Jeremiah 26 - The Lord is Patient

 

Jeremiah 26 – The Lord is Patient

 

Jeremiah is no longer told to stand in the gate but to stand in the court and give the people the Word that God gives him. God wants to take back the judgment against His people and so He tells Jeremiah to preach to them to give them a chance to repent of their ways and to turn back to Him.

 

If they change, He will not judge them, He will bless them. It is not God who is changing His mind about judging the people. It is the people who must change for God to bless them instead of judge them.

 

God told Jerusalem that He will destroy them if they do not change, and they will become a burden to all nations.

 

Jeremiah is in a hard spot. The priests and the prophets want to kill him while the princes decide they best listen to him, thereby bringing the people over to their side.

 

To say the temple would be destroyed was considered blasphemy in those days. So, they considered Jeremiah a heretic.  The Priests and prophets said that God would never destroy the temple because it is His and the people are His. Jeremiah told them they were wrong because they had abused the temple with their immorality.

 

Today there are people who go to church every Sunday and Wednesday and live a Godly life while there, but once they leave the building they go back to their sinful life.

 

God will destroy our temple just as He destroyed theirs. He doesn’t want just part of us, He wants all of us. God reminded them and us that He is the Creator and He gives power to whomever He chooses. In this case it was the Babylonians.

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.

Dr. David Jeremiah, J. Vernon McGee Through the Bible