Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000649
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00:15 Hello, and welcome to "His Words are Life."
00:17 I'm Kelly Mowrer, and today 00:19 we're going to be reading in the Book of Jeremiah. 00:22 But let's pray together before we start. 00:24 Dear God, thank you so much for another opportunity 00:27 to sit here and to read Your word. 00:31 Please, be with us now 00:32 as we listen to this message from You 00:37 and You have preserved it through the years 00:39 for the time that we're hearing it now. 00:41 Please, show us what You would have us 00:42 to learn through your Holy Spirit. 00:44 Thank you for hearing our prayer, amen. 00:47 Reading in the Book of Jeremiah Chapter 2, 00:50 and starting with verse 18. 00:52 This is the Kings James Version. 00:56 "And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, 00:59 to drink the waters of Sihor? 01:02 Or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, 01:04 to drink the waters of the river? 01:06 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, 01:09 and thy backslidings shall reprove thee, 01:12 know therefore and see that, it is an evil thing and bitter, 01:17 that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, 01:20 and that my fear is not in thee, 01:22 saith the Lord God of hosts. 01:24 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, 01:27 and burst thy bands, and thou saidst, 01:30 I will not transgress, when upon every high hill 01:33 and under every green tree thou wanderest, 01:37 playing the harlot. 01:39 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, 01:42 wholly a right seed, 01:44 how then art thou turned into the degenerate 01:47 plant of a strange vine unto me? 01:51 For though thou wash thee with nitre, 01:53 and take thee much soap, 01:56 yet thine iniquity is marked before me, 01:58 saith the Lord God. 02:00 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, 02:02 I have not gone after Baalim? 02:04 See thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done, 02:09 thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways, 02:13 A wild ass used to the wilderness, 02:15 that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure, 02:18 in her occasion who can turn her away? 02:21 All they that seek her will not weary themselves, 02:24 in her month they shall find her. 02:27 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, 02:30 and thy throat from thirst, but thou saidst, 02:32 there is no hope, no, for I have loved strangers, 02:35 and after them will I go. 02:39 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, 02:42 so is the house of Israel ashamed, 02:44 they, their kings, their princes, 02:46 and their priests, and their prophets. 02:49 Saying to a stock, thou art my father, 02:52 and to a stone, thou hast brought me forth, 02:56 for they have turned their back unto me, 02:58 and not their face, 03:00 but in the time of their trouble they will say, 03:02 arise, and save us. 03:05 But where are thy Gods that thou hast made thee? 03:08 Let them arise, 03:09 if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble, 03:11 for according to the number 03:12 of thy cities are thy Gods, O Judah. 03:15 Wherefore will ye plead with me? 03:17 Ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord. 03:21 In vain have I smitten your children, 03:23 they received no correction, 03:25 your own sword hath devoured your prophets, 03:28 like a destroying lion. 03:31 O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. 03:34 Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? 03:37 A land of darkness? 03:39 Wherefore say my people, 03:40 We are Lords, we will come no more unto thee? 03:44 Can a maid forget her ornaments, 03:46 or a bride her attire? 03:49 Yet my people have forgotten me days without number. 03:53 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? 03:56 Therefore hast thou also taught 03:58 the wicked ones thy ways? 03:59 Also in thy skirts is found 04:01 the blood of the souls of the poor innocents, 04:04 I have not found it by secret search, 04:06 but upon all these. 04:08 Yet thou sayest, because I am innocent, 04:11 surely his anger shall turn from me. 04:14 Behold, I will plead with thee, 04:16 because thou sayest, I have not sinned. 04:18 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? 04:23 Thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, 04:25 as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. 04:28 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, 04:29 and thine hands upon thine head, 04:31 for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, 04:34 and thou shalt not prosper in them." 04:37 Continuing in Jeremiah Chapter 3, 04:40 and this is the King James Version. 04:43 "They say, if a man put away his wife, 04:46 and she go from him, and become another man's, 04:48 shall he return unto her again? 04:51 Shall not that land be greatly polluted? 