October 27, 2019 | Jonathan Yakel | Jeremiah 17:5-10

This week we continue our series on Things Jesus Never Said (even in 1x10^6 years). First of all, He is not bound by time! He is the author of all truth because He is The Truth. Some statements the world comforts us with are partially true and some are just out of left field at Nationals Park.

“Follow your heart” is an example of one that sounds compassionate when delivered to us but falls short of providing value when we are searching for answers. When God reveals His truth to us, it is plain to see that any person’s heart is not to be followed.

Jeremiah 17:5-10

5 Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. 6 He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. 8 He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.” 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? 10 “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”