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799. Bible Study: Jeremiah 43 (Confusion, Arrogance, Disobedience, Consequence) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 43 from the book of Jeremiah.
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  Dear Lord, please be with us as we read through this scripture
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  and bring to mind things that you want us to learn from it.
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  We ask this in Jesus name. So when Jeremiah had finished
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  telling the people all the words of the Lord their God,
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  everything the Lord had sent him to tell them, Azaria son of
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  Hoshaya and Johannan son of Korea, and all the arrogant men
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  said to Jeremiah, You are lying. The Lord our God has not sent
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  you to say you must not go to Egypt to settle there, but
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  Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over
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  to the Babylonians so they may kill us or carry us into exile
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  to Babylon. So right here you're saying that
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  Jeremiah is trying so hard to tell them the word of God, but
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  they are in confusion now, the enemy of God.
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  So is confusion. If things are confusing, there's
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  more than likely some of the enemy of God's involvement in
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  that because God brings about peace, No Fear.
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  But you can see these people here are fearful.
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  If these people paid attention to their own history, they would
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  know Egypt is not a place for them to go to.
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  Just the fact that God pulled them out, saved them from
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  slavery in Egypt when there was the Exodus.
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  And so now later on, these people are thinking they can go
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  to Egypt for shelter. And this is going back to I'm,
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  I'm sure God is like, well, no, I'm, I'm kind of just putting it
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  in human terms. But just think about this, you
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  know, if you, if you know what's in store for someone and you're
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  telling them, don't do it, don't do it.
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  But they keep saying, Oh, no, we got to do it.
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  We got to do it. And you're just like hitting
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  you, you know, like putting your hand on your head or your face,
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  like, Oh, my goodness, how are these people never going to, you
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  know, are these people never going to understand?
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  Are they never going to listen to me?
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  I'm warning them, but they're not listening.
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  And that's what you could imagine God would be like, just,
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  Oh my goodness, what do I have to do to reach these people?
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  You know, I pulled them out of slavery, and now they're
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  thinking about going right back into slavery, and it's only
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  going to kill them. And I'm trying to warn them, but
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  they're not listening. And that's what Jeremiah is
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  frustrated too, because nobody listens to him and God keeps
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  telling him, share this with them, share this and nobody's
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  listening. So going back to Scripture, so
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  Johannon son of Korea, and all the army officers and all the
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  people disobeyed the Lord's command to stay in the land of
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  Judah. Instead, Johannan's son of Korea
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  and all the army officers LED away the remnant of Judah who
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  had come back to live in the land of Judah from all the
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  nations where they had been scattered.
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  They also LED away all those whom Nebu, Nebu's Araiden,
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  commander of the Imperial Guard, had left with Gadilla son of
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  Ahikum the son of Chapin, the men, the women, the children,
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  and the King's daughters. And they took Jeremiah the
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  prophet, and Baruch son of Neriah along with them.
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  So they entered Egypt in disobedience to the Lord, and
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  went as far as Tapanas. In Tapanas the word of the Lord
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  came to Jeremiah. While the Jews are watching,
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  take some large stones with you and bury them in clay in the
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  brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh's palace in Tapanis.
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  Then say to them, This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of
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  Israel says. I will send for my servant
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  Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over
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  these stones I have buried here. He will spread his royal canopy
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  above them. He will come and attack Egypt,
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  bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those
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  destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the
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  sword. He will set fire to the temple
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  of the gods of Egypt. He will burn their temples and
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  take their gods captive. As a shepherd picks his garment
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  clean of lice, so he will pick Egypt clean and depart there in
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  the temple of the Sun in Egypt. He will demolish the sacred
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  pillars and will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.
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  So this is a pretty strong statement.
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  And and I I just wonder what the people thought.
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  You know, Jeremiah had warned them.
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  They went ahead and disobeyed. They even made a vow to God.
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  Whatever, you know, you tell us, we will listen to.
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  But they didn't do it because they really had no intention of
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  it. And we can see that that's the
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  way people are today. And we could be like that too.
