Be Decisive: Taking a Stand for the Truth, by Warren Wiersbe

Jeremiah’s primary message was a warning to repent and turn back to God. In chapter seven, Jeremiah says he told the people that God promised: “…Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you” (Jeremiah 7:23). Unfortunately, the very next verse informs us: “But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward” (24). Through Jeremiah, God warned the people what would happen if they continued in their idolatry and sin, and it all happened just as God said it would because they did not repent and turn back to God. The book of Jeremiah also records the promise that God would bring captive Israel back home - after they served Babylon for 70
years. This also happened, just as Hr said. God is a God of love, but He is also a Holy God and cannot abide sin. Sin cannot go unpunished. For this reason, and because He loves us, God sent Jesus to bear the burden, the punishment, for all our sins, so we can be forgiven, if we accept the free gift of salvation, and we can spend eternity with Him!

In the introduction to this Bible Study, Ken Baugh writes: “I pray that as you read Jeremiah, you will see the numerous times God warned His people to repent. I pray that you will see how they refused and God reluctantly sent His judgment. I urge you, if you are a child of God and if there is sin in your life, to be decisive and repent.” ( )

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