Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"We will not listen to you"
Text: Jeremiah 44:16
OPEN DEFIANCE
The menfolk openly defied what the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah. They did not deny practising idolatry. They rejected the message of the LORD!
“Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods,
with all the women who stood by, a great multitude,
and all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt,
in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying:
‘As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD,
we will not listen to you!'”
Jeremiah 44:15-16
1. “Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods,
with all the women who stood by, a great multitude,
and all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying”
a) Who were these people?
i) The men who knew their wives practised burning incense to other gods.
ii) Wives and other women.
iii) Those who were already living in Egypt.
iv) Pathros was one of the cities of Egypt that was mentioned.
b) How many were gathered together to speak to Jeremiah?
“A great multitude” Jeremiah 44:15
2. “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD,
we will not listen to you”
a) The message Jeremiah had delivered to the people:
i) Reference was made to this message (Jeremiah 44).
ii) They recognized it as a message from the LORD.
iii) They knew that Jeremiah was a prophet of God.
b) Their response to the message of the LORD:
i) They refused to listen to this message.
ii) They rejected this word from the LORD.
iii) This rejection was deliberately made.