In this lesson, Stephen Davey explains how Judah moved from early devotion to spiritual disaster by abandoning the Lord, the “fountain of living waters,” for the empty cisterns of idolatry and false religion. Jeremiah portrays the nation as an unfaithful bride and spiritual prostitute, rejecting correction, ignoring truth, and arrogantly assuming God would never judge them. Though God patiently sent prophets and offered shepherds after His own heart, the people misinterpreted His patience as permission to continue in sin. Davey emphasizes that judgment only comes after God has exhausted every call to repentance, yet Babylon’s invasion would prove His warnings true. He concludes that the same invitation stands today: turn from muddy religion, call upon the Lord Jesus for salvation, and drink freely from the living water before judgment arrives.
From Devotion to Disaster
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