Jeremiah 32

 Scripture – Jeremiah 32

Observation – 

• Jeremiah 32:1-15 - Buying a field as a sign for the future
• Jeremiah 32:1-2 - Jerusalem under siege
• Jeremiah 32:3-5 - Why Jeremiah was in prison
• Jeremiah 32:6-12 - The property deal from prison
• Jeremiah 32:13-15 - The lesson of the property - God will restore
• Jeremiah 32:16-25 - The prophet prays to understand
• Jeremiah 32:16-23 - A prayer declaring the greatness of God
• Jeremiah 32:24-25 - Prayer for understanding
• Jeremiah 32:26-44 - Promises of judgment and restoration
• Jeremiah 32:26-35 - The promise of judgment
• Jeremiah 32:36-41 - The promise of restoration
• Jeremiah 32:42-44 - Connecting the promises to Jeremiah's purchase of land.

Jeremiah 31

 Scripture – Jeremiah 31

Observation – 

• Jeremiah 31:1-20 - The everlasting love of God
• Jeremiah 31:1-2 - Salvation to Israel
• Jeremiah 31:3-6 - God's faithfulness to Israel
• Jeremiah 31:7-9 - The joyful restoration
• Jeremiah 31:10-12 - Gathering the scattered flock
• Jeremiah 31:13-14 - The joyful response
• Jeremiah 31:15-17 - Rachel weeping
• Jeremiah 31:18-20 - God embraces a repentant Israel
• Jeremiah 31:21-30 - Gathering and planting Israel
• Jeremiah 31:21-22 - The path of restoration
• Jeremiah 31:23-25 - The blessing on Jerusalem
• Jeremiah 31:26-30 - Answering an untrue proverb
• Jeremiah 31:31-40 - The New Covenant
• Jeremiah 31:31-34 - The glorious promise of the New Covenant
• Jeremiah 31:35-37 - God's everlasting love for Israel
• Jeremiah 31:38-40 - The restoration of Jerusalem

Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance,

And the young men and the old, together,

For I will turn their mourning into joy

And will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow.

What happens when God restores His people to himself

• We will rejoice
• We will be united
• We will be joyful and not mournful
• We will be comforted

God will bless those who truly repent 

This is a picture of when Jesus comes back the second time.

Jeremiah 30

 Scripture – Jeremiah 30

Observation – 

• Jeremiah 30:1-11 - Writing the prophecy down
• Jeremiah 30:1-3 - Writing down the words in a book
• Jeremiah 30:4-7 - The time of Jacob's trouble
• Jeremiah 30:8-9 - No more slaves
• Jeremiah 30:10-11 - A promise to gather and to correct
• Jeremiah 30:12-24 - Restoration after affliction
• Jeremiah 30:12-15 - Their incurable affliction
• Jeremiah 30:16-17 - Devouring the devourer
• Jeremiah 30:18-20 - The restoration of Jerusalem
• Jeremiah 30:21-22 - The one who draws near
• Jeremiah 30:23-24 - The whirlwind of God

Jeremiah 29

 Scripture – Jeremiah 29

Observation – 

• Jeremiah 29:1-20 - A future and a hope
• Jeremiah 29:1-4 - A letter from Jerusalem to the captives
• Jeremiah 29:5-9 - Make yourself at home and be good citizens
• Jeremiah 29:10-14 - The promise to bring them back into the land
• Jeremiah 29:15-20 - God's displeasure at those who remained in Judah
• Jeremiah 29:21-32 - The message to certain people in Babylon
• Jeremiah 29:21-23 - The message to the false prophets
• Jeremiah 29:24-28 - The message to Shemaiah
• Jeremiah 29:29-32 - The judgment on Shemaiah

