Sunday, May 26, 2013

Jeremiah 33:1-5


This week has been one of watching the rubble that was More Ok. On TV. Heroic stories of people holding their child by their hair to save them and teachers putting their arms around frightened children, even a woman in the OR of the hospital who opened her eyes to see the side of the building gone. If you could put yourself in their place you would have some idea of where Jeremiah finds himself. His prophesies of destruction have come true. The people are angry with God so they lash out at Jeremiah and his warnings. Soon he will be in prison, his words burned, then tossed down a dry well.

1. Where Jeremiah is at.
            a. Jeremiah personally, house arrest, words rejected, prison, Cistern
            b. Jerusalem in ruins, starvation, destruction, siege works and swords
            c. Our life, people around us, our nation
            D. The rubble of life and spiritual starvation

2. The word God gives.
            a. “I will tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know
            b.  Vs 6
            C. It sounds to fantastic, unrealistic, how can God ever break through this?
            d. Yet God will bring His blessing, the people return, and vs 15 Jesus comes

3. The coming blessing
            a. Memorial Day
            b. our own broken Jerusalem
                        friendships, marriages, finical, jobs, health
            c. God’s promise of blessing
                        it seems great, unsearchable, unknowable, unrealistic, fantastic, impossible.
                        Yet it will come to be
                        Live to bring faith and hope to those who will follow us
                        Live through the troubles of today because God’s blessing will come
The great, unsearchable, and unknowable blessing of God is coming, and we live for it.

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