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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></p>
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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>AUG
6 - JEREMIAH 34-38 - PROPHECIES BASED ON SINS OF KINGS</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.
34:2 (34:1-7, ESV) JEREMIAH: BOTH WARNS AND ENCOURAGES ZEDEKIAH.
<font size="3">“</font><font size="3">Thus says the LORD, the God of
Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him, ‘Thus
says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the
king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.’” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Did
You mean this, Father? Yes, and Your judgment was righteous!
Sometimes the only way in which Your Kingdom can be furthered, is
through righteous judgments! </span><b><i>Hallowed be your :name!</i></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><span style="font-style:normal">2.
34:16 (34:8-22) ZEDEKIAH: HIS INEFFECTUAL COVENANT. </span><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">“But
then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took
back his male and female slaves, whom you had set free according to
their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your
slaves.” </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Forgive
us Father, for reneging on our word. We commit ourselves to justice,
and then go back on our word. </span></span><b><i>Your :kingdom
come!</i></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><span style="font-style:normal">3.
35:18-19 (35) JEREMIAH: SIGN OF THE RECHABITES. </span><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">But
to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, “Thus says the LORD
of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of
Jonathan your father and kept all his precepts and done all that he
commanded you, </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="font-style:normal">19
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">therefore
thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonathan the son of
Rehab shall never lack a man to stand before me.” </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
a powerful promise, Father! </span></span><b><i>Your :will be done,
As in heaven, so on earth.</i></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><span style="font-style:normal">4.
36:4 (36:1-26) JEREMIAH: HIS SCROLL TO JEHOIAKIM. </span><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">“Then
Jeremiah called Bar</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">uch</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
the son of Nerita, and Bar</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">uch</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
wrote on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the
LORD that he had spoken to him.” </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Thank
You Father, for </span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
Word! How we need it as our plumbline! How we need Your Son Jesus as
or </span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">living</span></u></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Plumbline! How we see that we fall short of Your glory! </span></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>5.
36:32 (36:27-32) JEREMIAH: REWRITES THE BURNT SCROLL. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">Then
Jeremiah took another </font><font size="3">sc</font><font size="3">roll
and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it
at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll th</font><font size="3">at</font><font size="3">
Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar
words were added to them.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">How
our hearts tremble at the sin of Jehoiakim. Yet we often treat
lightly Your Word, Father! O deal with us until we honor You, Your
Word, and Jesus Your Living Word. </span><b><i>And forgive us our
:debts, As we also have forgiven our debtors!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>6.
37:10 (37) JEREMIAH: PARTIALLY DELIVERED BY ZEDEKIAH. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">For
even if you should defeat the whole army of Chaldeans who are
fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men,
every man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with
fire.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">With You
Father, the die was cast. The point of no return was reached.
Judgment was inevitable. </span><b><i>And bring us not into
temptation.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>7.
38:20 (38) JEREMIAH: URGES ZEDEKIAH TO SURRENDER. <font size="3">Jeremiah
said, “You shall not be given to them. Obey now the voice of the
LORD in what I say to you, and it shall be well with you, and your
life shall be spared.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Why
Father, is it so difficult for us to receive Your clear promises? O
forgive us our sin of unbelief, and grant us to perceive the
rightness of Your Word! </span><b><i>But deliver us from the evil
</i>one!</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
C.H. Spurgeon Quotes: </b></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">You
and I can never imagine all the depths of hell. Shut out from us by a
black veil of darkness, we cannot tell the horrors of that dismal
dungeon of lost souls. Happily, the wailings of the damned have never
startled us, for a thousand tempests were but a maiden's whisper,
compared with one wail of a damned spirit. It is not possible for us
to see the tortures of those souls who dwell eternally within an
anguish that knows no alleviation. These eyes would become sightless
balls of darkness, if they were permitted for an instant to look into
that ghastly shrine of torment. Hell is horrible, for we may say of
it, eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the
heart of man to conceive the horrors which God has prepared for them
that hate him.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the day: 36:5; 9 (36) HOW PRECIOUS IS YOUR STEADFAST LOVE
(CHEsed). </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Your
steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to
the clouds. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">9
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">For
with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
when You abide within us, we have all we need, and Your living word
has right of way. We are now Your habitation. We are now identified
with You in death and resurrection of Jesus. No wonder we begin to
see clearly. Father, we </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">hallow
your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">Psalm
36 is The Song of Happy Service: such a one as all may join in who
bear the easy yoke of Jesus. The wicked are contrasted with the
righteous, and the great Lord of devout men is heartily extolled;
thus obedience to so good a Master is indirectly insisted on, and
rebellion against Him is plainly condemned. 36:1. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>The
transgression of the wicked says within my heart, that there is no
fear of God before his eyes. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Men’s
sins have a voice to godly ears. They are the outer index of an inner
evil. Wickedness is the fruit of an atheistic root. If God be
everywhere, and I fe</span><span style="text-decoration:none">a</span><span style="text-decoration:none">r
Him how can I dare to break His laws in His very presence?</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">36:2.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>For he flatters
himself in his own eyes.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
God-fearing men see their sins and bewail them. Where the reverse is
the case, we may be sure there is no fear of God. To smooth over
one’s own conduct to one’s conscience (which is </span><span style="text-decoration:none">t</span><span style="text-decoration:none">he
meaning of the Hebrew) is to smooth one’s own path to hell.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">He
had not God before his eyes in holy awe, therefore he puts himself
there in unholy admiration. He who makes little of God makes much of
himself. They who forget adoration fall into adulation. The</span><span style="text-decoration:none">ir</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
eyes must see something, and if they admire not God, they will
flatter self.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">36:3.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>The words of his
mouth are iniquity and deceit. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">This
pair of hell dogs generally hunt together, and what one does not
catch the other will; if iniquity cannot win by oppression, deceit
will gain by chicanery. When the heart is so corrupt as to flatter
itself, the tongue will follow suit. The open sepulcher of the throat
reveals the foulness of the inner nature.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">36:5.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Your mercy, O Lord,
is in the heavens. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">When
we can measure the heavens, then shall we bound the mercy of the
Lord. Towards His own servants especially, in the salvation of the
Lord Jesus, He hes displayed grace higher then the heaven of heavens
and wider than the universe. Oh, that the atheist could but see this,
how earnestly would he long to become a servant of Jehovah!
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Your faithfulness
reaches unto the clouds. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Far,
far above all comprehension is the truth and faithfulness of God. He
never fails, nor forgets, nor falters, nor forfeits His Word.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">36:7.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Therefore the
children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Oh,
that more of Adam’s race knew the excellency of the heavenly
shelter! It made Jesus weep to see how they refused it: our tears may
well lament the same evil.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">36:9.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>For with You is the
fountain of life. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">This
verse is made of simple words, but like the first chapter of John’s
Gospel, it is very deep. From the Lord, as from an independent
self-sufficient spring, all creature life proceeds, by Him it is
sustained, through Him alone can it be perfected. Life is in the
creature, but the fountain of it is only in the Creator. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>In
Your light shall we see light. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">In
spiritual things, the knowledge of God shed a light on all other
subjects. We need no candle to see the sun; we see it by its own
radiance and then see everything else by the same luster. We never
see Jesus by the light of self, but self in the light of Jesus. Vain
are they who look to learning and human wit; one ray from the throne
of God is better than the noonday splendor of created wisdom. Lord,
give me the sun, and let those who will delight in the wax candles of
superstition and the phosphorescence of corrupt philosophy.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">36:10.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>And Your
righteousness to the upright in heart. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">The
worst thing to be feared by the man of God is to be forsaken of
heaven, hence the prayer; but the fear is groundless, hence the peace
which faith brings to us. Learn from this verse, that although a
continuance of mercy is guaranteed in the covenant, we are yet to
make it a matter of prayer. For this good thing will the Lord be
inquired of.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">36:11.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Let not the foot of
pride come against me. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Good
men may well be afraid of proud men, for the serpent’s seed will
never cease to bit</span><span style="text-decoration:none">e</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
the heel of the godly.</span></font></font></p>
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