Jeremiah - Lesson 7

• Chapters 1-6 The foundation of this book is established in the LORD calling Jeremiah as a prophet to Judah in the final days of that kingdom. The LORD’s people, Israel and Judah, had rejected their God by worshiping false gods and without their repentance, the LORD is sending a nation from the North as judgment--but not for a complete destruction of His people.

Jer. 7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jer. 7:2 “Stand in the gate of the LORD’S house and proclaim there this word and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah, who enter by these gates to worship the LORD!’”
Jer. 7:3 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.
Jer. 7:4 “Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
Jer. 7:5 “For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor,
Jer. 7:6 if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin,
Jer. 7:7 then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

• Verse 1 This appears to be a new tim e the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah.

  • Verse 2 Jeremiah is told exactly where to stand as he speaks to Judah.

  • Jeremiah is told to stand in the gate of the LORD’s house (better known as the temple) in Jerusalem.

  • It is from this vantage point Jeremiah is to speak to those who enter the temple for the purpose of worshiping the LORD.

    • These would be the Jews who came to the temple claiming to worship the LORD.

• Verse 3 The LORD calls on these people to specifically amend their ways and deeds. This is another call to repentance for what these people are doing.

  • Verse 4 The LORD calls these people to not trust in the deceptive words being spoken.

  • The deceptive words are the words declaring ‘this is the temple of the LORD’.

    • This phrase is repeated three times to show the significance these words had on the people. This may have been a repeated mantra meant to call up the LORD’s protection. The people put their faith in these superstitions over the Word of the LORD.

  • They falsely believed because the temple of the LORD was in Jerusalem then the city would be supernaturally saved. Their faith was in the building not truly in the LORD.

  • This was a common belief in this era, that a city was protected by the deity of the city.

  • The city had in fact been saved years earlier under king Hezekiah.

2Kings 18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

• A messenger from Sennacherib speaks:

2Kings 18:29 “Thus says the king, ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you from my hand;
2Kings 18:30 nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

2Kings 18:35 ‘Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their land from my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’”

• After much hand wringing and finally bringing the concerns to the LORD the end of the story is given:

2Kings 19:32 ‘Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, “He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield or throw up a siege ramp against it.
2Kings 19:33 “By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,”’ declares the LORD.
2Kings 19:34 ‘For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”
2Kings 19:35 Then it happened that night that the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were dead.
2Kings 19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home, and lived at Nineveh.

• The LORD had miraculously saved Jerusalem.

  • Now in Jeremiah’s day the people were believing they were safe from the judgment of destruction in Jerusalem because the temple of the LORD was in this city and God had already preformed a miracle for them. They did not embrace a need to change their ways before the LORD.

• Jer. 7:5 The deeds that need to be amended are expounded next.

  • They included truly practicing justice with their neighbors, meaning those who live among them.

• Verse 6 They are not to oppress the alien, meaning those who were not Jews but lived among them.

  • They were not to oppress the orphans, those without family to care for them. This would usually result in the children becoming a possession of the wealthy and powerful.

  • They were not to oppress the widows, those without husbands or sons to provide for them.

    • Widows had no way to own property, no way to provide a living for themselves. It would appear these women were not protected by the powerful but taken advantage of.

  • They were to stop shedding innocent blood, meaning there were those who were truly innocent that were being put to death without trials. Not a just judicial system.

    • There was a true emphasis on taking care of the needy, yet the people were doing the opposite.

  • They were also to stop any practice of worship dedicated to any other gods.

• V 7 If the people would cease from these actions, then the LORD would allow them to stay in the land He had given to their forefathers.

 

Jer. 7:8-11

 

Jer. 7:8 “Behold, you are trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

Jer. 7:9 “Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known,

Jer. 7:10 then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’ — that you may do all these abominations?

Jer. 7:11 “Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” declares the LORD.

 

V 8 The LORD declares these people are trusting in false words and it is not benefiting them.

 

V 9 The people are stealing, probably from the aliens, orphans and widows.
They are murdering those who could not defend themselves and it was done without justice.

They are participating in acts of adultery; the cult practice of religious sex acts violated the marriage bed.

They are lying under oath.

They are making sacrifices to Baal.

They are worshiping other gods that were newly introduced to them.

 

V 10 The people were participating in these horrid behaviors and then showing up to the temple of the LORD and saying words as if they believe in the LORD’s name.

Claiming to identify with the LORD, they declare they are delivered.

