Jeremiah received another message from the Lord. He was to go to the gate of the temple in Jerusalem and deliver a prophecy in God’s name to the people of Judah who entered to worship. This message applies to us also as in the next verse Jeremiah was to tell them...
Obedience to His words is what He commanded them first. It was more important that they trust and obey Him than that they follow the rules for presenting sacrifices that only symbolized their obedience and covered their disobedience. His ancient command to obey...
This psalm praises God for His faithful dealings with Israel as should we. The Israelites needed to be faithful to God, because He had been faithful to them. The same is true of Christians today. The unknown psalmist called on Israel (v. 6) to give thanks to the...
Notice in this section Acts 8:4-8 that this is right after Stephen has been stoned for his faith and now Saul (Paul) is persecuting the church and putting them in prison. These people don’t whine and cry that they are being persecuted, they don’t protest, they...
When the priests discovered God's Word in the temple during King Josiah's reign Jeremiah had read it with great passion. For Jeremiah it had become his delight and a joy to his soul in contrast to the majority of people who despised it. The Lord's words included...
In Acts 9:10-19 we see a man named Ananias to whom God speaks and gives him a mission to go do something very scary. He is tasked to go to Saul (Paul) who has had many Christians killed and imprisoned. He is afraid but He trusts God and goes and does what God...
Jeremiah called on the land of Judah to hear a very important prophecy from God. The threefold repetition of "land" indicates how important it was for the people of the land to listen. In Verse 30 The Lord promised that because of his extreme wickedness none of...
The false prophets could tell their dreams just as the true prophets could declare the Lord's words. But it would become clear eventually that the difference between these prophecies was as great as that between straw and grain. The one was weak and worthless,...
God would give them a heart to know Him because, as Yahweh (The self-existent God) He loves and cares for all people. They would resume the covenant relationship as Chosen People with God, because the people would repent and return to God wholeheartedly. This...
At the end of the Exile, God's people would call out to Him in prayer. God promised to listen to them. They would find Him when they sought Him wholeheartedly. God expects us a Christians today to do the same thing. Matthew 7:7-8 says “Ask, and it will be given to...
