All right, let's look back at
Jeremiah chapter five. Jeremiah chapter five. Now, I've
entitled the message this evening, Lying Prophets and Itching Ears. And really, the title of the
message came from the last verse of this chapter, talking about
prophets who prophesy falsely. We'll get to that. But I took
the title from that verse and then a New Testament verse over
in the book of 2 Timothy chapter 4 that we'll be referring to
here in a few minutes. Lying Prophets and Itching Ears. And what this is about, as you
know, Jeremiah is prophesying, preaching to Jerusalem, the nation
of Judah, the southern kingdom of Judah. He's preaching in the
last days of this nation, this city, this people leading up
to their destruction and their captivity. And all of this is
the judgment of God against the sins of the people. And the people
do not even realize it until God sends a prophet, a true prophet
of God, this one man, and there were a few other prophets that
were in this day but not many but sends a prophet to tell these
people the truth to tell them the truth now the Bible teaches
that God is truth God is light and in him is no darkness Apostle
Paul wrote let God be true and every man a liar and i've been
thinking about this all week and studying for this passage
studying for this message and that's this that if there's one
place that people when they gather together ought to hear the truth
and as we say in our courts the whole truth and nothing but the
truth whether it uh... hurts us or goes against our
grain, it ought to be when we're met together in this place. We're
told lies all week, aren't we? The world's full of lies. People
want to think what they want to think. We hear lies. But from
this pulpit, if there's anywhere you ought to hear the truth unadorned with man's opinions,
and man's ideas and man's philosophy. It ought to be here. Because
it's what we need. And it's what we don't realize
until God reveals it to us. Now we know that we see first
of all in this issue of truth and truth telling that to tell
the truth in the way of eternal life and salvation is to preach
Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ and Him
crucified and risen again. For He is the truth. He is the
light. He said in John chapter 14 and
verse 6, He said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man
cometh unto the Father but by me. And that's exactly what Jeremiah
is doing to this nation. He's really preaching Christ.
And he brings it out so clearly as we continue on in this study.
But notice the first thing that he brings out here in this passage,
this section of scripture we're dealing with tonight. First of
all, in verse 19, look at this. He says, or it says, and it shall
come to pass. Now this is going to happen.
When you will say, when the people shall say, wherefore doeth the
Lord our God all these things unto us? Why is God doing this
to us? That's what they're asking. That's
what they're going to ask. Here Jeremiah had pronounced
the judgments, the wrath of God's coming. This nation, this temple
is going to be destroyed and you're going to be taken off
into captivity for 70 years, it's revealed later on. Why,
they say, why is the Lord, our God, doing all these things unto
us? And here's the answer. He says,
then shalt thou answer them. Then God's going to give the
answer. He's already given it, but he's going to give it again.
Like as you have forsaken me. Now, remember we read about that
back in chapter two, when he said, my people have committed
two evils in verse 13. It says they have forsaken me
the fountain of living waters. And they have hewn them out cisterns,
broken cisterns, wells that can hold no water. And that was symbolic
language. They've rejected God's way of
salvation. They've rejected the worship
of the Lord. They've rejected service to God.
They've rejected Christ who is the fountain of living waters,
the only way of salvation. And so Jeremiah says, God will
answer this way. You've forsaken me, God says.
You serve strange gods in your land, that is, they've committed
idolatry right in their own homes, in their own hometowns. He says,
so that shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
That's a, that's a significant statement. They're a land that
doesn't belong to you. Now God gave them a land, but
they're going to be serving strangers, foreigners in a land that they
don't own. I thought about that with Adam
in the garden. You know, when God created Adam,
when he created man and put him in the garden, he literally gave
man that garden. He said, you'll have dominion
over all this. This is yours. I'm giving it
to you. And before the fall, God gave Adam a garden. That
was his own land. And then he had dominion over
it. And then in the fall, what did Adam do? And we fell in him. He lost it all, didn't he? He
lost it all and now, and he was cast out of that garden. You
remember that? He cast Adam and Eve out. And
they dwelt in a land that didn't belong to them. A fallen, sinful,
cursed world. And that's where we dwell by
nature. A land that doesn't belong. Don't we say all the time this
world is not our home? If we're in Christ, our citizenship
is in heaven. Well, that's man by nature, you
see, dwelling in a land that's not their own, a land that's
not yours. And he says in verse 20, look
at this. He says, declare this in the house of Jacob and publish
it in Judah. And here's what you say. Now
listen to verse 21 here now, this old foolish people and without
understanding. Now, if you have a concordance
in your Bible. It may have this listed as another word for understanding,
and it's the word heart. He says, you foolish people who
are without heart. Now, what's he talking about?
