Jeremiah 30 Bible Study — Dan Biser

Hello, I wanted to bring this to you in a different venue than what I had been sharing with some of you that Mainly and especially that are on the daily prayer email I've been able to conclude some of the sermons that was on my heart and mind and I Uploaded those to the YouTube my personal YouTube web page Appreciate those comments that you had sent to me and so I'm taking a different route Other than Just writing to you on a daily prayer email that I've been sending out to you I'm going to try these videos and some of the things that I think the Lord wants me to Present to you and I'm not going to do it so much as from what I've done in the past from the pulpit Recorded so I come to you today in a less formal Status and I'm going to ask of you that as we get ready I want to go through a portion of scripture that I think that God's given on my heart and mind that I want to speak to you and give to you Here today and if you take your Bibles and can follow with me on this I'm going to turn to the chapter of Jeremiah chapter 30.

Studying Jeremiah 30 and the Call to Prayer

And I want to go down through a portion of these verses and especially a key phrase That that was he stood out to me food for thought a little bit of meditation and things like that that I needed to Do process in my own mind and that's what I want to share with you today.

I sat in this less formal kind of state standard here. Just sitting on a stool. You'll see over my shoulder here By one of my prized joys that was presented to me years ago. It broke them before the throne.

It's a portrait of praying John Hyde. You hear me when I write in the sermons that I've been able to commune. There's a few people that throughout church's history that have left a mark on me and When I read praying John Hyde's biography.

Praying John Hyde and the Example of Prevailing Prayer

What an impact and so you read his account short life. He was only in his 40s when he died. Served roughly about 20 years. I think it was 19 years actually served in India and just a praying a prayer life that Reached to that plateau that I think that we need to get to and and Escalate to that.

I think that that's what Holy Spirit is doing to us as a remnant. Drawing us closer to him and all those promises and assurances in Scripture to to fulfill. If you draw not to me, I'll draw not to you if you abide in me I'll abide in you if you return to me, I'll return to you and that's that's where we're at.

So he's given us a hunger and a thirst for righteousness and so we Study we read we're learning to pray. And I'm going to use some of these videos to do these things to cover some of these subjects on how to pray rightly.

I've been in these conference calls some prayer meetings and a lot of air. That's going forth and it's not that God doesn't honor the the sincerity of the heart. When those prayers are being made but how much more efficient if we're if we're praying rightly and instead of from our carnal selfishness, so Praying John had learned to do that.

He was one that prevailed with God for people in India as he ministered. The great story of the evangelist Wilbur Chapman and what took place there in England great testimony of prevailing prayer. So I want to come to you via this this way of video and I'm going to use these verses and Kind of just share my heart instead of writing all this out.

I'm just going to speak to you from it On it and so I want to go down through the most of this portion of Scripture and I'm going to use the references back and forth. For what I want to communicate to you here today.

Jeremiah 30: Israel’s Trouble, Discipline, and Restoration

So the first thing is is look let's take our Bibles and let's read Out of Jeremiah chapter 30 and we're going to start in verse 1 on this. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel saying Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto you in a book for lo the day come saith the Lord that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judas saith the Lord and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers and that they did possess.

They these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah. For thus saith the Lord we have heard a voice of trembling of fear and not of peace. Ask you now and see whether a man does travail with child.

Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins as of a woman in travail and all these are turned into paleness. Alas for that day is great so that there is none like it is even to the time of Jacob Jacob's trouble but he shall Be saved out of it for it shall come to pass that in that day saith the Lord of hosts That I will break his yoke from off his necks and I will burst thy bonds and Strangers shall no more Serve themselves of him, but they shall serve the Lord their God and David their King whom I will raise up unto them.

Therefore fear thou not all my servant Jacob saith the Lord and neither be dismayed. Oh Israel for lo I will save you from afar and I see from the land of their captivity and Jacob shall return. And shall be in rest and be quiet and none shall make him afraid.

For I am with you saith the Lord to save thee though. I make a full end of all Nations whether I have scattered you yet. Will I not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and I will not leave thee altogether unpunished.

