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Today is Sunday August 22, 2010 and we are reading through the Bible in a year. Today's message comes from the reading of the Book of Jeremiah, chapters 29-31. If you would like to read the chapters along with us here online you can Click Here to read them or copy & paste this link onto your browser: http://www.imfollowingjesus.com/bible-august-22

Today's Message: God's Knows The Way

God knows exactly where He is taking each of us. We are not to be fearful about the path He has chosen for us, but follow it bravely, faithfully trusting in His Word to get us there. Pity the person who, even though physically free, remains shackled with dissatisfaction about his circumstances and is longing for a time when he can be free and enjoy living. Perhaps he is waiting until he has a promotion or a better home, or for retirement. But he is always waiting for release from his present situation. What he fails to realize is that unless he is following the path that God has laid out he will never be satisfied.

Jeremiah has been prophesying about the destruction of Jerusalem and it was now about to take place, Jeremiah was instructed by God to write a letter to those who were taken captive by Babylon. “Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;.…........Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.” - Jeremiah 29:4,6-9. God is saying that He allowed them to be carried away so that they would be safe from all the destruction that was about to take place. This letter then is a set of instructions to us, even, to let us know what we are to do when the false messiah is here and in control. God foretold us all things that would happen to us, if we will just take the time to study His Word we will not be frightened by things that come to pass.

God is warning us not to allow religions to deceive us, there will be many that claim to say that they speak with and know God. They will fill our heads with lies and make us dream of things that go against His Word. Jesus Said, “Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.” - Luke 21:8. Stay in God's Word Christian's, it is the only defense that we have against the false prophets.

The Lord also revealed to Jeremiah that, in the future He would make a New Covenant with His people. “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” - Jeremiah 31:31-34. This is of course, referring to what will happen when Christ returns. It is when the earth is cleansed of all evil. Then God will place in the minds of all souls the mind of Christ, and all souls will will be taught to do right. No one will have to ask his neighbor what is right or wrong, for all will know the will of God, and wish to do it.

When the holy Jerusalem is rebuilt in the Millennium age, it shall be restored exactly as God has written in His Word. The Temple and walls with it's gates will stand eternally from that day forth. “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.” - Revelation 21:1-3. God loved us so much that He gave His only begotten Son so we could enjoy this one day. Sadly, anyone who has not accepted Jesus will not get to see this which means that they will not even exist, nor will they be remembered by their loved ones that will be there. Who in the world would not want to be apart of such an awesome existence?

Enjoy the rest of your day/night and have a great week.
God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

All Scripture is quoted from the King James Version.
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