◄ Jeremiah 5:18 ►
"Yet even in those days," declares the LORD, "I will not make a full end of you.
Study Bible
Yet even in those days
This phrase introduces a message of hope and continuity amidst judgment. The Hebrew word for "days" (יָמִים, yamim) often signifies a period of time that is significant in God's plan. Historically, "those days" refers to the time of impending judgment upon Judah due to their persistent sin. However, the use of "yet" indicates a shift, suggesting that despite the severity of the situation, God’s mercy and future plans remain intact. This reflects the biblical theme that God’s discipline is not the end but a means to bring His people back to Him.

declares the LORD
The phrase emphasizes the authority and certainty of the message. "LORD" (יְהוָה, Yahweh) is the covenant name of God, underscoring His unchanging nature and faithfulness to His promises. In the context of Jeremiah, this declaration serves as a reminder that the words spoken are not merely human predictions but divine pronouncements. It reassures the faithful that God is actively involved in the affairs of His people, guiding history according to His sovereign will.

I will not make a full end of you
This promise is central to the message of hope. The Hebrew word for "full end" (כָּלָה, kalah) implies total destruction or annihilation. By stating "I will not make a full end," God assures that while judgment is inevitable, it will not be complete or final. This reflects God’s enduring commitment to His covenant with Israel. Historically, this was fulfilled as Judah was exiled but not obliterated, allowing for a remnant to return and rebuild. Scripturally, it aligns with the theme of the remnant, a faithful group preserved by God to continue His purposes. This promise inspires believers today, reminding them of God’s mercy and the assurance that His plans for His people are ultimately for their good and His glory.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Jeremiah
A major prophet in the Old Testament, called by God to deliver messages of warning and hope to the people of Judah.

2. The LORD (Yahweh)
The covenant God of Israel, who is both just and merciful, delivering messages through His prophets.

3. Judah
The southern kingdom of Israel, facing impending judgment due to their persistent sin and rebellion against God.

4. Babylonian Exile
The historical context of Jeremiah's prophecies, where Judah was threatened with conquest and exile by Babylon.

5. Remnant
A recurring biblical theme where God preserves a faithful group of His people despite widespread judgment.
Teaching Points
God's Justice and Mercy
While God is just and must address sin, His mercy ensures that He does not completely destroy His people. This balance is crucial in understanding God's character.

The Concept of the Remnant
Throughout Scripture, God preserves a faithful remnant. This encourages believers to remain faithful, knowing that God honors and preserves those who are committed to Him.

Hope in Judgment
Even in times of discipline or hardship, God provides hope. Believers can trust that God’s plans include restoration and redemption.

Faithfulness in Adversity
The promise of not making a full end encourages believers to remain steadfast in their faith, even when facing trials or divine discipline.

Covenant Faithfulness
God’s commitment to His covenant with Israel is a reminder of His faithfulness to His promises, which extends to all who are in Christ.
Bible Study Questions
1. How does the concept of a remnant in Jeremiah 5:18 provide hope for believers today?

2. In what ways can we see God's justice and mercy at work in our own lives, similar to His dealings with Judah?

3. How can the assurance of God's faithfulness in preserving a remnant encourage us in our personal walk with Him?

4. What are some practical ways we can remain faithful to God during times of adversity, drawing from the lessons in Jeremiah 5:18?

5. How does the theme of God's covenant faithfulness in Jeremiah 5:18 connect with the New Testament understanding of God's promises to believers in Christ?
Connections to Other Scriptures
Isaiah 10:20-22
This passage speaks of a remnant returning, highlighting God's promise to preserve a faithful group despite judgment.

Romans 11:1-5
Paul discusses the remnant of Israel, connecting the Old Testament theme to the New Testament understanding of God's faithfulness.

Lamentations 3:22-23
Emphasizes God's mercies and faithfulness, even amidst suffering and judgment.

Amos 9:8-9
God promises not to completely destroy the house of Jacob, similar to His assurance in Jeremiah 5:18.

