Jeremiah 7:8-10

"Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot profit.

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely,

burn incense to Ba'al, and walk after other gods

whom you do not know,

and then come and stand before Me in this house which

is called by My name, and say,

'We are delivered to do all these abominations'?

Jeremiah 7:8-10

Jeremiah was warning Judah, telling them they were

'trusting in lying words'. Lying words from the priests

and false prophets, believing that they could do whatever

they wanted, believing they could worship other gods...

that they could murder and steal and break every commandment

the LORD God gave them and God wouldn't care. To the people

of Jeremiah's time all that mattered was that the "Temple of the LORD" stood. They put there trust in the Temple, and essentially

they believed as long as the temple was standing and they could go

and get "Forgiveness of sins" they could intern just simply wash

their hands clean and go and continue doing whatever they wanted, they could even have other gods.

"Do not trust in these lying words, saying, 'The temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD are these.'

Jeremiah 7:4

I've said it before and I'll say it some more, I'm sure a lot of people

are thinking...

"Oh...those stupid...stupid..people of the old Testament"

Really? are a good majority of us "Christians" not exactly

the same today? those who claim Christ has made them new,

and grafted them into the tree, yet remain exactly as they were before? While the jews of Jeremiah's time put their trust

in the temple and thought they could please God and themselves

at the same time, thinking they could go off and do whatever they wanted because

"hey it doesn't matter.. we can just go to the temple and sacrifice an animal and be forgiven, God will protect us, we can live like our heathen neighbors, we can sin all we want, but just make sure we go once a month and sacrifice an animal."

It really hasn't changed today from Jeremiah's time,

in fact it's probably even worse, now it's..

"Hey it doesn't matter, I accepted Jesus in my Heart I'm saved!

He died on the cross for my sins, so I can be oblivious now to

my sins, I can live however I want and you can't judge me or

my life style because I am saved."

I touched on it a little bit a couple blogs ago, about how

a good amount of "christians" don't even know the ten commandments,they don't think they even matter at all.

They think that the Old Testament is a bunch of old

scribbles and mumbo jumbo and it doesn't mean jack...

Really? I guess people completely ignore that Christ

did nothing but QUOTE FROM IT....what do you think

Christ and the disciples studied? what did they revolve their

ministry and teaching around? God didn't change from the

Old Testament to the NEW, He's the same as He ever was, and

He will always be the same. In fact I don't even like the term

"Old Testament" and "New Testament" for you wouldn't have

the New if you didn't have the "old", and just as Paul said he wouldn't of known what sin was if it wasn't for the Law.

Christ Himself said..

"Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets."

Matthew 5:17

If the "Old Testament" doesn't matter, If the Commandments

don't mean anything, then why did Christ quote

so much from the "old",why did he speak on the commandments/law in his sermon on the mount? why did he tell a man to follow them in Matthew 19:18? and probably most of all If the commandments

and the Old testament don't matter then why did Christ have

to be Sacrificed for us?

Just like the jews in Jeremiah's time, We claim to be for God

and yet refuse to stand by His word.

My people have turned their backs on me and have refused to

return. Day after day, year after year, I taught them right from

wrong, but they would not listen or obey.

Jeremiah 32:33