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Text: Jeremiah 2-6
In Jeremiah’s first sermon, the LORD Jesus Christ can be seen in every major point of the sermon. It really is true of the prophets, like Peter said, holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. So we’re going to make a few connections tonight in Jeremiah’s first sermon to things the LORD Jesus Christ said to people he ministered to.
Rejected the living waters (2:13)
- Jeremiah preaches that the Jews have cast away the Spirit of God who is living waters and created their own cisterns that won’t hold water.
- John 4:10 – So John records Jesus leaving Judea because of the Pharisee religious class of Jews. And where does he go? He goes to Samaria. And what does he preach to this Gentile woman at the well? God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship in Spirit in truth.
- John 7:37-39 is an invitation to believe in the LORD Jesus Christ and participate with the Spirit of God in the work of God.
Ye are of your father, the devil (2:34)
- The bloodshed of all the innocent prophets and servants of God is attributed to Jerusalem. Particularly the spirit that now resides in Jerusalem. Who were the Jerusalem religious leaders the children of? Ye are of your father the devil and lust of your father you’ll do.
- Matthew 23:29-39, Revelation 17:3-6
Blind leaders of the blind (5:21-22)
- Jeremiah says these religious people have no fear of God though they can observe intelligent powers much bigger than themselves. They see the coastline as a boundary for the sea. They observe the seasonal rain, but even with that basic knowledge won’t accept a higher God than themselves.
- Matthew 15:1-14, 23:16, 24
- Remember that repeated phrase, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear?
Rest unto your soul (6:16)
- The thought begins at Jeremiah 6:9 with verse 10 being the major problem with the Jews.
- The clarification Jeremiah makes here is an individual response versus a national response. You’ll receive rest to your soul, not rest for your nation.
- Matthew 11:28-30 is the invitation by the LORD Jesus Christ showing he is the fulfillment of this truth
- God sees sin as a heavy burden, but men are short-sighted and see sin as a pleasure. Over time men learn that God is right about sin. All ye that labor and are heavy laden
- The heavy load of covetousness that wants and wants and wants and the desires are neverending. The heavy burden of fornication that perverts relationships and produces children without the balance of mother and father in the home. The load we carry is usually the result of sin that we choose to commit.
- Rest is determined by who you’re working for – Take my yoke upon you
- You must take Jesus’ yoke upon you. The last thing in the world that you need right now is more to do. How can you take on more and get rest? The answer is that to take his yoke you have to put off your own.
- People get the idea that they can carry their own yoke and then come to him to get rest from him. It doesn’t work like that. You get out of the hard yoke of bondage and put on his easy yoke in its place, not on top of it.
