I would venture to say that there are probably only a few score Christian ministers who comprehend what tremendous revelation Jesus Christ affords the faithful in the inspired writings of the prophet Jeremiah. The Jewish rabbis have no correct understanding of this prophet’s writings as they are Christ-rejecters and lack the Holy Spirit’s guidance when they read Jeremiah. Most Christian ministers believe, since Jeremiah’s writings are in the Old Testament, that such utterances were made solely to ancient Israel and not to “New Testament believers. So they don’t read these prophets seeking understanding and enlightenment from God.
Jeremian’s writings begin saying, “The words of Jeremiah…to whom the word of the Lord came….” God then says through Jeremiah, “I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding” (See Jeremiah 1:1-2 and Jeremiah 3:15). Most preachers are like the infants who push away the feeding spoon. They push away the feeding spoon of Jeremiah – and they go hungry. So do the flocks they are supposed to shepherd, guide and feed.
My life course is not at an end. Though my tabernacle of flesh is slowly deteriorating, still I live on and on and on. In May of 2016, following my cancer diagnosis, some might have thought, “He’ll be dead within a year.” Soon it will be eight years since that diagnosis was made. DON’T LIMIT GOD. It is one of the greatest mistakes you will ever make.
“An astonishing and horrible thing has been committed in the land. The prophets (preachers, ministers) prophesy falsely (many of their teachings and messages are contrary to scripture revelation and truth), and the priests (preachers and pastors during this New Covenant age) rule by their own power (NOT anointed by God, never called by Him to instruct others in divine truth), and my people love to have it so…” (Jeremiah 5:30-31). You will hear a lot of laughter and applause in the meetings of believers, even those believers who embrace error and walk contrary to God’s Word. “They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return (to God’s Word and the truth)” (Jeremiah 8:5). Trying to dissuade someone from the error they embrace is often a lost cause. That’s why a Lutheran lives and dies a Lutheran, a Methodist lives and dies a Methodist, etc. Some few may come out of some error and embrace some truth, yet still will embrace much error.
“Your dwelling place is in the midst of deceit” (Jeremiah 9:6). We have been born and reared in Babylon and don’t even know it. Some few begin their march to Zion and the truth. I have joined their company and ahead I see the holy city of God. I long so desperately to enter its gates and to bring others with me.
Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley