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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Good morning, welcome to stand on the word. I hope
you're having a great day so far. Today we are
in Jeremiah chapter seven, where God says, don't give me
that old time religion, give me obedience.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Look to verse twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So you shall say to them, this is the nation
that does not obey the voice of the Lord their God,
nor receive correction. Truth has perished and has been cut
off from their mouth.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
In this chapter, Jeremiah is told by God to go to.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
The go to the temple gate, and this is where
the people were gathering, and they were falsely placing their
trust not.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
In God but in the Temple.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
We're going to look at more about that in just
a moment, and he is to deliver an indictment for
their sin and their spiritual hypocrisy. Now, remember these chapters
in the Book of Jeremiah are not in chronological order,
and there's a debate, as with everything, as to what
is the problem order. Some scholars believe that this message
here in chapter seven came around six oh eight BC,
(01:05):
during the reign of Joho Him. Others say came earlier
in his ministry, around six twenty two BC. But in
either case we do know this that it came after
the rediscovery of the word of God that had been
found in the temple. The loss of the temple had
been found, as Josiah had ordered the temple to be
cleaned up, so we know this was happening. This happened
(01:26):
after that because the temple was cleaned up and the
people were coming back. All right now, as commendable as
the policy reforms of Josiah were unaccompanied by spiritual revival,
what we see here is they did not lead to
the reformation of the people, and as a result, well,
the destructive course of the nation had not been altered,
(01:48):
and they were still on the path to destruction the
judgment of God. So the temple was opened again. The
people began to gather again at the temple. Most likely
Jeremiah's message I was at one of the temple gates,
and it was delivered during one of the three feasts
that were once again being observed, as the Torah had
(02:09):
called for the law of God that had been rediscovered.
But as we'll see, something was missing right verse one,
the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying,
stand in the gate of the Lord's house and proclaim
there this word, and say, hear the.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Word of the Lord, all you of Judah.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Who enter in at these gates to worship the Lord.
So God calls Jeremiah to stand and to proclaim the
word of the Lord. Now this is a picture of
what the Church should be doing today, standing and proclaiming,
not their opinions, not their feelings.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
But the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord.
Look at verse three. Thus says the Lord of Ost,
the God of.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Israel, amend your ways and your doings, and I.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Will cause you to dwell in this place.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
A right relationship with God will result in right living
before God. Right it has to be evidenced in the
way we walk without that relationship. Verse four, do not
trust in these lying words, saying the Temple of the Lord,
the Temple of the Lord, the Temple.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Of the Lord. Are these Now?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
During the reign of Hezekia, about one hundred years prior
to this, God miraculously delivered Jerusalem from Senekareb, the king
of Assyria. Now, the people there mistakenly attributed the deliverance
not to God but to the House of God, the Temple. So,
now that the temple had been restored, to. People were
(03:39):
convinced that these warnings of Jeremiah were simply negative vibes
from a radical creature. They only wanted to hear positive,
encouraging words, even though those words were false and misleading
and quite frankly dangerous.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Verse five.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
For if you thoroughly amend your ways in your doings,
if you thoroughly execute judgment or justice between a man
and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the stranger,
the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent
blood in this place, or walk after other gods to
your hurt now here is one of God's If you,
then I state, look what he says here. If you
(04:21):
align with my word, if you in the injustice that's
taking place, if you in the oppression, it's being driven
by covetousness, by a desire for more. If you end
the shedding of innocent blood that was the sacrifice of
childing it as well as attacking God's profits, if you
end idolatry, then I will cause you verse seven to
(04:44):
dwell in this place, in the land that I gave
to your father's forever and ever.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So what's he saying.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
What he's saying is this. He says, religious ritual is
not sufficient. In fact, it's deficient, and it leaves people
with a false sense of secure purity. All right, guy's
not interested in religious ritual. Behold you trust in lying
words that cannot profit. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery,
swear falsely, burn incense to bail, and walk after other
gods whom you do not know, And then come and
(05:15):
stand before me in this house which is called by
my name, and say we are delivered to do these abominations.
