Jeremiah 47

Hey, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning we are at Jeremiah 47, and he's got something to say about those Philistines. Do you know who the Philistines were? Yeah. They were a group of people who lived down by the ocean, and they were always kind of this thorn in their sides. Well, Jeremiah's got something to say about them. So let's have some coffee, we'll pray, and we'll find out what Jeremiah says about these Philistines.
Honey? Is it hot? Yeah. It's just kind of warm. There's steam coming off of it. No? Okay. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for this day. And we thank you for giving us your word. We pray that as we read your word, we would be able to understand it. And we pray that you would please help us to have it applied to our hearts and to our lives.
In Jesus' name, Amen. Here we go, Jeremiah chapter 46, 47. You want to read that part? The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza. Good job. Nice. Thus says the Lord. So this is before Pharaoh attacked Gaza. That's like Egypt attacking. So Gaza was one of the five main cities of the Philistines.
Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood. They shall overflow the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell within. Then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. at the noise of the stomping hooves of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers will look back, will not look back for their children lacking courage. Because of the day that comes to plunder all the Philistines, to cut off from the Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains, For the Lord shall plunder the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Kaphtor. Baldness has come upon Gaza. Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley. How long will you cut yourself?
Oh, that sounds like a good day, huh? Right. It's just puppy dogs and rainbows. Yeah, puppy dogs and rainbows. No, right? Rushing chariots and crashing armies. It doesn't sound so pleasant for them, does it? All right, you want to read verse 6? Oh, you scorned of the Lord how long until you are quiet. Put yourself up into your scabbard. Scabbard, yeah. Rest and be still. Rest and be still. Yeah, so the scabbard, right? Like the sheath, right? So you put your sword in that sheath. How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord has given it a charge against Ashkelon and against the seashore?
So there's Ashkelon is another one of the major cities of the Philistines. So he's spoken against Gaza and against Ashkelon here. There he has appointed it. Alright, so what's this section about? A, what's this about? That God will go to the Philistines. Okay, he will go to the Philistines and he'll say howdy. He'll be nice to them. You will destroy them. Oh boy That's a happy message, isn't it? So happy. It's just you couldn't get happier than this No, right. This is saying that the sword the Lord will come he's going to he's going to strike The Philistines but the Philistines aren't I mean, they don't worship the Lord.
So why why does that matter? Because they're still one of God's people Oh, so even if people don't worship God, they're still God's people? God made them. Oh, in the sense that they're rebelling against God? Is that what you mean? So yeah, God still made them, so even though they don't worship him, he's still king over them? Yep. Yeah, exactly, right?
So he's judging them. He's judging them, because guess what they were doing while Jerusalem was being sacked and sieged? Were they like, oh no, hold on God's people, we should go help them. Who cares? Yeah, more than who cares, they were cheering it on. Yeah, kill them, kill them all. The Lord's just kind of like, meh, you know, it's alright, I'm just going to ignore them.
No. No. Because he loves his people, right? Who's his people? The Israelites. Yeah, the Israelites. Alright, so this is why the word of the Lord, the prophecy is against the Philistines. Because he knows that Egypt is going to come up and he's going to conquer them.
So, what do you think is the best verse to summarize this? I think the first verse. The first verse? I can see that. Yeah, that's fine. I kind of like the imagery of the warfare, of the Lord coming and doing these things. But it's kind of hard to say, okay, well, underline two, three, four, five. That's too much. Okay, so let's talk about see-calling. What are we called to do, or how does this show us the covenant of grace, right?
This promise of God showing grace and favor to his people, starting all the way back with Adam and Eve in Genesis 3.15, and goes all the way until Jesus and through Jesus. Or, how does this show us Jesus Christ?
Do not rebel against God. Yeah, right, that's a good one. Yeah, don't rebel against the Lord. Does he mark that? Yep. Yeah, so we should be like Jonah. We should go tell them, repent! And then be mad if they do. Oh, it happened. But they hate God. They were even cheering on for Jerusalem to be destroyed. But if they repent, then Jesus Christ will save them. Yeah, exactly.
I think especially for us Gentiles, right, we're not Jewish people by birth. We may have been just like them back then, deserving God's punishment, and yet Jesus took that punishment for us. And he who knew no sin became sin for us, that we might be the righteousness of God. That's pretty good news, huh? So we deserve, because of our sins, to have the noiseless stomping hooves of the strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots and the rumbling of his wheels.
We deserve to be the ones, I deserve to be the one who's so afraid. that God's going to strike us down, that I just leave you in the dust and I don't even think about you. Did you pick that part up in verse 3? The fathers will not look back for their children lacking courage.
I might be able to make a mineshaft quite fast actually. You think you can make yourself a defense weapon? I'll go in the underground little thing we made. Well, this isn't Minecraft world. Not Minecraft, we made one. Oh, you're talking about up by the trees. Yeah, we could just jump in there. Oh, OK. You're going to go find a place to hide?
They could just go over to us with their metal hooves, even though we've only got, um, we've only got, um, we've only got wood. You've got a lot of imagination up here, you know that? We only have that, so. Point being? were the ones who, the wages of sin, the debt we owed to God, enemies according to the flesh, and yet he's called us his friends, sent us his son. It's pretty good news, huh? Yep. Yeah. Hey, you ready to pray? Yep. Okay.
Father, we thank you so much that you do mark iniquity, that you don't just let people trample upon your covenant. And Father, we pray that we would, Father, we pray that we would listen, that we would hear. We pray that we would not fear wrath to come, but have hope and trust in you. For you are a good, wonderful, great and awesome God. Please, Lord, help us. Help us to trust you. Thank you for sending us your son, Jesus. We pray this in Jesus's name. Amen. Well, may the Lord bless you as you rest in him, your hope of salvation even today. I'll see you next time. Bye.