eternity bible study

Jeremiah calls the nation to repent. God gives Jeremiah a parable of the loincloth. Israel is like a spoiled loincloth worthless because of man’s pride. Israel’s pride keeps them from turning back to God. God warns of punishment coming soon, by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

God is protecting his covenant with his people. God is protecting his righteousness. God uses Jeremiah to let Israel know how far away from his ways they are. Jeremiah calls the people to repent. However, Israel will not repent, and God is letting them know that judgment is coming soon. A powerful study of God using his authority to preserve his righteousness.

Jeremiah calls the people to amend their ways and deeds. God wants us to change our hearts, not feel good about ourselves. God wants us to change our ways, our words, our deeds. It’s not about a fancy church, or a fancy temple. It’s about changed hearts, hearts that worship the Lord.

God continues to call his people to repent and change their hearts. But they rejected him in their hearts, in their minds, with their eyes, and with their ears. They rejected him with all of their actions, and with the way they live their lives. They spoke falsehood about the Lord God. They said he will do nothing to us. It’s the same original sin as in the Garden of Eden. Man has been saying everything is OK I can live the way I want to from the beginning of creation. What a powerful message for us today.

Jeremiah delivers God’s message to his people. He encourages them to repent, and turn away from their sinful idolatry.

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Have you ever felt like you had to give a message to someone that was really bad news? Isaiah had to deliver a message of God‘s punishment to the nation of Israel. He had to tell them that they had forsaken him. We see the tremendous nature of God‘s love as we see how much God the Father was grieving for people that he had to punish.

Can you imagine being all by yourself to get out the word of God? Can you imagine doing God’s word and being rejected by everyone who heard you? Can you imagine being completely isolated, while your whole nation is being invaded and taken into captivity? This was the lonely life of Jeremiah. Jeremiah’s success was not measured in man’s eyes. Jeremiah success was measured in gods eyes. The work Jeremiah, as our Christian work and walk, begins and ends always with the word of God.

100 years after Isaiah, Jeremiah comes on the scene. A tender hearted man, God uses him to deliver the harshest prophecy yet seen in the Bible, the destruction of Jerusalem and the nation of Israel. A profit rejected by his own people, Jeremiah pleads with the nation, but he is rejected by his own people and eventually ends up in a foreign land, the land of Egypt. He dies there, rejected by his own people, and historically it is told he was stoned there by his own people. Join us as we begin this fascinating look into a fascinating book of one of the most fascinating profits in the Old Testament.

Paul gives advice for practical living. Practical patience while waiting on the Lord. Be a worker not a dreamer. Abide in Christ in everything you do. The result of the gospel message is peace.