GOD’S WORD TO HIS SERVANTS

FRIDAY, 25TH AUGUST, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC:  GOD’S WORD TO HIS SERVANTS

MEMORIZE: “Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me: "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth." Jeremiah 1:9. 

SCRIPTURE READING: Jeremiah 1:5-10 (NKJV)

⁵ "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations." ⁶ Then said I: "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth." ⁷ But the Lord said to me: "Do not say, 'I am a youth,' For you shall go to all to whom I send you, And whatever I command you, you shall speak. ⁸ Do not be afraid of their faces, For I am with you to deliver you," says the Lord. ⁹ Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me: "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. ¹⁰ See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, To root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant.”

EXPOSITION:

God told Jeremiah to go to whosoever He will send Him. He must not be afraid of them. He must not present himself as he that cannot speak for God will enable him to speak. 

(1.) To speak intelligently, and as one that had acquaintance with God, Jeremiah 1:9. He having now a vision of the divine glory, the Lord put forth his hand, and by a sensible sign conferred upon him so much of the gift of the tongue as was necessary for him: He touched his mouth, and with that touch opened his lips, that his mouth should show forth God's praise, with that touch sweetly conveyed his words into his mouth, to be ready to him upon all occasions, so that he could never want words who was thus furnished by him that made man's mouth. God not only put knowledge into his head, but words into his mouth; for there are words which the Holy Spirit teaches, 1Corinthians 2:13. It is fit God's message should be delivered in his own words, that it may be delivered accurately. Ezekiel 3:4, Speak with my words. And those that faithfully do so shall not want instructions as the case requires; God will give them a mouth and wisdom in that same hour, Matthew 10:19. 

(2.) To speak powerfully, and as one that had authority from God, Jeremiah 1:10. It is a strange commission that is here given him: See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms. This sounds very great, and yet Jeremiah is a poor despicable priest still; he is not set over the kingdoms as a prince to rule them by the sword, but as a prophet by the power of the word of God. Those that would hence prove the pope's supremacy over kings, and his authority to depose them and dispose of their kingdoms at his pleasure, must prove that he has the same extraordinary spirit of prophecy that Jeremiah had, else how can we have the power that Jeremiah had by virtue of that spirit? And yet the power that Jeremiah had (who, notwithstanding his power, lived in meanness and contempt, and under oppression) would not content these proud men. Jeremiah was set over the nations, the Jewish nation in the first place, and other nations, some great ones besides, against whom he prophesied; he was set over them, not to demand tribute from them nor to enrich himself with their spoils, but to root out, and pull down, and destroy, and yet withal to build and plant. 

 

PRAYER POINT:  I receive grace to obey you in you send me do in Jesus name. 

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Ezekiel 4 – 7.

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