They are using their identity as the LORD’s people to say they are delivered from judgment, and then to carry on in the same egregious ways.

 

V 11 The LORD asks if the temple has become a den of robbers in the people’s sight.

The LORD says I have seen what you do, and I see this place as a den of robbers.

 

This was the response Jesus had to the misuse of the temple in his day. Matt. 21:10-13.

 

Matt. 21:10 When He had entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, “Who is this?”

Matt. 21:11 And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee.”

Matt. 21:12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.

Matt. 21:13 And He  said to them, “It is written, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER’; but you are making it a ROBBERS’ DEN.”

 

The leaders in Jesus’ day were taking advantage of the people financially just like in Judah before God brought judgment on them.

 

Jer. 7:12-15

 

Jer. 7:12 “But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

Jer. 7:13 “And now, because you have done all these things,” declares the LORD, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you but you did not answer,

Jer. 7:14 therefore, I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

Jer. 7:15 “I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the offspring of Ephraim.

 

V 12 The LORD directs the people’s attention to Shiloh, a place He calls “My place” and further defines as a place where His name dwelled at the first.

 

The LORD uses what He has already done to Shiloh as a warning to what He is going to do in Jerusalem.

 

Josh. 18:1 Then the whole congregation of the sons of Israel assembled themselves at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there; and the land was subdued before them.

 

This is the first place established as the resting place of the ark of the covenant in the tent of meetings and place for communal worship to take place in the Promised Land.

 

Judg. 18:18 When these went into Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod and household idols and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

Judg. 18:19 They said to him, “Be silent, put your hand over your mouth and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

Judg. 18:20 The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod and household idols and the graven image and went among the people.

 

Judg. 18:30 The sons of Dan set up for themselves the graven image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

Judg. 18:31 So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image which he had made, all the time that the house of God was at Shiloh.

Here we learn the house of God, while at Shiloh, contained a graven image.

 

1Sam. 1:3 Now this man would go up from his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD there.

 

1Sam. 2:12 Now the sons of Eli were worthless men; they did not know the LORD

1Sam. 2:13 and the custom of the priests with the people. When any man was offering a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand.

1Sam. 2:14 Then he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. Thus they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

1Sam. 2:15 Also, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest meat for roasting, as he will not take boiled meat from you, only raw.”

1Sam. 2:16 If the man said to him, “They must surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as you desire,” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”

1Sam. 2:17 Thus the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD, for the men despised the offering of the LORD.

 

Here we learn the priests despised the offering of the LORD.

 

1Sam. 4:2 The Philistines drew up in battle array to meet Israel. When the battle spread, Israel was defeated before the Philistines who killed about four thousand men on the battlefield.

1Sam. 4:3 When the people came into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us take to ourselves from Shiloh the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that it may come among us and deliver us from the power of our enemies.”

1Sam. 4:4 So the people sent to Shiloh, and from there they carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

 

The people do not seek the counsel of the LORD to see why they were defeated.

They decide all they need is the physical representation of the LORD with them to conjure up the power of the LORD.

The priests who actually despised the offering of the LORD disguise themselves as leaders of the people.

 

1Sam. 4:10 So the Philistines fought and Israel was defeated, and every man fled to his tent; and the slaughter was very great, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.

1Sam. 4:11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

 

The LORD is not fooled, and He knows the hearts of the people.

The people are judged, the priests are judged, and the false symbol is removed from the people.

This is why the LORD calls attention now in Judah to the events in Shiloh. He is going to repeat what was done in Shiloh for the same reasons.

 

Jer. 7:13 The LORD declares what the leaders have done in Jerusalem before His people. He has warned them to stop but they did not hear Him or even make a response to Him.

 

V 14 The LORD now says clearly, He is going to do to the temple in Jerusalem (the place they put their trust in instead of the LORD), the same thing He had done in Shiloh.

The LORD says it is a place I gave you and a place I can take away.

 

V 15 The same fate is now before Judah as had fallen on the nation known as Israel lead by the tribe of Ephraim.

 

Jer. 7:16-20

 

Jer. 7:16  “As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you.

Jer. 7:17 “Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Jer. 7:18 “The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite Me.

Jer. 7:19 “Do they spite Me?” declares the LORD. “Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?”

Jer. 7:20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”

 

V 16 The LORD now speaks to Jeremiah.

The LORD tells Jeremiah not to pray for the people to Him because He will not hear his prayer.

