Our culture has coined a phrase that we consider to be new. People will speak about “my truth.” I expect that you have heard this phrase used before. In fact, we are encouraged to speak “our truth.” You are told that you need to speak “your truth.” The idea is that there is something that can be true for me that is not true for you. But this is not a new idea as much as we might fancy that we have made a breakthrough about truth. The prophet Jeremiah was also dealing with people who were making claims about truth that were contrary to Jeremiah’s truth claims. What God is going to do through the prophet Jeremiah is to help them know how to seek the truth and to build a desire for the truth in the hearts of his people so that they will seek him. Now, before we can move into the text, I want to remind us of the context. The beginning of Jeremiah 23 revealed that God himself would rescue his people by sending the righteous Branch. He will do justice and righteous. He will save his people and he will be called, “The Lord is our Righteousness.” So after talking about God himself will rescue his people, he immediately starts talking about having a heart for truth. Open your copies of God’s word to Jeremiah 23 and we will begin our study in verse 9…

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