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"I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets"

Text: Jeremiah 7:25

SENDING OUT PROPHETS

For the longest time, God raised up prophets and sent them as His servants to proclaim His word. The dismal news was that with every passing generation, the people rejected His word with greater disdain.

“Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day,
I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets,
daily rising up early and sending them.
Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck.
They did worse than their fathers.
Therefore you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you.
You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.”
Jeremiah 7:25-27

1. “Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day”

a) The prophet that God sent to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt was none other than Moses.

b) Until this day Jeremiah was the major prophet of the day.

2. “I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.”

a) Many prophets had been sent.

b) There were the non-writing prophets:

i) Elijah

ii) Elisha, etc

c) There were writing prophets:

i) Isaiah

ii) Jeremiah

iii) Ezekiel, etc

d) “Daily rising up early and sending them”

A moving description of how the Lord took the time and trouble to send out His servants the prophets.

i) A daily word given to the prophets.

ii) Sending them out afresh each morning.

3. “Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.”

a) The sad reality.

i) They did not obey the Lord.

ii) They did not even incline their ear to listen.

iii) They stiffened their neck.

b) Every passing generation:

i) They did worse.

ii) The degeneration seemed to have gotten worse.

4. “Therefore you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.”

a) The ministry of Jeremiah was now the focus.

b) A grim word of advice:

i) Jeremiah was to speak all these words to them, but the people will not obey.

ii) He can call them to respond to God, but they will not answer (respond positively).