TODAY'S BIBLE TWEET

BIBLE TEXT: “Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.” (Lamentations 1:3-6)

BIBLE TWEET: Jeremiah now cuts to the chase, the crux and core of the matter; Judah, along with its capital Jerusalem, had been conquered and captured, because of a multitude of transgressions.

BIBLE TAKEAWAY: It was unrestrained, unrelenting, and unrepentant sin that stopped all the pilgrimages to Jerusalem, the celebrations of all of Jerusalem’s feast, the crowds from coming and going through Jerusalem’s gates, and all of the sacrifices from being offered at Jerusalem’s temple. Likewise, it is sin that has stopped crowds of people from coming to church today to spiritually worship God by offering themselves to Him as living sacrifices. (Romans 12:1 ESV) 

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