Jeremiah

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Jeremiah

• Prophesied c. 40 years 627-586 In Jerusalem

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Jeremiahs Call

• Foreknowledge of God, 11-5 Is. 4428 Rom. 417
• Jeremiahs reluctance, 16-10,17-19
• Men choose the wise, mighty and noble, 1 Cor.
  126 God chose Jeremiah!

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His First Sermon

• Israels betrothal, 21,2,5-8
• Israels two evils, 213,20-28
• A gadding bride, 232,36-31
• Judah ignores Israels example, 36-10
• Messianic promise, 314-18

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Gods Charge to Judah

• Return to the old paths, 615,16
• The way of the Lord, 55 728 1023
• And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God
  require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to
  walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve
  the Lord your God with all your heart and with
  all your soul, and to keep the commandments of
  the Lord and His statutes which I command you
  today for your good (Dt. 1012,13).

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The Old Paths

• Way of purity, 57-9 615 812
  (2 Cor. 614-18)
• Way of sincere worship,
  74-10,22,23 (Rom. 121,2)

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Jeremiahs Attitude

• Jehoiakims action, 361,2,16-28
• Falsely imprisoned, 3711-16
• Put in a cistern, 381-6,28
• The weeping prophet, 91-3
• Could not quit, 209
• Jeremiah taken to Egypt, 437-10

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Jeremiah and Jesus

• Neither married, 161,2
• Historical settings concerning Jerusalem
• Attitude toward the temple, 711 Mt.
  2113
• Foretold its destruction, 714 Mt. 24
• Wept over Jerusalem, 91 Lk. 1941
• Both rejected by their people, 126 Jn.111
• Jesus likened to Jeremiah, Mt. 1614