23But I did say this, commanded this: "Obey me. Do what I say and I will be your God and you will be my people. Live the way I tell you. Do what I command so that your lives will go well."d
Jeremiah 7 records the prophet’s famous “Temple Sermon,” a blistering indictment of empty religion. God sends Jeremiah to the gate of the temple in Jerusalem to confront a people who trust in the building itself rather than the God who dwells there. They chant “The temple of the
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