Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 5:1-31
SERMON NOTES
WORSE THAN SODOM
Genesis 18:22-33; Jeremiah 5:1-31
– the city of God is now ‘Jerusalem the brazen’ (Derek Kidner); worse than in Isa.1:9
– ten righteous persons would have saved Sodom (Gen.18:32), but there is not one in Jerusalem (Jer.5:1).
1. There was religious hypocrisy.
– 5:2; religious vows are broken
2. There was open idolatry.
– 5:7a; see Jer.10
3. There was rampant sexual immorality.
– 5:7-9; see Heb.13:4
4. There was oppression and injustice.
– 5:26-28; God rejects this (Deut.24:17-18)
5. The clergy were corrupt.
– 5:30-31; see 23:16-17, 21.
– God’s word will cleanse (John 15:3) or judge (Jer.5:14); the end is what counts.