(Jeremiah 29:1-4) Some Advice to the Discontented (Jeremiah 29:4-6) Of Judah and Jerusalem: the Lord having spoke what he had to say at present to Israel, turns now his speech from Israel to Judah, and so continues it; which consists of several subjects, and first begins with repentance. Ver. The unhumbled heart is like ground which may be improved, being let out to us for that purpose; but which is as yet fallow, overgrown with weeds, its natural product. The words may be applied to backsliding professors, since backsliding Israel and Judah are the persons addressed; and this may be done with great propriety and pertinence to the simile; for fallow ground is that which has been broke up and sown, and laid fallow. Meditations in Jeremiah Jeremiah 31:3 reads, “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” Those who believe in a Calvinistic system of doctrine in relation to salvation often employ Jeremiah 31:3 as a proof text for the doctrinal position of “unconditional election.” Sermon preached on 30th December 2012 Right relationship with God was Jeremiah’s priority as he surveyed the international scene. Break … fallow ground—that is, Repent of your idolatry, and so be prepared to serve the Lord in truth (Ho 10:12; Mt 13:7). Jeremiah 4:3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. It is usual to till and sow two years, and lay fallow a third: and backsliding Christians look very much like fallow ground; so faithless, so lukewarm, and indifferent; so inattentive to the word, and unconcerned under it; so barren and unfruitful, as if they had never had any faith, or love, or good work in them; so that they need to be renewed in the spirit of their minds; to have a new face of things put upon them: and to have a clean heart, and a right spirit, created in them. Alford, Quebec Chapel Sermons, vol. To the men of Judah.—Literally, to each man individually. Jeremiah 1:1-3. Acts 7:51. ), but the evil inclinations of the unrenewed heart, which thrive luxuriantly like thorns. Choke the word. ; for, unless the fallow ground is broken up, it will be no other than sowing among thorns; and unless the hearts of men are opened by the power and grace of God, they will not attend to the things that are spoken; preaching and eating the word will be like sowing among thorns; cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, the pleasures of life, and the lusts thereof, which are comparable to thorns, because pricking, perplexing, and distressing, and because vain and unprofitable, choke the word, and make it unfruitful; see Matthew 13:7, now this exhortation in the text does not suppose power in man to break up and open his heart; but to show his want of renewing grace; the necessity of it; and the danger he is in without it; and to awaken in him a concern for it; see Ezekiel 18:31. 4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou [art] the guide of my youth?. Thorns — Rid your hearts and hands of what may hinder you of embracing my word. To the men of Judah.—Literally, to each man individually. Break up your fallow ground.—The Hebrew has the force which comes from the verb and noun being from the same root, Break up for you a broken ground or fallow a fallow field. Break up your fallow ground - Fallow ground is either that which, having been once tilled, has lain long uncultivated; or, ground slightly ploughed, in order to be ploughed again previously to its being sown. The "fallow ground" fitly represents the hearts of unregenerate men, which are unopened to the word, and unbroken by it; nor have they the seed of divine grace sown in them; but are destitute of faith, hope, love, fear, and the like; there is nothing grows there but the weeds of sin and corruption; and are like a common beaten road; are the common track of sin, where lusts pass to and fro, and dwell; and so are hardened and obdurate, as hard as a stone, yea, harder than the nether millstone; and who, though they may occasionally be under the word, it makes no impression on them; it has no place in them, but is like the seed that falls by the wayside, Matthew 13:4, unless divine power attends it; for the Gospel is the plough, and ministers are the ploughmen; but it is the Lord alone that makes it effectual to the breaking up the fallow ground of men's hearts, Luke 9:62, but when the Lord puts his hand to the plough it enters within, and opens the heart; it is quick, powerful, and sharp; it cuts deep, and makes long and large furrows, even strong convictions of sin; it throws a man's inside outward, as the plough does the earth; and lays all the wicked of his heart open to him; and roots up the pride, the vanity, and boasting of the creature, and other lusts; and so makes way for the seed of divine grace to be sown there: and sow not among thorns; or, "that ye may not sow among thorns" (o); for, unless the fallow ground is broken up, it will be no other than sowing among thorns; and unless the hearts of men are opened by the power and grace of God, they will not attend to the things that are spoken; preaching and eating the word will be like sowing among thorns; cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, the pleasures of life, and the lusts thereof, which are comparable to thorns, because pricking, perplexing, and distressing, and because vain and unprofitable, choke the word, and make it unfruitful; see Matthew 13:7, now this exhortation in the text does not suppose power in man to break up and open his heart; but to show his want of renewing grace; the necessity of it; and the danger he is in without it; and to awaken in him a concern for it; see Ezekiel 18:31. For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. 