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“ Summary, Part 4 (final) ” B. HE ENTREATED THEM TO BOAST ONLY IN THE LORD [44:48]. 1. LET THEM BOAST IN THEIR UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge…” – Prov 1:7. 2. LET THEM BOAST IN THE GOD THAT THEY UNDERSTAND AND KNOW. IV. HOW JEREMIAH’S APPEAL TO JUDAH RELATES TO US [47:53]. 1. WE MUST MOURN OVER THE SINS THAT PLAGUE OUR NATION. This includes the sins of the church as well. Why don’t we do this? Because we’re comfortable with those sins, we fear ostracization, we practice escapism, we don’t see sin’s heinousness, and we practice it ourselves. It is a curse that will destroy us because we don’t have the heart for the lost, our own sins contribute to our nation’s sins, because we avoid the grief for ourselves that we could realize in grief for others, and because that grief would move us to witness for God. B. WE MUST EXPOSE THE SINS THAT PLAGUE OUR NATION. The church is the nation’s conscience. If we aren’t part of the solution, we’re part of the problem. 3. WE MUST REPENT OF OUR SINS IF WE WOULD NOT FACE GOD’S JUDGMENT. We cannot be a light to others from within our own darkness (1 Pet 4:17). God will purge His people before He’ll purge the wicked around them.
Ian Migala (8/31/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 3 ” C. JEREMIAH WARNED THEM OF GOD’S JUDGMENT FOR THEIR REBELLION (vv. 7, 9, 25-26) [30:00]. 1. HE WARNED THEM THAT THEY WERE RIPE FOR GOD’S FIERY PUNISHMENT (v. 7). God’s punishments accomplish two things: the destruction of the wicked and the purification of the righteous. He makes a distinction between the two. 2. He warned them that they were facing God’s just vengeance (v. 9, 25-26). His holy character demands it. They believed they were immune to judgment, even despite what happened to their brothers 150 years earlier. Their physical circumcision should have instructed them about spiritual circumcision: the circumcision of the heart (1 Sam 15:22-23). III. JEREMIAH ENTREATED A BOASTFUL PEOPLE [38:23]. They were boasting in their privileges as if they forestalled all of God’s judgments. They thought they were self-sufficient. A. HE ENTREATED THEM TO QUIT BOASTING IN THEMSELVES [42:23]. “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” – Prov 16:18. 1. IT IS FOOLISH TO BOAST IN MAN’S WISDOM. 2. IT IS FUTILE TO BOAST IN MAN’S STRENGTH. 3. IT IS FRUITLESS TO BOAST IN MAN’S WEALTH. No amount of it can buy off God’s wrath.
Ian Migala (8/31/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 2 ” B. JEREMIAH EXPOSED THEIR REBELLION (vv. 2-8) [21:34]. 1. HE EXPOSED THEIR RAMPANT ADULTERY (v. 2). Sexual sin ruins so much. Unfaithfulness to God opens the door to unfaithfulness to one’s spouse (cf. Ez 22:10-11). 2. HE EXPOSED THEIR WIDESPREAD TREACHERY (vv. 2, 4, 8). You couldn’t trust anyone in that day. 3. HE EXPOSED THEIR PREVAILING LIES AND DECEPTION (vv. 3, 5). They wanted dishonest gain and the promotion of wickedness. 4. HE EXPOSED THEIR WILLFUL APOSTASY (vv. 3, 6). They refused to know the Lord. That was the root of the matter, as it is in our own day. They were covenant breakers: they followed other gods (Deut 31:16) and rejected His statutes (Lev 26:15, Jer 11:10).
Ian Migala (8/31/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 1 ” In 1 Cor 1:26-31, Paul reminds the Corinthian church that its members were not chosen for any kind of greatness. On the contrary, God chooses the small and lonely to convict the world of its neglect for Him. In our present study of Jer 9, we learn that privilege does not necessarily have its members. I. JEREMIAH LIVED AMONG A PRIVILEGED PEOPLE [starting at 4:13 of the audio]. Deut 7:6 – God’s people were His prized possession. There is no privilege greater than that. Deut 33:29 – the Hebrews were to be a mighty nation before the world because of its chosen status in God. To whom much is given, from much is required. But the Hebrews fell far short of this critical divine lesson (cf. Ez 23). LESSONS: 1. Wasted privilege not only results in decreased blessings, but in divine punishment. 2. We are liable for the judgments on others that we didn’t heed. II. JEREMIAH LABORED AMONG A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE [13:46]. 1. THEIR REBELLION BROUGHT HIM TO TEARS (v. 1). He was not moved to self-righteousness. We should weep for those too senseless to weep for themselves. 2. THEIR REBELLION ALMOST DROVE HIM INTO RETIREMENT (v. 2). He desired to be alone to get away from his brethren’s rebellion and also to pour out his grief.
