Jeremiah 20:1-6

Hey, hey, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning we are at Jeremiah chapter 20. We're gonna talk about Jeremiah and, well, he got some opposition today. So let's find out who and what's he gonna say about it. Let's have some coffee, we'll pray, and we'll get into God's word. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for this day. We thank you for your word, Lord. We thank you for bold prophets who are willing to even be beat and punished and take hard consequences for your truth. And God, we pray that we would listen, that we would hear, that we would be admonished by you, that you would soften our hearts, that we would even turn from our sins too. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Here we go, Jeremiah chapter 20, the first six verses.
Now Pashur, the son of Imr, the priest who was also chief governor of the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. Then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord. And it happened on the next day that Pashur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has not called your name Pashur, but Magur Misabib.
For thus says the Lord, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies. and your eyes shall see it. I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and slay them with a sword. Moreover, I will deliver all the wealth of this city, all its produce, and all its precious things, all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, who will plunder them, seize them, and carry them to Babylon. And you, Paschfer, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity.
You shall go to Babylon, and there you shall die and be buried there, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied." lies well we need to ask a what is jeremiah talking about here b what's the best verse to summarize this and see what are we called to do in response to these words so what's this about well pastor who's seems to be in charge of the temple right this is the guy who's okay with all the bail worship and all the idolatry and stuff instead of is And then Pasher struck Jeremiah the prophet.
It's more than just it struck him. He beat him. He beat him. And then it wasn't just a matter of beating him. He put him into public humiliation, put him in the stocks. Not exactly sure what this is. Stocks is the best idea. But the point is, somehow he's like bent over. He's like a collar, right?
But he's in the gate of Benjamin, where the people are going to walk in and out. And people, as they're going to the house of the Lord specifically, they're able to see him and go, this dude he must have been really bad but notice that this does not break Jeremiah quite the opposite instead in verse 3 and it happened on the next day that pasher brought jeremiah out of the stocks then jeremiah said to him right it's like he gets released and immediately pasher's like all right i'm gonna i'm gonna see if he's learned his lesson and what does jeremiah say he says dude you think your name pasher that's not going to be your name your name is going to be magor misabib That means you're going to have terror on every side. Jeremiah gets right to the heart of it. In verse 4, he says that, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends.
He says everybody who's closely related, all that type of stuff, everybody's going to be killed. Babylon's going to come. They're going to destroy. They're going to take all the riches. They're going to do all this stuff. But he says in verse 6, And you, Pashur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity. You shall go to Babylon, and there you shall die and be buried there, you and all your friends to whom you prophesied lies." Jeremiah is not going to hold back here.
He's putting him in stocks, beating him, making him a public ridicule. That's not going to stop the truth of God. No. Instead, he prophesies the word of the Lord comes to him and he speaks the truth about his sin. It's very often that there's violence against God's kingdom, violence against God's prophets. But here, Here he says, the worship's been corrupted. You've prophesied lies. You've done these wicked things and God's gonna do it.
So that's what this section is about. This section is about Paschur, this chief governor of the temple of the house of the Lord, persecuting Jeremiah. And Jeremiah then prophesying still the destruction of Jerusalem and even Paschur's death, captivity and death. So what's the best verse to summarize this? Well in my Bible I have verse 4 underlined as well as verse 6 But I especially have that last phrase in verse 6. I have a double underlined to whom you have prophesied lies Lastly see calling what are we called to do in response to this passage?
When we listen When the pastor says something that's, ouch, convicting, do we harden our hearts and get mad at the guy giving us God's word? Or do we soften our hearts? Do we listen? Do we go and we check, is this according to the word? And if it is, do we turn our hearts? Do we not do mental gymnastics to try to get ourselves out from underneath it? Or do we do like, It happens, right?
I talk to international pastors and this does happen. They'll tell people God's word and they don't want to hear God's word. So what do they do? They get beat, spat upon, slapped, thrown in jail, refused food, kicked out of their apartments, losing their jobs, right? Whatever they could do just to shut them up.
How do we, how do we hear God's word? It's really easy to hear right from 2nd Timothy chapter 3 all scripture is given by inspiration I think yeah, that's good, and it's profitable for teaching all right. Yeah, we want to be taught But the middle two are the really hard ones right because it's teaching and then we're equipped for every good work, but in the middle there's two there and correction and rebuke. There are times we need to be told things that we're doing that are wrong. And we need to pray that God softens our hearts, that we would have ears to hear, and that we would have eyes to see, that we might see our sin for what it is, and with grief and hatred of that sin, turn from it unto life. that we would truly repent, that we would put off the deeds of the old man, the deeds of the flesh, and we would put on the new man, and we would walk in the image and likeness of Christ.
So how do you respond to God's word? With violence? Or with contrition and repentance? Let's pray. God, we confess to you that often we may not even be violent when we read something in your word that's convicting, but we just are ambivalent and brush it off. We just act like it's not important. Lord, I know I've done that and it's wrong. God, we pray that we would not get mad or be angry at those who are faithfully preaching your word.
Lord, we pray that you would give us tender hearts to hear where we may have strayed, where the idolatry of our heart may have taken us. And we pray, God, that you would please let us look upon your Son And because of the new person you have created us and who you have called us to be, we pray that we would indeed turn from sin and turn to you. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. May the Lord bless you. May you walk in the ways of Jesus Christ, knowing that your great high priest loves you and cares for you. We'll talk to you next time. Bye.