For thus saith the Lord now bruise is incurable and that wound is grievous. There is none to plead that cause that thou mayest be bound up. Thou has no healing medicines. All thy lovers have forgotten thee they seek thee not.

For I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy with the chastisement of a cruel one for the multitude of thy iniquity. Because thy sins were increased. Why cries thou for thy affliction? Thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thy iniquity because thy sins were increased.

I have done these things unto you. Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured and all thy adversaries. Every one of them shall go into captivity and they that spoil you shall be a spoil and all they that prey upon you.

Well, I give for a prey. Well, I will restore health unto you and I will heal you of your wounds saith the Lord because They called thee as an outcast saying this is Zion whom no man seeks after. I want to go down through these verses and Communicate to you not just so much of teaching you as far as what was going on here and the relationship most of the time that I write and speak I pull things out and Again, I think knowing the context of it is extremely important and helpful and It's proper to do it that way.

But in a quicker sense for us to be able to study today and to pray. On this I want to be able to speak to you just directly. What's this saying to us? You know the Word of God for us is about that which speaks to your heart speaks to my heart and As I've read through all these years and I have preached and studied numerous times.

Every time becomes a new experience becomes a new lesson. So as I was reading through chapter 30 this stuck out to me in these verses of 15 and 16. Because your iniquities have increased now those little Short little words there because your iniquities have increased is what stopped me back-to-back.

Repentance and the Decrease of Sin

Versus using that phrase and that which was speaking to me. It's is it true of me. Is a true view that God's Holy Spirit comes to us on a day like this day or even tomorrow and he'll have to say Your sins have increased, you know as a Christian our job is to cease from sin, I know that that's not a popular Seeker friendly sermon or a message or a lesson by the churches today.

But that that's the truth of the gospel is set in front of us. We read in the book of Deuteronomy where the Lord spoke to Moses to the children of Israel. He said thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God perfect with no sin without sin that that striving forward a progression of less and less.

That we read where John the Baptist comes along and John the Baptist says I must decrease but he must increase. And then Christ giving that sermon on the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter 5 6 7 and you read at the end of that Scripture in chapter 5 there where he says Christ repeating the words that the Lord spoke to Moses Old Testament New Testament now and He says thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God now Christ was perfect without sin.

Christ to be a Christian means to be Christ like and so our endeavor in our daily walk with God our daily pursuit of God is to be Christ like and if Christ was without sin. Then we must be without sin.

And so we begin to Take these verses and apply them to our life so that we could become less and less in sin of sin practicing sin or associated with sin. And again dying to the dying on the cross is dying to self and self is where our sin Abounds.

Paul writes and says there's no good thing in my flesh. And so our struggle in this lifetime is. What our minds know to do that, which is good what our hearts know to do that, which is good. Battling that which is in our flesh, which is corrupt and sinful and that conflict spirit against the flesh Galatians that tells us is that it is always going on now our problem is is Is that we have a host of those of you that are watching this all of us included in this is that we've come from?

Different backgrounds. Some of you was raised up in a non-christian home. You knew nothing of the gospel. You knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ. You knew nothing of this command and this and this teaching of Christ be thou perfect with the Lord.

And you live for self. You lived in the world and of the world. But you was gloriously saved out of that and brought into a saving knowledge of Christ. And you have strove to live before the Lord from that day forward.

Others have been raised in a Christian home raised in the church. You've heard the gospel, you know it you're found without excuse. Maybe not the depths that you may know today, but you've had the gospel presented to you time and time again.

And you have lived your life not for yourself, but you've lived it for your Lord and for his kingdom now. Regardless of your testimony regardless of your background we all know that we was all born in sin and that we all come to this place this this junction and time where we have to make a Yieldedness unto the Lord.

Am I going to continue to live for myself or am I going to live for the Lord? And in that moment by God's grace and mercy that he finds us it is extended to us. He's drawing us. And I've used that verse constantly in all the places that I've written and led in John chapter 6 where Jesus declares.

No man can come unto me unless the father draws him and that day the father was drawing you and you came to Christ. Now what you have become since then is About your yieldedness to the Lord in the things of your life and We strive for spiritual disciplines that brings us closer to God.

