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seekHm1st> Okay folks………..
seekHm1st> Let’s go ahead and get rolling.
seekHm1st> Welcome to the CCNET server meeting and Bible study.
seekHm1st> I don’t have any new announcements this evening…….
seekHm1st> So let’s open with prayer and begin the study.
seekHm1st> Would anyone like to open?
PS-AFK> I can
seekHm1st> all yours sis
PS-AFK> Father God we thank you Lord for your many blessings thank you for all you do for us everyday Lord we ask you to bless the study we are about to have and help us to have complete understanding of what you want us to learn from it and to take it into our daily lives and use it as is your will for us to do we pray this in your name Jesus amen
Aspros_Tigris> Amen
LoneWolf> amen
Snapstur> Amen
Bethel> amen
seekHm1st> Amen, thank you for praying PS-AFK
PS-AFK> you’re welcome
seekHm1st> Okay……..I have a question for you all…..
seekHm1st> and since you are the ones who showed up tonight…….
seekHm1st> YOU get to make the decision
seekHm1st> lol
seekHm1st> I posted the study text for tonight on the forums
seekHm1st> I don’t know how many of you saw it
seekHm1st> But my point in doing so was that Jeremiah is a loooooong book
seekHm1st> and it is taught through once per month
seekHm1st> That would take us through about three and a half years
LoneWolf> fine by me
Bethel> hopefully Jesus returns before then
Snapstur> hmmmm….
seekHm1st> lol
seekHm1st> So, I can keep teaching line by line
seekHm1st> or lump two or three chapters together
seekHm1st> and teach an overview
Bethel> o/
seekHm1st> That would bring us up through about a year to a year and a half
seekHm1st> Bethel?
Bethel> I like the idea of an overview…
Bethel> pull out the significant points
seekHm1st> k
PS-AFK> o/ I like the idea of overview 2 ….
Snapstur> o/
seekHm1st> Snapstur?
Snapstur> I second the motion
seekHm1st> lol
seekHm1st> anyone else?
LoneWolf> I concur
seekHm1st> Well, that’s a majority
seekHm1st> lol
Bethel> I like to study the to in story form
seekHm1st> Then that’s the way it will be.
Bethel> Old Test
PS-AFK> chuck said he votes 4 either way he’s not having 2 do the typing L.OL
LoneWolf> lol
seekHm1st> lol
Snapstur> L o L
seekHm1st> Okay we’ll do it that way, so I better get started
seekHm1st> Jeremiah 3:1 They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you play the harlot with many lovers; yet come back to Me, says Jehovah.
seekHm1st> That is a quote out of Jeremiah from Deuteronomy
seekHm1st> Chapter 24 I think
seekHm1st> Back in chapter two God told the people that they had their faces turned toward him, but also their backs.
seekHm1st> Strange description
seekHm1st> But what that meant was that they were being phonies
seekHm1st> They paid Him no real spiritual acknowledgment
seekHm1st> but on the surface only
seekHm1st> They had "played the harlot" with many "lovers"
seekHm1st> But even so……….
seekHm1st> I will take you back.
seekHm1st> Oh…….the forgiveness and generosity of God’s love
seekHm1st> They had polluted the land with their whoredoms…..
seekHm1st> and He said that they had a *****’s forehead
seekHm1st> and they refused to be ashamed
seekHm1st> Meaning…..there is nothing they would "blush" at
seekHm1st> They did evil, and as evil as they could.
seekHm1st> That is the end of the first message that God gave to Jeremiah to give to the people
seekHm1st> I’m paraphrasing
seekHm1st> and in verse six of chapter three, He starts the second message
seekHm1st> 3:6 Jehovah also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has fornicated there.
seekHm1st> 3:7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn to Me! But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
seekHm1st> 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes for which backsliding Israel committed adultery, I sent her away and gave a bill of divorce to her, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she went and whored, she also.
seekHm1st> Israel as you all know, had been split into two kingdoms
seekHm1st> And Judah had seen the northern kingdom carried away by Assyria
seekHm1st> taken into captivity
seekHm1st> A judgment upon them from God for their iniquities
seekHm1st> You would think……….
seekHm1st> that having seen all of these things happen to their sister kingdom..
seekHm1st> that they might have been warned off of doing what they were doing
seekHm1st> But that wasn’t to be the case.
