Blessed Are They That Mourn (Jeremiah #4)

Text: Jeremiah 7-10

Reason for mourning (ch 7)

Judah has been educated in disobedience to God
They believe the lie that they’re safe because God has blessed their nation (7:1-7)
- The lie that they’re invincible because God used their nation. They say, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.
- Jeremiah says quit listening to lies encouraging you to trust in monuments and historical blessings, fix your behavior.
Will you continue in sin and say God’s grace gives us the ability to sin? (7:8-16)
- From house of prayer to den of thieves
- Remember Shiloh? It was captured by the Philistines and destroyed.
- Quit praying for the peace of Jerusalem (7:16)
The LORD says you’ve brought filth and idolatry into my house (7:17-20)
Truth is cut off from this nation because they’d rather sacrifice than obey the voice of the LORD (7:21-28)
Lament and mourn, Jerusalem (7:29-31)
- Shaving her head was what captive women did to lament the loss of their parents in Deuteronomy 21.
- The prophets used this illustration time and again of captives being shaved.
Death of sinners where they sinned (7:32-34)
Jeremiah 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech;

Inevitability of mourning (ch 8)

Judah’s sin unto death
Death will become preferable to life in verse 3, yet there is no truth in them (8:1-3)
How do you say the law of the LORD is with you, in verse 8? (8:4-12)
The LORD will consume them (8:13-17)
- He takes away what He’s given Judah in verse 13. Exactly as Jesus Christ says I will take the kingdom of God away from you and give it to a nation bringing forth the fruit thereof.
- We have sinned against the LORD according to verse 14.
There is no comfort for the LORD or his prophet (8:18-22)
- Verses 21-22 give insight into the relationship of Jesus Christ to the nation of Israel. That he will eventually die for the Jew first and bear their iniquity.
- Father forgive them for they know not what they do is what Jesus says on the cross. That’s followed by a grace period but ultimately ends in the destruction of the temple by Titus in 70AD.
- John 11:49-52

I will mourn (ch 9)

Jeremiah weeps because of the lies (9:1-8)
The LORD has to judge Jerusalem (9:9-11)
The LORD will give Judah wormwood and bitterness (9:12-16)
Hire the wailing women and teach Judah through tears (9:17-22)
- The wages of sin is death.
True knowledge of God (9:23-24)
- 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
- 2 Corinthians 10:17-18 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
- People perish for lack of knowledge of God (9:25-26)

Blessed are they that mourn (ch 10)

Compare the LORD to idols
The idols are nothing, but the LORD is powerful (10:1-16)
- Jeremiah preached against all the idolatry and temples built to Baal.
- And the people served the Queen of heaven.
- They even had a god for each city.
The LORD shall bear the grief! (10:17-22)
Correct me as a son, but destroy those that don’t know you (10:23-25)