In Jeremiah, chapter twenty-one, verses eleven through fourteen, “And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the Lord. O house of David, thus saith the Lord; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver them that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the Lord; which say, Who shall come down against us? Or who shall enter into our habitations? But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord; and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.”
Jeremiah prophesies to the royal family of Judah that God had expected them to administer justice to the people. But because they had encouraged sin and done nothing for the oppressed, God’s wrath would burn against them like fire. The wickedness of the king and his family was the worst because of their relation to David. They were urged to act with justice, at once, lest the Lord’s anger be unquenchable. If God be for us, who can be against us? But if He be against us, who can do anything for us?
How bad it is, or how sad it is, when people who were brought up in the house of the Lord become servants of God, know the truth, experience God’s holy presence, witness the spiritual manifestation within His holy place, but then live differently thereafter. “For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s, as in Philippians two, verse twenty-one. Is it really worth it?