E440 Navigating The Bible: Jeremiah

“But this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I will certainly bring my people back again from all the countries where I will scatter them in my fury. I will bring them back to this very city and let them live in peace and safety. They will be my people, and I will be their God. And I will give them one heart and one purpose: to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their descendants. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good for them. I will put a desire in their hearts to worship me, and they will never leave me. I will find joy doing good for them and will faithfully and wholeheartedly replant them in this land. - Jeremiah 32:37-41 Jeremiah is a book not for the faint of heart. It’s a big book, 52 chapters and with a greater word count than any other book in the Bible. It’s a troubling book - the warnings from a prophet of God telling people what is going to befall them if they don’t repent and turn back to the God of their ancestors. It’s a sad book as it tells of the destruction of Jerusalem. There’s no doubt, Jeremiah is a behemoth of an Old Testament book. But, it’s not a book to ignore by any means. At its heart, even with the difficult things in the book, Jeremiah is still a book about hope. It’s still a book about the faithfulness of God. The passage I read at the beginning from Jeremiah 32 makes that clear. We learn so much about God in this book - it’s truly a rich, theological text. But like I said, it’s not for the faint of heart so to help us navigate this book today is Dr. Jerry Hwang, author of the ESV commentary on Jeremiah. Doable Discipleship is a Saddleback Church podcast produced and hosted by Jason Wieland. It premiered in 2017 and now offers more than 400 episodes. Episodes release every Tuesday on your favorite podcast app and on the Saddleback Church YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/saddleback). Resources Related to This Episode: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1433