Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of

redemption and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to finish, and exploring how all of it

points to Jesus.

Hey, hey, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. This is Stephanie and we are continuing in the book of

Jeremiah.

Let's dive right in.

Today we're going through Chapter 7, 8, and 9.

We are now going into Jeremiah's third message.

This is said to be Jeremiah's prophetic sermon at the temple gates.

Chapter 7 begins with God instructing Jeremiah to stand at the gate of the Lord's house

and proclaim these words to the people who were entering

the temple.

What's going on here?

These were men of Judah who were going to the temple.

They were living in sin, but they were still going to the temple. They were living in sin, but they were still going to the temple because they were putting stock in the temple, thinking their involvement with the temple and the temple itself would keep their favor with God and keep them safe.

Not only were they defiling the temple and making it a den of robbers,

but God points out that they had actually put their hope in a lie.

Repentance was required, not outward conformity to religious laws.

Ultimately, the heart of this temple sermon is this if they would repent

if they would repent if they would repent

God would relent if his people would turn from their idols and live in

obedience to his word, God could, even at the

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