God is saying centuries before Jesus cleansed the temple that the people had already

defiled the temple.

They're going through the ritual on the Sabbath day, they're going through all of the machinations of religion, but their lives are

pagan during the rest of the week. They are religious, but they are not faithful.

Their religion is phony.

In response to the hypocrisy and unfaithfulness of the people of God, the Lord

used the Prophet Jeremiah to deliver a warning and a message that R.C. Sprawl called the hardest message a profit ever had to give.

And it's that message that we'll consider today on renewing your mind.

R.C. Sprawl recorded four teaching series. mind. is from his Hard Sayings of the Prophet Series.

And until tomorrow, you can request access to all four of those series,

plus Dr Sproll's new hardcover book simply titled Hard Sayings,

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So what was this Hard Saying from the Prophet Jeremiah and how can his strong message serve as a warning even for people today?

Here's Dr Sproll.

As we continue now with our study of the hard sayings of the prophets. Those sayings that when we read

them or hear them strike us as either being extraordinarily harsh or unusually difficult to understand.

We now turn our attention to one of the most famous speeches that was ever given by a

prophet in the Old Testament and I'm thinking of the famous so-called temple speech of the Prophet

Jeremiah. We have the record of Jeremiah's temple speech in the seventh chapter of his his beginning at verse one.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, stand in the gate of the Lord's house

and proclaim there this word and say hear the word of the Lord all

you of Judah who enter in at these gates to worship the Lord.

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