Jeremiah
7:8-15
What kind of world do you live in? I’m talking about your private world the one
that only you believe is private.
Now President Trump’s private world turns out to not be so private, and
an act of 11 years earlier became very public. You are thinking he is running
for the highest office in the land and sure people are going to expose him for
political reasons, and that would be true. But let me share a truth, not
one thing in your private world is private, you have a vast audience of evil
and good watching your every move, and they cannot read your mind, but God can,
so even your thoughts are not private.
As we journey into Jeremiah 7:8-15 you get a
snapshot of a nation who believed God was not involved in their private
world. Verse 8-10 give us this insight; “Behold,
you trust in deceptive words to no avail. Will you steal, murder, commit
adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that
you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which is
called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these
abominations?
Stop, please stop and learn, for we are a
people of deceptive words, our media is full of deceitful messages, the
ads on radio and T.V. are designed to make one desire or feel fear, they are
deceiving. Often the message coming from preachers is unreliable and even
worse it is false, based on human thoughts that are not in agreement with the
Scriptures. Many in all offices of government are at best phony,
pretending to work for the good, and it is all about personal gain and
power. And what about you, are you reliable or just a pretender when it
comes to your private life?
Moving on to verses 11-14, what happen at
Shiloh, by Wayne Blank; “While the Israelites
remained faithful and obedient to The Lord, they lived peacefully and perfectly
secure. Over time, however, they became careless and disobedient in their
relationship with Him. They became complacent, taking far too much for granted.
They assumed that The Lord would protect and put up with them no matter what
they did. A big mistake in their time - or ours.” You can read
the account in 1 Samuel chapter 4, they lost the Ark in battle with the
Philistines and 34,000 men were lost, plus Eli and his two sons.
One must ask, has the denomination you
refer to as the church, become evil, have you conformed to a world standard and
are playing a game called church? Do you hold to what Scripture teaches,
or have you let someone else tell you what it said? Verses 11-14, “Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of
robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord. Go now to my place that was in
Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it because
of the evil of my people Israel. And now, because you have done all these
things, declares the Lord, and
when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and when I called you, you
did not answer, therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, and
in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as
I did to Shiloh.”
Is this the epitaph that God is writing in
your life? “And I will cast you out of my
sight, as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of Ephraim.”
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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