A Conversation With God

Yahweh will afflict you with the wasting diseases and with the fever and with the inflammation and with the scorching heat and with the sword and with the blight and with the mildew, and they shall pursue you until you perish. And your heavens that are over your heads shall be like bronze, and the earth that is under you shall be like iron. Yahweh will change the rain of your land to fine dust and to sand; from the heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed.

Jeremiah 3:3 LEB

Therefore rain showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come. Yet you have the forehead of a woman prostitute, you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 12 4.

God promised them a drought if they turned away, and now it has happened

Jeremiah 2:13 LEB

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the source of living water, to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.

Living water is a flowing stream or spring

the land, the animals, the people are suffering because of the evil being done against God

All through the Judges the people would go into sin, God would send a defeating army

the people would come back to God (sort of)

God would send a judge to rescue them and for a while they would behave (sort of)

they don’t know the gravity of their sin

their rebellion against God

How much God hates all sin

God told Moses stand back I’m going to kill them all

and Moses interceded for them and God did not kill them

Jeremiah’s Intercession

V 7-9

Like Moses Jeremiah prayed for the people

you are our only hope savior

why do you pretend that you don’t see what is going on

why do you act like your a stranger passing through and don’t want to get involved

God’s Response to the people

V 10 they have gone to far

Gods response to Jeremiah

V 11 -12 don’t even bother praying for them

But the Prophets

V 13 - 18

Jeremiahs is going to intercede again

V 19-22

The Coming Judgement, God’s Sovereignty

15 1 not even Moses and Samuel can help them now

V 2-4 God has destined...

V 5-9 God is continuing to say what He will do

Judgement is coming to the land

Judgement is coming to Jerusalem

Jeremiah has the un-popular task of telling the truth

telling the people what they don’t want to hear

He is a mild mannered youth who would rather have a job of roofing

V 10 I have done nothing wrong. I try to get people to do the right thing

I keep telling them the way to peace with God

I want to see Jerusalem prosperous. I want people happy

Turn to Jeremiah 11 18.

a plot to kill him from his own hometown

Jeremiah is discouraged, and wants to give up

God speaks again V 11

Gives Jeremiah a little encouragement

V 12-14 God again talks of judgement

Jeremiah complains V 15-18

Complains about his circumstances

complains about his job

complains about the hate people have for him

calls God a liar V 18

Repent

That will be enough sass out of you

V 19 repent and I will take you back

Repent and I will give your Job back

If you start acting christian like

Speaking truth of my words

not speaking the lies of your truth (FALSE PROPHET)

They will turn back to you

If someone is to come to the truth there has to be an uncompromising source

there has to be someone willing to tell the truth

there has to be someone who knows the truth

Know what God’s word actually says not what tradition says

say the truth not just what we think they want to hear

We must be ready to give an answer to the hope that is in us

V 20

I will protect you

I will put a Batman suit on you

you will still be a insecure youth

but you can take courage in Me

say what needs to be said. do and go where I send you

V 21 as long as we are doing the the job God wants we will protect from harm

until our mission is complete. then we are called home

Last week we are called to repent and return to our first love

this week we and Jeremiah is repent and stop sassin God

and be a source of truth to a deceived world on their way to destruction

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