His Words Are Life

Jeremiah 7:16 To 9:26

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Participants: Kelly Mowrer

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00:15 Hello and welcome back to His Words Are Life.
00:17 I'm Kelly Mowrer and today we're going to be reading together in
00:20 the book of Jeremiah. But let's pray before we start.
00:23 Dear heavenly Father, thank you again that we can come into your
00:27 presence, come apart from our lives for a few minutes and
00:31 listen to your very word. Thank you for preserving it for us
00:35 and now please send the Holy Spirit to bring understanding as
00:39 we listen. We love you so much and thank you for loving us Amen
00:42 We are reading in the book of Jeremiah and this is chapter 7
00:48 beginning with verse 16 and this is the King James Version.
00:52 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor
00:56 prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will
01:01 not hear thee. Seest thou not what they do in the cities of
01:05 Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather
01:09 wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead
01:13 their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour
01:16 out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me
01:21 to anger. Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they
01:25 not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
01:29 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, mine anger and my
01:33 fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon
01:37 beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of
01:41 the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
01:45 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your
01:49 burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
01:51 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in
01:54 the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning
01:58 burnt offerings or sacrifices: but this thing commanded I them,
02:02 saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall
02:06 be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have
02:10 commanded you, that it may be well unto you. But they
02:14 hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the
02:18 counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went
02:21 backward, and not forward. Since the day that your fathers
02:25 came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even
02:29 sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up
02:33 early and sending them: yet they hearkened not unto me, nor
02:37 inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than
02:41 their fathers. Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto
02:45 them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call
02:49 unto them; but they will not answer thee. But thou shalt
02:53 say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of
02:57 the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction:
02:59 truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. Cut off
03:04 thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a
03:08 lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and
03:13 forsaken the generation of his wrath. For the children of Judah
03:17 have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set
03:21 their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to
03:25 pollute it. And they have built the high places of Tophet, which
03:29 is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and
03:32 their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not,
03:36 neither came it into my heart. Therefore, behold, the days come
03:40 saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the
03:45 valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for
03:49 they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. And the
03:54 carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven
03:57 and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
04:01 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from
04:04 the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice
04:07 of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of
04:11 the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
04:14 We're continuing to read in Jeremiah chapter 8.
04:18 This is the King James Version.
04:20 At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones
04:25 of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the
04:29 bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the
04:32 bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
04:35 and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon,
04:39 and all the hosts of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom
04:41 they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom
04:44 they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not
04:48 be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the
04:52 face of the earth. And death shall be chosen rather than life
04:56 by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family,
04:59 which remain in all the places whither I have driven them,
05:03 saith the Lord of hosts. Moreover thou shalt say
05:07 unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise?
05:12 shall he turn away, and not return? Why then is this people
05:17 of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold
05:22 fast deceit, they refuse to return. I hearkened and heard,
05:28 but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his
05:33 wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his
05:38 course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. Yea, the stork
05:41 in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle
05:45 and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their
05:48 coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. How do
05:54 ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us?
05:58 Lo certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in
06:03 vain. The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken:
06:08 lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom
06:13 is in them? Therefore will I give their wives unto others,
06:17 and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every
06:22 one from the least even unto the greatest is given to
06:26 covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every
06:31 one dealeth falsely. For they have healed the hurt of the
06:35 daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there
06:40 is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed
06:45 abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could
06:50 they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in
06:54 the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith
06:58 the Lord. I will surely consume them, saith the Lord: there
07:02 shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and
07:06 the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them
07:11 shall pass away from them. Why do we sit still? assemble
07:16 yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and
07:20 let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to
07:25 silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have
07:30 sinned against the Lord. We looked for peace, but no good
07:34 came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! The snorting
07:41 of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled
07:44 at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they
07:47 are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the
07:51 city, and those that dwell therein. For, behold, I will
07:55 send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be
07:59 charmed, and they shall bite you saith the Lord. When I would
08:04 comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. Behold
08:09 the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because
08:13 of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the Lord in
08:17 Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to
08:22 anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
08:26 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
08:32 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black;
08:38 astonishment hath taken hold on me. Is there no balm in Gilead;
08:44 is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the
08:50 daughter of my people recovered?
08:52 Continuing in the book of Jeremiah chapter 9.
08:56 This is the King James Version
08:57 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of
09:02 tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the
09:07 daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging
09:12 place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go
09:17 from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of
09:22 treacherous men. And they bend their tongues like their bow for
09:26 lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth;
09:30 for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me,
09:35 saith the Lord. Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and
09:40 trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly
09:45 supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
09:48 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak
09:52 the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and
09:57 weary themselves to commit iniquity. Thine habitation is in
10:02 midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith
10:08 the Lord. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I
10:13 will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the
10:19 daughter of my people? Their tongue is as an arrow shot out;
10:25 it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with
10:27 his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. Shall I not
10:31 visit them for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my
10:36 soul be avenged on such a nation as this? For the
10:40 mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the
10:44 habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are
10:48 burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men
10:51 hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens
10:55 and the beast are fled; they are gone. And I will make Jerusalem
10:59 heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of
11:04 Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Who is the wise man,
11:09 that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of
11:13 the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the
11:17 land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none
11:20 passeth through? And the Lord saith, Because they have
11:25 forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed
11:29 my voice, neither walked therein; but have walked after
11:33 the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which
11:37 their fathers taught them: Therefore thus saith the Lord
11:42 of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even
11:46 this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink
11:51 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they
11:56 nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after
12:00 them, till I have consumed them. Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
12:05 Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may
12:10 come; and send for cunning women that they may come: and let them
12:12 make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes
12:17 may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with water.
12:22 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled!
12:27 we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the
12:30 land, because our dwellings have cast us out. Yet hear the word
12:35 of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his
12:39 mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her
12:43 neighbor lamentation. For death is come up into our windows, and
12:47 is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from
12:50 without, and the young men from the streets. Speak, Thus saith
12:55 the Lord, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the
13:00 open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none
13:05 shall gather them. Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man
13:10 glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his
13:16 might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: But let him
13:21 that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and
13:26 knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness,
13:31 judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I
13:36 delight, saith the Lord. Behold the days come, saith the Lord,
13:40 that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the
13:44 uncircumcised; Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of
13:49 Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that
13:54 dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised,
13:59 and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
14:03 Thank you for joining with me today to read the book of
14:07 Jeremiah. That passage we just finished is one of my favorites
14:11 that God is saying to each one of us, don't take confidence in
14:14 your wisdom, don't take confidence in your wealth,
14:18 don't take confidence in your strength, but if you are going
14:22 to be confident, if you are going to trust in anything
14:24 worthwhile, let your confidence be in knowing me, knowing me as
14:30 the God of love, and righteousness and truth
14:33 and grace and mercy; knowing God with all our hearts. Please
14:37 join me again next time. Good bye.


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