Week 41-Every Word

Jeremiah 1-17 and Hebrews 10-13

Jeremiah

1-2

-When was Jeremiah called to be a prophet of the Lord? ________________________________

-What was Jeremiah’s response to this call? __________________________________________

-What was the message Jeremiah was called to deliver and to whom? _____________________

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3

-What is the unfaithfulness of Israel compared to in this chapter? ________________________

-What is Jeremiah’s message that God’s people must do because of their unfaithfulness? 

Same message that John the Baptist delivered in Matthew 3:2. _______________________________

4-6

-What is described in these chapters about what has happened to God’s chosen people? _____

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7-9

-What are the “words of the Lord” that Jeremiah was to deliver to God’s people in these chapters? _____________________________________________________________________

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-What should people not boast about and what should they boast about 9:23-24? ___________

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10

-What sin is Israel accused of committing and which commandment does this break? ________

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11

-What kind of a word of the Lord is Jeremiah called to deliver to Israel and Judah? (law or gospel) Why is this word delivered first? _____________________________________________

 12

-What is Jeremiah’s complaint in verses 1-4? _________________________________________

-What is the Lord’s response to Jeremiah? ___________________________________________

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13

-What is the Lord saying by using the metaphor of loincloths and wine jars? 1-12 ____________

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-What does Jeremiah predict will happen to Israel because of their disobedience? ___________

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14

-What calamity is talked about in verses 1-12 that was often also talked about as a punishment for the disobedience of God’s chosen in the Torah? ____________________________________

-Who also is Jeremiah to prophesy against? 13-18 _____________________________________

-When the law has been delivered to you, what is your only response?  It is also our response called the Kyrie in worship. _______________________________________________________

15

-Who else has warned God’s chosen people to return to the Lord? ________________________

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-What is Jeremiah’s response again to the Lord for the message that he has been called to deliver and what is the Lord’s reply to him? __________________________________________

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16

-What is the grim message Jeremiah is given to deliver in verses 1-4? _____________________

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-What is the good news that is now given in verses 14-21? ______________________________

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 17

-What commandment does Jeremiah remind the people to keep that was broken by their disobedience? 19-27 ____________________________________________________________

Hebrews

10

-How is the law described in the first verse of this chapter and what does that description mean? ______________________________________________________________________

-What is different about the sacrifices that priests were making compared to what Jesus Christ, who is our high priest, does for you? ________________________________________________

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-The author of Hebrews quotes Jeremiah in verses 15-18.  Under the New Covenant with Jesus, is forgiveness more

like a parole or like a pardon? Why? ____________  ___________________

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-The curtain was torn from top to bottom when Jesus died on the cross.  What does verse 20 say was torn

that now gives us complete access to God? ________________________________

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-How are we now to approach God? ________________________________________________

-How does a righteous person live? _________________________________________________

-What is the ultimate reward of having faith? _________________________________________

11

-What is faith? _________________________________________________________________

What do you recall that these people did “by faith”?

-Abel _________________________________________________________________________

-Enoch________________________________________________________________________

-Noah_________________________________________________________________________

-Isaac_________________________________________________________________________

-Jacob_________________________________________________________________________

-Joseph________________________________________________________________________

-Moses________________________________________________________________________

-Rahab________________________________________________________________________

-What didn’t these people who live by faith receive? ___________________________________

-What did they receive? __________________________________________________________

12

-Since we have these stories of faith in chapter 11, what does this chapter say we should do?

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-Who are we to look to as the ultimate example of faith? _______________________________

-What are the surprising, ironic, confusing, circumstances that follow people of faith?

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-Who is the twin that is mentioned in this chapter that we are warned to not become like?

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13

-Why are we instructed to always show hospitality? ___________________________________

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-What other instructions are given in this chapter? ____________________________________

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-When might you have heard the benediction given in verses 20-21? ______________________

-Who is mentioned at the end of Hebrews who has been set free? ________________________