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helpforhomeschoolers
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When I study regarding the Northern Kingdom, I am facinated by the resemblence of their history and that of the professing church. I often feel like "if you want to see where we are headed, look at where they have been." Jeremiah and Isaiah watched Israel and later Judah fall into apostasy. You can hear their pain for their nation as you read each of their writings. How sad it is to be so helpless to be heard.
This chapter warns of the coming destruction that is prophesied upon Jerusalem... Repent repent repent.... but they do not hear.
Why or why can we not learn from their fall? So much of the OT history is today made to be something that does not apply to us... "we are the church!" they proclaim... but Solomon said there is nothing new underneath the sun,and I believe that this applies to what we see happening in the apostate church today.
Mt 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
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KnowHim
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From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.
They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace. Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them,” says the LORD.
Jeremiah 6:13-15 (NIV)
Sounds so much like many of the churches today. Their theme song is "It's all about me!"
Sad but I believe we will also answer for our loathsome conduct!
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When anyone is right with God, there is the fascination of the power and Spirit of God through them that is attractive; it is a beautiful, a fascinating, winsome, wonderful thing, and gets hold of men, good, bad and indifferent, and the devil alike; but if once the individual saint forgets the source from whence it comes, God will curse the beauty. Beware that God’s beauty which He puts on you His saint, is not prostituted to a flirtation with God’s antagonists.
Chambers, O. (1999, c1936). Notes on Jeremiah (electronic ed.). London: Oswald Chambers Publication Association, Ltd.
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