Our Loving Just and Righteous Lord, Jeremiah 9:23-24

``Well, as we're here together, in this place, we certainly are thankful for the Lord's provision that we have a place and ability to be able to come together and to study the word of God. We're gonna look at the prophet Jeremiah. He might be something someone that many of you are not familiar with, but as a prophet Jeremiah served during the time when the Babylonians were invading Judah, the nation of Israel and the fall of Jerusalem. The deportation of many captives over to Babylon which is modern day Iraq. [00:01:31] (33 seconds)  #JeremiahStudy

Jeremiah has another nickname. He is he's known as the weeping prophet which he went through a very difficult time but he's also the author of the book of Lamentations. So anyone that authors a book that's called Lamentations to be called the weeping prophet sort of fits. [00:02:04] (17 seconds)  #WeepingProphet

But what I really like is we take a look at it. We're gonna be in Jeremiah chapter nine. Jeremiah, as he's weeping over what's gonna happen for Jude and all the things in his heart, the Lord still gives him the message of hope and things to be able to positively focus on. And so we're gonna take a look at that now. So open your Bibles, if you will, to Jeremiah chapter nine. And in Jeremiah chapter nine, we're just gonna look at verses twenty three and twenty four. [00:02:21] (28 seconds)  #Jeremiah9Study

Now think about that. We can think that we're wise and that we know all of these things and yes, it's a joke and I tried to go across both party lines as far as that goes. But it's the idea that we boast in these things that are in this world and God says there's something greater than boasting about your your might or your wisdom or your possessions. [00:05:32] (20 seconds)  #BeyondWorldlyBoasting

I'm in awe of that word that God communicates us as he wants us to understand him. This is God who is higher than the highest. David says, if I go into the highest of heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in the depths of Sheol, Lord, you are there also. Nowhere can I go? His ways are unfathomable. [00:06:11] (19 seconds)  #GodIsEverywhere

Then he goes on though, and he says, who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. We understand and we wanna know the nature of God and and who he is. First, he says he's a doer. He practices these things, love and justice and righteousness. Things that we, in our lives, should practice as well as a reflection of the God who has made us. But this first thing he says, steadfast love. That is a love that is irregardless of our circumstances. You know God loves you, and he exercises that in this world. It's part of his nature. [00:07:50] (41 seconds)  #GodIsLoveAndJustice

John tells us that God is love. It's part of him to be able to do that, and we understand it. But this passage also goes on and says, that is not all of who God is. We have great comfort in knowing if you're downcast, that there's a God that loves you and cares for you. But he's also a God of justice. He says that that he is practices steadfast love and justice. He must execute that justice in this earth. [00:08:30] (28 seconds)  #JusticeAndMercy

God is perfectly just and He must punish sin. Scripture tells us that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. We deserve God's justice and the things that He does and He must punish sin. Israel was going through that. But at the same time, he exercises loving kindness. [00:08:58] (21 seconds)  #ChristPaidThePrice