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WESTROCK HATTIESBURG MS
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PRAYER - "Empty Cries"
Because of their sins, the people were languishing. No water. No food. The fields were bare. Cattle were perishing. "The cry of Jerusalem is gone up." But it was an empty cry. Nobody but Jeremiah even tried to repent, and God rejected his intercession.
Jeremiah 14:10-12 - "Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good. When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence."
PRINCIPALS - "The Marred Girdle"
God told Jeremiah to get a linen girdle, wear it for a while, then take it down to the Euphrates River and hide it in the hole of a rock. Later, God told him to go back and retrieve it. It was ruined, no longer useful. This object lesson demonstrated how God would punish Judah for their pride.
Jeremiah 13:10 - "This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing."
PRINCIPLES - "Can The Leopard Change His Spots?"
It is a sad day when Almighty God says to you, in effect, "You will never change. I am finished with you." A hardened heart is worse than death. Strive to keep your heart tender and pliable before God.
Jeremiah 13:23-24,27 - "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. ...Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?"
PROPHECIES - "To The King And Queen: Judah Shall Be Carried Away"
King Jehoiachin and his queen-mother bore the guilt for Judah’s downfall. Kings must give account to God for their rule. Then, Nebuchadnezzar captured Judah. Next time, Antichrist will execute God’s punishment.
Jeremiah 13:18-22 - "Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. ...Judah shall be carried away captive all of it. ...where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock? ...And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity."
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The Sword Of The Lord And Of Gideon
Midianites and Amalekites "...lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude." With only 300 men, each bearing a trumpet, a pitcher and a lamp, Gideon surrounded them after midnight. "When I blow with a trumpet, ...then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon." No enemy is too big for men with faith in God.
Judges 7:22 - "And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled..."
Trouble With Family
God enabled Gideon to whip 120,000 Midianites with only 300 men, but his own brethren resisted him. Ephraimites chided him because he did not call them to battle. Men from Succoth and Penuel hatefully refused to feed Gideon’s troops as they pursued. Family sometimes causes more grief than sore enemies. Gideon punished the offenders for their insolence and won the hearts of all Israel.
Judges 8:22-23 - "...Rule thou over us, ...for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian. And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, ...the LORD shall rule over you."
Gideon’s Snare
Deuteronomy 7:25-26 says, "Thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. ...but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing." Gideon’s family was cursed because he disobeyed, by coveting jewelry from Israel’s wars. Gideon had seventy sons. One evil son killed all but one of his brothers.
Judges 8:24 - "...Gideon said unto them, ...give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings)."
Spoiling A Legacy
Gideon refused to be king of Israel. "I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you," Judges 8:23. But Gideon sinned with the golden earrings, and his heroic legacy was lost. At Ophrah, where Gideon met the angel of the Lord and built the altar to Jehovah Shalom, he caused Israel to go whoring after the golden ephod. He was buried there. His wicked son, Abimelech, manipulated the Shechemites into crowning him king.
Judges 9:5 - Abimelech "...went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren."
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