I Will Write It In Their Hearts

Jeremiah 16, 23, 29, 31

Objective

• To encourage class members to participate in God’s

great latter-day work and to have his law written in their

hearts.

• 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee,

since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from

the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any

such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

• 33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst

of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

• 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst

of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by

war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by

great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in

Egypt before your eyes?

• 35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the Lord

he is God; there is none else beside him.

Which Prophet is making this

statement?

• Moses - Deuteronomy 4:32-35

What was the occasion?

• The Exodus out of Egypt.

What symbolism does the

Exodus have for us today?

• The gathering of Israel and delivery from the bondage of

of our modern day "Egypt" or "Babylon".

What was going on during

Jeremiah's time?

• He witnessed the scattering and destruction of 10 Tribes of

Israel in the Northern Kingdom by Assyria.

• He witnessed the takeover of the Assyrians by the

Babylonians.

• He is now witnessing (and tried by personally) the wickedness

of the Kingdom of Judah, where even the priests of the

Temple had Jeremiah placed in the stockade.

• Now he is experiencing the destruction of and scattering of the

remaining tribes in Judah.

After the trials, come the

blessings

• After all that Jeremiah had been through, he is given the blessing to

see and prophesy of the return of the seed of David to Jerusalem

and the surrounding areas, setting the stage for the birth of Christ.

• Jeremiah 23:5-6

• 5 ¶Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David

a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall

execute judgment and justice in the earth.

• 6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and

this is his name whereby he shall be called, The Lord Our

Righteousness.

The end of the saga...

• Jeremiah was also allowed to see and prophesy of our day, the gathering of the Tribes

of Israel and of the missionary work required for this.

• Jeremiah 23:1-4

• 1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the

Lord.

• 2 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye

have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will

visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.

• 3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven

them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

• 4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no

more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the Lord.

Hunters vs. Fishers of Men

This was used in capturing

and killing the tribes of Israel

- both in ancient days and

modern (the Holocaust)

Now it is being used to

gather and save.

Elder LeGrand Richards

• And Jeremiah saw the day when the Lord would do this very thing,

when he would call for many fishers and many hunters, “and they

shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of

the holes of the rocks.” (Jer. 16:16.) Where do you find those fishers

and hunters that we read about in this great prophecy of Jeremiah?

They are these 14,000 missionaries of this church, and those who

have preceded them from the time that the Prophet Joseph Smith

received the truth and sent the messengers out to share it with the

world. Thus have they gone out, fishing and hunting, and gathering

them from the hills and the mountains, and the holes in the rocks. I

think that is more literal than some of us think!

• In the Mountain of the Lord’s House - April 1971 General Confence

Fishers and Hunters video

• Jeremiah 31:31-34

• 31 ¶Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant

with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

• 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day

that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my

covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:

• 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel;

After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and

write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

• 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man

his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least

of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their

iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

...write it in their hearts

How do we write it in our

hearts?• Loving our neighbors.

• Honoring our parents.

• Being morally clean.

• Keeping the Sabbath day holy.

• Choosing appropriate movies, television programs, books, and

magazines.

• Wearing modest clothing.

• Selecting suitable music.