HOPE AMONG RUINS

Lesson Seven: Responding to Judgment

A study of the book of Jeremiahby Pastor Kris Holroyd

Sunday evenings at 6:00 p.m.

“Mobilization has begun and will not be averted. Judah is at war. Jerusalem is under attack. The army may be Babylonian, but the real agent is Yahweh. That of course makes the danger massive, ominous, inescapable. Yahweh is now engaged in a dread military exercise against God’s own beloved Jerusalem…

“…The wounded warrior has become invading army.”

Walter Brueggemann, Jeremiah, 54

God punishes sin.

Isaiah 3:16-23

God punishes sin.

God punishes sin.

“He shall take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease.”

Leviticus 14:6-7

“Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,and cleanse me from my sin…Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean…”

Psalm 51:2, 7

“But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.”

Malachi 3:2

“Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus…let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.”

Hebrews 10:19, 22