Discipleship, Spiritual Disciplines, and the Word of God

The spiritual disciplines are the things of our foundations. We would use the terminology of discipleship. Discipling someone in Christ so that our thoughts are no longer our thoughts. But we become thinkers of God and for God.

We're no longer livers for self. But our lives are now living as an example for for Christ and in Christ. The Word of God which was absent from us before that is now saturating us. And so as David said in Psalm 119 where he says that word did I hide in my heart That I might not sin against the Lord.

So we see this development of the disciplines. Our spiritual discipline of prayer that we communicate about so much topics of Format of burdens of these kind of things that come out is where I want us to go today in this because the first thing That we have here is if God is speaking as he did here to Jeremiah to the children of Israel and Judah.

So he speaks to the church today, so he's speaking to us today, and he says in those two verses there He says because your iniquities have increased. Now back to Psalm 66 if we regard iniquity in our heart The Lord will not hear us and so we are at a place right then and there is that that's our problem.

Four Areas of Prayer: Self, Family, Church, and Nation

Iniquity still abounds this great prayer movement that's happening in the United States today because That there is a body within the church today that is beginning to wake up and beginning to see the judgments.

They're beginning to see the outcome of that which we've signed for decades of sin. We're now reaping the whirlwind on that and we are seeing crisis in churches crisis in homes crisis in communities. Crisis in the nation.

We're seeing all these things come to fruition now because we have been so long Without intercessors prevailing that the the iniquities would not increase now. That's our first Priority of Addressing this theme here and what we see here in the scripture.

And there are many avenues that I would love to be able to share with you on this one. But I'm just going to try to maintain a shorter Speaking to you with this. So I want to divide this up into the four subjects that normally encourage you to pray for the first one is addressing yourself.

The second one is addressing your family. The third one is addressing your church and the fourth one is addressing the nation now those four areas is Target that I often use in my themes and in my prayer.

So because your iniquities have increased. And because we know Psalm 66 if we were guarding equity God can't hear us. We've got to examine ourselves right there at that point. From what you are now to what you was at the beginning of this year.

Has your iniquities increase or do you see a Lesson of the things that you was once indulged in and the things that you once participated in from the day of say depending on your salvation experience and transformation in that.

If you've been saved for five years has your iniquities increased or decreased now. The statement here is is that your iniquities have increased now. The children of Israel should have known better. They should have been able to discern in the living standards of their daily life.

They had the law. They had the commandments. They were not supposed to be getting deeper in sin. But they were supposed to be freer and freer from sin and the church today. We're in the same boat as Christians we have enough in our lifetime Of Bible of prayer of the disciplines that I was talking about that should keep us Away from sin and protect us and deliver us from it now unto him that is able to keep you from falling there's no excuse for any of us that we should say that my sin remains because It's just too strong to overcome there.

There's nothing too hard for God. There is no habit. There is no addiction. There is no sin in our flesh or life that should keep us increasing in sin. The second one our families now. This is this is a battle because I know as I as I talk to some as I'm talking to this camera.

Praying for Families and Loved Ones

There are a lot of you with your faces and your names and your conditions and even my own that this is a battle ground our families. Our enemy Satan has come in to take our homes. He is attacking our loved ones because of our surrender to say Not I that live but Christ who lives in me and so Satan says since I can't get to you I'm going to get to your loved ones and I'm going to give you sorrow and grief and travail in your heart and your life.

Because of those that are precious to you in your sight and there are many spouses That are weeping and crying and sorrowful because their husband or their wife is the source Of their their family sins have increased.

When you look at parents praying for their children and many of you have shared this with me as we've communicated. This is the sorrow of your heart. There are some of you today is that you're looking at your parents and your parents raised you in godly homes and in church and all That but now you're looking at your parents that they're worse than an infidel.

They're worse than heathens. Somewhere along the line they fell out Of their relationship and their walk with the Lord and they have become worse that than what? That you had ever known in your lifetime with this.

This is the conflict and because of this we see in families today. It is a rare thing to find a godly home. Our greatest sorrow is is that because you have increased in sins? Families have increased in sins in great way now this again.

