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Jeremiah

Jeremiah 
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Day 84

"O LORD, are not Your eyes on the truth?"

Text: Jeremiah 5:3

AN IMPORTANT PREMISE

Jeremiah was given a challenge by God to find just one person who truly practised righteousness. He was up to this challenge. He would search diligently and find that one person and Jerusalem would be spared. He would hold God to His own word. He was surely a God of truth!

“O LORD, are not Your eyes on the truth?
You have stricken them,
But they have not grieved;
You have consumed them,
But they have refused to receive correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to return.”
Jeremiah 5:3

1. “O LORD, are not Your eyes on the truth?”

a) This was a rhetorical question.
b) Of course, He was a God of truth!
c) If Jeremiah found just one person of true righteousness, then God would spare Jerusalem!

2. “You have stricken them, but they have not grieved”

a) He searched among those who had been “stricken” by the Lord.
b) A truly righteous person would have grieved and repented (Psalms 32, 51).
c) But those who have been chastised did not grieve.
i) They had not recognised their sinfulness.
ii) They had not repented in grief at all.
d) The “first group” of people examined did not yield one truly righteous person!

3. “You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction”

a) There were some who were severely chastised.
b) It was as if, they had been consumed.
c) Those who suffered severe tribulation, if they were righteous, would receive God’s correction.
d) This group of people refused to receive correction.
e) The “second group” of people also did not yield any righteous person.

4. “They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return”

a) Common to “both groups” of people were the following features:
i) They made themselves (“faces”) harder than rock.
ii) They refused to return to God.
b) Jeremiah had failed to find one righteous person in Jerusalem!