{"id":296,"date":"2015-03-09T21:19:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T21:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/?p=296"},"modified":"2015-03-09T21:19:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T21:19:50","slug":"jeremiah-chapter-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/jeremiah-chapter-21\/","title":{"rendered":"JEREMIAH CHAPTER 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"seriesmeta\">This entry is part 20 of 48 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/series\/jeremiah\/\" class=\"series-3\" title=\"Jeremiah\">Jeremiah<\/a><\/div><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>WHEN WANTING SOMETHING ISN&#8217;T ENOUGH<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> What some people do to try to get what they want.<\/span><\/span> (Jer. 21:1-2)<br \/>\nA. Enquire of God. (Isn&#8217;t what they used to do) <i>Ezek. 20:3 &amp; 30, 14:7<\/i><br \/>\n&#8211; through bribes <i>2 Kings 8:7-9<\/i><br \/>\nB. Remember God&#8217;s faithfulness. (In the past.)<br \/>\nC. Try to flatter or praise. <i>Isaiah 29:13, Psalm 12:1-4<\/i><br \/>\nD. Say they are on God&#8217;s side. (when their actions show they really are not.)<br \/>\nE. Seek God&#8217;s advice (as the last option). <i>1 Chron. 10:13<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">2. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> What most people leave off is true repentance.<\/span> <\/span><br \/>\nA. Sorrow that you committed sin is not enough.<br \/>\nB. Being sorry that consequences\/judgement is catching up to you<br \/>\nis not enough.<br \/>\n&#8211; Do we expect judgement only for major things ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Do we ask if we can improve our lives ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Do we expect judgement if we don&#8217;t grow ?<br \/>\nC. Sorrow that you failed to meet your own expectations.<br \/>\n(God&#8217;s standards are what count !)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">3. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> God is not moved by man&#8217;s false attempts at repentance.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <i> Eph. 5:20<\/i> <\/span><\/span><br \/>\nA. God is weary with <i>false<\/i> repenting.<br \/>\n&#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">True<\/span> repentance brings <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">change<\/span> in heart and life. <i>Matt. 3:8, Acts 26:20<\/i><br \/>\nB. God knows true repentance and what it brings.<br \/>\nC. God can give spirit of repentance if asked.<br \/>\n&#8211; Only those ready will ask for it. <i>Rom. 2:4, Heb. 12:17, 2 Tim. 2:25<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"seriesmeta\">This entry is part 20 of 48 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/series\/jeremiah\/\" class=\"series-3\" title=\"Jeremiah\">Jeremiah<\/a><\/div><p>WHEN WANTING SOMETHING ISN&#8217;T ENOUGH 1. What some people do to try to get what they want. (Jer. 21:1-2) A. Enquire of God. (Isn&#8217;t what they used to do) Ezek. 20:3 &amp; 30, 14:7 &#8211; through bribes 2 Kings 8:7-9 B. Remember God&#8217;s faithfulness. (In the past.) C. Try to flatter or praise. Isaiah 29:13, Psalm 12:1-4 D. Say they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}