Samples of Jeremiah

P2SERVE MODULE 3B

• Jeremiah’s name means the "Yhwh will raise".
• Jeremiah was from the town of Anathoth in Judah (Abiathar the priest at David times), from priestly lineage.
• Jeremiah prophesied from 627-582 BC (time of siege and destruction by the Babylonians).
• Jeremiah dictated prophecies from the Lord to Baruch (Jer 36:4).
• He prophesied under the reign of five Judean king; Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin & Zedekiah.
• He is known as “The Weeping Prophet,” as his heart is so tender but he was severely persecuted and finally martyred by stoning in Egypt.

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Jeremiah

Bible History

Isaiah

Jeremiah

• 52 Chapter into 3 major parts & a final chapter to introduce Lamentation:
• Threat of the Judean Exile (1-33)
• The Stages of Exile (34-45)
• God’s Judgment to the Nations (46-51)
• The fall of Jerusalem (52)
• Mega themes:
• Sin, Punishment, God of All, New Heart, Faithful Servant.

Book of Jeremiah

MEGATHEMES IN JEREMIAH

Sin

• The people’s repentance was shallow.
• They continued in their selfishness and worship of idols.

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• We learn:
• When we ignore sin and refuse to listen to God’s warning, we invite disaster.
• Don’t settle for half measures in removing sin.

Punishment

• Because of sin:
• Jerusalem was destroyed.
• The Temple was ruined.
• The people were captured and carried off to Babylon.

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• We learn:
• Unconfessed sin brings God’s full punishment.
• We are accountable to God before anyone else.

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God is the Lord of all

• God is :
• The righteous Creator.
• Wisely and lovingly directs all creation to fulfill His plans.
• The Lord over all the world.

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• We learn:
• We must submit to His authority.
• We have to follow His plans, not our own.
• We can have a loving relationship with Him and serve Him with our whole heart.

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New Heart

• God would send a new shepherd, the Messiah.
• He would lead them into a new covenant, a covenant of hope.
• He would accomplish this by changing their sinful hearts into hearts of love for God.

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• We learn:
• God still transforms people by changing their hearts.
• His love can eliminate the problems created by sin.
• We can have assurance of a new heart by trusting Christ to save us, and repenting of our sin.

Faithful Servant

• Jeremiah served God faithfully for 40 years.
• During that time the people ignored, rejected, and persecuted him.
• Jeremiah’s preaching was unsuccessful by human standards, yet he remained faithful to God.
• We learn:
• People’s acceptance or rejection of us is not the measure of our success.
• God’s approval alone should be our standard for service.
• We must bring God’s message to others even when we are rejected.
• We must do God’s work even if it means suffering for it.

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The New Covenant �& �Prophecies

The New Covenant

“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:31-32

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Jesus Christ is Our Righteousness

“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,

“That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness;

A King shall reign and prosper,

And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.

In His days Judah will be saved,

And Israel will dwell safely;

Now this is His name by which He will be called:

THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Jeremiah 23:5-6

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Jesus Christ will restore our inheritance

but, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ And they shall dwell in their own land.”

Jeremiah 23:8

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Jesus Christ Our King

But they shall serve the Lord their God,

And David their king,

Whom I will raise up for them.

Jeremiah 30:9

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Jesus Christ the Lamb of God

But I was like a docile lamb brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

Jeremiah 11:19

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The suffering of Christ

My heart within me is broken

Because of the prophets;

All my bones shake.

Jeremiah 23:9

Jesus Christ the Son of David�(His Humanity)

‘In those days and at that time

I will cause to grow up to David

A Branch of righteousness;

He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.

Jeremiah 33:15

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The Divinity of Christ

In those days Judah will be saved,

And Jerusalem will dwell safely.

And this is the name by which she will be called:

THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.’

Jeremiah 33:16

Children of Bethlehem

“A voice was heard in Ramah,

Lamentation and bitter weeping,

Rachel weeping for her children,

Refusing to be comforted for her children,

Because they are no more.”

Jeremiah 31:15

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We are new creation in Christ�2 Corinthians 5:17

“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter?” says the Lord. “Look, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel!

Jeremiah 18:6

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