Jeremiah 43

September 1, 2022

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Jeremiah 43 (NIV)

1 When Jeremiah had finished telling the people all the words of the Lord their God—everything the Lord had sent him to tell them— 2 Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to settle there.’ 3 But Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Babylonians so they may kill us or carry us into exile to Babylon.”........Continue Reading

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  2. Nothing much more frustrating when someone asks you what to do, you tell them, and they do the opposite! So you sought out God’s wisdom and then you relied on your own limited mind and did what you wanted anyway. Now I am sure fear drove this decision and when we are afraid doing what we know God wants us to do is hard but have they not seen enough first hand that God keeps His promises and follows through with ALL He says He will do!?!? Still they disobey

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  6. How often the best intentions end in disobedience. It does seem clear that fear is driving this decision, but how often when people are in the wrong they assign blame to others. Once Jeremiah doesn’t say what they want to hear, they can’t be wrong, it must be Jeremiah who is wrong. That’s a lot of pride to dismiss the word of God’s prophet so readily. And no one should be surprised that God would then respond in the way He does. The safest place is always in God’s will, so the minute you think you have done something to make yourself safer, if is against what He wants, you may be putting yourself directly in harms way. Which is exactly what happens here!

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  8. The people tell Jeremiah that he is wrong and decide to do exactly what the Lord is telling them not to do! I do think that we think this way too. God would never tell us to subject ourselves to someone to preserve our lives. We are so self-dependent and not God-dependent.

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