He's talking about without a new heart, without a regenerate heart,
without a convicted heart, a broken contrite heart, broken and contrite
over sin, a sorrowful heart. without a heart towards God,
a heart that desires to glorify and honor God in Christ, without
a heart of faith, a cleansed heart, a purged heart, you without
understanding. You see, that's what comes with
the heart. Understanding comes with the
heart. That's what the Holy Spirit does when He brings a sinner
to see his sin and to see the glory of Christ and to know and
love Christ and follow Him. And he says, listen to this,
he says, which have eyes and see not, which have ears and
hear not. Now this is quoted over in Matthew
13. I believe it's a direct quote
from Jeremiah. When the Lord was speaking to
the public in general, and then he began speaking to them in
parables. And in verse 10 of Matthew chapter
13, his disciples ask him a question. They said, why are you speaking
to them in parables? And I want you to listen to his
answer. Listen to this. This is Matthew 13 and verse
11. He's answering their question. Why are you speaking to this
crowd in parables? And the reason I want you to
listen to this, because most people, when you think of the parables,
what do you think of? You know what most people think of the
parables? They think of them as children's stories. And they're
not. They're not children's stories
at all. Now, I mean, you can use the parables to teach children.
Don't get me wrong. They're illustrations. They're
stories that use symbolic illustrations to teach spiritual truth. But
listen to his answer as to why he speaks in parables. And he
says in verse 11 of Matthew 13, he answered and said unto them,
because it is given unto you. to know the mysteries of the
kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given." Now if you
have this understanding, this heart that Jeremiah is talking
about, you know what you have? You don't have the product of
your own will, you don't have the product of your intellect
or your smarts, you have a free gift from a sovereign merciful
God in Christ. That's a gift. Now, I want you
to think about that. I think about it. Understanding
a heartfelt knowledge of Christ. My friend, that's nothing for
us to be proud of. I'm serious now. That's a gift
to a sinner who didn't deserve the least of God's mercies and
blessings. Why did God give that to me?
I don't know, but he did. That's not the issue. The issue
is, that's what I need. That's what these folks needed
in Jeremiah's day. It's what the folks needed in
Christ's day. And it says, look on in Matthew
13 and verse 12, he says, for whosoever hath, the hymn shall
be given, and he shall have more abundance. but whosoever hath
not from him shall be taken away even that he hath. And what he's
teaching there is the fact that this is a free gift does not
render man unaccountable or irresponsible. Man is still responsible. We're
responsible to seek the Lord. The fact that we're spiritually
dead and our natural hearts are dominated by sin and self-righteousness
does not relieve our responsibility. But he says in verse 13, Therefore
speak I to them in parables, because they seeing see not,
and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. Now isn't
that what Jeremiah is describing over here? Hear now this, O foolish
people, without understanding, which have eyes, but you see
not. And the issue there is man's
natural depravity in refusing to see. I've often use this as
a illustration of that. And that's this, you know, I
heard a preacher say one time years ago, he said, if you can
understand what I'm saying, that means God's given you that understanding. Well, now, wait a minute. And
I want you to think about it this way. When Stephen, you remember
the evangelist Stephen, he stood in Jerusalem and he preached
the gospel. And in doing so, he related the
whole history of Israel. Why do you suppose he did that?
Because man, those people by nature were proud of their heritage. They were proud of their history.
So Stephen started out and he related pretty much in that sermon
the whole history of Israel to show them one thing. That as
far as the salvation of a sinner, it meant nothing. That there's
only one thing that came out of Israel's history. that meant
anything and means everything as to a sinner's salvation. And
that's this, Christ came out of that. The Lord Jesus Christ. Now, when he finished his message,
what happened? They got angry. You know why? Because they understood exactly
what he was saying. Wait a minute, Stephen, you're
saying we're lost. You're saying that all of our righteousnesses
are nothing but evil in the sight of God. You're saying that we're
not the people of God spiritually, and that we don't have anything
to recommend us to God. We're Abraham's seed. We've been
circumcised. We keep the law. You're saying,
oh, that's no good. And they picked up stones and
stoned him. But you remember what he said to them before?