04:54 But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers, 04:57 yet return again to me, saith the Lord. 05:01 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, 05:03 and see where thou hast not been lien with. 05:06 In the ways hast thou sat for them, 05:09 as the Arabian in the wilderness, 05:10 and thou hast polluted 05:11 the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness. 05:14 Therefore the showers have been withholden, 05:16 and there hath been no latter rain, 05:21 and thou hadst a whore's forehead, 05:23 thou refused to be ashamed. 05:26 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, 05:29 my father, thou art the guide of my youth? 05:33 Will he reserve his anger for ever? 05:35 Will he keep it to the end? 05:37 Behold, thou hast spoken 05:38 and done evil things as thou couldest. 05:42 The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, 05:46 Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? 05:50 She is gone up upon every high mountain 05:52 and under every green tree, 05:54 and there hath played the harlot. 05:57 And I said after she had done all these things, 06:00 turn thou unto me. But she returned not. 06:03 And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 06:07 And I saw, when for all the causes 06:09 whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery 06:12 I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, 06:17 yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, 06:20 but went and played the harlot also. 06:23 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, 06:26 that she defiled the land, 06:27 and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 06:30 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah 06:33 hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, 06:36 but feignedly, saith the Lord. 06:40 And the Lord said unto me, 06:41 the backsliding Israel hath justified herself 06:44 more than treacherous Judah. 06:46 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, 06:48 and say, return, thou backsliding Israel, 06:51 saith the Lord, 06:52 and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you, 06:55 for I am merciful, saith the Lord, 06:58 and I will not keep anger for ever. 07:01 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, 07:03 that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, 07:06 and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers 07:09 under every green tree, 07:10 and ye have not obeyed my voice, 07:12 saith the Lord. 07:13 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord, 07:16 for I am married unto you, 07:18 and I will take you one of a city, 07:20 and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion, 07:23 and I will give you pastors according to mine heart, 07:25 which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. 07:29 And it shall come to pass, 07:30 when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, 07:33 in those days, saith the Lord, 07:34 they shall say no more, 07:36 The ark of the covenant of the Lord, 07:38 neither shall it come to mind, 07:39 neither shall they remember it, 07:40 neither shall they visit it, 07:41 neither shall that be done any more. 07:45 At that time they shall call Jerusalem 07:47 the throne of the Lord, 07:48 and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, 07:51 to the name of the Lord, 07:52 to Jerusalem, neither shall they walk 07:53 any more after the imagination 07:55 of their evil heart. 07:57 In those days the house of Judah 07:59 shall walk with the house of Israel, 08:00 and they shall come together out of the land 08:03 of the north to the land that I have given 08:05 for an inheritance unto your fathers. 08:08 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, 08:11 and give thee a pleasant land, 08:13 a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? 08:17 And I said, thou shalt call me, 08:18 my father, and shalt not turn away from me. 08:22 Surely as a wife treacherously 08:24 departeth from her husband, 08:25 so have ye dealt treacherously with me, 08:27 O house of Israel, saith the Lord. 08:30 A voice was heard upon the high places, 08:32 weeping and supplications of the children of Israel, 08:36 for they have perverted their way, 08:37 and they have forgotten the Lord their God. 08:40 Return, ye backsliding children, 08:42 and I will heal your backslidings. 08:45 Behold, we come unto thee, 08:47 for thou art the Lord our God. 08:50 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, 08:54 and from the multitude of mountains, 08:56 truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel. 09:00 For shame hath devoured 09:01 the labor of our fathers from our youth, 09:03 their flocks and their herds, 09:04 their sons and their daughters. 09:06 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us, 09:10 for we have sinned against the Lord our God, 09:12 we and our fathers, 09:13 from our youth even unto this day, 09:15 and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God." 09:19 Continuing to read in Jeremiah Chapter 4, 09:22 and this is the King James Version. 09:26 "If thou wilt return, O Israel, 09:27 saith the Lord, return unto me, 09:30 and if thou wilt put away 09:31 thine abominations out of my sight, 09:34 then shalt thou not remove? 