in the days of ezra nehemiah when they're coming back to Israel that's when Zechariah was preaching well Jeremiah on the other hand is on the other side of that Jeremiah is preaching in the days leading up to the captivity in the days of Josiah joy Anna Kim and Zedekiah these are the final kings of Judah before they go captive into Babylon so this is a time when the children of Judah are in a lot of disobedience against the Lord God's very angry with them to the point where he's going to destroy their entire nation he's going to allow the temple to be destroyed and he's going to cause them to be carried away captive into Babylon because of this Jeremiah is preaching is very negative a very negative book of the Bible because he's talking to a rebellious house of Israel that's going to be punished severely and he's warning of that punishment he's trying to preach to them that they need to repent and turn back to God and so forth so that's why that information is important there in verses 13 and verse number for the Bible reads then the word of the lord came unto me saying before I formed the in the belly.

I knew the.

And before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified the and I ordained the a profit under the nation's now notice here when God talks about choosing Jeremiah before he was even born to perform this function where he's going to be a prophet to the nation and where he's going to bring a lot of negative preaching to the children of Judah to the Jews at that time notice that he says I knew thee and I ordained the ok so the reason that's important is because God often chooses people to do certain things or to perform great ass and obviously a man like Jeremiah had a very important role because not only is he a prophet to the nation's for that generation but also his words we're going to be recorded in the Book of Jeremiah and he was going to be one of the holy men of God who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost and he's going to be writing a book of the Bible.

I mean we have this book of jeremiah today and it's based around the life and preaching of this man Jeremih so this is an extremely important man especially in light of the fact that the Book of Jeremiah is pretty much the longest book in the Bible with Psalms they're both right about the same length when you look at how many words are in them because even though Jeremiah only has fifty two chapters those chapters are very long chapters so this is a very serious biblical book and God is telling Jeremiah I already ordained you to be a prophet I already had this path for you chosen before you were even formed in the belly before you even were conceived in your mother's womb he says that in verse 6 then said I lord god behold I I cannot speak for I'm a child but the Lord sent me say not i am a child for the shot go to all that I saw Cindy and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak now if you would flip over to first Peter chapter 1 in the new testament to the very end of the Bible and just a few books before revelation you'll find first Peter chapter number one and the reason I bring this up is because the Bible talks a lot about God for ordaining things and God she losing people before they're even born or making plans about what people are going to do before they're born and there's a word that the Bible uses that's predestination and there's a lot of controversy around the word predestination because there's a false doctrine that is sprung up around this word that basically teaches that God chooses who goes to heaven and who goes to hell that God would basically just choose a person for absolutely no reason and just say this person is going to hell because it's my will and there's nothing there anybody else can do about it and then this person over here I've chosen to go to heaven and this doctor is known as Calvinism but some people will just call it predestination and they mean basically that God is the one that already decided who's going to be saved and a lot of times these people will laugh at or scoff at you when you go out and you try to really make a difference and you try to go out and reach people with the gospel and save them with fear and pulling them out of the fire and all they'll say well you know god's got to draw them and you know it'sit's god that's going to do it because he's already chosen he's already for ordained it and they'll make a lot of statements like well you know if you don't do it somebody else will do it somebody else will do it if you don't do it cause it's got it's God's will is going to happen type of thing and even people who haven't gone all the way into this doctrine sometimes they have a tendency toward this doctrine this attitude of well if you don't do it someone else will I don't believe that for one second you know the Bible teaches that if our gospel be hid it is here to them that are lost they are the ones who suffer you know to whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them that believe not so when the Bible talks about God predestinated us or God elected us are choosing us i want to show you that when you look up the scriptures it's not what this false doctrine of Calvinism teaches that God is choosing which ones go to heaven which ones go to help see that election according to Bible is based upon the foreknowledge of god now what is election mean election just simply means choosing for.

Sample this is an election year what does that mean people are going to be choosing a president they're going to be choosing senators and congressmen so election means choosing but God's choosing is based upon his foreknowledge it's not based upon just the mysteries of his will and randomness.

