February 6, 2022 - A Lost Generation: What Will Our Response Be?

One of the great temptations in the Christian life is to know what to do and then ignore it. Hypocrisy is always a present danger. We’re not talking about never making mistakes or falling short. Hypocrisy is an attitude of false security and an indifference toward behaving ethically and morally. Hypocrisy is fostered when there is a sense of spiritual entitlement rather than a heart of gratitude and appreciation because we are God’s children. This is reflected in our behaviour. Here in Jeremiah 7 and the first three verses of chapter eight, we have a change in the literary genre. We move to a narrative section of the book from the poetic, which we have seen in the first six chapters. This section is one of Jeremiah’s temple sermons. Jeremiah challenges the people of his day to respond to God’s warning message. Here, we find three movements in this warning message designed to teach us how God is trying to create change in our lives.