SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/2/2014
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My Worship Time Focus: Righteousness: God Searches for the Godly
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Jeremiah
5:1-6
Message of the
verses: In today’s SD we begin the
third main point from Dr. Wiersbe’s commentary on Jeremiah for the second
chapter of that book. Chapter five of Jeremiah
is the first of what is called “action sermons,” sermons that are found not
only in the book of Jeremiah, but also in the book of Ezekiel. Dr. Wiersbe has an endnote on this subject
that I believe is important enough for me to include it in this Spiritual
Diary. In this endnote he tells the
names and where the action sermons are found in the book of Jeremiah: “They are:
the search (Jer. 5:1-6), the soiled belt (13:1-11), the unwed prophet
(16:1-9), the potter (18:1-12), the broken vessel (19:1-15), the yokes (27-28),
the purchased field (32:1-15), the wine party (35:1-19), the stones (43:8-13),
and the sunken scroll (51:59-64). You
also find ‘action sermons’ in the Book of Ezekiel. Whenever people become so spiritually dull
that they can’t hear and understand God’s Word, the Lord graciously stoops to
their level and dramatizes the message.”
Chapter five deals with four sins of the people of
Jerusalem, and we will begin with the firth one at this time.
Investigation:
they were ungodly (Jeremiah 5:1-6):
“1 "Roam to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, And look now and take note.
And seek in her open squares, If you can find a man, If there is one who does justice, who seeks
truth, Then I will pardon her. 2
"And although they say, ’As the LORD lives,’ Surely they swear
falsely." 3 O LORD, do not Your
eyes look for truth? You have smitten them, But they did not weaken; You have
consumed them, But they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to repent.
4 Then I said, "They are only the poor, They are foolish; For they do not
know the way of the LORD Or the ordinance of their God. 5 “I will go to the
great And will speak to them, For they know the way of the LORD And the
ordinance of their God." But they too, with one accord, have broken the
yoke And burst the bonds. 6 Therefore a lion from the forest will slay them, A
wolf of the deserts will destroy them, A leopard is watching their cities.
Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces, Because their transgressions are many, Their apostasies are numerous.’”
When you look at this short action sermon that Jeremiah
has been given by God to give to those living in Jerusalem you may be reminded
of what took place in the 18th chapter of Genesis when Abraham had
two visitors come to have lunch with him.
One of these visitors was the second person of the godhead, the Lord
Jesus Christ who had two angels with Him.
God was about to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah and He spoke to Abraham
about it to which Abraham began to intercede for the cities because he knew
that his nephew Lot was living there.
This sermon in our text today God is looking for a godly person living
in Jerusalem. And could He find one righteous person living in Jerusalem?
Jeremiah could find no person among the poor people and
believed that they had not been taught the ways of the Lord. The rich and nobles knew the ways of the
Lord, but turned aside from it for the yoke was too hard to carry. After taking this survey Jeremiah found no
one, what a sad outcome.
There was only one thing for God to do and that was allow
the invaders to come and to invade the land, and that is what happened.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I don’t want to
come to the point in my life when the ways of the Lord are too much of a burden
for me to carry. Jesus said that the way
of destruction was wide, but the way of eternal life was narrow, and because it
is narrow it is hard, but in the end it will be worth it all.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Proverbs 3:5-6.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “Perfect” (James 3:2). “For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone
does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole
body as well.” The word “Perfect” means
the following: “1) brought to its end,
finished
2) wanting nothing
necessary to completeness
3) perfect
4) that which is perfect
4a) consummate human
integrity and virtue
4b) of men
4b1) full grown, adult, of
full age, mature
Today’s Bible
Question: “How did Jesus say we may show
our love for Him?”
Answer in our next SD.
2/2/2014 2:06 PM
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