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  Like we could say, oh, yeah, I'm going to do this.
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  But then in our heart, in our deep inner self, we are like, I
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  don't really want to do it. I'm just going to say it and I
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  don't really want to do that though, but God really wants us
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  to let him guide us. God wants us to be obedience.
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  Obedience actually shows love to God.
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  And because Jesus said, you know, if you love me, obey my
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  commands. And, and that's the way we show
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  love to God. It's not how we get into God's
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  Kingdom, but it's how we show love to God.
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  And that's what God's seeking. He's, you know, he loves all of
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  us, all human beings, because he created all, all of us out of
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  his love. Like he wanted to enjoy a
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  relationship with us. And he delights in his creation,
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  and so he delights in all of us. But you don't so much delight in
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  something that kind of hates you, something that doesn't want
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  anything to do with you. It doesn't really, it's not a
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  great feeling for us. I mean, we can relate to that
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  part. Think about how God feels.
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  He created us. And then when we don't really
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  delight in him like he delights in us, that has to hurt, you
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  know, that has to, you know, be painful.
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  I mean, there are many times in the Bible where it says like God
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  was grieved or, you know, he was he, He regretted that, you know,
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  things turned out the way that they did and he saw that there.
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  You know, I guess, like the one thing that is surprising that we
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  don't think of is that the heart is deceitful and it's inclined
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  to sin all the time. And that's, that's just, you
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  know, something that we can't overcome by ourselves, but we
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  can overcome it by the Holy Spirit, by the Spirit of God.
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  And so that's why we need to rely on God.
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  That's why we need to ask God to come into our life because God
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  gave us free will. So if we don't ask him into our
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  life, it's like he doesn't have permission, even though he could
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  do it if he wanted. He doesn't.
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  He doesn't force himself on any of us.
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  So we have to invite him in. He's there wanting to be a part
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  of our life, but we have to make that decision.
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  And that's why our final destination is truly up to us.
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  It's not God saying, well, I don't think I really like a
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  whole lot of the way you lived your life and I like your life
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  better. So you're going to be in my
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  Kingdom. You're not.
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  That's not the way God does it. It says in Scripture that that
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  is not it. He will see how much we love him
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  based on how we act, how we live out our lives.
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  But that's that's not it at all. It's the only way that we make
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  it into that we have the opportunity to be in God's
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  Kingdom is because of Jesus, because Jesus sacrificed his own
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  life for all of mankind, because Jesus is the son of God.
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  And that's as perfect as you can get.
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  That's perfection. The only like Jesus said, the
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  why do you call me good? The only one good is God because
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  they were denying the deity of Jesus, but he was saying, you
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  know, there's only one one that's good and that's God.
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  And so he was kind of, he was very interesting with how he
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  expressed himself to people. And I think people just really
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  didn't understand a lot of what he said.
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  But, you know, he was in that statement.
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  He's basically saying, you know, yeah, I am.
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  I am God. But you don't really know that.
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  You deny that. You don't believe that.
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  And the, you know, humans are not by nature are not good.
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  I mean, we ever since the the fall of mankind, that happened
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  in the Garden of Eden when our ancestors chose to question God
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  and to follow a serpent of some kind that, you know, ever since
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  then we've been corrupted by that from that.
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  And just like Ephesians 6, chapter 6, verse 12, it says for
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  our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the
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  rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this Dark
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  World, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly
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  realms. Now, have any of you thought of
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  that? Like there's actually evil in
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  the heavenly realms that doesn't make sense to many people.
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  If you haven't read the Bible because you think, oh, only good
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  is in heaven. Well, not right now because
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  there are fallen ones. There are those who rebelled
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  against God that are in the heavenly realms and they won't
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  be there forever. But right now they are, because
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  God even gives the other beings that he created free will as
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  well. But some of them want to be God,
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  want to be worshipped. They aren't set.
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  They aren't satisfied with the way God made them, and they want
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  to be something more than what they are.
