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Weekly Guide：Week 79
July 28, 2019
Week 79 Day 1: They will Perish ⇧ ⇩
Forward
We will continue our journey this week with Jeremiah the weeping prophet. It is not easy for prophets to follow God’s path, just as running in a marathon requires perseverance without comfort and assurance, and even feeling worn out and hard to continue. The challenges become ever more difficult, a casual stroll becomes a race against the horses, the safe harbor becomes the dangerous jungles of the Jordan River.
God’s calling does not equate to an easy life for it masks all opportunities to grow. Life’s challenges develop our spiritual muscles to enable us to walk further. Each new challenge and transformation help us to grow our faith, to make us more mature, stronger, and more enduring. A believer’s life is not to be a bystander but to build that life through the truth. Persevere the race on the path God gave us for God supports and does not spoil.
May you all be renewed in God’s word each day!
Question
How did God throw the people out of the promised land and then bring them back again?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The Lord wanted the prophet to not marry and have sons or daughters for they will die of deadly diseases and will not be mourned.
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The Lord said: “It is because your ancestors forsook me, I will throw you out of this land.”
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The Lord said: “The days are coming when I will restore them to the land I gave their ancestors.”
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The Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress.
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Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool, inscribed with a flint point, on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
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Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the Lord. But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.
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The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? The Lord search the heart and examine the mind.
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The people did not believe the prophesy: “Where is the word of the Lord? Let it now be fulfilled!”
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Keep the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work on it.
Meditation: My Story
- Integrity - The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? We may even be deceived by our own deceitful heart. However, as believers, we already have the Holy Spirit in us to help us. So, God wants us not to rely on our own strength but to follow Jesus. How may I distinguish between the voice my own desire and the voice of the Holy Spirit?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 79 Day 2: Like Potter's Clay ⇧ ⇩
Question
What example did the Lord use to show Israel of His wrath?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The Lord’s word came to Jeremiah told him to go down to the potter’s house. Israel to the Lord as the clay in the potter’s hand, the Lord can do to them as the potter does to the clay.
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The Lord is preparing a disaster for Israel and devising a plan against them. So turn from each’s evil ways and reform your ways and your actions.
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The prophet prayed to the Lord to save him from the evil plans of his accusers.
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The Lord said to Jeremiah to buy a clay jar from a potter then proclaim His word: “He will bring disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle.” Then break the jar and say: “He will smash this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired.”
Meditation: My Story
- Fidelity - The prophet prayed to the Lord to save him because Israel repaid good with evil and did not remember how he stood before the Lord to speak in their behalf. Have I ever been misunderstood and even got hurt? How may I call to God for His salvation?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 79 Day 3: Ridiculed by Everyone ⇧ ⇩
Question
How was Jeremiah being laughed at?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The priest Pashhur, the official in charge of the temple of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying so he had Jeremiah beaten and put in the stocks at the Lord’s temple then released the next day.
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Jeremiah said to Pashhur that the Lord would make him a terror to himself and to all his friends.
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The prophet cried to the Lord that he was being ridiculed all day long, mock by everyone, and with terror all around.
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The prophet knew the Lord was with him, his persecutors will stumble and not prevail.
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The prophet was willing to be cursed the day he was born, mocked by everyone, and end his days in shame.
Meditation: My Story
- Fidelity - The Lord’s word in the prophet’s heart was like fire shut up in his bones, he was weary of holding it in. Do I have the same zeal as the prophet with the Lord’s word and would spread the gospel like it is burning in my heart?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 79 Day 4: Holy City Besieged ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did the prophet foretell the end of Jerusalem?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Because Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon was attacking, King Zedekiah asked Jeremiah to inquire of the Lord.
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Jeremiah answered: The Lord would fight against Jerusalem with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm in furious anger and in great wrath that whoever goes out and surrenders to the Babylonians will live.
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The prophet scolded the house of the King of Judah that they must hear the word of the Lord, administer justice, rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed.
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The prophet warned the Judah king and people that they must hear the word of the Lord, do what is just and right, rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed.
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Foretold that Shallum son of Josiah would die in the place where they have led him captive.
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Foretold that woe would come to Jehoiakim.
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Foretold that Jehoiachin would be delivered into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the Babylonians.
Meditation: My Story
- Integrity - The prophet tried to persuade the Judah king and its people to do what is just and right, and not to be greedy. We may often unknowingly trapped by greed as the world does and forget what is just and right. Let me examine myself to see if I have been following the world instead of His word. How has the Holy Spirit reminded me to turn back to His way?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 79 Day 5: Light of Hope ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did God give people hope in His righteous judgment?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of God’s pasture!
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God will raise up for David a righteous Branch.
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Concerning the false prophets and their punishments.
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Those who are cynical of the prophets will be punished.
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The Lord likened those Judah who would be looked after and receive His grace to the good figs. He also likened the Judah king and the rest of the Judah who would become abhorrent, be reproached and ridiculed by the nations to the bad figs.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - God saved a remnant from the exiles of the Judah, to give them a heart to know Him, and bring them back to the promised land, to be His people, and return to Him with all their heart. God saved us by His grace. How may I know God more each day of my life?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 79 Day 6: Foretold Judah's Exile ⇧ ⇩
Question
What was the prophet’s foretelling of Judah’s exile?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The prophet rebuked the Judah for not listening to the Lord for twenty-three years.
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Foretold the Judah would be taken in exile to Babylon for seventy years.
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When the seventy years are fulfilled, the land of the Babylonians would be made desolate forever.
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God’s judgment likened to a cup filled with the wine of His wrath.
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Shepherds shall weep and wail for the people.
Meditation: My Story
- Fidelity - The prophet asked the shepherds to weep and wail because the people would be scattered and slaughtered. Do I weep and wail when I see those around me whose souls are yet to be saved? Do I have a heart to love all like God loves the world?