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Chuck Smith Sermon Notes
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Sermons regarding Jeremiah
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/449.html"><b>Sermon 449: Jeremiah 1:1, 2 </b></a>
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<br> "THE WORD OF JEHOVAH"
<br>Intro: It's difficult to conceive a situation more painful. A Great man condemned to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country. The words of Jehovah to a decadent age. A wonderful thought having been spoken and disobeyed. God should continue to speak.
<br>I. THE NATURE OF THE AGE.
<br>A. 5 kings during Jeremiah's prophesies.
<br>1. Josiah - 18 years after Jer...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/450.html"><b>Sermon 450: Jeremiah 1:1b </b></a>
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<br> I. THE NATURE OF THE AGE.
<br>A. The decline and fall of Judah.
<br>1. Things were rushing to their final doom.
<br>2. The Words of God to a decadent age.
<br>a. Remarkable that God was still speaking.
<br>1. Faithfulness of God despite unfaithfulness of His people.
<br>B. Who were these people?
<br>1. "What advantage then hath the Jew?" Adoption - glory - covenants - laws - service - promises - fathers...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/451.html"><b>Sermon 451: Jeremiah 1:4 </b></a>
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<br> Intro: The man himself - the dealings of God with this man to make him God's instrument. Not just for those who are going into the ministry. Eldad and Medad - "Art thou jealous for my sake? Would that all God's people were prophets." Jeremiah, a young priest living at Anathoth. Father Hilkiah - high priest - one who discovered the Book of the Law in Josiah's reign, 5 yrs. prior to J...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/448.html"><b>Sermon 448: Jeremiah 1 </b></a>
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<br> "TO WHOM THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME"
<br>Intro: Jeremiah's difficult task - to oversee the death of the nation.
<br>I. THE NATIONAL CONDITION AT THE TIME WHEN "THE WORD..."
<br>A. Vs. 16 - Wickedness.
<br>1. "Who have forsaken Me."
<br>a. Described more fully in chapter 2. "Forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water."
<br>1. Every man b...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/452.html"><b>Sermon 452: Jeremiah 1:10 </b></a>
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<br> GOD'S METHODS
<br>Intro: Jeremiah while still just a youth was called to a thankless, hopeless task. Watch the death of a nation. A nation plunging toward doom.
<br>I. THE STATE OF THE NATION.
<br>A. Described by God in 2:13.
<br>1. Forsaken Me - "Fountain of living water".
<br>a. They had ceased trusting in God.
<br>2. Hewed out cisterns - broken cisterns.
<br>a. Trusting in their own genius.
<br>b. Relyi...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/453.html"><b>Sermon 453: Jeremiah 2:5 </b></a>
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<br> "FALSE-HEARTED LOVERS"
<br>Intro: Jeremiah called in 13th year of Josiah's reign. For next 18 years comparable peace. Josiah King when 8 years old. At 16, he began to seek after God - 4 years later began reforms. Next year, Jeremiah started to prophesy. 5 years later the book of the law is discovered - Josiah leading new campaign, cleansing of temple. First Chap. 2-12 of Jeremiah. Chap...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/454.html"><b>Sermon 454: Jeremiah 2:13 </b></a>
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<br> Intro: Jeremiah was called by God to the difficult task of watching the death of a nation. He was to see it in its final convulsions as it died.
<br>I. THE DEADLY MALADY, "THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME, THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATER."
<br>A. The nation was brought to birth by God.
<br>1. He brought them out of Egypt.
<br>2. He established the basis for their relationship giving them the law.
<br>B. God was...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/455.html"><b>Sermon 455: Jeremiah 2:13b </b></a>
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<br> "TWO EVILS"
<br>I. "FORSAKEN ME, THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATER."
<br>A. Nations do not change their gods.
<br>1. Man holds fanatically to weird concepts.
<br>2. Traditional beliefs hard to change, even when out-moded and out-dated.
<br>B. How totally inconceivable that those who worshipped the only true God would change.
<br>1. Nations would not go from false to true.
<br>2. Yet Israel went from true to ...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/456.html"><b>Sermon 456: Jeremiah 2:13c </b></a>
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"BROKEN CISTERNS"
<br>Intro: Next to air drive, our thirst drive is the strongest drive we have. Water is essential for life. We take water for granted. Should our Public Works System fail, the first and primary concern would be to find a source of water. God's cry against Israel was...