This is Satan's device. How better can he dominate a society than to control the very individual homes? That's found in our in our locale and you can look at your extended family. You can look at you know cousins and aunts and uncles and all that extended Family that goes outside of your own personal family and we see the devastation that's happening that sins are Increasing you know in our lifetime.

We have seen the availability of sins and this was a part of that of us praying against. Because your iniquities have increased we need to pray against this if sin increases in our families in our life.

Then our prayers in our battle is supposed to be increasing to meet that which is in front of us. But if iniquities and sins increase and we stay the standard that we always have and don't increase then we let Satan win and So we have to understand this principle.

This conflict for that our family sins have increased is going to need to be met with a higher accountability and a higher credibility of prayer. And so that's where we've got to balance things out a little bit.

And and to fight for our loved ones in this condition because Satan has come to get them and we see it as a testimony. Sins have increased in homes lifestyles of Selfishness of worldliness carnality. Is that when you examine your home and you examine your family?

You got to answer this question when you're praying for them. Is my family? Given for the kingdom of God or is my family given for the worldly kingdom? We pray the prayer my the as Christ prayed in the Lord's Prayer.

Thy kingdom come thou will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We know that God's kingdom is done in heaven perfectly without sin without fault without failure. Can we say the same thing about his kingdom here on earth?

We know that that Is a breakdown of the church and those kind of things, but what about our families is our families living more for the kingdom? Of God or less for the kingdom of God and this is the conflict that we're praying for.

Because your iniquities have increased personal our own personal accountability for that. But may it not be said of us that we are greater in sin today than we ever have been. That we are remaining the same as we always have been we must see a decrease in sin that this state.

But not be true of us less. We know that our hearts are defiled. Our lives are defiled our testimony is unfaithful and ruined and there is something seriously wrong with us. Spiritually if that's true of us your iniquities have increased families.

We're in that battle aren't we see our loved ones that they are becoming more and more of the world more and more for self. And Satan is stealing them from us because their iniquities have increased and we come to the third area of this the church and all what I Know this is just a whole sermon in this all together because your iniquities have increased.

The Church’s Repentance and Separation from the World

God said that to the children of Israel. God said that to the children of Judah. God says that to the church today. We see such an overload of sin in the church today that there is absolutely no difference.

On a Sunday morning crowd in the worship house of the Lord as what there is. With all the sins that are named out in the world or found in the church now I know. There are those who say well the church is supposed to be a hospital for sick people those that are in sin.

And that is true. You know, we're all sinners and we come into that but there has to be a Legitimate presenting of the gospel is that Christ did not come To just mend our wounds, but Christ came to save us from our sins.

You know the whole the whole terminology thou shalt call his name Jesus. Because he shall save them from their sins. That's his very name. And yet that he hasn't saved us from our sins than our sins still remain and in the church today.

All of our methods all of our means all of our digits and gadgets and gizmos that we have tried to win the world for Christ. Is that we have? Adulterated ourselves with things of the world so that the world is now in the church and and the church Is without a witness and I think it was one of the bonar brothers Andrew Bonar or Horatius Bonar Is a great made that great quote that you and I need to we need to understand and need to pray that it not be So much true of the church today in North America, but it but it is.

He says I look for the church and I found it in the world and I look for the world and I found it in. Just because it seems is that worldly means in ways? Are successful by popularity by Influence by numbers does not mean that God's blessing is in it and When iniquity increases without addressing that and the church is primary Responsibilities to make people Christlike and to advance the kingdom of God.

Sin has to go and so the church today is defiled. It's guilty. It's stained. It's it looks like smells like and acts like the world. There is no difference in the church today than the world and this testimony this Condemning statement you because your iniquities have increased.

That's now marked on us. So the church there needs to be a huge repentance a huge Cleansing that needs to separate us and again a revival will do that a true revival of God coming. Will accomplish that for us is because it'll purge the woolly sub set apart which is supposed to be exemplifying.

But if God says because to the church because your iniquities have increased then we're not old Matter of fact, we're unholy and that puts us away from God. And this is a breakdown of a lot of the situations and problems that we're doing today now lastly the fourth area of prayer.

