The hope and the future

Introduction

Questions

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Jeff Foxworthy - Please pray for Tom he was in a bad wreck...

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Examples:

Adam and Eve - crush the serpents head

Noah - build a boat

Abraham - a great nation

Moses-release from Egypt, promise land

David-reign forever

etc.

Jeremiah 29:11 “11 ‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.”

Jeremiah 31:27-37

I. A promise (vv 27-30)

v. 27 - sow = plant

v. 28 - Jeremiah 24:6 “6 ‘For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.”

v. 29-30 - No blame…we pay for our own sins

II. A plan (vv. 31-34)

v. 31-32 - Old Covenant vs. New Covenant

Exodus 19:5 “5 ‘Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;”

v. 33-34

4 benefits of the new covenant...

personal word

Personal God

personal instruction

personal forgiveness

III. A power (vv. 35-38)

not a prediction but a promise.

Conclusion

Romans 2:13-29 “13 for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, 15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, 16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus. 17 But if you bear the name “Jew” and rely upon the Law and boast in God, 18 and know His will and approve the things that are essential, being instructed out of the Law, 19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth, 21 you, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one shall …”

2 Corinthians 3:7-11 “7 But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory. 10 For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it. 11 For if that which fades away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.”

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