That's crazy, but that's what they were doing. Did bon Hoffer,
who was a pastor during World War Two and stood
up to Hitler a compilation of his teachings. His writings
(05:37):
were put in the book called The Cost of Discipleship,
And he had this to say about cheap grace. And
that's what I think this is describing here. You know, look,
we're delivered to do these things.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
We are under the grace of God. And that's a
cheap view of grace. And this is what he said.
He said, cheap grace is the preaching of.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Forgetness without requiring their pentance, baptism without church discipline, communion
without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace
without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ
living and incarnate. So what distinguishes us in the eyes
(06:19):
of God is not our religious ritual, but our relationship
with Hi Him. Now what does that relationship look like? Well,
it is trusting Jesus Christ as our Lord and our Savior,
receiving from him by chrace, the forgiveness of sin.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
That's it. Yes, that's it.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
So then what does it say about obeying God?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Does that not apply to us?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Then look at what Jesus said in John chapter fourteen,
verse fifteen. He says this, if you love me, you
will keep my commandments. We don't earn our salvation by
our obedience to God. Because of our salvation we walk
in opa to God verse eleven. Has this house which
is called by my name become a den of thieves
(07:06):
in your eyes?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Remember Jesus. Jesus used that line.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Behold, I even I have seen it, says the Lord.
But now go to my place, which was in Shiloh,
where I set my name at the first and see
what I did to it because of the wickedness of
my people Israel.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Now I've been to Shiloh.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Some calla Shiloh many times. It's in the eastern portion
of Israel, in the area the Bible calls Judaea and
Samaria in that area. Now politically correct term, which by
the way, needs to be erased from our vocabulary, is.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
The West Bank, all right. Some people think the West
Bank is just a.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Maybe a sandy beach shore or something.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I mean, it's what sounds like, it's Juday and Samaria.
It's the heartland of the Bible.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It's where eighty percent of what we read about took place,
and that that's I'm not going to get into all
of that, but that's when you look at the political
discussions today about a two state solution, that's Israel giving
up the land of Juday in Samaria to create a
Palestinian state. But anyway, that's where Shiloh is located. It's
(08:14):
one of my favorite places to visit when I go
to Israel because it is I love to teach there
because it is a reminder of the consequences.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Of our choices.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Now, for three hundred and sixty nine years, the Tabernacle
was in that place, and that was that represented the
presence of God.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And people came.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
It was really at the center, kind of geographically located,
so that from all over the country they would come
there for their sacrifices, they would come there for.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
The feast, the festivals.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So even today when you go there and they're doing
a lot of excavations and they built some kind of
I would say museums, but some observation area there, we
can see some.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Really fascinating things.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
But what was fascinating me is just walking around on
the ground on the grounds you see hundreds of thousands
of pottery shards from the vessels that were broken from
the offerings presented to the Lord as the Word instructed.
I mean, these are literally thousands of years old in
all of this, three hundred and sixty nine years how
(09:23):
long the tabernacles there, But it ended in a day
because of the spiritual and the moral compromise which led
to the judgment of God. And so what the prophet
is saying here, hey, go take a look. You want
history to repeat itself, it will look at verse thirteen.
And now, because you have done all these things, says
the Lord, and I spoke to you rising up early
(09:44):
in speaking, but you did not hear. And I called you,
but you did not answer. Therefore, I will do to
the house which is called by my name, that is
the temple in which you trust, and to this place
which I gave to you and your fathers, as.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I did to Sheilah.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Wow, and that had to be stunning. You would think
that would have got gotten their attention, that the word
picture there could.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Not have been lost on them.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
You know, the nation was plunged into an identity crisis
when the arc was captured. That's when they took the
arc out and they were facing the Philistines. Eli got
word that his two sons had been killed and the
Ark had been captured.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
He fell off a stool and he died.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And Juda then just Israel plunged into this almost dark
age lack of identity. And here's what God was saying. Now,
the prophet was saying. God was saying through the prophet Jeremiah,
Judah was standing on loose grave all peering over a cliff.
Wasn't a safe place to be. So what was needed?