He said, you stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears. You do resist. You do always
resist the Holy Ghost. That's man by nature. That's
what Jeremiah is describing over here. They didn't like what he's
saying, what Stephen said. They didn't like what Jeremiah
said. They didn't like what our Lord said. So he says, look here
in verse 14 of Matthew 13. He says, and in them is fulfilled
the prophecy of Isaiah which say, by hearing you shall hear
and shall not understand. Why? Because your ears are dull
of hearing. And seeing you shall see and
shall not perceive. In other words, you'll understand
it, but you don't want it. You won't like it. You won't
love it. You'll hear the truth. but you won't have the love of
the truth. Verse 15, he says, for this people's heart is waxed
gross. That's just an old English way
of saying their heart's grown harder. And their ears dull of
hearing, their eyes they've closed. That's the willful, that's the
will of man right there. Their eyes they have closed.
I don't wanna see, I don't wanna hear any more of that, I don't
wanna see any more of that. lest at any time they should see with
their eyes. Now listen to this. Don't let this get by you. Lest
they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears and
should understand with their heart and should be converted
and I should heal them. Now what does that mean? They
don't want to be converted. Why? You know what conversion
is? That's when God brings a sinner
to take sides with God against himself. And say, Lord, if you
were to judge me based on my best, I would deserve nothing
but hell. That's conversion. My only hope
is Jesus Christ and him crucified. My righteousnesses are as filthy
rags. That's repentance. And what was
wrong with the people in Christ's day? They didn't want to repent
of their religion. They didn't want to admit that
their good works were evil deeds in the sight of God. They didn't
want to admit that they didn't have a righteousness that answers
the demands of God's justice. They wanted to think that they
were okay and everybody else. Those old filthy Gentiles. You
say, they didn't want that. That's the conversion people
don't, you know, as long and listen, as long as you let them
keep, you know, somebody, somebody mentioned this morning, how,
uh, uh, I can't remember who it was in the back. Told me somebody
said that they, uh, they were ready to go to heaven. They had
their bags packed. I want to tell you something,
leave your bags here. He don't want the baggage. You say, What kind of, what do
you suppose people have in their bags? Their works, their ideas,
their experiences? No. Repent of that. It's a straight and narrow way.
There's no room for your baggage, you see. There's only room for
the sinner saved by the grace of God, washed in the blood of
Christ, clothed in his righteousness alone. And that's it. But he
says in verse 16 of Matthew 13, he says, but blessed are your
eyes for they see, and blessed are your ears for they hear.
Think about that. Look back at Jeremiah 5. He says
in verse 22, now here's what he's talking about. He's talking
about rebellion here. He says, fear ye not me? Don't you reverence
God? Don't you respect God? Don't
you worship God, saith the Lord. Will you not tremble at my presence?
God is so awesome. He says, God who placed the sand
for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that's going to continue
as long as God has it set to continue and then it's going
to quit, that it cannot pass it. In other words, that sea,
you think about this, what he's saying is that sea, those tides
that come on shore and they go back, God set those boundaries
and it can't go any further than what God has set it for. If there's
a tsunami comes, that's the Lord. He set the boundaries. He'll
let it go. He says it cannot pass unless
God lets it. God is in control. And verse
22 he says, And though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet
can they not prevail? Though they roar, yet can they
not pass over it? God has set those boundaries
in creation. He said, But now this people
hath a revolting and a rebellious heart, and they are revolted
and gone. They have gone away from God.
Think about this. The mighty seas obey God's command,
but sinful man does not. That's how bad it is. That's
how rotten by nature we are. He says, neither say they in
their heart, let us now fear God, let us now reverence God,
let us now worship our God that giveth rain. It's God who gives
the rain. What are we going to do? Thank
Him? No. We're going to go out and worship an idol. The rain
God. He says, both the former and
the latter rain, those are the two rains in that area that were
necessary for the harvest. In his season, he reserveth unto
us appointed weeks of the harvest. It's God who gives the harvest.
