Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000660
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00:15 Hello and welcome to "His Words Are Life."
00:17 I am Kelly Mowrer and today we are going 00:19 to read together from the book of Jeremiah. 00:21 But let's pray before we begin. 00:24 Dear Heavenly Father, 00:26 we thank you for an opportunity 00:28 to hear Your words which strengthen our feet 00:31 and give us courage and nourish our souls 00:35 and feed our longings. 00:37 Please be with us now as we hear them. 00:39 We love You so much 00:40 and thank you for loving us, amen. 00:43 Reading in the Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 33 00:47 and this is the King James Version. 00:50 Moreover the word of the Lord 00:51 came unto Jeremiah the second time, 00:53 while he was yet shut up 00:55 in the court of the prison, saying, 00:57 Thus saith the Lord the maker thereof, 01:00 the Lord that formed it, to establish it, 01:02 the Lord is his name, Call unto me, 01:06 and I will answer thee, and show thee great 01:08 and mighty things, which thou knowest not. 01:12 For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, 01:14 concerning the houses of this city, 01:16 and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, 01:19 which are thrown down by the mounts, 01:21 and by the sword, they come to fight with the Chaldeans, 01:25 but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, 01:28 whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, 01:31 and for all whose wickedness 01:32 I have hid my face from this city. 01:34 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, 01:38 and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them 01:41 the abundance of peace and truth. 01:45 And I will cause the captivity of Judah 01:47 and the captivity of Israel to return, 01:50 and will build them, as at the first. 01:53 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, 01:56 whereby they have sinned against me, 01:58 and I will pardon all their iniquities, 02:01 whereby they have sinned, 02:02 and whereby they have transgressed against me. 02:05 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise 02:09 and an honour before all the nations of the earth, 02:12 which shall hear all the good that I do unto them, 02:15 and they shall fear and tremble 02:17 for all the goodness and for all the prosperity 02:20 that I procure unto it. 02:22 Thus saith the lord, 02:24 Again there shall be heard in this place, 02:26 which ye say shall be desolate without man 02:29 and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, 02:31 and in the streets of Jerusalem, 02:33 that are desolate, without man, 02:34 and without inhabitant, and without beast, 02:36 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, 02:39 and the voice of the bridegroom, 02:41 and the voice of the bride, 02:42 the voice of them that shall say, 02:44 Praise the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, 02:48 for his mercy endureth forever, 02:50 and of them that shall bring 02:51 the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. 02:55 For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, 02:58 as at the first, saith the Lord. 03:01 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Again in this place, 03:05 which is desolate without man and without beast, 03:09 and in all the cities thereof, 03:10 shall be an habitation of shepherds 03:13 causing their flocks to lie down. 03:16 In the cities of the mountains, 03:18 in the cities of the vale, 03:19 and in the cities of the south, 03:21 and in the land of Benjamin, 03:22 and in the places about Jerusalem, 03:25 and in the cities of Judah, 03:27 shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him 03:29 that telleth them, saith the Lord. 03:32 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, 03:35 that I will perform that good thing 03:37 which I have promised unto the house of Israel 03:40 and to the house of Judah. 03:43 In those days, and at that time, 03:46 will I cause the Branch of righteousness 03:48 to grow up unto David, and he shall execute judgment 03:53 and righteousness in the land. 03:55 In those days shall Judah be saved, 03:57 and Jerusalem shall dwell safely, 04:00 and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, 04:04 The Lord our righteousness. 04:07 For thus saith the Lord, 04:08 David shall never want a man 04:09 to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel, 04:12 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man 04:15 before me to offer burnt offerings, 04:17 and to kindle meat offerings, 04:18 and to do sacrifice continually. 04:21 And the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, saying, 04:24 Thus saith the Lord, 04:26 If ye can break my covenant of the day, 04:28 and my covenant of the night, 04:30 and that there should not be day 04:31 and night in their season, 04:33 Then may also my covenant be broken 04:35 with David my servant, 04:37 that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne, 04:40 and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. 