(10:53):
Repentance for what? But at verse twenty eight, for rejecting
God's truth. So you shall say to that this is
a nation that does not obey the voice of the
Lord there God nor receive correction. Truth has perished and
has been cut off from their mouth. So they needed
to repent the fact that they had rejected the truth
of God. But they also needed to repent for idolatry
(11:14):
and child sacrifice. Look at verse thirty. For the children
of you to have done evil in my sight, says
the Lord. They have set their abominations in the house
which is called by my name to pollute it. And
they have built the high places of Tofit, which is
in the valley of the son of Heinnhim, to burn
their sons and daughters in the fire, which I did
(11:34):
not command, nor did it come into my heart.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I never even thought about this.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It is so such an abomination, and I've actually infect
Last time I was in Israel, I was up on
top of of a building right there, kind of in
the valley, looking over this area of the valley of Heinham,
which is now the kind of park down there.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Fascinating.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
This is what's required. This is the first that we're
very familiar with. Second Chronicle, chapter seven, verse fourteen. If
my people are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray,
will seek my face and turn from their wicked ways.
Then will I hear from Heaven forgive their sin and
heal their land. You see, it's not about religious ritual.
(12:19):
It's about a right relationship with God, allowing God, by
his grace to change our hearts, and then for us
to walk in obedience before Father.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Thank you for your word. Now, Lord, just such.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Clear instruction from your word, May we yield to it.
May the Holy Spirit continue to guide us as we
take your word and apply it to our lives. The Lord,
May we honor you by obeying you, not out of fear,
not out of trying to earn anything, but Lord, have
of love for what you've done for us.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Thank you for your grace that you've extended to us.
Thank you for your son Jesus.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And I pray, Lord, is there any that may have
stumbled upon this video that have never fully come to
know you through the grace that you've extended through the
death of Jesus Christ. I pray that they would, that
they would trust you, and they would receive the forgiveness
and the healing that comes from knowing you. All that
(13:15):
prays in Jesus Nay, all right, Thanks for joining me
this morning. Until next time. Keep standing on the word.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Today's steady comes from the stand on the word.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Bible Reading Plan available for free at FRC dot org
slash Bible. By following along in just a few minutes
a day, you can read through the entire Bible in
just two years. Learn more and request the free reading
guide at FRC dot org slash Bible.
Good morning, welcome to stand on the word. I hope
you're having a great day so far. Today we are
in Jeremiah chapter seven, where God says, don't give me
that old time religion, give me obedience.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Look to verse twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So you shall say to them, this is the nation
that does not obey the voice of the Lord their God,
nor receive correction. Truth has perished and has been cut
off from their mouth.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
In this chapter, Jeremiah is told by God to go to.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
The go to the temple gate, and this is where
the people were gathering, and they were falsely placing their
trust not.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
In God but in the Temple.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
We're going to look at more about that in just
a moment, and he is to deliver an indictment for
their sin and their spiritual hypocrisy. Now, remember these chapters
in the Book of Jeremiah are not in chronological order,
and there's a debate, as with everything, as to what
is the problem order. Some scholars believe that this message
here in chapter seven came around six oh eight BC,
(01:05):
during the reign of Joho Him. Others say came earlier
in his ministry, around six twenty two BC. But in
either case we do know this that it came after
the rediscovery of the word of God that had been
found in the temple. The loss of the temple had
been found, as Josiah had ordered the temple to be
cleaned up, so we know this was happening. This happened
(01:26):
after that because the temple was cleaned up and the
people were coming back. All right now, as commendable as
the policy reforms of Josiah were unaccompanied by spiritual revival,
what we see here is they did not lead to
the reformation of the people, and as a result, well,
the destructive course of the nation had not been altered,
(01:48):
and they were still on the path to destruction the
judgment of God. So the temple was opened again. The
people began to gather again at the temple. Most likely
Jeremiah's message I was at one of the temple gates,
and it was delivered during one of the three feasts
that were once again being observed, as the Torah had
(02:09):
called for the law of God that had been rediscovered.
But as we'll see, something was missing right verse one,
the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying,
stand in the gate of the Lord's house and proclaim
there this word, and say, hear the.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Word of the Lord, all you of Judah.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Who enter in at these gates to worship the Lord.
So God calls Jeremiah to stand and to proclaim the
word of the Lord. Now this is a picture of
what the Church should be doing today, standing and proclaiming,
not their opinions, not their feelings.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
But the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord.
