Foundations for Christian Mission, Mentor's Guide, MG04

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4. Jerusalem, the city that God chooses, is judged because of its immorality and godlessness.

a. Its pride, Jer. 13.9

b. Compared to Sodom and Gomorrah, Jer. 23.14

c. Called a city of oppressors, Zeph. 3.1-2

d. Unfaithful to God by playing as a harlot with foreign gods, Isa. 1.21

e. Compared to Samaria and found to be even more immoral than her, Ezek. 16.1-2, 48, 51

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f. The one who kills the prophets and stones those whom God sends, Luke 13.34

5. Nineveh and Samaria receive God’s harshest condemnations and pronouncements because of their injustice, bloodiness, and transgression against him, Jon. 1.1-2; Nah. 3.1; Mic. 1.5.

6. Jesus denounced the hardness of heart of Jerusalem and other cities which were not receptive to God’s message of the Kingdom in himself.

a. Matt. 11.20

b. Luke 13.34