SATURDAY, 11 MAY 2024
TEXT:
Jeremiah 36:11-32
11:
When Micaiah son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the
Lord from the scroll,
12:
he went down to the secretary’s room in the royal palace, where all the
officials were sitting: Elishama the secretary, Delaiah son of Shemaiah,
Elnathan son of Akbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and
all the other officials.
13:
After Micaiah told them everything he had heard Baruch read to the people from
the scroll,
14:
all the officials sent Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son
of Cushi, to say to Baruch, “Bring the scroll from which you have read to the
people and come.” So Baruch son of Neriah went to them with the scroll in his
hand.
15:
They said to him, “Sit down, please, and read it to us.” So Baruch read it to
them.
16:
When they heard all these words, they looked at each other in fear and said to
Baruch, “We must report all these words to the king.”
17:
Then they asked Baruch, “Tell us, how did you come to write all this? Did
Jeremiah dictate it?”
18:
“Yes,” Baruch replied, “he dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them in
ink on the scroll.”
19:
Then the officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah, go and hide. Don’t let
anyone know where you are.”
20:
After they put the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary, they went to
the king in the courtyard and reported everything to him.
21:
The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and Jehudi brought it from the room of
Elishama the secretary and read it to the king and all the officials standing
beside him.
22:
It was the ninth month and the king was sitting in the winter apartment, with a
fire burning in the firepot in front of him.
23:
Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king cut them
off with a scribe’s knife and threw them into the firepot, until the entire
scroll was burned in the fire.
24:
The king and all his attendants who heard all these words showed no fear, nor
did they tear their clothes.
25:
Even though Elnathan, Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the
scroll, he would not listen to them.
26:
Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, Seraiah son of Azriel
and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the
prophet. But the Lord had hidden them.
27:
After the king burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written
at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
28:
“Take another scroll and write on it all the words that were on the first
scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah burned up.
29:
Also tell Jehoiakim king of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord says: You burned that
scroll and said, “Why did you write on it that the king of Babylon would
certainly come and destroy this land and wipe from it both man and beast?”
30:
Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will
have no one to sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out and
exposed to the heat by day and the frost by night.
31:
I will punish him and his children and his attendants for their wickedness; I
will bring on them and those living in Jerusalem and the people of Judah every
disaster I pronounced against them, because they have not listened.’”
32:
So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah,
and as Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote on it all the words of the scroll that
Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were
added to them.
(New International Version Holy
Bible)
TOPIC:
THE INDESTRUCTIBLE WORD OF GOD
Jehoiakim
is considered a godless king who committed all kinds of terrible sins and
abused many of his citizens, including Jeremiah and Baruch.
It
is recorded that his atrocities included massive murders and sexually abusing
his victims' wives. The height of his wickedness was burning the scroll that
contained the message God sent to him through Jeremiah.
Jehoiakim
refused to repent and would not listen to the Word of God which pronounced
judgment upon him and the entire land. He could not stop the looming judgment
of God nor remove the Word of God by simply burning the scroll.
The
Word of God will always find expression through the instrument He ordains for
such a purpose. Remember that the same Word of God was with God in the
beginning and it is God. Don't set yourself against the Word of God.
QUESTION:
What does the Word of God mean to you?
PRAYER:
Dear Lord Jesus Christ, help me to love Your Word and believe and live by it at
all times in Jesus name. Amen.
Remain
Blessed
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