Transcript Chapters 3 - 4 - Power Points to Jesus

•Original Power Point
By
Chris Reeves
Additions to the original
By Jack Wheeler Clovis Ca.
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Book of Jeremiah
Prepared by Chris Reeves * Winter Quarter 2004
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Chapter 3:6 – 4:31
Outline
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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)
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Repentance Rejected
Destruction is published
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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 shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are
swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are
spoiled.
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Repentance Rejected
Destruction is published
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Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from
wickedness, that you may be saved. How long
shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
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Repentance Rejected
Destruction is published
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Jeremiah 4:15
For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes
affliction from mount Ephraim.
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Repentance Rejected
Destruction is published
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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.
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Repentance Rejected
Destruction is published
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Jeremiah 4:17
As keepers of a field, are they against her
round about; because she hath been rebellious
against me, saith the Lord.
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Chapter 3:6 – 4:31
Outline
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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)
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Destruction is Lamented
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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?
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Jeremiah for Today
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Backsliding takes us away from God
(Jer. 3:8,11,12,14,22; Heb. 10:38-39; 2 Pet. 2:21)
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Jeremiah for Today
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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.
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the Lord said unto me, the backsliding
Israel hath justified herself more than
treacherous Judah.
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Jeremiah for Today
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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:
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Jeremiah for Today
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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.
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Jeremiah for Today
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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.
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Jeremiah for Today
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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.
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Jeremiah for Today
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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)
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Jeremiah for Today
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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.
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Jeremiah for Today
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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:
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Jeremiah for Today
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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.
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Jeremiah for Today
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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)
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Jeremiah for Today
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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.
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Jeremiah for Today
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Acts 8:22
22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness,
and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine
heart may be forgiven thee.
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Jeremiah for Today
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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)
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Jeremiah for Today
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Jeremiah 3:15
15 And I will give you pastors according to mine
heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and
understanding.
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Jeremiah for Today
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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.
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Jeremiah for Today
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Circumcision of the heart is needed for true
commitment
(Jer. 4:4; Rom. 2:28-29; Phil. 3:3; Col. 2:11)
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Jeremiah for Today
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Jeremiah 4:4
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.
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Jeremiah for Today
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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.
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Jeremiah for Today
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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.
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Jeremiah for Today
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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:
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Jeremiah for Today
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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)
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Jeremiah for Today
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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.
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Jeremiah for Today
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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.
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Jeremiah for Today
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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)
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Jeremiah for Today
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Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from
wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How
long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
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Jeremiah for Today
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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.
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Jeremiah for Today
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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)
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Jeremiah for Today
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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.
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Jeremiah for Today
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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.
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