Look at verse three. Thus says the Lord of Ost,
the God of.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Israel, amend your ways and your doings, and I.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Will cause you to dwell in this place.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
A right relationship with God will result in right living
before God. Right it has to be evidenced in the
way we walk without that relationship. Verse four, do not
trust in these lying words, saying the Temple of the Lord,
the Temple of the Lord, the Temple.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Of the Lord. Are these Now?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
During the reign of Hezekia, about one hundred years prior
to this, God miraculously delivered Jerusalem from Senekareb, the king
of Assyria. Now, the people there mistakenly attributed the deliverance
not to God but to the House of God, the Temple. So,
now that the temple had been restored, to. People were
(03:39):
convinced that these warnings of Jeremiah were simply negative vibes
from a radical creature. They only wanted to hear positive,
encouraging words, even though those words were false and misleading
and quite frankly dangerous.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Verse five.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
For if you thoroughly amend your ways in your doings,
if you thoroughly execute judgment or justice between a man
and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the stranger,
the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent
blood in this place, or walk after other gods to
your hurt now here is one of God's If you,
then I state, look what he says here. If you
(04:21):
align with my word, if you in the injustice that's
taking place, if you in the oppression, it's being driven
by covetousness, by a desire for more. If you end
the shedding of innocent blood that was the sacrifice of
childing it as well as attacking God's profits, if you
end idolatry, then I will cause you verse seven to
(04:44):
dwell in this place, in the land that I gave
to your father's forever and ever.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So what's he saying.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
What he's saying is this. He says, religious ritual is
not sufficient. In fact, it's deficient, and it leaves people
with a false sense of secure purity. All right, guy's
not interested in religious ritual. Behold you trust in lying
words that cannot profit. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery,
swear falsely, burn incense to bail, and walk after other
gods whom you do not know, And then come and
(05:15):
stand before me in this house which is called by
my name, and say we are delivered to do these abominations.
That's crazy, but that's what they were doing. Did bon Hoffer,
who was a pastor during World War Two and stood
up to Hitler a compilation of his teachings. His writings
(05:37):
were put in the book called The Cost of Discipleship,
And he had this to say about cheap grace. And
that's what I think this is describing here. You know, look,
we're delivered to do these things.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
We are under the grace of God. And that's a
cheap view of grace. And this is what he said.
He said, cheap grace is the preaching of.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Forgetness without requiring their pentance, baptism without church discipline, communion
without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace
without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ
living and incarnate. So what distinguishes us in the eyes
(06:19):
of God is not our religious ritual, but our relationship
with Hi Him. Now what does that relationship look like? Well,
it is trusting Jesus Christ as our Lord and our Savior,
receiving from him by chrace, the forgiveness of sin.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
That's it. Yes, that's it.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
So then what does it say about obeying God?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Does that not apply to us?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Then look at what Jesus said in John chapter fourteen,
verse fifteen. He says this, if you love me, you
will keep my commandments. We don't earn our salvation by
our obedience to God. Because of our salvation we walk
in opa to God verse eleven. Has this house which
is called by my name become a den of thieves
(07:06):
in your eyes?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Remember Jesus. Jesus used that line.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Behold, I even I have seen it, says the Lord.
But now go to my place, which was in Shiloh,
where I set my name at the first and see
what I did to it because of the wickedness of
my people Israel.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Now I've been to Shiloh.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Some calla Shiloh many times. It's in the eastern portion
of Israel, in the area the Bible calls Judaea and
Samaria in that area. Now politically correct term, which by
the way, needs to be erased from our vocabulary, is.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
The West Bank, all right. Some people think the West
Bank is just a.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Maybe a sandy beach shore or something.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I mean, it's what sounds like, it's Juday and Samaria.
