Submission
to God's Will
Book of Jeremiah Chapter 27
What
is a lie? Many things are said to one another through ignorance of
the subject end up being untruths, but a lie is an intentional
violation of the truth.
The
father of all lies is Satan the Devil.
Joh
8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father
ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in
the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie,
he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
There
were many so-called prophets in the day of Jeremiah, but Jeremiah was
called of God and He spoke the words God had given to him.
Today
there are also many false prophets from the family of Satan who are
roaming the earth to confuse the children of God.
Job
1:7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan
answered the LORD, and said, from going to and fro in the earth, and
from walking up and down in it.
Satan
roams to and fro through this earth and he and his demon family to
can temporarily change into the children of light again to cause the
confusion of God's children.
2Co_11:14
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of
light.
Today
we have the complete Word of God, that God gave to His prophets and a
few other men by the Holy Spirit and all the Word of God is the
undisputed truth for the Church!
2Pe_1:21
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy
men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
We
must clearly understand that everyone who call themselves a man of
God, or Pastor, or Preacher, or the one most abused Reverend are men
who were not called of God as Jeremiah and the true prophets and the
other writers of the Holy Scriptures and those who have asked the
Lord Jesus Christ to come in their heart today.
What
did Jesus say?
Mat
7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into
the kingdom of heaven; "but he that doeth the will of my Father
which is in heaven".
Mat
7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not
prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in
thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat
7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart
from me, ye that work iniquity.
Today
as we witness for the Lord, we will find that there are many who may
dispute the Word of God.
There
are many who intentionally twist the Word of God into a lie and they
are in the family of their father Satan!
God
has warned us and all this world that there is only one way "to
be close to Him and that is by His Son Jesus Christ"!
Let's
begin Chapter 27 at verse 1
*****Jer
27:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jer
27:2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put
them upon thy neck,
The
writings of Jeremiah may not be in chronological order, but he does
provide many time lines that can be proven by history.
Jehoiakim
was the second son of King Josiah who we already know was a king who
knew the truth of God and followed it, but at a young age, he died in
a war that did not concern Judah.
The
first son of Josiah, Jehoahaz had been deposed by Pharaoh-Necho of
Egypt.
These
were very turbulent years for God's people, but they were the cause
of their own demise.
Many
visitors representing the kings from the surrounding nations came to
Jehoiakim to try to convince him to join them in a rebellion against
Nebuchadnezzar.
Many
false prophets from all those nations, including those from Judah
tried to convince their kings to link up so they could destroy the
King of Babylon but The Lord God Jehovah, by Jeremiah, said to
surrender to this king so that they could live, and this would stop
the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple and the things of the
Temple but also the desctruction of those nations.
Nebiuchadnezzar
would have been just as happy to make them all vasals of Babylonia
and serve him.
The
result of these things is that these deceitful leaders rose up in
opposition to Jeremiah, the Lord's true prophet.
A
bond is a physical means of restraint and metaphorically signifies
oppression and captivity
A
yoke is an instrument normally made of wood to make powerful animals
useful in man's labor.
A
yoke is then a symbol of servitude and slavery.
These
two things are terrible, but they are not death and to go against the
Word of God brings death!
What
did God say to Adam?
Gen
2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, "thou
shalt not eat of it": for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.
Jeremiah
was to wear these things as he spoke the Word of God to the king and
his officers and the elders of Judah.
Jeremiah
was to also make enough of these things to send to the kings of the
surrounding nations who were already in bondage to the King of
Babylon. It was these kings who were trying to get Jehoiakim to join
in a rebellion against the King of Babylon when they should have
remained under his control but living in their own nation.
*****Jer
27:3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and
to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the
king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem
unto Zedekiah king of Judah;
These
nations who were neighbors to Judah had sent representatives to the
King of Judah and it would be these representatives that Jeremiah
would present these yokes of bondage to take back to those kings with
the Word of God.
Jeremiah
warned them that they were all wrong to defy the King of Babylon,
Nebuchadnezzar.
We
should believe it was nothing unusual for a Jewish Prophet to be
listened to with respect, when addressing a foreign nation
Jehoiakim
had been taken by Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon and Jeremiah insisted
that King Zedekiah give this same message to the King of Egypt
instead of words of rebellion.
All
these things may sound foreign to our way of thinking, but it was the
King of Babylon who was used to "judge" Judah and no power
on earth could overcome him until God allowed it to happen.
Eze
17:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze
17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things
mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem,
and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led
them with him to Babylon;
Eze
17:13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with
him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of
the land:
Eze
17:14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself
up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
Eze
17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into
Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he
prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break
the covenant, and be delivered?
Eze
17:16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the
king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose
covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall
die.
