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Our scripture today is Jeremiah 33:8 (MEV). I will cleanse them from all their iniquity whereby they have sinned against Me. And I will pardon all their iniquities whereby they have sinned and whereby they have transgressed against Me. God sends a message of hope to mitigate our disobedience. He promises a way for us …
Our scripture today is Jeremiah 10:10 (MEV). But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God and an everlasting King. At His wrath the earth trembles, and the nations cannot endure His indignation. While Jeremiah may weep over the peoples’ failure, he also brings the unfiltered truth: the God of creation can …
Our scripture today is Jeremiah 8:6 (MEV). I listened and heard, but they did not speak what is right. No man repented of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turned to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle. Jeremiah gives us a lesson that is repeated several times in scripture -“everyone …
Our scripture today is Jeremiah 7:11 (MEV). Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the Lord. Jesus quotes this verse and Isaiah 56:7 when He says in Matthew 21:13 “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a …
Our scripture today is Jeremiah 5:3 (MEV). O Lord, are not Your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. Jeremiah is sometimes known as …
Our scripture today is Jeremiah 1:5 (ESV). Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah receives his call from God in this verse, becoming a prophet to the southern kingdom of Judah. He is perhaps not …
Our scripture this morning is Isaiah 65:17 (ESV). For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. In John’s vision from Revelation 21:1 we read “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first …
Our scripture today is Isaiah 61:1 (ESV). The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; …
Our scripture today is Isaiah 55:6-7 (ESV). Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly …
Our scripture today is Isaiah 53:4-5 (ESV). Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are …