Jeremiah 12:1-16 ~ Righteous are You, O Lord

 

Jeremiah 12:1-16

Righteous are you, O Lord,

    when I complain to you;

    yet I would plead my case before you.

Why does the way of the wicked prosper?

    Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

2 You plant them, and they take root;

    they grow and produce fruit;

you are near in their mouth

    and far from their heart.

3 But you, O Lord, know me;

    you see me, and test my heart toward you

Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,

    and set them apart for the day of slaughter.

4 How long will the land mourn

    and the grass of every field wither?

For the evil of those who dwell in it

    the beasts and the birds are swept away,

    because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”

The Lord Answers Jeremiah

5 “If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you,

    how will you compete with horses?

And if in a safe land you are so trusting,

    what will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?

6 For even your brothers and the house of your father,

    even they have dealt treacherously with you;

    they are in full cry after you;

do not believe them,

    though they speak friendly words to you.”

7 “I have forsaken my house;

    I have abandoned my heritage;

I have given the beloved of my soul

    into the hands of her enemies.

8 My heritage has become to me

    like a lion in the forest;

she has lifted up her voice against me;

    therefore I hate her.

9 Is my heritage to me like a hyena's lair?

    Are the birds of prey against her all around?

Go, assemble all the wild beasts;

    bring them to devour.

View of the Temple from Golgotha

10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard;

    they have trampled down my portion;

they have made my pleasant portion

    a desolate wilderness.

11 They have made it a desolation;

    desolate, it mourns to me.

The whole land is made desolate,

    but no man lays it to heart.

12 Upon all the bare heights in the desert

    destroyers have come,

for the sword of the Lord devours

    from one end of the land to the other;

    no flesh has peace.

13 They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns;

    they have tired themselves out but profit nothing.

They shall be ashamed of their harvests

    because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”

14 Thus says the Lord concerning all my evil neighbors 

who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: 

“Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, 

and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them. 

15 And after I have plucked them up, 

I will again have compassion on them, 

and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land. 

16 And it shall come to pass, 

if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, 

to swear by my name,

 ‘As the Lord lives’

Luke 1:68-79

“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,

    for He has visited and redeemed his people

69 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us

    in the house of his servant David,

70 as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,

71 that we should be saved from our enemies

    and from the hand of all who hate us;

72 to show the mercy promised to our fathers

    And to remember His Holy Covenant,

73 the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us

74     that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,

might serve Him without fear

75     In holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.

76 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;

    for you will go before the Lord to prepare His Ways,

77 to give knowledge of salvation to His people

    in the forgiveness of their sins,

Because of the Tender Mercy of our God

    Whereby the Sunrise shall visit us from on high

79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,

    to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

The Scriptures today are a circle. 

Usually, we begin and end our days in a circle. 

This Circle is Significantly Wider. Jeremiah lived in 700 B.C. and describes Good Friday.

And the Significant Circle of God, He is Light of the world. 

We pray and we tell the Lord God The Almighty our complaints. 

Prayer, honest prayer, has complaints from Jeremiah 1 to Jeremiah 12 on through all of Jeremiah. And  we read complaints to the Lord God in Luke 1.  As Jesus is being handed over on Good Friday, we read of the Disciples running from the Circle. And then returning, to John's Gospel Chapter 21, to allow the Living and Risen God Jesus Christ, Only Son of God, to cook and provide breakfast to hear the Disciples relax and complain.

John 16:27 

For the Father Himself loves you, 

because you have loved Me 

and have believed

 that I came from God.

Abba, Father God,

Dwell in us, Jesus Christ,

And we will find songs from the Spirit, singing to God with

gratitude in our hearts.

Help us to Seek You First.

Because of the Tender Mercy of our God

 Whereby the Sunrise shall visit us from on high

79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,

    to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Jesus describes His Father:

Jesus tells of His Loving and Available Father:

God in His

Heaven

World

For in Christ Jesus, all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.

  

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. 

Revelation 14:6

Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth – to every nation, tribe, language and people. 

From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 

The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Look! God's dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God."

Abba, we Pray:

Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. NIV

The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.

Abba, we Pray in the Highest Name of Jesus:

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies 

because of His Spirit who lives in you. 

The Lord Jesus and His Willing Blessings for Elliott.

 May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you 

to live in such harmony with one another, 

in accord with Christ Jesus, 

that together you may with one voice 

glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Jesus, You are

The Way, Truth and Life.

Jesus, the Holy Spirit is Comfort and Comforter.

In Your Life, we find Life can be harsh

and our Hope and Future are in You.

The Lord our Father God

please be merciful to this nation

asking and praying in the Highest Name of Jesus.

