Trust Only in the Lord

All right, yeah, you press the button good morning. Good morning. Welcome to coffee and devotions this morning We are at Jeremiah chapter 17 the first 13 verses. Let's have some coffee and pray and we'll get into God's Word It's in the middle, that's right, you don't want any of that do you it's pretty strong because it's gotten cold You still like it It don't taste like anything. Oh, okay. Well, it certainly is coffee. I think it tastes like something.
All right, you ready to pray? All right, God, we thank you so much for this day. Thank you for the blessing it is that we get to spend some time together and read your word. We pray that you would please help us to understand it. Please, Lord, even teach us from it how we are to live in Jesus's name. Amen. All right, so we're at Jeremiah chapter 17. Here we go. The sin of Judah is written with a pin of iron. A pin of iron. With the point of a diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart.
And on the horns of your altars. While their children remember their altars and their wooden images by the green trees on the high hills. On my mountain, in the field, I will give as plunder your wealth, all your treasures, and your high places of sin within all your borders. And you, even yourself, shall let go of your heritage which I gave you, and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you do not know. For you have kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn forever."
What do you think that section's about? What do you think that section's about? I forgot everything. You forgot everything? Sometimes that happens, right? So let's think. So the sins of Judah is written with a pin of iron, engraved with a diamond, written on their altars, right? So God saw their sins, marked their sins, knows their sins, and they're going to be punished for their sins. That's what the Lord's saying. Alright, here.
Why don't you... That's scary. It is very scary. It's a scary thing to fall into the hands of an angry God, isn't it? Here, why don't you help me over here? Because you were trying to lie now, and that's good, but we can do it together here. How's that sound? Okay.
Thus says the Lord, Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord. For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. which shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, and a salt land which is not inhabited." What do you think he's talking about there?
A salt land? Yeah, something about a salt land. So in a land, if the fields outside were all covered in salt, do you think anything would grow well? No, only ice and ice would be disgusting because it would have salt in it and salt is disgusting for ice. So would it be any good to eat food?
No, that's what you're saying, right? Curses, so if you trust in a man, right? If you trust in people as your ultimate, are they going to be there perfectly for you? No. No, right? If you trust in man to be your strength and you depart, your heart leaves God, is it going to go well for you? He says, no, no, no, no. For he shall be like a shrub in the desert.
You've been to a few deserts when we've gone on trips before. Remember places where it's all dry and it's rocky and where there are big, huge trees? Be there in Colorado? Well, we went through some areas where it was really dry and there weren't a lot of people who lived there and there wasn't much field. Were there big trees? Or was it like shrubs? Shrubs.
Shrubs, yeah, that's what he's kind of talking about like that. But, verse 7, Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is in the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spread out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes. But its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit.
Daddy? Yeah? I got something. You tell me. I have to tell the camera and you. Okay, you go ahead and tell me. I have to do it on schedule. Go ahead, tell me. After tomorrow, we're going to go to the pool. After tomorrow is Sunday, and then after that, it's family day. Yeah, but we're talking about this tree, right?
But if you trust in the Lord, what will you be like? Will you be like a shrub in a dry land? What's he say the person who trusts in the Lord will be like? Forgot everything. Well, do we have big trees around us? Yes. Yeah, and do they have big roots that suck up a lot of water? Yeah, you know how like over by the heart leaves you can go over there and there's the trees and and they have big roots and they grow tall and then in the fall what will we do when we go over there? Yeah, we'll climb up them. And what will you find on the branches?
Water? Not water. Fruit. You know how we pick the apples? And there's so many apples that sometimes they're just laying on the ground. There's so many apples. Oh, you mean in Mr. Cart? Yeah. Mr. Cart have a lot and a lot of apples. I thought you'd be meaning art.
No not so we don't have fruit trees. We have we have like ornamental trees. We have trees that that give stuff like do you remember those that tree that have that that there's like leaves and there's little berries but we have to put them in water or else we're eating little bugs. Yeah, we don't want to do that. Yeah, but this is saying it's the difference between being a little shrub in the dry desert, somebody who trusts in man, versus being like a tree that produces lots of fruit and is big and strong.
That's somebody who trusts in the Lord. The heart, the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart. I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings." So Kat says, we shouldn't trust our hearts. Actually, he tests our hearts and our minds. And he's the one who's going to bring everything into judgment.
So he can say, I don't want family camp to be on Monday. Turn it to Sunday. If he wanted to. Yeah, but he would know also if you loved family camp more than you love this word. Or if you loved wanting to go to family camp because you wanted to get in trouble, he would know that that was going on in your heart and in your brain. I think tomorrow I'm gonna try to get it over with and then go to Sunday. Okay, well let's finish this up. As a partridge, that's a bird, that broods but does not hatch, so is he who gets rich. but not by right. It will leave him in the midst of his days, and at his end he will be a fool.
A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be ashamed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. So the Lord is the one who is like the fountain of living waters.
So do we want to turn towards the Lord or turn away from the Lord? Turn to the Lord. Turn to the Lord. Yeah, we don't want to turn towards people for trust, do we? Turn to the Lord. Yeah, turn toward the Lord. Turn toward the Lord. The Lord, that's right. So turn to the Lord.
So in my Bible, I have verse 13, the very bottom, double underlined, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters, right? That's why judgment's coming. I have verse 9 and 10, starred. I have verse 8 underlined as well. There's a whole bunch I got underlined and marked, don't I? Well, I think this reminds me of what Jesus said to the woman at the well. Can I tell you that story real quick? So there was a lady at a well, and they were in a place called Samaria, and the Jewish people didn't like Samaritans, and Samaritans didn't like Jewish people.
But Jesus said he had to go there. And so he and his disciples, they went there. And when they got to a well, he sent his disciples into town. He said, hey, you guys go find food. I'm going to rest here for a little bit. And do you know who was there? It was the middle of the day, the hottest part of the day. And there was a lady who came all by herself because she couldn't go when other people would be there. And Jesus says to her, draw me something to drink. And she says, the well is deep, and you don't have anything to draw.
And then they started talking and he said, you should have asked of me and I will give you living waters. The same thing, God says here, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. If you knew who was talking to you, who it was you were talking with, you would have asked me and I would have given you water and you would have never thirsted again.
She said, I know that the Messiah will come. You know what Jesus said to her? What? You're talking to Him. You're talking to the Lord. And she went into town and she said, You have to come and meet the man who told me everything I've ever done. Jesus gives us living water if we'll come to Him. If we'll turn to Jesus. Yeah, they need water, don't they? Yeah. Alright, you ready to pray? Let's pray.
God, we thank you so much for the blessing it is to get to read your word. You know how easy it is for us to just get distracted, and how easy it is for us to turn away from you. God, we pray that we would drink from the stream of living water from Jesus Christ himself, and that we would never thirst again. Let us be satisfied in you, in Jesus' name. Amen. May God bless you. May you always rejoice in the Lord, your God. And we'll see you next time. You wanna say bye? Uh, Daddy, there's a problem. Yeah, I see it. You wanna say bye? Bye.