<br>I. "THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME, THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATER."
<br>A. Living water was running water.
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/457.html"><b>Sermon 457: Jeremiah 2:17 </b></a>
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<br> Intro. Midway between the Damascus gate and Herod's gate in Jerusalem, standing on the wall, you can look across the little valley and see on the face of the cliff, two caves that look like the eye sockets of a scull. Hence the name Calvary. Just to the left of it is a larger cave that traditionally is called Jeremiah's grotto, where it is believed that Jeremiah sat as he wept and w...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/458.html"><b>Sermon 458: Jeremiah 4-6 </b></a>
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<br> Intro: Condition of people described - "Judah hath not returned to Me with her whole heart."
<br>I. DECLARATION OF JUDGMENT.
<br>A. Appeal to true repentance.
<br>1. People panicky because of peril.
<br>2. Description of swift attack of foe.
<br>B. Reason for judgment.
<br>1. Corruption of people.
<br>a. Truth and justice lost (people and leaders).
<br>2. Unbelief of message.
<br>3. Rebellious heart of people...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/459.html"><b>Sermon 459: Jeremiah 7:4 </b></a>
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<br> "TRUST NOT IN LYING WORDS"
<br>Intro: Jeremiah just a young boy of 17 when God first spoke.
<br>I. THE ATTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE.
<br>A. Temple had been ordered rebuilt.
<br>1. People gave freely.
<br>2. Workmen worked faithfully and well.
<br>B. Law of the Lord discovered.
<br>1. National reforms instituted.
<br>C. Passover feast observed in 18th year Josiah's reign.
<br>1. Greatest ever.
<br>2. Seemingly a nation...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/460.html"><b>Sermon 460: Jeremiah 7:4b </b></a>
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<br> "FALSE TRUST"
<br>Intro: Jeremiah began to prophesy in the fifth year of the reign of Josiah. In the eighteenth year of his reign Josiah ordered the Temple repaired. Discovery of Law, keeping of Passover.
<br>I. JEREMIAH COMMANDED TO STAND IN THE GATE OF THE LORD'S HOUSE.
<br>A. As the people entered they were probably saying, "The Temple of Jehovah."
<br>1. For many, it was their first time he...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/461.html"><b>Sermon 461: Jeremiah 7:4c, 8 </b></a>
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<br> II KINGS 22:3-7; 23:21-23;II KINGS 23:1,2;II CHRON. 34:29,30
<br>I. THE TIME OF THE PROPHESY.
<br>A. 18th year of Josiah's reign - 5th yr. of Jeremiah.
<br>1. Book of law discovered by Hilkiah.
<br>a. Revealed to the king how far people drifted.
<br>B. The repaired temple and gathering of multitudes.
<br>1. Observance of Passover.
<br>2. Temple now repaired.
<br>a. Doors opened.
<br>b. Throngs gathering.
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/462.html"><b>Sermon 462: Jeremiah 9:23, 24 </b></a>
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<br> I. "LET NOT THE WISE GLORY IN HIS WISDOM."
<br>A. Dan. "Last days knowledge increased."
<br>B. Wisdom of man - foolishness with God.
<br>1. Splitting atom - sun.
<br>2. Radar - bat.
<br>3. Satellite - moon.
<br>4. Light without heat - firefly.
<br>C. 1958 Glorying in wisdom.
<br>II. "LET NOT MIGHTY MAN GLORY IN HIS MIGHT."
<br>A. Present day arms build up.
<br>B. Samson fell to woman's wiles.
<br>C. Goliath fell to...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/463.html"><b>Sermon 463: Jeremiah 10; 11; 12 </b></a>
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<br> Intro: Place in history for Chapter 10, 11, 12.
<br>I. WHEN MEN LOSE THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD, THEY DO NOT LOSE THEIR SENSE OF NEED.
<br>A. They thus substitute the false for true.
<br>B. The making of an idol follows the loss of consciousness of God.
<br>1. Does not precede or cause loss of awareness.
<br>C. Disloyalty does not eliminate need for God.
<br>1. Result - man makes his own God.
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/464.html"><b>Sermon 464: Jeremiah 12:1, 5 </b></a>
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<br> "BUT, WHY GOD?"