09:36 And thou shalt swear, 09:37 The Lord liveth, in truth, 09:39 in judgment, and in righteousness, 09:42 and the nations shall bless themselves in him, 09:45 and in him shall they glory. 09:48 For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah 09:51 and Jerusalem, break up your fallow ground, 09:54 and sow not among thorns. 09:57 Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, 09:59 and take away the foreskins of your heart, 10:01 ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, 10:03 lest my fury come forth like fire, 10:06 and burn that none can quench it, 10:08 because of the evil of your doings. 10:11 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem, 10:14 and say, blow ye the trumpet in the land, 10:17 cry, gather together, and say, assemble yourselves, 10:20 and let us go into the defenced cities. 10:23 Set up the standard toward Zion, 10:25 retire, stay not, 10:28 for I will bring evil from the north, 10:30 and a great destruction. 10:32 The lion is come up from his thicket, 10:35 and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way, 10:38 he is gone forth from his place 10:40 to make thy land desolate, 10:41 and thy cities shall be laid waste, 10:44 without an inhabitant. 10:46 For this gird you with sackcloth, 10:50 lament and howl, 10:51 for the fierce anger of the Lord 10:54 is not turned back from us. 10:56 And it shall come to pass at that day, 10:58 saith the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, 11:02 and the heart of the princes, 11:03 and the priests shall be astonished, 11:05 and the prophets shall wonder. 11:08 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! 11:12 Surely thou hast greatly deceived this people 11:15 and Jerusalem, saying, ye shall have peace, 11:17 whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul. 11:21 At that time shall it be said to this people 11:24 and to Jerusalem, 11:25 a dry wind of the high places in the wilderness 11:28 toward the daughter of my people, 11:29 not to fan, nor to cleanse, 11:32 even a full wind from those places shall come unto me, 11:35 now also will I give sentence against them. 11:39 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, 11:41 and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind, 11:44 his horses are swifter than eagles. 11:46 Woe unto us, for we are spoiled. 11:50 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, 11:53 that thou mayest be saved. 11:56 How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? 12:00 For a voice declareth from Dan, 12:02 and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim. 12:05 Make ye mention to the nations, 12:07 behold, publish against Jerusalem, 12:09 that watchers come from a far country, 12:12 and give out their voice against the cities of Judah. 12:15 As keepers of a field, 12:17 are they against her round about, 12:20 because she hath been rebellious against me, 12:23 saith the Lord. 12:25 Thy way and thy doings 12:26 have procured these things unto thee, 12:29 this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, 12:33 because it reacheth unto thine heart. 12:36 My bowels, my bowels! 12:38 I am pained at my very heart, my heart maketh a noise in me, 12:42 I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, 12:45 O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, 12:48 the alarm of war. 12:50 Destruction upon destruction is cried, 12:52 for the whole land is spoiled, suddenly are my tents spoiled, 12:56 and my curtains in a moment. 12:58 How long shall I see the standard, 13:00 and hear the sound of the trumpet? 13:02 For my people is foolish, they have not known me, 13:06 they are sottish children, 13:07 and they have none understanding, 13:09 they are wise to do evil, 13:12 but to do good they have no knowledge. 13:15 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form and void, 13:20 and the heavens, and they had no light 13:23 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, 13:26 and all the hills moved lightly. 13:28 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, 13:31 and all the birds of the heavens were fled. 13:34 I beheld, and, lo, 13:36 the fruitful place was a wilderness, 13:38 and all the cities thereof were broken down 13:41 at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger. 13:45 For thus hath the Lord said, 13:46 the whole land shall be desolate, 13:49 yet will I not make a full end. 13:53 For this shall the earth mourn, 13:54 and the heavens above be black, 13:58 because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, 14:01 and will not repent, 14:03 neither will I turn back from it. 14:06 The whole city shall flee 14:07 for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen, 14:10 they shall go into thickets, 14:11 and climb up upon the rocks, 14:13 every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein. 14:18 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? 14:21 Though thou closest thyself with crimson, 14:24 though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, 14:27 though thou rentest thy face with painting, 14:29 in vain shalt thou make thyself fair, 14:32 thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life." |
Revised 2014-12-17