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Original Power Point By Chris Reeves . Additions to the original By Jack Wheeler Clovis Ca. Email: jack@powerpointstojesus.com. Book of Jeremiah. Prepared by Chris Reeves * Winter Quarter 2004. Chapter 3:6 – 4:31 Outline. Repentance Offered (3:6 – 4:4)
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Original Power PointBy Chris Reeves Additions to the original By Jack Wheeler Clovis Ca. Email: jack@powerpointstojesus.com
Book of Jeremiah Prepared by Chris Reeves * Winter Quarter 2004
Chapter 3:6 – 4:31Outline • Repentance Offered (3:6 – 4:4) • Judah should have learned to return (3:6-10) • Judah is called to return (3:11-14) • Judah will receive blessings if they return (3:15-18) • Judah is told how to return (3:19-25) • Judah must wholeheartedly return (4:1-4) • Repentance Rejected (4:5-31) • Destruction is published (4:5-18)
Repentance RejectedDestruction is published • Jeremiah 4:12-13 12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them. 13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shallbe as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
Repentance RejectedDestruction is published • Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
Repentance RejectedDestruction is published • Jeremiah 4:15 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes affliction from mount Ephraim.
Repentance RejectedDestruction is published • Jeremiah 4:16 Make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
Repentance RejectedDestruction is published • Jeremiah 4:17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the Lord.
Chapter 3:6 – 4:31Outline • Repentance Offered (3:6 – 4:4) • Judah should have learned to return (3:6-10) • Judah is called to return (3:11-14) • Judah will receive blessings if they return (3:15-18) • Judah is told how to return (3:19-25) • Judah must wholeheartedly return (4:1-4) • Repentance Rejected (4:5-31) • Destruction is published (4:5-18) • Destruction is lamented (4:19-31)
Destruction is Lamented • Jeremiah 4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart • Jeremiah 4:20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled • Jeremiah 4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me • Jeremiah 4:30 And when you are spoiled, what will you do?
Jeremiah for Today • Backsliding takes us away from God (Jer. 3:8,11,12,14,22; Heb. 10:38-39; 2 Pet. 2:21)
Jeremiah for Today • Jeremiah 3:8, 11 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. 11 And the Lord said unto me, the backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
Jeremiah for Today • Jeremiah 3:12, 14 12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; • 14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
Jeremiah for Today • Jeremiah 3: 22 • 22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God.
Jeremiah for Today • Hebrews 10:38-39 38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Jeremiah for Today • 2 Peter 2:21 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Jeremiah for Today • Backsliding takes us away from God (Jer. 3:8,11,12,14,22; Heb. 10:38-39; 2 Pet. 2:21) • Wholehearted repentance is what God desires (Jer. 3:10; 1 Tim. 1:5; Heb. 10:22)
Jeremiah for Today • Jeremiah 3:10 10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah for Today • 1Timothy 1:5 now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
Jeremiah for Today • Hebrews 10:22 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Jeremiah for Today • Backsliding takes us away from God (Jer. 3:8,11,12,14,22; Heb. 10:38-39; 2 Pet. 2:21) • Wholehearted repentance is what God desires (Jer. 3:10; 1 Tim. 1:5; Heb. 10:22) • The erring child of God needs to acknowledge his sin and return (Jer. 3:13; Acts 8:22)
Jeremiah for Today • Jeremiah 3:13 only acknowledges thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah for Today • Acts 8:22 22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
Jeremiah for Today • Backsliding takes us away from God (Jer. 3:8,11,12,14,22; Heb. 10:38-39; 2 Pet. 2:21) • Wholehearted repentance is what God desires (Jer. 3:10; 1 Tim. 1:5; Heb. 10:22) • The erring child of God needs to acknowledge his sin and return (Jer. 3:13; Acts 8:22) • Shepherds feed God’s people (Jer. 3:15; Ac. 20:28)
Jeremiah for Today • Jeremiah 3:15 15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Jeremiah for Today • Acts 20:28 28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over that which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Jeremiah for Today • Circumcision of the heart is needed for true commitment (Jer. 4:4; Rom. 2:28-29; Phil. 3:3; Col. 2:11)
Jeremiah for Today • Jeremiah 4:44 circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah for Today • Romans 2:28-29 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Jeremiah for Today • Philippians 3:3 for we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Jeremiah for Today • Colossians 2:11 in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Jeremiah for Today • Circumcision of the heart is needed for true commitment (Jer. 4:4; Rom. 2:28-29; Phil. 3:3; Col. 2:11) • God’s wrath in the judgment day will be unquenchable (Jer. 4:4; Mk. 9:43,48)
Jeremiah for Today • Jeremiah 4:4 circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah for Today • Mark 9:43, 48 43 and if thy hand offends thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: 48 where their worm dies not and the fire is not quenched.
Jeremiah for Today • Circumcision of the heart is needed for true commitment (Jer. 4:4; Rom. 2:28-29; Phil. 3:3; Col. 2:11) • God’s wrath in the judgment day will be unquenchable (Jer. 4:4; Mk. 9:43,48) • God’s people who sin need to wash their hearts (Jer. 4:14; Jas. 4:8)
Jeremiah for Today • Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Jeremiah for Today • James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Jeremiah for Today • Circumcision of the heart is needed for true commitment (Jer. 4:4; Rom. 2:28-29; Phil. 3:3; Col. 2:11) • God’s wrath in the judgment day will be unquenchable (Jer. 4:4; Mk. 9:43,48) • God’s people who sin need to wash their hearts (Jer. 4:14; Jas. 4:8) • We must be wise unto that which is good, not the other way around (Jer. 4:22; Rom. 16:19)
Jeremiah for Today • Jeremiah 4:22 for my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah for Today • Romans 16:19 (KJV) for your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.