<br>Intro: The men of Anathoth have threatened to kill Jeremiah if he prophesies any more. God speaks to him of their pending judgment.
<br>I. JEREMIAH'S FOUNDATION - "RIGHTEOUS ART THOU..."
<br>A. He starts his complaint with this avowal.
<br>1. Not accusing God.
<br>2. Just questioning, seeking, understanding.
<br>3. We often begin with accusations.
<br>a. God, that isn't fair.
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/465.html"><b>Sermon 465: Jeremiah 12:1b </b></a>
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<br> Intro: Josiah has been killed at Megiddo. Jehoahaz took throne for three months. Was evil - defeated by Pharaoh, who put Jehoiakim, Josiah's son on the throne. Things are going to get tougher as nation slides to its destruction. Jeremiah's life threatened by men of Anathoth.
<br>I. JEREMIAH QUESTIONS GOD - "Why do the ungodly prosper. Why are wicked people so happy?"
<br>A. These question...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/466.html"><b>Sermon 466: Jeremiah 18 </b></a>
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<br> "THE POTTERS HOUSE"
<br>I. WHAT JEREMIAH SAW.
<br>A. The potter.
<br>1. Intelligent capable worker.
<br>2. Speaks of God's authority - interest - absolute power.
<br>3. His right and authority are the clay.
<br>4. His keen interest as clay changes shape.
<br>5. I recognize his power.
<br>B. The wheel.
<br>1. An instrument by which the potter accomplishes his purpose.
<br>2. The circumstances of life.
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/467.html"><b>Sermon 467: Jeremiah 18:1 </b></a>
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<br> "THE POTTERS HOUSE"
<br>I. THE POTTER - GOD.
<br>A. The absolute power over the clay.
<br>1. He can make any type vessel He pleases.
<br>2. The destiny of the clay is in His hand.
<br>3. What are the determining factors?
<br>a. Need.
<br>b. Pliability of clay.
<br>B. His intense interest in the clay.
<br>1. As He works with the clay He breaks down the hard lumps.
<br>2. He is seeking a certain pliability.
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/468.html"><b>Sermon 468: Jeremiah 18:1b </b></a>
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<br> I. THE THREE FIGURES OF THE POTTERS HOUSE.
<br>A. The potter.
<br>1. Intelligent capable worker.
<br>a. Speaks to me of God's authority - interest.
<br>B. The wheel - (the instrument the potter uses to help form the clay).
<br>1. This speaks to me of the daily circumstances of the world about me.
<br>a. The pressures brought against me.
<br>b. Those forces that help to mold.
<br>2. The potter has placed th...
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<br> "BROKEN CLAY"
<br>I. THE VESSEL MADE. vs.3.
<br>A. God is the potter.
<br>1. His power over the clay.
<br>2. Skill in handling clay.
<br>3. His pre-planned design.
<br>B. The wheel.
<br>1. Daily round of life.
<br>a. To complain against circumstances is to complain against potter.
<br>C. The clay.
<br>1. Our lives.
<br>2. Clay very common - almost valueless.
<br>a. Infinite possibilities.
<br>b. Value determined by skill...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/470.html"><b>Sermon 470: Jeremiah 18:1d </b></a>
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<br> THE MASTER POTTER
<br>Intro: As we watch the potter work, three things arrest our attention. The potter - an intelligent capable worker. The wheel - the instrument by which he does his work. The clay - the material he works with. Practically worthless, yet unlimited potential. We watch as the potter makes, mars, remakes the vessel.
<br>I. PRINCIPAL.
<br>A. The potters interest in the clay....
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<br> "THE MASTER POTTER"
<br>Intro: Three things attract our attention: the potter, the wheel, the clay. In Isaiah and Romans, this same figure used to illustrate God's sovereignty.
<br>I. THE POTTER'S WHEEL.
<br>A. This is the instrument by which the potter accomplishes His work.
<br>1. We see how he controls its motion.
<br>a. He starts and stops it.
<br>b. He controls the speed.
<br>B. The wheel represen...
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<br> I. THE POTTER.
<br>A. Interest.
<br>B. Attention.
<br>C. Absolute Power.
<br>II. THE WHEEL.
<br>A. Circumstance of surrounding life.
<br>1. The events that help mold.
<br>B. Wheel is transient and will pass.
