Submit to God’s Truth

Hey, hey, good morning. Good morning. Welcome to coffee and devotions this morning. We are at Joshua chapter 20 Joshua Jeremiah Jeremiah 27 we're gonna be talking about Yolks and stuff yoke. Do you know what a yoke is? So if you go to different countries even so day or maybe if we go to like old threshers Where it's showing like how they used to farm long ago it will show that you have an animal and they have something that comes across their neck and it would go around their neck and they would pull this or carry a load underneath their shoulders so as they walk they could pull a plow or pull a cart or something like that.
Oh but then the cat or the dog would die. Well it's not about cats or dogs. Yeah you wouldn't put it on. Although some dogs have something like a yoke if they're like sled dogs. What's a sled dog? Oh, I'll have to show you someday. There's like doggies that will pull people on on sleds in places like Alaska.
Why? Because they're bred for that. What's bred? Bred means like they're the owners will try to find certain doggies that do really well with running long distances and are able to pull weight. And so that's their job. And so they get fed and they get cared for and they do their job. Nope, just like a cow or an ox.
All right, you ready to pray? All right, Lord, thank you so much for the blessing it is to get to spend time together and to spend time in your word. We pray, God, that you would please help us to understand your word, that your Holy Spirit would teach us and lead us. Lord, we need you to sanctify us, to lead us into all truth and to change our lives because of the truth of your word. In Jesus's name. Amen.
I'd like some coffee. Well, you don't have coffee, but you have some tea. Did mommy make you tea? No. Did you make it yourself? I put the cup down. I got this out. I put it in. Well, Mama put it in, but I got it out. And Mama turned on the thing. She opened the thing, and then I put it down, and it closed. Oh, cool. All right. So it was like you and Mom did it. OK. All right, here we go.
Jeremiah chapter 27. In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying..." Alright, here's what God says, you ready? Thus says the Lord to me, make for yourselves bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck, and send them to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, and to the king of Ammonites, the king of Tyre, the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messenger who come from Jerusalem to Zedekiah, king of Judah.
Please don't do that. And command them to say to their masters, Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, thus you shall say to your masters, I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground by my great power and by my outstretched arm and have given it to whom it seems proper to me. Where are we? We are at now verse Sorry verse six So we're on this page now.
I see this proper to me and now I Have given all these And now I have My all these Lands and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant and the beast of the field I have also given him to serve him so all nations shall serve him and his son and his son's son until the time of his land comes, and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them. And it shall come that the nation and kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will perish, says the Lord. With the sword the famine and the pestilence until I have consumed them by his hand Therefore do not listen to your prophets your diviners your dreamers your soothsayers or your sorcerers who speak to you saying You shall not serve the king of Babylon For they prophesy a lie to you To remove you of What lie? They're saying that King Nebuchadnezzar isn't going to rule over them that the yoke, the weight, the burden of his kingship, they said, we're not going to have him.
He says, they're lying to you. Those prophets are saying lies. For they all prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from the land. And I will drive you out, and you will perish. But the nations that bring their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let them remain in their own land, says the Lord, and they shall till it and dwell in it. So he's saying, King Babylon's coming. So he says, King Babylon's coming. He's going to be king. And if you'll say, OK, king, you're king, you'll get to stay in your own land.
But if not, guess what's going to happen? That's scary. Yeah, they're going to rip you out of it. Rip you out of what? Rip you out of your houses. Rip you out of your land. Yeah. Alright, so now we're here at verse 12. Are you going to read that? I don't know what that is. That's the letter I. You know that. Oh. What? Oh. Is it U? Right here.
I. I also spoke to Zedekiah, king of Judah.
I also spoke to Zedekiah, king of Judah, according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. Why would you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? Therefore do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon, for they prophesy a lie to you, for I have not sent them, says the Lord. Yet they prophesy a lie in my name, that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you. So he says, I'm not just talking to all the neighboring people, right?
Egypt and Edom and all of them. I'm talking to Judah too. The tribe of Judah. Israel. They need to submit to the king of Babylon. But Judah is my brother. Yeah, not your baby brother. We're talking about Judah, the tribe of Israel. Also, I spoke to the priests and to all the people, saying, Thus says the Lord, Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lord's house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon, for they prophesy a lie to you. Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city be laid waste? But if they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, let them now make intercession to the Lord of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, do not go to Babylon."
So Nebuchadnezzar had come. So Nebuchadnezzar had come, this king of Babylon, he had come And he had not only taken one of the kings into exile, but he had even taken the articles out of the temple. What's an article? Articles, so like the stuff, like so there were gold plates and gold cups and all sorts of stuff like that, gold utensils, and he had taken all of that and taken it to his temple. Why? Because he was plundering the temple, saying, see, my God's better than your God.
Yep, so. He had already done all that and people were saying, oh this is the stuff is going to come back. It's going to come back too soon. No, it's not guys. It's gone. It's gone for a long time. Why? Because God's disciplining his people because they wouldn't follow him. He says, so repent now. Submit. Why do you want to keep provoking the king? King Nebuchadnezzar.
He's just going to come and destroy the city. For thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the carts, and concerning the remainder of the vessels that remain in this city. King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem. Yes, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the King of Judah and of Jerusalem, that they shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until the day I visit them, says the Lord. Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place. The staff has been taken away? people have been taken away and God says they're going to stay there until I decide to bring them back. So, this is, what do you think this whole section was about then? Bad. You think it was about bad? You think it was about, like, lying prophets? No. And lying priests?
No. Who had given King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, victory over Judah? God did. Do you think this was a popular thing for Jeremiah to say? No. No, sometimes is it hard to say things that people don't like? Yep. But if God says them and they're true, do we have to say them? Yeah.
So what types of hard things do you think God has said to you? Maybe you don't like them, but they're true. What do you think? Can you think of any? Maybe children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. That's a super easy one, right? No. What about, for the wages of sin is death. You think that's an easy one?
No, I think there's all sorts of sins and problems we have that may not be easy to tell people about, but yet God is true. It may not be easy for me to tell people who really, really want to think that they're able to change the whole world to become Christians and the whole world will always love God and we can be without sin.
And I have to tell them, I don't think that's the case. I think we're going to continue to struggle. And some of my friends, we disagree on this. And I have to say, I just don't think that God says what you're trying to say He says. And sometimes it means that some of our friends don't even want to be friends with us anymore. I'm glad that Kennedy and Oakley believe me. Yeah, you're glad you have friends? Alright, you ready to pray?
God, we know that there is even an offense in the cross of Jesus Christ, but we know that He is the King who reigns supreme. And so we pray that we would come to Jesus, whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light. Lord, we pray that we would take up His name upon our shoulders, for the government is upon His shoulders. The law was carried by Him perfectly. And so, God, we pray that we would not strive For we know that you have given us rest in your Son. And so, Father, we thank you for the good work you've given us in Jesus. We thank you for giving us a wonderful King in Jesus' name. Amen. May God bless you. May you walk in the Lord Jesus Christ's kingdom. And we'll see you next time. Wanna say bye-bye? Bye. Yawn, yawn, yawn.