‘Saved By The Lord With An Everlasting Salvation.’

Jeremiah 2:20-37
‘Where then are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them come if they can save you when you are in trouble!’(28). The man-made ‘gods’ cannot ‘save’. They cannot even begin to compare with ‘the Lord’- ‘the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth’(Isaiah 40:28). There is no comparison between God and the gods - ‘I am God, and there is no other’. The outcome of the conflict between God and the gods is never in doubt. For ‘all the makers of idols’, the future holds nothing but ‘shame’ and ‘disgrace’. God calls us to a much better and brighter future. ‘Saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation’- This is the great and glorious future which awaits all who obey God’s call to salvation: ‘Turn to Me and be saved, all you ends of the earth’(Isaiah 45:15-17,22).

Jeremiah 3:1-25
God calls us to ‘return’ to Him (14,22). He calls us to make our response to Him. He invites us to say, ‘Yes, we will come to You, for You are the Lord our God’(22). How are we to come to the Lord? We are to come to Him, confessing our sins - ‘We have sinned against the Lord our God’(25). We are to come to Him, trusting Him to save us - ‘Surely in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel’(23). ‘Return’ to the Lord - There is nothing more than important than this. Think of the blessings the Lord gives to those who return to Him - (a) He is ‘merciful’ to us - ‘He does not treat us as our sins deserve’(12, Psalm 103:10); (b) We become His children, calling Him ‘Father’(19; Galatians 4:6); (c) He ‘cures us of our backsliding’ - ‘In Christ’, we become ‘a new creation’(22; 2 Corinthians 5:17).
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