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</a></p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>AUG
4 - JEREMIAH 25-29 - JUDGMENT PREDICTED: 70 YEARS</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
25:11 (25:1-14, ESV) PROPHECY OF THE 70 YEARS CAPTIVITY. <font size="3">“This
whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall
serve the king of Babylon seventy years.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You are Sovereign of the universe. You speak and it is done, and none
can say You, Nay. </span><b><i>Hallowed be your :name!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>2.
25:15 (25:15-38) SIGN OF THE WINE CUP OF FURY. <font size="3">Thus
the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this
cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you
to drink it.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
will even in judgment, shall be done upon all the earth, O Father!
</span><b><i>Your :kingdom come!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>3.
26:15 (26) MESSAGE IN THE TEMPLE COURT. <font size="3">“Only know
for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent
blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in
truth the LORD sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
</font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father, Your word is a
true word, even </span><span style="font-weight:normal">when</span><span style="font-weight:normal">
unpalatable. Judgment and chastisement to bring us to our sinful
senses sometimes becomes necessary. Bring us to our senses! </span><b><i>Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>4.
27:6 (27:1-11) SIGN OF THE YOKES FOR NATIONS. <font size="3">“Now
I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the
king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of
the field to serve him.” </font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
a Great and Sovereign God You are, Father! You do </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">all</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
things after the counsel of Your own will. You do what is necessary
to bring us to repentance. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
27:16 (27:12-22) SIGN OF THE YOKES FOR ZEDEKIAH. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Then
I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says
the LORD; Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are
prophesying to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the LORD’s
house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,’ for it is a
lie that they are prophesying to you.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">How
we love to deceive and be deceived! How we hate to face spiritual
reality! Forgive us for our hard-heartedness, Father! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
28:9 (28) CONTEST BETWEEN PROPHETS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“As
for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet
comes to pass, then it will be known that the LORD has truly sent the
prophet.” </span></font></b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
thank You for these words of wisdom to discern between prophets, the
false and the true. Help us to heed these words of wisdom. </span></span></font><b><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation!</span></i></font></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
29:10 (29) JEREMIAH: LETTER TO THE CAPTIVITY. “For thus says the
LORD; When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you,
and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this
place.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Hallelujah!
How marvelous You are, O Jehovah Father! None other can say and do
such things as You! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NONE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
29:13-14 (29) GOD’S PROMISE! </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“You
will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">14
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">I will
be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes
and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have
driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place
from which I sent you into exile.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Again,
such promises as this from You Father, humble our hearts!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">C.H.
Spurgeon Quotes: </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">In
heaven they marry not, but are as the angels of God; yet there is
this one marvelous exception to the rule, for in heaven Christ and
His Church shall celebrate their joyous nuptials. This affinity as it
is more lasting, so it is more near than earthly wedlock. Let the
love of husband be never so pure and fervent, it is but a faint
picture of the flame which burns in the heart of Jesus.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the day: 34:1: 18 (34) TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS
GOOD! </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“I
will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in
my mouth. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">18
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">The
LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, open our eyes to see all the hypocrisy in our life. Let us
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallow your
:name</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
by walking consistently in Your word!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">34.
“A Psalm of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech;
who drove him away, and he departed.” Of this transaction, which
reflects no credit upon David’s memory, we have a brief account in
1 Samuel 21. Although the gratitude of the Psalmist prompted him
thankfully to record the goodness of the Lord in vouchsafing an
undeserved deliverance, yet he weaves none of the incidents of the
escape into the narrative but dwells only on the grand fact of his
being heard in the hour of peril. We may learn from his example
not to parade our sins before others, as certain vainglorious
professors are wont to do who seem as proud of their sins as old
Greenwich pensioners of their battles and their wounds. David played
the fool with singular dexterity, but he was not so real a fool as to
sing of his own exploits of folly. 34:1. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">I
will bless the LORD at all times. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">He
who praises God for mercies shall never want a mercy for which to
praise. To bless the Lord is never unseasonable.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">34:2.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">My soul
shall make her boast in the Lord. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Boasting
is a very natural propensity, and if it were used as in this case,
the more it were indulged the better. The exultation of this verse is
no mere tongue bragging; </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">the
soul</span></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is in it, the boasting is </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">meant
and felt before it is expressed. What scope there is for holy
boasting in Jehovah!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">34:6.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">This poor
man cried. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">His
prayer was a cry, for brevity and bitterness, for earnestness and
simplicity, for artlessness and grief; it was a poor man’s cry, but
it was none the less powerful in heaven, for </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the
Lord heard him, </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">and
to be heard of God is to be delivered; and so it is is added, the
Lord </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">saved
him out of all his troubles.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
At once and and altogether David was clean rid of all his
woes. The Lord sweeps our griefs away as men destroy a hive of
hornets or as the winds clear away the mists. Prayer can clear us of
troubles as easily as the Lord made riddance of the frogs and flies
of Egypt when Moses entreated him.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">34:14.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Seek peace</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
Anger is murder to one’s own self as well as to its objects.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And pursue
it.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Hunt after it; chase it with eager desire. It may soon be lost,
indeed - nothing is harder to retain - but do your best, and if
enmity should arise let it be no fault of yours. Follow after peace
when it shuns you; be resolved not to be of a contentious spirit. The
peace which you thus promote will be returned into your own bosom and
be a perennial spring of comfort to you.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">34:18.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">The Lord is
nigh unto them that are of a broken heart. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Near
in friendship to accept and console. Broken hearts think God far
away, when He is really most near them; their eyes are holden so that
they see not their best friend.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">34:20.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">He keeps all
His bones: not one of them is broken. Eternity</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
will heal all their wounds. Not a bone of the mystical body of Christ
shall be broken, even as His corporeal frame was preserved intact.
Divine love watches over every believer as it did over Jesus; no
fatal injury shall happen to us. We shall neither be halt nor maimed
in the kingdom, but shall be presented after life’s trials are over
without spot or sprinkle or any such thing, being preserved in Christ
Jesus and kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.
</span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">(From “The
Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O Fuller)</span></b></font></font></p>
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