And so man's rebellious, it's all ingratitude, ungrateful. God sent them the rain, the harvest,
they didn't thank Him. Man sees the majesty and the
power and wisdom of God in the order of things of this creation.
And what does he do? Well, Romans chapter 1, you read
that chapter sometime. He tells you. He says he holds
the truth in unrighteousness. He worships the creation rather
than the Creator. Sees the Son, that glorious Son. How thankful have we been for
the sunshine these past two days? I've been thankful for it. So
what are you going to do? Are you going to seek God? Thank
God? No. I'm going to go out and lay on the beach. I'm going to worship the sun
god. That's the way it is. That's the way people are by
nature. Now don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with going
out and enjoying sunlight and all that, but you see, the ultimate
end of all these things in creation is to point a center to God and
to the worship of God. And yet what does man do? He
worships the creation, the creature, worships himself. Look at verse
25. He says, now, he begins to go into the issue of false prophets
here. He says, your iniquities have
turned away these things, and your sins have withholding good
things from you. That's the nature of this conditional
covenant now that they're under. You see, God brought them together. He formed them as a nation. And
then he made the covenant with them on Sinai. And their prosperity
in that covenant in that land was conditioned on their obedience. And of course, as we've seen,
they failed miserably, as we all would. But he says, your
iniquities have turned these, the reason you're not getting
the former rain and the latter rain, the reason you're not getting
the great harvest is because of your sins. This world's cursed.
And he says, your sins have withholding good from you. And then verse
26, he says, for among my people are found wicked, wicked men. Now, wicked men describes all
of us by nature. But I believe he's honing in
on these false prophets. Listen, he says, they lay wait. Now, what that means is they're
planning their scheme. And what are they trying to do?
They set snares, traps. And they set a trap and they
catch men. They want men. That's what they're
after. They're hunters of men. They want warm bodies. That's
what they want. And he says in verse 27, listen,
he says, As the cage is full of birds, so are their houses
full of deceit. They do this by deception. So
whatever he's talking about here is not just an open thing that
man by nature can see. And he says, therefore, they
are become great and waxen rich. In other words, they make a name
for themselves and they grow rich. Now, what does that sound
like? Sound like these false preachers
today. and make a name for themselves, and they grow rich, and they
are waxing fat, get fatter and fatter, they shine, you see,
they shine out, they stand out, yet, yea, they overpass the deeds
of the wicked, they look over the deeds of the wicked, and
they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet
they prosper, They don't take up for the fatherless, the orphans,
and the widows, and the right of the needy, do they not judge?
They don't have any use for those kinds of people, see. And verse
29, shall I not visit for these things? That's the visitation
of wrath, saith the Lord. Shall not my soul be avenged
on such a nation as this? Vengeance belongs unto the Lord.
God's just wrath against sin. Now look at the last two verses.
He says, a wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land.
Now you may have this in your concordance, but that word wonderful
doesn't mean what we mean by wonderful today. That word wonderful there means
something astonishing has happened. And it's the astonishment of
sin. That's what he's talking about.
It's not a good thing at all. It's a horrible thing. That's
filthiness. That's what he's talking about.
Now, it's not a lack of religion. That is their problem. It's a
lack of truth. Verse 31. The prophets prophesy
falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means. The priests
support them. You've got false prophets, and you've got priests
who support them. And these are the priests that
attend the temple. And as we go on through Jeremiah,
you're going to see how this temple becomes a stumbling block
because they abused it and they did not see it for what it really
is. And that is a type and a picture
of salvation by God's grace in and by the Lord Jesus Christ.
So here's the prophets. They prophesy falsely and the
priest bear rule by their means. And my people love it so. They love to have it so. Now,
what will you do in the end thereof? An astonishing, horrible thing
has been committed in the land. My people love to have it so. What will you do in the end?
Their religious leaders told them what they wanted to hear,
not what they needed to hear. Their religious leaders failed
to call them to repentance. Now, turn over to 2 Timothy chapter
4 with me. And it's interesting that what
the Apostle Paul is talking about here is the last days too. The
last days leading up to the destruction of this world, this wicked world,
in the second coming of Christ. Just as Jeremiah is talking about
the last days of that nation. Listen to how Paul describes
it in 2 Timothy chapter 4. Look at verse 1. He's talking
to Timothy, a young evangelist. Paul is the old elder apostle
now. He's in prison. He knows he's
soon going to leave this world. And he's speaking to young Timothy,
a young evangelist, a man called of God who was a great friend
and helper of Paul. And listen to what he tells Timothy.
