Answers Bible Curriculum Year 2 Quarter 3 Lesson 10
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Hosea Micah Isaiah those that were serving during the days of the Kings was aya to Hezekiah and that was from about 800 BC to about 680 bc but now we’re jumping jumping forward about 50 to 100 years the Northern Kingdom at this point is gone Samaria has fallen Hezekiah is dead many more wicked Kings have arisen in Judah finally we come to Josiah was one of the last good Kings in Judah under Josiah God sends another prophet to Judah a prophet named Jeremiah and it’s his book that we’re going to examine today titled today’s classes God warns Judah Jeremiah is often referred to as the weeping prophet and for good reason he not only foretold Judah’s judgment Judah’s devastation Judas exile but he lived to see it happen there are a couple points in jeremiah where you actually get to see the grief of jeremiah vividly depicted jeremiah 91 jeremiah declares oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears that i might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people in jeremiah 13-17 talking to the people of judah he warns that he warns them jeremiah he warns them but if you will not listen to it my soul will sob in secret for such pride and my eyes will bitterly weep and flow down with tears because the flock of the Lord has been taken captive and then God tells Jeremiah Jeremiah 1417 you will say this word to them let my eyes slow down with tears night and day and let them not cease for the virgin daughter my people has been crushed with a mighty blow with a sorely infected wound Jeremiah is a powerful book he was a mighty prophet this book is filled with rebukes appeals for repentance declarations of future judgment on Judah and other nations of also promises of future restoration we’re only going to scratch the surface of this lengthy book today but full sample very hour we’ll look at various passages and from these passages we’re going to notice for different things that’s going to be the outline for our class today God’s indictment indictment of Judas in God’s appeal for true repentance among the people of Judah God’s warning of severe judgment and God’s promise to restore and change both Israel and Judah one day in the future let’s pray oh god this is a mighty word and we thank you for sending Jeremiah the Prophet as a witness to your people and as a witness to us of your righteousness and our evil god I pray that you would cause these words to buy your spear work mightily among us today help me to be able to explain them well and accurately and I payload that we did that we would apply them oh that you would cause that work in our hearts in Jesus name Amen our first stop on our server Jeremiah will be looking at God’s indictment of Judas sin and the passage i want i want us to turn to which jeremiah to jeremiah two verses for 213 so Jeremiah right after Isaiah in the Old Testament using the pew Bible its page 7 52 we’ll be starting in verse for a little bit of background on Jeremiah though as before we read this passage we actually know a lot about Jeremiah because he records a lot of information about himself in his book of prophecy so we know a number of things Jeremiah was a priest and also profit from a small village near Jerusalem according to Jeremiah 16 verses 1 to 4 Jeremiah never married and never had any children this is actually a God’s direction it was assigned to the people of Judah just as Jeremiah had no sons or daughters and no spouse so the people of Judah we’re going to lose their sons and daughters and their wives because of the coming judgment Jeremiah was assistant in ministry by faithful scribe Baruch Jeremiah was called as a young man to serve as a prophet and he served for more than 50 years serving from the days of Josiah around 627 bc till after Jerusalem’s destruction which took place in 586 or 587 BC he prophesized on in the last side kings of Judah Josiah Jehovah has Joachim Jehoiachin Zedekiah Jeremiah suffered much hardship in his ministry as a prophet he was threatened contradicted rebuked put on trial for his life put on put in the stocks forced to flee from the King’s presence publicly humiliated thrown into a pit and even kidnapped the most pain of all God told Jeremiah that the people of Judah would not listen to his message Jeremiah 7 verses 27 to 28 God says it Jeremiah you shall speak all these words to that but they will not listen to you and you shall call to them but they will not answer you you shall say to them this is the nation that did not obey the voice of the lord their god or accept correction truth has perished has been cut off from their mouth so Jeremiah suffered a lot nevertheless God appointed Jeremiah as his witness to Judah promising to deliver Jeremiah from all of those who would oppose him he says you’re going to be opposed and not going to listen to you but I will deliver you from their hand and Jeremiah was faithful to God’s call and God was faithful dejare to the promise he made in Jeremiah Jeremiah actually lived to be an old man at least 80 or 90 years old seeing the release of King Jehoiachin in Babylon around 561 DC so a little bit I’m Jeremiah’s back home but now that we know a little bit more about the man in his ministry let’s look at the message look now Jeremiah 242 13 as we look at God’s indictment on Judah first for hear the word of the Lord o house is Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel thus says the Lord what injustice did your father’s find in me that they went far from me and walk after emptiness and became empty they did not say where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt who led us through the wilderness through a land of deserts pitts through a land of drownin of deep darkness through a land that no one crossed and where no man dwelt I brought you into the fruitful land to eat its fruit and it’s good things but you came and defiled my land and my inheritance you made an abomination the priests did not say where is the Lord and those who handle the law did not know the rulers also