The Crisis in Jeremiah Continues
November 14, 2015 Larry R Evans Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Sabbath School Class Introduction There are many ways we could begin our study today but I’d like to begin with a fundamental truth that will help put the crisis Jeremiah faced in perspective. The principle or truth is stated well in 1 John 3: 1. We’ll also include the last part of verse 2: “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. . . . But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” (1Jn 3:1,2b) The opening words of this verse, “How great” meant originally “of what country?” God’s love is so unlike or so foreign to this world’s love that John raises the question: From what country does such a love come! Yet, that same God refers to us as His children. God gives us this privileged design