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They Went Backward

They Went Backward. Jeremiah 7:21-27 By David Dann. They Went Backward. Jeremiah 7:21-27 sums up the spiritual condition of Israel throughout the Old Testament. They Went Backward.

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They Went Backward

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  1. They Went Backward Jeremiah 7:21-27 By David Dann

  2. They Went Backward • Jeremiah 7:21-27 sums up the spiritual condition of Israel throughout the Old Testament.

  3. They Went Backward “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices” (Jeremiah 7:21-22).

  4. They Went Backward “But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward” (Jeremiah 7:23-24).

  5. They Went Backward “Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers” (Jeremiah 7:25-26).

  6. They Went Backward “Therefore you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you” (Jeremiah 7:27).

  7. They Went Backward • Jeremiah 7:21-27 sums up the spiritual condition of Israel throughout the Old Testament. • Israel “went backward” in a number of different areas. • Are God’s people going “backward” today?

  8. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • Our respect for God’s word must remain strong.

  9. They Went Backward “And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.’ Amen” (Matthew 28:18-20).

  10. They Went Backward “However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come” (John 16:13). “…the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord” (1 Corinthians 14:37).

  11. They Went Backward “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:31-32). “Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son” (2 John 9).

  12. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • Our respect for God’s word must remain strong. • Lack of respect for God’s word is at the root of many problems. • Current efforts to reinterpret the Bible: • The creation account.

  13. They Went Backward “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it” (Exodus 20:11).

  14. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • Our respect for God’s word must remain strong. • Lack of respect for God’s word is at the root of many problems. • Current efforts to reinterpret the Bible: • The creation account. • The Flood.

  15. They Went Backward “The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died.” (Genesis 7:20-21).

  16. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • Our respect for God’s word must remain strong. • Lack of respect for God’s word is at the root of many problems. • Current efforts to reinterpret the Bible: • The creation account. • The Flood. • The serpent in the Garden of Eden.

  17. They Went Backward “Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, ‘Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?’” (Genesis 3:1).

  18. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • Our respect for God’s word must remain strong. • Lack of respect for God’s word is at the root of many problems. • Current efforts to reinterpret the Bible: • The creation account. • The Flood. • The serpent in the Garden of Eden. • The punishment of the wicked in hell.

  19. They Went Backward “Death and Hades and the wicked, those whose names were not written in the book of life, existence came to an end in the lake of fire” (p. 179). “This second death would bring the individuals to extinction as it did death and Hades” (p. 180). (Homer Hailey, “God’s Judgements & Punishments”).

  20. They Went Backward “And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire -- where ‘Their worm does not die, And the fire is not quenched’” (Mark 9:47-48).

  21. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • Our respect for God’s word must remain strong. • Lack of respect for God’s word is at the root of many problems. • Current efforts to reinterpret the Bible. • Where are we headed in our respect for the Scriptures?

  22. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • On Moral Issues & Worldliness? • Morals are principles of right & wrong behavior.

  23. They Went Backward “Through Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way. Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path” (Psalm 119:104-105).

  24. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • On Moral Issues & Worldliness? • Morals are principles of right & wrong behavior. • Going backward with our families. • Unlawful divorce & remarriage.

  25. They Went Backward “And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery” (Matthew 19:9).

  26. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • On Moral Issues & Worldliness? • Morals are principles of right & wrong behavior. • Going backward with our families. • Unlawful divorce & remarriage. • Failure to train & discipline children.

  27. They Went Backward “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honor your father and mother,’ which is the first commandment with promise: ‘that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.’ And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:1-4).

  28. They Went Backward “The rod and rebuke give wisdom, But a child left to himself brings shame to his mother” (Proverbs 29:15). “Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it” (Hebrews 12:11).

  29. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • On Moral Issues & Worldliness? • Morals are principles of right & wrong behavior. • Going backward with our families. • Going backward in worldliness. • Entertainment.

  30. They Went Backward “Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy -- meditate on these things” (Philippians 4:8).

  31. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • On Moral Issues & Worldliness? • Morals are principles of right & wrong behavior. • Going backward with our families. • Going backward in worldliness. • Entertainment. • Immodest & Lascivious Clothing.

  32. They Went Backward “I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting; in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works” (1 Timothy 2:8-10).

  33. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • On Moral Issues & Worldliness? • Morals are principles of right & wrong behavior. • Going backward with our families. • Going backward in worldliness. • Entertainment. • Immodest & Lascivious Clothing. • Social Drinking.

  34. They Went Backward “For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles -- when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries” (1 Peter 4:3).

  35. They Went Backward “For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles -- when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries” (1 Peter 4:3).

  36. They Went Backward “For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles -- when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries” (1 Peter 4:3).

  37. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • On Moral Issues & Worldliness? • Morals are principles of right & wrong behavior. • Going backward with our families. • Going backward in worldliness. • Entertainment. • Immodest & Lascivious Clothing. • Social Drinking. • Materialism.

  38. They Went Backward “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out” (1 Timothy 6:7).

  39. They Went Backward “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:19-21).

  40. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • On Moral Issues & Worldliness? • In Our Attitudes Toward Preaching? • There is one kind of preaching that will please God & save souls.

  41. They Went Backward “Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching” (2 Timothy 4:2). “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek” (Romans 1:16).

  42. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • On Moral Issues & Worldliness? • In Our Attitudes Toward Preaching? • There is one kind of preaching that will please God & save souls. • Many will not tolerate that kind of preaching today.

  43. They Went Backward “‘Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.’ Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, ‘Men and brethren, what shall we do?’” (Acts 2:36-37).

  44. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • On Moral Issues & Worldliness? • In Our Attitudes Toward Preaching? • In Tolerating Error & False Teachers? • We have a responsibility to uphold the truth.

  45. They Went Backward “Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them” (Romans 16:17).

  46. They Went Backward “Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds” (2 John 9-11).

  47. They Went Backward “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them” (Ephesians 5:11). “Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition, knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being self-condemned” (Titus 3:10-11).

  48. They Went Backward Are we going backward… • In Our Respect For Bible Authority? • On Moral Issues & Worldliness? • In Our Attitudes Toward Preaching? • In Tolerating Error & False Teachers? • We have a responsibility to uphold the truth. • A more tolerant attitude toward error is being promoted.

  49. They Went Backward “I have discussed the matter with brother Hailey on more than one occasion, and, although I am impressed by the erudition and sincerity of his arguments, I do not believe that he is correct.” (Ed Harrell, “Homer Hailey: False Teacher?” Christianity Magazine, Nov. 1988, pp. 6).

  50. They Went Backward “It is perfectly proper that some congregations have not, and would not, invite Homer Hailey to preach because of the position that he holds on this subject. Others, rightly I believe, have decided to use him in spite of the differences.” (Ed Harrell, “Homer Hailey: False Teacher?” Christianity Magazine, Nov. 1988, pp. 8).

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