transgressed against me and the prophets prophesied by bail and walked after things that did not profit therefore I will yet contend with you declares the Lord and with your sons Sons I will contend for cross to the coastlands of kitchen and see and send a kedar and observe closely and see if there’s ever been or see if there’s been such a thing as this has a nation change God’s when they were not gods but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit Bo Paul oh heavens at this and shudder be very desolate declares the Lord for my people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters to you for themselves cisterns broken cisterns that can hold no water I want to stop right there very striking words from the Lord let’s observe to whom is this word addressed it says all the house of Jacob all the families of the house of Israel and we know Israel is the Northern Kingdom but though the kingdom has been removed at this point so how should we understand or who should we understand the audience to be this is the people who are left in the land which would be judo they are the descendants of Jacob also the descendants of Israel they are the people that God is addressing here what explanation does God demand from Judah and verse 5 yeah yeah why did you leave me specifically yes what did i do what did I do wrong to you what injustice did you find in me that caused you to abandon explain how did I treat you bad how am I at fault what does God say that people are not remembering according to verse 6 they’re not bringing back to their mind something why don’t they bringing back to their minds right and try it says you don’t remember how I delivered you out of Egypt you don’t remember with the mighty hand that I brought you across the wilderness how I brought you into this good land you’re not recalling that actually verse 7 says in response to God doing those good things that people have Judah the people of Israel and Judah but Judith now have defiled the land and made their God given inheritance and abomination before God our God doesn’t just condemned the people of Judah in general but also he specifically condemns another group in verse 8 what are the group the priests we can actually divide it into a couple different things the priests who else the rulers and the prophets all the leaders of Judith’s he says all of you are going astray none of you are remembering me none of you are thinking about my law you’re all turning aside top let’s go after bail the rulers do evil as well and then God points out something appalling based on a comparison between the people of Judah and the people of the other nations what is it that the nations of kitten that’s Cypress and key are that’s Arabia what do they not even do they don’t change their gods yeah they have a certain set of gods you know their their gods and they serve those guys every nation has its own gods every once a while the Pantheon shift a little bit but every every people has their own gods that they serve and they never changed it I almost never change them but these gods are not even gods they’re not even real but people hold to their gods there they are God’s after all the other nations don’t change God’s even though they’re not really gods but what is Judah done what if Judah and Israel done they’ve done what the other nations don’t do they have changed their cause even though their God is actually God their God actually has power their God actually is real God further describes his people’s evil and verse 13 he says they are doubly evil not only did they reject God who was the fountain of living water he’s the only one who can sustain and satisfy them that was a momentous evil but he says they’ve also rejected God in order to hew for themselves broken cisterns now what’s a cistern again it’s like a well a little bit different than a welcome anyone explain it’s yeah it’s basically a storage place for waters for collecting rainwater it’s like a well it’s just a big hole in the ground or a big chamber in the ground it collects rainwater and it stores it there now cisterns are not as good as fountains or Springs because they just collect an old water they’re not sources of water so he says you rejected the living fountain you fiend for yourself a cistern but it’s a broken sister a broken cistern has some sort of leak so that it doesn’t keep the rainwater that it collects it just exits the cistern in some way it can’t hold any water God says since that’s what you’ve done are you not EE evil let’s ask a couple of interpretation questions what are the broken cisterns of verse 13 there are other gods right that’s what he said before the other nations don’t exchange their gods that you have you’ve taken the fountain of living waters and exchange it for a broken cistern these other gods these idols these things you serve are the broken cisterns that you have made for yourself by comparing Israel to the other nations which is kind emphasized about not as your oh I’m sorry Judah by comparing Judah to the other nations what does God emphasize about you then so as the other nations don’t even do what you did so yeah the opportu depravity of Judah the greatness of their evil look how evil you are even the evil nations don’t do what you did God is really emphasizing the evil of Judah but it’s not just that the people are evil look back at the passage look at the end of verse for the end of verse 8 into verse 11 and the end of verse 13 there’s a theme that God keeps bringing up not only is Judas rejection of God evil what else is it yeah Judy yeah its unprofitable it’s futile it’s just not smart it’s senseless it’s stupid why why would you do something that was for your profit and turn aside to something that gives you no profit Israel I’m sorry Judah is not only evil it is senseless God tells you to how evil must you be in order to do something that is not only so wicked and so ungrateful but also so foolish you’ve exchanged that which is profitable for that which is unprofitable the God who has power for the gods we have no power the God who was inaugurated a