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<div class="SSN_title">"TRUST NOT IN LYING WORDS"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Jeremiah just a young boy of 17 when God first spoke.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE ATTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Temple had been ordered rebuilt.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. People gave freely.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Workmen worked faithfully and well.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Law of the Lord discovered.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. National reforms instituted.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Passover feast observed in 18th year Josiah's reign.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Greatest ever.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Seemingly a national revival.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. As they gathered from far and near for this glorious occasion.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. God spoke to His young prophet to get down to the gate of the temple and cry, "Trust not in lying words, saying..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. The people were exulting in rebuilt temple.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. They felt it meant national safety.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE PROPHET JEREMIAH'S STATEMENT REFLECTING GOD'S VIEW OF THE WHOLE SCENE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. These worshipping people guilty of sinning against fellowmen.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Guilty of theft - murder - adultery - lying.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. People have renamed many sins.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. They may call it an affair - flirtation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. They may call it cleverness - lie.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. They may call it business shrewdness - cheating.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. They may call it a trip - sorceries.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. They may withhold tithes and call it conserving - God's prophet calls it robbery.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. God's young prophet stood trembling before these people who had come to worship God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. These people had also been sinning against God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Burned incense to Baal, offering sacrifices to Molech - worshipping sun, moon, stars.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. They thought these were just other forms of worshipping God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Religious observance can become blasphemous.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It can be an opiate deadening your senses.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Prayer can become a deceitful farce.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Bible reading can become a fetish.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Gathering for worship can become a false security.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. religious convictions can become a curse.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Convictions are to be obeyed. If not they can deaden and destroy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. Trust not in lying words.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. WHAT IS THE TRUTH?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The true value and proof of your religion is the effect it has on your conduct!</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The acts of worship not just valueless.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Blinding - deceiving - deadening - damning.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Failure to obey the truth is far worse than not knowing the truth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Failure to follow convictions is far worse than having no convictions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">"To whom much is given much shall be required..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Sacred days, sacred places, sacred observances - are not as important as a right relationship with God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. If you are guilty of robbery, murder, adultery, attending worship services, Bible classes, etc., blasphemy, you are trusting in lying vanities.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The church without Christ is nothing. The celebration of Christmas by those who do not know what the incarnation means, is blaspheme. The celebration of Easter by those who know not that resurrection life, is a curse.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The observance of a rite, apart from the life of which the rite is a symbol, is death.</div>
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