Falls Apart Adult Sunday School Taught by Mark Mueller Week 1 The God Who Calls July 19 2015 A Survey of Jeremiah amp Lamentations 220YearOld Time Capsule Buried by Sam Adams amp Paul Revere Opened ID: 461713
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When Your World
Falls Apart
Adult Sunday School -
Taught by Mark Mueller Week 1 – The God Who Calls – July 19, 2015
A Survey of Jeremiah & Lamentations
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220-Year-Old Time Capsule Buried by Sam Adams & Paul Revere OpenedSlide3Slide4Slide5
Blessings for Obedience
“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out
.” Deuteronomy 28:1-6Slide6
Curses for Disobedience
“But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out
.”Deuteronomy 28:15-19 Slide7
Josiah’s Reforms
And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin join in it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
And Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel and made all who were present in Israel serve the LORD their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the LORD, the God of their fathers. 2 Chronicles 34:31-33Slide8
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LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save? Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.
Habakkuk 1:1-4Slide9
Jeremiah’s Messages During Josiah’s Reign
2:1-3:5 – On Judah’s sinful heart3:6-6:30 – Jerusalem is to be destroyed7:1-10:25 – Ruin and exile coming18:1-20:18 – Message on the PotterSlide10
On Judah’s Sinful Heart
For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:13 Slide11
Jerusalem Is to Be Destroyed
Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the LORD your God and scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, declares the LORD.Jeremiah
3:13 Slide12
Jerusalem Is to Be Destroyed
I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro. I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the air had fled. I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger.
Jeremiah 4:24-26 Slide13
Ruin and Exile Coming
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place. Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
“For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever. Jeremiah 7:3-7Slide14
Ruin and Exile Coming
“But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:24Slide15
Message on the Potter
“But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”Jeremiah 18:12Slide16
Message on the Potter
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: “Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words.” So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.
Jeremiah 18:1-4Slide17
The Broken Flask
Thus says the LORD, “Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests, and go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom
at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you. Jeremiah 19:1-2Slide18
“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words.”
Jeremiah 19:15Slide19
Then
Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the LORD. Jeremiah 20:2Slide20
Jeremiah’s Despair
Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed! Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, “A son is born to you,” making him very glad. Let that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon, because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great. Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?
Jeremiah 20:14-18 Slide21
Jeremiah’s Messages During Jehoiakim’s Reign
11:1-13:14 – The
Broken Covenant14-15 – Prayers Are Fruitless16-17 – Jeremiah’s C
elibacy22 – The King Rejected23 – False Prophets Charged25 – Nebuchadnezzar
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The Broken Covenant
But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD.” Jeremiah 12:17Slide23
Prayers Are Fruitless
The Lord Will Not Relent Then the LORD said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go! Jeremiah 15:1Slide24
Prayers Are Fruitless
And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD: “‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’”
Jeremiah 15:2Slide25
Jeremiah’s Celibacy
The word of the LORD came to me: “You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place
. For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who fathered them in this land: They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth. Jeremiah 16:1-4Slide26
The King Rejected
Thus says the LORD: “Write this man down as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days, for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.” Jeremiah 22:30Slide27
False Prophets Charged
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” declares the LORD.”Jeremiah 23:1Slide28
False Prophets Charged
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The LORD is our righteousness.’
Jeremiah 23:5-6Slide29
Nebuchadnezzar, God’s Servant
“Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jeremiah 25:8-9 Slide30
Jeremiah Threatened with Death
“You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you, and to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you urgently, though you have not listened, then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.’”
Jeremiah 26:4-6Slide31
The Example of the Recabites
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “Go to the house of the
Rechabites and speak with them and bring them to the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink.” Jeremiah 35:1-2Slide32
Promise to Baruch
And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not, for behold, I am bringing disaster upon all flesh, declares the LORD. But I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go.”Jeremiah 45:5Slide33
Against Foreign Nations
Egypt – ch 46Philistines – ch 47
Moab – ch 48Amorites – ch 49 – Zedekiah’s reignBabylon – ch 50 – LaterSlide34Slide35
What is the Attraction of
Idolatry?
Idolatry was guaranteed.Idolatry was selfish.Idolatry was easy.Idolatry was convenient.
Idolatry was normal.Idolatry was logical.Idolatry was pleasing to the senses.Slide36Slide37Slide38Slide39
When Your World
Falls Apart
Adult Sunday School -
Taught by Mark Mueller Week 2 – The God Who Instructs the Prophet
A Survey of Jeremiah & Lamentations