covenant of love with you for God’s you do not even exist this idea of willful evil and folly appears in another passage and I look at that to turn to the next chapter of Jeremiah Jeremiah three verses six to ten where God continues his indictment of Judah so this is just on the next page in the pew Bible 754 look at verses 6 to 10 how long as I read then the Lord said to me in the days of josiah the king have you seen what faithless is real dick she went up on every high hill and under every Green Tree and she was a harlot there I thought after she has done all these things she will return to me but she did not return and her treacherous sister Judah saw it and I saw that for all the adult trees of faithless Israel I had sent her away and given her a rigid divorce yet her treacherous suits sister Judah did not fear but she went and was a harlot also because of the lightness of our harlotry she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart rather in deception declares the Lord ok some more things we can observe here when do these words of God come to Jeremiah yeah Craig days of Josiah the King no member jose I is a righteous king who brings reformation and revival to Judah God speaks to both Israel and Judah her sister here who is Israel referring to this is annoying Kingdom we’re not thinking according to the understanding from Chapter two this is not all the descendants of Israel this is specifically the Northern Kingdom and then the southern kingdom referring to Judah God says Israel the northern cam was a harlot though God expected Israel to return after she had pursued her Allah treats the utmost but Israel didn’t do that so what did God do to Israel according to the passage the Forester I gave her a certificate of divorce and I sent her away that’s what I did with the Northern Kingdom Judah Israel’s sister saw what happened but rather than fearing god what did you two do she did what her sister did she committed harlotry also says the lightness for harlotry that’s probably referring to it just the casual nature of her harlotry she committed adultery with various stones and trees after this God says Judah did return to God but what was the problem God found a problem still what’s the problem they did not come back with all their hearts they came back in deception he said Oh God we’re returning to you but God knows their heart’s not in it they’re not coming back to them with a whole heart let’s ask a few more interpretation questions now the hollow tree in adultery mentioned here is not literal but it’s symbolic what is it a symbol of idolatry this is language common in the prophetic books their spiritual adultery is their idolatry now God says he gave Israel a certificate of divorce and sent her away now God didn’t do this literally there was no piece of paper that he sent to her but what did God do that is symbolically described as a divorce something that Judah witnessed exactly Israel’s end as a kingdom and the people being brought into exile that is being symbolically described as a divorce and you can see the language fits I gave her certificate sent her away just the people visual were sent away from Samaria and the land of Canaan and they went beyond the Euphrates it went to Assyria he says that’s what happened Israel Judah saw it now if you’re Judah and you see Israel go in X out because of idolatry what lesson seems common sense for you to learn don’t do what she did if yeah exactly if God does this suit my sister Israel then he will do it to me if I do it I better stop going after idols but Judah doesn’t learn that lesson in fact it learns the opposite lesson Judah becomes like her sister even though she saw Israel go into exile now what does this show about you then if the lesson was so obvious but she refused to learn it what does that show Hopsin it we’re gonna say really yeah no relationship with God obstinate foolish senseless and both of these passages we see that Judah is emphasized just an evil and senseless people now just so we’re clear when God announces this divorce of the Northern Kingdom does that mean that he’s completely done with Israel I think the answer is no because as we’ve seen from Hosea and the other prophets who prophesied Yisrael God says and the last days I’m going to come back I’m gonna restore you Israel not just you’d 0 Israel i’m going to restore you to so this is a temporary divorce now God says Judah committed adultery with various stones and trees how does that mean yeah Joe right this is referring to idolatrous worship yeah structures like altars images being made out of stones and trees yeah we’re continuing the symbolism of adultery equaling idolatry so that’s what you did it and it was doing doing it all over the place very casual with her spiritual adultery now this word all of this comes to jeremiah drink Josiah’s rain and if you read in the history books there’s ice rain sounds like a great time in Judah it’s like everyone’s turning back to the Lord this is great well what’s the problem with Josiah’s reforms as far as Judah is concerned it does seem like the people are turning back to God what’s the problem they’re not coming back with all their hearts God says I see those reforms I see what does I is trying to do i see this presentation of your repentance but i know the truth you’re not really fully repentance you’re not coming back to me with your whole heart you’ve not changed your attitude towards your idols but you’re amassing it for a time now will God honor such repentance and renewed worship know from the sincere ones who were returning to Lord yes God will honor it but as a nation that is as a whole not sincerely returning to the Lord he’s not going to honor that judgment still comes Judah shows yourself in these passages and certainly others in Jeremiah to be thoroughly senseless and wicked yeah how was God acted in the meantime faithful long-suffering kind like even with Israel he says she’s committing all this how harlotry but she will eventually return to me she can’t keep going after evil and not feel guilty about it and not return to me