Today is the 10th day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian and I have found a place here around the global campfire and it's great to be all together as we gather.

I release all the stuff that's going on and like I say, often enough, exhale. We can pick all those cares up if we want.

This is the little oasis that we have. The cares of life may find themselves reprioritized because of what the scriptures speak to us. This is our little safe space.

We can let the cares go. Simply allow the Holy Spirit to minister to us and allow the scriptures to speak into our lives.

Let's dive in for the next step forward in the Old Testament. We're working our way through the book of Jeremiah.

In the New Testament, we began a new letter and that letter is known as First Thessalonians and we will continue our journey through that letter when we get to the New Testament.

But first, Jeremiah chapter 14 verse 11 through 16 verse 15.

Then the Lord said to me, Do not pray for the well-being of these people. If they fast, I will not hear their cry of despair. If they offer burn offering and grain offering, I will not accept them.

Rather, I will finish them off by sword, famine and plague. And I replied, Oh no, Lord God, the prophets are telling them you won't see sword or suffer famine. I will certainly give you lasting peace in this place.

But the Lord said to me, These prophets are prophesying a lie in my name. I did not send them nor did I command them to speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, worthless divination, the deceit of their own minds.

Therefore, this is what the Lord says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, though I did not send them and who say, There will never be sword or famine in this land.

By sword and famine, these prophets will meet their end. The people they are prophesying to will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword.

There will be no one to bury them. They, their wives, their sons and their daughters. I will pour out their own evil on them.

You are to speak this word to them. Let my eyes overflow with tears. Day and night may they not stop for my dearest people have been destroyed by a crushing blow.

An extremely severe wound. If I go out to the field, look those slain by the sword. If I enter the city, look those ill from famine. For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.

Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you detest Zion? Why do you strike us with no hope of healing for us? We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good. For a time of healing but there was only terror.

We acknowledge our wickedness, Lord, the iniquity of our ancestors. Indeed, we have sinned against you.

For your namesake, don't despise us. Don't disdain your glorious throne. Remember your covenant with us. Do not break it.

Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Or can the skies alone give showers? Are you not the Lord our God?

We therefore put our hope in you. For you have done all these things. Then the Lord said to me,

Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before me, my compassion would not reach out to these people. Send them from my presence and let them go.

If they ask you, where will we go? Tell them, this is what the Lord says, those destined for death, to death, those destined for the sword, to the sword, those destined for famine, to famine, those destined for captivity, to captivity.

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