Zephaniah 3:12-13
Describes the humble and lowly remnant who will trust in the name of the LORD.
Sermons
Sparing MercyA.F. Muir Jeremiah 5:18
People
Jacob, Jeremiah
Places
Jerusalem
Topics
Affirmation, Complete, Completely, Completion, Declares, Destroy, Destruction, Full, Nevertheless, Says, Yet
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Jeremiah 5:17

     4440   fig-tree
     4464   harvest
     4510   sowing and reaping
     4823   famine, physical
     5315   fortifications
     8354   trustworthiness

Jeremiah 5:14-17

     4534   vine
     7773   prophets, role

Library
A Question for the Beginning
'What will ye do in the end?'--JER. v. 31. I find that I preached to the young from this text just thirty years since--nearly a generation ago. How few of my then congregation are here to-night! how changed they and I are! and how much nearer the close we have drifted! How many of the young men and women of that evening have gone to meet the end, and how many of them have wrecked their lives because they would not face and answer this question! Ah, dear young friends, if I could bring some of the …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

Storming the Battlements
Jerusalem had sinned against God; she had rebelled against the most High, had set up for herself false gods, and bowed before them; and when God threatened her with chastisement, she built around herself strong battlements and bastions. She said "I am safe and secure. What though Jehovah hath gone away, I will trust in the gods of nations. Though the Temple is cast down, yet we will rely upon these bulwarks and strong fortifications that we have erected." "Ah!" says God, "Jerusalem, I will punish …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 1: 1855

God's Barriers against Man's Sin
I am slowly rallying. My great struggle now is with weakness. I feel as if my frail bark had weathered a heavy storm which has made every timber creak. Do not attribute this illness to my having laboured too hard for my Master. For his dear sake, I would that I may yet be able to labour more. Such toils as might be hardly noticed in the ramp for the service of one's country, would excite astonishment in the church for the service of our God. And now, I entreat you for love's sake to continue in prayer …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 4: 1858

Tithing
"Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in Mine house, and prove Me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it" (Mal. 3:10). Down deep in the heart of every Christian there is undoubtedly the conviction that he ought to tithe. There is an uneasy feeling that this is a duty which has been neglected, or, if you prefer it, a privilege that has not been …
Arthur W. Pink—Tithing

How those who Fear Scourges and those who Contemn them are to be Admonished.
(Admonition 14.) Differently to be admonished are those who fear scourges, and on that account live innocently, and those who have grown so hard in wickedness as not to be corrected even by scourges. For those who fear scourges are to be told by no means to desire temporal goods as being of great account, seeing that bad men also have them, and by no means to shun present evils as intolerable, seeing they are not ignorant how for the most part good men also are touched by them. They are to be admonished …
Leo the Great—Writings of Leo the Great

The Purpose in the Coming of Jesus.
God Spelling Himself out in Jesus: change in the original language--bother in spelling Jesus out--sticklers for the old forms--Jesus' new spelling of old words. Jesus is God following us up: God heart-broken--man's native air--bad choice affected man's will--the wrong lane--God following us up. The Early Eden Picture, Genesis 1:26-31. 2:7-25: unfallen man--like God--the breath of God in man--a spirit, infinite, eternal--love--holy--wise--sovereign over creation, Psalm 8:5-8--in his own will--summary--God's …
S. D. Gordon—Quiet Talks about Jesus

Purposes of God.
In discussing this subject I shall endeavor to show, I. What I understand by the purposes of God. Purposes, in this discussion, I shall use as synonymous with design, intention. The purposes of God must be ultimate and proximate. That is, God has and must have an ultimate end. He must purpose to accomplish something by his works and providence, which he regards as a good in itself, or as valuable to himself, and to being in general. This I call his ultimate end. That God has such an end or purpose, …
Charles Grandison Finney—Systematic Theology

