Jeremiah
14:13-16
My pastor said something close to this: When we believe that our life and message are
on target and God is in total agreement with it, we have become the god to whom
we are praying. He is not a God of the conservatives any more than He is
a God of the liberals, God is not a Republican or Democrat, He is the all
knowing and all seeing God who is pure and holy in all His ways. He will
judge the U.S.A. in the same way He has judged all nations who have turned to
their own desires.
But I found it of interest that it was the
prophets who came to the people and said do not listen to Jeremiah because his
message is harsh and mean spirited, and you do understand that we are a special
people, God’s people and He will never allow harm to come on Judah.
Now
listen to the conversation between God and Jeremiah; “Then I said: “Ah, Lord God,
behold, the prophets say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you
have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’” And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did
not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are
prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless
divination, and the deceit of their own minds. Therefore thus says the Lord concerning
the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say,
‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: By sword and famine those
prophets shall be consumed. And the people to whom they prophesy shall
be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none
to bury them— their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out
their evil upon them.”
It is no different than in our day when men
of the cloth, the clergy stand in a place of authority and tell their
congregation that God did not really mean what He stated in Scripture. If
you want to look at the list, it is long, but it begins when a false teacher
does not teach the whole counsel of the Scripture. When they say stupid
things like, “I will only build you up I will never talk about sin, we will be
a positive church with a message that only builds up. “ I have one
message for any who attend that congregation, run Forest, run.
What the apostles have written and left for
the church a wise person will ponder on. And when Jesus, the only Son of
the living God speaks a wise person will treasure it in their heart. The
Holy Spirit by the pen of the apostle Paul is talking to you and those false
teachers in Romans 3:23-26. “For all have sinned
and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift,
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a
propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's
righteousness because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
It was to show his righteousness at the present time so that he might be just
and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.” We are
all a mess, but God, those are beautiful words, and the “but God” is His mercy
and grace to sinners like you and me. The Holy Spirit shows us the hope
we have in Christ Jesus, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of
God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) And what a message
of God’s mercy, love, and grace in Romans 10:9-10; “because,
if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart
that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one
believes and is justified, and with the mouth, one confesses and is saved.”
It matters not what name you go by if you
are in a church that is not teaching the whole counsel of the Scripture, “Run
fast and keep running till you find a man who is fearful of God and not of man.
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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