<br>III. THE CLAY.
<br>A. Man's capacity in relationship to God.
<br>1. Worthless of itself.
<br>2. Priceless in hands of potter.
<br>3. Can only know purpose of Potter by submission.
<br>IV. PRINCIPLE TAUGHT.
<br>A. Go...
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<br> "THE TWO PATHS"
<br>Intro: "Which way shall I take?" - cries a voice in the night, removing the scripture from its local setting.
<br>I. THE WAY OF LIFE.
<br>A. This is not just physical life.
<br>1. "Age abiding life".
<br>a. "Good Master, what must I do to inherit...?"
<br>b. Recognized in Jesus something more.
<br>B. This is a quality of life as well as quantity.
<br>1. "I have come that ye might have l...
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<br> I. GOD'S COMPLAINT AGAINST THE KING - LEADERS.
<br>A. "He had built his house with unrighteousness."
<br>1. Used his office for own personal gain.
<br>2. Seeking their own greatness and strength - yet weakening those who they reigned over.
<br>B. "Prosperity had deafened their ear to the voice of God."
<br>1. The time of national prosperity is the time of greatest spiritual peril.
<br>2. They trust i...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/475.html"><b>Sermon 475: Jeremiah 23:5, 6 </b></a>
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<br> "JEHOVAH TSIDKENU"
<br>Intro: Jeremiah has been speaking out against the Kings of Judah. Their failure to shepherd the people has led to national disaster. The failure of the nation is traced back to the failure of its leaders.
<br>I. A BRIGHT DAY IS COMING.
<br>A. Each prophet seemed to look across this period of darkness to the new day.
<br>1. That is why the Bible is a book of hope.
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/476.html"><b>Sermon 476: Jeremiah 23:6 </b></a>
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<br> I. The promise of the righteous Branch of David.
<br>A. The Lord has rejected this unholy branch of David, because of the sins of jeconiah.
<br>1. In the previous chapter the seed of Jeconiah was rejected from ever sitting on the throne of David.
<br>2. The Kings of Judah had become so corrupt that God has cut off the royal line of kings that had come from David through Solomon.
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"THE WHEAT AND THE CHAFF"
Intro: The chapter begins with a woe against the pastors that would scatter God's sheep. They purported to the people that they represented God, yet they spoke lies in the name of God.
I. THE CONDITION OF THE NATION.
A. Spiritually - the pits.
1. Worship of idols had replaced worship of the true and living God.
a. "They have forsaken Me, the fountain.....
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/478.html"><b>Sermon 478: Jeremiah 29:11 </b></a>
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<br> "THINKING OF YOU"
<br>Intro: It is always awesome to contemplate the nature of God. Omnipotence - omnipresence - eternal omniscience.
<br>I. GOD THINKS OF ME.
<br>A. David recognized this truth.
<br>1. "Though I am poor and needy, yet..."
<br>2. "And thy thoughts unto me, if I should..."
<br>B. He thinks of me constantly.
<br>1. He knows when I sit down and when I stand.
<br>2. Jesus said He "knows the num...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/479.html"><b>Sermon 479: Jeremiah 29:11b </b></a>
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<br> "THE SEARCH FOR GOD"
<br>Intro: The search for God has led men into strange places. Some say, "I have never discovered God." Where are you looking? Drunk looking for bus token under street light. Search has led some to bottle. Jeremiah's letter to captives. Never expected to find God in Babylon.
<br>I. GOD IS THERE, AND HE IS THINKING ABOUT YOU.
<br>A. This never ceases to amaze me.
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/480.html"><b>Sermon 480: Jeremiah 29:11c </b></a>
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<br> I. Have you ever thought that God was angry with you? Have you sometimes questioned His love?
<br>A. This often happens when we are going through some great tragedy.
<br>1. Satan often uses the circumstances of our lives to bring doubt concerning God's love.
<br>2. If God really loved you, why would He allow you to experience this suffering or sorrow.
<br>B. This often happens when we have fail...
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<br> THE LORD KNOWS
<br>Intro: Jeremiah writing to captives in Babylon - occasion and message. "I know and make known saith the LORD."
<br>I. "I KNOW..." - THE OMNISCIENCE OF GOD.
<br>A. These men were acting as God's spokesmen.
