Jeremiah 1:13-16 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
13Again the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “What do you see?” “I see a boiling pot,” I replied, “and it is tilting toward us from the north.” 14Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land. 15For I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD.
“Their kings will come and set up their thrones
at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem.
They will attack all her surrounding walls
and all the other cities of Judah.
16I will pronounce My judgments against them
for all their wickedness,
because they have forsaken Me,
and they have burned incense to other gods
and worshiped the works of their own hands.
For All Their Wickedness
Translated to our world today, this is speaking of the
judgment of God against all who profess the name of Jesus but who are living
the opposite of what God requires of us who profess His name. This is against
all who have forsaken the Lord to go after the idols of this world, who are
living immoral, sinful and wicked lives. Among them are those who engage in
what is illegal, fake, manipulative, twisted, seductive, sexually immoral, and/or
rebellious, and they do this habitually with hard hearts while faking the
opposite.
Among them are those who are predators who spin webs of
deceit in order to catch others in their snare. They are liars and deceivers
who profess one thing with their lips while they live the opposite, who lead
others astray with their lies, and who will lead others into sin, and/or who willfully
misrepresent someone who is following the Lord Jesus, out of hatred and
jealousy, and in order to destroy them and their reputation. Although they
might profess love for God with their lips, their lifestyles and habits speak
the opposite of that.
They Have Forsaken God
Sadly, so much of what is called “church” today, here in the
USA, are businesses of human origin being marketed to the people of the world.
They are designed to attract the world to their gatherings, and so they use gimmicks
and entertainment to draw in large crowds of people from the world into their
gatherings. Therefore, they also dilute and alter the gospel of our salvation
so as not to offend the people of the world and to be more acceptable to those
who are continuing in deliberate and habitual sin.
So many of them now are teaching that all we have to do, in
order to be saved and on our way to heaven, is to make a profession of faith in
Jesus Christ, done deal! But the Scriptures teach we must deny self, die to
sin, and follow our Lord in obedience to His commands, in life practice, if we
are to have salvation from sin and eternal life with God. For Jesus died and
rose from the dead in order to deliver us out from under our slavery to sin so
we will now serve Him with our lives in walks of obedience to His commands.
The Judgments of God
Now, all throughout the Scriptures we learn of the judgments
of God which are to take place in these last days before the return of our
Lord. I believe we are already beginning to see some of those taking place
throughout the world and within the USA, which is where I live. I believe the
beast is rising and he is already conquering people and nations throughout the
world, and a one world order is already being formed. Lies and liars abound
just about everywhere you look these days. It makes it hard to believe other people.
All is in God’s timing, though.
Jeremiah 1:17-19 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
17Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them. 18Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land. 19They will fight against you but will never overcome you, since I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.
As Followers of Jesus Christ
So, as followers of Jesus Christ, what is our response to be
to all of this? We are to be spreading the truth of the gospel of Christ to the
people of this world. And right now, the internet (at least in the USA) is
still wide open for us to be declaring publicly the truth of the gospel of
Christ. But already I am beginning to see the potential of censorship taking
place to where we will be limited to what we can say or not say in the near
future. So the time for us to do this is now and it may be soon that this
censorship will take place.
But… We are not to compromise the gospel message. We are to
keep speaking the truth in love to the people of the world. We are not to allow
ourselves to be intimidated by those who want to censor us, and who want us to
dilute the gospel message to make it less offensive to the ungodly. And who are
the ungodly? They are all who are living in addictive sin who have not
surrendered their lives to Jesus and who are not walking in obedience to His
commands, whether or not they profess faith in Jesus Christ.
Keep Speaking The Truth
Yes, we are to obey the authorities over us, but we are not
to disobey God by compromising the truth of the gospel to be less offensive to
the ungodly. Remember that Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, Jesus Christ,
Peter, John, and Paul, et al, stood against those in authority over them when
the authority over them commanded that they not obey God. And we are to do
likewise. We must keep speaking the truth of the gospel to the people for them
to be delivered out of sin and to now obey God with their lives.
For Jesus Christ taught that to come to Him we must deny
self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) Him. For if
we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity.
But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience
to our Lord and to His commands, in His power, then we have eternal life with
God. For not everyone who calls Him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew
7:21-23).
Get Yourselves Ready
An Original Work / October 19,
2026
Christ’s Free
Servant, Sue J Love
Should I Not Preach Jesus
Based off 1 Corinthians 9:16-10:13
An Original Work /
July 4, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Woe to me should I
not preach Jesus.
I’m compelled to
preach the full gospel.
I make myself a
slave to ev’ryone
To win their hearts
to Christ.
All this I do for my
Lord Jesus,
And for the sake of
His Name;
Do it for the sake
of His gospel,
So that I, its
blessings gain.
Scripture notates
the sins of others;
Written down for us
as examples
To keep us from
setting our hearts
On evil as did those
of old.
Do not worship other
gods of man;
Do not give your
hearts to them;
Not partake in
immorality.
Do not test your
Lord and King.
So, be careful if
you think you are
Standing firm in your faith in Jesus.
God has given His
word to warn us,
So through faith we
will not fall.
No temptation has
o’ertaken you
Except what is
commonplace.
God is faithful to
not let you be
Tempted past what
you can bear.
He gives the way of
escape.
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