National Sin, Judgment, and the Need for Confession

You pray for yourself. Because you're in your iniquities have increased and we examine ourselves as my heart clean as my tongue Truthful and and edifying and everything that God wants it all my thoughts clean and pure you examine yourself.

You examine your family you examine the church and if any one of those three areas. Because your iniquities have increased and it is a time of confession Specifically naming the sin. It is a time of repentance that we put it away from us and it is a time to be sealed By the Holy Spirit so that we not fall prey to those same things that have been so consistent Of sin that's in our lives around about us now the last area of the fourth area is our nation.

And you can do this from any nation that's in the world from continents to to communities and things like that. Because your iniquities have increased. In my lifetime in my 40s now in my lifetime. I have seen our iniquities increase in this nation.

We've seen sin legalized we have seen more predominant sin. Abominations vileness wickedness evilness we have seen such gross sins. Increase in our land is that it is no mystery to anybody that really sees and knows these things to say what's going on?

And God says because your iniquities and sins have increased as a nation. I'm going to judge you I'm going to punish you now in these couple verses here in the middle of this from 14 to 17 that we just read.

Because your iniquities have increased he says Your your cure your bruises are incurable. Now this is the thing that we are fighting now in our prayer times if our nation sins have increased. If our family sins have increased if the church's sins have increased if our sins have increased then we produce a bruise a wound a Disease that's incurable and we are beginning now to see the ramifications the fruitfulness of all that.

What you sow is what you reap and we have some decade and generations now of sin. And it has become a and we excuse these sin of our way. But this wound now bruised at the point because your iniquities have increased.

Then these are the things that we have to fight and these are the things so our prevailing prayer must be that this is Overturned and again he who knew no sin became sin for us to set us free from such things but yet we see in generational byproduct of our teenagers young people today of our middle-aged clear up the senior adults today three Generations of this wound of our our process of thinking that our life is about ourself.

Humanism, Pride, and the Roots of Cultural Sin

Humanism is one of these incurable bruises because it is so Steeped in our way of life about self about being happy about our life about our ways and those kind of things. Which is completely a lie out of hell.

It is that which is damaging in the church today in families today and in individual lives today because they Think they're living for themselves. We've forgotten the first rule the Catechism the first rule the catechism is is that your life is to be lived for the glory of God and until we get back to that this bruise remains and it is it is a bruise that is in the mindset of education of Sports of entertainment of politics of every fiber of our life.

It is far-fetching in this and it is steep Deeply in the roots of. And the basis of all of it, of course pride and vanity which you got to get to the roots of all this to get. To cut it to cut out this cancer that's affecting us in Entertainment because it is so prevalent today of all that we've advanced it that has become a bruise that is incurable from the pornography to the movies to Sports to all these things that have occupied our time.

How do you get back that has been wasted on all that we've invested in in our lifetime. Again a bruise that's incurable is something that cannot be changed back. You cannot go back and undo 60 years of life live for self in one fell swoop.

Yes, you can be forgiven of it. Yes, you can be saved from it, but you can't go back in your lifetime and undo that. That's the reason is that every hour every day every moment is important for us that we're living for him.

Living in him and living with him in our prayers and in our attitudes and all that. So that that little phrase there your bruise is incurable. That was a blight upon Israel and they never recovered from it.

You know there there is a perfect plan that God has for his people and every time we sin. We exit away from that and it takes us further away from God and staying instead of bringing us closer to God and Nations have been toppled churches have been toppled.

Returning to the First Love and the Old Paths

It's the great call. You've left your first love. Because of the church they They got this bruise that was incurable and God in Christ in Revelation 2 and 3. That I gave to you in the immediate call to repent.

Is that I'm going to come to you quickly and I'm going to remove your candlestick and he did. And that's what we're facing today. That is the bruise that is incurable when the ways of worship and the ways of prayer and the ways of the spiritual Disciplines have been forgotten.

The old paths that are right in the sight of God have been forgotten. That's a bruise that's incurable and it is only by God's mercy. That he would allow for us to continue without sentencing us judging us and punishing us.

In the severe manner that he's talking about but all this is steeped. Because your iniquities have increased your bruises incurable. This is the byproduct of what you're living now what we're reaping now because you've sown in this sin.

