So, hello, everyone. Again, this is a welcome to the Christian Bible Study Ministry podcast, and we are today going into chapter 2 of Jeremiah. Our study of the book of Jeremiah, and do pray, as always, that this episode will bless you and somehow or another encourage you in your walk with Jesus. And if you are, of course, if you are not a Christian, then I pray that somehow maybe the good Lord's spirit will touch you and you will have a chance to be saved. Before we get into the program, there is always something that I like to say and that that is that I know that, especially right now, you know, with some news that I got today, There is a person that used to work with my mother over at one of the stores here that has passed away. And honestly, it hits hard, you know, and it's something that is difficult to think about, you know. But I have faith that they knew Jesus, and so they are in the same place that my mother is, you know. So, and that plus all the other people who are grieving, you know, that's something that I pray about every day. There's a lot of people family and friends who have lost people and their families recently so that's again i know firsthand the burden that grief is it's not pleasant and of course you know there's other things going on too you know people might have financial problems and other things that are weighing weighing them down excuse me so i do pray that. Whoever in the world is listening to this podcast that you will have some kind of blessing from God, you know, whether it be money, a kind word, or a good report from a doctor or whatever, you know, because the Lord knows we need these things. And so I'm just going to end the beginning of the program with that. And we're going to talk about Jeremiah, you know, as a refresher, Jeremiah was sent by the good lord to preach to the israelites who had abandoned their covenant and so jeremiah was promised by god in chapter one he said that. Jeremiah was not to worry about anything because the king or no one else would be able to harm him while he was preaching because the Lord wanted this message to be preached. And this was 50 years before the Babylonian invasion. So they had plenty of time to listen to Jeremiah's message and to accept it or reject it. And unfortunately, we will see they did in fact reject that message. So we're going to go into chapter two now so hold on just a second y'all bear with me please okay here we go so again we have we will see that in chapter two god will recall israel's early love and devotion when they were freed from egypt they followed him in the wilderness and they were set apart as holy and belonged uniquely to him you know this is why god gave them these rules to follow that the ten commandments and the other you know all 639 commandments total so and israel unfortunately had a tendency to wander from this so we're going to read the first few verses of chapter two moreover the word of the lord came to me saying go and cry in the ears of jerusalem saying thus saith the lord i remember thee the kindness of thy youth the love of thine espousals when thou wentest after me in the wilderness in a land that was not sown israel was holiness unto the lord and the first fruits of his increase all that devour him shall offend evil shall come upon them saith the lord the lord says hey anybody who comes after his own chosen people in this case the nation of israel they will cause great offense. And evil shall come upon them. It doesn't specify specifically what kind of evil. It just says evil. So it could be anything. And that evil can be very bad. And I believe we have seen in history that anybody who has gone after the Jewish people has suffered horribly for it. And there's too many examples for me to go into there on that. So, you know, we are going to go now to the next several verses. Where we see that God asks, what did he do wrong to deserve their abandonment? You know, God says, rhetorically speaking, what did he do to deserve Israel abandoning the covenant? The people followed their worthless idols, you know, their Asherah poles, their Baal idols and Ashtoreths and whatever other kind of idols that they had there. They forgot God and their leaders failed spiritually. The leaders were probably some of the very first people to turn in their hearts from God. They were in charge of the temple. They were in charge of teaching the law to the people. And they failed. They failed in their sacred duty. Verse 4. Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel. Thus saith the Lord What iniquity have your fathers found in me That they are gone far from me And have walked after vanity And are become vain. This is where we see God As asking the people What fault did he have That they chose to turn from him He had blessed them with freedom He freed them from 400 years Of bondage in Egypt, Freedom from the last Freedom from beatings Freedom from murder uh, And yet...
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Jun 24 202630 mins