No actually there is a method to it see he chose Jeremiah because he foreknew Jeremiah it's not that God just picked a random guy and just said well i'm just going to make you a prophet to the nation's because if he would have picked a lot of people they would have screwed up that job I mean Jeremiah had to do a lot of really hard things and preach a lot of really hard sermons and a lot of people would have failed but he picked a guy that he foreknew would do the job the way that he wanted it to do so he said I knew you before you were formed and I ordained you now look at first Peter chapter 1 verse 2 we can even just start in verse 1 Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ to the stranger scattered throughout Pontus Galatia Cappadocia is and bethania elect right what select mean chosen elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of jesus christ grace unto you and peace be multiplied flip over the Romans chapter 8 Romans chapter eight probably the most famous scripture that mentions predestination or election according to the foreknowledge of God so it's not that God chooses who goes to heaven and who goes to help because actually if that were the case God would choose for everybody to go to heaven because the Bible says that God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

The Bible says that he will have all men to be saved and a comment to the knowledge of the truth he gave himself a ransom for all john three sixteen is not just a cruel joke when he said that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting I've you don't just kidding it was only for certain people he said he gave himself for the whole world but the whole world is not saved its whosoever believeth shall be saved but he gave himself for the whole.

World the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men the Bible says and so salvation is available to all jesus christ died for all and the Bible says whosoever will and whosoever will in our modern vernacular means whoever wants to whosoever will let him take the water of life freely jesus said to the Pharisees but you will not come to me that you might have life you say you don't want to you don't want to come to me because it's the mitts man who has to make the decision to accept the offer of eternal salvation the free gift of eternal life.

Look what the Bible says in Romans chapter 8 verse 28 and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose for whom he did foreknow he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son that he might be the firstborn among many brethren now the Bible is telling us here that the people that are predestined nated are those which he foreknew meaning that God knows the end from the beginning and before this world was ever even created he already knew who would be saved and who would not be saved he already knew that there would be people who would believe on Jesus Christ and people who would not believe on Jesus Christ he knew that there would be people like Jeremiah that he could use greatly to do powerful works for God and then he knew there were other people that would be losers that he wouldn't pick people like that for such an important job as to be a prophet to the nation's he knows all these things it's all part of his for not so the Bible says here if you look carefully in verse 29 for whom he did foreknow he also did.

Predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son so what this verse is actually saying is that God foreknew which people would be saved which people would believe on Christ and those people he predestinated them that they would be conformed to the image of his son so he looks into the future and he says okay Steven Anderson is going to believe on Jesus Christ as a six-year-old boy I for know that he's going to be a believer his destiny is to be conformed to the image Jesus Christ and he looked and saw you the same thing any he said I know this person is going to be saved so he predestined all those that believe that they would be conformed to the image of his son that's their destiny to be conformed to the image of Christ because in the resurrection we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is and the Bible says here that he might be the firstborn among many brethren verse 30 moreover whom he did.

Predestinate then he also called and who me called them he also justified and whom he justified them he also glorified now what does this all go back to tho God's foreknowledge because it's whosoever believeth in him that has access to these blessings and these promises of being son being glorified the Bible says that it's by faith it's by grace that we have access by faith we have access to this grace wherein we stay in the Bible says go over if you would to Ephesians chapter 1 this is also scripture that people will turn to talking about this subject of predestination or election God's choosing and you know whether we're talking about God choosing people to do work for him like he chose twelve disciples for example or he chose Jeremiah to be a prophet but by the way God doesn't always just two people just it will let me start over when it says that God chose someone it's not always talked about the fact that they're saved for example he said the disciples have not i chosen you twelve and one of yous a devil you know he chose them for a job he chose them for that specific task.

According to his foreknowledge it was his will that there would be one who was a devil because he would be betrayed by him that the scripture might be fulfilled that's all part of his will to make that choice but God does not choose people to go to heaven and choose people to go to hell and then create this illusion that we have the ability to believe on Him and be safe that would be ridiculous doesn't make any sense and it's contrary the Bible but it says here in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 3.

Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.

According as you have chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before my love now read that verse very carefully this first does not say God has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world and nuts to everybody else he chose that we would be in the group and others would know he's saying he chose us that we should be holy and without blame before so God chose he looked forward to the future and said I'm going to take a people that believe on me and I'm going to purify unto myself a peculiar people zealous of good works i'm going to take people that believed in me and I'm going to save them and i'm going to redesignate them look at verse 5 having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will to the plate praise of his of the glory of His grace where he had made us accepted in the beloved in whom we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his great so let's go back to Jeremiah one but i just want to show you that God's choice is based on his foreknowledge and so in Ephesians chapter one he's not choosing which people will be saved in which people will not be safe.

He's choosing that the people which are saved will walk blameless before him he's choosing that they'll be conformed to the image of a set he's choosing that they'll be adopted he's choosing that they'll be glorified he's choosing that someday they will inherit all things that's the choice that he made he chose that all believers would have these blessings so you can see how people twist scripture though and say oh god chooses which one will be saved in which one will not be safe and again one of the biggest problems with that doctrine despite what people will say is that it leads to people being laksa days ago or apathetic and not really feeling like what they do matters because they feel it's all for ordained and they don't have the urgency of wow people are going to hell and we need to go out and get them saved we need to go and preach the gospel we need to pull these people out of the fire if our gospel be hid its hid to them that are left it's more like no no.

God's got it all under control just sit back relax and if people really want to be saved they'll be saved got you know if with it it's not and and here's what they'll say well but what about these great soul winners and evangelist for the past that were Calvinist but here's what's funny about that the exception proves the rule.

You can point me that they pointed me they said well there's two people in phoenix arizona who are zealous soul winners in there Calvinists somebody pointed this out to me and I'm thinking to myself okay so you're pointing me to two people right but I will say this there are a whole bunch of Presbyterian churches all over this city and a whole bunch of Calvinist baptist churches bunch of reformed Baptists right and then there are a bunch of independent fundamental Baptist churches that are not Calvinist let me ask you something who's knocking the doors in this city is it the Presbyterians when was the last time the Presbyterians came to your door Reformed Baptist came to your door when was the last time somebody from James White's church came to your door it's not going to happen.

Ok so they can point out all this guard 200 years ago he was really jealous about souls ok what about your average independent fundamental baptist church sends out scores of people every week knocking doors and by the way our church is not the only soul winning church thank God we do a lot of soul-winning here but you know what there's a lot of other independent baptist churches all over America that knock thousands and thousand thousand doors and they're not calvinists and the churches i've been in there were Calvin's or dead as a doornail and the exception proves the rule but the vast majority of anybody who gives a rip about where people go when they die.

It happens to be people that aren't calvinists and most of the Calvinist are these go down deep stay down long come up dry sitting there ivory tower with their commentaries and their church fathers and all their theological mumbo jumbo and you know that's the truth and it's that it's the ones who say whosoever will may come that are actually doing the real soul winning and that's a fact that's that's what we see but it be that as it may it's what the Bible teaches anyway but anyway we see this about Jeremiah that he's chosen to be a prophet unto the nations another thing i want to point.

