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It is Important to Never Quit
Jeremiah 25:1–14
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This message was given by Jeremiah during the fourth year of King Jehoiakim, the year Nebuchadnezar came to power (v. 1). Jeremiah had been prophesying for 25 years. He had spoken to the people again and again but they had not listened to his warnings to repent (vv. 2-3). God had given them plenty of time to respond, but they had refused. He had also sent other prophets who warned the people to turn from their evil ways and practices (vv. 4-7). The result of disobedience would be 70 years of captivity, not only for Judah but for the surrounding nations. This 70 years was a specified period of time.
As we know from other Scriptures, this was the length of time that Israel had failed to allow the land to enjoy a “Sabbath rest“. God had decreed that every seventh year the land was to lie fallow (Lev. 25:3-5). He stated that if the people would not heed this command He would remove them from the land to enforce this “Sabbath Rest“ (Lev. 26:33-35). Because the people had repeatedly rejected God’s warnings, God would summon the Babylonians (the peoples of the north) (vv. 8-11). Then after the 70 years were fulfilled God would also punish the Babylonians because of the guilt they had incurred (vv. 12-14). I once heard someone say that their favorite Scripture was, “And it came to pass...” When the challenges of life close in on us it is comforting to know that it hasn’t come to stay but that in its time it will pass. Under God’s sovereign program of judgment, Judah was warned many times but finally their day of judgment came.Application
Imagine preaching the same message for 23 years and continually being rejected. Jeremiah faced this but he did not give up. Lord, help me to never quit no matter how difficult things may seem.
Jeremiah 25:1-14 (English Standard Version)
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: "For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened. You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets, saying, 'Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever. Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.' Yet you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm. "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp. This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste. I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
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