Jeremiah 2 • The American Idolater • Collins
Mar 15th, 2009 by Steve C
Jeremiah 2:13 ~ Series: Stewardship ~ Zac Collins ~ 3/15/09
“In John Bunyan’s The Pilgrims Progress, Christian’s journey takes him to a town called Vanity where there is a year round party called Vanity Fair. Bunyan says this is a place where, “all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honours, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood , bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not.” This was a fair where you could get anything and everything you wanted. It would prove to be a tough, yet fruitful, journey for Christian and his companion. This journey echoes the life of King Solomon…searching for satisfaction in the same pleasures only to later call them “vanity” or “striving after the wind.” Our text in Jeremiah uses the term “broken cisterns.” As we will see, these terms are just word pictures for the sin of idolatry.”