Eze
17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company
make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to
cut off many persons:
Eze
17:18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when,
lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall
not escape.
What
was God's message for all these kings? With their own eyes they could
see Jeremiah approach wearing the yoke he had prepared for himself by
the Word of God.
*****Jer
27:4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD
of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;
Jer
27:5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the
ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given
it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
Jehovah
God is the Creator of man and beast and He will do as He pleases.
The
greatest truth of Creation is the fact that all things age until they
have died, including this earth that we live upon.
This
goes against everything that evolution stands for!
Rom
8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
manifestation of the sons of God.
Rom
8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but
by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Rom
8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of
God.
Rom
8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in
pain together until now.
Rom
8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the
firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Rom
8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope:
for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Rom
8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience
wait for it.
This
earth we live upon is not eternal and it could not have happened by
chance. It is not the work of many gods because it has only one
Maker!
When
we are thinking right, we know that we could not survive alone
because we depend on too many things that we cannot provide for
ourselves!
We
suffer depression when we stop short of recognizing we have a
Creator!
We
are foolish when we reject the truth of the Lord!
Rev_1:8
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord,
which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
We
must understand God gives us many gifts but we do not ever actully
have the right of ownership.
"The
Lord gives and the Lord takes away"
We
are temporary tenants on this land but we are not owners.
God
does what He pleases with His Own Creation!
*****Jer
27:6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the
field have I given him also to serve him.
Jer
27:7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's
son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and
great kings shall serve themselves of him.
At
this time in history, Nebuchadnezzar was used of God.
Dan
2:37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath
given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
Dan
2:38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the
field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and
hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
God
is in control of His Created World!
Deu
32:6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is
not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and
established thee?
Deu
32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many
generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and
they will tell thee.
Deu
32:8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance,
when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people
according to the number of the children of Israel.
Deu
32:9 For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his
inheritance.
We
seem to always forget these things today. We readily admit that our
Lord never changes but we soon forget what He has already said and
done!
Dan
2:40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as
iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that
breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
Nebuchadnezzar
was told that his empire would belong to another and it was Jeremiah
who said Judah would only be in his hands for 70 years and it was
Isaiah that said it would be Cyrus would cause this to happen, all
according to the Word of God.
God
is very serious about His plan to come about just as He has spoken!
*****Jer
27:8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which
will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that
will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that
nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the
famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his
hand.
Have
you ever noticed that God puts a plan into action where the most
human beings can live? Even during the time of wars and rumors of
wars if we would just listen to what God has to say we can live
peaceable and meaningful lives.
When
we go against the Word of God we will see death by the sword or wars,
death by famine or death by disease.
Pro
8:14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have
strength.
Pro
8:15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
Pro
8:16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the
earth.
Pro
8:17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall
find me.
Pro
8:18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and
righteousness.
Pro
8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my
revenue than choice silver.
Pro
8:20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths
of judgment:
Pro
8:21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I
will fill their treasures.
We
must understand that God will give us what we ask for even if it is
the wrong thing, as long as it does not interfere with His plan for
all the ages!
God
will certainly use one nation to punish another nation, if they will
not serve the Lord who preserved them!
We
should also understand that as the father of the prodigal son, the
Lord will certainly rush out to meet His people who are on the way
back to Him!
We
must cling to the Word of God which is always the truth in every age!
*****Jer
27:9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your
diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your
sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king
of Babylon:
Jer
27:10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your
land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
When
will we ever learn that we live in a world of "deceivers"!
Satan
is the invisible agent of evil in our world!
In
the end, God will remove him. There has never been but one way to
overcome him and his evilness.
Rev
12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the
Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out
into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Rev
12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come
salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of
his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which
accused them before our God day and night.
Rev
12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the
word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the
death.
Satan
is the power behind false prophecy.
Satan
is the power behind every false preacher and every false teacher.
Satan
is the power behind diviners and soothsayers, and enchanters and all
sorcery.
Satan
is the power behind every lie that has ever been told!
Eph_6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
These
things were no different in the days of Jeremiah, so he preached the
infallible Word of God, which is "always" the truth!
It
is this same evil that has a goal to remove everything that God has
placed in our hands by His Dear Son Jesus, including our testimony.
He
cannot remove us from being in the family of God.
These
Jews will always be the "apple in God's eye" but who is
truly a Jew?
Rom_2:28
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that
circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Rom_2:29
But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of
the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not
of men, but of God.
God
knows who His children are!
Joh
10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to
destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might
have it more abundantly.
Joh
10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for
the sheep.
Joh
10:12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own
the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and
fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
Joh
10:13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not
for the sheep.
