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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Good morning, welcome to stand on the word. All right,
today we begin the book of Jeremiah. As we look
at chapter one, verse seventeen. Therefore, prepare yourself and arise
and speak to them all that I command you do
not be dismayed before their faces, lest I dismay you
before them. All right, let's start with a little background.
Jeremiah's ministry began around six twenty seven BC and lasted

(00:34):
roughly forty years four decades, and it was during the
time that Judah was moving toward captivity. In fact, his
ministry went all the way to the point of captivity
and slightly beyond. Now, Jeremiah came about one hundred years
after Isaiah. Century after Isaiah, Jeremiah was given the very
difficult task of prophesying God's warning to Judah during this

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time of their demise. Now about twenty years into his
call to be a prophet, Jerusalem was partially destroyed by
the Babylonians in six oh six BC, and several captives.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Were carried away.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Many captives were carried away at that point. There was
another attack in five ninety seven BC, and then the
Babylonians totally destroyed the city and the temple and carried
most of the survivors away into captivity in five ninety seven.
Now Jeremiah was not carried away. He was given the
choice to either stay there or go to Babylon. He stayed,

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and some of the captives or some of the survivors
who stayed, ended up carrying him to Egypt, and that's
where he later died. Now, during the entire time, Jeremiah
was calling the nation to turn from their idolatry and
return to God. Now there were some other prophetic voices

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this forty years of his ministry. They were a little
younger than him. There was Ezekiel who was in Babylon
and he was among the captives, and he was essentially
bringing the same message as Jeremiah. Daniel was also in captivity,
having been carried away in one of the early raids,

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one of the early attacks by the Babylonians, and he
was serving in the royal court of Nebaconezer. Then there
was also habakk zeph Andiah, Nahem and Obadiah. During portions
of Jeremiah's ministry, he was reluctant from the start, but
resolved in his call by God. Jeremiah was the prophet

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the opposition could not cancel. They tried, and we'll see
over the next few weeks as we go through the
fifty two chapters of Jeremiah just how intently they tried
to cancel him, but they couldn't. But this first chapter
gives us the reason that as hard as they tried
to deplatform Jeremiah, banning him from the Temple, the center

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of communication in that day, opposing him actually tearing up
his prophecies, he still delivered the word of the Lord, which,
by the way, we're reading twenty five hundred years later,
isn't that amazing.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Jeremiah began around the age of twenty.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Under the revival King Josiah, and they were about the
same age. Josiah was in the thirteenth year of his
reign as king when Jeremiah began his ministry. Now, this
was frankly the last good period for Judah. During the
time of Josiah, he had a good relationship. Jeremiah had

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a good relationship with Josiah, but it was downhill after that,
as both those in authority and the people in general
opposed Jeremiah because.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Of the words God gave him to speak.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Confronting them for their apostasy, for their idolatry. There were
times that Jeremiah wanted to resign and to be free
from the opposition and the hatred of those who did
not want to hear what God had to say. And
I can understand that, but God would not release him.
So Jeremiah faithfully proclaimed the Word of God. Now the

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chapters and their prophecies as we go through these fifty
two chapters, they are not in chronological order once we
get past the first six chapters. So let's begin verse one,
Chapter one. The Book of Jeremiah, the Words of Jeremiah,
the son of Helkiah, the priests who were in Anathoth.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
In the land of Benjamin.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Now Helkiah, Jeremiah's father, was the high priest that we
actually just read about over in Second King's chapter twenty
two that rediscovered or found the Book of the Law
in the temple during Josiah's reform that really fueled the
reform after. But this didn't happen until the eighteenth year

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of Josiah's reign, which was five years into the ministry
of Jeremiah. Now this is important because these first six
chapters came before the rediscovery of the word of God
verse two, to whom the word of the Lord came
in the days of Josiah the son of Ammon, King
of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. It
came also to the days of Johoa Kim, the son

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of Josiah, King of Judah, until the end of the
eleventh year, of Zedekiah the son of joe Ash, king
of Judah, until the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in
the fifth month. Then the word of the Lord came
to me, saying, before I formed you in the womb,
I knew you before you were born. I sanctified you,
I ordained you a prophet to the nations. Now notice

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here God said he knew Jeremiah.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
In the womb.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
So how do you know a fetus? How do you
know a blob of tissue that planned parenthood describes a
baby as being in the womb.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, I tell you what.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
It's a good thing that Hilkiah had not been influenced
by Manassa. Who remember remember Manassa, that was the grandfather
here of Josiah. He seduced the people to do abominations,
including sacrificing their children on the altar of molek, not
unlike sacrificing our children today on the altar of convenience.

