Devotion 839
“Marred And Profitable For Nothing”
Reference Jeremiah chapter 13
Before the fall of Adam, every man and woman was a seed, a blood seed in the first man. God had called His creation ‘good’ , meaning every seed in Adam was perfect. Then Adam, out of unbelief of the Word of God, broke his covenant with God, and he fell. With everyone in him, this fall marred every individual and made them profitable for nothing. This is the condition of Israel. God is trying to get a nation out of the blood of the first Adam through His Word and place them in the blood of the second Adam, but they will not hear. They remain profitable for nothing.
Let's read.
Jeremiah 13:1-10 “Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. [2] So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins. [3] And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, [4] Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. [5] So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. [6] And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there. [7] Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing. [8] Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [9] Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. [10] This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.’
A man or woman in the blood of the first Adam walks according to the imaginations of the old heart, the old heart of unbelief. They only believe what they can see, what they can touch, what they can feel. They do not believe the unseen God. They do not believe in His Word. Because they do not believe in His word, they do not believe in His Son, because His Word is His Son. Jesus said, "If you have known me, you would have known My Father."
John 14:7 “If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him.”
We know the Father by His word. If they have known God by His Word, they would have known Jesus Christ, the Son of God, because He is the Word of God.
They do not believe His Word has become flesh and dwelt among us. They do not believe that His Word has manifested as a blood sacrifice: the only blood that came straight from heaven, different from the blood of the first Adam, that the world may escape the first Adam into this new blood called the second Adam.
We continue our reading.
Jeremiah 13:11 “For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.”
God tried to cleave the nation unto Himself by His Word, but they would not hear. It is His Word that became flesh and dwelt among us. It is His Word that manifests as the new blood to deliver the whole world. This is where God was directing Israel, but they would not go. They did not understand. They would take God at His Word.
We continue our reading.
Jeremiah 13:12-16 “Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? [13] Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. [14] And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them. [15] Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. [16] Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.”
God does not act without first warning the people. He started with confusion in the form of drunkenness. In their confusion, they dash one against another, and then He causes darkness so that their feet will stumble. Darkness is simply absence of the Light, which is the Word of God.
We continue our reading.
Jeremiah 13:17-23 “But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive. [18] Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. [19] The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. [20] Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock? [21] What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? [22] And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare. [23] Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.”
You cannot change your condition as long as you remain in the blood of the first Adam. There is nothing a man, woman, boy, or girl can do to better themselves in the blood of the first Adam. Nothing! You remain a leopard. You cannot change your spots.
We conclude our reading.
Jeremiah 13:24-27 “Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. [25] This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. [26] Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear. [27] I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?”
The Lord cannot do anything with the individual who remains in the blood of the first Adam. The individual becomes unprofitable, only as good as to return to dust, and is eternally separated from God.
Become profitable unto God. Follow the Word of God out of the blood of the first Adam into the blood of the second Adam. BELIEVE and confess Jesus Christ, the second Adam, as we have revealed Him from the first Adam. Marred in the blood of the first Adam, but redeemed in His blood, in Christ
Reference Jeremiah chapter 13
Before the fall of Adam, every man and woman was a seed, a blood seed in the first man. God had called His creation ‘good’ , meaning every seed in Adam was perfect. Then Adam, out of unbelief of the Word of God, broke his covenant with God, and he fell. With everyone in him, this fall marred every individual and made them profitable for nothing. This is the condition of Israel. God is trying to get a nation out of the blood of the first Adam through His Word and place them in the blood of the second Adam, but they will not hear. They remain profitable for nothing.
Let's read.
Jeremiah 13:1-10 “Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. [2] So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins. [3] And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, [4] Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. [5] So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. [6] And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there. [7] Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing. [8] Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [9] Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. [10] This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.’
A man or woman in the blood of the first Adam walks according to the imaginations of the old heart, the old heart of unbelief. They only believe what they can see, what they can touch, what they can feel. They do not believe the unseen God. They do not believe in His Word. Because they do not believe in His word, they do not believe in His Son, because His Word is His Son. Jesus said, "If you have known me, you would have known My Father."
John 14:7 “If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him.”
We know the Father by His word. If they have known God by His Word, they would have known Jesus Christ, the Son of God, because He is the Word of God.
They do not believe His Word has become flesh and dwelt among us. They do not believe that His Word has manifested as a blood sacrifice: the only blood that came straight from heaven, different from the blood of the first Adam, that the world may escape the first Adam into this new blood called the second Adam.
We continue our reading.
Jeremiah 13:11 “For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.”
God tried to cleave the nation unto Himself by His Word, but they would not hear. It is His Word that became flesh and dwelt among us. It is His Word that manifests as the new blood to deliver the whole world. This is where God was directing Israel, but they would not go. They did not understand. They would take God at His Word.
We continue our reading.
Jeremiah 13:12-16 “Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? [13] Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. [14] And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them. [15] Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. [16] Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.”
God does not act without first warning the people. He started with confusion in the form of drunkenness. In their confusion, they dash one against another, and then He causes darkness so that their feet will stumble. Darkness is simply absence of the Light, which is the Word of God.
We continue our reading.
Jeremiah 13:17-23 “But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive. [18] Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. [19] The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. [20] Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock? [21] What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? [22] And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare. [23] Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.”
You cannot change your condition as long as you remain in the blood of the first Adam. There is nothing a man, woman, boy, or girl can do to better themselves in the blood of the first Adam. Nothing! You remain a leopard. You cannot change your spots.
We conclude our reading.
Jeremiah 13:24-27 “Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. [25] This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. [26] Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear. [27] I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?”
The Lord cannot do anything with the individual who remains in the blood of the first Adam. The individual becomes unprofitable, only as good as to return to dust, and is eternally separated from God.
Become profitable unto God. Follow the Word of God out of the blood of the first Adam into the blood of the second Adam. BELIEVE and confess Jesus Christ, the second Adam, as we have revealed Him from the first Adam. Marred in the blood of the first Adam, but redeemed in His blood, in Christ
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