He says, I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus
Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead. Now who are the
quick? That's the regenerate, spiritually alive. Who are the
dead? That's men who are dead by nature. At his appearing and his kingdom,
that's his second coming, and he said, preach the word. Preach
God's word. Now God's word is truth. Be instant
in season and out of season. Be ready at any time to do that.
Don't be caught off guard. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with
all longsuffering and doctrine. Be patient now, but preach, teach
the word of God. Teach the doctrine of Christ.
Verse 3, for the time will come when they will not endure sound
doctrine. That's the truth. But after their
own lusts, that's their own unlawful desires, shall they heap to themselves
teachers having itching ears. Now the itching ears belong to
the people there. The teachers are those who come
along and scratch the itching ear. And here's how they do it. He says in verse four, and they
shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned
unto fables. Now fables there is not what
we learned in school like Aesop's fables. But what fables means
there are the concoctions of men, the ideas of men, the philosophies,
the morals and ethics, the religion of men. That's the fables. And
that's the problem. And what do they say? Look back
at Jeremiah. Look over at Jeremiah 6. And
we'll deal with this next time. But let me just give you a preview
of it. What is their message? Look at Jeremiah chapter 6 verse 13. He's talking about
false prophets here. He says, for from the least of
them, even unto the greatest of them, everyone is given to
covetousness. Now what is covetousness? That's,
that's an unlawful desire for something. And from the prophet,
even unto the priest, everyone dealeth falsely. Now look at
verse 14. They have healed also the hurt
of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace,
when there is no peace. And that's how they scratch the
itching ear. What do people want to hear? They want to hear good
words, fair speeches. that deny or disguise the reality
of sin and depravity, the reality of wrath and judgment, and the
reality of even the only way of salvation by the blood and
the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. They want to think
we're fine. We're Americans. Not only that,
even better, we're Southerners. You used to see that old license
plate down in Georgia. It would say something like,
Americans by birth, Southern by the grace of God. And I thought,
well, that's just like the Jews of old. That's the way they felt. It doesn't mean a thing. I know
most people mean it as a joke. But I'll tell you what, listen
to them talk about their salvation and their religion a little while.
It's no joke. It's no joke. It's like a person who thinks
they're born into it. You're not born into it. We're
born in sin, dead in trespasses and sins. And if there is salvation
that comes to us, it's by the grace of God, His mercy and grace
totally. Look at Jeremiah chapter 23.
Here's in the midst of one of the greatest prophecies of Christ
in the Old Testament. Talking about Him being Jehovah
Sikhanou, the Lord our righteousness. Look at Jeremiah 23. Look at
verse 16. Listen to this. He says, Thus saith the Lord
of hosts, hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy
unto you. This is what Jeremiah is saying.
Don't listen to them. Do you know who spoke the first
message that in reality could be entitled peace, peace when
there is no peace? Satan, in Genesis chapter three,
when he told Eve, you shall not surely die. What this book tells
us is this, my friend, listen to me. If we don't have a righteousness
that answers the demands of God's justice, we are doomed forever. And the only place you're going
to find that righteousness is in the Lord Jesus Christ. Nowhere
else. By His obedience unto death.
Nothing we do or nothing we're unable to do will make it. It'll
always fall short. So he says, don't listen to them.
He says, they make you vain. They speak a vision of their
own heart and not out of the mouth of the Lord. You know what
Paul tell Timothy? Preach the word. What Jeremiah
say, there's one place in Jeremiah, I can't remember the scripture,
but I've always thought about this verse when I think of Jeremiah.
