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Book: Jeremiah
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Jeremiah 33:14 Behold The Days Come
I. The dark days that lie ahead for Judah.
A. The Lord spoke to Jeremiah saying, "Call on Me and I will
show you great and mighty things, that you do not know."
1. The things that God was going to show him were the
future of Jerusalem and it's inhabitants.
2. The kings palace was going to be destroyed.
3. Their resistance against Babylon was going to be
futile, for they were to be slain.
4. God was going to hide His face from them.
B. God never ends the story of His people in darkness and
despair.
1. The final chapter is always glorious and exciting.
2. I can walk without fear through the valley of the
shadow of death as long as I know that my Father's
house is at the end of the path.
II. The glorious future that God had planned for them.
A. God is going to cure them and heal them, and bring them
an abundance of peace.
1. They had been sick for a long time.
a. Sin is a real sickness.
b. If you are living in sin, you are sick.
c. Their sickness seemed to be incurable.
d. It is a sickness like AIDS which is always
fatal. "The wages of sin is death."
2. They had a history of wars and strife, but God was
going to give them and abundance of peace, in His
day.
B. God was going to bring the Jews back into the land and He
was going to build them as at the beginning of their
history.
1. God will cleanse them from their iniquities.
a. Sin clings like grimy dirt to a persons life.
b. God wants to cleanse a person from their sin.
c. David said, "Wash me and I shall be clean."
He recognized that he could not wash himself.
Just as you cannot wash the sins from your
life, it takes the blood of Jesus Christ.
2. God was going to pardon their iniquities.
a. Sin is against God so only God can pardon sin.
b. Our sins can have a harmful effect on others as
David's sin effected both Bathsheba with whom
he had an adulterous affair, and her husband
who he had killed, but when he sought the
forgiveness from God, he said, "Against You and
You only have I sinned and done this great evil
in your sight."
C. The city of Jerusalem would be a name of joy, honor and
praise before the nations.
1. The name had become a disgrace, it was not the city
of God, but filled with wickedness and violence.
2. Like San Francisco the name of the city is
associated with evil and not with the beauty of it's
natural setting.
3. God was going to bring to the city, goodness and
prosperity that would have the whole world in awe.
a. Even as those who passed by marveled at the
total devastation and destruction, so will they
marvel and the prosperity that God will bring
to the city.
4. Though the once proud city is now destroyed and is
shrouded with an eerie silence, yet again will the
voices of joy and gladness ring forth from the
streets.
5. The people will be saying, "Praise Jehovah of
Hosts, for the Lord is Good."
6. They will be offering the sacrifice of praise unto
God in the house of the Jehovah.
7. God promised that the days would come when He would
do these things.
a. Those days have not yet come, but are still
future.
b. They did not come when they returned from the
Babylonian captivity.
c. They have not come with the Zionist movement of
our day, but are still future.
III. The day of the Messiah.
A. In those days, the Branch of Righteousness will grow up
unto David.
1. That Branch of Righteousness is a reference unto the
Messiah, the descendant of David that shall rule on
throne of David forever.
a. Through Him, the promise of God to David will
be fulfilled, that there shall never cease a
man to sit upon the throne from the house of
David.
b. Who is that Branch of Righteousness from the
seed of David? Non other than Jesus Christ.
c. He will execute judgment and righteousness in
the land.
B. In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem shall
dwell safely.
1. Jerusalem shall be called, "Jehovah, our
righteousness." Earlier in chapter 23 we are told
that the name of the Messiah shall be "JEH0VAH
OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS" Now the city upon whose
inhabitants have received that righteousness shall
be known by that same name.
2. The Lord shall reign, and the people will worship
him. The kingdoms of this earth will become the
kingdoms of our Lord and of His Messiah, and He
shall reign forever and ever.
C. This is a covenant or promise that God made with David
that cannot be broken.
1. The only way you could break this covenant is to
stop the son and the moon from shining.
2. This covenant surely was a sign of God's grace to
David, it was made at a time when God had some
disappointing words for David.
a. David's desire to build a glorious house for
the Lord.
b. The initial encouragement of the prophet
Nathan.
c. God promised David that He would build him a
house.
D. God has made a covenant with each of us that cannot be
broken.
1. When Jesus took the cup at the Passover feast with
His disciples, He said, "This cup is a new covenant
in My blood which is shed for the remission of sins.
2. God has made a covenant with you through Jesus
Christ which basically is that if you will just
receive Jesus as your Savior and submit your life
to His lordship, He will cleanse you from your
iniquity, make you His child, and allow you to
share His glory in the Kingdom that is to come to
the earth.
3. This covenant that God has made with us is just as
sure as the one made with David. It will not be
broken.
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