3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah … For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. shall it be light or darkness? Break up your fallow ground, &c.— That is, "Purge and purify the field of your hearts by true repentance." It is for this truth that Paul could say, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling" (Philippians 2:12). 1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. Perhaps no serious scholar today would limit Jeremiah’s genuine material to the poetry of the book, [14] John Bright, “The Date of the Prose Sermons of Jeremiah,” Journal of Biblical Literature, LXX (March, 1951), 15-35. but every scholar would insist on the importance of a correct identification of the literary type of a passage to its proper interpretation. Jeremiah 4:14.—J. Romans 2:29. Yes, circumcise your lives for God’s sake. (Jeremiah 4:3). The plur. to each man; I speak to every individual among you, Ezekiel 20:7,8. Lest my fury break forth like fire; cf. Already the prophet sees in spirit the judgment bursting in upon Judah from the north, to the dismay of all who were accounting themselves secure (Jeremiah 4:5-10). Note: References preceded by dates are sermons . To sow in unfallowed ground was practically to sow on land full of thorns. Scripture Commentary Jer. From All-Creatures.org Sermons Archive Table of Contents of Bible Verses. Sermons; Sermon March 16, 2014 Jeremiah 19 “Shattered Beyond Repair, Yet Restored!” Parables that Pack a Punch Sermon # 5 « Sermon March 10, 2014 “The Potter, The Prophet, and God’s Prophecies” Jeremiah 18:1-12 Sermon # 4 in “Parables That Pack a … 4Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, circumcise your hearts, you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or my wrath will flare up and burn like fire. Jeremiah 3:7-8, Jeremiah 3:10-11. For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and to ... Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Negatively, they needed to stop investing in counterproductive ventures such as idolatry. Certainly not. To the men - To each man “of Judah.” They are summoned individually to repentance. Jeremiah 4:3, ESV: "For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns." The thorns which choke the good seed as it grows (Matthew 13:7) are not mala vestra studia (Ros. Simpson, Christian World Pulpit, vol. 11 November 2012 - Working for Unconditional Compassion 11 Jan 1998 - Kindred Spirits in the Lord - Part II. Sow not among thorns.—Not without a special interest as, perhaps, containing the germ of the Parable of the Sower in Matthew 13:7. For — The Lord turns now his speech from Israel to Judah. This message closes with a call from the Lord to each of Jeremiah"s original Jerusalemite and Judean hearers. Jeremiah Chapter 4 Verse 3 Alphabetical: among and Break do fallow For ground is Jerusalem Judah LORD men not of says sow the This thorns thus to unplowed up what your OT Prophets: Jeremiah 4:3 For thus says Yahweh to the men (Jer.) 4 The phrase seems to intimate that the Jews had been wont to mix the truths of God among their own inventions, as seed among thorns, and so corrupted it; as also, that they retained many secret and hidden sins, like hypocrites, which he exhorts them to eradicate. ", John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Jeremiah's prophecy was fulfilled, in part, when God graciously started to bring back His people to their land and reestablish them in the holy city of Jerusalem. But what is done by hypocrites? ... Jeremiah 4:3 3 For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up - literally, Fallow for you a fallow ground, i. e., do not sow the seeds of repentance in unfit soil, but just as the farmer prepares the ground, by clearing it of weeds, and exposing it to the sun and air, before entrusting to it the seed, so must you regard repentance as a serious matter, requiring forethought, and anxious labor. and Jerusalem—that is, and especially the men of Jerusalem, as being the most prominent in Judea. A metaphor taken from plow-men. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, "Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah ... take away the foreskins of your heart ...", For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, "Just as a farmer does not sow his seed on unplowed ground, so God does not sow His blessings in unrepentant hearts. References: Jeremiah 4:3.—W. We have other instances of as sudden a transition from the Israelites (in the narrower sense) to the men of Judah (see Isaiah 8:6-14; Isaiah 10:1-4; Isaiah 28:1-6; in the writer's commentary). The exhortation to a reformation of life is attached by כּי, as being the ground of it, to the preceding exhortation to return. What the spiritual field needed was to be exposed to God’s sun and God’s free air, to the influences of spiritual light and warmth, and the dew and soft showers of His grace. Jeremiah 4:3 Context. Hence God laughs to scorn this preposterous care and diligence, in which hypocrites pride themselves, and says, that they busy themselves without any advantage; for it is the same, as though an husbandman had wholly lost his seed; for when the ground is full of briers and thorns, the seed, though it may grow for a time, cannot yet bring forth fruit. Now viewing scripture range from the book of Jeremiah chapter 3:4 through chapter 3:7... Jeremiah Chapter 3. In the