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Exile Explanation & Representation
A place that didn’t feel like home
Discomfort
Uncertainty
Selfish & Self-centered King
Expectation to Build, Plant & Multiply despite being in exile (vs. 5-6)
And the reason why Jeremiah has to tell them to build, plant and multiply is because there were some false prophets that were telling them that they were only going to be in captivity for 2 years when God said they were not going to be in captivity for 70 years. And so in order to bring to the Israelites back to reality, in order to pop their bubble of vain confidence, Jeremiah writes in this letter “Build houses and live in them, plant gardens and eat from them, get married and have some babies, and when you babies get older give them to marriage so they can have you some grandbabies. Multiply. Do not decrease.”
In other words, get comfortable, because you’re going to be here for awhile.
And see depending on whether we think the situation is temporary or permanent will determine how we go forward.
One of the worst things a person can do in a permanent situation is to treat it like it’s temporary.
We saw and we continue to see that with the pandemic. Many people, including our President treated this virus like it was temporary instead of permanent.
And when I use the word permanent, I’m not using it to describe a situation that will last forever, but to describe a situation that will last alot longer than what you thought.
The Israelites were not going to be in captivity forever, but they were going to be in captivity a lot longer than what they thought.
A depending on whether they treat their situation as temporary or more permanent will detremine how they go forward.
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Some of you had vision board parties and came people came in to 2020 with goals plans and ideas, but because many of your goals were based upon on what the world looked like before the pandemic, you placed your goals and dreams on the shelf somewhere and told yourself that you would pick up once the pandemic was over because you thought it was last just a couple months. But now here we are in late October and standing on the porch of 2021 and you still haven’t taken your goals off the shelf, placed them before God and asked him to give you the creativity to adjust and reimagine and rethink how to carry out the vision he had placed on your heart. This is not for everybody, but for those who this is for, you know exactly who you are. But maybe this is the time to take your goals off the shelf. Maybe this is the time to reimagine, to rethink, to get creative. Maybe this is the time to build, plant and multiply.
Even when it comes to the church - When all of this happened, many churches were trying to figure out how to just get online and what technology they needed to purchase in order to make it happen. Since then, pastor and I have been on countless zoom calls talking about how to go forward. now that we have gotten to a point of technological stability. The question is now how do we build, plant and multiply in this technological Babylon.even though we are not able to be physically together, even though things are out of norm, there is still an expectation for God’s people to build, plant, and multiply.
We don;t want to make temporary decisions for permanent situations or vice versa.
Ex 1: the Pandemic
And right now there are so many things that are going on right now politically, economically, relationally and personally. We have decisions to make about education. We have propositions left and right. We got things going on at city, state and federal levels. We have racial things going on. We are trying to figure out what we need to do with some of our job situations and things that are going on at home.
And in times like these it is important for us to seek God and ask Him for discernment so we can know what is temporary and what is permanent.
Because you don’t want to put a bandaid where stitches need to be, and you don’t want to put stitches in a place where a bandaid could have been.
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