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Jeremiah chapter 19 verses 14 and 15, then Jeremiah came from Topeth, where the Lord had sent him to

prophesy, and he stood in the court of the Lord's house and said to all the people,

thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon

all its towns, all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened

their neck, refusing to hear my words. This whole chapter is a very sobering chapter,

as we see God's judgment being pronounced upon his people. I just want you to hear these three

realities reflected, especially in verse 15, what I've just read. So first reality, thus says the

Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns,

all the disaster that I have pronounced against it. Here's the reality, sin is serious before

God in his holiness, because he is holy, he hates sin, because he is just, he judges sin.

Sin is no light matter before God. Sin warrants his holy judgment and wrath. This is what we're

seeing in Jeremiah 19. We see it in a variety of places as Jeremiah is proclaiming the judgment

of God for sin. So that's first reality that we need to remember today that we need to let

cause us to run from sin, not to toy with sin, not to rationalize sin, but to run from sin to pursue

holiness, because we know holiness is good. It's sin, warrants, judgment, consequences before God

in his holiness. Second, this picture of sin, and it's really twofolds, this is the second and

third reality, it is sin to stiffen your neck against God. What a phrase. They have stiffened their

neck instead of being moldable and malleable and humble before God as we read about clay in the

hands of a potter in Jeremiah chapter 18. This is the opposite stiffening their neck. Do you or

I ever stiffen our neck against God saying, we want our way more than your way. One of the phrases

earlier in Jeremiah chapter 19, God says, I'm going to make void all of your plans, all the things

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