Bishop Noel Jones - Wednesday Bible Study - September 30, 2026

Main message: The root problem of broken earthly systems is the human heart—deceitful, self-seeking and incurably sick—so laws and policies alone cannot produce true justice; only covenantal renewal (a new heart) and being born of the Spirit can create people fit for God’s kingdom and bring lasting justice.

Key points:

• Jeremiah 17:9 teaches the heart is deceitful, scheming, twisted and desperately sick, so human governments built from such hearts will always fail.
• Law and policy can define and restrain behavior but cannot rewrite wills or produce humility, love, and mercy; justice must be living and overflowing (like waters), not a static statute.
• Prophetic and Torah provisions (Jubilee, gleaning, not muzzling the ox) show God’s design to protect the poor, but human selfishness and structural systems (debt, land control, greed) subvert those provisions.
• The endgame is spiritual: repentance, divine action, and new birth (John 3) — the Holy Spirit must remake people so they will not want to commit injustice and will evidence love, repentance and righteous living.
• Critique of contemporary distortions: racial division, prosperity‑gospel and church nepotism have corrupted Christian witness; genuine discipleship and Spirit‑led holiness, not wealth or policy, are needed in chaotic times.

Scriptures mentioned: Deuteronomy 29:29, Jeremiah 17:9, Jeremiah 15:18, Jeremiah 3:12, Jeremiah 34, Leviticus 25, John 3, Isaiah, Micah, Hosea, Proverbs 31, Ruth, Deuteronomy 25:4