Who Will Understand the Lord? (Jeremiah 8-9)
God mourns the backslider’s false perspective and leads them to true wisdom.
1. The backslider fakes wisdom (8:1-17)
– When we fall, we should accept God’s grace and correct it, not make it worse (1-7)
– Blinded by our pride, we miss how we twist God’s word for our purposes (8-13)
– It’s hard to face our own failure, so we convince ourselves nothing’s wrong (14-17)
2. The Lord mourns the backslider (8:18-9:11)
– It breaks God’s heart when we hurt ourselves in disobedience (18-22)
– Living apart from God turns us into someone that no-one should be around (1-6)
– We grieve God by pretending to be nice while harboring bad thoughts (7-11)
3. The wise learn from the Lord (9:12-26)
– God gives us over to our idols to teach us how worthless they are (12-16)
– Those who know God and listen to His word, mourn the things He mourns (17-22)
– Acting religious doesn’t make us holy, our hearts need to reflect God. (23-26)
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