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Today’s Bible Translation

Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 17-21 NLV

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John

Podcast Introduction

This is Prophecy Friday, and we’ll read Jeremiah chapters 17-21. I’m calling this episode “The Potter’s House.”

Comments on Jeremiah 18

The Lord showed Jeremiah a potter who was not happy with a pot he made, so the potter made a new pot with the clay. God said to Jeremiah, “Can’t I do this with Israel? But if a nation turns from its sins, I will change my mind, and I will not tear it down.”

So Jeremiah brought a message from the Lord to all Judah and Jerusalem, calling them out for their sins, and told them that destruction was on the way. 

But the people hated the message, and would not turn away from their sins. 

In v. 18, the people said, “Come and let us hurt him (Jeremiah) with our tongue, and let us not listen to any of his words.” So because they did not like Jeremiah’s message, they wanted to silence him. Does that sound at all familiar?

What was Jeremiah’s response? Did he lash out at them? Did he take things into his own hands? No, he went to the Lord and prayed, “Do not forgive their wrong-doing or cover their sin from Your eyes. Let them be taken down before You. Punish them in the time of Your anger.” 

This is counter to the prayer that Jesus prayed on the cross. “Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do.”

Is there a time where it is right to pray Jeremiah’s prayer? As we heard today in the chapters following chapter 18, the Lord’s anger had been kindled toward Israel, and He did not rebuke Jeremiah. 

Beloved, there will come a time when God will say, “Enough!” We look at the condition of the world today, and we wonder how much worse things can get. Maybe we’re getting close to that day, or maybe there will be a world wide revival, and people will turn to Him. It has happened before, and it can happen again. Only the Father knows. Only He knows the day and hour when He will be through, and the Great Tribulation will begin. Until that day, we…each of us… are called to carry the Good News of a Risen Christ to all who will listen. For those who do listen, their eternities will be forever changed. How wonderful for them, and how great it is to be the one who brought the message to them! We have a great opportunity and responsibility to allow God to use us bear the message of hope, love and Good News. 

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Steve Webb 0:00
Does that sound at all familiar?

Steve Webb 0:09
Coming to you from Riverside, California, this is the Lifespring one year Bible and podcasting since 2004. I’m your og Godcaster. Steve Webb. This is the daily podcast where we’ll read through the entire Bible in a year. This is prophecy Friday, and we’ll read Jeremiah, chapters 17 to 21. I’m calling the episode, the potter’s house. And I need to apologize for yesterday’s episode. This is what happens when your podcast host is very tired.The chapters I read yesterday for job were just recently read on the show and it just completely slipped my mind. I messed up as I looked at the calendar. And so you got a bit of a repeat. So next week, when we read job, we’ll make up what we were supposed to do yesterday, in addition to doing the chapters that are supposed to be for next week, that way we stay on schedule. So again, I apologize and I’ll try to get more rest. Now with that said, let’s pray so that we can begin today’s reading our Heavenly Father, we love you and we ask that as we read today, you would teach us open our minds open our hearts and bless this time around your word. I pray this in Jesus name, amen. Okay, let’s begin.