<br>1. Their pretense was - "we walk close to God."
<br>2. God declares them guilty of villainy, adultery, lies.
<br>B. God knows the secret of our hearts.
<br>1. "Such knowledge i...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/482.html"><b>Sermon 482: Jeremiah 31:29, 30 </b></a>
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<br> EZEKIEL 18:2-4
<br>Intro: Christianity has no more insidious foe than misrepresentation -- either in the lives of its adherents or in the interpretation of its doctrine.
<br>A. Usually results from snatching phrase from context.
<br>1. Proverb - "The fathers have eaten sour grapes."
<br>a. Man helpless because of relationship to his father.
<br>2. God punishes children because of father's sin.
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<div id="num">36.</div>
<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/483.html"><b>Sermon 483: Jeremiah 31:33, 34 </b></a>
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<br> "THE NEW COVENANT"
<br>Intro: Jeremiah was shut up in prison - the nation had failed to keep covenant with God and as a consequence was falling. God promised to establish a new covenant. The covenant establishes the basis of relationship with God.
<br>I. GOD WOULD REVEAL HIS WILL TO THE HEART OF EVERY MAN. "I WILL PUT MY LAW IN THEIR INWARD PARTS AND WRITE IT UPON THEIR HEARTS."
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/484.html"><b>Sermon 484: Jeremiah 32:6 </b></a>
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<br> "THE WORD OF THE LORD"
<br>"THE LORD TOLD ME"
<br>Intro: That God should speak is reasonable.
<br>I. DIFFERENT WAYS GOD SPEAKS.
<br>A. In Nature - Ps.19.
<br>B. In Dreams - Joseph.
<br>C. In Visions - Peter.
<br>D. Audible Voice - Ps. 1.
<br>E. Through Angels - Gabriel - Peter.
<br>F. Through His Son - Heb. 1.
<br>G. His Word.
<br>H. Inner consciousness.
<br>II. HOW OUR BRAIN WORKS.
<br>A. It interprets various stimuli.
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/485.html"><b>Sermon 485: Jeremiah 32:6b </b></a>
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<br> "HOW GOD SPEAKS"
<br>I. "THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME SAYING..."
<br>A. How do you suppose the Word of the Lord came?
<br>1. Oft repeated phrase through Jeremiah.
<br>2. Do you think it was an audible voice?
<br>B. Purpose of communication - revelation.
<br>C. There are many ways God communicates to man - Heb. 1:1 "God who at sundry times and in divers manners..."
<br>1. God can communicate in an ...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/486.html"><b>Sermon 486: Jeremiah 32:6c </b></a>
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<br> "HOW GOD SPEAKS"
<br>Intro: That God should speak is not unreasonable. We were created for fellowship. We could only know Him as He spoke and revealed Himself.
<br>I. THE VARIETY OF WAYS IN WHICH HE SPEAKS - HEBREWS 1:1.
<br>A. He speaks to us in nature - Psalm 19.
<br>1. Nature is never the final voice.
<br>2. Danger of irrationality, worship nature.
<br>"...worshipped and served the creature more...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/488.html"><b>Sermon 488: Jeremiah 32:7 </b></a>
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<br> "KNOWING THE VOICE OF GOD"
<br>Intro: Vs. 1 & 6 - typical of Jeremiah as we read these phrases throughout whole book.
<br>I. HOW DID THE WORD OF THE LORD COME?
<br>A. "God, who at sundry times and in diverse ways spoke to our fathers by the prophets."
<br>1. What are some of the diverse ways?
<br>a. Through the written Word.
<br>1) Psalm 1.
<br>2) Dan. 9, "Understood by the words of the book..."
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/489.html"><b>Sermon 489: Jeremiah 32:16 </b></a>
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<br> The Great and Mighty God
<br>Jeremiah 32:16-25
<br>I. The occasion for the prayer.
<br>A. Jeremiah has received a command from the Lord that seemed totally ludicrous.
<br>1. The Babylonian armies are at the present moment besieging he city of Jerusalem, and Jeremiah knows that they are to take the city and that they will be taken as captives to Babylon for 70 years.
<br>2. The Lord told him to buy...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/490.html"><b>Sermon 490: Jeremiah 33:14 </b></a>
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<br> I. THE DARK DAYS THAT LIE AHEAD FOR JUDAH.
