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Refusing to be Ashamed of Sin
Jeremiah 3:1–10
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Jeremiah ends his first message by exposing the spiritual harlotry of Judah. The first verse introduces his theme: God’s law (Duet. 24:1-4) forbade a wife, divorced by her first husband and married to another, to return to her first love. Yet Judah, who had separated from her husband, God, and had lived as a prostitute (Jer. 2:20) with many lovers, was offered one last opportunity to return to her husband. God’s grace outshines the searchlight of God’s law. The people had forsaken God and gone a whoring from Him. They had “played the harlot with many lovers (v. 1).” They had not only polluted themselves, but “their land, with their whoredoms and with their wickedness (v. 2).” God had gently corrected them from their sins. Instead of raining fire and brimstone upon them, like Sodom, He only withheld the showers from them (v. 3). Yet Judah refused “to be ashamed.”
On the surface the people had made good resolutions to fear God and to walk in His ways, but deep down in their hearts they wanted to live in their old paths of sin. God reveals to Jeremiah the story of two sisters–Israel and Judah (vv. 6-10). Israel had sinned (v. 6) and refused to return to God (v. 7), and had been put away in bondage (v. 8). Judah had seen all of this happen to her sister (Israel), but she also went ahead and played the harlot (v. 8). Judah added hypocrisy to her sin because she committed the same sins while pretending to return to the Lord (vv. 9-10).Application
Every sin in my life, no matter how small it may seem, needs to be confessed. (I John 1:9).
Jeremiah 3:1-10 (English Standard Version)
""If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the LORD. Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom. Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed. Have you not just now called to me, 'My father, you are the friend of my youth-- will he be angry forever, will he be indignant to the end?' Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could." The LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah: "Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore? And I thought, 'After she has done all this she will return to me,' but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore. Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree. Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the LORD."
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