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Alright, let's turn back in our Bibles again tonight to this afternoon to the 30th chapter of Jeremiah. I'm going to be reading, beginning with verse 1 this afternoon. We'll read down through verse 17, I guess, and we'll stop there for this afternoon. It says, The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. For lo, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the Lord, and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it." And these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah. For thus saith the Lord, we have heard a voice of trembling, of fear and not of peace. Ask ye now and see whether a man doth travail with child. Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travail and all faces are turned into paleness. Alas, for that day is great so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob's trouble but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him. But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them. Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the Lord, neither be dismayed, O Israel, for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity. And Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee. Though I make a full end of all nations, whether I have scattered thee, yet I will not make a full end of thee. But I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished. For thus saith the Lord, thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up. Thou hast no healing medicines. All thy lovers have forgotten thee, they seek thee not. For I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased. Why criest thou for thine affliction? Thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity. Because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee. Therefore, all they that devour thee shall be devoured, and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity. And they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey. For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. because they call thee an outcast, saying, This is Zion whom no man seeketh after." The Lord is very angry. It's evident that the Lord is extremely angry at the nation of Judah at this point. He was angry at the ten tribes, and he sent them into captivity. Indeed, he sent them into oblivion, didn't he? But he's angry at Judah now, because Judah has seen, especially because Judah has seen what God did unto its sister nation called Israel, And yet, instead of repenting of their sins and their iniquities, they just did them all the more. What a strange thing depravity is. It does not learn from its own mistakes, and how can it learn from the mistakes of others? And once again though, we see that God is not only merciful, not only does He have compassion, but God is faithful, but He is faithful to whom? His people, but He is faithful mainly to Himself. He is true to Himself. If it were not for that, What hope could we have? Nothing could we. Right. For instance, in 2 Timothy chapter 2, Paul says in verse 11, is a faithful saying, for if we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him. If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us. If we believe not, yet what? He abideth faithful, He cannot deny. himself. That is the hope of every child of God and the peace and confidence that God cannot deny himself and especially as it pertains to the Lord Jesus Christ. How is a man saved? He is saved because God is faithful, or I should say, I guess, why is a man saved? He is saved because God is faithful to His promise to His Son. That's the only reason that any of us are saved is simply because God is faithful to the promise that He made unto His Son. The promise was made unto the seed, right? not under seed, as of many, but under thy seed, which is Christ." And so we see here, the only hope that these people have is in the knowledge that God is faithful to Himself. Now, as we read these things here, it's amazing that God God promises that He's going to deliver the people. He is going to save Israel, the true Israel. He is going to save the seed of Isaac, the seed of Jacob. He is going to save the children of Abraham, regardless. But, what does He say? It says, "...and will not leave thee altogether," this is the last part of verse 11, "...unpunished." Now look at the language that he uses here in these verses. He says, "...thy bruise," verse 12, "...thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous." He says, verse 13, there's none to plead thy cause that thou mayest be bound up, thou hast no healing medicines. Now, this is not a new thing that Jeremiah is being told here and telling to the people of Israel or the people of Judah in this particular case. Stated before in the 8th chapter of this same book, in verse 18, Jeremiah says, when I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. Now what in the world is he saying again? He's saying, I want to have some comfort here, but I don't know where to find it because my heart is cast down. It's not in me to find this comfort. Verse 19, Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country. Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not her king in her? You know, in one sense, the answer to that is, yes, He is here, isn't He? Just like today, again, the Lord is present. And again, all these people that are saying, well, the Lord's in control. Well, He is in control. But what they're not understanding is that God will punish sin. And not only will He punish sin, but He will punish the sin of His people. Now that's one of the great fallacies of our day. as far as the general church is concerned, is that they believe that because they named the name of Christ, that God is somehow going to overlook all of their sins. Now, I understand that in a sense, in the right sense, All of our sins have been taken care of by the blood of Christ. We are justified, are we not? Fully justified. Not halfway, not three quarters of the way, not 99% of the way, but we are justified wholly. But I hear these people make this statement, well, all of our sins are forgiven, past, present, and future. And by that, as I hear them talk, they continue to talk, I understand that they mean that it doesn't matter then. Sin is not important. It's though Christ has died and He's paid for all those sins that we're going to commit even in the future. Christ has paid for them, so we don't have to be concerned about them. Well, in one