Jul 30, 2022
JEREMIAH
19-20:
In
yesterday’s reading, we again heard some often-quoted verses. These
verses come just after verses in chapter 17 where the Lord himself
beautifully paraphrased Psalm 1:
Jer.
17:9 NLT “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,
and desperately wicked.
Who really knows how bad it is?
10 But I, the Lord, search all hearts
and examine secret motives.
I give all people their due rewards,
according to what their actions deserve.”
Then in chapter 18, we also heard the famous passage about the Lord being like a potter, which Paul refers to in Romans 9.
PSALM 147:
Again this is quite a contrast with Jeremiah’s
feelings which we just read! This is our second Hallelujah psalm.
And hallelujah has been translated according to its meaning here as
“Praise the LORD.” This psalm has incredible depth.
1CORINTHIANS
3:10—4:21
Paul is still ‘going on about’ the same thing.
He is going to return to the subject of himself and Apollos in
chapter 4— which summarizes the division in the Corinthian church.
To give the connection, let’s start reading at chapter 3 verse
10.
NLT Translation
notes:
1Cor. 4:7
For what gives you the right to make such a judgment? What do you
have that God hasn’t [just] given you? And if everything you have
is from God, why boast as though it were not a
gift?
10 Our dedication to Christ [paradoxically]
makes us look like fools, but you claim to be so wise in Christ! We
are weak, but you are so powerful! You are honored, but we are
ridiculed.
13
We appeal gently when evil things are said about us. [0/Yet] we are
treated like the world’s garbage, like everybody’s trash—right up
to the present moment.
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