Jeremiah 2-12 - Outline

Mon Dec 24 15:17:10 PST 2012

“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

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December 24, 2012

  *AUG 1 - JEREMIAH 2-12 - FIVE GENERAL UNDATED PROPHECIES*

 *1. 2:13 (2:1-3:5, ESV) JEREMIAH: CONFRONTS JUDAH’S SIN. “For my people
have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living
waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can
hold no water.” *Father, our hearts are pained at the knowledge of our
sins, and the sins of our fathers. Like Daniel, we confess *both*. We join
our hearts in intercession. *Hallowed be your :name.*

 *2. 6:16 (3:6-6:30) JEREMIAH: WARNS JUDAH OF JUDGMENT FOR SIN. Thus says
the LORD: ”Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it, where the good is, and walk in it,
and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’” *Your
will Father, is for us to walk in Your ways. We cleanse ourselves of all
rebellion, that You might spare us as You did to Nineveh through Jonah. O
we turn ourselves to walk fully in Your ways. *Your :kingdom come.*

 *3. 8:11 (7-10) JEREMIAH: THREATENS JUDAH WITH CAPTIVITY FOR SIN. “They
have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when
there is no peace.” *Lies are spoken in Your Name Father, because man in
his rebellion cares not to hear the truth. To walk in rebellion is to bring
our lot into spiritual captivity. *Your :will be done, As in heaven, so on
earth.*

 *4. 11:6 (11:1-7) JEREMIAH: GOD ENLARGES HIS COMMISSION. And the LORD said
to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets
of Jerusalem: Hear the words of this covenant and do them.” *Father,
forgive us the sin of rejecting Your covenant. We give lip worship. We say
right words. But our heart is often far from You. May we avoid the curse of
Judah! *Our :daily :bread Give us this day.*

 *5. 11:14 (11:8-17) JEREMIAH: INTENSIFIES WARNINGS AGAINST JUDAH. “Therefore
do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf,
for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.” *Yes,
there is a point of no return. There is a time when the die is cast. O may
we not sin beyond our day of grace! May we instead Father, turn to You with
all our heart and find You faithful! *And forgive us our :debts, As we also
have forgiven our :debtors.*

 *6. 11:19 (11:18-23) JEREMIAH: JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED ON HIS PLOTTERS. “But I
was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against
me they devised schemes, saying, ‘Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered
no more.’” *Father, we see Jesus treated in His day, as Jeremiah was by his
countrymen. Yet You protected and delivered Jeremiah. But on Jesus You let
fall the iniquity of us all. *And bring us not into temptation.*

 *7. 12:15 (12) JEREMIAH: CORRECTED FOR WAVERING PRAYER. “And after I have
plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring
them again each to his heritage and each to his land.” *After judgment
Father, You bring restoration. We trust ourselves into Your hands. We leave
ourselves up to You in Your mercy. You are Sovereign. *But deliver us from
the evil one!*

 *10:23-24 (7-10) JEREMIAH’S INSIGHT. “I know, O LORD, that the way of man
is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his
steps. 24 Correct
me, O LORD, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to
nothing.” *Father, You do not deal with us according to our desserts. You
remember our frame, that we are but dust. In wrath, remember mercy.

 *Our Psalm for the day: 31:19 (31) INTO YOUR HAND I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. “Oh,
how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear
you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the
children of mankind!” *Jehovah Father, You are worthy of our fear and
trust. Your warnings to Your people for sin and rebellion are *not* in
vain. Let us not be deceived in this regard! *Hallowed be Your Name!*

 *Quotes from C.H. Spurgeon: “Are You God’s Elect?” *Now, you need not ask
tonight whether you are God’s elect. I ask another question - Do you
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? If you do, you are His elect - if you do
not, the question is not to be decided by us yet. If you are God’s chosen
ones, you will know it by your trusting in Jesus. Simple as that trust is,
it is the infallible proof of election! God never sets the brand of faith
upon a soul whom Christ had not bought with His blood. And if you believe,
all eternity is yours! Your name is in God’s Book, you are a favored one of
Heaven, the Divine decrees all point to you - and go your way and rejoice!

 *Psalm 31 - *Some have thought that the occasion in his troubled life
which led to this Psalm was the treachery of the men of Keilah, and we have
felt much inclined to this conjecture; but after reflection it seems to us
that its very mournful tone and its allusion to his iniqauity demand a
later date, and it may be more satisfactory to illustrate it by the period
when Absalom had rebelled and his courtiers were fled from him, while lying
lips spread a thousand malicious rumors against him.

 31:1. *Let me never be ashamed.* How can the Lord permit the man to be
ultimately put to shame who depends alone upon Him? This would not be
dealing like a God of truth and grace. It would bring dishonor upon God
Himself if faith were not in the end rewarded. It will be an ill day indeed
for religion when trust in God brings no consolation and no assistance.

 31:5. *Into Your hand I commit my spirit. *These living words of David
were our Lord’s dying words and have been frequently used by holy men in
their hour of departure. Be assured that they are good, choice, wise, and
solemn words; we may use them now in the last and tremendous hour.

 31:6. *I have hated them that regard lying vanities. *Those who will not
lean upon the true arm of strength are sure to make to themselves vain
confidences. Many must have a god, and if he will not adore the only living
and true God, he makes a fool of himself, and pays superstitious regard to
a lie, and wait with anxious hope upon a base delusion. Men who make gods
of their riches, their person, their wits, or anything else, are to be
shunned by those whose faith rests upon God in Christ Jesus; and so far
from being envied, they are to be pitied as depending upon utter vanities.

 31:18. *Let their lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous
things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. *Proud thoughts of
self are generally attended by debasing estimates of others. The more room
we take upon ourselves, the less we can afford our neighbors. What
wickedness it is that unworthy characters should always be the loudest in
railing at good men! They have no power to appreciate moral worth of which
they are utterly destitute, and yet they have the effrontery to mount the
judgment-seat and judge the men compared with whom they are as so much
draff.

 31:23. *O love the Lord, all you His saints. *If saints do not love the
Lord, who will? Love is the universal debt of all the saved family; who
would wish to be exonerated from its payment? Reasons for love are given,
for believing love is not blind. *(The above quotations are from C.H.
Spurgeon in “The Treasury of David”, abridged by D.O. Fuller)*

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