Your Willing Mercies

on Your Creation You call Good.

We ask in the Highest Name of Jesus

and in His Righteousness

and Favor. Amen.

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Matthew 21:12-17 ~ Prepared Praise †

Why a donkey and a colt?

Jesus is the Way, the Truth and The Life.

The Holy Spirit is Comfort.

Matthew 21:12-17

12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 

13 He said to them,

 “It is written, 

‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 

15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, 16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” 

And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,

“‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies

    You have prepared praise’?”

17 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.

 Christ Pantocrator, 6th century

The Greek word Pantocrator is “he who has authority over everything.” Two Hebrew expressions in the Old Testament describe God, the “God of Hosts” (Sabaot) and “Almighty” (El Shaddai).

Perhaps the different eyes of Jesus represent the Divine and Jesus the man.

God is God.  Our God, The Almighty, is fully the architect of His Living Word, and teaches us to know images of Jesus as a living man walking and healing us all, being Grace upon Grace.  David was ruddy. And handsome and very young. Solomon was clothed beautifully.  Saul was extremely tall. 

 A man of Sorrows, Isaiah 53:3 describing Jesus of Good Friday. Jesus describes Himself in John 14, 15, 16 and 17 as a man who has lived a Joyful Life. 

We do not know if Jesus was Ruddy, tall, short, blonde, light or dark eyes. 

God wants us to recognize: Our Heavenly Father, the Exact Nature of Jesus. 

Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done on earth as in Heaven. Give us this day. Our Daily Bread. Forgive us our Trespasses.  Lead us not into Temptation. Deliver us from evil. For His is The Kingdom, The Power and The Glory.

We recognize Father God in these Verses 

Being Glorified on earth, as people are not. Julius Caesar didn't have impromptu be our king parades. Complete with blankets and coats lost to the crowd for Jesus to walk upon. The fringe of the Robe of Jesus was known to heal. Acts 5 tells us the family and friends of the ill and dying were placed in the shadow of the Disciples of Jesus to heal.    

God addresses injustice forthrightly. Without fear of mankind. Jesus is in the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, so rarely opened.

Jesus Christ is the Light of the world

Jesus Christ is the Light of mankind

Light has no borders or boundaries. † One of the most important images Jesus  is giving us.  

Jesus wants us to see in His Message Eternally is His Nature.  Jesus doesn't just ride on a donkey like David did.  David explained himself by riding his donkey to his coronation, David knew he was a man of the people. David fully explains his roots.

Jesus is Teaching as He rides in on a Donkey and brings a colt. 

Horses sent a rare message. In the Roman Empire, few men can be Tribunes. Senatorial Rank in the equestrian portion of the army. Horses were very elite. To be equestrian rank, the man brings his own horse.

Jesus is Light of mankind. Jesus is not poverty creeping into a criminal death. Jesus is a Carpenter's Son. Jesus is the Son of the Most High God.  Jesus is the Messiah of God. Both God and man.

Jesus is Light of the world

Palm Sunday is Jesus enters through the Beautiful Gate

Amos 5: 14-24

Seek good, and not evil,

    that you may live;

and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you,

    as you have said.

15 Hate evil, and love good,

    and establish justice in the gate

It may be that the Lord, the God of hosts,

    will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

16 Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord:

“In all the squares there shall be wailing,

    and in all the streets they shall say, ‘Alas! Alas!’

They shall call the farmers to mourning

    and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,

17 and in all vineyards there shall be wailing,

    for I will pass through your midst,”

says the Lord.

18 Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!

    Why would you have the day of the Lord?

It is darkness, and not light,

as if a man fled from a lion,

    and a bear met him,

or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall,

    and a serpent bit him.

20 Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light,

    and gloom with no brightness in it?

21 “I hate, I despise your feasts,

    and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

22 Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,

    I will not accept them;

and the peace offerings of your fattened animals,

    I will not look upon them.

23 Take away from me the noise of your songs;

    to the melody of your harps I will not listen.

24 But let justice roll down like waters,

    and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Holy Week and Easter of 2021

Uniquely tell us of God's Plans

and 

The Joy of God is our Strength.

When we say

Jesus is the Way, Truth and Life

we recognize

The Holy Spirit is Comfort.

God intends us to Love Jesus and find Him our Comfort.

We sometimes wonder in the news and the daily disaster report, if Jesus has fallen asleep in the boat. Maybe, we should wake Him. 

The Way, The Truth, The Life. Jesus Christ.

When we see Jesus healed them 'all', we find some are indignant. 