sense, again, that is true. But nevertheless, God will punish the sins of His people and he will punish the sins of his people severely if there is an impenitent attitude toward those sins. Now, the purpose of that, of course, is that when God gets through punishing the sins of his people, his people will no longer think of sins in a casual way. They will think of those sins in the way that God thinks of them. Jeremiah continues here, Why have they provoked me to anger? This is to God. Why have they provoked God to anger? With their graven image and with strange vanities. If God is in the midst of them, right? If the Lord is in Zion, if the King is in her, then why are they doing all of these things? Now this brings up a question. Will God then permit? No. We've already answered it, haven't we? He will not permit His people to continue to do these things. He is in the midst of His people. The King is there. And He is in Zion. But here's what Jeremiah comes to the conclusion. The harvest is past. The summer is ended. And what's the outcome? We're not saved. Now, we won't go over there, but if we turn over to the book of Amos, Amos sees a basket of summer fruit, right? And what does that represent? Well, God says it represents the fact that he will not pass by his people anymore. In other words, The time isn't coming when He is going to be through with them. And that's what He's talking about here. They're no longer a nation in themselves or unto themselves. The people of Israel today that are of the elect, they are joined together with all the other saved of the earth. Of course they always have been, haven't they? But they have lost that special connotation that they once had as the people of God. Is God going to save Israel? Yes. As we read in Romans chapter 11, and so all Israel shall be saved. But that certainly doesn't mean that God's going to go back to the time of Abraham and he's going to save every one of those that died in unbelief. No, it's still only those that are of the elect of God and God is going to punish this nation The only one that is going to be able to help them is God Himself. The same one that punishes is the same one that's going to be able to help them. And of course, we know what the Apostle Peter says in the fourth chapter of his first epistle. Where does judgment begin? Well, it begins at the house of the Lord. Now what's going to happen, of course, is that God is weeding out, He is going to separate the precious from the vile. Those that are truly His people are going to be made manifest, and those that are not His people are going to be cast away. In verse 13, He says, There's none to plead thy cause that thou mayest be bound up, thou hast no healing medicines. That's, of course, in our text verse in chapter 30. But as we get into the latter part of chapter 8 again, in verse 21, he says, For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt. I am black. Astonishment has taken hold on me. And then he asks this question again. Here's basically the same thing that he asked in verse 19. Is there no balm in Gilead? Well, there is a balm in Gilead. Is there no physician there? Well, yeah, there is a physician there. And this is the thing that perplexes. Remember, up in verse 18, Jeremiah says, when I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is fain in me. Here's the thing that perplexes him. The Lord is in Zion, right? The King is in the midst of her or in her. There's balm in Gilead. There is a physician. Well, then the question is why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Because they are impenitent. They don't want a physician. They don't think they need a physician. We go over to the New Testament and what is it that Christ says? The righteous, they don't need a physician, right? I came not to save the righteous, but to call sinners to repentance. So that's what we've got here, presenting us here, and the Lord is simply telling these people that there is going to be a punishment, and this punishment is going to weed out those that are not of the elect. Now, I want us to turn over to the New Testament, In what we commonly refer to as the Olivet Discourse, we have a, I don't know whether you'd call it a warning, or it's just a statement, it's a declaration, I would say, more than a warning. But in verse 24 of the 24th chapter of Matthew, He says, For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch that if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. And he says, Behold, I have told you before. In other words, I'm warning you here, I'm making this declaration and here's a warning, I'm telling you before this happens, before it comes to pass. But what is my point here? My point is that God is going to separate, in these last days, God is going to separate He is true people from those that are just professors. He says it right here in verse 24 of chapter 24. Now, if we go, and you can keep your finger there if you want to, if we go over to Revelation chapter 13, what do we find here? In verse 8 of Revelation 13, he says, and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship Him whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." Now, who is the Him that he's talking about? Well, it's this Antichrist. It's anyone really that is opposed to God, opposed to the Lord Jesus Christ, Ultimately, it's Satan, isn't it? But look at verse 7. Before we get to verse 8, it says, And it was given unto him to make war with the saints. Right? And what's going to happen? He's going to overcome the saints. Now, that's a strange statement, isn't it? But we do have to contrast that with the words of the Lord Jesus when He says, upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. So what does he mean when he says that this antichrist, that Satan making war with the saints, he's going to overcome them? What in the world does that mean? Well, it can't mean that he's going to destroy the church, does it? It cannot mean that because Christ has already emphatically said that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church. So what does it mean? Well, it has to mean that God is going to turn Satan aloose to the degree that he's going to nullify the testimony of the saints of God. I believe that's what we're seeing right today. I don't know about you, but I'll tell you that it just, my experience is day after day after day that it doesn't matter what you say. Either they don't want to hear it at all or they're not paying any attention