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Jeremiah 2:20 · BSB
2:20 “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
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…the people were even carried off into captivity. So when generations, decades and decades before, the prophet Jeremiah said to the people, inJeremiah chapter 2, my people have committed two evils, God's people. They've committed two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and they have…
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…I didn't say the word that Jenner and I didn't come up with that on my own the Bible does and let's look at the passages. First of all it's noticeJeremiah chapter 2and verse 21. Yet, I implanted you a noble Vine of seat of highest quality. How then, if you turn before me into a degenerate plant of an alien,…
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…of Israel in God's hands. The tragedy of something so precious being squandered as though worthless is an echo of Jeremiah's warning inJeremiah chapter 2. In Jeremiah 2, he lists the amazing privileges that Israel had enjoyed in their relationship with God. Sacrificial love, redemption from slavery,…
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…because he offers us rest in himself. The Bible also uses the metaphor of thirst to express our need of rest in God. And this in closing,Jeremiah chapter 2, beginning in verse 12, Be appalled, O heavens, at this. Be shocked. Be utterly desolate, declares the Lord. For my people have committed two…
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…a jawbone. But eventually we get to the end of ourselves. Eventually we end up at the place that has to be renamed. Spring of the one calling. InJeremiah chapter 2, this prophet he speaks for God to a forgetful. And rebellious people. Listen to this imagery, thinking about the imagery already built up for us…
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…to satisfy a deeper hunger, a deeper thirst within ourselves. God spoke about our problem through the prophet Jeremiah thousands of years ago.Jeremiah chapter 2, God says this, Has a nation changed its gods, even though there are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for which does not profit. Be…
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…in a few places in the Old Testament. Why does he call himself a fountain of life? Well, because he is the source of all life. And by the way, it'sJeremiah chapter 2, that is where the phrase the fountain of life is also used there. But I just love Psalm 36, verse 9, a fountain of life. How can God describe…
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…them. Isaiah, another one of the prophets, put it like this, he said, we all like sheep have gone astray. Each of us have turned to our own way.Jeremiah chapter 2and verse 5, God says to his people, what fault did your ancestors find in me that they went far from me and went after worthlessness and became…
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…people, they reflect each other. When the priests are corrupt, the people will be corrupt. This is one of the ways the Israelites were rebuked inJeremiah chapter 2. We saw this morning. Nevertheless, you do need a priest. This is a truth that is taught from Genesis 4 all the way through the book of Revelation.…
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…that is on trial this morning. The prosecutor bringing charges against you is God himself. That's the scene we find here in this courtroom drama inJeremiah chapter 2. To understand the background of this, understand that a generation before Jeremiah, God, through the prophet Isaiah, had told the Israelites they…
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…week? And then he just says this little word, thirsts. If anyone thirsts. Like, like, like that doesn't happen. Now, this is a God who way back inJeremiah chapter 2, a book of the Old Testament, said this. He said, My people have only committed two sins. Number one, you've forsaken me, the well of living water,…
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…Old Testament prophets frequently used this imagery of a bridegroom and a bride to speak of the relationship between God and His people Israel. SoJeremiah chapter 2, God is speaking to His people. He says, I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness like a…
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…become the perfect family. You get the perfect job. You get the perfect wife. You become the perfect man. It will not satisfy. It will not satisfy.Jeremiah chapter 2. And talks about. That their people have committed two sins. His people have committed two sins. That one that they've forsaken the living water.…
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…satisfaction and sinful behavior. And the dad said, This, men, we want to be this way as dads. He said, the Bible says it like this that he is inJeremiah chapter 2. My son is digging for himself wells that hold no water. But I can't just tell him that. He has to come to that understanding on his own. And I…
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…God calls this trading or this exchanging of our love and our hope in Him to the things of the world. He calls that idolatry in scripture. So, inJeremiah chapter 2, connecting it to what we said a minute ago about leaky vessels, forsaking God, the fountain of living waters, and carving out broken cisterns that…
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…chapter 15 in your Bibles as we get near the end. What does Jesus say? John chapter 15 verse 1, I am the true vine. He's picking up language fromJeremiah chapter 2, Jesus is saying, I'm the true Israel. I'm what Israel was supposed to be. You, my father is the vine dresser. And verse 5, I'm the vine, you are…
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…do seem more satisfying than sin. Matter of fact, you've only committed two sins in your entire life. Isn't that good news? That's what God says inJeremiah chapter 2, about verse 13. My people have committed two sins. Number one, they've forsaken me. Bad idea. They've forsaken me. And number two, they've dug for…
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…to walk out of here and look sad today. Because Jesus is afraid you're gonna go out there and find something that's better than him. That's whyJeremiah chapter 2says, God says, My people have committed two sins. They've forsaken me, the well of living water, and they've dug for themselves cisterns that hold…
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…It means that your heart is perpetually moldable and pliable before God. Sounds easy, doesn't it? But yet the Bible comes along and God says inJeremiah chapter 2, he says, Of his people, my people have committed two sins. If you want to have a fun little conversation tomorrow when you go to work, just say to…
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