"And Hereby we do Know that we Know Him, if we Keep his Commandments. "
1 John ii. 3.--"And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments." This age pretends to much knowledge beyond former ages, knowledge, I say, not only in other natural arts and sciences, but especially in religion. Whether there be any great advancement in other knowledge, and improvement of that which was, to a further extent and clearness, I cannot judge, but I believe there is not much of it in this nation, nor do we so much pretend to it. But, we talk of the enlargements of …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

Covenanting According to the Purposes of God.
Since every revealed purpose of God, implying that obedience to his law will be given, is a demand of that obedience, the announcement of his Covenant, as in his sovereignty decreed, claims, not less effectively than an explicit law, the fulfilment of its duties. A representation of a system of things pre-determined in order that the obligations of the Covenant might be discharged; various exhibitions of the Covenant as ordained; and a description of the children of the Covenant as predestinated …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting

The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire
THE FALL OF NINEVEH AND THE RISE OF THE CHALDAEAN AND MEDIAN EMPIRES--THE XXVIth EGYPTIAN DYNASTY: CYAXARES, ALYATTES, AND NEBUCHADREZZAR. The legendary history of the kings of Media and the first contact of the Medes with the Assyrians: the alleged Iranian migrations of the Avesta--Media-proper, its fauna and flora; Phraortes and the beginning of the Median empire--Persia proper and the Persians; conquest of Persia by the Medes--The last monuments of Assur-bani-pal: the library of Kouyunjik--Phraortes …
G. Maspero—History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 8

"If So be that the Spirit of God Dwell in You. Now if any Man have not the Spirit of Christ, He is None of His. "
Rom. viii. 9.--"If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." "But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth?" 2 Chron. vi. 18. It was the wonder of one of the wisest of men, and indeed, considering his infinite highness above the height of heavens, his immense and incomprehensible greatness, that the heaven of heavens cannot contain him, and then the baseness, emptiness, and worthlessness of man, it may be a wonder to the …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

Covenanting Enforced by the Grant of Covenant Signs and Seals.
To declare emphatically that the people of God are a covenant people, various signs were in sovereignty vouchsafed. The lights in the firmament of heaven were appointed to be for signs, affording direction to the mariner, the husbandman, and others. Miracles wrought on memorable occasions, were constituted signs or tokens of God's universal government. The gracious grant of covenant signs was made in order to proclaim the truth of the existence of God's covenant with his people, to urge the performance …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting

The Acceptable Sacrifice;
OR, THE EXCELLENCY OF A BROKEN HEART: SHOWING THE NATURE, SIGNS, AND PROPER EFFECTS OF A CONTRITE SPIRIT. BEING THE LAST WORKS OF THAT EMINENT PREACHER AND FAITHFUL MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST, MR. JOHN BUNYAN, OF BEDFORD. WITH A PREFACE PREFIXED THEREUNTO BY AN EMINENT MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL IN LONDON. London: Sold by George Larkin, at the Two Swans without Bishopgates, 1692. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. The very excellent preface to this treatise, written by George Cokayn, will inform the reader of …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

Of the Nature of Regeneration, and Particularly of the Change it Produces in Men's Apprehensions.
2 COR. v. 17. 2 COR. v. 17. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away, behold all things are become new. THE knowledge of our true state in religion, is at once a matter of so great importance, and so great difficulty that, in order to obtain it, it is necessary we should have line upon line and precept upon precept. The plain discourse, which you before heard, was intended to lead you into it; and I question not but I then said enough to convince many, that they were …
Philip Doddridge—Practical Discourses on Regeneration

Jeremiah
The interest of the book of Jeremiah is unique. On the one hand, it is our most reliable and elaborate source for the long period of history which it covers; on the other, it presents us with prophecy in its most intensely human phase, manifesting itself through a strangely attractive personality that was subject to like doubts and passions with ourselves. At his call, in 626 B.C., he was young and inexperienced, i. 6, so that he cannot have been born earlier than 650. The political and religious …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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