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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In chapter six, Paul mentioned that we are in a battle against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens. Sometimes it looks as if we are battling people, but the fight is deeper than that. We are in a spiritual battle….
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The Lord had Jeremiah invite the Rechabites in for a little social activity, and He told Jeremiah to provide wine to them. When it was offered to them, they declined, saying that their ancestor Jonadab told them not to ever drink wine. In addition, they weren’t to build houses, plant crops or build houses to…
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Almost all of the prophesies that Jeremiah has delivered until these two chapters were fulfilled long ago. But as you listened to chapters 31 and 32 today, you probably heard some things that made you say, “I don’t think that has happened yet.” And you would be right. God gave Jeremiah prophecies of the New…
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