How About Helping Us Out

Jeremiah 21: 1 – 14

How about helping us out

1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying, 2 “Please inquire of the LORD for us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all His wonderful works, that the king may go away from us.” 3 Then Jeremiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to Zedekiah, 4 ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel: “Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls; and I will assemble them in the midst of this city. 5 I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger and fury and great wrath. 6 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence. 7 And afterward,” says the LORD, “I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. He shall not spare them or have pity or mercy.”? 8 “Now you shall say to this people, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death. 9 He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and defects to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be as a prize to him. 10 For I have set My face against this city for adversity and not for good,” says the LORD. “It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.”? 11 “And concerning the house of the king of Judah, say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, 12 O house of David! Thus, says the LORD: “Execute judgment in the morning; And deliver him who is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go forth like fire and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. 13 “Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain,” says the LORD, “Who say, ‘Who shall come down against us? Or who shall enter our dwellings?’ 14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings,” says the LORD; “I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all things around it.”?

The more I study the book of Jeremiah the More upset I get about the arrogance of the people in their treatment of my Holy God Yahweh. However, I then realize that I am just as evil and if it is not for the loving Long Suffering of my God I could easily be responding today the same way these evil people act.

If you have ever looked at someone and thought they must be ruled by the Devil, you might not have been far off the mark.

People are a lot eviler than we tend to think and sometimes they are so seasoned at what they do that it takes us years to realize just how evil they really are.

But it’s not your fault. They are master manipulators. They take every advantage of people to get their way, get the things they want, and leave people feeling lost and broken.

There are many of them out there, and you might be interacting with an evil person regularly, but you’ve just decided to label them as such.

Here are some signs someone who you know is an evil person. I want you to take a hard look at yourselves and see if any of these points are talking about you. If so, write them down and ask our Wonderful Counselor to help you change.

. They enjoy watching other people be in pain.

If they laugh or smile even slightly at the thought or sight of someone suffering, this could mean trouble. No one should look down on someone’s pain for the gain of pleasure for themselves.

. They need to control everything.

Evil people need to have their way, and they will do everything they can to ensure that. At every turn, they are injecting their opinion and action into a situation to ensure it goes a certain way.