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"Will you still not be made clean?"

Text: Jeremiah 13:27

THE TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF INIQUITY

Once again, the consequences of iniquity were considered. Yet, there was the offer of Hope extended to the children of Judah!

“‘This is your lot,
The portion of your measures from Me,’ says the LORD,
‘Because you have forgotten Me
And trusted in falsehood.
Therefore I will uncover your skirts over your face,
That your shame may appear.
I have seen your adulteries
And your lustful neighings,
The lewdness of your harlotry,
Your abominations on the hills in the fields.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
Will you still not be made clean?'”
Jeremiah 13:25-27

1. “‘This is your lot, the portion of your measures from Me,’ says the LORD, ‘because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood'”

a) The lot of the children of Judah.

i) Once, their lot had been land in Canaan.

ii) Their lot now was disinheritance.

b) The portion

i) The words “lot” and “portion” were words used for inheritance given by God.

ii) They were now used in a negative way.

iii) That which was measured to them did come from the LORD!

c) The reasons stated once again.

i) The people had forgotten their God who had been faithful and true.

ii) They had instead chosen to trust in powerless deities and falsehood.

2. “Therefore I will uncover your skirts over your face, that your shame may appear”

a) Clothes were meant to add beauty and dignity.

b) The nation would now be stripped of all that which was their glory.

c) It would be nothing more than a weak and depleted nation.

d) This would be their shame.

3. “I have seen your adulteries and your lustful neighings, the lewdness of your harlotry,
your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you still not be made clean?”

a) This was a description of the idolatrous practices of the people.

b) They were caught up with massive and intense pursuit of idolatry:

i) In the hills.

ii) In the fields.

c) This was Jerusalem.

i) Once upon a time, a city chosen by God.

ii) Now “Woe” was pronounced against the city.

4. The Hope extended

Will you still not be made clean?

a) Jerusalem can still be made clean.

b) God could cleanse them:

i) The city.

ii) The royal family.

iii) The inhabitants!

Would they respond to their longsuffering and merciful God?