Welcome to Every Thought Captive, I’m Phil Steiger.
In Jeremiah 28 we have front-row seats to a confrontation between Jeremiah the prophet of God and the false prophet, Hananiah. It had to be an interesting scene there in the Temple as one very unpopular and disliked man, Jeremiah, was given a talking-to by a religious leader very popular with the people. Hananiah’s message was simple-God will bless and he will do it quickly. Jeremiah’s message was different in one very significant way-God will richly bless us after we repent, spend 70 years in exile, and turn our hearts back to God.
The vital difference between the true and false prophets was repentance. Hananiah spoke a message of blessing without responsibility, of reconciliation without repentance. His opinion, very popular with the people, was that God would bless now without repentance. But in the end, it was Jeremiah who was right about the process-God did bless, but only on the other side of a deep and profound process of repentance and reconciliation.
This has been Every Thought Captive. I’m Phil Steiger pastor at Quail Lake Community Church and Director of Dayspring Center for Christian Studies. For more information, please visit everythoughtcaptive.org.
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