SERMONS ON JEREMIAH
Our sermon ideas on Jeremiah will help you preach a powerful message on the triumph of God's covenant faithfulness over wrath. Preach on topics including sin and its consequences, sincerity in repentance, the call of God, and God's renewal and restoration. Prepare your messages on God's Word in Jeremiah with sermon outlines or an entire sermon series.
Jeremiah: A Light in the Darkness
by Ron Dunn
Jeremiah the prophet's in jail. The Chaldeans are laying siege to the city and Jeremiah has been preaching a rather unpopular message. He's been going around Jerusalem saying, ''You might as well give up, no use in fighting because God has raised up the Chaldeans and has assured them a victory and because of your sins the Chaldeans are going to overthrow the city and carry all of us into captivity, but God has promised that one of these days when the captivity is over He will restore us to the land and the land to us.'' So, Jeremiah was going around saying, ''There's no use in fighting. You're fighting a losing battle. God has...
Jeremiah: In the Potter's Hands (5 of 20)
by Roger Thomas
Introduction: What if a present-day preacher stood in his pulpit and announced that God was on the side of Saddam Hussein or Ossama Ben Laden? That God was against America and that he was raising up worldwide terrorists to serve his purposes and be his servants? That God cared nothing for the Declaration of Independence or the American Constitution or the long heritage of religious worship that our nation has had? In fact, that the things we emphasize were an offense to God? And what if this preacher even advocated that Christians renounce their loyalty to their country and join the other side? And what if the preacher...
A Great Question from a Great God
by James Merritt
INTRODUCTION: 1. ''Is there anything too hard for God?'' That could be a very insulting question if puny man were to ask that of a powerful God, and it could receive a very embarrassing answer. 2. I heard about a Sunday School teacher who was examining her pupils after a series of lessons on the omnipotence of God. She asked, ''Now that we've studied all about the greatness of God, is there anything God can't do?'' 3. Well there was dead silence. Finally one little boy held up his hand. The teacher couldn't believe it. She had hammered for weeks and weeks about the omnipotent power of God. She looked at that young...
Babylon Is Done (9 of 10)
by Jerry Vines
I said to you last week that Jeremiah could well be called a prophet to the nations. In chapters 46 to the conclusion of his prophecy, we find this to be true. In chapter 46, for instance, it begins by saying, ''The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah, the prophet, against the Gentiles.'' Then you have a series of messages from God to various nations, chapters 46 through4 49. Then when we get to chapter 50 where he specifically addresses the nation of Babylon. It is one of the most remarkable prophecies in all of the Word of God. It is a prediction, a prophecy, of the fall of the nation of Babylon. We'll study that in chapters...
Why Does God Not Answer My Prayer? (6 of 7)
by Jeff Schreve
How many in here have ever prayed and prayed and prayed for God to do something that you thought was a good thing; that you thought was going to bring glory to God And you just knew that this is something God wants to happen, and you prayed, and it didn't happen? Raise your hand! Hey, is there anybody in here who's never had that experience? I'd like to see your hand because I want you to put me down on your prayer list. You know, all of us have had that experience. When I was in college, and I was a growing Christian, I asked the Lord, and I prayed believing for God to do something in my life that I thought was going to be a...
The Paths of the Righteous are Old Paths (5 of 5)
by Ken Trivette
1. Vance Havner has a chapter in his book "Jesus Only" entitled Beware of the Bypass. He writes, "This is the day of the bypass. Great freeways skirt the edges of town after town, detour here and circumvent there. In this madhouse of traffic congestion when we are safer on a battlefield than on a highway, the bypass is a necessity." 2. He continues: "But there are some bypasses that belong to another category. There is a King's Highway from earth to heaven and all along its course the devil has built a clever system of detours. 'The way of the cross leads home' but there is another way 'that seemeth right unto a man.' It bypasses the...
Forgiven Forever
by Stephen Whitney
In the criminal world crimes are divided into two categories: called misdemeanors or felonies. A misdemeanor is defined as a crime which is punishable with jail time for up to one year. A felony is defined as a crime which is punishable with jail time for more than a year. While working as a court-appointed attorney, Emory Potter was assigned a client who had been accused of criminal trespass meaning he entered a property where he was not allowed to be. When Mr. Potter probed his client with some general background questions he asked if he had any pervious arrests or convictions. The man ashamedly said, "Yes, sir. I've got...