The Sacrifice, then the Comfortless. Jesus discourages the Money Machine. Jesus isn't about the bank Herod adored for Rome, Jesus is for the joy of His Righteousness and His Boldness in His Righteousness.

Today's Verse says: Even God's Praises were being discouraged.

When Jesus heals the deaf man so beautifully and carefully, Jesus is with a deaf man.

When Jesus heals the ten lepers, Jesus acknowledges life has lepers. 

Verse 17, Jesus takes refuge in Bethany. Zechariah said around its northern side,  would be the road to Bethany and the Jordan

Zechariah 14:4

On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward.

Jesus Christ.

The Time of His Sacrifice He is not discussing the end of the world. Not talking about the unrepentant cities. Jesus acknowledges in all His Way, His Truth and His Life, life is not Heaven. Jesus is taking refuge in the city He calls unrepentant.

Jesus knew the hassles and frustrations of Life. He found Joy because of His Faith in God's Plan. His Joy in seeing the Centurion's Faith in the Word Spoken by God's Son. 

Jesus the clear vision of God's Plan sees The Way of Life, The Truth of Life, and finds Life Joy. Finding the Holy Spirit is Comfort.

God's Mercies Renew.

As Holy Week, Good Friday and Easter Sunday are here,

we realize we are not dust in Jesus Christ.

We Begin Again as His Mercies Renew.

Psalm 24

A Psalm of David

The earth is the Lord's 
and 
the fullness thereof
the world 
and those
 who dwell therein

He has founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the rivers.

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?

And who shall stand in his holy place?

4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who does not lift up his soul to what is false
and does not swear deceitfully.

5 He will receive blessing from the Lord
and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

6 Such is the generation of those who seek him,
who seek the face of the God of Jacob. 
Selah!

 Lift up your heads, O gates!

And be lifted up, O ancient doors!

The King of glory may come in.

8 Who is this King of glory?

The Lord, strong and mighty,
the Lord, mighty in battle!

9 Lift up your heads, O gates!
And lift them up, O ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.

10 Who is this King of glory?

The Lord of hosts,
He is the King of glory! 
Selah!




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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow the Children of God.

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John 16:27 ~ For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

John 16:27

For the Father himself loves you, 

because you have loved me 

and have believed that  

I came from God. 

 Isaiah 40:26 

 Lift up your eyes on high and see: 

Who created these? 

He who brings out their host by number, 

calling them all by name; 

by the greatness of His might 

and because He is strong in power, not one is missing.

God Himself, He upholds the Universe by the power of His Word, sees you as His Child. We are temporary and in Jesus Christ, God makes us eternal. We will see our Father God and understand the tenderness of His Love.

Because of Jesus we are not flowers passing in the field. We are not dust.

And as God Provided the Banquet, He expected to bring a ring and a robe.

 

Abba, Father God,

Our Abba, as we open our hands to You in Prayer. 

We consider by grace we have been saved through faith. 

And this is not our own doing; it is the gift of God.

Help us always to seek Your First, Jesus Christ.

In this comfort and Love, help us be able to know

You will love and dwell with those we Love.

Having gifts, let us use them: in proportion to our faith. 

Even the Disciples had fear. Please pray for peace during this time.

We thank You for hearing our Prayers, Abba. 

We will ask for each day, each opportunity, each decision, every day - Father God who gives generously to all without reproach, we will ask for Wisdom and to see Your Willingness and it will be given to Your Beloved.

We pray this for our concerns, our lives, our hopes. We pray this over the people we love. The People You have given us. Healing, life, hearing, eyes, provision, opportunities. Hope, Joy, Love. Protection. And for this Nation to love You more. 

And for the Beloved of God - everywhere to have this of You, their Father.

Always, we want to Listen to Jesus.

Our Jesus comfort and heal Elliott. This morning I flung open the Scriptures to pray for Elliott and his healing from Jesus. These are the very verses Jesus gave me to pray for Elliott. 

Genesis 15:15

As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

1 Chronicles 29:28

Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. 

And Solomon his son reigned in his place.

Psalm 71:18-19

18 So even to old age and gray hairs,

    O God, do not forsake me,

until I proclaim your might to another generation,

    your power to all those to come.

19 Your righteousness, O God,

    reaches the high heavens.

Isaiah 46:4

even to your old age I am he,

    and to gray hairs I will carry you.

I have made, and I will bear;

    I will carry and will save.

Bless this Nation with mercy and tolerance, remembering the historic anger and ill-logic

following Pandemics. The sweep of History shows Pandemics have recovery.

Lord Jesus we ask Your Love and Help.

Thank You for Your Willing Blessings.

Amen in His Highest Name

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