Steve Webb 1:25
Jeremiah chapter 17. The sin of Judah is written down with Penn of iron and with a sharp diamond. It is written on their hearts and on the horns of their altars, even their children remember their altars and their wooden female goddesses of Ashura by green trees, and on the high hills, oh, my mountain in the country, I will give your money and all your riches to those who fight against you. I will give your high places as the price of your sin through all your land, and you yourself will let your land go that I gave you, I will make you serve those who hate you in a land which you do not know. For You have made my anger start a fire which will burn forever. The Lord says curse it is the man who trusts in man who trusts in the flesh for his strength, and whose heart turns away from the Lord. For He will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes. He will live in dry wastes in the desert, in a land of salt where no other people live, good will come to the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the river. It will not be afraid when the heat comes but its leaves will be green. It will not be troubled in a dry here nor stop giving fruit. The heart is fooled more than anything else. It is very sinful. Who can know how bad it is. I have the Lord look into the heart and test the mind. I give to each man what he should have because of his ways. And because of the fruit that comes from his works. As a bird that sits on eggs which it has not laid So is he who gets rich by doing wrong, when his life is half over, they will leave him and in the end he will be a fool. A beautiful throne on high from the beginning is our holy place. Oh Lord, the hope of Israel, all who leave you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the earth because they have left the Lord the well of living water. Heal me, oh Lord, and I will be healed. Save me and I will be saved, for you are my praise. They say to me, where is the word of the Lord, let it come now. But as for me, I have not run away from being a shepherd who follows you. And I have not been hoping for the day of trouble. You know what I said was spoken in front of you. Do not make me afraid of you. You are my safe place in the day of trouble. Let those who make it hard for me be put to shame. But do not let me be put to shame. Let them be afraid. But do not let me be afraid. Bring on them a day of trouble and destroy them with twice as much. The Lord said to me, go and stand in the people’s gate through which the kings of Judah come in and go out. And also in all the gates of Jerusalem and say to them, listen to the word of the Lord kings of Judah and all Judah and all people of Jerusalem who come in through these gates. The Lord says be careful for your lives. Do not carry any load on the day of rest or bring anything in through the gates of Jerusalem. Do not bring a load out of your houses on the day of rest or do any work. But keep the day of rest holy as I told your fathers before you if they did not listen or hear but made their next Heart and would not change their ways. Listen to me, says the Lord and bring no load through the city gates on the day of rest. Keep the day of rest holy by doing no work on it. Then kings in their sons will come through the city gates who will sit on the throne of David. They will come and walk wagons that on horses with the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and people will live in this city forever. People will come in from the cities of Judah and from the places around Jerusalem, they will come from the land of Benjamin from the valleys from the hill country. And from the Negev, they will bring burn gifts, animals to kill on the altar in worship, grain gifts, special perfume, and gifts of things to the house of the Lord. But if you do not listen to me to keep the day of rest holy by not carrying a load when coming through the gates of Jerusalem on the day of rest, then I will start a fire in its gates. And it will burn up the beautiful houses of the kings of Jerusalem and will not be stopped.

Steve Webb 5:42
Jeremiah chapter 18, the word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying, Go down to the pot makers house and there I will let you hear my words. So I went down to the pot makers house and saw him making one on the wheel. But the pot he was making of clay did not come out like he wanted it. So the pot maker used the clay to make another pot that pleased him. Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, all people of Israel, can I not do with you as this pot maker is done, says the Lord, like the clay in the pot makers hand. So are you in my hand, oh people of Israel. If at any time I speak about a nation to pull up, and to break down and to destroy, and if that nation I spoke against turns from its sin, then I will change my mind about the trouble I plan to bring upon it. If at another time I speak about a nation that I will build and plant it, and if it does what is sinful in my eyes by not obeying my voice, then I will change my mind about the good I had promised to bring to it. So now speak to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, tell them the Lord says, See, I am making trouble for you and making a plan against you. So each of you turn from your sinful way. Change your ways and your works. But they will say there is no hope for we are going to follow our own plans. Each of us will act in the strong will of his sinful heart. So the Lord says, Ask now among the nations who has heard such things, pure Israel has done a very sinful thing. Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky mountains does the cold flowing water of other lands ever dry up, but my people have forgotten me. They burned special perfume to false gods have no worth. They have fallen in their ways from the old paths and have gone on side roads, not on the straight road. They make their land a waste, a thing that is spoken against forever. Everyone who passes by it will be surprised and shake his head. I will send them out everywhere like an east wind in front of those who hate them. I will show them my back and not my face and the day of their trouble. They said, come and let us make plans against Jeremiah For the law is not going to be lost to the religious leader or wise words to the wise man, or the Word of God to the man of God. Calm and let us hurt him with our tongue and let us not listen to any of his words. Think of me oh Lord, and listen to what those who hate me are saying, Should bad be given in return for good, yet they have dug a deep hole for me. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them to turn your anger away from them. So give their children over to hunger. Give them up to the power of the sword. Let their wives lose their children and husbands. Let their men be put to death and let their young men be killed by the sword in battle. May a cry be heard from their houses when you bring an army upon them by surprise. For they have dug a deep hole to take me and have hidden traps for my feet. Yet you will Lord know all their plans to kill me. Do not forgive their wrongdoing or cover their sin from your eyes. Let them be taken down before you punish them and the time of your anger.