Not about that verse in verse 5 is that Jeremiah was not called to only preach unto the children of Judah that was not his only ministry sometimes people get a very strange view that God only cared about the chosen nation of Israel in the Old Testament and it was sort of just to hell with everybody else that's pretty much what they think and then they think open in the New Testament he opened it up beyond that but if you if you stop and think about it obviously in the Old Testament the nation of Israel were a Chosen People a chosen nation they were set apart and holy unto God but they were actually designed to be a light unto the Gentiles they weren't designed to just be this isolated group of people that God would love them and deal with them and save them and just not care about anyone else know God actually loved people in the Old Testament tube that were not of the chosen ones he still loved the world at that time as well and so when we see here that Jeremiah is called to be a prophet unto the nations as we read the book of jeremiah you're going to see various instances where he preaches to foreign countries where God sends him on tour literally around the world where God sends into all nations and where the Bible literally lists nation after nation after nation where Jeremiah travel and preach the Word of God you go to the Book of Isaiah you're gonna find the same thing you're gonna find God sending Isaiah to all nations of the earth all of them and then through the Ministry of Daniel Shadrach Meshach and Abednego we see God's Word going out to all tongues all Kindred's all nations in the book of Esther we see the Word of God going out to a hundred and twenty seven provinces all the way from Ethiopia to india so God's plan has always included all man upon the earth he's the god of the whole earth is he the god of the Jews only is he not also the Gentiles yes of the Gentiles also and even in the Old Testament God had a plan and cared about all the people the world did the nation of Israel have a special purpose of the Old Testament where they have chosen people did bring forth the Lord Jesus Christ where the Oracles of God committed under them of course but God also wanted other people to hear the preaching to think about all the great stories in the Old Testament about non-jews receiving salvation from the Lord think about people like name in the Syrian you know any and by the way Jesus talked about this when he was in his ministry he said in Matthew chapter 8 when a man you have to turn there but when a man came to him with great faith he said under this man this man was not a Jew he said verily I say unto you I have not found.

So great faith no not in israel and i say unto you the many shall come from the east and west and just sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven but the children of the kingdom meaning the king of Israel shall be cast out into outer darkness there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when Jesus was almost pushed off a cliff you remember when they tried to push Jesus off a clip and luke chapter 4 he goes and preaches hometown in fact let's quickly turn there Luke chapter number four is a great story Jesus goes back to preach to his hometown and of course the Bible says a prophet is not without honor saving his own country and in his own house but Jesus actually points back to Old Testament stories showing that even in the Old Testament God cared about people of other nations and he wasn't just specific to the Jews only look what it says in verse number 24 of chapter four and he said verily ice and you know prophet is accepted in his own country but I tell you the truth many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias when the heaven was shut up three years and six months when great famine was throughout all the land but under none of them was Elias sent save onto Sarepta a city of sight on onto a woman that was a widow and many lepers were in israel and the time malicious the prophet and none of them was cleansed saving name in the series Syrian and all day in the synagogue when they heard these things were filled with wrath and you know even this preaching today could create wrath and people when you start saying hey guess what God loves people that art.

Just the Jews but also the Gentiles only and that there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek and that God as salvation for all and he's the god of the whole earth and his house is a house of prayer for all nations you know they get angry about that and here the Bible says that they were angry at Jesus for pointing out some of the greatest works in the Old Testament word untoward foreigners he said there are a lot of other widows that he could have helped out but he helped out a foreigner lot of guys could have been healed of leprosy but it was a foreigner that was helped out and by the way we need to get past this attitude that a lot of people have today it's an.

Anti-foreigner attitude it's not biblical water is it some kind of liberal order you hippie but hold on a second I thought the Bible's our authority here not talk radio.

Ok so what does the Bible say about the stranger it says treat the stranger well to treat him as one born in the land ok it doesn't say to hate foreigners and add to get this tribalistic where you know hey white people and look there are people out there today that are white supremacist and there are people out there that are black supremacist you know what what about these black Hebrew Israelites and they talk about how blacks are the chosen people and everything is huge movement and then there are all kinds of white people that are the same way and they're Hispanics and Indians and everybody else that feels the same way but wait a minute.

God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ supposed to glory and being white or brown or black or yellow it doesn't matter it's meaningless and the eyes have got avoid genealogies he said avoid genealogies who cares but yet people today get this attitude that one nation is better than another when really God has made all Kindred's of the earth of one blood and he's not a respecter of persons and you know it'sit's to the Jew first and also to the Greek and there's no difference between the two.

He's made us both one in Christ Jesus.

Christ there is neither male nor female june or Greek bond or free Scythian party you need it doesn't matter.

