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| Can you agree with Jeremiah? [message #5888] |
Thu, 18 June 2009 00:37  |
Abiding
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I was reading in Jeremiah this morning:
"Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. For I am called by Your name O Lord God of Hosts." (Jeremiah 15:16)
Oh what joy and rejoicing God's Word has brought to my heart, too! What hope, what peace, what strength, what wisdom!
Can you agree with Jeremiah, too? 
[Updated on: Thu, 18 June 2009 00:38]
Blessings,
Abiding
"I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus."--Phil 3:12
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| Re: Can you agree with Jeremiah? [message #6527 is a reply to message #5917] |
Fri, 25 December 2009 21:42  |
 james
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I was reading in Jeremiah chapter 6 verse 16 about the 'old paths' and how God spoke through Jeremiah, commanding Israel to repent, yet they refused.
"Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the old ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
But they said, We will not walk therein."
Why would anyone refuse to obey God? How did His chosen people get to the place where they refused to heed His voice through His prophets?
They, through sin, had became desensitized to hearing God or being able to discern right from wrong.
In verse 15, before God tells them to ask for the 'old paths', it says...
"Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush..."
They had became so engrossed with their sins that they could no longer even discern that what they were doing was an abomination;
they weren't ashamed, it was so bad that that which was an abomination unto Almight God...didn't even make them blush
What about us today? Have we become desensitized by what goes on all around us? Are we so intent on proving that we're free,
that we no longer even feel shame or blush at sin? Has the distinction between the world and our calling to live a holy separate life,
grown cloudy as we've let down our guard through false liberity? Does what we watch, listen to, who we associate with, or what we say, bring glory unto The Lord?
As I examine my heart, I stand convicted by these scriptures; I hope I'm the only one that needs to ask for the 'old paths', to walk therein...
nevertheless, by the conviction of The Holy Spirit, my confession is...I WILL walk therein.......the old paths.
And in doing so will guard against the influence of the society around me, focusing on God's Word, which is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.
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“But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,”
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| Re: Can you agree with Jeremiah? [message #6528 is a reply to message #6527] |
Sat, 26 December 2009 03:40 |
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GWB
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James:
"They, through sin, had became desensitized to hearing God or being able to discern right from wrong.
In verse 15, before God tells them to ask for the 'old paths', it says..."
"Create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me." Psalms 51:10
...to walk in the ways I knew in a cornfield in Northern Indiana...to not walk in the ways after the cornfield when I was deceiving myself...and KNEW it the entire time!!! 
"Now, there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus."
"He will finish the good work He has begun in me."
"...and they overcame by the Blood of the Lamb, and the WORD of their testimony, and they loved not their lives UNTO DEATH (physically and spiritually).
Blessings,
GWB
"Be still and know that I am God."
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| Re: Can you agree with Jeremiah? [message #6529 is a reply to message #6528] |
Sat, 26 December 2009 08:51 |
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william
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GWB wrote:
> "Now, there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus."
> "He will finish the good work He has begun in me."
Now there is great comfort in those two statements... amen!
Blessings,
William
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