SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 48 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh are destroyed; your sons are taken into exile and your daughters into captivity. Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in days to come, declares the LORD. [Jeremiah 48:46-47] Another difficult passage – so much violence and bloodshed, how can God be a part…
for the sake of the elect
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 47 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: ‘Alas, sword of the LORD, how long till you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still.’ But how can it rest when the LORD has commanded it, when he has ordered it to attack Ashkelon and the coast?” [Jeremiah 47:6-7] I am watching what is happening in Libya (and elsewhere) with…
discipline for a purpose
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 46 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: ‘Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant, for I am with you,’ declares the LORD. ’Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only in due measure; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.” [Jeremiah 46:28] This…
how much more
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 45 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: You said, ‘Woe to me! The LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am worn out with groaning and find no rest.’ [Jeremiah 45:3] Baruch is complaining about how he is suffering through all this, how awful it is to endure this time of judgment. But the LORD has told me to…
whose word will stand?
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 44 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Go ahead then, do what you promised! Keep your vows! But hear the word of the LORD…, the Jews in Egypt will perish by sword and famine until they are all destroyed… Then the whole remnant of Judah who came to live in Egypt will know whose word will stand—mine or theirs….
who am I listening to?
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 43 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: All the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to settle there.’ But Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Babylonians, so they may kill us or…
where shall we go?
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 42 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with everything the LORD your God sends you to tell us. Whether it is favorable or unfavorable, we will obey the LORD our God, to whom we are sending…
betrayal
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 41 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: While they were eating together there, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, killing the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed as governor over the land. Ishmael also killed…
blessed are the poor
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 40 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: The king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam as governor over the land and had put him in charge of the men, women and children who were the poorest in the land and who had not been carried into exile to Babylon [Jeremiah 40:7] No doubt there were many times when…
standing firm
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 39 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But I will rescue you on that day, declares the LORD; you will not be given into the hands of those you fear. I will save you; you will not fall by the sword but will escape with your life, because you trust in me, declares the LORD. [Jeremiah 39:17-18] This must have…