eternity bible study

Jerusalem falls. King Zedekiah fails to heed God’s warning and eventually is captured. God’s judgement is real. So often we don’t want to believe God must and will judge us.

How do you feel when sometimes you don’t have the right answer? Jeremiah was in jail, walking in faith, but not understanding. He prays to God, and God answers him. However it’s often not clear, but God wants us all to trust him. Sometimes from our human perspective we can’t understand God‘s plan. But God directly answers Jeremiah saying with a rhetorical question, “Is anything too hard for me?” W...

Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, is outside the city gates of Jerusalem. This city is going to fall, and be burned. In the darkest time for the nation Israel, the fall of Jerusalem, God gives a promise of a new covenant. This is the only reference in the Old Testament of the new covenant promise. God expresses his love to the nation as an everlasting love and continued faithfulness. This is th...

God promises to give us hope even in the darkest times. It’s the presence of God that gives us hope. When we seek God, with all our hearts, God promises that we will find him. This same promise that Jeremiah gives to the people is with us today. If we seek God with all our hearts we will find him.

All alone Jeremiah continues to prophesy God‘s word. He gives all God‘s word to all the people. He doesn’t hold back. He doesn’t try to filter God’s word. He gives all of God’s word out to do the work of what God‘s Word was intended to do. God‘s word shows he is sovereign over all people, and all nations. God rebukes the politicians, the officials, the religious rulers, The people, and especially...

Jeremiah warns us about dealing with the poor. He warns against having eyes and hearts only for dishonest gain, practicing oppression and violence. Despite God’s harsh judgment on the nation, Jeremiah tells of a Righteous Branch, a reference to Jesus Christ, that will come and eventually one day be a righteous king. Jeremiah also gives a parable of good figs and bad figs. Those who are in exile, i...

Jeremiah is a profit all alone. Alone, in a nation that has rejected God, he has to continue to deliver a message condemning his own nation. He’s beaten, and he feels anguish for his people. Jeremiah delivers a message to condemn the nation, the southern kingdom of Judah, and Jerusalem. Jeremiah also gives a message of condemnation on the living kings of Israel. The bloodline of the house of David...

The parable of the Potter and the Clay. We are just like a lump of clay in the Potter’s hands, in God’s hands. The potter can rework a lump of bad clay into something else, or the potter can work a lump of good clay into something beautiful and useful. We need to make sure we hear God’s voice, and allow God‘s hand to work in our lives to make us into something useful and purposeful for him. Jeremi...

Jeremiah is all alone. He prays for the forgiveness of his people, and puts himself, includes himself in this prayer also. He finds encouragement in the word of the Lord. He pours his heart out to the Lord. We are to pray like this. God says the heart is desperately sick. Our hearts are all desperately sick in need of the Lord, and trusting in ourselves is so bad. The Lord searches our hearts and...

Jeremiah calls the nation to repent. God gives Jeremiah a parable of the loincloth. Israel is like a spoiled loincloth worthless because of man’s pride. Israel’s pride keeps them from turning back to God. God warns of punishment coming soon, by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

God is protecting his covenant with his people. God is protecting his righteousness. God uses Jeremiah to let Israel know how far away from his ways they are. Jeremiah calls the people to repent. However, Israel will not repent, and God is letting them know that judgment is coming soon. A powerful study of God using his authority to preserve his righteousness.

Jeremiah calls the people to amend their ways and deeds. God wants us to change our hearts, not feel good about ourselves. God wants us to change our ways, our words, our deeds. It’s not about a fancy church, or a fancy temple. It’s about changed hearts, hearts that worship the Lord.

God continues to call his people to repent and change their hearts. But they rejected him in their hearts, in their minds, with their eyes, and with their ears. They rejected him with all of their actions, and with the way they live their lives. They spoke falsehood about the Lord God. They said he will do nothing to us. It’s the same original sin as in the Garden of Eden. Man has been saying ever...

Jeremiah delivers God’s message to his people. He encourages them to repent, and turn away from their sinful idolatry.

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Have you ever felt like you had to give a message to someone that was really bad news? Isaiah had to deliver a message of God‘s punishment to the nation of Israel. He had to tell them that they had forsaken him. We see the tremendous nature of God‘s love as we see how much God the Father was grieving for people that he had to punish.

Can you imagine being all by yourself to get out the word of God? Can you imagine doing God’s word and being rejected by everyone who heard you? Can you imagine being completely isolated, while your whole nation is being invaded and taken into captivity? This was the lonely life of Jeremiah. Jeremiah’s success was not measured in man’s eyes. Jeremiah success was measured in gods eyes. The work Jer...

100 years after Isaiah, Jeremiah comes on the scene. A tender hearted man, God uses him to deliver the harshest prophecy yet seen in the Bible, the destruction of Jerusalem and the nation of Israel. A profit rejected by his own people, Jeremiah pleads with the nation, but he is rejected by his own people and eventually ends up in a foreign land, the land of Egypt. He dies there, rejected by his ow...

Paul gives advice for practical living. Practical patience while waiting on the Lord. Be a worker not a dreamer. Abide in Christ in everything you do. The result of the gospel message is peace.

Paul asks the Thessalonians to pray for him. That he can spread the gospel message even more. The gospel message is the word of God, and that’s where faith comes from. The gospel message directs us to the love of God. The gospel message gives us the steadfastness of hope, that is, hope in Jesus Christ.

With a word, God created the earth. With a word our Lord Jesus will destroy the lawless one, the wicked, Satan himself. God has chosen those who believe in him to be saved, to be sanctified by the Holy Spirit. It’s our belief in the gospel message of Jesus Christ that allows us to be saved. It is the gospel message that allows us to stand firm in his word. It is the gospel message that allows us t...

Ever worry that the Lord Jesus has already come and you got left behind? This was some of the confusion and anxiety that the young Thessalonian church had. Paul explains the coming of the Lord Jesus for those who believe in him, and then the coming of the Lord Jesus again to punish those who do not.

Paul explains to the Thessalonians why they are experiencing troubles, trials and tribulations.

How would you feel like if you thought Jesus had already come and taken all the believers with him back to heaven? The Thessalonian people were thinking this way because times were very hard. They thought the Great Tribulation period was already upon them, and Jesus had already left them behind. Paul distinguishes concerns that the Thessalonians had about Jesus Christ’s coming again. Trials and ha...