Prep+ Podcast #6

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Hi growth group. Ladies, welcome to this Prep Plus podcast for study six of our Jeremiah series. I'm looking at page 35 of our booklets to guide my prayer for this study. So how about we pray together? Oh Father God, we do just praise you so much for the new Covenant and new heights that we can have in Jesus.

And we thank you for the book of Jeremiah, which really lays the groundwork and and enriches our understanding of what these promises mean that we now have. We pray that Your Word would enable us to really relish in our new covenant relationship with you. As we look at Jeremiah 31, we pray that our groups will just be in awe of what we now have in Jesus.

And we pray in Jesus name, Amen. Okay, you're going to need your booklet, a pen, your Bible if you haven't already. How about you go and prep this study and then we'll have a bit of a chat through it. So welcome back. If you were just prepping your study, we're looking at study six. On page 16. There's an intro question which I find intriguing a discussion question here, but you'll see that this study we have finally hit that green section in the structure kind of diagram of Jeremiah.

We are in the book of Hope, chapters 30 to 33. It's sometimes called the Book of Consolation. It's a really tightly structured section in Jeremiah. And we're going to be particularly looking at chapter 31 here, 30 and 31. And you'll see that it's it's got kind of six songs in it. And then it's got some really big thumping promises that are working out okay.

What is how are those songs going to come true? How are those those songs that Jeremiah seems has in his dreams? How are they going to come true? So there's an intro question there, which just is asking you to read from the introduction to this kind of book of hope in 30 versus 1 to 3, and it's worth just flagging that that phrase of restore their fortunes is going to be a key phrase in this section.

It comes up at the before the first song. It comes up at the end of the sixth song in 31, 23, and it also comes up in the start of the third song. So it's kind of these markers through these, these songs that God is going to be restoring their fortunes. We're going to focus just on two of the songs, songs two and three.

So you're being asked to read those out and notice what is the Lord saying he will do? If you do have a group that loves kind of seeing markers in the text and seeing structure, you could take them through the start of each of the six songs where it says, thus says the Lord, those references are listed there for you.

But yeah, we're going to be zooming in on songs two and three, and so then you can split your group really into two. One group look at song two and one group look at song through three and thinking through how is God restoring his people's fortunes? And what situation are the people in now? These songs, they're not kind of, they're not building different steps one after the other.

It's almost like each song is a new start. Each song is looking at Israel, looking at Judah, sorry from another angle, looking at what restoration is needed and how it's going to come about from a new angle. So both of these songs are actually quite different. Song two kind of starts pretty heavy. There's some you want to notice, some word repetition in there, and then you get some kind of restoration at the end.

I feel like there's a bit of a genesis to I'm going to curse those who curse you coming through. Well then, song three there's really beautiful picture of this flourishing city with this wonderful prince and then a kicker at the end about the judgement that God is still going to bring. Then, after the six songs, Jeremiah wakes up, we're at question two and there's a beautiful verse 3126.

My, my sleep was pleasant to me because he's just leapt through these six beautiful songs, which I think for poor Jeremiah, who has had a tough gig. No wonder, no wonder that sleep was pleasant to him. But the question is, how are these dreams going to come true when we've seen that Israel has such incurable hearts, hearts where their sin is just engraved on them?

Do you remember chapter 17 with a stylus like their sin is just rock hard in their hearts. But yet we have these incredible promises in 31, 31 to 34. Just a note about how to use the table at the bottom of the page. I reckon you can use that table for questions two, three and four. That's my intent.

So how is the covenant different to the old? You could actually put those answers down in the old column down the bottom of the page. Question three How is Jesus? Oh, sorry. And which verses are the new covenant that Jeremiah promised? That section you can also feel from Jeremiah 31 and then in that new but Jesus achieved kind of column.

That's really Hebrews ten. So you can use that that table at the bottom of the page for kind of all those questions there. I'll leave it up to you. What you think is that the climax of Jeremiah 3131 to 34, and it is really lovely to be able to walk through and see how Jesus fulfils each of the promises.

In Jeremiah from Hebrews 1011 to 18, it's worth saying that that whole section of Hebrews, Hebrews 8 to 10 is really Jeremiah heavy, the concept of a new covenant. It only is in the Old Testament in Jeremiah, but is picked up really strongly in Hebrews. And then over the page there's just some opportunities to let let the study let these truths sink in.

I'd really encourage you to to really prep your your answers to those application questions yourself so that you can get them pretty practical and pretty grounded and not just kind of airy fairy, but actually, yeah, really thinking through the difference it makes to have these promises fulfilled as they are in Jesus. This. Yeah, this study is, I hope it feels like a bit of a cool drink of water to a glass of water after the heavy lifting that we've been doing in Jeremiah.

When we get to come to this great section in Jeremiah 30 and 31. So enjoy. I hope it's a good study for you.