Israel kept going gossett all right after judge her but he was very patient with Israel and now he’s patient with Judah even though she’s so senseless and so wicked so already from these two passages we see God’s great righteousness his righteous dealings with his people and yet his peoples create evil they are extremely obstinate god is good impatient but the people who only heaped up their adult readers with various idols Judah has not learned any lesson any good lesson from Israel’s exile even Judas repentance under Josiah is shallow and deceptive God says now with such stubborn and ceaseless evil even the most patient God must do what you must bring judgment we’re going to say something Danny oh yeah he must bring judgment but he gives Judah more time he tells you that there’s still something she might do be spared judgment to be reconciled to God that’s what I want to look at next let’s look at God’s appeal to Judah in chapter 4 just the first four verses to chapter 4 which is God called you to do Judah there’s something you can do look at verse 10 chapter 4 we have the term Israel here but again this refers to Judah if you will return 0 Israel declares the Lord and you should return to me and if you will put away your detested things from my presence and will not waver and you will swear as the Lord lives in truth injustice and in righteousness then the nations will bless themselves in him and in him they will glory for thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem break up your fallow ground you’re not so among thorns circumcised yourselves to the Lord and remove the foreskins of your hearts men of Judah inhabitants of Jerusalem or else my rat will go forth like fire and burn with nan de quen tient because of the evil of your deeds God calls on Judah to truly repent you need to truly repent Gouda and it gives two examples of how the repentance would be demonstrated what are the two ways given in that first versus put away the detestable things and that’s got to refer to the idols and things associated with them get rid of those get rid of idolatrous worship and what’s another way you’ll demonstrate repentance yeah yeah I think you’re right Shay the second example there when you swear as the Lord lives because that’s a common Oh for people and you did to me you say that what you actually mean it when you swear let it be in truth and justice and in righteousness not only in your declarations to me but in your declarations to one another speak honestly practice justice keep your word and I’ll see your repentance God pictures this repentance as a plowing of hard thorn infested and fallow ground and also a circumcision of the heart don’t just look on the outside circumcise the hearts be sincere the people do to do this will be the results according to verse 2 kind of a surprising result yeah the nations will be blessed in him and that him has got refer to God you’re going to be a blessing to all the nations if you actually follow God because you’re going to help the people be blessed in God but if the people will not repent from the heart what will be the result yeah God’s wrath will go forth unquenchable it will be an overwhelming amount of wrath it cannot be stopped if you will not repent there is no escape from God’s judgment if you will not repent from the heart now a question an interpretation question as you seen many times the Old Testament when God calls on Israel or Judah or nations to repent he doesn’t use the language of belief but of action stop doing these things start doing these things does this mean that the Old Testament teaches salvation through works and not faith that’s right that’s right okay so bill is articulating some good truth there repentance is always by faith there is no repentance without fake salvation has to be consistent from Old Testament New Testament why then his repentance described the way it is in the Old Testament why doesn’t it mention faith and belief and really focus on the works doing right so here you’re just repeat your comment Wayne and the New Testament there’s a similar emphasis on worse that is you have to put off the old works or the old ways to old evil ways and put on the new righteous wigs now you may say well there’s a lot more about belief and faith in New Testament that’s true but even if you go to the book of James right James was speaking to a Jewish Christian Church or largely Jewish audience he really emphasizes the works even going so far as to say faith without works is dead right because your faith is proven by what you do so the Bible is not being a consistent here when it talks about these it’s not saying all right in the Old Testament you did works and the New Testaments all about believe oh it’s always all about the leaf but the emphasis that God chooses to articulate mostly in the Old Testament we do know that there’s also the passages that do talk about belief abraham believed God is accounted to him as righteousness that’s in Genesis but like James Old Testament words about repentance emphasize the fruit of repentance if you really believe Judah if you really are returning to God then show don’t just say oh as the Lord lives speak honestly put away the idols do justice don’t talk about repentance if you’re not willing to change your actions it’s the same same thing the New Testament if there are no fruits of repentance if your life doesn’t change from an evil self self focused way to one that loves the Lord and does his will you haven’t repented or you’re going to say Brown I just want to add one thing about the face that’s right yeah how back here’s another place that talks about fate the righteous will live by his fate and that’s picked up on in the New Testament you’re right thanks for mentioning that wrong so let’s not get confused when we look at passages like this telling for God to change the actions salvation is consistent here God is just emphasize the fruits of salvation yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I think you’re right Danny even in this passage where talked about the circumcision of the heart that