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Jeremiah

Jeremiah 
Day 
Day 155

"Obey My voice"

Text: Jeremiah 11:4

THE SPECIFIC CONTEXT OF THE SINAITIC COVENANT

The specific context was mentioned in this word. The Sinaitic Covenant was in mind.

“Which I commanded your fathers in the day I brought
them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying,
‘Obey My voice, and do according to all that I command you;
so shall you be My people, and I will be your God,’
that I may establish the oath which I have sworn to your fathers,
to give them ‘a land flowing with milk and honey,’ as it is this day.
And I answered and said, ‘So be it, LORD.'”
Jeremiah 11:4-5

1. “Which I commanded your fathers in the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying”

a) Your fathers
i) The forefathers
ii) The generation of Moses and Aaron
b) Egypt
i) It was described as “the iron furnace”.
ii) God brought them out of the fiery furnace of affliction.

2. “Obey My voice, and do according to all that I command you; so shall you be My people, and I will be your God”

a) The giving of the Sinaitic Covenant was recorded in Exodus 24.
b) This was a summary of what God said:
i) To obey His voice.
ii) To do all that He commanded them.
iii) They would become God’s people.
iv) He would be their God.

3. “That I may establish the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to give them ‘a land flowing with milk and honey,’ as it is this day. And I answered and said, ‘So be it, LORD'”

a) The oath of God
i) God swore that He would not fail to do His part.
ii) He had given a promise to Abraham and He would honour His word.
iii) Canaan was the Land that God had promised to give to Israel.
b) Jeremiah’s response
i) He knew that what God had spoken was true.
ii) He expressed full agreement.
iii) The problem did not lie with God.
iv) The root of the problem lay with the disobedience of Israel/ Judah.