It's the heartland of the Bible.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It's where eighty percent of what we read about took place,
and that that's I'm not going to get into all
of that, but that's when you look at the political
discussions today about a two state solution, that's Israel giving
up the land of Juday in Samaria to create a
Palestinian state. But anyway, that's where Shiloh is located. It's
(08:14):
one of my favorite places to visit when I go
to Israel because it is I love to teach there
because it is a reminder of the consequences.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Of our choices.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Now, for three hundred and sixty nine years, the Tabernacle
was in that place, and that was that represented the
presence of God.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And people came.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
It was really at the center, kind of geographically located,
so that from all over the country they would come
there for their sacrifices, they would come there for.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
The feast, the festivals.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So even today when you go there and they're doing
a lot of excavations and they built some kind of
I would say museums, but some observation area there, we
can see some.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Really fascinating things.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
But what was fascinating me is just walking around on
the ground on the grounds you see hundreds of thousands
of pottery shards from the vessels that were broken from
the offerings presented to the Lord as the Word instructed.
I mean, these are literally thousands of years old in
all of this, three hundred and sixty nine years how
(09:23):
long the tabernacles there, But it ended in a day
because of the spiritual and the moral compromise which led
to the judgment of God. And so what the prophet
is saying here, hey, go take a look. You want
history to repeat itself, it will look at verse thirteen.
And now, because you have done all these things, says
the Lord, and I spoke to you rising up early
(09:44):
in speaking, but you did not hear. And I called you,
but you did not answer. Therefore, I will do to
the house which is called by my name, that is
the temple in which you trust, and to this place
which I gave to you and your fathers, as.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I did to Sheilah.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Wow, and that had to be stunning. You would think
that would have got gotten their attention, that the word
picture there could.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Not have been lost on them.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
You know, the nation was plunged into an identity crisis
when the arc was captured. That's when they took the
arc out and they were facing the Philistines. Eli got
word that his two sons had been killed and the
Ark had been captured.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
He fell off a stool and he died.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And Juda then just Israel plunged into this almost dark
age lack of identity. And here's what God was saying. Now,
the prophet was saying. God was saying through the prophet Jeremiah,
Judah was standing on loose grave all peering over a cliff.
Wasn't a safe place to be. So what was needed?
(10:53):
Repentance for what? But at verse twenty eight, for rejecting
God's truth. So you shall say to that this is
a nation that does not obey the voice of the
Lord there God nor receive correction. Truth has perished and
has been cut off from their mouth. So they needed
to repent the fact that they had rejected the truth
of God. But they also needed to repent for idolatry
(11:14):
and child sacrifice. Look at verse thirty. For the children
of you to have done evil in my sight, says
the Lord. They have set their abominations in the house
which is called by my name to pollute it. And
they have built the high places of Tofit, which is
in the valley of the son of Heinnhim, to burn
their sons and daughters in the fire, which I did
(11:34):
not command, nor did it come into my heart.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I never even thought about this.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It is so such an abomination, and I've actually infect
Last time I was in Israel, I was up on
top of of a building right there, kind of in
the valley, looking over this area of the valley of Heinham,
which is now the kind of park down there.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Fascinating.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
This is what's required. This is the first that we're
very familiar with. Second Chronicle, chapter seven, verse fourteen. If
my people are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray,
will seek my face and turn from their wicked ways.
Then will I hear from Heaven forgive their sin and
heal their land. You see, it's not about religious ritual.
(12:19):
It's about a right relationship with God, allowing God, by
his grace to change our hearts, and then for us
to walk in obedience before Father.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Thank you for your word. Now, Lord, just such.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Clear instruction from your word, May we yield to it.
May the Holy Spirit continue to guide us as we
take your word and apply it to our lives. The Lord,
May we honor you by obeying you, not out of fear,
not out of trying to earn anything, but Lord, have
of love for what you've done for us.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Thank you for your grace that you've extended to us.
Thank you for your son Jesus.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And I pray, Lord, is there any that may have
stumbled upon this video that have never fully come to
know you through the grace that you've extended through the
death of Jesus Christ. I pray that they would, that
they would trust you, and they would receive the forgiveness
and the healing that comes from knowing you. All that
(13:15):
prays in Jesus Nay, all right, Thanks for joining me
this morning. Until next time. Keep standing on the word.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Today's steady comes from the stand on the word.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Bible Reading Plan available for free at FRC dot org
slash Bible. By following along in just a few minutes
a day, you can read through the entire Bible in
just two years. Learn more and request the free reading
guide at FRC dot org slash Bible.
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