Hope in the Hard Place of Disappointment (3 of 4)
by Joe Alain
To disappoint is "to fail to meet the expectation or hope of." To be disappointed is to be "defeated in expectation of hope." How do you handle disappointments in life? What do you do when your expectations of how God should act don't come to pass? Exiled in Babylon, God's people were living in disappointment. God wasn't acting in the way that they had hoped for. Jeremiah's letter to the exiles contains God's instructions for how His people were to live while in Babylon. God wants His people to know that He does have a plan for their future and that His plans are for His glory and their ultimate good. Jeremiah...
The Book Of Jeremiah, Overview (1 Of 5)
by Kenneth Boa
Now, as we study the Book of Jeremiah, we look at a man who was called to an unenviable prophetic ministry. You look at a lot of characters in the Bible and that's probably one of the ones I definitely wouldn't want to have been, He was a man who struggled with his very own calling for being a prophet. Again and again, he says, 'I don't want to be a prophet. I don't want to bear this incredible burden for my people.' For almost fifty years - nearly five decades - he called a rebellious people to repentance without any significant positive response. Frankly, that would wear thin. One king comes and another king comes, and another and another...
The Reluctant Prophet
by Stuart Briscoe
Jeremiah ministered for more than forty years at a critical time in Judah's history. Despite feelings of inadequacy, loneliness, and violent rejection, he faithfully fulfilled his mission. We can learn much from his message and his approach to ministry in troubled times. I The Prophet's Call. A. The divine initiative: "The Word of the Lord came to me saying…" 1. A divine creation: "formed." 2. A divine relation: "knew." 3. A divine intention: "set apart." 4. A divine commission: "appointed." B. The human response: "Ah Sovereign Lord, I said…"1. A confession of inadequacy: "I don't know how to speak." 2. A claim to unsuitability: "I am only...
We Believe in the Bible (3 of 9)
by Scott Maze
America has had a long history with the Bible. One of the more enlightening examples from our nation's past is Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the US. Jefferson regularly read the Bible. He revered Jesus as a reformer and moral exemple. Yet he did not see Jesus as His Savior. Nor did he believe that the miracles attributed to Jesus were more than pious exaggerations. As a result, Jefferson used scissors and razor to excise from his New Testament the corruptions that he believed its writers had placed upon the original teachings of Jesus....
The Weeping Prophet (24 of 66)
by Tony Thomas
In her book Day After Night, Anita Diamant writes: ''Weeping is terrible for the complexion, but it is very good for the heart.'' We're taking a Roadtrip through the Bible, and today we're in Jeremiah. Jeremiah is the 24th book of the Bible, he's the last prophet of Judah, and he's been called the weeping prophet. Jeremiah's prophecy is not the most difficult to understand; that distinction goes to Ezekiel. He's not the smartest; that's Isaiah. He's not the most influential; that's Daniel. He's not the most notorious; that's Jonah. Nor did he have the toughest assignment; that's Hosea. But of all the prophets, Jeremiah is the most...
Cheer Up! It's Gonna Get Worse! (4 of 10)
by Jerry Vines
The Lord told Jeremiah that he had been called to a difficult task. When the Lord called him at the very beginning of his ministry, he was told that it was not going to be easy. When we get to the twelfth chapter, verse 5, we will discover that it was a lot harder than he ever imagined it was going to be. The messages of Jeremiah are not necessarily in a chronological order. It's not always easy to identify exactly when Jeremiah is delivering the messages before us. We do know that the young king Josiah was used of the Lord to call the people back to God. He was a godly young king. While he was the king, the law of the Lord was found...
The Question
by Robert Dawson
Sometimes you see something, hear something or read something that you cannot get off your mind. It captivates you. That's what happened to me one day this week during my daily Bible reading. Like many of you, I follow a Bible reading plan. It helps me to stay focused and on track. If you don't follow a Bible reading plan I would encourage you to do so. Part of my reading this week has been in the book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah was a great prophet. He was a faithful prophet who ministered in the most difficult days for the nation of Judah. He served as God's mouthpiece to the nations during the last days of Judah. One OT scholar said, ''No prophet had a tougher assignment because it fell to Jeremiah...
