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Sin promises everything. Instead it destroys everything and leaves nothing. God illustrates this with a linen girdle (belt/sash). He tells Jeremiah to wear the girdle or belt for a while, keep it nice, and then take it to a hole
“I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against
Jeremiah was acting under the direct command and instruction of the Lord. He was doing and saying what God told Him to do and say. Yet, many did not like what he had to say. Their dislike for him was
Jeremiah 10 contains a very important lesson for us. It commands us to, ‘Learn not the way of the heathen…for the customs of the people are vain.’ The challenge in this chapter is to think different from the world, from
All of us love to brag and boast (‘glory’) in our achievements and abilities. Yet we are told by God not to glory in our wisdom, might, or riches. Only one thing should we glory in – that we understand
The people of Jerusalem was intent on going away from God (v.5-7). The Lord asked: Why are they slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? Why do they hold fast to deceit? Why do they refuse to return? Even in the
It one thing to do wrong. It’s another thing to do wrong when we clearly know something is wrong and have been repeatedly warned. That was the situation in Jeremiah 7. God sent His prophet Jeremiah to tell them of
Sin is breaking God’s laws and going against His ways. Yet men often sin and don’t care. To most people, it doesn’t matter what God thinks. But, as we see in Jeremiah 6, God will punish sin. Of course, He
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
Fallow ground is ground that a farmer has left uplowed. It would be unwise to sow seed on such ground. Very little would come of it. This is the analogy that God uses in Jeremiah 4 to describe the condition