Steve Webb 9:01
Jeremiah chapter 19. The Lord says go and buy a pot makers clay jar and take some of the leaders of the people and some of the older religious leaders then go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom by the potsherd gate. And they are say the words that I will tell you say here are the word of the Lord Oh kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem. The Lord of all the God of Israel says, See, I am about to bring much trouble to this place. The ears of everyone that hears of it will hurt. The people have left me and have made this a strange place. They have burned special perfume minute to other gods that they and their fathers in the kings of Judah had never known. They have filled this place with a blood of those who are not guilty. They have built the high places of the false god bail to burn their sons in the fire is burnt gifts to bale. This is a thing which I never told him to do or spoke of. It did not even come to my mind. So see the days are coming, says the Lord when this place will know longer be called to fifth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom. Instead, it will be called the Valley of killing, I will make the plans of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place, I will cause them to fall by the sword in front of those who hate them, and by the hand of those who want to kill them, and I will feed their dead bodies to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth. I will make this city a waste place and people will make sounds of hate. Everyone who passes by it will be surprised it makes strange noises because of all its troubles. I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters. And they will eat each other’s flesh when the armies shut them in. And when those who want to kill them bring much trouble to them, then you are to break the jar in front of the men who go with you and say to them, the Lord of all says in this way, I will break these people in this city even as one breaks a pot makers jar which cannot be put back together. Men will bury the dead and toe faith until there is no place left to bury. This is what I will do in this place. And its people says the Lord, I will make this city like tofu with the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be made unclean like tofu with this will be because of all the houses on whose roofs they burned special perfume to all the false gods of the heavens and poured out drink gifts to other gods. Then Jeremiah came from toe fifth where the Lord had sent him to tell what would happen. And he stood in the open place of the Lord’s house and said to all the people, the Lord of all the God of Israel says, See, I am about to bring to this city and to all its towns, all the trouble that I have spoken about because they have made their necks hard and would not listen to my words.

Steve Webb 11:42
Jeremiah chapter 20. Now passur, the religious leader, the son of Emmer was the head leader in the House of the Lord. When he heard Jeremiah saying these things, pasture had Jeremiah, the man of God beaten, then he put them in chains at the upper Benjamin gate by the house of the Lord. On the next day, when pasture set Jeremiah free from the chains, Jeremiah said to Him, the Lord does not call you pass her, but fear everywhere. For the Lord says, See, I am going to make you a fear to yourself and to all your friends, they will fall by the sword of those who hate them while you look on. I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away in chains to Babylon, and we’ll kill them with the sword, I will give over all the riches of the city, all that its people have worked for, and all its things of much worth. Even all the riches of the kings of Judah, I will give to those who hate them. They will take their things and take hold of them and carry them to Babylon, and you pass her and all who live in your house will be taken away and chains, you will go to Babylon and there you will die. And there you will be buried you and all your friends to whom you have told lies. Oh, Lord, You have lied to me and I was fooled. You are stronger than I and have had power over me. I have been laughed at all day. Everyone makes fun of me. For whenever I speak, I cry out. I tell a fighters and destroyers for the word of the Lord has become a shame and a cause of laughing at me all day long. But if I say I will not remember him or speak anymore in his name, then in my heart it is like a burning fire shut up in my bones. I’m tired of holding it in. And I cannot do that. For I have heard many speaking and secret saying fear and trouble is on every side. speak against him. Yes, let us speak against him. All my trusted friends watching for my fall say it may be that he will be fooled, then we can get power over him and punish him. But the Lord is with me like a powerful one who causes fear. So those who make it hard for me will fall and not have power over me. They will be put too much shame because their plans have not gone well. Their shame will last forever and will not be forgotten. Oh Lord of all you test those who are right and good. You see the mind and the heart. Let me see you punish them for I have given my cost to you. Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord, for He has taken the soul of the one in need from the hand of the sinful curse it is the day when I was born. Let the day not be honored when my mother gave birth to me. Curse had be the man who brought the news to my father saying a baby boy has been born to you and made him very Happy. Let that man be like the cities which the Lord destroyed without pity. Let him hear a cry in the morning and a call of danger at noon. For he did not kill me before I was born so that my mother’s body would have been my grave. Why was I ever born to see trouble and sorrow and spend my days in shame.

