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God and the Public Square (Jeremiah 7:1-11)
Graham Powell, 11 May 2014
Part of the Missio Dei - Part Three: The Arena Of Mission series, Sunday Morning service
We have looked at the God of Mission and People of Mission, now we turn to the Arena of Mission. Jeremiah 7 presents us with a picture of God standing at the door of the church, watching us as we leave to enter the real world where we will spend most of our time. How do our actions out there match up with our words while we are in church? Praise and worship inside HBC has little meaning if God’s values of truth and justice do not impact our everyday lives. Jeremiah 7:1-11
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Jeremiah 7:1–11 (Listen)
7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2 “Stand in the gate of the LORD’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the LORD. 3 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place. 4 Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
5 “For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, 6 if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, 7 then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
8 “Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. 9 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.
(ESV)