is a that is pointing to belief that is pointing to what’s on the inside rather than on the outside it’s in direct contrast the outside oh I can do the work of circumcision it says you kind of do like Jesus yeah that’s a great great comments TV i’ll just briefly try and repeat it even the image of breaking up the fallow ground is again pointing to the inward change if you’re going to produce fruit if you’re going to produce righteous behavior you have to break up that soil you have to have the change perspective that changed heart and I think a number of you mentioned all this connects to the imagery and explanations of salvation that are given in the New Testament it’s consistent between the old and the new all right so we see that what Judah is called to do they are called to repent they’re called repent sincerely but they don’t they don’t listen to Jeremiah’s words and facts they dismiss the prophets outright they say there’s no you need to listen to God’s prophets but blaming repentance their message is empty there’s no substance to what they say well God has a response to that I want us to look at that also and as we transition now to look at cost warning of judgment look at Jeremiah 5 Jeremiah 5 verses 14 and 19 right before this passage reverse their team there’s a declaration from the people oh the prophets they’re just windbags don’t need to listen to what they say well here’s what God says in verse 14 therefore thus says the Lord the God of hosts because you have spoken this word as we’re dismissing the prophets behold I’m making my words in your mouth fire and as people would and it will consume them behold I’m bringing a nation against you from afar o house of Israel declares the Lord it is an enduring nation it is an ancient nation a nation whose language you do not know nor can you understand what they say your quiver is like an open grave all of them are like my tea or all of them are mighty men they will devour your harvest and your food they will devour your sons and your daughters that will devour your flocks and your herds they will devour your vines and your fig trees they will demolish with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust yet even in those days declares the lord I will not make a complete destruction I will not make you a complete destruction it’ll come about when they say why is the Lord our God tunnel these things to us and you shall say to them as you have forsaken me and serve born gods in your land so you will serve strangers in the land that is not yours let’s observe in contrast that the dismissal of God’s Word as mere wind by the people of Judah God tells Jeremiah that he’s going to make Jeremiah’s words fire that will consume the people God promises to bring an ancient and enduring nation full of mighty deadly men and warriors against Judah and what will this nation destroy from Judah God mentions the number of things is going to destroy their crops yep their vines their fields they’re going to be destroyed what else their sons and daughters is going to be destroyed and lose their children what else alright the flocks and herds your animals going to be destroyed and your fortified cities those things that you’re trusting it Wow we’ve got a great strong fortified City we’re safe here no all going to be destroyed God says your crops your animals children fortified cities all going to be destroyed by this nation I’m bringing against you and when this judgment comes what astonishing question will the people of you to ask why has God done this to them to us I can’t understand why is this happening well Jeremiah’s response it is a description of God’s fitting even poetic justice Judah you served foreign gods therefore here’s pecado pictures what God is doing God is removing you to a foreign land and there will be ruled by foreign people who speak a language that is foreign to you it’s fitting because you’ve chosen for in God’s Judah will face this fierce destruction and yet when it comes to pass what does God still promise says I won’t make a complete destruction of you I won’t destroy you utterly I’ll still have mercy even in my judgment of course we know that’s and remembrance of Covenant so we see here that God is very straightforward with Judith because you refuse to list of my profits total destruction is coming upon you or aside from that one little qualification of mercy utter devastation is coming upon you but some of them may have said surely God were not allowed Jerusalem to be destroyed surely God will not allow his temple to be defiled will he after all God specifically chose to set his name in Jerusalem and in the temple God has response to that sentiment as well turn to Jeremiah seven Jeremiah seven and we’re looking at verses 12 15 first one the word that came to jeremiah from the lord saying stand in the gate of the Lord’s house and proclaim their this word and say hear the word of the Lord all you of Judah who enter by these gates to worship the Lord thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel amend your ways and your deeds and I will let you dwell in this place do not trust in deceptive word saying this is the temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord or if you truly amend your ways and your deeds if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor if you do not oppress the alien the orphan or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place norwalk after other gods to your own ruin then I will let you dwell in this place and the land that I gave to your father’s forever and ever behold you are trusting a deceptive words to no avail you steal murder and commit adultery and swear falsely and offer sacrifices to bail and walk after other gods that you have not known then come and stand for me in this house which is called by my name and say we are delivered that you may do all these abominations has this house which is called by my name become a den of robbers in your sight behold hi even I have seen it declares the Lord but going out to my place which was in Shiloh well I made my name dwell at the first