Steve Webb 14:46
Jeremiah chapter 21. This is the word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord when kings Zedekiah sent him to pasture the son of Malka and Zephaniah the religious leader the son of May Asiya saying will you speak to the Lord about us, for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon is making war against us. It may be that the Lord will do something for us like he did in times past and make him leave us. Then Jeremiah said to them, say this to Zedekiah, the Lord God of Israel says, See, I will turn against you the Objects of War you were using to fight with against the king of Babylon, and the Babylonians who are gathered outside the wall to shut you in. And I will bring them into the center of the city, I myself will fight against you with my handout. And with a strong arm in much anger, I will kill both man and animal in this city, they will die of a bad disease. After this says the Lord, I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people who were not killed in this city by the disease, the sword and hunger, I will give them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of those who hate them, and into the hands of those who want to kill them. And he will kill them with the sword, he will not let them live or have pity on them. Also tell the people, the Lord says, See, I said before you the way of life and the way of death, He who lives in this city will die by the sword and by hunger and by disease. But he who goes out and gives himself up to the Babylonians whose armies shut you in will live, he will at least have his life. For I have set my face against the city for trouble and not for good, says the Lord. It will be given to the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire. Then say to those of the house of the king of Judah, here the word of the Lord, oh House of David, the Lord says, do what is right every morning, take the person who has been robbed away from the one who has made it hard for him. So my anger will not go out like fire and burn with no one to put it out because of the sinful things you have done. See, I am against you, Oh, you who live in the valley, oh rock of the plain says the Lord, You who say, who will come down against us or who will come into our houses. I will punish you for what has come of what you have done, says the Lord, I will start a fire among your trees and it will destroy all that is around it.

Steve Webb 17:10
Beloved, in chapter 18 Today, the Lord showed Jeremiah, a potter who was not Happy with a pot he had made, he took that clay and he began to make something new with it. And God said to Jeremiah, can’t I do this with Israel. But if a nation turns from its sins, I will change my mind and I will not tear it down. And God told Jeremiah to take a message to all Judah and Jerusalem, calling them out for their sins and to tell them that destruction was on the way. But when they heard it that people hated the message, and they would not turn from their sins. And in verse 18 of chapter 18, the people said, Come let us hurt him with our tongue, meaning Jeremiah, and let us not listen to any of his words. So what’s happening here is because they did not like what Jeremiah had to say. They didn’t like his message. They wanted to silence him. Does that sound at all familiar? Well, what was Jeremiah’s response? Did he lash out at them? Did he take things into his own hands? No, he went to the Lord and he prayed, do not forgive their wrongdoing or cover their sin from your eyes. Let them be taken down before you punish them in the time of your anger. Well, this is in one way, completely the opposite of what Jesus did when he was on the cross, isn’t it? He said, Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do. So that begs the question, is there a time where it’s right to pray a prayer like Jeremiah prayed? Well, as we heard today, in the chapter is following chapter 18, the Lord’s anger had been kindled toward Israel, and he did not rebuke Jeremiah, beloved, there will come a time when God will say enough. We look at the condition of the world today. And we wonder just how much worse things can get. Maybe we are getting close to that day, or maybe there will be a worldwide revival and people will turn back to God, it has happened before and it can happen again. Only the Father knows. Only he knows the day in the hour, when he will be through with the world in the Great Tribulation will begin. Now, until that day, what are we to do? Well, each of us are called to carry the good news of a risen Christ to all who will listen. For those that do listen, very eternities will be forever changed, how wonderful for them and how great it is to be the one who brought that message to them. We have a great opportunity and responsibility to allow God to use us to bear the message of hope, love, and good news. Tell me what you think. Call the Lifespring family Hotline at plus 1-951-732-8511 Or go to comment.lifespringmedia.com and comment there or you can even email me at st***@*************ia.com Tomorrow we’ll be gospel Saturday and we’ll read Mark 11 and 12.

Steve Webb 20:12
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Steve Webb 20:43
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Steve Webb 21:09
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