I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired

Jeremiah 19:1-15

This is what the Lord says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you, and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle. For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned incense in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

In this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds and the wild animals.

Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching, and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the Lord. I will make this city like Topheth.

“This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on this city and all the villages around it every disaster I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked and would not listen to my words.’

Why?

The Lord asked Jeremiah to use a clay jar to show to all people of Judah and break the jar, which means the Lord will destroy this place and can not be repaired.

Because they were stiff-necked and would not listen to God's words.

Why people don't listen to God's word? For people's hearts are covered by this world's values and profits. People have turned to the world's way, they do everything in their way.

People see the situation right now, they don't care about the future in their life, the eternal life. And they did not believe to be a Christian has any benefit to them.

How?

To be a Christian and obey God's command is a blessing to us, Because God loves me so I have decided to follow God's way in my life.