Watchman Radio Hour

The promise of Jeremiah 31 is an enduring people of God. God's people would not cease to be. On the contrary they would continue and endure and multiply. Israel as a people and a nation would endure as long as the sun and moon. God would never cast them off forever.

When true revival comes, we will know it when we hear the cries of mourning. Those cries are not being heard today but when God moves in a mighty wind of revival fire on this nation, people will begin to cry out for mercy. Why? Because they will realize their deplorable sinful condition and they will mourn over it. Today, we need brokenness as a people. When brokenness comes on this nation, then revival will come. When revival comes, heart righteousness will prevail in the land as it has in the past. That's what the Sermon on the Mount is all about. Jesus teaches us what heart righteousness really is. When we see what it is, we can see our own sinfulness. This sermon ought to drive us to Christ. It should cause us to cry out for mercy as we see the darkness of our own hearts. It should show us our need for a Savior.

The Lord desires that we pray to Him from our hearts. The Lord Jesus hates hypocrisy. He severely condemned the Jewish leaders for it, and He condemns us today for our hypocrisy and lack of true righteousness. As we see what He teaches on prayer, let us be called to repent of our own hypocrisy and unrighteousness. Let us be broken by His Word and then from that brokeness rise up to follow the Lord in sincerity and truth.

The Bible teaches us God's moral law. The moral law is summed up in the Ten Commandments but it is expounded and applied throughout the Bible. To put the philosophies and opinions of men above the teachings of the Bible is wrong. Today's generation is trying to do this. That's why we need today the powerful teaching and preaching of the Bible throughout the land. The nation needs to be called back to the clear teaching of Scripture and obedience to the moral law of God.

God has visited this world and everybody needs to know about it. We should not be hiding Christmas but we should be declaring it to all. "God has visited us and you need to know about it." That's our message. No amount of political correctness should silence that message. Christmas is a time to tell everybody about that visit from Heaven. We need to shout it from the mountain tops and declare it everywhere. "God has visited us and you need to know about it." Don't hide Christmas. Declare it to the whole nation.

A true Christian possesses a genuine righteousness. We are saved by faith alone in Jesus Christ. When we put our faith in Christ, we also possess a new heart inclined toward righteousness. Our true faith will make itself known in genuine righteousness in our lives.

Beware of heart adultery. Jesus gets to the gist of the whole matter. It is a matter of the heart. We have evil hearts and we need to repent. The reason we sin is because we have sinful hearts. We may think we are moral, but Jesus looks on the heart and sees that we are a very immoral people. Today, people do what they think is right in their own eyes. But God's moral law hovers over the nation and exposes the terrible wickedness that pervades the land. Our only hope is to repent as a nation before it is too late.

Pulpits throughout the land avoid teachings on God's judgment. Yet, God's moral law hovers over the nation and our sins are open to the eyes of God. The scent of our depravity rises up to the nostrils of God and He will surely judge our land for its sin. Yet, all of this is mostly unknown to the people of the land and we continue in our sin. Our only hope is a national revival that will bring us back to our senses. Jesus warned his listeners of the terrible consequences of sin. Today, we need to take heed to the words of Jesus and see our sins as He sees them. We need to take heed to His warnings and flee from the wrath to come.

In Jeremiah 31, God promises a new covenant that would come in the future. He also promises the coming of the Holy Spirit and the worldwide spread of the gospel. All this would happen in the time of the new covenant. It is that time in which we now live.

The Lord promises that the Jewish People will return to prepare for the Messiah. All was not lost. There was hope for the Jewish people. They would return to their own land. There they would await the coming of the Messiah.