field of your life, which shall grow—wheat or tares? Nay, a field cannot be well prepared by the plough alone, so that it may produce fruit; but much labor is also necessary, as is the case with fallow ground, which is called essarter in our language. The breaking up of sinful hearts may prevent the breaking down of a sinful nation. But this new section in Jeremiah 4:3-5:6 is all about Judah. God then would not have us to be idle and fruitless, but to bring forth some fruit. Daily Dose of Hebrew 2825 Lexington Road Louisville, KY 40280 United States (US) Email: [email protected] The Babylonian armies had been cruelly conquering one small state after another, getting ever closer to Jerusalem and Judah was threatened with extinction. It wasn’t easy for Jeremiah – here we find him complaining about how God had deceived the people through his prophecies. 1700 28th Street SE Grand Rapids, MI 49508. Break up your fallow ground.—The Hebrew has the force which comes from the verb and noun being from the same root, Break up for you a broken ground or fallow a fallow field. 3475 Mainway PO Box 5070, STN LCD 1 Burlington, ON L7R 3Y8. 3 February 2019 - Animal Liberation Prophets We are still preaching, but we are sowing the seed among the thorns. Hence he bids them wholly to shake off their vices, which were hid within, according to what they do, who tear up thorns and briers in a field, which has been long neglected, and left without being cultivated. The metaphor had been used before by Hosea (Hosea 10:12). They then make a great bustle; yet they mar everything by their own mixtures, the same as though one scattered his seed among thorns: but it will be of no avail thus to cast seed among thorns; for the ground ought to be well cleared and prepared. Exodus 6:12. Break up - literally, Fallow for you a fallow ground, i. e., do not sow the seeds of repentance in unfit soil, but just as the farmer prepares the ground, by clearing it of weeds, and exposing it to the sun and air, before entrusting to it the seed, so must you regard repentance as a serious matter, requiring forethought, and anxious labor. Break  …  fallow ground — that is, Repent of your idolatry, and so be prepared to serve the Lord in truth (Hosea 10:12; Matthew 13:7). There is no looking for a harvest in a hedge: stock them, and stub them up therefore; [1 Peter 2:1 James 1:21] do not plough here, and make a trench there, &c. I. I. All which (the foregoing declaration as to Israel) applies to Judah. The stress lies in ליהוה; in this is implied that the circumcision should not be in the flesh merely. Jeremiah 4:3-31 Sermon by Peter Kirk for Meadgate Church, 2 nd May 2010 5.30 pm. Break up your fallow ground. Jeremiah 3:6-4:2 ends with the Lord probing any supposed repentance. Hosea 10:12; Mark 4:1-9). Someone needs to say something about it. As then, he had before warned them, that they would labor in vain except they returned to God with sincerity of heart and acquiesced in him; so here he bids them to examine their life, that they might not cast away their seed, like hypocrites, who formally acknowledge their sins. Threatening of Judgment upon Jerusalem and Judah. They prick and gore the soul; (2.) Colossians 2:11 and Houb. Tertullian rendereth it, Renovate vobis novamen novuum, put off the old man, and put on the new. xxiii., No. The unhumbled heart is like ground which may be improved, being let out to us for that purpose, but which is as yet fallow, overgrown with weeds, its natural product. The Prophet still pursues the same subject; for he reproves the hypocrisy of the Israelites, because they sought to discharge their duty towards God only by external ceremonies, while their hearts were full of deceits and of every kind of impiety and wickedness. For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. The unhumbled heart is like ground which may be improved, being let out to us for that purpose, but which is as yet fallow, overgrown with weeds, its natural product. Foster, Lectures, 1st series, pp. It’s not an easy thing to speak out God’s word. It now follows —. For thus, etc. II. Sow not among thorns.—Not without a special interest as, perhaps, containing the germ of the Parable of the Sower in Matthew 13:7. The Message of Jeremiah 4:3-5:6. ], Thorns. Circumcise yourselves to Jahveh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest my fury break forth like fire and burn unquenchably, because of the evil of your doings." Jeremiah 7:20; Amos 5:6; Psalm 89:47. The simple fact is that man is both active and passive in regeneration. Verse 3. Learn more. Your misconduct hinders your advancement. 'מפּני רע מ as in Deuteronomy 28:20. 2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory. Break up your fallow ground.] Read verse in … 1573. ., p595. There is a special lesson in our text, because the facts of which it warns us are specially common. [5], "Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah ... take away the foreskins of your heart ..." (Jeremiah 4:4). Call us at 888-634-2038. We say we are one of the greatest nations in the world, but we could fall overnight. 