 

V 17 The LORD points to what Jeremiah had been a witness to in the activities in all the cities of Judah including the streets of Jerusalem.

 

V 18 The LORD demonstrates how each person contributes to the worship of the false gods.

Children gather the wood, the fathers light the fires, the women make the cakes.

All of this work is done to worship the queen of heaven. This could have been Ishtar or another female goddess. They all had a connection to worship for fertility of the land and the people.

 

They even pour out drink offerings to other gods.

This is done to bring shame on the LORD.

 

V 19 The people have no shame in what they do, but He will bring shame on them.

 

V 20 The name used here is ‘The Lord God’ often associated with the Lordship of God.

 

The LORD God declares because of these events His anger and wrath will be poured out.

It will be done in this land, to this people and will include the beasts and trees and harvest.

Everything the LORD had blessed His people with He will take away from them.

 

Jer. 7:21-23

 

Jer. 7:21 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.

Jer. 7:22 “For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Jer. 7:23 “But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.’

 

V 21 The title used now is the LORD of hosts and the God of Israel.

LORD of hosts is a reminder that He is commander over the earthly armies and the spiritual armies.

The God of Israel brings the focus back to His specific dominion over Israel.

The people can just add meat from the burnt offerings to the other sacrifices they eat.

There was no point from God’s perspective of burning up the sacrifice to ascend as smoke to Him as it means nothing to Him now.

 

V 22 The LORD declared He did not make the burnt offerings and sacrifices His focus as He brought this people out of Egypt.

The LORD did not rescue His people because they made worthy sacrifices to Him first.

The LORD commanded His people to trust in Him and they were to obey Him in preparation to leave Egypt.

They kept the Passover in obedience.

They prepared to leave in obedience.

 

V 23 The LORD establishes what He spoke to this people as they left Egypt.

“Obey My voice.”

When they obey His voice then The LORD will be their God.

When the people obey His voice then they are His people.

When the people obey His voice, they will walk in the way which He commanded them.

When the people obey His voice then it may be well with them.

 

Jer. 7:24-31

 

Jer. 7:24 “Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

Jer. 7:25 “Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them.

Jer. 7:26 “Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did more evil than their fathers.

Jer. 7:27 “You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you.

Jer. 7:28 “You shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or accept correction; truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.

Jer. 7:29 ‘Cut off your hair and cast it away,

And take up a lamentation on the bare heights;

For the LORD has rejected and forsaken

The generation of His wrath.’

Jer. 7:30 “For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares the LORD, “they have set their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

Jer. 7:31 “They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, and it did not come into My mind.

 

V 24 The LORD made it clear that obeying Him was of primary importance, yet they would not obey.

The people would not seek to listen to the LORD.

The people decided to follow their own counsel, not the counsel of the LORD.

This decision was made because of the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

The direction of obedience went backwards not forward.

The longer the people were in the land they moved further away from the LORD’s words.

 

V 25 The LORD clarifies He has sent messengers to His people from the day they left Egypt to this current day.

The LORD calls them His servants, the prophets.

There are many prophets recorded in the scriptures but there may have been many more whose names and deeds were never recorded in the scriptures. Heb. 11:32-40, 2Kings 23:16-18.

 

Heb. 11:32 And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,

Heb. 11:33 who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,

Heb. 11:34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.

Heb. 11:35 Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;

Heb. 11:36 and others experienced mockings and scourgings, yes, also chains and imprisonment.

Heb. 11:37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

Heb. 11:38 (men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

Heb. 11:39 And all these, having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised,

Heb. 11:40 because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.

 

2Kings 23:16 Now when Josiah turned, he saw the graves that were there on the mountain, and he sent and took the bones from the graves and burned them on the altar and defiled it according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

2Kings 23:17 Then he said, “What is this monument that I see?” And the men of the city told him, “It is the grave of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel.”

2Kings 23:18 He said, “Let him alone; let no one disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

 

Jer. 7:26 The LORD says His people became more stubborn with each generation.

 

V 27 The LORD tells Jeremiah he is to speak all these words to His people even though they will not listen to him.

 

We are called to speak truth even when others will not receive truth from us.

There is the balance of speaking truth in love, but truth cannot be sacrificed.

 

V 28 Jeremiah is to call out this current nation as the one that does not obey the LORD their God.

They do not accept any correction from Him.

There is no longer anyone speaking truth among God’s people.

 

V 29 Jeremiah is to cut off his hair. This would be a sign of mourning.

