The Books of Prophets: Grumpy Old Men

  • Pastor Duane Cross
  • Mar 7, 2010
  • Series: The Greatest Story Ever Told

THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD

“Books of the Prophets:  Grumpy Old Men”

 Pastor Duane Cross  |  03.07.2010

“This is what the Lord Almighty says: ’Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place.  Do not trust in deceptive words and say,’ ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!’”   (Jeremiah 7:3-4)

“Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations had done whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.”   (2Kings 21:9)

“As soon as Jeremiah finished telling all the people everything the Lord had commanded him to say, the priests, the prophets and all the people seized him and said, ‘You must die!  Why do you prophesy in the Lord’s name that this house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted?’...Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and all the people, ‘This man should be sentenced to death because he has prophesied against this city.  You have heard it with your own ears!’”  (Jeremiah 26:8-9,11)

The content of the Temple Sermon can be summarized:

*  Religious observance cannot save.

*  Only a relationship with God manifested in obedience pleases God.                         

“What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.”  (Philippians 3:8-11)

“Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.” (Jeremiah 7:11)

“They angered God with their high places, they aroused his jealousy with their idols. When God heard them, he was very angry; he rejected Israel completely.  He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among men.” (Psalms 78:58-60)

 

 

                                   

                                                          

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