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In this section God continues to point out the sins of Judah.
He also reminds them of the blessing of repentance.
What is new in this chapter is the Lord’s encouragement of the people to honor the Sabbath day.
We are going to break the chapter into five sections.
1.
The sin of the people (1-4).
A. Judah’s sin is deeply embedded within the people (1).
Jeremiah mentions a pen of iron.
This was a pen with a special point that enabled a person to engrave something into stone.
When something was engraved in sto9ne it was permanent.
The sin of Judah was engraved on their heart.
Not only was it on their heart it was engraved on the horns of the altar as well.
Altars had projections that came out of the tops of the four corners.
In Jewish worship the blood of a sacrifice was put on the tips of these horns (Lev.
16:18).
The purpose was to remove sin.
Judah’s worship was embedded with sin.
In other words, even their worship was sinful.
We all sin.
We are fallen humans.
There is a difference between living in and enjoying sin.
The saved person does not live in habitual sin.
We are made righteous.
We are saved from our sin.
When a person is so attached to sin that’s what they are identified by it reveals they are in need of salvation.
B. Their sin had been going on for some time (2-3).
This is seen in two ways:
The sin was widespread.
Idolatry was all over the nation.
Altars to the fertility goddess Asherah decorated the land.
Asherah was honored with poles erected on hills and mountain tops.
God specifically forbade this in His Word (Deut.
16:21).
The sin was known by generations of Jewish people.
It says their children remember the altars.
The next generation desires to worship at the pagan altars.
God says there will be a cost for the widespread idolatry.
The nation would lose its wealth and its treasures.
There is always a price to pay for sin.
Often the price is paid in this world and the next.
God warns us of the wages of sin.
Sin that is undealt with will multiply and so will the debt it brings.
The longer we live in sin the more sin we embrace.
The more sin we embrace the greater our debt will be when the bill comes due.
C. Their sin angered God (4).
Look at the end of verse 4. The fire of God’s anger had been kindled.
It would not be extinguished.
It would burn forever.
This reminds us that the wrath of God on sinners never disappears.
Heaven is a place where the eternal love of God is revealed.
Hell is a place where the eternal wrath of God is revealed.
Both His anger and His love will last forever.
The anger of the Lord would be revealed first by Judah losing their inheritance and being taken captive to Babylon.
They had served false gods in the promised land.
Now they will serve pagans in a foreign land.
God is not mocked.
We reap what we sow.
God’s patience had given the nation a lot of time to remove their sin.
They refused.
They become so enveloped with their sin it was if their sins had been engraved on a rock and were eternal.
They had no intention of distancing themselves from them.
2. The choice set before the people (5-8).
A. The foolishness of trusting in man (5-6).
God pronounces a curse on those who trust in man.
This is probably a reference to the alliances the people of God made with pagan countries.
They made these alliances out of fear.
They wanted security.
Instead of trusting God, they trusted man.
The alliances they made with these nations introduced the gods of these nations to the land.
Jews began embracing idolatry.
This is ultimately what brough the curse of God upon the people.
People who trust in man are like a shrub in the desert.
What does a shrub in the desert do?
It dries up, dies, and blows away.
That’s what is going to happen to the one who trusts in man.
They are going to dry up and be blown into a distant land.
Notice the phrase “an uninhabited salt land” in verse 6. Salted land was land that had been rendered unfruitful by scattering salt on it.
The one who trusts in man will be fruitless.
He will not produce the fruit of righteousness.
This is the result of trusting in man, being cursed by God.
B. The blessedness of trusting in God (7-8).
Verses 7-8 remind us of the blessed man in Psalm 1:3.
He is like a tree planted by the water.
A tree planted by the water develops a good root system.
As a result, it can endure harsh weather conditions.
Heat nor drought kills it because it has a source of nourishment.
It continues to bear fruit.
Jeremiah is an example of one who was trusting in God.
He would endure the drought.
He would experience the heat of persecution.
But he would remain faithful to God and produce righteous fruit because his trust was in God.
The coming Babylonian invasion would reveal that the people of Judah had no root system.
Their faith was shallow and dead.
Their lack of spiritual life would be revealed by the circumstances coming to the nation.
This is a great reminder for us.
We can choose to trust man or God.
If we trust man when trial comes, we will show ourselves to be weak.
If we trust God, we can endure any circumstance.
The choice to make is clear.
Trust God, not man.
3. The hearts of the people (9-13).
A. God asks a question (9).
Before God asks the question, He reveals the state of the unredeemed heart.
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