Why Did We Use The Word Cistern?
Jeremiah 2:13, "My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water."
Key Words: Cistern- An artifical reservior for storing liquids usually water
Forsake- To turn away or renounce
Paraphase: Gods children commiteed two sins. They turned from them and made their own powerless gods.
Observation 1: The firt observation in this is how he used the word cistern. He wrote the verse in a way that they could understand it. So by using the word cistern they will knows its a type of jug that holds water.
Observation 2: When it talks about the spring of living water it reminds me of Pslams 23. How it says he lies me down beside quiet waters. I mean …show more content…
Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures."
Key Words: Covet- Yearn to posses or have Quarrel- angry argument or disagreement typically between people who are usually on good …show more content…
Its mentally. Sometimes when you dont get what you want you biuld up anger and you could mentally have bad thoughts but just not act on them.
Observation 3: Not always getting what you want could be good. Because what if you got what you wanted and something bad happened. You could serve consequences that you didnt have to have if you didnt fight to get your way. It always better to ignore what you want if it is a bad desire. Ephesians 4:22-24, "You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."
Key Words: Deceitful- Guilty of or involving deceit, deceiving or misleading others.
Righteouness- The quality od being morally right or justifiable. Holiness- The state of being holy
Paraphase: Put off your old self, which was not good. It corrupted you. Being made new by God but to be made new to be like God not just a better version of the old you. It is not deeds, you will notice, but outlooks, attitudes. This is what causes the problem and this is what we must
Key Words: Cistern- An artifical reservior for storing liquids usually water
Forsake- To turn away or renounce
Paraphase: Gods children commiteed two sins. They turned from them and made their own powerless gods.
Observation 1: The firt observation in this is how he used the word cistern. He wrote the verse in a way that they could understand it. So by using the word cistern they will knows its a type of jug that holds water.
Observation 2: When it talks about the spring of living water it reminds me of Pslams 23. How it says he lies me down beside quiet waters. I mean …show more content…
Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures."
Key Words: Covet- Yearn to posses or have Quarrel- angry argument or disagreement typically between people who are usually on good …show more content…
Its mentally. Sometimes when you dont get what you want you biuld up anger and you could mentally have bad thoughts but just not act on them.
Observation 3: Not always getting what you want could be good. Because what if you got what you wanted and something bad happened. You could serve consequences that you didnt have to have if you didnt fight to get your way. It always better to ignore what you want if it is a bad desire. Ephesians 4:22-24, "You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."
Key Words: Deceitful- Guilty of or involving deceit, deceiving or misleading others.
Righteouness- The quality od being morally right or justifiable. Holiness- The state of being holy
Paraphase: Put off your old self, which was not good. It corrupted you. Being made new by God but to be made new to be like God not just a better version of the old you. It is not deeds, you will notice, but outlooks, attitudes. This is what causes the problem and this is what we must