So we need to understand that Jeremiah was ordained a prophet to the nation's let's look at this in Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 6 then said I our Lord God behold I cannot speak for I am a child but the Lord said enemy say not i am a child for that shot go to all that i shall send me and whatsoever I command the shall speak this is a great scripture for children right here and i hope every child who's here today would listen to what the scripture is saying don't say I cannot speak for I'm a child you know children can be used by God to win souls under Jesus Christ they can be used to preach God's Word you know I remember the story of my grandpa who got saved because of the testimony of a five-year-old boy literally God used a.

Five-year-old boy to win my grandfather the Lord ok and you know what.

What Baptist pastors had failed to do in the past this five-year-old boy accomplished there was a kid who lived on his Street and this five-year-old boy came to him and quoted the Romans road to him and preach the gospel and he didn't get saved right then and there but he said wow I I got to go to the church that this kid is from I'm gonna go check that church out he was so impressed that this five-year-old boy came up and started witnessing to him and preaching the up 55 years old preach them the Romans road he went to church that Sunday and then the tuesday night thereafter the pastor and a deacon dr. Roland rasmussen and one of the Deacons there from faith baptist church in canoga park came to his house and one him and my dad to the Lord the same day my grandfather my dad the same day.

Why because of a five-year-old boy you know God can use children to preach the Word of God and you know i thank god for the fact that I you know my children in the neighborhood have won some kids under the Lord in the neighborhood you know when they run indicates on the street at the park so if your child you're listening to be don't say oh well I'm a child I'm just I can't.

I matchup you know what if you have friends in the neighborhood that you play with maybe you go to school or maybe you're part of a homeschool group why don't you open your mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel and you know I've often thought about all the kids that I knew when I was in elementary school junior high and high school and I've often thought about the fact that I bet you I could have won some of the Lord if I would have if I would have tried you ever think about that.

I think about kids that I knew and I think about wow I bet you I could have won them into the Lord but I just didn't do it nobody taught me to do so when I didn't learn so winning until I was like 17 years old but God wants to use children he wants to use man woman boy and girl to to win people to Christ and to preach the gospel so don't say I'm a child because if you start when your child be like Timothy who from a child new the Holy Scriptures which are able to make the wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus and you can be used by God even as a child died the Bible says out of the mouths of babes and sucklings that was perfected praise you know suffer the children to come unto me from such as the kingdom of God verily I say unto you whosoever also not be converted and become as a little child he said should not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

You have to become as a little child and have the faith of a job that's why children are easy to win the Lord and you know who's good at winning children the Lord other children children winning children to the Lord otherwise what are you even doing playing with all these neighborhood kids and everything if you're not going to win them to Christ you know that's why we're on this earth to to preach the gospel and the younger you start doing that the better i wish i would have started younger I wish I would be used all those opportunities I was a kid and and I really wanted to but I just didn't know what I was doing but if you grow up in this church you have no excuse because there's an abundance of opportunity to learn then said I lord god behold I cannot speak for I'm a child with the Lord sent me say not i am a child for thou shalt go to all that ISIL Cindy and whatsoever I command the thou shalt speak the verse that comes to mind is when Paul tells Timothy let no man despise thy youth but be down example of the believers in.

Word in conversation and charity in spirit and faith in purity the Bible says in verse 8 be not afraid of their faces for I'm with the deliver these say that the Lord then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth and the Lord said I may be old I put my words in my mouth see I've set this day over the nation's it over the kingdom's to root out and pull down and destroy and throw down to build and a plant so here Jeremiah is being commissioned to go out and preach a hard message and so he's told don't be afraid of their faces.

He's saying people are going to give you dirty looks.

You know people are going to confront you and be an enemy unto you and you can't be afraid of them.

I'm going to deliver you because i'm sending you to root out i'm sending you to pull down to destroy now most people don't think of a preacher as a destroyer do they you know nobody prays before the sermon lord I pray you just helped pastor Anderson just destroy what it needs to destroy the night larges helping to destroy it.

