"This is what the Lord says: ‘Your wound is incurable, your injury beyond healing. There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sore, no healing for you. All your allies have forgotten you; they care nothing for you. I have struck you as an enemy would and punished you as would the cruel, because your guilt is so great and your sins so many. Why do you cry out over your wound, your pain that has no cure? Because of your great guilt and many sins I have done these things to you."
- Jeremiah 30:12–15
We are fortunate in our country that we elect a President every four years and that no one can serve more than two terms. I've lived through four two-term Presidents now, and each has left a deep impression on the country. But imagine if one of them had served 55 years? Not only that, but they served 55 years as the worst disaster of a President the country had ever seen? That's who King Manasseh was for Judah. His foolish and unjust rule led the people to drastically turn from God, creating an "incurable wound" that brought the wrath Jeremiah would foretell and then witness in his time.
This week, we began our series on Jeremiah by asking the question, "Why does the sin of God's people bring God's wrath?"
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