Jeremiah 7:3-7

This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. Do not trust in deceptive words and say, “This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD!” If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.

From Background Notes [BN] for October 6^th & 7^th  written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Notice how the mantra in 7:4 was really a deception. The temple could not make an unholy people holy.

Only God can do that. Judah cannot trust in the temple and expect blessing from God. Judah must trust in the Lord, and then build the temple. Blessings flow to Judah in economic ways, not because Judah built the temple, but because Judah trusts the Lord. [BN, 6]

Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene:

* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:00am, 5:30pm