Jeremiah
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Cubic Zirconia Christianity
Jerimiah 4:4 “Circumcise your hearts” We men could have all saved a bunch of money when we proposed, or are going to propose, to our true loves if we had only purchased a cubic zirconia. We would save hundreds, even thousands of dollars, and it would look just like the real thing. Glitter and shine,
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Zedekiah’s Mistake: Listening to the Wrong Crowd
Jeremiah 52:1 “Zedekiah was twenty one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah: she was from Libnah.” The last king of Jerusalem before the Israelites were taken into exile was none other than the grandson of the great prophet Jeremiah. We
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Pride: The Silent Killer
Jeremiah 49:16 16 You have been deceived by the fear you inspire in others and by your own pride.You live in a rock fortress and control the mountain heights.But even if you make your nest among the peaks with the eagles, I will bring you crashing down,” says the Lord.” When I was a kid, my brother and I built a treehouse
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Swords Up: A Warning from Moab
Jeremiah 48:7 “Because you have trusted in your wealth and skill, you will be taken captive. Your god Chemosh, with his priests and officials, will be hauled off to distant lands!” The mob did not become the mob without the help of many people. Yes, it might have started in Italy with a family or
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Wrong Turn, Right Savior
Jeremiah 50:6 “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray and turned them loose in the mountains.They have lost their way and can’t remember how to get back to the sheepfold. Have you ever been following someone that does not know where they are going? I remember coming back from Dallas one night after
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The Blessing of Second Fiddle
Jeremiah 45:1-5 45 The prophet Jeremiah gave a message to Baruch son of Neriah in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah,[a] after Baruch had written down everything Jeremiah had dictated to him. He said, 2 “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch: 3 You have said, ‘I am overwhelmed with trouble!
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Don’t Go to Egypt
Jeremiah 43:2 , 44:16 “…and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying!” The Lord has not sent you to say, “you must not go to Egypt to settle there.” “We will not listen to the message you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord!” It is one thing for
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The Fall of Jerusalem
Jeremiah 39 651 years had passed from the time Moses stood on a hill overlooking the Promised Land while Joshua began to assemble the Israelites for battle to take the land the Lord had given them. Now, hundreds of years later, the Babylonians had taken Jerusalem and were carrying off the last of the Israelites
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In the Potter’s Hands
Jeremiah 18: 1-4 18 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so
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Always Green
Jeremiah 17:7-8 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of
Let It Go 