Friday 10th March 2017
key verse: 5
JEREMIAH CENSURES THE PEOPLE IN EGYPT
Jeremiah talks to the people who have gone down in Egypt. The content of the message didn't change, because the people didn't change.
1. I will intervene against you (44)
Jeremiah goes down in Egypt to give a message of judgment to the people, because of God's love for them. God doesn't want to let them go but he wants to save them by repentence. Jeremiah says "do you not see ?" because it's very obvious: the calamity which is fallen on all the countries of Judah is because of their disobedience and their idolatry. But this people who flees in Egypt had another point of view over the judgment. They think that it's because they have stopped offering incense to idols that all this calamities happened (17). It's an unimaginable blindness, they attribute happiness to the idols and calamity to God, which is the habit of fallen mankind. God will judge these men by the sword, the famine and the plague. He will also judge Egypt.
2. Jeremiah comforts Baruch (45)
In the past when Baruch dictated, the word of judgment was so severe that Baruch wanted to kill Jeremiah. He is exhausted and without rest in his soul. All the country is punished and devastated by the enemy. Baruch certainly was an ambitious young man who wanted to do great things. But it's not worth it because all the country will suffer calamities without hope. But Jeremiah says to him that God will give to him his life as booty. everywhere he goes. The message of judgment is exhausting but those who accept it don't perish but they live.
Prayer: God, make me not listen to my own voice, but repent of my sins. Comfort when I must give the message of calamity.
Bottom line: give to us not censure but the message of consolation
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