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•Original Power PointBy

Chris Reeves

Additions to the original By Jack Wheeler Clovis Ca.

Email: jack@powerpointstojesus.com

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Book of Jeremiah

Prepared by Chris Reeves * Winter Quarter 2004

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Jeremiah 11 Outline Obedience to God’s covenant will bring

blessings (11:1-5)

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Obedience to God’s covenant will bring blessings

Jeremiah 11:5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, so be it, O Lord.

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Jeremiah 11 Outline Disobedience to God’s covenant will bring

punishment (11:6-17)

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Disobedience to God’s covenant will bring punishment

Jeremiah 11:8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked everyone in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant.

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Jeremiah 11 Outline Conspiracy against the preacher of God’s

covenant will bring death (11:18-23)

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Conspiracy against the preacher of God’s covenant will bring death

Jeremiah 11:19 But “I” was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and “I” knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

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Conspiracy against the preacher of God’s covenant will bring death

Jeremiah 11:22-23 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine: 23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

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Jeremiah 11 Outline Obedience to God’s covenant will bring

blessings (11:1-5) Disobedience to God’s covenant will bring

punishment (11:6-17) Conspiracy against the preacher of God’s

covenant will bring death (11:18-23)

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Jeremiah 12 Outline Jeremiah complaint against Judah:

“Why … How long…?” (12:1-4) Jehovah’s three-fold answer against Judah

(12:5-17)• Things are going to get worse (12:5-6)• Judah will loss her heritage (12:7-13)• Restoration will come for the faithful (12:14-17)

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Jeremiah 12 Outline Jeremiah complaint against Judah:

“Why … How long…?” (12:1-4)

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Jeremiah complaint against Judah: “Why … How long…?”

Jeremiah 12:1 Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper?

Jeremiah 12:4 How long shall the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein?

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Jeremiah 12 Outline Jehovah’s three-fold answer against Judah

(12:5-17)• Things are going to get worse (12:5-6)• Judah will lose her heritage (12:7-13)• Restoration will come for the faithful (12:14-17)

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Jehovah’s three-fold answer against Judah

• (1) Things are going to get worse

• Jeremiah 12:5 If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses?

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Jehovah’s three-fold answer against Judah

• (2) Judah will lose her heritage

• Jeremiah 12:7-8 7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. 8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

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Jehovah’s three-fold answer against Judah

• (3) Restoration will come for the faithful

• Jeremiah 12:15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

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Jehovah’s three-fold answer against Judah

• (3) Restoration will come for the faithful

• Jeremiah 12:16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The Lord liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.

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Jeremiah 13 Outline Sign of the linen girdle:

Judah’s stubborn pride will be marred (13:1-11)

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Jeremiah 13 Outline Sign of the full bottle:

Judah’s stubborn pride will lead to captivity (13:12-27)

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Jeremiah 11 Outline Obedience to God’s covenant will bring

blessings (11:1-5) Disobedience to God’s covenant will bring

punishment (11:6-17) Conspiracy against the preacher of God’s

covenant will bring death (11:18-23)

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Jeremiah 12 Outline Jeremiah complaint against Judah:

“Why … How long…?” (12:1-4) Jehovah’s three-fold answer against Judah

(12:5-17)• Things are going to get worse (12:5-6)• Judah will loss her heritage (12:7-13)• Restoration will come for the faithful (12:14-17)

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Jeremiah 13 Outline Sign of the linen girdle:

Judah’s stubborn pride will be marred (13:1-11)

Sign of the full bottle: Judah’s stubborn pride will lead to captivity (13:12-27)

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Jeremiah for Today Bringing God’s people back to God’s

covenant is the role of preaching (Jer. 11:1-2; 2 Tim. 3:16-17; 4:1-2)

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Jeremiah for Today Jeremiah 11:1-2

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

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Jeremiah for Today 2 Timothy 3:16-17

16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

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Jeremiah for Today 2 Timothy 4:1-2

1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

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Jeremiah for Today Preaching truth often brings persecution

(Jer. 11:18-23; Acts 7:51-52)

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Jeremiah for Today Jeremiah 11:19

19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

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Jeremiah for Today Acts 7:51-52

51 ye stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your father’s persecuted? And they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

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Jeremiah for Today God can be near in the mouth, but far

away in the heart ? (Jer. 12:2; Mt. 15:8; Tit. 1:16)

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Jeremiah for Today Jeremiah 12:2

Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

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Jeremiah for Today Matthew 15:8

This people draws nigh unto me with their mouth, and honored me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

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Jeremiah for Today Titus 1:16

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

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Jeremiah for Today Stubborn pride and refusal to hear is a

problem among God’s people (Jer. 13:10; Mt. 13:13)

Stubborn pride

Jeremiah 13:10 10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

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Stubborn pride Matthew 13:13

Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

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Jeremiah for Today Do we weep over sin like Jeremiah and

Jesus? (Jer. 13:17; Lk. 19:41-42)

Do we weep over sin like Jeremiah?

Jeremiah 13:17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive

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Do we weep over sin like Jesus?

Luke 19:41-42 41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, If thou had known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! But now they are hid from thine eyes.

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Jeremiah for Today Some go so far into to evil that they will not

change. (Jer. 13:23; Heb. 6:6)

Some go so far - will not change

Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil.

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Some go so far - will not change

Hebrews 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

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