I am reading through the book of Jeremiah, much of which is God using Jeremiah to speak to the people and to let them know God’s charges against the people for their sinful rebellion against the Lord. So not everything written in this book is going to apply to us today, but some of it is very applicable to our lives today, as so much of what was happening then is being repeated today, only now during the time of the New Covenant with God we have through faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.

Jeremiah 16:9-13 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“9For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.

“10When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’

“11Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction. 12And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me. 13So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’”

“In The Toilet”

Now, I live in the USA, which is what I know and understand, and I definitely see how this could be applying to my nation today, which has been sinking down in the toilet for some time now, which has to do with moral failure. But it isn’t just our heads of government who are “in the toilet,” but it is so much of what is called “church” which is catering to the world and to human flesh, and which is pacifying sin in sinful humans who call themselves Christians, and which is diluting the gospel to make it less offensive to the world.

This is about those who make professions of faith in Jesus Christ and who claim heaven as their eternal destiny but who are still living in deliberate and habitual sin against God, still catering to their sinful cravings, still doing what their flesh craves while ignoring God’s commands. Many of them are malicious, morally unclean, deceivers, manipulators, liars, untrustworthy, egocentric and fakes who fake their Christianity. They are also the selfish and the self-indulgent who deliberately and habitually sin against the Lord.

Judgment of God

God is getting ready to judge my nation, I believe, but only God knows the timing for that. But I can see it coming in the things which are happening in the government and in so much of what is called “the church” but which is being led by the flesh of men, instead. My nation appears to be “sinking down in the toilet” more and more each day, looking more and more like we are coming to a terrible end, as a nation. And so many people are following after the lies and are rejecting the truth because they love their sin more.

But if you don’t see it coming, and if you wonder why it might be coming, and soon, the answer given here to Jeremiah to give to the people fits so well with my nation and its people, too. And it truly goes back to our forefathers who began this nation under false pretenses, and those who sent them to conquer and to take this land for themselves, too, I believe. And many of them, under the guise of Christianity, were those who served other gods, the gods of this world, which is still the case today in my nation.

The False Church

So much of what is called “church” here in the USA is not the biblical body of believers in Jesus Christ, but they are conglomerates of human making partnered with the world and united with the state (the government) and with big business being marketed to the world just like other businesses. Most do not seem to operate as the biblical body of Christ, where each part does its work and where we minister to one another for the encouragement of the body of Christ in walks of obedience to God’s commands.

And so many of them today are teaching that we do not have to obey God’s commands, and that we do not have to repent of (turn away from) our sins as part of faith which saves, or they make these optional. And so many of them are continuing in deliberate and habitual sin, with sexual immorality appearing as the predominant sin among those living in addiction to sin. And so they are following the stubbornness of their evil hearts instead of obeying God because they are being given permission to do so by so many pastors.

Needing a Change

So something needs to happen to change all that. Sadly, it will probably take something tragic to bring many people to their knees in genuine biblical repentance where they will now cease to make sin their practice, and where now, by the grace of God, righteous living and moral purity and obeying our Lord’s commands will now be their practice. But sadly, even then, many will not turn from their sins, and they will not obey God, but they will continue to serve the gods of this world, and they will not have eternal life with God.

So, don’t be one of them. Repent of your sins today if you have not already done so, and begin today to follow Jesus Christ wherever He leads you in doing all that He commands. For the Scriptures teach that to have genuine faith which saves, by the grace of God, that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey our Lord as a matter of life practice (not necessarily in absolute perfection). And they teach that if we continue in deliberate and habitual sin, and not in walks of obedience to our Lord, we will not be saved from our sin.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

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Only in Him

Based off Isaiah 30
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Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Woe to those who look to man’s help;
Who turn away from Jesus Christ;
Forming an alliance not in step with God;
Making their own plans, and praying not.

Willing not to listen to truth,
They close their ears to what is right.
Pleasing words are all that they’ll hear;
Feel good messages that bring cheer.

Trust in your Lord; turn from your sin.
Put your faith now ONLY IN HIM.
Do not turn to idols. They’ll not satisfy.
Jesus will save you. That’s why He died.

Your Lord will be gracious to you.
He cares all about you, ‘tis true.
He forgives you all of your sin
When you give your life up to Him.

Oh, how truly gracious He’ll be
When you bow to Him on your knees;
Turning now from your sin; walking in his ways.
He’ll lead and guide you all of your days.

Now you will sing praises to Him.
He delivered you from your sin.
You’ll tell others now of His grace,
So they may see Christ face-to-face.