Sermon Tone Analysis

*                        “Blessed  /is/ the man who trusts in the Lord”*    8~/19~/07 pm* *

                                                         *Jere.

17:5-8*

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*The setting in which these words were written.*

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The prophet’s sermons were not all prophetical, but some of them practical;

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Zedekiah put his confidence in Egypt and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.

After Zedekiah’s defeat, his sons were slain in his presence and his own eyes were seared with a hot iron.

The blinded king was then led to Babylon as a conquered monarch.

The message is clearly applicable to all men as a warning to trust in the Creator and not in His creation.

*Jer.

17:5-8   *5 Thus says the Lord:

      “Cursed /is/ the man who trusts in man

     And makes  flesh his strength,

     Whose heart departs from the Lord.

6     For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,

     And  shall not see when good comes,

     But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,

      /In/ a salt land /which is/ not inhabited.

7     *“Blessed  /is/ the man who trusts in the Lord, *

     *And whose hope is the Lord.

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*8*     *For he shall be  like a tree planted by the waters, *

     *Which spreads out its roots by the river, *

     *And will not fear when heat comes; *

     *But its leaf will be green, *

     *And will not be anxious in the year of drought, *

     *Nor will cease from yielding fruit.

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*v5** Thus says the Lord:*

Notice who is speaking – The Lord God Almighty

 

*“Cursed /is/ the man who trusts in man *

*Cursed* to call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon [1]

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*Ps.

146:3*     Do not put your trust in princes,

                        /Nor/ in a son of man, in whom /there is/ no 3help /(salvation)/

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*Isa.

31:1     Woe *to those  who go down to *Egypt* for help, /(drugs, psychics, treaties)/

                        /And/  rely on *horses,* /(a type of swift strength)/

                        Who trust in *chariots *because /they are/ many, /(numbers)/

                        And in *horsemen *because they are very strong, /(manpower)/

                        But who *do not look to* the Holy One of Israel,

                        *Nor seek* the Lord!

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*Isa.

30:1-3     “Woe* to the *rebellious *children,” says the Lord,

                        “Who *take counsel*, but not of Me,

                        And who *devise plans*, but not of My Spirit,

                        That they may *add sin to sin;*

2     Who walk to go down to Egypt,

*                        And  have not asked My advice, *

*                        To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, */(a type of Satan)/

*                        And to trust in the shadow of Egypt! */(a type of bondage)/

3     Therefore the strength of Pharaoh

                        *Shall be your shame, *

                        And trust in the shadow of Egypt

                        *Shall be /your/ humiliation.

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*And makes  flesh his strength, *

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*Isa.

31:3    *3     Now *the Egyptians /are/ men*, and not God;

                        And their *horses are flesh*, and not spirit.

When the Lord stretches out His hand,

                        *Both he who helps will fall, *

*                        And he who is helped will fall down; *

                        They all will perish together.

*Whose heart departs from the Lord.*

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*Heb.

3:12    *12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in

                        departing from the living God;

 

*v6**   For he shall be  like a shrub in the desert, *

*And  shall not see when good comes, *

*But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, *

*/In/ a salt land /which is/ not inhabited.

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*v6   For he shall be  like a shrub in the desert, *

*Dt.

29:23   *23 ‘The whole land /is/ brimstone, /(sulfur)/ salt, /(absence of life)/and burning/(torment)/; it is not sown/(given to or receiving)/, nor does it bear/(unprofitable)/, nor does any grass grow there/(barren)/,  like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’

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*And  shall not see when good comes, *

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*Job 20:17    *17     He will not see  the streams,

                                    The rivers flowing with honey and cream.

*Like the 10 spies that only saw the bad of the promise land rather than the good.*

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*v7  **“Blessed  /is/ the man who trusts in the Lord, *

*And whose hope is the Lord.

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*bless•ed*   *: *held in reverence *: *of or enjoying happiness *: *bringing pleasure, contentment, or good fortune [2]

 

*Ps.

34:8-10   *8     *Oh, taste and see that the Lord /is/ good; *

      Blessed /is/ the man /who/ trusts in Him!

9     Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints!

*     /There is/ no 2want /(lack)/ to those who fear Him.

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10     The young lions lack and suffer hunger;

*     But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good /thing./

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*Ps.

125:1-2   *1     *Those who trust in the Lord *

     Are like Mount Zion,

     /Which/ cannot be moved, /but/ *abides forever.

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2     As the mountains surround Jerusalem,

     So the Lord surrounds His people

     From this time forth and forever.

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*Ps.

146:5-9   *5      *Happy */is he/ who /has/ the God of Jacob for his help,

     Whose hope /is/ in the Lord his God,

6      Who made heaven and earth,

     The sea, and all that /is/ in them;

*     Who keeps truth forever, *

*7     Who executes justice for the oppressed, *

*     Who gives food to the hungry.