to it. There's precious little even caring. What they care about is not the soul. What they care about is the body. They're going to take care of the body regardless of what. But as far as the soul is concerned, oh well, we believe in God. Well, the devils also believe, right? But there is a difference between most of the devils and most of professing Christianity today. At least they fear and tremble. Most Christianity that's professed Christianity today, as we said this morning and said before, they have no fear of God. There's no fear in them. But here, we see, and we've remarked about this before, that Jeremiah, Isaiah, all of these prophets, Ezekiel, we read again this morning in the third, second and third chapters of Ezekiel, it's a rebellious house. He said it over and over and over again. It's a rebellious people. It's a rebellious house. And the more, the more that he talks, the more that he warns, the more that he reproves and rebukes the nation as a whole, the more adamant it gets in its sin. Isn't that strange? Depravity is just depravity, isn't it? Now, in our creeds and so forth, in what we call the doctrines of grace, the five points, we say that depravity, we add something to it, don't we? We say it's total depravity. Well, that's really not necessary, is it? Depravity is just depravity. If it's depraved, it's depraved. If it's depraved a little, it's depraved a whole thing, right? It doesn't matter. Nevertheless, we use that as an emphasis. And what that simply means is that every person that's born into this world is born with the seed of sin, the seed of depravity in them, and it is only by the will of God and according to the purpose of God that every person doesn't sin to the nth degree that's possible. But we wonder sometimes, well why does one sin more than the other one sins? Is his sinfulness more than the other ones? No, it's the manifestation of that sin. The manifestation of sin is much greater in some than it is in the other. That's why you have the Hitlers and the Stalins. And I won't go any further than that, but you understand what I mean. Well, I wasn't going to say it. Now you just go on and say it anyway. But that's why. It's not that they're any more wicked than anybody else as far as their nature is concerned. I guess I should say that it's not that they're any more likely to it than anybody else, except that God has allowed them to go to that degree. He is using them to that degree to accomplish His purpose. But as far as God's people are concerned, He is going to separate the precious from the vile, but you know the only way that that's possible to do is by bringing upon persecution. It's been proven all down through biblical history confirms that, and that's exactly what he's saying right here, is that he is going to bring his people out by this persecution, by this punishment that he's going to bring upon it. But the nation has gone to the degree, it has gotten harder and harder and harder and harder in its heart. And it's gone to the degree that it's going to take a time of trouble that there's none like it. Now you and I, we know that the scripture tells us, Jesus tells us, what? About persecution, not persecution, tribulation. I couldn't even think of my name. But we all go through tribulation, don't we? Every one of us have our measure of tribulation. Individually, we all have tribulation. In fact, Christ said you must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom, right? But what about the people as a whole? Is there going to be a time of tribulation that is going to be like it's never been before? Does the Bible talk in that sense? If there is a tribulation, or a time of trouble, like there's never been before, and in the Olivet Discourse, Christ goes one step further, doesn't He? He says, "...and never shall be again." which further clarifies it that there's never been one like that one that God is ultimately going to bring to finally cleanse, to separate His people from the world. Now, if I understand it right, In Hebrews chapter 12, we have a description of this that goes like this. In verse 25, it says, See that you refuse not Him that speaketh. For if they escape not, who refused him that spake on earth?" Now what is he referring to here? He's referring to, of course, Moses. But he says, much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven. That's the Lord, isn't it? It says, whose voice then shook the earth. Now again, he's referring to what? The time when the ground shook at Mount Sinai. He says, whose voice then shook the earth, but now he hath promised, saying, yet once more, one time. Not many times, but once more. I shake not the earth only, but what? but also heaven. And this word yet once more signifies, what does it signify? The removing of those things that are shaken as of things that are made that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Now what can be shaken? Anything that's of an earthly and or a human nature. Yeah, or maybe an earthquake over the entire surface of the earth at one time. It's going to be something that the only way to withstand it is going to be by the Spirit of God. signified the removing of those things that are shaken as of things that are made. Now, did God make everything? Well, in a sense He did. But He didn't make it by the fashioning of His hands, did He? How did He make it? He spoke it into existence, didn't He? The same thing as the Apostle Paul talks about, comparing temporal things, right? The things that are seen with the things that are unseen. We look not on things that are seen, but those things that are unseen. For those things that are seen are temporal, but those things which are not seen are eternal. It's the same difference here. "...that those things which cannot be shaken might remain." So he says, "...wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, or moved rather, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear." And then here's the postscript, right? For our God is a consuming fire. Don't have any fear of God? Well, I feel sorry for anybody that does not have that fear of God. And folks, we better not be so lifted up in pride and arrogance as to think that, you know, oh, God wouldn't do that or God wouldn't let me fall. You know, all kinds of things like that. As the Apostle says, and JT alluded somewhat to this this morning, but yes, we must work out our own salvation, but with what? Fear and trembling, for or because