04:43 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, 04:47 neither the sand of the sea measured, 04:49 so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, 04:53 and the Levites that minister unto me. 04:56 Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, 05:00 Considerest thou not what this people 05:03 have spoken, saying, 05:05 The two families which the Lord hath chosen, 05:07 he hath even cast them off? 05:09 Thus they have despised my people, 05:11 that they should be no more a nation before them. 05:14 Thus saith the Lord, 05:16 If my covenant be not with day and night, 05:20 and if I have not appointed 05:21 the ordinances of heaven and earth, 05:24 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob 05:26 and David my servant, 05:28 so that I will not take any of his seed 05:30 to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, 05:34 for I will cause their captivity to return, 05:38 and have mercy on them. 05:41 Continuing with Jeremiah Chapter 34 05:43 and this is the King James Version. 05:47 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, 05:50 when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, 05:53 and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, 05:56 and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, 05:59 and against all the cities thereof, saying, 06:01 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, 06:05 Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, 06:08 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, 06:10 I will give this city into the hand 06:13 of the king of Babylon, 06:15 and he shall burn it with fire, 06:17 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, 06:20 but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand, 06:23 and thine eyes shall behold 06:24 the eyes of the king of Babylon, 06:26 and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, 06:30 and thou shalt go to Babylon. 06:33 Yet hear the word of the Lord, 06:35 O Zedekiah king of Judah, Thus saith the Lord of thee, 06:39 Thou shalt not die by the sword, 06:42 But thou shalt die in peace, 06:44 and with the burnings of thy fathers, 06:46 the former kings which were before thee, 06:49 so shall they burn odors for thee, 06:51 and they will lament thee, saying, Ah Lord! 06:54 For I have pronounced the word, saith the Lord. 06:58 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words 07:01 unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem, 07:04 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, 07:07 and against all the cities of Judah that were left, 07:10 against Lachish, and against Azekah, 07:13 for these defenced cities 07:15 remained of the cities of Judah. 07:17 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, 07:21 after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant 07:24 with all the people which were at Jerusalem, 07:27 to proclaim liberty unto them, 07:29 That every man should let his manservant, 07:32 and every man his maidservant, 07:34 being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free, 07:39 that none should serve himself of them, 07:41 to wit, of a Jew his brother. 07:44 Now when all the princes, and all the people, 07:46 which had entered into the covenant, 07:49 heard that everyone should let his manservant, 07:51 and everyone his maidservant, go free, 07:53 that none should serve themselves of them anymore, 07:57 then they obeyed, and let them go. 08:00 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants 08:04 and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, 08:07 to return, and brought them 08:09 into subjection for servants and for handmaids. 08:13 Therefore the word of the Lord 08:14 came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 08:17 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, 08:20 I made a covenant with your fathers in the day 08:22 that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, 08:24 out of the house of bondmen, saying, 08:26 At the end of seven years 08:28 let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, 08:30 which hath been sold unto thee, 08:33 and when he hath served thee six years, 08:35 thou shalt let him go free from thee, 08:37 but your fathers hearkened not unto me, 08:39 neither inclined their ear. 08:41 And ye were now turned, 08:43 and had done right in my sight, 08:44 in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor, 08:48 and ye had made a covenant before me 08:49 in the house which is called by my name, 08:52 But ye turned and polluted my name, 08:56 and caused every man his servant, 08:58 and every man his handmaid, 09:00 whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, 09:04 and brought them into subjection, 09:06 to be unto you for servants and for handmaids. 09:09 Therefore thus saith the Lord, 09:10 Ye have not hearkened unto me, 09:11 in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, 09:13 and every man to his neighbor, 09:16 behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, 09:18 saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, 09:22 and to the famine, and I will make you 09:24 to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. 09:27 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, 09:30 which have not performed the words of the covenant 09:32 which they had made before me, 09:33 when they cut the calf in twain, 09:35 and passed between the parts thereof, 09:38 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, 09:40 the eunuchs, and the priests, 09:42 and all the people of the land, 09:43 which passed between the parts of the calf, 09:45 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, 09:49 and into the hand of them that seek their life, 09:52 and their dead bodies shall be for meat 09:54 unto the fowls of the heaven, 09:56 and to the beasts of the earth. 