<br>A. The Lord spoke to Jeremiah saying, "Call on Me and I will show you great and mighty things, that you do not know."
<br>1. The things that God was going to show him were the future of Jerusalem and it's inhabitants.
<br>2. The kings palace was going to be destroyed.
<br>3. Their resistance against Babylon was going to be futile, for they were to ...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/491.html"><b>Sermon 491: Jeremiah 35:13 </b></a>
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<br> I. THE CLAN OF RECHAB.
<br>A. Jeremiah's invitation to them to come into one of the large rooms of the Temple, and set pots of wine before them with the invitation to drink.
<br>1. These men refused the invitation to drink declaring that their ancestor Jonadab who was the son of Rechab told their fathers that they were not to drink wine, nor their sons forever.
<br>2. They were also instruct...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/492.html"><b>Sermon 492: Jeremiah 38:6 </b></a>
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<br> "SUNK IN THE MIRE"
<br>Intro: Common fallacy - if I am doing right, everything will be going right. If things are going bad, God is punishing me for some evil.
<br>I. GOD'S PATH IS NOT SMOOTH AND ROSY. "And Jeremiah sunk into the mire."
<br>A. He had been speaking God's true word to the people.
<br>1. Might be interesting to note that the false prophets were preaching prosperity.
<br>2. Jeremiah ...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/493.html"><b>Sermon 493: Jeremiah 38:14 </b></a>
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<br> I. ZEDEKIAH'S SECRET DESIRE TO HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD.
<br>A. People have different reasons for desiring to hear the word of the Lord.
<br>1. Zedekiah was wanting to know what the future held for him.
<br>a. There are many today who have a great interest in prophecy. They desire to know what the future holds.
<br>b. In every major news event, they desire to know if it has some prophetic sign...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/494.html"><b>Sermon 494: Jeremiah 39:16 </b></a>
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<br> I. THE WORD OF THE LORD TO EBED-MELECH.
<br>A. The name Ebed-melech means "servant of the King".
<br>1. We know that he was an Ethiopian.
<br>2. And as his name implies, he was a servant of the king.
<br>B. He risked his own life to save the life of Jeremiah when Jeremiah was put in the dungeon by the princes of the land.
<br>C. Now that the Babylonians have taken the city, he is fearful for his l...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/495.html"><b>Sermon 495: Jeremiah 42:5 </b></a>
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<br> I. THE PROMISE THAT WAS MADE TO JEREMIAH.
<br>A. It was a vow taken before the Lord. The Lord be a true and faithful witness between us.
<br>1. The N.T. book of Hebrews explains that a person swears by that which is greater, and an oath is confirm the truth of what you have said and to end all strife.
<br>2. A person doubting your word may say to you, swear to me that what you are saying is ...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/496.html"><b>Sermon 496: Jeremiah 43 </b></a>
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<br> "BACK TO EGYPT"
<br>Intro: Descendants of Abraham returned after nine hundred years. Their deliverance from strange drawing toward. Local History.
<br>I. THE REASON FOR RETURNING.
<br>A. Days of degeneration are days of forgetfulness.
<br>1. Forget lessons of history.
<br>a. Great armies have never made a nation strong.
<br>b. Savages depend on strength of physical force.
<br>2. The strength of a people...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/497.html"><b>Sermon 497: Jeremiah 43:7 </b></a>
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<br> "BACK TO EGYPT"
<br>I. "SO THEY CAME INTO THE LAND OF EGYPT."
<br>A. It is a sad and tragic day when a nation or person returns to that place from which they were once delivered.
<br>1. Their fathers had been delivered from Egypt by the mighty hand of God.
<br>a. He had called them out of Egypt that they might follow Him.
<br>b. Egypt was a place of unbearable.
<br>c. Symbolically, it represents life...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/498.html"><b>Sermon 498: Jeremiah 43:7b, 8 </b></a>
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<br> "BACK TO EGYPT"
<br>Intro: So after 900 years, descendants of Abraham returned back to the place of bondage. In referring historically to the greatness of their God, it was always - "The Lord that brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage."
<br>I. SO THEY CAME TO THE LAND OF EGYPT.
<br>A. When? After Zedekiah was carried away to Babylon, Gedaliah was appointed governor over land. ...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/499.html"><b>Sermon 499: Jeremiah 43:7c, 8 </b></a>
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<br> "BACK TO EGYPT"
<br>Intro: And so we find recorded - one of the saddest days in the nation's history.