Jeremiah 27-28

 Scripture – Jeremiah 27-28

Observation – 

• Jeremiah 27:1-15 - The yoke of the king of Babylon
• Jeremiah 27:1-3 - The command to make yokes and bonds.
• Jeremiah 27:4-8 - The message associated with the yokes and bonds
• Jeremiah 27:9-11 - Do not believe the lying prophets
• Jeremiah 27:12-15 - The message to King Hezekiah
• Jeremiah 27:16-22 - About the temple vessels
• Jeremiah 27:16-17 - What the lying prophets said about the temple vessels
• Jeremiah 27:18 - The test of the prophets
• Jeremiah 27:19-22 - The fate of the temple vessels
• Jeremiah 28:1-11 - Hananiah and the broken yoke
• Jeremiah 28:1-4 - Hananiah contradicts Jeremiah
• Jeremiah 28:5-6 - Jeremiah responds with an amen
• Jeremiah 28:7-9 - Jeremiah responds by defending his prophetic ministry
• Jeremiah 28:10-11 - The broken yoke
• Jeremiah 28:12-17 - Yokes of wood, yokes of iron
• Jeremiah 28:12-14 - A yoke of iron to replace your yoke of wood
• Jeremiah 28:15-17 - The word to Hananiah

v1-4 - Hananiah contradicts God's word: Restoration from Babylon

v5-6 - Jeremiah begins his correction: Affirming the desire

v7-8 - The test of true prophets: Predictions will be similar to past prophets

v9 - The test of true prophets: Prediction will come true

v10-11 - What false prophets will do: They will double down 

v12-17 - What false prophets will get: Worse punishment

 

Jeremiah 26

 Scripture – Jeremiah 26

Observation – 

• Jeremiah 26:1-15 - Jeremiah in danger of death
• Jeremiah 26:1-3 - The command to speak
• Jeremiah 26:4-6 - The words to speak
• Jeremiah 26:7-9 - Opposition from priests, prophets, and people
• Jeremiah 26:10-11 - The charge against Jeremiah
• Jeremiah 26:12-15 - Jeremiah defends and explains his message
• Jeremiah 26:16-24 - Jeremiah spared from death
• Jeremiah 26:16 - Jeremiah will not be condemned to death
• Jeremiah 26:17-19 - Remembering when they used to listen to the prophets
• Jeremiah 26:20-23 - The faithfulness of Urijah
• Jeremiah 26:24 - Help for Jeremiah from Ahikam

Jeremiah 24-25

 Scripture – Jeremiah 24-25

Observation – 

• Jeremiah 24:1-3 - Two baskets of figs
• Jeremiah 24:1 - Time and place of the lesson
• Jeremiah 24:2-3 - What Jeremiah saw: two baskets of figs
• Jeremiah 24:4-10 - Learning from the basket of figs
• Jeremiah 24:4-7 - The good basket of figs
• Jeremiah 24:8-10 - The bad basket of figs
• Jeremiah 25:1-14 - Seventy years of judgment
• Jeremiah 25:1-2 - The word to Judah and Jerusalem
• Jeremiah 25:3-7 - The rejected word of the prophets
• Jeremiah 25:8-11 - Seventy years of desolation
• Jeremiah 25:12-14 - After the seventy years
• Jeremiah 25:15-38 - Judgment on the nations
• Jeremiah 25:15-16 - The cup of God's fury
• Jeremiah 25:17-26 - Jeremiah as the cup of staggering
• Jeremiah 25:27-29 - The nations must drink the cup
• Jeremiah 25:30-33 - The LORD's controversy with the nations
• Jeremiah 25:34-38 - The LORD's anger against the shepherds

Jeremiah 24:1-10

There are two types of people:

1.The good figs had an initial step of faith (surrendering)

2.The bad figs depended on their walls (hiding)

There are two promises 

1.Good figs: watch over, bring back, build up, plant, a new heart, be their God. enable them to return.

2.Bad figs: make abhorrent, offensive, reproach, byword, ridiculed, cursed, banished, destroyed.

Are you a good fig or bad fig?

Do you have that initial faith even when it seems dumb and illogical

Or do you depend on yourself and your own walls?

The good figs which will be blessed

The bad figs which will be destroyed

Are you a good fig or bad fig?

Good figs - Blessed by being able to go into heaven

Bad figs - Destroyed and burnt in hell