Jer 3:8-10 (NIV) I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery. 9 Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood. 10 In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense," declares the Lord.
NOTE: In 722 BC, the Northern kingdom, Israel, is destroyed by the Assyrians. It is now around 625 BC, about 100 years later and Judah (the Southern kingdom) is committing the same sins of her sister. Rather than learning from Israel's mistakes, Judah repeats the sin. God gave Israel her certificate of divorce, he is now about to do the same thing to Judah. In 40 years, 586 BC, Jerusalem will be destroyed, along with the temple, because they refused to believe and to change their actions.
It is hard to be too critical of Judah, we are not so different. Even though we have the HS within us, we still give in to certain sins, sometimes repeatedly. But hopefully, we recognize our errors and repent of our sins. We will never be free of this battle until we have new bodies, but we still must seek to do what is right and pleasing in God's eyes.
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