Joh
10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of
mine.
When
the Lord tells us something then we need to listen to what He has to
say and not only to listen, but we need to obey His every Word and
His every thought, which He has written down for us, so we do not get
confused!
*****Jer
27:11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the
king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in
their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell
therein.
Notice
God was not talking to just these Jews of Judah but to all the
surrounding nations who could all for the most part stayed at home
even if they had to pay taxes to Babylon for 70 years.
Much
worse things than these would happen if they went to war with a
nation that the Lord had guided to this position in order to keep the
greatest majority of His people safe, just by keeping them informed
about what was happening.
We
can never alter the plan of God, we can only make our lives miserable
when we reject the truth of God!
What
these people did not understand is, if they would be subject to the
King of Babylon they would still be safe and secure from an invasion
from any other power.
In
fact God would have caused the land to produce plenty enough to pay
the tribute to Babylon and then have enough for their personal means.
The
politicians and elders of the Jews were just too full of the Devil to
listen to what God had to say.
They
were too greedy to give up any power they thought that they had!
This
same thing is happening in every nation around us today. They refuse
to listen to what "thus sayeth the Lord"!!!!!
Since
they rejected the words of Jeremiah, then God said for them to
surrender and those that were carried away would still live!
The
study of the Book of Esther, Nehemiah, and Ezra are the proof along
with the Prophets Daniel, Ezekiel and others.
Jer
42:9 And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,
unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;
Jer
42:10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you,
and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up:
for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
Jer
42:11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid;
be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you,
and to deliver you from his hand.
God
made sure the King of Judah and the rulers of Judah clearly
understood these things.
*****Jer
27:12 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these
words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
God's
people understand what going through a little hardship means but
those who live by riches and power do not understand the meaning of
hardship!
2Ch
36:11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign,
and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
2Ch
36:12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his
God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking
from the mouth of the LORD.
2Ch
36:13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made
him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart
from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
It
was the King of Babylon who had placed Zedekiah upon the throne of
Judah, but he was an evil man who then sought his own place in a
power vacuum in Judah.
Why
do politicians never understand that hardship is much better than
disaster!
God
has only one question for all those who reject His message of
salvation!
*****Jer
27:13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the
nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Rejecting
the Word of God is accepting eternal damnation. Therefore false
preachers and teachers teach that there is no Hell or that Hell is a
place that you can escape from, both terrible lies and deceit.
This
is the same question all the prophets of God asked and we as the
witnesses of the Gospel of Jesus Christ are to ask today!
God
has no pleasure in the death of any human being!
Eze
18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have
transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will
ye die, O house of Israel?
Eze
18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith
the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Everyone
that dies without Jesus Christ has lost something that they formally
had in their possession which is "Life"!
There
are not many who will not give up all they have just to have a good
life and God offers eternal life in a place that the beauty of cannot
be described by words and so many reject this life and choose death
instead! Not just death but damnation!
They
who die because of sin that God ask them to repent of, and because
the Lord has already paid for that sin, are no more than just being
foolish!
Eze
18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith
the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
The
function of every true prophet of God, with respect to the government
of the world and of the people's walk, is always a testimony to the
judgment which hangs over all unfaithfulness.
When
we reject the Word of God we are calling God a liar!
Eph
2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with
Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Eph
2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Eph
2:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of
his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Eph
2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph
2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Eph
2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good
works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
God
just ask us to believe!
*****Jer
27:14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that
speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for
they prophesy a lie unto you.
We
started this lesson by asking what a lie is. A lie is not something
said out of ignorance of the subject.
A
lie is anything spoken intentionally which deviates from the truth in
any manner!
This
person is a deceiver! A deceiver is an imposter who attempts to lead
others in some wrong manner!
These
are the preachers and teachers who intentionally spew out false
messages because they reject the truth of God.
These
are the false so-called prophets of this world who deny the existence
of a Supernatural Deity.
These
are those who spit out evolution as a science when it to is a bunch
of lies from those who reject the truth of God.
Peter
said:
2Pe
2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as
there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in
damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring
upon themselves swift destruction.
2Pe
2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; "by reason of
whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of".
2Pe
2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make
merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not,
and their damnation slumbereth not.
John
said:
1Jn
4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether
they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the
world.
1Jn
4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: "Every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God":
1Jn
4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come
in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist,
whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it
in the world.
The
spirit of the anti-christ has been with this world since the time of
Adam!
What
did the Lord say will happen in the end?
Eze
13:22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad,
whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked,
that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
Eze
13:23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations:
for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that
I am the LORD.
We
have the truth of God.
We
are fools not to believe Him!
Amen
Let's
Pray
