Jeremiah 13

[shouts] Woo.

Jeremiah 13:21 says...

Ask a question.

"What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee?" Oh, Lord.

Thirdly, he forewarns his people of approaching dangers to leave the incorrigible wholly inexcusable, that those who have no sense of sin nor care to prevent ruin might have no cloak for their folly when judgments overtake them.

What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? Jeremiah 13 verses 21 and 22.

As if he should say what plea or apology is left thee after so many fair warnings and timely premonitions.

Thou canst not say I have surprised thee, or that thou wast ruined before thou wast warned.

The faith that unites us to Christ is the fruit of the new life.

Jeremiah 13:23 asks, "Can an Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil." Jesus agrees in Matthew 7:16-20.

"A bad tree cannot bear good fruit," He says.

In Adam, we are all bad, dead trees.

But there's been a historical term that God has used for his people in the Old Testament.

In Jeremiah 13, 17, Zechariah 10, 3, God calls Israel the Lord's flock.

Luke 12, 32, I think it is, where Jesus looked at the group of a few disciples and he called them his little flock.

And we come to the Gospel of John and you see even a broader interpretation where you see in the Gospel of John repeated reference to all the children of God, all of God's people, those that are going to believe even in the future as his sheep, and he is the great shepherd.