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Called
Our scripture text opens with the call of Jeremiah to be a prophet of God.
He was called during an interesting time in the life of Judah.
Verse 2 of out text tells us
Ok, so I’m a bit of a nerd and I like to know why.
In the training for my job as a counselor my supervisor has repeatedly told me not to ask why when someone says something that needs to be followed up on.
That is hard for a kid who “why” was one of the first words he learned!
It is important to ask why when reading God’s word.
There are a lot of questions to ask yourself when reading the Bible.
We don’t read the Bible like we would read a regular book.
This is God’s word, it is His story.
We read it so that we can hear from God.
I learned as a teenager to ask questions when I’m reading the Bible.
Those questions were:
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Is There a Command to Obey?
2. Is There an Example to Follow?
3. Is There a Promise to Claim?
4. Is There a Sin to Avoid?
5. Is There a Principle to Follow?
I would add to that list, why.
Why is it happening?
I would encourage you to put those questions into use when you are reading the Bible.
Don’t become legalistic in their use.
Spend time just listening for God to speak through the words you are reading.
Ok, that is my introduction to reading God’s word.
Let’s apply the why to these verses.
As I read there in verse 2
Why is that important to know?
Josiah was the last good king of Judah.
Israel had already been conquered by Assyria.
There had been a line of bad or evil kings over Judah.
The people were doing whatever they wanted.
They were living in disobedience to God.
God’s word comes to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of Josiah’s reign as king of Judah.
It is important to know why.
Josiah’s father was King Amon, he lasted a little over 1 year before he was assassinated by his own people.
Josiah his son was eight when he became king.
God called Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of Josiah’s reign as king.
Josiah would have been 21 at this point.
Josiah launches a project to repair the Temple in Jerusalem.
The people had been worshipping idols and the Temple had been neglected.
Picture this, the king and the high priest call for a Temple work day.
They are in the process of cleaning out the Temple.
There are workmen there doing repairs.
The High Priest is sorting through the stuff in the junk room because every church or temple has a junk room.
Sadly, the junk room was the Holy of Holies.
While the high priest is going through the junk room he finds a scroll in a box of junk hidden behind some other things.
He unrolls it to see what it is and is stunned by what he finds.
He rolls the scroll back up and takes it to the King’s secretary and gives it to him.
The secretary reads the scroll and realizes he needs to take it to the king.
Notice that the high priest didn’t read it all, but the secretary did.
The secretary goes to King Josiah and gives the king an update on the work at the Temple.
He then tells Josiah that the High Priest had given him a book and then he starts to read it.
He must have read through the entire scroll.
This would have been the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament.
Josiah was convicted by what he heard from the Law of God.
Josiah sends the men that were closest to him on an urgent mission.
One quick note of how they asked of God.
They went to Huldah, she was a prophetess.
The Talmud, or the teachings of the Priests tells us that she ran a school for women prophets.
They go to her to inquire of God.
Jeremiah has already been on the scene for 4 years prophesying against Judah.
His is a message of Judgement.
If you go on and read the rest of that chapter from 2 Kings 22 you learn that her message is essentially the same as that of Jeremiah.
God’s judgement is coming.
I am thankful that God calls not only men, but God calls women and teens and children to serve Him.
In the Old and New Testaments God has used women and men to bring the message of God.
I’m glad I serve in a Church that recognizes the call of God on everyone and the ministry of a pastor is not limited to men.
Before all this happened with Josiah God called someone to bring the message of impending judgement.
Jeremiah is called the weeping prophet.
That begs for any answer to why.
He was called the weeping prophet because he wept over the sin of Judah.
He wept over the fact that the people had left God and where living in disobedience to God.
His message was repeatedly rejected by the people and he was persecuted.
A. W. Tozer wrote, “Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company.
Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart” (Man—The Dwelling Place of God).
That was Jeremiah.
Jeremiah was a 17 or 18 year old young man and he wrote:
God tells Jeremiah that even before that embryo began forming God knew him.
That is why abortion is so repugnant.
It is the taking of a life that God created.
The abortion rate in the United States is over 800,000 abortions each year.
What is interesting to note is that the largest state, California, does not provide data to the CDC.
It is one of the most liberal states in our nation in regards to abortion so you can only imagine the number that are performed there.
It is important for the Church to stand-up for the unborn.
We should support pro-life politicians and judges.
I do believe we as a nation will be judged for this scourge in our society.
God tells Jeremiah that even before that tiny embryo began to form that God knew him.
He was set apart even while he was still growing in his mothers womb.
God said that He had made him a prophet to the nations even from birth.
What a powerful point of God’s calling on our lives.
We are all called to serve God in some way.
He has gifted each of us for our calling.
The sad thing with many people is that as soon as they sense God calling them, they start making excuses.
I came across this quote “Excuses are well planned lies.”
Why do we do that?
Do we not believe that if God calls us to do something that He will abandon us?
Jeremiah started with excuses.
He’s about 18 years old, he’s from a little town about 2 miles from Jerusalem.
He was a nobody from nowhere and God comes to him and tells him that even before he was created in the womb that God knew Him and set him apart.
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