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"Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah"

Text: Jeremiah 11:6

AN IMPORTANT TASK

Jeremiah was given a special and specific task. This was a message that was to be preached in the cities of Jerusalem.

“Then the LORD said to me,
‘Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: ‘Hear the words of this covenant and do them.
For I earnestly exhorted your fathers
in the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, until this day,
rising early and exhorting, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear,
but everyone followed the dictates of his evil heart;
therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant,
which I commanded them to do, but which they have not done.””
Jeremiah 11:6-8

1. “Then the LORD said to me, ‘Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: ‘Hear the words of this covenant and do them””

a) Location

i) The cities of Judah.

ii) In the streets of Jerusalem.

b) Message from the Lord:

i) To hear afresh the words of the Sinaitic Covenant.

(Jeremiah would have to be familiar with the writings of Moses.)

ii) To keep the words of the Covenant.

2. “For I earnestly exhorted your fathers in the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, until this day, rising early and exhorting, saying, ‘Obey My voice'”

a) The Lord had been exhorting the people.

i) From the time they came out of Egypt.

ii) Till the present day (of Jeremiah).

iii) God had sent many of His servants with this message.

b) “Rising early”

i) This was an idiomatic expression.

ii) God would begin to send out His prophets at daybreak.

c) “And exhorting”

i) His servants would exhort the people earnestly.

ii) This had been on-going for many, many years.

d) “Obey My voice”

i) This was the core of the Covenant.

ii) Obedience to God.

3. “Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone followed the dictates of his evil heart; therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but which they have not done”

a) The response of the people noted:

i) They did not obey.

ii) They did not incline their ear (to listen and learn).

iii) They followed the dictates of their evil heart.

b) The results:

i) God will bring the judgment (curses) of the Covenant (Deuteronomy 27-28).

ii) For failure to heed the commands that God had given to them.

iii) They will be judged by the words of the covenant given to them.