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Jeremiah

Jeremiah 
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Day 296

"Amend your ways"

Text: Jeremiah 26:13

A GREAT DIVISION

There were two main camps. The princes were pro-Jeremiah and they objected to the opinion of the priests and prophets and their supporters who were anti-Jeremiah!

“When the princes of Judah heard these things,
they came up from the king’s house to the house of the Lord
and sat down in the entry of the New Gate of the Lord’s house.
And the priests and the prophets
spoke to the princes and all the people, saying,
‘This man deserves to die!
For he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.’
Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and all the people, saying:
‘The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house
and against this city with all the words that you have heard.
Now therefore, amend your ways and your doings,
and obey the voice of the LORD your God;
then the LORD will relent concerning the doom that He has pronounced against you.'”
Jeremiah 26:10-13

1. “And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and all the people, saying, ‘This man deserves to die! For he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.'”

a) The priests and the prophets and their supporters.

b) They insisted that Jeremiah be sentenced to death.

c) Their reason – Jeremiah had spoken against the city of Jerusalem!

2. “Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and all the people, saying: ‘The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city with all the words that you have heard.'”

a) Jeremiah defended himself.

b) He insisted that the LORD had sent him to prophesy:

i) Against this house (The Temple).

ii) Against the city (Jerusalem).

iii) The words came from the LORD Himself.

3. “Now therefore, amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; then the LORD will relent concerning the doom that He has pronounced against you”

a) The people must amend their ways and their activities.

b) They must obey the LORD

c) Then would the LORD relent from the doom He had pronounced against the people.