Faith is rising in the sound of His saints declaring His word and promise of the Holy Spirit. These live, ten-minute broadcasts will continue with declarations by new people each day through Saturday. If not, they are all posted on the Jubilee Facebook page and can be accessed by clicking here. I hope you have been able to join the Facebook Live broadcasts of declarations that have been going out every day at 3:00 pm PDT since last Thursday. OPEN YOUR MOUTH WIDE AND I WILL FILL IT.Facebook Live Prayers and Declarations to Pentecost. ‘How shall WE escape if we neglect so great salvation?’ ( Hebrews 2:2-4).ī). This is an astonishing statement when we consider Who God is, when we consider That God is! “Me,” says the great ‘I AM’: “The Fountain of Living Waters” ( Jeremiah 2:13).Ī fountain is deep: ‘O the depth!’ ( Romans 11:33). Happiness Peace Contentment - they all run away.
However, man-made cisterns so easily break! In the aridity of our spiritual vacuum, they crack, they break, they cannot give the return they promise. Whether philosophies or religions, riches, or relationships, they are all things of our own devising: we hew them out and it is we who have to maintain them. We have left a God-shape hole in our lives and try to fill it with other things. We have forsaken the true and living God, repeatedly and again. Well, this is not just about Israel, but about mankind in general. In the physical realm, would man-made cisterns hold out against a siege? Would man-made religion hold out in the face of the spiritual crisis which Israel had brought upon themselves? In a land of drought, with drought intensified by the oppression of Babylon, this is an apt picture of what was happening. Not only have they forsaken “the Fountain of Living Waters,” but they have also sought to replace Him with something of their own making. “For My people have committed two evils,” explains the LORD ( Jeremiah 2:13). “Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid,” says the LORD ( Jeremiah 2:12). The ‘pleading’ is a legal term and is perfectly reasonable: Search high and low in the known world, He says, and will you find a nation which has changed its ‘gods’ (which are not gods at all)? “Yet My people have changed their Glory for that which does not profit” ( Jeremiah 2:10-11). In other words, because of all this I will bring My case against you. “Wherefore I will yet plead with you,” continues the LORD ( Jeremiah 2:9). Prophets who prophecy by man-made philosophy and walk after things “that do not profit” (the pun on the word “prophet” is not in the original Hebrew, but it works in English). Supposed leaders in both Church and State, Pastors, and princes, who transgress against Him. Professors who have the audacity to handle the word of God but do not know Him. Jeremiah 2:8 presents us with priests who do not truly pray. Not only do people not say, “Where is the LORD?” ( Jeremiah 2:6), but their leaders likewise. We have been given a ‘plenteous redemption’ ( Psalm 130:7), but when we do not ‘desire the sincere milk of the word’ ( 1 Peter 2:2-3) it stagnates, and we stunt our growth. Some of us have been brought up in the shadow of gospel privilege. Then He brought them into a “plenteous land, to eat the fruit thereof” ( Jeremiah 2:7), but they defiled it, and refused His Word.
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They rebelled against Him there for a full forty years, but our Suzerain never forgot His covenant.
Not only did God bring them out of slavery, but He led them through the wilderness ( Jeremiah 2:6). We would rather wallow in the hog-pen than return to God by the Way which He has opened up to us ( John 14:6 Acts 4:12).
We crucified Him, but death could not hold Him: yet still we reject Him and His salvation. ‘It was while we were yet sinners that Christ died for us’ ( Romans 5:8). Israel was in slavery in Egypt when God “brought them out.” Mankind was in bondage to sin and death when God ‘sent His only begotten Son’ ( John 3:16). Not only has man forgotten God the Creator, but even the visible Church has forgotten God the Redeemer ( Jeremiah 2:6). Vanity makes us vain: ‘As a man thinks in his heart, so is he’ ( Proverbs 23:7 cf. We chase after vanity ( Ecclesiastes 1:2). What iniquity had Adam found in the LORD when he first defied Him in the garden? Mankind has since gone far from Him. “What iniquity have your fathers found in Me?” complains the LORD ( Jeremiah 2:5). As we read it, we begin to realise that this is also His indictment against the whole of mankind, and against the visible Church in particular. In this passage the LORD yet again makes His complaint against the whole house of Israel ( Jeremiah 2:4).
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