NOTES: 3 Rulers, Part 1

3 Rulers part 1- Jump the Wall

Text: Jer. 17:5-13

Date: Sunday July 31, 2022

Jeremiah 17:5–13 (ESV) “Thus says the Lord: ‘Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. 6 He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 7“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. 8 He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.” 9           The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? 10 “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” 11 Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool. 12 A glorious throne set on high from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. 13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water."

The Three Kings: Saul, David, Absalom

1.      The human heart will be ruled. (Vs. 5-6)

2.      The heart is incurable. (Vs. 9)

3.      God gets to the heart of the matter, to get us back to what really matters. (Vs. 10-13) 

1 Samuel 13:13–14 (ESV) 13 “And Samuel said to Saul, ‘You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.’

Forsaking the fountain?

John 7:37–39 (ESV)

37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

4. Trusting in God is more than something I do—it’s where I live

(vs. 7) “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord”

2 Samuel 22:29–31 (ESV)

29    For you are my lamp, O Lord,

and my God lightens my darkness.

30    For by you I can run against a troop,

and by my God I can leap over a wall.

31    This God—his way is perfect;

the word of the Lord proves true;

he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

Closing: Jump the wall!