OUR FATHERS HAVE INHERITED LIES …

To say that our fathers have inherited lies is not easy.  To say that, we have to admit that our beloved parents were wrong and were deceived. Very few are willing to do this.  Seems family ties make some unwilling to believe the Gospel.  They don’t realize that a family that has a genuinely born again believer in the midst is the greatest blessing that could ever ever come to that family.

Jeremiah 16:19  O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Matthew Henry  Commentary:

They shall acknowledge the folly of their ancestors, which it becomes them to do, when they were smarting for the sins of their ancestors:

“Surely our fathers have inherited” not the satisfaction they promised themselves and their children, but lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. We are now sensible that our fathers were cheated in their idolatrous worship; it did not prove what it promised, and therefore what have we to do any more with it?

Their deliverance out of captivity shall be a type and figure of this great salvation to be wrought out by the Messiah, who shall gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. And this is that which so far outshines the deliverance out of Egypt as even to eclipse the lustre of it, and make it even to be forgotten. To this some apply that of the many fishers and hunters, the preachers of the gospel, who were fishers of men, to enclose souls with the gospel net, to find them out in every mountain and hill, and secure them for Christ. Then the Gentiles came to God, some from the ends of the earth, and turned to the worship of him from the service of dumb idols.

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