Today’s Living Word #10                                                               06-05-26   

                                                                             

 

Do Not Diminish A Word

Today’s Living Word comes from Jer 26:2 "Thus says the LORD: 'Stand in the court of the LORD'S house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Do not diminish a word.

 

Jeremiah was given the task to speak to the church. Speak all the Words of God  and he was not to sugar coat them. That is the lot of those who proclaim the Word of God. We are not to skip over any part of it.

 

Why? Next verses, Jer 26:3 'Perhaps everyone will listen and turn from his evil way, that I may relent concerning the calamity which I purpose to bring on them because of the evil of their doings.' 4 "And you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD:

Jeremiah told the people what God had told him and the church was furious. They (THE CHURCH!) apprehended him and wanted to put him to death. (v8)  When he was done with his “Thus saith the Lord speech”

 

Remember Stephen in the New Testament?  Ac 7:57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; They ran him out of town and then stoned him to death.

 

God’s Word is diminished when we addto  or subtract  from His words in the Bible.  De 4:2 "You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Re 22:18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book;

 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

God’s Word is also diminished when we skip over tough topics that plague our society. God is not silent on things like Abortion, divorce, fornication, sexual perversions, and the new kid on the block…transgendrism.  

 

God’s word is not silent on these matters and we shouldn’t be either,

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’ Today’s Living Word!