“Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”—Jeremiah 33:3.
God’s people will never thrive on anything less substantial than bread from heaven. Israel in Egypt might live on garlic and onions, but Israel in the wilderness must be fed with the manna that came down [...]
“I will be their God.”—Jeremiah 31:33.
What a glorious covenant the second covenant is! Well might it be called “a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.” Heb. viii. 6. It is so glorious that the very thought of it is enough to overwhelm the soul, when it discerns the amazing condescension and infinite love [...]
JER 23:29-32, 34 “Is not my word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like
a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces? “Therefore,” declares the LORD, “I
am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from
me. Yes,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who wag their own
tongues and yet declare, ‘The [...]
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Jeremiah 23:6 – “The Lord our Righteousness.”
Whoever is acquainted with the nature of mankind in general, or the propensity of his own heart in particular, must acknowledge, that self- righteousness is the last idol that is rooted out of the heart: being once born under a covenant of works, it is natural for us all [...]
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“This is his name whereby he shall be called, The Lord our Righteousness.—Jeremiah 23:6.
Man by the fall sustained an infinite loss in the matter of righteousness. He suffered the loss of a righteous nature, and then a two-fold loss of legal righteousness in the sight of God. Man sinned; he was therefore no longer innocent [...]
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Jeremiah 18:1-6 – “The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of [...]
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“Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts,”—Jeremiah 15:16.
Jeremiah was a man of exceedingly sensitive temperament; the very reverse of Elijah. Yet he was sent of God to execute [...]
“Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?”—Jeremiah 15:12.
The prophet Jeremiah was, as we saw upon a former occasion, a man of exquisitely sensitive character; not a prophet of iron, like Elijah, but nearer akin to him who was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. He lived in times which were peculiarly [...]
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“How will you manage in the swelling of the Jordan?” [Jeremiah 12:5, KJV]
The Land of Canaan may be used as a picture of two states or conditions in the Christian’s life. It was the land of rest to the children of Israel after a exhausting pilgrimage in the wilderness. Now it is written that [...]
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“O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.”—Jeremiah 10:23.
This declaration follows after Jeremiah’s lamentation over the Lord’s ancient people, who were about to be carried captive into Babylon. The prophet speaks of a fact that was well known to [...]
“Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.”—Jeremiah 9:1.
Sometimes tears are base things; the offspring of a cowardly spirit. Some men weep when they should knit their brows, and many a woman weepeth when [...]
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“What have I done?”—Jeremiah 8:6.
Perhaps no figure represents God in a more gracious light than those figures of speech, which represent him as stooping from his throne, and as coming down from heaven to attend to the wants and to behold the woes of mankind. We must have love for that God, who, when Sodom [...]
“Peace, peace, when there is no peace.”—Jeremiah 6:14.
Ministers ate fearfully guilty if they intentionally build up men in a false peace. I cannot imagine any man more greatly guilty of blood than he who plays jackal to the lion of hell, by pandering to the depraved tastes of vain, rebellious man. The physician who should [...]
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Jeremiah 6:14 – “They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly,
saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.”
As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere, and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in [...]
“Fear ye not me? saith the Lord; will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over [...]
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“Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s.”—Jeremiah 5:10.
We have been talking very freely during this last week of “glorious victories,” of “brilliant successes,” of “sieges,” and of “stormings.” We little know what the dread reality is of which [...]
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“Suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.”—Jeremiah 4:20.
The sorrow of the weeping prophet was exceeding heavy when he uttered these words of bitter lamentation. A great and present burden from the Lord is weighing so heavily upon our hearts this morning, that we cannot spare so much as a moment for [...]
“Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliders. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God. Truly in vain is salvation bored for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.”—Jeremiah 3:22, 23.
Sin is quite sure to [...]
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“Return, faithless people,” declares the LORD, “for I am your husband.” [Jeremiah 3:14]
These are delicate words—a good medicine for a troubled conscience. Such remarkable comfort is intended to encourage the soul, and put the brightest hope on all of its prospects. The person to whom it is addressed has an eminently happy position. My dear [...]
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