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Racing with Horses: The Folly of Idols and Why the Wicked Prosper | Jeremiah 10–12
Episode Overview
Why do people trust what cannot help them? Today we read Jeremiah chapters 10 through 12, opening with one of Scripture's sharpest satires on idolatry. People cut a tree, shape it, decorate it, and nail it down so it will not topple over—then bow to it. Jeremiah sets that image beside the incomparable, eternal God who made the earth, and the contrast does the arguing for him. The critique reaches well beyond carved statues to anything we treat as ultimate: status, possessions, opinions.
The reading then turns personal. Jeremiah wrestles with a broken covenant, faces a plot…
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