Jeremiah

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

False prophets were tolerated in ancient Israel and are in our own day because they teach the smooth things which people in rebellion against God what to hear. Through His true prophet Jeremiah, God asked the question ‘but what will you do in the end thereof?’ A smooth talking false teacher may say that which makes life more comfortable now but what about in the end when we will stand before God who is Truth itself?

Take heed, too, you who love these false teachers that you follow, for your end shall be as like theirs — when one blind man leads another, both shall fall into the ditch (Luke 6:39).

Delivered by pastor Lamar Martin of Grace Church of North Atlanta.

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Soli deo Gloria!

In Jeremiah 36, we read of how Jeremiah the prophet was instructed by God to write down all the warnings against Israel and Judah on a scroll and have it read to King Jehoiakim and the people of Judah during the fourth year of the latter’s reign.

This was during the time when the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar had subdued both Israel and Judah and made the latter a vassal state.

After spending a period of time in Babylon, Jehoiakim was restored to his throne by King Nebuchadnezzar and made a vassal.

Alas, he continued to sin against the LORD, and stubbornly refused to turn away from his evil ways even after having tasted punishment when he lost the kingdom of Judah.

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