Core Truth: As with Israel and Judah of old, God still puts a very high premium on the attention and obedience we give to His eternal Word – both as found in the sacred pages of the Bible and in His personal words of instruction or correction given to us by the voice of the Holy Spirit.
Scripture: Jeremiah 35:1-8
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord during the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “Go to the Rechabite family and invite them to come to one of the side rooms of the house of the Lord and give them wine to drink.” So I went to get Jaazaniah… and his brothers and all his sons the whole family of the Rekabites. I brought them into the house of the Lord… then I set bowls full of wine and some cups before the Rechabites and said to them, “Drink some wine.” But they replied, “We do not drink wine, because our forefather Jehonadab gave us this command: “Neither you or your descendants must ever drink wine…then you will live a long time in the land where you are nomads.” We have obeyed everything our forefather Jehonadab. Neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters have ever drunk wine.”