Chapter 50 dealt with prophecies against Babylon, the return of God’s people to the promised land, and the invasion, humiliation, desolation and conquest of Babylon. In chapter 51 we heard God’s judgment on Babylon, and this message was the end of Jeremiah’s prophetic words. Chapter 52 brought us the words of someone else. Scholars seem…
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Today Paul spoke quite a lot about how we as believers should behave. What I want to focus for a minute or two on was in chapter 4, verses 5 and 6. Here it is again: Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned…
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God continues, in the chapters we read today, His messages outlining the destruction He will bring to the nations that have seemingly gotten away with doing evil for many years. As I said the last time in my comments on Jeremiah 45-47, God is aware of all the evil man brings upon man. He saw…
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In the first chapter of Paul’s letter to the Colossians, Paul does something that probably most of us don’t do. How often have you ever gone up to someone in your church or even just in your life and told them how thankful you were for the obvious gifts God has given them? In Colossians,…
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Don’t you sometimes wonder why God allows evil people to continue doing their junk for so long? Doesn’t it sometimes seem like God isn’t even paying attention to what’s going on? Well, of course He’s paying attention, and yes, He will bring justice. But as we have seen as we’ve been reading through Jeremiah, God…
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The more I know…the older I get…the more I am aware of how much I do not know. When a baby is born, for all intents and purposes, he doesn’t know anything. And he doesn’t know he doesn’t know anything. And then about the time he’s fifteen or so years old, he thinks he knows…
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Have you ever made a bargain with God? You’ve been in trouble or in some other hard place, and you said, “Lord, help me here and I will never sin again! I’ll devote my life to you!” And then the trouble passes, and you go right back to your old way. Yeah. Most of us…
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In chapter 39 King Zedekiah paid a high price for his refusal to listen to God’s Word through the prophet Jeremiah, and Jeremiah was rewarded for his faithfulness to do what God asked of him. King Nebuchadnezzar’s army captured King Zedekiah as Zedekiah was running from the city under cover of darkness. When Zedekiah was…
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Chapter one has one of my favorite promises. It’s a promise I rely on when I’m not happy with my progress as a believer. I’ve told you before that I sometimes have a problem with anger or forgiveness. No, don’t worry. I don’t get violently angry or anything like that, but I sometimes do have…
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In the last chapter we read, chapter 38, Jeremiah gave King Zedekiah some great advice. He told him, “Please obey the Lord by doing what I have been telling you. Then all will go well with you….” I wonder how many Christians are living lives that they could say, “All is well with me”. How…
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