and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel and now because you have done all these things declares the Lord and I spoke to you rising up early and speaking but you did not hear and I called you but you did not answer therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name in which you trust and to the place which I gave you and your father is as I did to Shiloh I will cast you out of my sight as I have cast out all your brother’s all the offspring of Ephraim let’s observe this section where does God sent Jeremiah to deliver this word okay to the tenant go to the temple what deception is God warned people against yeah don’t trust in the temple don’t think that because you have the temple you’re safe you notice that the phrasing that God imitation them how they repeat the Temple of the Lord as if just that fact of the temples existence will be there bulwark God says that a fact that they have a temple will not keep them in the land but what will keep them in the land repentant if you actually turn back and do righteousness then I’ll let you stay in the land the temple is not going to keep you in the land but repentance will notice the works of repentance detail here practice justice don’t impress the alien the poor the widow don’t shed innocent blood don’t worship other gods God says if you obey these things and i’ll let you dwell in the land one inconsistency does God point out that further proves that their temple and their suppose the devotion of God will not deliver them what are they doing all the while they worship in the temple doing evil they do evil and then they come a worship in a temple and God even asks has the temple become a den of robbers to you a robbers den and pastor describe this in a recent sermon has it become a place for you thieves to gather in safety you do all your evil and then head right back to your debt which is my temple my holy temple God says I see this I see this hypocrisy I warn you you need to learn the lesson of Shiloh now what’s significant about Shiloh you may ask well God brings to mind to facts that’s where God’s named well at first and that place experience God’s judgment now what is God referring to here let’s a see if we can recall Shiloh was the place where the ark and their tabernacle first resided when the people of Israel came into the Promised Land all through the judges period God’s name was established at Shiloh that’s where his tabernacle that’s where his ark was when people wanted to find out the will of the border they wanted to get a word from the Lord they went to shine up because that’s where the park and the tabernacle work but what happened that got that caused God’s name to be removed from Shiloh the very beginning of First Samuel visual has become very wicked the people there are two sons of Eli that are in the tabernacle who are using it as a place of wickedness and then visuals at war and they’re defeated what does Israel decide to do to help them gain victory that’s right I thought will take the ark with us to the battlefield surely we can’t lose if we’ve got the ark God will allow us to be defeated if we take God with us if we have God’s dwelling place or what account defeated and what happened to the art was captured in fact even when the ark was returned and never went back to shyla now we don’t hear anything further than the old testament about what else happened to shiloh whether the place was destroyed or devastated whether the tabernacle itself was captured or destroyed but it’s significant that the ark never returns to shine so all of that is in mind when God says remember Shiloh remember what happened there God ended his special relationship with that place after what Israel did and because of Judah’s evil and Judas refusal to heed God’s continuous calls back in our passage here in Jeremiah what does God promised at verses 14 to 15 two things all they do back in gym I seven verses 1415 what we gon do I’m gonna cast you out like I cast out evening that’s right I’m going to get you out of this place what what else is going to do gonna happen to his house I’m going to devastate it whatever I did the shilo I’m going to do to my house now I’m going to remove my name from it now one quick interpretation question perhaps this is obvious by now but how are the people in Jerusalem acting just like Israel at shyla I mean it’s almost the exact same situation yeah Judy yeah they’re repeating they’re treating superstitiously the objects that represent God for God’s dwelling place and they think because they have that object they’ll have victory they’ll be safe militarily but God makes clear only repentance can to secure you from God’s judgment if you’re thinking the same way that shot the people of Shiloh were pay attention to what happened to Shiloh what happened at Shiloh you took the Ark in the battle and it was captured I’m not above allowing my the place of my dwelling to become captured especially when my people do such wickedness don’t think because you have the temple because you have the ark you’re safe the only thing that can make you see his repentance so we’ve seen in these first seven chapters of Jeremiah God’s warning to Judah or we’re seeing the gods wanting to Judah and this this is the same warning same kind of warning that was given by Amos and I was a to Israel and Jeremiah has given you to do that yes Jane he was but he didn’t need it but she was okay they did it but emphasizing the point that God does not care about things that are made of wood of things that are made of Earth he said he’s talking about people who build symbols that they worship right he says he cooks down theaters he cut some cedar grove and some of the he needs for fuel so he goes and burned some event type somebody takes to warm himself some of it to make some food some of it he does it to use it for or whatever like you can use this part of the wood for this this part of the wood for that and then the rest of the wood you’re from rest he makes have got his idol and then he vows down and worshipped so like God really emphasizes things that are