Jeremiah 3-5, Chuck Smith teaching (C2000, 1979 to 1985)

Read as you listen: Chuck Smith on Jeremiah 3

Read the opening of his teaching

They say (3:1),

That is, in quoting the law and in speaking of the law, Deuteronomy.

If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's wife, shall he return unto her again? shall not the land be greatly polluted? (3:1)

Under the law if you divorce your wife and she married another man, then you could not marry her again. That was under the law of Deuteronomy, chapter 24, I think it is.

Yet God said, even so,

you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again unto me, saith the LORD (3:1).

"I'll take you back." Oh, the patience of God. The love of God. It's just so amazing to me. "Though you've become a harlot and you've had many lovers, yet turn back to Me," saith the Lord. "Come on back."