A Weeping Prophet for a Wayward Nation
Rex Yancey
Jeremiah 1
Jeremiah is one of my favorite prophets in the Old Testament. He is one of the Major Prophets because of his tenure in ministry and the length of his book. He came about 100 years after Isaiah. When Isaiah preached the Assyrians were in power. When Jeremiah preached the Babylonians were coming to power. Nations rise and fall, and we best remember that.
-Jeremiah had some low periods in his life when he wished he had never been born and wished that he was dead.
Jeremiah did not hide his feelings or fail to show his emotions. He was transparent. He was born in the priestly line and called to be a prophet. God sometimes has other plans for us. He told the exiles in 29:11 ''For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.''
-His daddy may have wanted him to be a priest; but God wanted him to be a prophet. He had a 40 plus year ministry. He saw the temple torn down and the people taken into captivity. He stayed in Jerusalem with some poor Jews and was later taken to Egypt where legend says he was stoned to death.
1. JEREMIAH'S CALL
God called him from the womb. When does life begin? According to this and other verses of scripture, it begins at conception. Before his genetic structure was put together God knew him.
-Psalm 139:13-16 ''For thou didst form my inward parts; thou didst weave me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are thy works, and my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from thee, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. Thine eyes have seen my unformed substance and, in thy book,, they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.''
This is a picture of DNA in the human embryo.
-I saw the memorial to the missing this past Tuesday. E ...
Rex Yancey
Jeremiah 1
Jeremiah is one of my favorite prophets in the Old Testament. He is one of the Major Prophets because of his tenure in ministry and the length of his book. He came about 100 years after Isaiah. When Isaiah preached the Assyrians were in power. When Jeremiah preached the Babylonians were coming to power. Nations rise and fall, and we best remember that.
-Jeremiah had some low periods in his life when he wished he had never been born and wished that he was dead.
Jeremiah did not hide his feelings or fail to show his emotions. He was transparent. He was born in the priestly line and called to be a prophet. God sometimes has other plans for us. He told the exiles in 29:11 ''For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.''
-His daddy may have wanted him to be a priest; but God wanted him to be a prophet. He had a 40 plus year ministry. He saw the temple torn down and the people taken into captivity. He stayed in Jerusalem with some poor Jews and was later taken to Egypt where legend says he was stoned to death.
1. JEREMIAH'S CALL
God called him from the womb. When does life begin? According to this and other verses of scripture, it begins at conception. Before his genetic structure was put together God knew him.
-Psalm 139:13-16 ''For thou didst form my inward parts; thou didst weave me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are thy works, and my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from thee, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. Thine eyes have seen my unformed substance and, in thy book,, they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.''
This is a picture of DNA in the human embryo.
-I saw the memorial to the missing this past Tuesday. E ...
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