made that we mean of our own hands and that we put up they have they are not only no value and it’s foolish to do that but it’s detestable to him and when people do this they say they don’t nothing they understand nothing their eyes are plaster so they cannot see their minds or closer they cannot understand no one stops to think no one has any knowledge half of it i use for fuel I even baked bread over it i roasted me and I ate it and now shall i meet the detestable thing from what is love I yeah okay so let me see if I can repackage what you were saying real quickly so you’re referring to that passage in Isaiah say 44 where he’s talking about the senselessness of their idol worship you’re using some of the wood for the fire and for food and then you take the rest of wood and you make it an image of a God for yourself what’s interesting is you’re talking about how the these objects they they can either have no meaning or they can be dis testable to God and it goes back to what we’re saying earlier it’s about the heart like woods nothing right and even in the New Testament God says an idol is nothing you can eat meat sacrificed idols there’s no there’s nobody there there’s nobody home nothing happens to the I to the food whenever is presented to an idol but on the other hand he says beware vitalogy don’t go near the service for idols in the temple because you could be involved in blasphemy you can be evolved in detestable worship and we see these truths both in the past as you just mentioned and the one that we just looked at where they are taking the objects even the objects related to God and they’re using them in a detestable way and God said there’s no significance in the object itself what a significant is about what you’re doing even with my holy objects certainly the unholy objects to idols they are always are they always using a detestable way we’re running a little bit short on time so I hang on to those comments the end but certainly we know that God God cares about the heart God and God doesn’t want us to treat even the things that the he allows for his own worship superstitiously and I think there’s application for today too anyways one last thing I want us to look at we’ve seen how God makes clear is judo’s wickedness Judah’s great wickedness he calls on Judah to repent and truly do righteousness and God warns as a great judgment that will comment they don’t turn back but God already told Jeremiah are not going to listen the judgment was coming the judgment did come but even in this judgment even in the proclamation of this judgment just like God told Israel I’m not done with you God tells you to the same thing since I will yet restore you in fact there’s one passage that like us to look at because it’s momentous like some of the other passengers were seen from the other prophets turn in Jeremiah 31 and there are a lot of statements here and Jeremih about restoration some involving the Messiah specifically and directly but this one is one I want to look at before we close Jeremiah 31 I wanted to read verses 27 to 34 gospel Judah I will restore you just like I promised Israel to restore her I will restore you as well let’s hear what God said specifically about this verse 27 Jeremiah 31 verse 27 behold days are coming to claire’s the Lord when I will show the house of Israel on the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beasts as i have watched over them to pluck up to break down to overthrow to destroy in to bring disaster so I will watch over them to build and to plant declares the Lord in those days they will not say again the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge everyone will die for his own iniquity each man who eats the sour grapes his teeth will be set on edge the whole days are coming to claire’s the Lord and I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah not like the covenant which I made with their fathers and the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt my covenant which they broke although I was a husband to them declares the Lord but this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days declares the lord I will put my law within them and on their heart I will write it and I will be their God and they shall be my people they will not teach again each man his neighbour and each man his brother saying know the Lord but they will all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them declares the Lord for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more make a few more observations verses 27 to 30 the beginning part of this what does God promise will be different for Israel and Judah in the future what’s going to be sewn back in the land both yeah I think that’s the best way to understand it people in animals the seed of man and the seat of beasts I want to bring them back into the land it’s going to be Howard utterly devastated both you remember we already saw animals are going to be destroyed I want to bring back the people i’m going to bring back the animals and put them back into the land and he says no one’s going to suffer consequences for their forefathers sin that’s the idea of this proverb the sour grapes because when my father’s did I’ve gotta suffer for it says it’s not the way it’s going to be keep only one experience the consequences for their own sins not for those who came before them and then verse 31 God says I’m going to make a new covenant with whom there’s got promise to me with Israel specifically Israel and Judah it says this covenant according to versity two will be different from one other covenant well I think you’re on the right track yeah what company are we talking about mosaic comes probably better understood Israel’s covenant special covenant God wave of Israel on Mount Sinai so this can be different from that one and God highlights a couple aspects of this coming coming covenant that are unique says in this coming this new coven God’s law will be on the hearts of this people God Himself will write it there God will be Israel’s God and they will be his people and third all Israel and Judah will