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Jeremiah chapter 8 verse 11.

They have healed the wound of my people lightly,

saying peace, peace, when there is no peace.

Wow, what an indictment.

Specifically of the leaders, the prophets, the teachers, among God's people, who when God is telling them, judgment is coming,

the prophets, the teachers among them gloss over that. the seriousness, the consequences of sin, the judgment that comes from sin. They say peace, peace, like things are

fine when things are not fine.

Can we read this in Jeremiah,

but now think about it in light of us as God's people today

and how tempting it is for us to treat sin lightly, to think about sin as if it's not that big a deal or to treat judgment lightly as if

infinite eternal judgment is not coming soon like any day for any one of us who is not

trusting in Jesus.

And there is a word here for those who teach God's word.

Obviously we want to teach about God's grace and God's love

and God's mercy and at the same time any of us who teach God's word in any way

need to be serious about sin and judgment that's coming and for that to be clear and how we communicate

God's word and yes this applies to pastors but all of us as disciple makers teaching other people to obey Christ, teaching children,

teaching people in our homes and our communities, the people around us that we are talking about God's word with let's not treat

sin lightly let's treat sin seriously and talk about judgment seriously that is coming to talk about

hell and everlasting judgment do sin and there's a word here for all of us who hear others teach in the word

that we would not just crave what sounds good to us that we would not just crave

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