3This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground. (2) Let the choice be absolute. For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, And do not sow among thorns. אישׁ, as often, in collective sense, since the plural of this word was little in use, see in Joshua 9:6. Morality is deteriorating. The two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, who were at the time of this prophecy in their own land; and so are distinguished from Israel the ten tribes, who were in captivity; unless the same persons should be meant, who were called by these several names, the people of the Jews; and it was in Judea that our Lord appeared in the flesh, and to the inhabitants thereof he ministered, he was the minister of the circumcision; and so to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, whom he called to repentance, and would have gathered, Matthew 23:37. break up your fallow ground; this is ground that lies untilled, not ploughed, nor sown, on which nothing grows but the produce of nature, as weeds, thorns, briers, &c. is common to men and beasts, and is trodden upon, and, so is hard and unsusceptible of seed; which, if it accidentally falls upon it, makes no impression on it, and is not received by it; and the breaking of it up is by the plough. Like a Tree: Planted, Rooted, Green Leafed, and Fruited - Psalm 1:1-13; Jeremiah 17:7-8 - Rodney A. Teal There is a special lesson in our text, because the facts of which it warns us are specially common. prepare your hearts by making them soft, tender, and pliable, fit to embrace my word; a metaphor taken from ploughmen, that do either prepare the ground that hath lain some time waste and untilled, by tearing up the surface of the earth, making it mellow and soft to receive the seed; (for the Hebrew word nir seems to be of larger extent than bare preparation; God useth the same word when he speaks to the same purpose to Israel, Hosea 10:13; and so it is used Proverbs 13:23) or it may relate to both, that every thing that may be injurious to the seed may be stubbed up. "Break up your fallow ground ..." (Jeremiah 4:3). "For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. Rome fell from within ... Our nation is decaying from within. If the ground isn't plowed, a seeds roots have no where to go and ultimately will die. Jeremiah knew that the Judah’s… Jeremiah 4:30.—Ibid., vol. The אם תּשׁוּב, Jeremiah 4:1, contained the indirect call to repent. man, i.e. i., p. 267. If they then are called to circumcise themselves to the Lord, this must be meant spiritually, of the putting away of the spiritual impurity of the heart, i.e., of all that hinders the sanctifying of the heart; see in Deuteronomy 10:16. Sow not among thorns. Jeremiah understood what … For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. - If Judah and Jerusalem do not reform, the wrath of God will be inevitably kindled against them (Jeremiah 4:3, Jeremiah 4:4). xi., p. 284; G. Litting, Thirty Children's Sermons, p. 141. Hence he says, that God required this from the Jews, — to plough again the fallow, and not to sow among thorns. (1) Make your choice now and for ever. break up your fallow ground; this is ground that lies untilled, not ploughed, nor sown, on which nothing grows but the produce of nature, as weeds, thorns, briers, &c. is common to men and beasts, and is trodden upon, and, so is hard and unsusceptible of seed; which, if it accidentally falls upon it, makes no impression on it, and is not received by it; and the breaking of it up is by the plough. The "fallow ground" fitly represents the hearts of unregenerate men, which are unopened to the word, and unbroken by it; nor have they the seed of divine grace sown in them; but are destitute of faith, hope, love, fear, and the like; there is nothing grows there but the weeds of sin and corruption; and are like a common beaten road; are the common track of sin, where lusts pass to and fro, and dwell; and so are hardened and obdurate, as hard as a stone, yea, harder than the nether millstone; and who, though they may occasionally be under the word, it makes no impression on them; it has no place in them, but is like the seed that falls by the wayside, Matthew 13:4, unless divine power attends it; for the Gospel is the plough, and ministers are the ploughmen; but it is the Lord alone that makes it effectual to the breaking up the fallow ground of men's hearts, Luke 9:62, but when the Lord puts his hand to the plough it enters within, and opens the heart; it is quick, powerful, and sharp; it cuts deep, and makes long and large furrows, even strong convictions of sin; it throws a man's inside outward, as the plough does the earth; and lays all the wicked of his heart open to him; and roots up the pride, the vanity, and boasting of the creature, and other lusts; and so makes way for the seed of divine grace to be sown there: and sow not among thorns; or, "that ye may not sow among thorns"F15ואל תזרעו "ut non seratis". Jeremiah 4:4. Verse 3. Break ... fallow ground - i:e., Repent of your idolatry and so be prepared to serve the Lord in truth (Hosea 10:12; Matthew 13:7; Matthew 13:22). Jeremiah 4:3-3. The sinner must "Arise and be baptized and wash away his sins" (Acts 22:16); but the actual cleansing and the convert's reception of the Holy Spirit are from above, the convert being passive in their reception. Jeremiah 4:3. Yes indeed, there are things for the sinner to do if he is ever going to be saved. and Jerusalem. They sow; that is, they shew some concern, yea, they pretend great ardor, when God exhorts them to repent, or when he invites them. In Jeremiah 4:3 the call comes to Judah, which the prophet had already in his eye in Jeremiah 3; cf. xxvi., No. A young man himself (about 20), he was hesitant to speak - Jer 1:6 c. God did not accept his youth as an excuse - Jer 1:7-8 3. Is this a contradiction? Fool A Fool’s Way Series Contributed by Dr. Gale A. 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