Sunday AM Service - Right To Life Sunday: Covetousness In The Land Of Slaughter
1/16/2022
Text: Jeremiah 19:3-6
Whenever Israel worshipped strange divinities she would up shedding innocent blood - mainly "The Innocent" speaking of the children
The shedding of innocent blood is listed as one of the seven things God hates and detests
Many of Israel's kings were evil and led Israel to child sacrifice (Leadership)
Josiah led Israel in revival; his son led her to apostasy and child sacrifice (Jer. 22:17)
The prophet Jeremiah and Isaiah spoke the most about this horrific evil
Jeremiah wept for the babies; the church should be doing the same
"Rachel" wept for her children for they were not (Jeremiah 31:15 Cp. Matthew 2:16-17)
There have been three major attempts by Satan to destroy children
A. Pharaoh - During the time of Moses
B. Herod - During the time of Jesus
C. Present - prior to the return of Christ
9. Jeremiah decried Israel's descent into this madness of child sacrifice - Jeremiah 19:4-7
10. Jeremiah was told to take an "earthen bottle" of pottery to "the ancients" and brake it
11. It was a prophetic picture of what was to come to Judah and Jerusalem
12. Jeremiah would speak from the valley of Hinnom - Cp. Mark 9:48 "Where the worm dieth not"
13. "Ears will tingle" at the evil that will come upon Jeruslame for this sin 15. 19:4 - "Because"
A. Estranged this place
B. Burned incense in it to the other Gods
C. Have filled this place with the blood of innocents
D. Built the high places of Baal (7:31-32)
E. The valley of Hinnom was where this human sacrifice took place
THEY OFFERED UP THEIR CHILDREN TO MOLOCH
14. God will mete out same judgement where they killed innocents, he would kill those who killed babies
15. "I will make void" the counsel of Judah "I will cause them to fall by the sword"; "there carcasses will I give to be meat for the fowls"; "I will make their cities desolate" - A hissing; "I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and daughters"
"THEN YOU SHALL BREAK THE BOTTLE IN THEIR SIGHT" - JUDGEMENT
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