Jeremiah 48: Jeremiah's Mic Drop

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Chapters

• 0:00 Jeremiah's Mic Drop Introduction
• 1:56 Judgment Against Moab Begins
• 4:50 Moab's Pride and Self-Reliance Condemned
• 7:29 God's Sorrow Amidst Judgment
• 9:26 The Promise of Future Restoration
• 10:22 Lessons on Pride and Self-Sufficiency

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:24

Hello everybody, welcome back to the Bible Breakdown Podcast with your host, pastor Brandon, today, jeremiah, chapter 48, and today's title is Jeremiah's Mic Drop. Okay, jeremiah's Mic Drop. We are almost done with the book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah is likely getting toward the end of his ministry and he is just saying for all of you nations this is the last I got to say about you Judgment's on the way and so he is going to declare the judgment of God on several of these nations and it is just it's kind of his farewell address to some of these and saying this is what's going to happen. I got nothing else after this. So here we go. And so, as we get ready to do that, if you have your Bibles, want to open up with me to Jeremiah, chapter 48. While you're doing that, make sure you are like, sharing and subscribing to the YouTube channel and the podcast. Make sure you're leaving us a five-star review on the podcast it really does help and make sure you go to the Bible Breakdown Discussion on Facebook Doing an amazing job there, and I'm going to tell you, the more we dig, the more we find. So, if you have your Bibles once again and you want to open up with me to Jeremiah, chapter 48,. This is a long chapter because God is talking to a lot of different people and he is just saying no matter what you are doing, pride and self-reliance always leads to destruction. But God's mercy is always going to lead to destruction, can bring restoration. But you got to turn back to him and he's just going to declare that over all these nations that pride never works, self-reliance never works, always got to turn to God. So let's read this and just kind of read through these different nations that God is just he's just declaring his judgment over. Let's see if the Lord will speak to us today. You ready?

Speaker 1: 2:01

Jeremiah 48, verse one, says this this is the message that was given concerning Moab. This is what the Lord of heaven's armies, the God of Israel, says. What sorrow awaits the city of Nebo? It will soon lie in ruins. The city of Kiriathim will be humiliated and captured. The fortress will be humiliated and broken down. No one will ever brag about Moab again, for in Heshbon there is a plot to destroy her. Come, they say, I will cut her off from being a nation. The town of Mad Men 2 will be silenced. The sword will follow you there. Listen to the cries of Horonium, the cries of devastation and great destruction. All Moab is destroyed. Her little ones will cry out. Her refugees will weep bitterly climbing the slope of Leuth. They will cry out in terror descending on the slope of Harinorim. Flee for your lives, hide in the wilderness. Because you have trusted in your wealth and skill. You will be taken captive. Your god, kamosh, will be the, with his priests and officials, will be hauled off to a distant land. All the towns will be destroyed and no one will escape, either on the plateaus or in the valleys. For the lord has spoken oh, that moab had wings so they could fly. For her towns will be left empty, with no one living in them. Cursed are those who refuse to do the Lord's work, who hold back their swords from shedding blood.

Speaker 1: 3:35

From his earliest history, moab has lived in peace, never going into exile. He is like wine that has been allowed to settle. He has not been poured from flask to flask. He is now fragrant and smooth. But the time is coming soon, says the Lord, when I will send men to pour him out from his jar. And they will pour him out, then shatter the jar.

Speaker 1: 3:59

At last, moab will be ashamed of his idol Chemosh, as the people of Israel were ashamed of their god calf at Bethel. You used to boast we are heroes, mighty men of war, but now Moab and his towns will be destroyed, but his most promising youth are doomed to slaughter, says the king whose name is the Lord of Heaven's armies. Destruction is coming fast for Moab. Calamity threatens ominously. You, friends of Moab, weep for him and cry whose name is the lord of heaven's armies? Destruction is coming fast for moab. Calamity threatens ominously.

Speaker 1: 4:29

You, friends of moab, weep for him and cry. See how the strong scepter is broken, how the beautiful staff is shattered. Come down from your glory and sit in the dust. You, people of didon, or dibon, for those who betray moab will shatter Debon too. They will tear down all your towers. You, people of Aror, stand beside the road and watch. Shout to those who flee from Moab what has happened there? And reply comes back. Moab lies in ruins, disgraced, weep and wail. Tell it by the banks of the Arnon River. Moab has been destroyed.

Speaker 1: 5:06

Judgment has been poured out on the towns of the plateau, on Holon and Jehaz and Maphath and Dibon and Nebo and Beth-dabalayim and Kiriathim, bethel, gemu, beth-meon, kerioth and Bezra, and all the towns of Moab, far and near. The strength of Moab has ended. His arm has been broken, says the Lord. Let him stagger and fall like a drunkard, for he has rebelled against the Lord. Moab will wallow in his own vomit.