it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. Folks, what's the implication? If God doesn't do it, it's not going to be done. So here we begin to see the end of God's chastisement, if you will, upon this world. His punishment that's coming upon this world. Again, I personally believe by the study of the Scripture that there is going to be a special time of trouble that God is going to bring upon the Jews. Now, I don't have time to get into it today, but as I study the 17th and 18th chapters of the Revelation, Most people think that mystery, Babylon, the great, the abomination of the earth is Roman Catholicism. It is. It absolutely is. I believe with all my heart. If we can't see that, we're pretty blind, aren't we? But the mother of harlots, who is the mother of harlots? Now again, the Roman Catholic Church, the Roman Church certainly could fall in that category, couldn't it? Because all these Protestant churches, where'd they come from? Essentially, they came out of that church and essentially they're going back into it. And we're seeing that happen. But, as I studied the 17th and 18th chapters of the Revelation, I believe it goes back further than that. Now, I've got a lot of reasons why I say that, but they're all biblical. Well, that's just it. Where did it come from? But personally, again, I believe that the Jerusalem that now is, as Paul describes her, that now is and is in bondage with her children, That same old Jerusalem, I believe that is where all of this came from. Just as Abraham represents the righteous of all ages, I believe Jerusalem represents the unrighteousness of all the ages. And I believe it's going to be destroyed. Most people are looking for it to be rebuilt into its glory and heydays, but I don't see that. I see just the opposite. And in fact, I believe that when God destroys it, that's going to be, as it were, the straw that broke the camel's back as far as the Jews are concerned, because it's their last vestige of hope in this world. And it's going to all be gone. And it's going to be gone in the midst of a time of trouble like this world has never seen. But Jacob's going to be saved out of it. That's what he said. Jacob is going to be saved out of it. That doesn't mean everybody that is of the lineage of Abraham But it does mean those that are after faithful Jacob, faithful Abraham, faithful Isaac. But this tells me that we, as the people of God, We need a lot of purging ourselves. And you know, I believe in reading the Bible. I believe in studying the Bible. I believe in meditating upon the Bible. And I know personally that there is so much about the Bible that I either don't understand or that I could understand a lot better than I do now. But when people keep talking to me about, Will, read the Bible, read the Bible, read the Bible, read the Bible, read the Bible. Well, first of all, I know worlds of people that read the Bible all the time. It doesn't do anything for them. And my concern for myself, and I think I could say this for every one of us here, but I know I can say it for myself. My greatest concern is not what I know, but what I'm not doing according to what I know. And that scares me. Do I really trust God the way that I ought to trust God? Do I really have the love for God or to God that I ought to have towards Him? Somebody says, well, just do it then. Just love God and, you know, just do everything. You can't do that. I don't care what you say. You can't do that. The Apostle Paul admitted it himself. He said, to will is ever present with me. But how to perform that which is good, I know not. That's the reason my hope is in God. It's not in me. And my hope for you is not in you. My hope for you is in God. Because it's not in you either. And folks, there's another story behind that. It's not in all of us put together. It is in Him, and in Him alone. Yes, and He will. Abraham knew that, and we know that. We are. And that brings up another thing. You go to the 16th chapter of Ezekiel. And the Lord asks the question or makes the statement there as far as the bringing Jerusalem out of captivity, He says, when your sister Sodom returns from its captivity, and when your sister Samaria returns from its captivity, then I'll also restore your captivity. Now folks, there are some hard Scriptures to interpret, to understand. Now I'm going to tell you, going back to the commentaries, whoever wrote and I suppose Kyle and somebody with the name of Kyle and somebody with the name of Delish or whatever, I suppose they're the ones that wrote that commentary. But you know what they said? Whoever it was, they said that all those people like in Sodom and Gomorrah and so forth that they're going to be revived or resurrected and they're going to have a chance to believe in God again. Now what kind of knowledge is that? Well, they go over and to the New Testament where Christ says, Woe unto thee, how was it, Teresa? If the works that had been done in thee had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, they would have repented to this day. But it didn't happen. That's just it, it didn't happen. And it's not going to happen. And I'm afraid that's what a whole lot of this dispensationalism and stuff leads to. It deceives people into thinking that they're going to have a second chance. Somehow, they're going to have a second chance. And they're going to be able to put it off and they're going to have another opportunity. If you get anything out of seven years of tribulation, you've got to be a martyr. If you're not a martyr, you're going to hell. The Lord help us. Please deliver us from the foolishness of man's doctrine. And deliver us into the liberty of the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Well, we'll have to leave it off there for today. But the bottom line is this, God will punish sin, but He also will deliver Jacob out of what? It's not really the tribulation that God's going to deliver Jacob out of. It's his sins. Right? So God deliver us out of our sin. Of the Exodus? Yes. That's right. When He led the people out of Egypt, He was leading them out of See?
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ស៊េរី Study of the Book of Jeremiah
The Lord is very angry with Judah. Judah did not repent but did more. God cannot deny himself. God will punish the sin of His people especially if they are unrepentant. God will separate His true people from professors. 2 Timothy 2:11 God will punish the sin of His People.
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