KJB Daily Devotion – Following Jesus Through Every
Chapter
Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Chapters: Jeremiah 7-9
Message: To Understand And Know God

Hello
My Friend,

When you read through the prophecy books with
an open heart you cannot help, but think about our current state and
feel deep sorrow over what is about to come to our nations and even
the world. It truly is sad to see how corrupt and immoral society has
become, and I am not talking about fornication and adultery, I am
talking about nine year old girls dressing like prostitutes, and nine
year old boys smoking and drinking. Just this week a bunch of kids
were rushed to the hospital after side effects of eating brownies
laced with marijuana. This is how corrupt our society is getting, and
all I see is a bubbling brew of lava getting hotter and hotter until
God has had enough and lets it tip over, as judgment is poured upon
the earth.

“And
to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be
revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking
vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of
our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting
destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his
power;” - II Thessalonians 1:7-9.
I had a mother tell me not to explain to her daughter the plan of
salvation, in her eyes as long as her daughter was obeying her she
thought she did not need to be saved. This is the perception of all
those who have the mind set that their good works are what get them
into heaven. I get a little sad every time I watch a movie or show
that teaches people that heaven is obtainable as long as you are
good. While it is true that being good is what is necessary to get to
heaven, God does not nor ever has quite worked that way. Why? Because
our good will never match up to what God sees as good. Even if the
Jews obeyed every one, but one of the six-hundred and thirty commands
they had it would send them to hell. Salvation has always been about
confessing of sin and the giving a sacrifice, Jesus just made it
permanent. Teaching a false doctoring or hiding the truth from others
does not save them, it is true today as well as before Christ.
Through Jeremiah, God upbraids those trusting the lies of man rather
than the truth of His Word.

“Behold,
ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder,
and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal,
and walk after other gods whom ye know not; And come and stand
before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are
delivered to do all these abominations? Is this house, which is
called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even
I have seen it, saith the LORD. But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it
for the wickedness of my people Israel. And I will cast you out
of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. Therefore pray not thou for this
people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make
intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.” -
Jeremiah 7:8-12,15,16.
“Behold, ye trust in
lying words, that cannot profit.” People do not want
to hear the truth, they want the tickling of their ears, their sins
sugar coated for them, and they want peace that allows them to keep
living the lives they live with no consequence. Let me tell you, the
truth does hurt sometimes, especially if we are doing something we
ought not be doing, this is actually the Holy Spirit trying to get
our attention. Yes, God speaks to us many times before we actually
listen to Him and come to know Christ as our Saviour, but there are
some people who are oblivious to that fact. As God continues
explaining why He was judging Judah, the ones who were supposed to
know Him.

“But
this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be
your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that
I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. But they
hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not
forward. For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight,
saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which
is called by my name, to pollute it. And they have built the
high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their
daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the
valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they
shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.” -
Jeremiah 7:23,24,30-32.
“but walked in the
counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart,”
We all think that the choices we make will not make much of an
impact, but the truth is, they not only impact us individually, they
impact those around us as well. Take for instance a man that is
having an affair, he not only acts out in his guilt others act out at
his acting out, and when it is found out, and they are always found
out, the repercussions are endless, and the same is true for the
woman consenting in the affair, even if she had no idea what she was
doing. None of us are perfect, but if we allow sin to creep in, it
will eventually overtake us. Of all the creatures God created, we who
are made in His image are the hardest to tame, and the reason why,
that sin nature. God continues explaining His reason for the
judgment, and by the way, God never needs to explain anything.

“Yea,
the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle
and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but
my people know not the judgment of the LORD. How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the
word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them? Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to
covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth
falsely.” - Jeremiah 8:7-10.
“but my people know not the judgment of the
LORD.” Do you know how many people there are in the world
that are “saved”, but do not know the judgments of God? I hate to
see the countless people who have died having believed a false
doctrine. There are churches proclaiming Christ, yet none of them
tell them that unless they admit they are a sinner and confess to
Jesus that they need Him to save them from their sins they will not
be saved. This goes back to the little girl that never got told the
truth because her mother would not allow it. Ignorance does not save
us, only Jesus does.

“As
it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none
that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They
are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable;
there is none that doeth good, no, not one. For all have sinned,
and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by
his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:”
- Romans 3:10-12,23,24.
“there is none that
doeth good,” This does not mean that everything we do
is bad, to understand this we have to know what the meaning of word
good means, Complete or sufficiently perfect in
its kind. No one is complete, no one is perfect, which is why we need
Jesus. The people during Jeremiah's day may not have known Jesus
Christ personally, but they did know God, and right well knew He was
the only way to salvation. The things Jesus spoke were the exact same
things God spoke through all the prophets. God warns us over and over
again not to trust in our own understanding, but His.

“Yet
hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the
word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one
her neighbour lamentation. For death is come up into our
windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even
the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as
the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them. Thus
saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: But let him that glorieth glory in this,
that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness,
in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.” - Jeremiah 9:20-24.
“that he understandeth
and knoweth me,” As much as we like to think that our
own righteousness or wisdom is the an option, it is not, there is
only one way, one truth, and one life, and that is Jesus Christ. You
know, the great thing about the Bible is that we can learn millions
of things, all by reading one line of Scripture, and while I am set
in my ways, I know I must leave my heart open to learn from other
godly men and women who tell of God’s truths. We must also learn to
discern truth from lies, while anyone can tell you the Gospel in
truth and lead someone to Christ (interestingly Jesus allows this),
not everyone teaches the truth beyond that. For the life of me I will
never get where some people make up their own conclusions and drag
thousands of people into it, but that is why we face judgment today.
Nevertheless, God will use anyone to preach His Son, and then it is
up to us to discern whether or not the rest of the doctrine is true,
if any church or religion gets away from the truth that, then get
away from it fast.

“Now
I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences
contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For
they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own
belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the
simple.” - Romans 16:17,18.

Jesus Christ Magnified:
“Why do we sit still?
assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and
let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence,
and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against
the LORD.” - Jeremiah 8:14.
Jesus was given gall to drink before He died, it was a symbol that
Jesus had taken on all the sin of man to the cross with Him.


Today's Prayer: God,
You make it simple to understand You, and Your ways, we do not need
thousands of books written by man, we just need Your Word and the
Holy Spirit, He will direct us to the truth, will even guide us to
dictionaries and other men and women who know it. Lord, keep me in
Your Word so I can discern Your truths from the lies, and not only
that, live through it so I can be a witness and testimony that brings
the lost to Your Son, who is the only way, truth, and life that
brings us to You. In the name of Jesus, I pray, Amen.

God
Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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