“THE CHURCH IN RE-COVERY”!

TEXT:  Jeremiah 8:22

“Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?  why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Jeremiah’s name means “exalted of God”!  His call to the prophetic office and consecration was established before his birth by God.  Though Jeremiah himself felt he wasn’t qualified, God reassured him that He was with him! (Jeremiah 1:7-9)  He was known as the “weeping Prophet” because of the sins of God’s people and the truths he had to proclaim.  He spoke of the impending desolation of Judah as though it had already taken place.  His prophecies weren’t welcomed and brought him many enemies, but it was not optional.  He carried out the task without fear or approval.  

Regardless of the situation we may be in, God always provides a way of escape whether we accept it or not.  1 Corinthians 10:13  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man:  but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

For God to ask the question concerning His people’s “recovery”, that’s a cue that a “covering” had been removed!

“Except The Lord Build The House”!

TEXT:  (Psalm 127th Division)

Psalm is called the Book of “praise”.  In the Hebrew it is “tehillah”, pronounced tehillaw’, which means praise; laudation; a hymn.

The book of Psalm portrays Jesus Christ as our “All In All”.  He is our sufficient (El-Shaddai), meaning as much as is needed; enough.  Better stated, “He’s more than enough”! The God that can do anything!

Psalm 127:1  Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it:  except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

“Except the LORD build the house”:  

Except:   means to let or allow; synonyms:  unless, saving

the LORD:   Jehovah; the self-Existent; all supremacy; all knowing

Build:  banah - obtain; establish; construct or erect.  Genesis 8:20 gives us the basic meaning of “banah” when Noah is said to have constructed or “builded” an ark

the House:  the family, temple, or permanent dwelling place

They labour in vain that build it.

We’ve already learned in the “Journey through the Tabernacle” that when God gave Moses the blueprint to build the tabernacle in the wilderness, it was according to a specific pattern.

This was the foreshadowing of how God would eventually dwell in “man’s body”….the house that God built!  1 Corinthians 6:19  Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.  

2 Corinthians 6:16  For ye are the temple of the living God.