Jeremiah was told to stand in God's house and proclaim the Word of the Lord. He was giving the Word of God to all who come into the gates of the Temple. Why there and not on the streets? It was because all kinds of things were going on in the Temple in those days. There was even the burning of incense to the god called Baal. There were lying words that could not profit anyone. There was the worship of other gods. They were told to amend their ways.
When they stood in the Temple with the pretense of standing before God, it was a direct insult to God not to do according to what God wanted them to do, or how He wanted them to conduct their lives.
Here I would like to use a few New Testament phrases not directing them at Israel but the American Church of God. The first is John 8:32 "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." The question is free to do what? Only to obey God and His ways.
Another is this: Galatians 5:13 "For brethren ye have been called to liberty, only do not use liberty as an occasion to the flesh" (the sinful part of us). We may sing these words: "Sweet Land of liberty," but we can also use this as an excuse to please the sinful part of our humanity. In this light,we may be no better than the people to whom Jeremiah was speaking to.
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