09:59 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princess 10:01 will I give into the hand of their enemies, 10:04 and into the hand of them that seek their life, 10:06 and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, 10:08 which are gone up from you. 10:10 Behold, I will command, saith the Lord, 10:14 and cause them to return to this city, 10:16 and they shall fight against it, 10:18 and take it, and burn it with fire, 10:22 and I will make the cities of Judah 10:24 a desolation without an inhabitant 10:28 Continuing in the Book of Jeremiah Chapter 35 10:31 and this is the King James Version. 10:34 The word which came unto Jeremiah 10:37 from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim 10:40 the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, 10:44 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, 10:47 and speak unto them, 10:49 and bring them into the house of the Lord, 10:50 into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink. 10:54 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, 10:58 the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, 11:00 and all his sons, and the whole house 11:03 of the Rechabites, And I brought them 11:05 into the house of the Lord, 11:06 into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, 11:08 the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, 11:11 which was by the chamber of the princes, 11:13 which was above the chamber of Maaseiah 11:15 the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door, 11:19 And I set before the sons of the house 11:21 of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, 11:25 and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. 11:28 But they said, We will drink no wine, 11:31 for Jonadab the son of Rechab 11:33 our father commanded us, saying, 11:36 Ye shall drink no wine, 11:37 neither ye, nor your sons forever, 11:41 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, 11:43 nor plant vineyard, nor have any, 11:45 but all your days ye shall dwell in tents, 11:48 that ye may live many days 11:49 in the land where ye be strangers. 11:51 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab 11:54 the son of Rechab our father 11:55 in all that he hath charged us, 11:57 to drink no wine all our days, 12:00 we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters, 12:03 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in, 12:05 neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed, 12:08 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, 12:10 and done according to all that Jonadab 12:12 our father commanded us. 12:15 But it came to pass, 12:16 when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon 12:18 came up into the land, that we said, 12:19 Come, and let us go to Jerusalem 12:21 for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, 12:23 and for fear of the army of the Syrians, 12:24 so we dwell at Jerusalem. 12:27 Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying, 12:30 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, 12:33 Go and tell the men of Judah 12:35 and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 12:37 Will ye not receive instruction 12:39 to hearken to my words, saith the Lord. 12:42 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, 12:44 that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, 12:47 are performed, for unto this day they drink none, 12:51 but obey their father's commandment, 12:54 notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, 12:56 rising early and speaking, 12:58 but ye hearkened not unto me. 13:01 I have sent also unto you all 13:02 my servants the prophets, rising up early 13:05 and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man 13:08 from his evil way, and amend your doings, 13:11 and go not after other gods to serve them, 13:13 and ye shall dwell in the land 13:14 which I have given to you and to your fathers, 13:17 but ye have not inclined your ear, 13:19 nor hearkened unto me. 13:21 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab 13:24 have performed the commandment of their father, 13:27 which he commanded them, 13:28 but this people hath not hearkened unto me, 13:31 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, 13:34 the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring upon Judah 13:38 and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil 13:41 that I have pronounced against them, 13:42 because I have spoken unto them, 13:44 but they have not heard, and I have called unto them, 13:47 but they have not answered. 13:50 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, 13:52 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, 13:55 Because ye have obeyed 13:57 the commandment of Jonadab your father, 14:00 and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all 14:04 that he hath commanded you, 14:06 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, 14:07 the God of Israel, Jonadab the son of Rechab 14:10 shall not want a man to stand before me forever. 14:16 Continuing with Jeremiah Chapter 36. 14:18 And it came to pass in the fourth year 14:20 of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, 14:23 that this word came unto Jeremiah 14:25 from the Lord, saying, Take thee a roll of a book, 14:28 and write therein all the words 14:30 that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, 14:32 and against Judah, and against all the nations, 14:35 from the day I spake unto thee, 14:36 from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. |
Revised 2014-12-17