Lessons From Jeremiah – Part 28 – The Lord Exposes The People’s Sins For They Had Married Sin And Religion Series

LESSONS FROM JEREMIAH – PART 28 – THE LORD EXPOSES THE PEOPLE’S SINS FOR THEY HAD MARRIED SIN AND RELIGION

PART 28 - Jeremiah 7:8-15

CHAPTER 7

[A]. THE LORD’S HOUSE IS DISHONOURED BY THE WICKEDNESS OF THE DECEIVED PEOPLE – GREAT HYPOCRISY

{{Jeremiah 7:8 Behold, you are trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

Jeremiah 7:9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

Jeremiah 7:10 then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’ - that you may do all these abominations?

Jeremiah 7:11 Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” declares the LORD.”}}

VERSE 8

Jeremiah’s message from the Lord continues with another reference to the deceptive words. There obviously was a serious problem with the lies from false teachers and prophets, and widespread acceptance of those lies. It was a continual deception. The inhabitants of the land were being given convincing and untrue falsehoods about the impending danger for the nation. “Continue in your sin. God’s in His heaven and all’s right with the world.” That philosophy prevails today and was no doubt prevalent in Jeremiah’s time as well. God tells them such a path will be a destructive one for them, no profit and much pain. Those lies will not protect them or give them security. It will avail them nothing.

The world is full of deception and delusion – lies are the clothing for deception. If you are on the internet, Google makes sure you keep getting bombarded by all these advertisements promising bald headed people a new treatment that restores luxuriant hair, and other (made in China) devices to do miraculous things so that you will never have to do this or that again. It is deception.

We had an example here where I live. Because the money-pinching City Council (local authority) wants every cent wrung out of people, then they decided to change the water metres for everyone, because the odd one was not reading exactly. A letter was sent by the Council explaining these very expensive metres and one heading was, “Will you have to pay for these metres?” The answer was, “No, there will be no charge for the ratepayers.” That is gross deception because the ratepayers ARE PAYING for these metres in their rates and taxes. Just because there is no separate charge billed for each metre, does not alter the fact that each ratepayer is paying.

The world is deceived constantly. Global warming is a great deception shrouded in lies because it is the vehicle of an agenda towards a one world authority and compliance. Some go as far to call carbon dioxide a poison!

The greatest deceptions rule the education system. Sexuality and gender and evolution are now in the school curriculum. “There is no God; death is the end of it all; Jesus Christ was a myth; Christians are stopping progress; lots of church people are homophobic,” and so the list goes on. One day Jesus will rule in righteousness and deception will be gone forever.

VERSES 9-10

{{Jeremiah 7:9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, Jeremiah 7:10 then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’ - that you may do all these abominations?}}

Verses 9 and 10 go together. Verse 9 lists 6 transgressions of the people, but that is just the beginning of a question God is asking. He goes on to say that with that accumulation of sin, the people go to God’s house and make a statement of lies about deliverance. What greater hypocrisy can you have?

The month January got its name from the god Janus who was two faced with a face looking in opposite directions. One looked back and one looked forward. These people were two-faced. They lived in sin yet claimed to be holy in God’s sight.

There are 6 sins/practices listed in verse 9 and they are there because God has declared them particularly objectionable. With these 6 listed sins, some have been stated by Jeremiah in the sections before this one, and a few are new.

What is interesting is that in lists like this, sin comes in clusters. Once you add a few sins, it is most likely that extra sins will be added to the group. These sins indicate a very corrupt people so we can assume they are capable of committing any sin you want to list, but God, through Jeremiah, gives 6 - THIEVES, MURDERERS, ADULTERERS, TRUCEBREAKERS (lying oaths), Baal worshippers, and devotees of pagan gods all cover the people like a thick, suffocating blanket.