<br>I. IT WAS A DAY OF NATIONAL DISGRACE.
<br>A. 900 years earlier God had delivered their fathers out of Egypt.
<br>1. God's power of deliverance had been demonstrated in a miraculous way.
<br>2. It was a high point in their national history.
<br>a. He was known as the God who brought our fathers ou...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/500.html"><b>Sermon 500: Jeremiah 43:7d, 8 </b></a>
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<br> "BACK TO EGYPT"
<br>Intro: So after 900 years, descendants of Abraham returned back to the place of bondage. In referring historically to the greatness of their God, it was always - "The Lord that brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage."
<br>I. SO THEY CAME TO THE LAND OF EGYPT.
<br>A. When? After Zedekiah was carried away to Babylon, Gedaliah was appointed governor over land...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/501.html"><b>Sermon 501: Jeremiah 47:2-7 </b></a>
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<br> I. THERE WERE MANY THINGS GOING ON THAT WOULD CREATE FEAR.
<br>A. There had been a breakdown in the governmental processes, and there were roving gangs of thugs that seemed to rule the streets.
<br>1. There had been a general turning away from God in the nation.
<br>2. The laws of God had been set aside, and man was trying to rule without the help of God.
<br>3. This filtered down to the people...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/502.html"><b>Sermon 502: Jeremiah 48:11 </b></a>
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<br> Intro: God's judgment is about to fall on Moab. He is soon to go into captivity - his cities destroyed. The reason for judgment given in verse 11.
<br>I. "HIS TASTE REMAINED IN HIM, AND HIS SCENT IS NOT CHANGED."
<br>A. The gospel of Jesus Christ changes people.
<br>1. The natural unregenerate man is ruled by his flesh.
<br>2. His mind is filled with fleshy things.
<br>a. His desires and heart set...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/503.html"><b>Sermon 503: Jeremiah 48:11b </b></a>
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<br> "THE DANGER OF EASE"
<br>Intro: The prophet speaks of the impending judgment to come upon neighboring Moab, and the reason for its destruction.
<br>I. "MOAB HAS BEEN AT EASE FROM HIS YOUTH."
<br>A. It seems that man instinctively looks for the easy life.
<br>1. "Take it easy." - "Easy does it." -- phrases often heard.
<br>2. I try to avoid trouble like the plague.
<br>3. We often look at trouble as a...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/504.html"><b>Sermon 504: Jeremiah 48:11c </b></a>
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<br> I. THE DOUBLE CURSE.
<br>A. Cursed be he that does the work of the Lord deceitfully.
<br>1. There is another suggestion for the word deceitfully and that is slackly.
<br>2. Paul said that they that run in a race run all but only one receives the prize, so run that you might obtain.
<br>3. Concerning himself he said, "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jes...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/505.html"><b>Sermon 505: Jeremiah 49:12 </b></a>
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<br> I. IT IS PROPHESIED OF EDOM THAT THEY SHALL SURELY DRINK OF THE CUP.
<br>A. Drinking of the cup is a metaphor used throughout the scriptures to indicate how the wicked were to receive the wrath of God in judgment.
<br>1. Ps.75:8 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and He poureth out the same: but the dregs there of all the wicked of the e...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/506.html"><b>Sermon 506: Jeremiah 50:6 </b></a>
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<br> "THE PLACE OF REST"
<br>Intro: Jeremiah is prophesying the destruction of Babylon, and the return of Israel and Judah to the land. They will ask directions to Zion and will seek to renew their covenant with God. God says, "My people are lost sheep, they have gone astray - they have forgotten their resting place."
<br>I. THE NEED OF A RESTING PLACE.
<br>A. Our lives are assaulted with constan...
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<a href="./Comm/chuck_smith/sn/Jer/507.html"><b>Sermon 507: Jeremiah 52:4 </b></a>
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<br> Intro. Jeremiah 52 is sort of an appendix to the book in which a piece of the recorded history is repeated. It was recorded earlier in chapter 39, and was probably copied from II Kings 25. It is the record of the fall of Jerusalem. "It came to pass in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the fourth month and the ninth day of the month the famine was sore in the city so that there was no ...
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