Will you sin and then stand before Me?
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Jeremiah 7:9,10,11 The Context: God commanded Jeremiah to stand in the gate of the Lord’s house and tell the people of God’s pending judgment because of their hypocrisy of claiming to worship God while living awfully with one another and with Him.
God Asks Us: "Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, 10 and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? 11 Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord."
JNE: Do we really believe that we can be hypocrites with regard to our spiritual lives and still expect God’s blessing? It does no good to recognize and point out the hypocrisy I see in others if I do not repent of my own. What sins do I most easily see in other people? Could it be because those are the sins of my own heart to which I am self-righteously blind? To think lightly of or ignore God’s questions perhaps reveals some self-righteousness in me.
Jeremiah 7:9,10,11 The Context: God commanded Jeremiah to stand in the gate of the Lord’s house and tell the people of God’s pending judgment because of their hypocrisy of claiming to worship God while living awfully with one another and with Him.
God Asks Us: "Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, 10 and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? 11 Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord."
JNE: Do we really believe that we can be hypocrites with regard to our spiritual lives and still expect God’s blessing? It does no good to recognize and point out the hypocrisy I see in others if I do not repent of my own. What sins do I most easily see in other people? Could it be because those are the sins of my own heart to which I am self-righteously blind? To think lightly of or ignore God’s questions perhaps reveals some self-righteousness in me.