no God no one will even be need to be talked about God because they’ll all know him and God gives the reason making all this possible denoted by the word for in verse 34 he says for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more now a few interpretation questions if we could paraphrase verses 31 and 34 what is God promising to do for Israel and Judah yeah circumcision is a hard I’m going to save you I’m going to change you I’m going to change your heart I’m going to write my law there and I’m going to cause your sins to be forgiven we’ve heard this promise before haven’t we Deuteronomy 30 God promises circumcise the hearts of visual and Israel’s descendants Hosea two and three God promised to betroth digital to himself and righteousness and faithfulness and that Israel would one day acknowledge you are my god Micah 7 God prompts to cast away all of Judas sin and fulfill his covenant loved Abraham and Jacob and Isaiah 53 God declared that his suffering servant will present be presented as a guilt offering and be crushed for his people for their transgressions who is the bringer of this new covenant it’s Jesus Christ he said as much at the Last Supper Jesus passed around the cup and said that is at Luke 12 20 to 20 the cup this Cub which is poured out for you is the New Covenant in my blood Jesus proclaimed I am the one who brings the New Covenant Israel and to Judah I am the means by my own sacrificial death on the cross I will pour out my blood that you might enter into this new covenant the Apostles say the same thing wider peer groups proclaims that Jesus is the mediator of God’s new covenant a covenant far superior to the Old Covenant of Moses and Paul proclaims that this new covenant is to be not of the letter of a law that kills but of the spirit that gives life gotta hang on to that we’re running short on time indeed through salvation by faith in Jesus God does circumcised the heart and he writes his law upon it so that the person whom God saves desires to learn and to do the whole will of God and if you believe in Jesus this morning you have entered into the new covenant promise by Jeremiah you may ask point didn’t Jeremiah promised this to Israel and Judah why do i receive it when clearly the juice a day had not ah this is the mystery that Paul talks about in the New Testament a truth previously veiled but now fully revealed and that is that God is temporarily hardened the Jews and thereby expanded the scope of salvation bringing it to all men bring it to the Gentiles so that every tribe tongue and nation may believe in Jesus and be saved but one day you will return to Israel and Judah and he will cause all right you will fulfill this promise it will cause all Israel to be saved not just a remnant which is what we see today but all Israel a generation to come all issue will be saved they will have their heart circumcised like we do today all Israel and Judah will have their hearts circumcised and they will recognize their Messiah and he will set up his kingdom on earth I wish I could talk more about that but we only have like a minute laughs now what we seem today and God’s warning to Judith through Gemma are we have seen God’s warning to Jude it for Jeremiah yet even in this morning there is God’s assurance that he would not totally cast off Judah or even Israel he promised that a new and glorious covenant was coming to them one day company that you and I have mercy become part of because of Jesus now the passages we’ve looked at today are pretty varied but we can draw a number of applications and here if you to think about as we close today are you in danger of God’s judgment due to your own idolatry and heart wickedness you may not serve statues do you have what Ezekiel describes idols of the heart do you love something more than God that causes you to disobey God and you are in idolatry and you’re under God’s judgment have you realized the senselessness of serving idols instead of God have you not yet seen it they have no ability to save or satisfy you though they may please your flesh a little are you still deceived by the promise the false gods and the lust of your flesh have you repented before god of your idols and sins but your repentance is nevertheless shallow and deceptive do you keep on doing what you did before saying god I’m really sorry won’t do it again I’m going to go away from this habit but then you just keep on doing it if so you’re just like Judah you’re under the danger of God’s judgment do you have something like the art or the temple of God in your life that you hide behind for security oh god surely won’t judge me because I’ve got this maybe it’s good church attendance Christian family outwardly righteous behavior a position in the church a godly spouse religious rituals prayers pastor a priest surely God wouldn’t do it to me well none of these things will protect you God must punish wickedness especially wickedness done with the pretense of holiness he’s not above judging his temple and not above judging you who claim to be a Christian and maybe even go to church finally do you love Jesus Christ you’re making you if you believe it and truly repented part of the New Covenant do you love him for willingly presented himself to be crushed for your iniquity do you love him for elekton you before the foundation of the world do you love him for circumcising your heart and giving you a place in his coming Kingdom if you do do you keep his Commandments because jesus said if you love me you will keep my Commandments as we’ve said today these works don’t save you but they show whether your salvation is real it’s all for this week we know that the generation Jeremiah’s day does not heed the warning so God’s judgment comes and that’s our topic for next week God judges Judah let’s pray god there’s so much here what a eizan word would profound word that you gave to Jeremiah as a witness to that generation and also to us today what do the work that is appropriate from these words caused conviction and repentance cause encouragement and joy as this necessary for each person in Jesus name