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(S1) — Why would anyone take something of value and exchange it for something worthless?
Boy/trade up/Marbles/Gi Joes
Goal was always to trade up…
Why would anyone trade the good for the bad?
Good marriage/One night stand — Good health/sickness/disease — Good life, exchange it for pig squaler — Good Job/Jail
FDA Speaker — Jump suit — One decision away
(S2) — Jeremiah’s message Israel… God’s indictment, accusing them of exchanging the good for the bad
Jeremiah 2:11 (NLT)
Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones, even though they are not gods at all?
Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols!
Prophet margins — How they went from a faithful nation to an idolatrous people
Allegory — Parable — Something familiar to teach a lesson
Hosea — Marriage: Devoted relationship to an adulterous one
Isaiah — Yielding luscious fruit...to producing only wild grapes...
Jeremiah — Mother’s womb/Intimacy of God’s call…to be overtake by their enemies
Today Jeremiah takes us from life-sustaining wells of ever-flowing water to cracked cisterns that only run dry.
The people had known the goodness of God — Abundance,, provision, life-sustaining relationship.
But they traded it all for, what was meaningless.
Romans 1:22-23 “Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.
And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.”
How did they get there?
Marriage: A flourishing Relationship...
Jeremiah 2:1-3 I remember...
The early years of Israel’s history, the people were, for the most part, devoted and faithful to the LORD.
Their deliverance from Egypt up through the wilderness wanderings.
As a youthful nation, the people did at times slip away from God, murmuring, complaining, and committing acts of wickedness.
But they soon confessed and repented of their sins, turning back to the LORD.
Their backsliding never lasted long and they never deliberately or recklessly tried to corrupt the way of righteousness that was spelled out by God’s commandments.
During these years Israel was like a bride who loved the LORD and followed Him wherever He led (v.
2).
Israel was holy, set apart to be God’s pure and righteous people (v.
3; Ex. 19:1–20:26).
Israel was chosen to be the first body of people—to follow, worship, and serve the LORD.
Jeremiah-I (Chapters 1–29) (King James Version) (A.
The Lord’s Indictment against His People, 2:1–3:5)
From being devoted — Faithful — Loving — Trusting to seeking only other Gods
Two questions — Why did they get there — Why do the faithful today fall away from a relationship with God?
(S3) — If you have not noticed, the church is in decline —
“A growing group in America: “religious nones.”
This group describes themselves as “nothing in particular” when asked if they identify with a specific religious group.
The vast majority are ex-Christians, and most are under the age of 35.”
Look around, who do you know who is not here?
Why? Whole host of reasons… If it can happen to others, it can surely happen to us —
“Bible not written to us…it’s written for us
(S4) — What can we learn from the apostasy of a nation — A people who had left God — Exchanged the good for the bad?
Jeremiah 2:5 (NLT)
This is what the Lord says: “What did your ancestors find wrong with me that led them to stray so far from me?
They worshiped worthless idols, only to become worthless themselves.
Notice theirs was not an abrupt turning away they slowly drifted away...
Marriage’s don’t go bad overnight...
They would exchange the goodness or glory of God, for what was worthless.
they went from being faithful to living a life of unfaithfulness.
(S5) — The Lord’s case against his people
Jeremiah 2:13 (NLT)
“For my people have done two evil things: They have abandoned me— the fountain of living water.
And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all
1.
They had FORGOTTEN God!
Jeremiah 2:5 “They worshiped worthless idols, only to become worthless themselves.”
They traded what was VALUABLE for what had no value.
What was meaningful for what what was meaningless.
In their forgetting, they stopped worshipping — replaced God with worthless things.
Jesus tempted in the wilderness...
Luke 4:8 “Jesus replied, “The Scriptures say, ‘You must worship the Lord your God and Him only him.’””
To forget, is to replace it with something else.
To trade our devotion to one thing to another.
What replaces God in your life today?
Time — Spending — Habits.
Your here...but how easily we leak…as things are always competing for our time.
(S6) — 2. They dug their OWN well!
Jeremiah 2:6 “They did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord who brought us safely out of Egypt and led us through the barren wilderness— a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and death, where no one lives or even travels?’”
They chased after their own purposes.
Stopped seeking the Lord.
Self oriented — Self-interest in their Pursuits: Success — Fame — Fortune
Tic Tok — Make a fortune on social media — Girls in Savanah taking selfies
They traded what was ETERNAL for what was TEMPORARY?
They were Living on man-made broken wells that leaked
How I dug my own cisterns — God pursued me
Do we pursue Him, seek him out with the same passion he chased after us?
Matthew 6:33 “Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.”
They forgot God who rescued and brought them into a land of abundance and dug their own cisterns, chasing after their own pursuits…
Why?
Because they LEAK!
They strayed away…
(S7) — They forgot Got and dug their own wells
I.
They stopped SPEAKING of Yaweh!
...the one who rescued them
Jeremiah 2:6 (NLT)
6 They did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord who brought us safely out of Egypt and led us through the barren wilderness— a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and death, where no one lives or even travels?
Greek (ask) — Stopped mentioning, thinking about God — No longer told the stories
Problem with erasing our history
(S8) — They no longer spoke His name
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They CORRUPTED God’s goodness!
(CEB) “Disgraced my heritage”
What they had…they corrupted with their idoltry
Jeremiah 2:7 (NLT)
“And when I brought you into a fruitful land to enjoy its bounty and goodness, you defiled my land and corrupted the possession I had promised you.
God’s presence (protection) — Provision (Abundance/plentiful — Goodness My land — heritage
(S9) — They defaced God’s name
III.
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