Oh Jeremiah … why did you have to gone and do that … ?
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We are studying this Sabbath out of the book of Jeremiah! Let’s begin …
21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
How have they become brutish?
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
It is because they have walked in the imagination of their own minds. Whatever seems good, they went forward with it without the counsel of the Lord.
13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
The pastors are brutish following the imagination of their own heart, therefore the least to the greatest of men is given to covetousness and false ways. The priest and prophet are dealing falsely. If they are not reading you the pages of the Book, and reforming your ways, they are not helping you or the world altogether.
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
The problem is that the people love to have it so. The majority of people simply love being lied to. They want deceit because like anything, people just want what feels good. People want to stay in comfort zones. It is comforting to be told you can do whatever you want in the name of the Lord.
I Will Give You Pastors According to Mine Heart
This love of deceits will come to an end, and the Lord will restore the balances and truth will prevail.
17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
The God of Israel, even Jesus, will set His throne in Jerusalem, and all nations will gather to it, and will no longer walk after their own imaginations or after their own evil heart.
How is this?
15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
It is because God will give the world pastor who teach according to His Heart, and they will feed you with knowledge and understanding. The seeding of this is taking place today. Many pastors today are forsaking vain traditions and are teaching on the line and not between the line.
They are moving away from what they are not able to read plainly, and are moving to what “Thus saith the Lord!”
Praise God for those pastor, praise God for His prophet Jeremiah, whose writings our reading came from today, praise God for you for receiving it, and praise the God of Heaven and Earth for His mercy and goodness.
In Jesus name
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