LoneWolf> o/
seekHm1st> LoneWolf?
LoneWolf> the trouble with being human is that we believe it won’t happen to us
LoneWolf> done
seekHm1st> Isn’t that the truth?
seekHm1st> And that is precisely what was going on with these people.
seekHm1st> And God even talked with them about it.
seekHm1st> They should have returned to God with a whole heart.
seekHm1st> They committed adultery with "stones and with stalks"
seekHm1st> In other words, with rock altars and wooden images of false gods.
seekHm1st> They only feigned a revival of spirituality.
seekHm1st> They "mouthed" the words….
seekHm1st> but they were meaningless.
seekHm1st> We see that in the world
seekHm1st> sometimes in our own churches
seekHm1st> I know we’ve seen in here on CCNET
seekHm1st> We need to examine ourselves..
Bethel> yep
seekHm1st> Do I love God partly?
seekHm1st> Do I have a divided heart?
seekHm1st> God is calling us for a full committment to Him.
seekHm1st> "Come apart frome them and be ye separate" says the Lord
seekHm1st> And touch not the unclean thing.
seekHm1st> Many folks are like treacherous Judah
seekHm1st> it is a feigning love
seekHm1st> But God looks at the heart
seekHm1st> and He knows it
seekHm1st> And He knows when people lust after the things of the world.
seekHm1st> 3:14 Turn, O backsliding sons, says Jehovah; for I am married to you; and I will take you one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
seekHm1st> 3:15 And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
seekHm1st> God wanted them to acknowledge their iniquity.
seekHm1st> To repent of it.
seekHm1st> Like LoneWolf mentioned……
seekHm1st> these people were justifying themselves
seekHm1st> and everyone has a tendency to do that
Bethel> o/
seekHm1st> Bethel?
Bethel> verse 14…
Bethel> I wanted to mention that so many who are backslidden
Bethel> think that they cannot return to the Lord
Bethel> but the Word says he is married to the backslidder
seekHm1st> truly
Bethel> I have used that verse to many who were away from God and it touched their hearts
seekHm1st> Yes, because His love is so great
seekHm1st> These people were doing horrendous things.
Bethel> and many parents are blessed to know that their backsliden child is still married to God
Bethel> done
seekHm1st> Thank you for saying that
seekHm1st> I do not diminish the sins that we all fall into
seekHm1st> and repent of and confess
seekHm1st> when I say that these folks were acting abominably
seekHm1st> They were even sacrificing their own babies
seekHm1st> They had turned to Baal worship
seekHm1st> And to sex gods like Baal
seekHm1st> and that isn’t the half of it
seekHm1st> And yet….
seekHm1st> God reached out to backslidden Judah
seekHm1st> "Come back to Me"
seekHm1st> "Come back to Me"
seekHm1st> But these people were telling themselves that they were not so bad.
PS-AFK> praise the Lord he is so good and merciful to love us all so much even those who did that stuff
seekHm1st> When we do that, God can’t do anything with us.
seekHm1st> We’re in the way.
seekHm1st> He might use us to show someone else how NOT to be…..
Bethel> yes
seekHm1st> but what a dubious position to be in.
seekHm1st> 3:15 And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
seekHm1st> 3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah; and all nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem. Nor shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
seekHm1st> Here God was talking about a time to come.
seekHm1st> Where men would no longer be looking to the stone tablets contained within the Ark of the Covenant
seekHm1st> And there would be a New Covenant
seekHm1st> Written on the heart
seekHm1st> and not on hearts of stone
seekHm1st> God said they had dealt with Him "treacherously"
seekHm1st> but if they would return to Him, He would heal their backslidings…….
seekHm1st> 3:23 Truly, for delusion comes from the high hills, tumult on the mountains. Truly, in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.
seekHm1st> What does the "high hills" mean in that statement?
seekHm1st> Anyone?
seekHm1st> Okay……….
seekHm1st> What He was referring to there was the fact that the high hills was where the people had raised their altars to false gods
seekHm1st> Salvation is not to be found there…
seekHm1st> But only with Jehovah.
seekHm1st> Through Jesus Christ.
seekHm1st> God moved on to say that judgment was coming
seekHm1st> And Jeremiah responded by saying that God had surely deceived the people.
