Prep+ Podcast #10

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Hello. Welcome, Grace Group ladies, you're listening to the Prep Plus podcast for study ten on Jeremiah 52. I love this part of God's Word. And being able to, kind of draw the lines straight to revelation in particular. I love the way how intriguingly, the Book of Jeremiah finishes with hope. I mean, who saw that coming after what's been a long road?

We're looking at the final chapter of Jeremiah in this study, and next week is going to go back to chapter one. And form is a kind of a recap of the whole series. How about I pray, for our groups and then you go away and do your prep if you haven't done it already. Father God, we just love that your word is so rich.

It does taste like honey. It is so good. It is a light to our path as well. It gives us hope in a way that the world doesn't. Father God, we do pray for our time. In Jeremiah 52, that you would use it to strengthen us in hope and strengthen our group members in hope. They may really need that at the moment for what's going on for them.

And it also shows us, that that hope comes after judgement, judgement on sin. Yeah. Which we have seen is so wretched. So give us a clear picture of our sin. But also a clear picture of the hope that we have in Jesus. And we pray in his name. Amen. I'm basing that on the big prayer on page 35 there.

So do pause if you haven't already. Go away. Do the prep. It's I think you're going to enjoy it. And then welcome back. This study, I guess it's a bit of a you can change that discussion question if you want to a better one. Waiting for something terrible to happen. And then it finally did.

Maybe that's a bit of a negative question. You could reframe that more positively if you want to get your group really chatting and discussing, and particularly if you have quite a members trying to draw them out. If you still have people who are not really up for sharing, you could ask them to answer that question in pairs first.

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There's a little blurb explaining how chapter 52 is operating as kind of a postscript. I love that part of movies. Maybe you do too. And then we say that we're really we're in that final chapter. We're reading the account of the full Jerusalem of Jerusalem. Even though, you know, sections of Jeremiah are actually about the aftermath because the chronology is chronology is all mixed up.

The full of Jerusalem really is the kind of peg that the whole thing is, is looking forward to. And hanging off. And so I think that's why it's that close. There's not stacks of observation questions in this study, so I would recommend you take that. Encourage people to really, track the events on that map.

We've done our best to produce that map. It's not to scale. And then when you get to page 29, I quite like, now I'm looking back at this study. I'm not sure why I put question one. First. I would be tempted to do question two first, because that is more of kind of observation and observation question to help you get across the text.

So you might want to start with question two and then come back, to question one. And similarly actually down in the reflection questions, sometimes it's nice to move from judgement to hope. So you could start with questions three and four and then come back to question three. Which is yeah, kind of trying to pull together some of the threads of what we've observed in that text, to see, yeah.

How we it points to that God is going to keep his promises, both of judgement. But also of hope. I'll just flag that, at cross train. We've had some members from both groups learning how to lead a growth group. If you've had one of those people in your group, then you may have been contacted about giving them a go to latest study.

And this could be the the study that they lead for your group. Or maybe you're one of those leaders and you're listening in on this because you're going to be leading this study this week, if that's you. Welcome. And if you're a leader, who's having somebody else lead this week, please give them specific, encouragement and feedback on how they go.

I think my favourite question in this study, I mean, it doesn't really matter what my favourite question is. I wonder what your favourite question was. But I really appreciate, in question seven, how we get to compare Revelation to Jeremiah 52. We've already jumped to revelation a little bit in Jeremiah. Seeing how Babylon is carried through in this question, we're really looking at how Jerusalem is carried through the scriptures, even to revelation.

So I reckon if you can have time to pause and really flesh out this question, seven that would be worth doing. If you would just kind of pick one of the revelation passages, I reckon the chapter 2122 to 22 five is really rich. There's so many comparisons you could make about the walls, about, you know, food and famine, about the treasures coming in or coming out and who's bringing them about what the nations are doing and the kings of the nations about even what the king of Judah is doing.

In Jeremiah 52, as opposed to, revelation, you could, pull those things out by using a big table that people write on. You could ask people to draw a section of Jeremiah 52, like maybe verses 12 to 19, and then draw the revelation, passage to kind of pull out those comparisons. So you might want to take some extra time to pull those out.

I think there's yeah, it's just incredible how the hope shines so clearly in revelation when you see it against the backdrop of Jeremiah 52. This is a little kind of summary statement there, which should just help you kind of have a stable platform to launch into those application questions. I think revelation really gives us a strong hope in this passage.

And so, that's why those application questions are kind of on the hopeful side. Do take the time yourself to dig into them for yourself. Yeah. What promise of God do you need to hold on to at the moment? What kind of verse you could even chop in that to say what verse of revelation, is kind of something that you really need to look forward to.

Maybe it's the stability, the security. Maybe it's, Yeah, the relationship with God that is so beautifully restored. Whatever it is, you might want to do some reflection on how this scripture really plays out for you. And then, yeah, be thoughtful about how you do that discussion. Are you going to do that application discussion or in a group or in pairs or even individually?

You could have them write out a prayer, reflecting on the hope that they have in Jesus and also reflecting on how that hope, yeah, is of the backdrop of sin, which really did deserve, the punishment that we see on Jerusalem and the punishment that fell on Christ. Great passage, great hope that we have to look forward to.

I feel like it's a real example of the light shining brighter because you see how dark the darkness was. So praying that this is an encouragement, to us and our people, that we have a strong hope. To look forward to, because of what Christ has done.