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  They have pride. They are not willing to humble
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  themselves and put God as The Who He is, the Creator, the
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  giver of life, and He gives all things that are good come from
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  God. Anyway, I departed a little bit
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  there like I always do, but we'll go back and I'll go
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  through the questions and answers on this.
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  So why would they seek advice from someone they believe to be
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  a liar? This is talking about Jeremiah.
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  They didn't anticipate that Jeremiah actually would give
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  them advice. What they really wanted was some
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  religious reassurance or endorsement of their own plan.
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  When they got advice instead, their human nature rejected it.
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  They called him a liar and headed to Egypt.
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  Now that could be like us today. Think about this.
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  A lot of people will search different churches because they
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  want to find a church that tells them what they want to hear.
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  They want a church that says exactly the way they want to
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  believe. And if you look long enough, you
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  will find a church, you will find a church that supports what
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  you believe because there are a lot of corrupted churches out
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  there. So the important thing is that
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  we actually know what's in the Bible and we look at what is
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  being taught at a church and does it reflect or does it
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  contradict what's in the Bible? The Bible is the word of God and
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  that's one of the things that we need to remember is that it says
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  all Second Timothy chapter 3, verse 16.
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  All Scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching,
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  rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness so
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  that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every
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  good work. So we have to test everything
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  that we hear that to make sure that it's in the Bible.
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  But most importantly, we need to be in the Bible.
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  We need to read it. We need to know what's in it so
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  that people can't deceive us. Because it does say in the end
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  times, there's going to be a great deception on people.
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  And I wonder, you know, if, if people are so confused about
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  what truth is and because they've not been reading the
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  Bible and so much of so many of us, like I didn't until 2019,
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  but then I, my eyes were open to a lot of things and a lot of
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  things that I believe that were incorrect and they were
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  corrected by the scripture. I mean, exactly what second
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  Timothy says, you know, it's God breathes is useful for dot dot
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  dot correcting. And that's what it did for me.
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  The some beliefs that I had were not correct.
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  And so this made it clear and more the more we're in it, the
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  more we study it, the more we learn from it.
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  And I just can't say how much, how important it is.
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  And you know, our what we believe is foundational and
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  impactful in our placement in eternity.
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  And as in Romans chapter 10, verse 17 says, consequently,
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  faith comes from hearing the message and the message is heard
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  through the word about Christ. So as we read Scripture, our
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  faith increases because we start seeing a lot of things we didn't
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  see before. And it's not we're many of us
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  make the mistake at the beginning is wanting to find a
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  church that agrees with our thoughts on the way things
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  should be, but we're deceiving ourselves if we do that.
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  We have to start with Scripture and then find a church that
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  supports what it says in Scripture.
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  That's that's the way if we if we want truth, if we want to be
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  deceived, you can go do anything.
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  I mean, you we all have free choice in choosing.
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  Thank God what we want to do and but not all things that we
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  choose are good for us. So why would or why were they
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  suspicious of Baruch? Some think the Jews suspected
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  that Baruch, Jeremiah's secretary, was an agent of
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  Babylon. If so, they probably thought he
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  was urging Jeremiah to say that it was God's will for them to
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  stay and submit to Nebuchadnezzar.
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  Apparently Baruch's personality was strong enough that he was
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  blamed for being a bad influence on Jeremiah.
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  So that's, again, you know, what the enemy can do when we're
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  struggling against the spiritual realm, that spiritual realm can
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  influence our thoughts and make us suspicious of good people.
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  And it can make us, that's why we need to be so rooted, so
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  grounded in the Word of God so that we know we can distinguish
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  between them. Because I would imagine that if
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  they were grounded in Scripture, they could see that Jeremiah was
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  doing good, that Jeremiah was being led by God.
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  They could see by some of the things that happened to that
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  happened with him and that things that he told that
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  actually happened. So they should have known a
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  little bit better if they were more discerning.
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  And that's what Scripture also does.