Jeremiah is to go high enough in the hills to not be covered by the tree line to be seen.

Jeremiah is to take up these warnings or lamentations before all the people out in public.

The LORD’s words are for this people currently, not for a future generation.

 

These could also be words Jeremiah is to speak to the people with the same meaning.

 

V 30 Those of Judah have finally done the unimaginable and shameful act of bringing the worship of the false gods into the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem.

They have set up what the LORD defines as detestable things in His temple.

We will go into more detail on what this looked like when we talk about what king Josiah cleaned up from the temple and Jerusalem.

Read 2Kings 21 and 22 for further study.

 

v 31 The people have built high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom.

There they burn their sons and daughters in the fire.

There will be more about this later in the book as well.

This sacrifice was never given by the LORD nor did anything so detestable ever enter His thoughts.

The LORD specifically forbids this vile act. Lev. 18:21, 20:1-5.

 

Lev. 18:21 ‘You shall not give any of your offspring to offer them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.

 

Lev. 20:1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Lev. 20:2 “You shall also say to the sons of Israel:

‘Any man from the sons of Israel or from the aliens sojourning in Israel who gives any of his offspring to Molech, shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

Lev. 20:3 ‘I will also set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary and to profane My holy name.

Lev. 20:4 ‘If the people of the land, however, should ever disregard that man when he gives any of his offspring to Molech, so as not to put him to death,

Lev. 20:5 then I Myself will set My face against that man and against his family, and I will cut off from among their people both him and all those who play the harlot after him, by playing the harlot after Molech.

 

The LORD called for a different destiny for His children Ex. 13:1-2.

 

Ex. 13:1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Ex. 13:2 “Sanctify to Me every firstborn, the first offspring of every womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and beast; it belongs to Me.”

 

The LORD honors the children, and they are to be set aside as special for His service.

The enemy always takes what is honorable and makes it dishonorable and pure evil.

 

Jer. 7:32-34

 

Jer. 7:32 “Therefore, behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when it will no longer be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of the Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place.

Jer. 7:33 “The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.

Jer. 7:34 “Then I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a ruin.

 

V 32 The LORD declares there is about to be an event to happen that will change the name of this place.

It will no longer be called Topheth, or valley of the son of Hinnom. There will be a new name and it will be the valley of the Slaughter.

The reason for the name change is because there will be so much death and this will be the place for the dead bodies to be piled up. Their place of deadly sacrifice will become their cemetery.

 

V 33 The dead bodies will accumulate so fast they will not decay but become food for the birds and beasts. There will be no one to guard the bodies from this form of desecration.

 

These words should bring the people’s attention to what had been foretold in the Law.

Deut. 28:25-26.

 

Deut. 28:25 The LORD shall cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deut. 28:26 “Your carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

 

God’s words are always fulfilled in perfection.

 

Jer. 7:34 At this time the LORD will take away all joy, gladness and love, and replace it with ruin.

 

There is a common lie mankind convinces themselves of, when they do not see or experience judgment right away for something: they are lulled into a sense of security to continue that behavior. Solomon makes this observation in Eccl. 8:11

 

Eccl. 8:11 Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil.

 

How are we to live knowing judgment is coming on the whole earth?

We do not ignore the signs of evil around us that God has declared in His Word are worthy of judgment.

We must be willing to speak truth in a dark, lost and dying world.

The truth of the gospel is what saves.

Not a religion or membership in some church body

Not an act of a man in his flesh, a prayer, a baptism or any other sacrament created by an act of a man.

 

We are to live clothed in the grace of the Father.

We are to live to glorify the Father.

We are to live to display the love of the Father to others.

 

1John 4:16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1John 4:17 By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.

1John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.

1John 4:19 We love, because He first loved us.

 

Rom. 8:1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Rom. 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

 

Heb. 10:4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Heb. 10:5  Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says,

“SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED,

BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME;

Heb. 10:6  IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE.

Heb. 10:7  “THEN I SAID, ‘BEHOLD, I HAVE COME

(IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME)

TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.’”

Heb. 10:8 After saying above, “SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them” (which are offered according to the Law),

Heb. 10:9 then He said, “BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.

Heb. 10:10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

 

 

 

 

Know the day is approaching and be prepared in your heart.

Do not fear because He has loved us first.

You have been set free from condemnation.

We are to do the Will of the Father as demonstrated through Jesus Christ.

Love the LORD with all your heart, soul and mind.