Session #9 NDC Worshiping Series on Jeremiah 36 - "A Last Ditch Effort"

By Terry Mattson

Teaching Backrgound for Pages on:      "A Last Ditch Effort"

sub-title:  "Loving Enough to Meet us Where We Are 
                   & Direct us to Where We Need To Be"

theme:       Connecting Outcome to Whom We are Listening. 

Text: Jeremiah 36 


Video: Background & Devotional on This Lesson # 9 "A Last Ditch Effort" or related themes 
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Video: Imaginative Story "Glory Lost" on Jeremiah 36
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For: Worshiping Series #9 of Next Door Church (NDC), Prime Time Background Material for Lesson #9

Back Story to Explore:  “Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah and all the other nations from the time I began speaking to you in the reign of Josiah till now" (Jeremiah 36: 2 NIV).

Part 1: God Speaks, Are You Listening?






























Part 2: We are Free to Reject God






















































































































































Additional Background on David's Lineage

1 Note:  I made an error in the original document above, indicating that Zedekiah was not a decendant of David.  That is incorrect. Zedekiah was an uncle of Josiah's grandson Jehoiachin,who was deposed and taken to Babylon in the exile. Under God's protection he, after 37 years was taken from Prison and again treated as royalty with access to the table of the governing King over Babylon. David's royal seed continues through his children, specifically Zerubbabel.  

Zedekiah was caught while escaping Nebuchadnezzar's army, witnessed the death of his male children and then had his eyes cut out. There are differing accounts as to what happened thereafter. Jeremiah's recorded account was that he was left in Judah and died without an honorable burial, completely cut off from the 'royal' honor.  Even so, though he evidently did not leave children to carry his lineage, he himself--being an uncle of the deposed King Jehoiachin--was still in David's line. He was a wicked, cruel and apparently manipulative King, ever changing sides depending upon 'who' was on top; ultimately rejected by all.








































 

 

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