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The points it is teaching is that repentence would and that there was still time to do it to stay in the land. Otherwise, by implication here and direct statement in later verses, they would suffer the exile promised in the Torah as punishment for violating their covenant with God. We see ourselves as the spiritual Israel. In our walk with God, we have many of the same temptations as the ancient Israelites and Judeans did. We have an agreement with God to live moral lives and to continue in the path carved out by the Jewish people as a light to all of the nations. If the people of God do not live according to his law, this reflects badly upon how he is perceived by the public at large. As John H. Leith notes in the Basic Christian Doctrine commentary about Jeremiah 7:17: "Christian faith is very realistic…it knows both the fragility…and the limits of life…it...

As the spiritual Israel, we trust in Jesus instead of just a Temple and the priesthood to protect us. Repentance is a daily activity. We must constantly check our actions and make sure that we are making a public and private declaration of our commitment to God through our actions as well as just our words. Then, we can also be a light unto the nations as well as the ancient Jews were when they walked with God. While they failed, we will prevail due to our new covenant with God.
Shmuel Yerushalmi, Yalkut Me'am Loez (New York: Moznaim Publishers, 1994), 98-100.

John H. Leith, Basic Christian Doctrine (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993), 287.

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We must put our faith in the basis of the Christian covenant with God that succeeds the earthly Israel. As the spiritual Israel, we trust in Jesus instead of just a Temple and the priesthood to protect us. Repentance is a daily activity. We must constantly check our actions and make sure that we are making a public and private declaration of our commitment to God through our actions as well as just our words. Then, we can also be a light unto the nations as well as the ancient Jews were when they walked with God. While they failed, we will prevail due to our new covenant with God.

Shmuel Yerushalmi, Yalkut Me'am Loez (New York: Moznaim Publishers, 1994), 98-100.

John H. Leith, Basic Christian Doctrine (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993), 287.
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