seekHm1st> 4:10 Then I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! Surely You have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; but the sword reaches to the soul.seekHm1st> That was because the "prophets" of the day were running around saying………
seekHm1st> Israel shall not be taken
seekHm1st> Peace, peace. The sword shall not come to Israel.
seekHm1st> But they were not speaking for God.
seekHm1st> These men…….these people were using spiritual language…..
seekHm1st> but they were wicked.
seekHm1st> Remember the story of Elisha, when he healed Nahum by the power of God?
seekHm1st> Nahum tried to give Elisha rewards……..
seekHm1st> But Elisha would have none of it.
seekHm1st> Gehazi, Elisha’s servant however chased after Nahum’s caravan
seekHm1st> and told a lie about Elisha having sudden guests
seekHm1st> And asked on his master
seekHm1st> master’s behalf for some silver and some clothing
seekHm1st> When He went back to Elisha……Elisha said, "The Lord lives. Where have you been?"
seekHm1st> Gehazi answered, "The Lord lives. I haven’t been anywhere."
seekHm1st> Well, you know the story.
seekHm1st> Gehazi ended up white with leprosy.
seekHm1st> But what I am getting at is that he spoke, couching his deceit in spiritual terms.
seekHm1st> He was a servant to one of the most greatly used prophets of God.
seekHm1st> He saw many miracles done by God through Elisha.
seekHm1st> Yet he didn’t have the heart toward God’s ministry….
seekHm1st> He talked the talk………
seekHm1st> but his walk was deceitful and wretchedly wanting.
seekHm1st> Such was the case with Judah.
seekHm1st> The Bible say to be "simple" concerning evil.
seekHm1st> Better to be dumb about evil.
seekHm1st> Jeremiah says the same thing here
seekHm1st> The people were "wise" to do evil.
seekHm1st> But to do good they have no knowledge.
seekHm1st> I heard about a group of young Christian guys who had started a ministry………….
seekHm1st> Where they went down to local strip clubs……….
seekHm1st> in order to witness to the strippers….
seekHm1st> They didn
seekHm1st> didn’t stay OUTside…….
seekHm1st> they went INside to carry out this "ministry"
seekHm1st> How dumb is that?
seekHm1st> Don’t strippers go to the grocery store?
PS-AFK> pretty dumb
seekHm1st> Don’t they go to the laundromat?
seekHm1st> I think they can be witnessed to in those places.
seekHm1st> Better to be dumb about sin.
seekHm1st> We can make excuses to do the dumbest things.
Bethel> amen… good thought seekHm1st
seekHm1st> Well, I’m seeing the clock
seekHm1st> So let’s wrap it up before Snapstur thumps me.
seekHm1st> lol
PS-AFK> L.OL
Snapstur> O.O
seekHm1st> The helpful thing about Jeremiah……..
seekHm1st> is to see the disease that brought about this nation’s death.
seekHm1st> And help us to avoid it.
seekHm1st> I know it’s more than that.
PS-AFK> amen.
seekHm1st> But that’s my nutshell for tonight
seekHm1st> Let’s close in prayer
seekHm1st> Father,
seekHm1st> We want to know You more.
seekHm1st> We want to love you more.
PS-AFK> yes Lord
seekHm1st> We talk about sin…..
seekHm1st> and that it "only takes one sin to keep you out of heaven"
seekHm1st> there’s truth to that…..
seekHm1st> But in reality…..
seekHm1st> it isn’t our sin that keeps us out of heaven……
seekHm1st> It is the hardness of the human heart—toward You—that sin brings
seekHm1st> Don’t let us be deceived Father…..
seekHm1st> Give us that hunger for Your Word
PS-AFK> yes Lord
seekHm1st> and the desire to read it and keep it in our hearts…..
seekHm1st> to spend time with You
seekHm1st> meditating on You, with You
seekHm1st> Help us to remember those who need You,
seekHm1st> which is all of us
PS-AFK> yes Lord
seekHm1st> but those who don’t know Your Son
seekHm1st> and those as Bethel mentioned who are backslidden
seekHm1st> and are in danger of deception…….
seekHm1st> who haven’t grasped the immensity of Your grace
seekHm1st> We thank You Lord
seekHm1st> We praise You
seekHm1st> And we give You the rest of the evening and ask You to bless it.
seekHm1st> In Jesus’ name
seekHm1st> Amen
Aspros_Tigris> Amen
smash> amen
PS-AFK> amen
Snapstur> Amen