Jeremiah 33:1-13
What Can We do in Difficult Times?
Jeremiah 33:14-26
God Never Breaks His Promises
Jeremiah 34:1-22
Treacherous Treatment of Slaves
Jeremiah 35:1-11
Worship or Tradition?
Jeremiah 35:12-19
Loyalty to a Group or to God?
Jeremiah 36:1-32
You Can Reject God’s Word But Not Destroy it
Jeremiah 37:1-21
Giving is More Important Than Getting
Jeremiah 38:1-13
Discerning Between Public Opinion And God’s Will
You Can Reject God’s Word But Not Destroy it
Jeremiah 36:1–32
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Several years ago Notre Dame was the number 1 ranked football team in America. They were upset. A sports analyst said “The Notre Dame players have started believing in their mystique.” They became complacent. (Source Unknown, Lou Nicholes - Missionary/Author) … More
In Chapter 36 there is another revelation of what God requires of a nation. Here we have the story of how this book of Jeremiah came to be written. It takes us back to the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, about the midpoint of Jeremiah’s ministry (v. 1). God commanded the prophet to write down in a book all the things he had been saying (vv. 2-3). He had been giving oral messages to the people, but now God commanded him to write them down in a book. So he called his secretary Baruch, and dictated the messages to him (vv. 4-8). Then, since he was a prisoner and unable to go himself, he sent Baruch to read this in the temple.
Baruch waited until all the people from the cities around Jerusalem had come to the temple on a day of fasting, and read to them the words God had given Jeremiah for them. Jeremiah and Baruch hoped the people would repent and turn, and then God would restore the nation (vv. 9-10). One of the princes heard Baruch reading this book, and told the other princes what he had heard. They gathered together and sent for Baruch to read it again to them. The account says that when they heard it, they trembled in fear because of what God had said, and said to each other (vv. 11-19), “We must report this to the king.” We take up the account at (v. 20).
Because of this contemptuous act of defiance, in which King Jehoiakim brazenly cut the scroll to pieces and threw it into the fire as it was read, he was condemned (vv. 21-31). Later in this chapter Jeremiah is sent with the message that he was condemned to destruction and to humiliation. His body would be thrown out to the heat of the day and the cold of the night, to be eaten by dogs. Jeremiah was told to write the words again, (v 32).Application
Only three leaders protested the burning of the scroll containing God’s Word. This shows how complacent the people had become. Lord help me to always stand up for You and Your Word.
Jeremiah 36:1-32 (English Standard Version)
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