It's now affected all those that are around about you and then now our response. Which I want to go back to the first Couple verses that that was mentioned from the beginning in verse four there five six and into seven there where he talks about.

He says and as I looked upon the people Matter of fact, let me just let's read that again. So that I got the wording correct on that and I want to start verse verse six. Ask you now and see whether a man does prevail with child.

Travail, Brokenness, and Prevailing Prayer

Prevail with child the birth process here and and he gives it a very descriptive Format here. Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his on his loins as a woman in travail? The birth pains are coming.

She contracts. It's not you know, the hospital beds today and the epidurals and all that kind of thing removes a lot of This imagery of travailing and bringing forth but yet, you know throughout all scripture there it is.

Paul says it he says until I travail I did not bring forth until Christ prevailed in the garden of Gethsemane. He did not surrender and yield. I will be done. Let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless father.

Let that will be done. He prevailed he brought forth and it was with great pains that he brought forth and here's that same imagery. That's found in this and he says and all faces are turned into paleness sucking the very Healthiness out of our very features our life and because we are in such anguish and we are in such brokenness now if our Iniquities have increased in our lives and we see a lot of Christians that it has and again I say I pray that it's not true of us if we seen it in our families if we seen it in the churches if We seen it in our nation and all those things are true.

Then the anguish that falls on us is that as we see these things that we've got to respond to these things. Sins increase our prayers must increase sins increase and it's claiming our family members. It's claiming their souls for eternity in hell because sin separates people from God and that's what Satan wants.

But if we just continue playing patty cake church and patty cake prayer times. Without any brokenness and tears and anguish over this thing. Then we're never going to see the travailing that brings forth.

And so it is the stillbirth. It is the being having a child born in deadness. Because we did not prevail and we did not bring forth the way that he wanted us to do it. And so that means is that a prayer time where people's prayers?

And again format of praying rightly. So often in these prayer meetings and prayer calls that are going on people want to talk to one another prayer Is about talking unto God? It's about listening to God.

And in these conference calls when you listen to people's conversations. And they just want to tell a story. And they go into this thing that that's that telling a testimony is fine. And it's it's edifying and encouraging and all that but during a prayer time there's going to be some travail of Anguish because our iniquities have increased and as God hates it and as God looks upon this sin.

Even Jesus beholding the city he wept over it because of the anguish of what he saw in their hard hearts. And their iniquities had increased and he knew what they was going to do to him. And it's true the same today, and we must have the same response as Christ did Christ Likeness and so we have to respond to that in our prayer times.

A Challenge to Pray for God’s Kingdom and Glory

So I want to I want to challenge you and ask of you be careful be careful that upon Hearing and reading and studying and chewing on this little portion of scripture is that your prayer life is not just going through.

You're not just saying prayers to hear yourself talk. You're not saying prayers to be religious. You're not saying prayers is to say I prayed Today. But you prayed to prevail and bring forth for God's kingdom and God's glory Satan has them.

We must prevail to bring and set the captives free. God is waiting on us in our prayer times. To do that and so we've got this this is a huge theme to me and presently. Because your iniquities have increased and God's response is wrath, and you know what we're experiencing now.

In all four levels of the nation the church our families in our own personal living we're all facing God's wrath because our iniquities have increased. We've got to see a turnaround and that means we have to prevail and bring forth for God's mercy God's power God's cleansing and to get back on in a right relationship with him.

So may you chew on these words may you take them into your prayer times and anguish over them. God is highly Offended but yet we know in 2nd Chronicles 16 9 The promise that God says my eyes go to and fro throughout all the earth.

To find someone whose heart is perfect towards me that he's going to do great things. Praying John Hyde accomplished this and as I'm able to come to you via this way I'm going to continue to have this in front of us.

That we would continue to strive to be What God wants us to be in our prayers some of these set times that I'm going to have I'm just going to walk us Through maybe some prayer Initiatives prayer prayer themes others of these I'll just be sharing out of this What God's laid on my heart that I want to be able to communicate it to you a little bit better than me writing it Out so I pray that these words today have been a source of thought for you and as much more.