You know what what do you think about that pastor that you know he's destructive and I mean that in the best possible way but wanted but I mean this is part of the ministry some things that need to be destroyed and notice when you look at his ministry he says root out pulldown destroy and throw down those are for negatives and then he says to build into planets two positives it's a two-thirds negative message and and and one-third positive that Jeremiah is going to be preaching and so many preachers today are a hundred percent positive 0% negative are ninety-nine percent positive and one is negative and you know some people are too negative i agree but we need a balanced we need a tearing down type of a sermon you say well I you know I want to be built up.

Yeah but sometimes you be torn down sometimes you need a swift kick in the pants more than you need a pat on the back and so the Bible says in verse number 11 moreover the word of the lord came unto me saying Jeremih what's ESL and I said I see a rod of an almond tree then said the Lord unto me now as well scene for our hasten my word to perform it and the word of the lord came unto me the second time saying what's this now and I said I see a seething pot in the face thereof is toward the north then the Lord said unto me out of the north and evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land for low i will call the families of the kingdoms of the North saith the Lord and they shall come and they shall set everyone is thrown at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem and against all the walls there are brag about it gets all the cities of Judah and i will under my judgments against them touching all their wickedness who have forsaken me and it burned incense into other gods and worship the works of their own hands.

So God is pronouncing judgment upon the children of Judah for being wicked and worshiping other gods he says I'm gonna bring evil upon them.

I'm gonna bring these nations against them to destroy them into fight against them now this is not a very positive message when you preach to your country.

Oh by the way there's an enemy coming and you're gonna lose and they're going to win because it's like whoa you're not patriotic and even later in the book of jeremiah he's going to be accused of treason you fallen under the Chaldeans you're being paid by the Chaldeans any says well it's a lie but he's still thrown in prison.

Why because he was accused of being in the payment of the Chaldeans because he's ruining their morale you know by saying that they're going to lose and he's not just surrender to the Chaldeans you're gonna lose anyway so what are you doing buddy.

We're at war all the talk radio is saying you know this guy's a trader wore this is hippie or 12 anti-war whatever but he was preaching the Word of God had frequent got to now the first thing he shows them is a rod of an almond tree.

You know I believe he's probably just showing him there a rod that he's gonna whoop them with you know because the rods like spare the rod spoil the child right a rod is something that you beat somebody with the discipline them and he's bringing discipline and punishment upon.

On the children of Judah and he says there's a seething pot like a boiling pot that represents the enemy that's going to come and destroy them.

He says in verse 17 there now therefore gird up the loins and arise and speak unto them all that I command the be not dismayed at their faces last i confound thee before them now God is not only commanding him not to be dismayed at their faces not only to fear them but he's actually telling him he's gonna punish him if he is dismayed at their faces if you're just made it their faces all confound you before them i will cause you to fail you will look as a fool before them if you are dismayed at them but he's basically telling him you know if you do what's right if you preach what's right all defend you.

He said in verse 18 for bold I've maybe this day a defensive city and an iron pillar and brazen walls against the whole land against the kings of Judah against the princes thereof against the priest there up and against the people of the land and they shall fight against me but they shall not prevail against the prime with thee saith the Lord to deliver thee now let me submit to you this there's nothing new Under the Sun and if we were to take an honest look at the united states of america today it is similar to the land of Judah at this time in the sense that we committed great wickedness and abominations and we know that God's anger is like a seething pot ready to boil over and we know that God's got the rod of the almond tree ready and we know that bad things are gonna happen to us as a result of our wickedness we're in the same boat here and preachers today if they preach the truth if they cry aloud spare not and show god's people their sins if they get up and preach the word in season out of season and they reprove rebuke and exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine they will end up being against the kings of the land and against the princes of the land against the priests of the land and against the people that look there are people that we need to preach against their priests and preachers that need to be preached against their rulers and leaders that need to be preached against.

And it's no different today than it was then.

