Jeremiah 25: The Cup of God's Just Judgment

So despite the fact that God sent prophet after prophet to warn them and to tell them that what they were doing was sin against him and that it was wrong, and that by not worshiping him and him alone, they were committing idolatry, and that they needed to repent of their sin and turn from their evil and back to him, which they should have already known. Amen? Despite all those warnings, time after time, year after year, decade after decade, century after century, they did not repent, They did not stop their wickedness. They didn't stop their immorality. They didn't stop their sexual perversions involved in that. They did not stop their child sacrifices to their false gods or any of those wicked things or the wicked actions that they were doing. Instead, they ignored God's warnings. [00:43:13] (55 seconds)  #IgnoredGodsWarnings

I want you to think about how gracious this is, that even after they had sinned against God, even after they had gone out and worshiped other made up gods instead of him and done all sorts of wickedness in supposed worship of these other gods, God gave them the opportunity to simply turn from their sin and come back to him to repent and turn from all their mess and turn back to him. And if they would, he would forgive them and let them continue to live in this wonderful land that he had led them into and that he was giving them. [00:39:43] (45 seconds)  #GraceAndRepentance

The choice is yours. The two cups are there. Which one will you drink? The cup of God's wrath or the cup of his mercy? Friends, if you've never trusted in Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior, he died on the cross to take God's wrath for your sin. In other words, he died in your place to take the punishment in for your sin. He offers to be your substitute in taking the wrath of God for you. [01:19:00] (43 seconds)  #TwoCupsChoice

He says the other cup that God is offering friends is full of his mercy Because Jesus took the cup of God's wrath for us, it is offered freely to all who will believe. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish, should not die, but will have everlasting life. [01:18:17] (31 seconds)  #MercyThroughChrist

Friends, the truth is no one will escape the judgment of God. Whether that is that they are judged here on earth as the Judahites were or that they are judged when they stand before him one day. Most of you are probably familiar with Hebrews nine twenty seven. It tells us as it it that it is appointed for men to die once. What does it say next? But after this, the judgment. [01:12:15] (29 seconds)  #JudgmentAwaitsAll

Friends, I believe all this teaches us an important truth that we may not really want to acknowledge and that is that God can even use wicked people and wicked nations to accomplish his will. Now, but that does not mean that he endorses their wickedness or even necessarily that he endorses the means by which they do what they do. They themselves, he says here, will suffer the consequences for their own sin as well. [00:53:36] (40 seconds)  #GodUsesAllNations

Friends, all who are guilty and who do not trust in the blood of Jesus Christ to cover their sins will be made to drink of the cup of God's wrath. Now, that's the bad news. Amen. But there is good news. Praise God. The good news is this, friends, and that is that Jesus took the cup of God's wrath for all who believe in him. [01:12:43] (31 seconds)  #CupOfWrathAndGrace

God is a gracious God. He is a forgiving God. If we will simply turn from our sin and back to him, he realizes that we're sinners and that we do stupid things, sinful things, ungodly things, and we put other things before him, but his command to us today is really the same as it was then. If you will turn from your sin to me, I will forgive your sin and I will heal you. [00:44:32] (38 seconds)  #TurnAndBeHealed