Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000651
00:15 Hello and welcome back to His Words Are Life.
00:17 I'm Kelly Mowrer and today we're going to be reading together in 00:20 the book of Jeremiah. But let's pray before we start. 00:23 Dear heavenly Father, thank you again that we can come into your 00:27 presence, come apart from our lives for a few minutes and 00:31 listen to your very word. Thank you for preserving it for us 00:35 and now please send the Holy Spirit to bring understanding as 00:39 we listen. We love you so much and thank you for loving us Amen 00:42 We are reading in the book of Jeremiah and this is chapter 7 00:48 beginning with verse 16 and this is the King James Version. 00:52 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor 00:56 prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will 01:01 not hear thee. Seest thou not what they do in the cities of 01:05 Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather 01:09 wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead 01:13 their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour 01:16 out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me 01:21 to anger. Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they 01:25 not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? 01:29 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, mine anger and my 01:33 fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon 01:37 beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of 01:41 the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. 01:45 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your 01:49 burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. 01:51 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in 01:54 the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning 01:58 burnt offerings or sacrifices: but this thing commanded I them, 02:02 saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall 02:06 be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have 02:10 commanded you, that it may be well unto you. But they 02:14 hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the 02:18 counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went 02:21 backward, and not forward. Since the day that your fathers 02:25 came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even 02:29 sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up 02:33 early and sending them: yet they hearkened not unto me, nor 02:37 inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than 02:41 their fathers. Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto 02:45 them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call 02:49 unto them; but they will not answer thee. But thou shalt 02:53 say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of 02:57 the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: 02:59 truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. Cut off 03:04 thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a 03:08 lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and 03:13 forsaken the generation of his wrath. For the children of Judah 03:17 have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set 03:21 their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to 03:25 pollute it. And they have built the high places of Tophet, which 03:29 is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and 03:32 their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, 03:36 neither came it into my heart. Therefore, behold, the days come 03:40 saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the 03:45 valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for 03:49 they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. And the 03:54 carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven 03:57 and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. 04:01 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from 04:04 the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice 04:07 of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of 04:11 the bride: for the land shall be desolate. 04:14 We're continuing to read in Jeremiah chapter 8. 04:18 This is the King James Version. 04:20 At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones 04:25 of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the 04:29 bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the 04:32 bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: 04:35 and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, 04:39 and all the hosts of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom 04:41 they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom 04:44 they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not 04:48 be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the 04:52 face of the earth. And death shall be chosen rather than life 04:56 by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, 04:59 which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, 05:03 saith the Lord of hosts. Moreover thou shalt say 05:07 unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? 05:12 shall he turn away, and not return? Why then is this people 05:17 of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold 05:22 fast deceit, they refuse to return. I hearkened and heard, 05:28 but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his 05:33 wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his 05:38 course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. Yea, the stork 05:41 in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle 05:45 and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their 05:48 coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. How do 05:54 ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? 05:58 Lo certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in 06:03 vain. The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: 06:08 lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom 06:13 is in them? Therefore will I give their wives unto others, 06:17 and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every 06:22 one from the least even unto the greatest is given to 06:26 covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every 06:31 one dealeth falsely. For they have healed the hurt of the 06:35 daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there 06:40 is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed 06:45 abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could 06:50 they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in 06:54 the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith 06:58 the Lord. I will surely consume them, saith the Lord: there 07:02 shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and 07:06 the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them 07:11 shall pass away from them. Why do we sit still? assemble 07:16 yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and 07:20 let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to 07:25 silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have 07:30 sinned against the Lord. We looked for peace, but no good 07:34 came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! The snorting 07:41 of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled 07:44 at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they 07:47 are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the 07:51 city, and those that dwell therein. For, behold, I will 07:55 send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be 07:59 charmed, and they shall bite you saith the Lord. When I would 08:04 comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. Behold 08:09 the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because 08:13 of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the Lord in 08:17 Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to 08:22 anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? 08:26 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 08:32 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; 08:38 astonishment hath taken hold on me. Is there no balm in Gilead; 08:44 is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the 08:50 daughter of my people recovered? 08:52 Continuing in the book of Jeremiah chapter 9. 08:56 This is the King James Version 08:57 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of 09:02 tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the 09:07 daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging 09:12 place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go 09:17 from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of 09:22 treacherous men. And they bend their tongues like their bow for 09:26 lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; 09:30 for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, 09:35 saith the Lord. Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and 09:40 trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly 09:45 supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders. 09:48 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak 09:52 the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and 09:57 weary themselves to commit iniquity. Thine habitation is in 10:02 midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith 10:08 the Lord. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I 10:13 will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the 10:19 daughter of my people? Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; 10:25 it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with 10:27 his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. Shall I not 10:31 visit them for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my 10:36 soul be avenged on such a nation as this? For the 10:40 mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the 10:44 habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are 10:48 burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men 10:51 hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens 10:55 and the beast are fled; they are gone. And I will make Jerusalem 10:59 heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of 11:04 Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Who is the wise man, 11:09 that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of 11:13 the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the 11:17 land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none 11:20 passeth through? And the Lord saith, Because they have 11:25 forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed 11:29 my voice, neither walked therein; but have walked after 11:33 the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which 11:37 their fathers taught them: Therefore thus saith the Lord 11:42 of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even 11:46 this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink 11:51 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they 11:56 nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after 12:00 them, till I have consumed them. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, 12:05 Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may 12:10 come; and send for cunning women that they may come: and let them 12:12 make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes 12:17 may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with water. 12:22 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! 12:27 we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the 12:30 land, because our dwellings have cast us out. Yet hear the word 12:35 of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his 12:39 mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her 12:43 neighbor lamentation. For death is come up into our windows, and 12:47 is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from 12:50 without, and the young men from the streets. Speak, Thus saith 12:55 the Lord, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the 13:00 open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none 13:05 shall gather them. Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man 13:10 glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his 13:16 might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: But let him 13:21 that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and 13:26 knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, 13:31 judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I 13:36 delight, saith the Lord. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, 13:40 that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the 13:44 uncircumcised; Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of 13:49 Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that 13:54 dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, 13:59 and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart. 14:03 Thank you for joining with me today to read the book of 14:07 Jeremiah. That passage we just finished is one of my favorites 14:11 that God is saying to each one of us, don't take confidence in 14:14 your wisdom, don't take confidence in your wealth, 14:18 don't take confidence in your strength, but if you are going 14:22 to be confident, if you are going to trust in anything 14:24 worthwhile, let your confidence be in knowing me, knowing me as 14:30 the God of love, and righteousness and truth 14:33 and grace and mercy; knowing God with all our hearts. Please 14:37 join me again next time. Good bye. |
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