Jeremiah 21-24 - Outline

[Jim Watt]

“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

*Tel: 253-517-9195 - Email: jmbetter at gmail.com*

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December 31, 2012


 *AUG 3 - JEREMIAH 21-24 - DENUNCIATION OF SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS*


 *1. 22:8-9 (21:1-22:9, ESV) JEREMIAH: AGAINST ZEDEKIAH. And many nations
will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, “Why has
the LORD dealt thus with this great city?” 9 And they will answer, “Because
they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshiped other
gods and served them.” *O Father, we take warning from Judah, and crown You
King of Your Kingdom in our hearts! *Hallowed be your :name.*


 *2. 22:10 (22:10-12) JEREMIAH: AGAINST SHALLUM. “Weep not for him who is
dead, nor grieve for him, but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he
shall return no more to see his native land.” *Father, You had Jeremiah
pray Your will against his countrymen. May Your will, not ours, ever be
uppermost in our hearts. *Your :kingdom come!*


 *3. 22:15 (22:13-19) JEREMIAH: AGAINST JEHOIAKIM. “Do you think you are a
king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do
justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.” *Teach us Father,
this truth from Josiah. Teach us that our daily bread comes automatically
when we walk in Your statutes. *Your :will be done, As in heaven, so on
earth.*


 *4. 22:29-30 (22:20-30) JEREMIAH: AGAINST CONIAH (JEHOIACHIN). O land,
land, land, hear the word of the LORD! 30 Thus says the LORD: “Write this
man down as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days, for none of
his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David and ruling
again in Judah.” *Here is a man who has sinned a sin unto death. Father,
let us not sin this sin, but receive from You forgiveness of sin. *Our
:daily :bread, Give us this day.*


 *5. 23:5 (23:1-8) FAITHLESS PASTORS VERSUS FAITHFUL PASTORS. “Behold, the
days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a
righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall
execute justice and righteousness in the land.” *Father, You bind us
together in Jesus to form the completed Christ, stem and branch (1
Corinthians 12:12). Jesus becomes our armor inward and outward in this
remarkable relationship! *And forgive us our :debts, As we also have
forgiven our :debtors.*


 *6. 23:28-29 (23:9-40) JUDGMENT ON PROPHETS: REASON. “Let the prophet who
has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word
faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? declares the LORD. 29 Is
not my word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the
rock in pieces?” *Father, Your Word brings us to repentance. It divides
between soul and spirit. It leads us to contrition. In reconciliation with
You, we find *You* are our hedge! *And bring us not into temptation!*


 *7. 24:6-7 (24:1-10) SIGN OF THE FIGS. “I will set my eyes on them for
good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not
tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them. 7 I will give them
a heart to know that I am the LORD, and they shall be my people and I will
be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.” *Father,
we bless You that in Christ You are so well able to do this! *But deliver
us from the evil one!*


 *NOTE**: 23:18 (23:9-40) A PLEA TO HEAR GOD’S WORD! **“For who among them
has stood in the council of the LORD to see and to hear his word, or who
has paid attention to his word and listened?” *Father, You desire *Your Word
* to be shared, *not* the imagination of our own hearts. O the danger of
speaking in Your Name *when You have not spoken*!


 *C.H. Spurgeon Quotes: *We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one
another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be
wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if you
be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley
with your mistakes.


 *Our Psalm for the day: 33:12 (33) THE STEADFAST LOVE (CHEsed) OF THE
LORD. “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has
chosen as his heritage.” *Father, we can praise You for Your Sovereign
choices. Because we know You as *Jehovah*, we *hallow Your :name!*


 33:1. *Rejoice in the Lord. *To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous,
to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice
in God is heavenly. He who would have a double heaven must begin below to
rejoice like those above.


 33:3. *Pl**a**y skilfully. *It is wretched to hear God praised in a
slovenly manner. He deserves the best that we have. Every Christian should
endeavor to sing according to the rules of the art, so that he may keep
time and tune with the congregation. The sweetest tunes and the sweetest
voices, with the sweetest words, are all too little for the Lord, our God;
let us not offer Him limping rhymes set to harsh tunes and growled out by
discordant voices. *With a loud noise. *Heartiness should be conspicuous in
divine worship. Well-bred whispers are disreputable here. It is not that
the Lord cannot hear us, but that it is natural for great exultation to
express itself in the loudest manner. Men shout at the sight of their
kings: shall we offer no loud hosannas to the Son of David?


 33:4. *For the Word of the Lord is right; and all His works are done in
truth. *God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that
never slips, acts with a hand which never fails. Bless His Name!


 33:5. *The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. *Come hither,
astronomers, geologists, naturalists, botanists, chemists, miners, yes, all
of you who study the works of God, for all your truthful stories confirm
this declaration. From the midge in the sunbeam to leviathan in the ocean,
all creatures own the bounty of the Creator. Even the pathless desert
blazes with some undiscovered mercy, and the caverns of ocean conceal the
treasures of love. Earth might have been as full of terror as of grace, but
instead within it teems and overflows with kindness. He who cannot see it
and yet lives in it as the fish lives in the water deserves to die. If
earth be full of mercy, what must heaven be where goodness concentrates its
beams?


 33:6. It is interesting to note the mention of the Spirit in the clause: *and
all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. *The word *breath* is the
same as is elsewhere rendered “Spirit.” Thus the three persons of the
Godhead unite in creating all things. How easy for the Lord to make the
most ponderous orbs and the most glorious angels! A word, a breath could do
it. It is as easy for God to create the universe as for man to breathe,
nay, far easier, for man breathes not independently but borrows the breath
in his nostrils from his Maker.


 33:7. *He lays up the depth in storehouses. *May not the text refer to the
clouds, and the magazines of hail and snow, and rain - those treasuries of
merciful wealth for the fields of earth? These aqueous masses are not piled
away as in lumber rooms, but in storehouses for future beneficial use.
Abundant tenderness is seen in the foresight of our heavenly Joseph, whose
granaries are already filled against earth’s time of need. These stores
might have been, as once they were, the ammunition of vengeance; they are
now a part of the commissariat of mercy.


 33:16. *There is no king saved by the multitude of an host. *Mortal power
is a fiction, and those who trust in it are dupes. Serried ranks of armed
men have failed to maintain an empire, or even to save their monarch’s life
when a decree from the court of heaven has gone forth for the empire’s
overthrow. At the Battle of Arbela, the Persian hosts numbered between five
hundred thousand and a million men, but they were utterly put to the rout
by Alexander’s band of fifty thousand; and the once mighty Darius was soon
vanquished. Napoleon led more than half a million men into Russia, but the
terrible winter left the army a mere wreck, and their leader was soon a
prisoner on the lone rock of St. Helena. All along the line of history,
this verse has been verified. The strongest battalions melt like snowflakes
when God is against them. *(From “The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon,
abridged by D.O. Fuller)*



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