Sermon Tone Analysis

The Third “woe” begins in 30.1.

Chapter 28 and 29 were about bad leaders

Chapter 30 and 31 are about the bad ideas these leaders had developed.

Chapter 31 actually seems like a rephrasing and condensed version of chapter 30

woe to trusting Egypt 31.1

Disaster will result 31.1

Egyptians are accountable to God too 31.3

Return to God alone and reject idols 31.6-7

God will deal with Assyria 31.8-9

woe to trusting Egypt 31.1

Disaster will result 31.1

Egyptians are accountable to God too 31.3

Return to God alone and reject idols 31.6-7

God will deal with Assyria 31.8-9

(I think it is important that as we gear up to put a “Long range, strategic planning committee” in place, we understand that our jobs as followers of Jesus is never to just to come up with plans and ask God to endorse them, but to seek His plans)

Plans Are Bad if they are not the Lord’s Plans 30.1-5

a.

An alliance against God’s will

b.

Sin upon sin.

(compounding the problem)

c.

Zoan and Hanes… cities in Egypt.

d.

Result will be shame… they are no help.

Plans Are Bad if made with Allies that have bad problems.

a. Egypt has its own troubles but it didn’t keep Judah from the allure of Egypt.. verse 6

(How easy is it to get sucked in to the allure of what the world has to offer?)

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,

Save in the death of Christ my God!

All the vain things that charm me most,

I sacrifice them to His blood.

Rahab in this case is the cohort of the chaos sea monster Leviathan mentioned earlier.

It is believed that the hippopotamus would be the symbol for this… a beast that dust sits in the water unable to do much.

b.

Write it down so you can’t claim you didn’t hear.

8-ff

They wanted to be rid of God 11

God said OK have your way.

12-17

God’s People Have What We Need: Don’t Be Envious, Jealous, Or Covetous

God Has a Better Plan

If we could only see that God’s best is waiting… once we get to the end of ourselves, our plan, our ideas.

Through the years I have had the privilege of seeing several senior adult men come to know the Lord and become very zealous for the Lord and His Work.

To the last man they have said the same thing… I could have avoided a lot of trouble in life if I had just yielded to the Lord sooner.

He’s been trying to get my attention for years.

This morning we say where Isaiah said God was the potter and we were the clay.

God made us..

He alone knows what is best for us, and has so much in store for us when we walk with the Lord in the Light of His Word.

What GLORY he sheds on our way.

God’s Plan Involves Dealing with Our Enemies

(This was the goal Judah had when they made the alliance with Egypt, but good intentions that by-pass God’s plan, God’s timing, and God’s will are still wrong.)

Topheth in verse 33 is the same as the valley of hinnom (Gehenna) Jesus talked about.

IT is a place of burning and torment.

One of the hard to understand things is that in that day God’s people will be able to rejoice as the wicked meet their doom.

(29) I don’t believe we should have that attitude now.

our rejoicing over the destruction of the wicked can be tainted by our own sinfulness.

But I think we can take comfort in knowing that will right every wrong.