November 13, 2022 - Are You Really Listening? - Pastor Paul Vallee

What happens when God is talking but we are not listening? Maybe even more critically, what if God warns us of upcoming danger and judgment, but we ignore what is being said? One aspect of God’s loving nature is that He does warn us when we are deviating from the right path. The problem begins when our deviation is about to destroy us and others. What happens then? What does God do, and how is this action ultimately the source of our restoration? In Jeremiah 25, we will discover how God is finally heard. We learn the scope of Jeremiah’s early ministry, where he prophesied for twenty-three years, primarily through the reign of Josiah, the last godly king of Judah, to the people. The response had been disheartening, to say the least. God’s servants were ignored or persecuted for telling people what they needed to hear, but refused to respond. Here in Jeremiah 25, we have a summation of all that has transpired in the first 24 chapters, but a new theme is introduced at the end of the chapter. Here, Jeremiah looks beyond the punishment of his people. After seventy years, God will punish the tool of his vengeance, the Babylonians themselves. In this chapter of Jeremiah, we learn about the dangers of ignoring God’s warnings in our lives and how He ultimately will arrest our attention. Are we currently hearing what God is saying, and how are we responding to His message? There are four things we need to learn about what God expects.