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  It gives us discernment. The Holy Spirit will give us
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  discernment and we will hopefully be able to tell better
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  from good and evil. So did Jeremiah and Baruch go
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  willingly to Egypt? Some think they were forced to
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  go against their will. Others think they went
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  willingly, believing that the Jews needed guidance.
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  Jeremiah had dedicated his life to serving God.
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  He remained faithful to his commitment even though the
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  people were rebellious. How did Jeremiah bury stones in
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  the brick pavement? Details are sketchy, but he may
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  have used farming tools to chisel the clay mortar from
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  between the hardened bricks. In an arid climate, clay bricks
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  would have been nearly like concrete and quite suitable as
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  construction material for the main streets.
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  Why did God called Nebuchadnezzar my servant?
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  God chose Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians as his servants to
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  execute this punishment on Judah.
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  They were neither more righteous nor more deserving than the
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  other nations, but they fit God's purposes.
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  God's choices may sometimes be surprising and perplexing, but
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  we can say for sure they are always right.
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  So God, I think from what I've read, is that God uses
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  somebody's own desires to accomplish his purpose.
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  So Nebuchadnezzar wanted to conquer, and so God can use
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  that, his desire within him. But he's like, OK, you're going
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  to do it for me though, and you're going to pronounce
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  judgement on my people because they don't listen to me.
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  They're far from me. And so God uses somebody
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  unexpected. He always seems to use
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  unexpected people for things throughout history.
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  That's what he's done. So what were the sacred pillars
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  in the Temple of the Sun? They were a obelisk or obelisk
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  actually they're. Gosh I didn't even realize this.
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  They were obelisk. Freestanding post about 6 feet
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  square at the base and tapering upward 60 feet or more to a
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  pyramid like top. Some may have been overlaid with
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  gold. Obelisk were erected to honor
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  and worship the Egyptian sun God RA array.
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  They were located in Heliopolis, Greek for the city of the sun.
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  That's another interesting thing because these obliques, I I know
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  I'm pronouncing this wrong and it's not coming to mind with how
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  to pronounce this, but they, they're all over the place.
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  The Washington Monument is 1. Isn't that concerning?
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  There are more. If you start paying attention,
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  you will start seeing them everywhere.
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  And if so, we go back in history and we find out these things and
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  these are like ungodly things and they are scattered in
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  various places. And do you think God's really
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  happy with that? It's very interesting when you
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  get into history and you start seeing things from ancient times
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  that are present today and we all say, oh, we don't worship
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  anything that's like the ancient gods or these people had
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  multiple gods and they worshipped all these things.
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  Well, it's not like we necessarily like pray do these
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  things or whatever, but these things like it's against the 10
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  commandments, you know, just like it says no graven images of
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  anything in heaven or under the earth or in the sky or whatever.
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  So it's basically like graven images are basically statues.
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  And, and that, you know, when you create a statue of somebody,
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  you're, you're honoring them. But can that be taken a little
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  bit too far where they become like a God, You know, and
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  oftentimes they did become like a God.
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  And I just think whoever decided to make statues to begin with
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  it, they probably didn't know the Bible.
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  Or if they did, they were in direct rebellion to the Bible.
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  Because if I was back in that time and, and had the experience
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  with God and saw that he said that I wouldn't want to be the
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  first one. Knowing how God will punish
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  those who disobey him, who are disobedient and rebellious to
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  him, who would want to come against God?
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  And yet we see these things all over the world.
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  And so anyway, the next chapter 44 is going to be really
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  interesting. And I'm going to cut this one
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  short because I know the next one's going to be long because
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  I've got a lot of research for that.
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  So I hope you come back for chapter 44 because it'll be very
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  interesting. I might do that a little bit
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  later, but can't do it right now.
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  Anyway, I hope you come back and listen to chapter by chapter.
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  As we say in the Word of God, we get closer to God, we learn more
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  about God and it's beneficial for us when we learn from others
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  mistakes and hopefully we don't have to make them ourselves.
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  Anyway, come back again, subscribe if you haven't.
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  Thank you.