Speaker 1: 5:38

Ridiculed by all, did you not ridicule the people of Israel, were they caught in the company of thieves? That you should despise them as you do you? People of Moab flee from your towns and live in the caves, hide like doves that nest in the clefts of the rocks. We have heard all of the pride of Moab, and the pride is very great. We know that, his lofty pride, his arrogance and his haughty heart. I know about his insolence, says the Lord, but his boasts are empty, as empty as his deeds.

Speaker 1: 6:12

So now I will wail for Moab. Yes, I will mourn for Moab. My heart is broken for the men of Kir HaReseth, for people of Shibma rich in vineyards. I will weep for you more than I did for Jazir. Your spreading vines once reached as far as the Dead Sea. But the Destroyer has stripped you bare. He has harvested your grapes and summer fruits. Joy and gladness are gone from fruitful Moab. The presses yield no wine. No one treads the grapes with shouts of joy. There is shouting, yes, but not of joy. Instead, their awful cries of terror can be heard from Heshbon, clear across to Eleah and Jehaz, from Zoar all the way to Horanim and to Eglath-Shabliah. Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up.

Speaker 1: 7:06

Now I will put an end to Moab, says the Lord, for the people offer sacrifices at the pagan shrines and burn incense to their false gods. My heart moans like a flute for Moab and for all. Their wealth has disappeared. The people shave their heads and beards in mourning. They slash their hands and put on clothes made of burlap. There is crying and sorrow in every Moabite home, on every street, for I have smashed Moab like an old, unwanted jar. And how it shattered. Hear the wailing, see the shame of Moab. It has become an object of ridicule, an example of ruin to all its neighbors.

Speaker 1: 7:48

This is what the Lord says look, the enemy swoops down like an eagle spreading his wings over Moab. Its cities will fall and its strongholds will be seized. Even the mightiest warriors will be in anguish, like a woman in labor. Moab will no longer be a nation for its boasts against the Lord. Terror and traps and snares will be your lot O Moab, says the Lord. Those who flee in terror will fall into a trap. Those who escape the trap will step into a snare. I will see to it that you do not get away, for the time of your judgment has come, says the Lord. The people flee as far as Heshbon but are unable to go on, for a fire comes from Heshbon, king Sihon ancient home, to devour the entire land with all its rebellious people. What sorrow awaits you, o people of Moab. The people of the god Chemosh are destroyed. Your sons and your daughters have been taken away as captives, but I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the days to come. I, the Lord, have spoken and this is the end of the prophecy, of Jeremiah's prophecy concerning Moab. Wow, basically, you dudes are dead, but I will restore you one day. But you're going to be dead first.

Speaker 1: 9:13

Oh man, how, how hard is that? Because it talks about in there. For so long, they had this pride against the nation of Israel. They talked down to the nation of Israel and how bad they were. And they had all this pride of self-reliance and they were like I got this, I don't need God, I don't need anyone else. And eventually they were destroyed. And what a lesson that is for all of us. The lesson is that pride and self-reliance will help us for a season, but eventually it becomes a double-edged sword and that pride and that self-reliance will destroy us.

Speaker 1: 9:52

Now there's a nuance there, because on the other side of it, we don't want to be people that are constantly begging for things, and there's nothing wrong with being self-sufficient and to try to make your own way in life. And to try to make your own way in life. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with that. What I'm saying is, if you don't depend on the Lord, ultimately that's where we get into trouble. It's okay to be self-sufficient, but never to the point that we don't realize that we still need God. God is the reason why our heart is beating, it's why the neurons are firing in our brains, it's why we have the five senses that we have. It's why we're able to do the things that we're able to do.

Speaker 1: 10:32

The problem wasn't that they wanted to be a strong nation. The problem is they wanted to do it without God, and so my question for you is today is have you gotten to the place to where you're so busy trying to be self-sufficient and a self-made man or a self-made woman, or to make your own way through life. Are you so busy doing that that you've forgotten that all good things come from the Lord? And what the Lord is saying is is if you forget about me, eventually you're going to forget about doing it the right way, and eventually it will lead to your destruction, and maybe you're not there at all.

Speaker 1: 11:07

Maybe the lesson here today is is to take some initiative, to try to become self-sufficient, to try to do better, but to make sure you keep that boundary in place, and it's always got to do with God. I love that, even though they fall, even though he, god, declares some terrible things for these guys, even then, though, he still says but I'm still going to restore you at the right time. So, even if you've experienced some negativity, some bad times, god never gives up on us. Let's remember that today. God, thank you so much for today. Thank you that you're with us and you're for us, and I just pray, god, that no matter how anyone has found themselves here today, they'll remember that you are for us in all things. You are for us and you're always with us. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen and do not forget.

Speaker 1: 11:55

God's word says in Jeremiah 29, verse 13,. If you will look for me wholeheartedly. You will find me. My hope is you find God fresh and new in your life every single day. I love you. I'll see you tomorrow for Jeremiah chapter 49.