And God says if you will not fear if you will be a fearless preacher he says all make you like a defense city all make you like an iron pillar and brazen walls against the whole land and against etc etc against the kings of Judah see the word that keeps coming up in this passage is against there are times when we preach about something and then there are times when we need to preach it get something four times we need to stand for something and times we need to stand against something and that's what the Bible's teaching here now let me just point out the obvious truth of this chapter that a lot of people don't want to face and that is this that when the children of Judah disobeyed the Lord and forsook him and worshiped other gods.

The Bible says that God was against them and the Bible says that God gathered nations against them and that he brought enemies against them and that he set preachers against them did he say to Jeremiah you're going to be for the kings of Judah because they're the chosen people . so you got to be forum because you got a blood if you don't bless them god will bless you.

Whoa buddy you better bless the king of jute no no he said no you you're against the cities of Judah I'm not look is every endeavor you have a Bible here tonight so we're looking at the same chapter i'm looking at is a you're against the cities of Judah you're against the kings of Judah your gets jerusalem i'm bringing armies and cancers at but yet today the preachers just want to be for Jerusalem and for Judah no matter what no matter what false god they worship and let me tell you something there's only one God and he has a name Jesus and it's the name that's above any other name neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved and the Bible says that if you don't if you don't have the Sun you don't have the father whosoever denied the Sun the same app not the fall other buddy that acknowledged that the Sun had the father also who is a liar but neither denied that Jesus is the Christ he's Antichrist denied the father and the Son the Bible says whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ half not God just let that sink in whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ half not God whosoever abideth in the doctrine of Christ he had both the father and the son but hold on a second why is it that there is a doctrine today that says these people who do not believe in Christ have god is that difficult.

How do you say they have God ok here we go get whosoever the doctrine of Christ hath not God whosoever deny it the Sun the same half not the fog because it all in Israel they have the same God that we have really how does that work because the Bible says that no man cometh unto the father but by Jesus so therefore they don't have the same God soso but do they have a god I'm gonna talk about god I mean who i'm in the brain to somebody at that wall I mean who are they but they're praying to somebody ok bc all they're praying to the Father really because that's not what the Bible says about as they don't have God right and the Bible says that by Christ we have access to the Father by Christ we we may come boldly before the throne of grace Jesus the Son of God is our priest we have one mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus and so it's important to keep that in mind and so as we continue on in the Book of Jeremiah we need to realize what's going on in the book we got to get the context what's going on in the book.

We've got a wicked nation which is similar to where we find ourselves the United States a nation that in time pass was right just as the United States and time past has been a godly god-fearing nation that's how Judah was in the past yeah they had been a godly nation.

Really in in recent history with josiah they had been but then they went off into wickedness once again and so we're in the same boat today and they had judgment coming we have judgment coming they had a preacher that was sent unto them we have lots of preachers that God has sent us in America there are lots of preachers that God has ordained and God will continue to ordain many more preachers in the next several years and god willing there will be a whole army of Jeremiah type preachers that would start churches all over America and that would be like an iron pillar that would be like a brazen wall that would be a defensive city that would not be afraid of the faces of man but that god's word would be in their mouths and they would stand up and boldly preach the Word of God and yes they would build in plant but they wouldn't be afraid to tear down to destroy that which impedes God's work.

You can't build something until you first clear the ground and demolish that which was there beforehand and so as we read the book of jeremiah there's a lot that we can apply unto ourselves all the scriptures that God gave in the Old Testament are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come and all Scripture is given by inspiration of God is profitable for doctrine and so as we go through Jeremiah there will be many lessons for preacher and parishioner alike and there will be many lessons for our nation and there will be many lessons about you know what God wants us to do in the year 2016 let's bow our heads and have a word of Prayer father we thank you so much Lord for this powerful book of jeremiah it's really a giant book Lord and it's one that has a lot of difficult things Lord but I pray that through the power of the Holy Spirit as our teacher we would understand this book over the next 51 weeks that we study the rest of this book Lord open our eyes and and let us behold wondrous things out of your law and lord please just give us an understanding heart give us wisdom and skill as you gave to Daniel and Jesus name we pray amen.





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