And he's in desperation. Nobody wants to hear what he
has to say. He's not winning friends and
influencing people. He's not growing as they say. You know, he's not starting any
building programs or anything like that. And he just, he gets
in his desperation and he says, oh earth, earth, earth, hear
the word of the Lord. Verse 17 of Jeremiah 23, they
say still unto them that spy, be still you are at peace. That's
what they say. The Lord hath said you shall
have peace and they say unto everyone that walketh after the
imagination of his own heart, no evil shall come upon you. Now here comes Jeremiah. Jump
over here to the book of John chapter 3. Here comes Jeremiah. And he says, now wait a minute,
folks. They're lying to you. It's not peace. You've declared
war on God, and God's judgment is coming through, and God's
going to win this battle. And this temple that you think
so highly of, and you think it recommends you unto God, that
temple's coming down. It's going to be destroyed. and
this nation is going to be destroyed and you've served idols in this
land that God has given you, this land that should have been
set apart for the worship and service of God and he's going
to put you in a land of foreigners and you're going to serve them
in a land that you don't own? And there's no peace here. Now
which do you think people would rather hear? Which prophet? The
one that gets up and says, be still. You're okay. When the
end comes, you'll be fine. Or will they want to listen to
old Jeremiah? Well, look at John 3 and verse 18. Here's the reality
of it. Christ said to Nicodemus, He
that believeth on him is not condemned. He that believeth
on Christ. That he that believeth not is
condemned already. because he has not believed in
the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation,
that light has come into the world, and men love darkness
rather than light, because their deeds were evil. This light of
Christ exposed them for what they were. Verse 20, for everyone
that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light,
lest his deeds should be reproved or uncovered, exposed. But he
that doeth truth, what is it to do truth? It is to believe
in, rest in, submit to the Lord Jesus Christ as the only one,
the only way of salvation, the only way of forgiveness, the
only way of righteousness. He that doeth truth cometh to
the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are
wrought in God. They are the work of God. This
is a work that the Lord has done, not man. Turn over to Galatians
chapter 4. False preachers had crept into
this group of believers, trying to bring them back under the
law, claiming that even though Christ is your Savior, you need
more than Him to be really saved. And Paul comes along and he says,
That's just not another shade of Christianity. That's another
gospel. If they come preaching any other
gospel than that which we've preached, let them be anathema. Now, which would they rather
hear? Well, if you've got that understanding that God gives,
what would you rather hear? You'd rather hear of Christ.
But listen to what Paul says in verse 16 of chapter 4. He
says in verse 16, am I therefore become your enemy? Because I
tell you the truth? Because I'm telling you things
that man by nature doesn't want to hear? They zealously affect
you, but not well. I mean, they've got something
on you. They get a hold of you. But it's
not for well. He says, yea, they would exclude
you and that you there should be us. They would exclude Paul
and the true preachers of the gospel and the Jeremiah's that
you might affect them, that they can put a notch on their gun.
He says, but verse 18, but it is good to be zealously affected
always in a good thing. And not only when I'm present
with you, my little children of whom I travail in birth again
until Christ be formed in you. Now what is it to have Christ
formed in you? I'll tell you exactly what it
is. By the power of the Holy Spirit is to be so consumed and
enamored and taken up with Christ in your heart that you cannot
be moved away from Him. That's what it is. He's set in
your heart and you cannot be moved away. And that's what Jeremiah
is telling the folks of his day. They prophesy falsely. The priests,
they're right with it. My people love to have it so.
But what will you do in the end thereof? Now, what will you do
in the end thereof when the end comes? Brother Mahan, I've told
you about this sermon several times. There's a funeral message
that he preached that always stuck with me. And he said there
are four sure things that every human being that's ever been
born and lived has to deal with. And number one, we all have a
life to live. Number two, we all have a death
to die. Number three, we all have a judgment
to face. And number four, we all have
an eternity to spend. Now what will you do in the end
there? How will you face it? Will you face it like the false
professors of Matthew 7 who said, Lord, Lord, haven't we prophesied
in your name? Haven't we cast out demons? Haven't
we done many wonderful works? Or will you face it like the
Apostle Paul as he wrote in the book of Philippians chapter 3
when he said, all that I may know him, know Christ. and be found in him in Christ
not having mine own righteousness which is of the law but that
which is through the faith of Christ even the righteousness
of God which is by faith that's our prayer how will you face
that what will you do in the end Jeremiah is asking these
people what are you going to do when when King Nebuchadnezzar
and the Babylonian army come what are you going to do there's
nothing you can do without him, without God, without Christ. All right.