Friday, December 29, 2017

God's covenant-agreement with his people

Jeremiah 11:1-23
You Judah, have as many gods as you have towns; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.
I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree and its fruit;  let us cut him off from the land of the living,  that his name be remembered no more.
The terms of God's covenant-agreement with his people, made at Sinai after the exodus, are still in force. By persistent disobedience to God's law, and by idol-worship, Judah has broken that agreement and come under the curse.
Jeremiah must go and tell the people. Nor does God want him to pray on their behalf; it sounds as if God has had many such pleas from the prophet!
This chapter seems to belong to the period of reaction following Josiah's reforms.
Jeremiah's message arouse such intense anger that the people of Anathoth, his home town, were prepared to kill him if he didn't stop. It is God, keeping his promise to protect the prophet, who alerts Jeremiah to the danger.
Why?
Every town has one or more gods in Judah. Same as in Taiwan now.
People of Jeremiah's home town wanted to kill Jeremiah for he talk the word of God, his message is warning message, but people don't like to listen.
God will protect his servants and sometimes God's has his own plan. If devote our life should be worthy before the Lord.
How?
Trust and obey God's word, sometime looks unreasonable, but obey and follow it would be the best way.

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