Jeremiah 15:1-9

Hey, hey, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning, we got to ask the question, how seriously does God take sin? So how seriously does God take sin, especially amongst his own people? Let's have some coffee, we'll pray, and we'll see what Jeremiah chapter 15 has to say about that.
Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word. And Father, we pray that you would please help us. As we read your word, that your Holy Spirit would be with us, that you would enable us to understand it and to apply it to our lives. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. We go to Jeremiah chapter 15, the first nine verses.
Then the Lord said to me, even if Moses and Samuel stood before me, my mind would not be favorable towards this people. Cast them out of my sight. and let them go forth. And it shall be, if they say to you, where should we go? Then you shall tell them, thus says the Lord, for such as are for death to death, and such are for the sword to the sword, and such as are for the famine to the famine, and such as are for the captivity to the captivity. And I will appoint over them four forms of destruction, says the Lord, the sword to slay, the dogs to drag, the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
I will hand them over to trouble to all kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem. For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or who will bemoan you? Or who will turn aside to ask how you are doing?
You have forsaken me, says the Lord. You have gone backward. Therefore, I will stretch out my hand against you and destroy you. I am weary of relenting. And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land. I will bereave them of children. I will destroy my people, since they do not turn from their ways. Their widows will be increased to me more than the sand of the seas. I will bring against them, against the mother of the young men, a plunderer at noonday. I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them suddenly.
She languishes who has borne seven. She has breathed her last. Her son has gone down while it was yet day. She has been ashamed and confounded. And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the Lord. Well, that's hard. We got three questions to ask ourselves. Our A, B, C's. A, what's this about? B, what's the best verse to summarize this? And C, what do we call it, the doom? What's this section about?
God says he's done. He's just done. He says he's tired of relenting. You have forsaken me, he says in verse six. You have gone backward, therefore I will stretch out my hand against you and destroy you. I am weary of relenting, he says. Even if Moses or Samuel were still alive and they would pray for you, I wouldn't listen. The sins of Manasseh, the king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem, all his idolatry, and just the absolute turning away from the Lord to all sorts of wicked idols, he says, it's too much and I'm done. People are going to die. The sword is going to come. Their corpses are going to be eaten by dogs. Others will be left in the open field when Babylon would come and destroy and birds of the air and beasts of the field would consume their bodies.
I mean, it's graphic and it's ugly. I mean, you'll read Lamentations and it's right there. But it's because they turned against the Lord. They committed treason against their Redeemer, their God in heaven, their King, the King of Israel, the Lord God Himself. They didn't want Him, and they turned away from Him. It's done. I've been long-suffering. I've been patient. I've been kind. I've been gentle.
And you have abused that relationship again and again and again. And eventually the boundary line has to be made. We're not going any further than this. The judgment's coming. The Lord's mind has been made up. And this is the end of that. And it is a sad and ugly passage. So what's the best verse to summarize this section? Why is verse 6 double underlined in my section, in my Bible? I think that's what I would say is the best verse to summarize this. Maybe you would underline something else. Feel free down in the comments to let me know what would you underline. But what are we called to do? And does this show us anything for Jesus Christ?
Well, I want to say this is what every single one of us deserves. For the wages of sin is death. Every single one of us, by being a lawbreaker, by transgressing the Lord's commands, whether in thought or word or deed, it may have been a heinous thing or a small thing, it doesn't matter. If we've violated the law, we violate the law and become lawbreakers. And so we deserve the same type of judgment. But thanks be to God, that He has shown us His love in Jesus Christ, that He who knew no sin became sin for us. By His stripes we are healed. Jesus Christ took the death that we deserve on the cross. I know better than the Jewish people here.
So will we trust in the Lord? Will we hope not in our own righteousness, but one that is imputed to us in His Son, Jesus? Will we have faith in His Son? Will we trust in Him and in Him alone, knowing that without Him, God would be weary of relenting with us? But because He sent His Son, we have peace forever.
Let's pray. Father, thank you for dealing with our sins, our iniquities, our transgressions at the cross of Calvary. Thank you for the hope that we have because of your Son, Jesus Christ. And Lord, we pray that we would turn from our sins and turn unto life. Lord, we pray that we would have a grief and a hatred of our sins, and that they would They would be like the stench of death to us, and that we would turn, and we would see you, the God of all light and life, and we would love you and follow you forever. Help us, God, we pray. In Jesus' name, amen. Well then, may the peace of Jesus Christ that surpasses all understanding wash over your heart as you trust in Him always. And may you go and sin no more. I'll see you next time.