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The questions below are to be used to provide fuel for your thoughts as you study the readings for the week ahead:

Jeremiah 38
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What have been the effects of Jeremiah’s continuing message (See 21:8-10)? When have you found God’s words to have a demoralizing effect on you? Why? Who are the two men in this passage that are rewarded for their actions (See 39:15-18)

Jeremiah 39
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Everything happens as Jeremiah had said. How is He rewarded? To what extent do you trust God’s words before you have seen the results or outcome?

Jeremiah 40
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To what extent do the Chaldeans understand the cause of Jerusalem’s fall? How do they regard Jeremiah (See verse 2-5 with 39:12)? Contrast their regard for a prophet of God with Israel’s regard for God’s words.