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We call it abortion today. Now we've seen this and
we'll see it again. The killing of children is a
symptom of idolatry, which brings judgment upon a nation.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
This is why.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Protecting the unborn must be a priority in our policies.
But we must recognize this is a spiritual issue, and
we have to deal with the underlying spiritual apostasy, which
is the role of the church pastors. They need to
be preaching this. It needs to come from the church.

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That way, it shapes our policies. Verse six then said
I Ah, Lord God, behold, I cannot speak, for I
am a youth. He's about twenty years old. But the
Lord said to me, do not say I am a youth.
For you shall go to all to whom I send you,
and whatever I command you you shall speak. Do not
be afraid of their faces, for I am with you

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to deliver you, says the Lord. Now notice his hesitancy
sounds like Moses, sounds like some of the others that
God has called. Because when you realize God is calling
you to do his work, you realize just how.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
How you're not really able to do it.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Taking on a task from God requires the power of God.
But here's what he says, Obey God, and you need
not fear man. You see this is important because faith
and fear are incompatible. We can't have faith in God
and fear man at the same time. Work verse nine.
Then the Lord put forth his hand to touch my mouth.

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And the Lord said to me, behold, I have put.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
My words in your mouth.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
See, I have this day set you over the nations
and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down,
to destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant. Now,
similar to Isaiah's encounter one hundred years previously in the Temple,
the Lord touched the mouth of Jeremiah, sanctifying it for

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the purposes of God. And the Lord, not the people,
not the princes, not even the priest, nor the King,
set Jeremiah in this place to speak prophetically to the nations.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
The Lord appointed him.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
That took tremendous faith on behalf of Jeremiah to rest
in the calling of the Lord and not the recognition
of Man. I mean, he faced the rejection of man,
but he had to be confident in his calling by
God verse eleven. Moreover, the word of the Lord came
to me, saying, what do you see? And I said,
I see a branch of an almon tree. So then

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God uses this almon branch, and then he also uses
a boiling pot to communicate a prophetic message. These illustrations
we see quite frequently in Jeremiah's ministry, and the almon
branch was the first to bud and spring forth in
the spring, so it was kind of like an early
warning that spring was coming. Well, Jeremiah was going to

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be a warning to the nation that judgment was coming
if they didn't repent. Then, as we move here into
verse thirteen, the Lord warns of that coming judgment and
why it's coming Verse thirteen. And the word of the
Lord came to me the second time.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Saying what you see?

Speaker 1 (09:43):
And I said, I see a boiling pot, and it
is facing away from the north. Then the Lord said
to me, out of the north, calamity shall break forth
on all the inhabitants of the land. For behold, I
am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north,
says the Lord. They shall come, and each one set
his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem,

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against all its walls, all around, and against all the
cities of Judah. I will utter my judgments against them
concerning all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me, burned
in sense to other gods, and worshiped the works of
their own hands, rejected God, turned to idols that they

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had made with their own hands. Now the reason, very clearly,
God lays out the judgment is coming. They had forsaken
or walked away from God, and they chose to walk
in wickedness in the worshiping of idols verse seventeen.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Therefore, prepare yourself and arise and speak to them.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Basically, gird up your loins, get ready, get dressed, get prepared,
and speak to them all that I command you. Do
not be dismayed by their faces. Don't be intimidated by
their looks. Last I dismay you before them. That's really important,
because you know, we were intimidated by people to be
accepted by people. And God is saying, look, you want

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to be accepted by them or by me? And Jesus
said the same thing. He said, if you deny me
before men, I'll deny you before the Father who is
in heaven.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
You see, God is everlasting. Men are passing.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
It's best to stick with the one who's here forever
and ever verse eighteen. For behold, I have made you
this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar and
bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah,
against its princes, against its priest, and against the people
of the land, the Lord saying, Look, I'm making you
a fortified city, an iron pillar, a bronze wall.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Look you're a brick They're not coming against you. You're
a brick wall.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
And here's why the cancel crowd of Jeremiah's day could
not shut him down. They couldn't shut him down because
God was with him.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Look at verse nineteen.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
They will fight against you, all right, oppositions gone, but
they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you,
says the Lord, to deliver you.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Wow. Isn't that great?

Speaker 1 (12:10):
And guess what, as followers of Jesus, you and I
have the same promise. Look at what Paul wrote in
Romans chapter eight, verse thirty one. What then shall we
say to these things? If God is for us, who
can be against us? You see that doesn't mean we
won't face opposition, but it does mean we won't face

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it alone.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
And as we.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Refuse to be afraid to speak the truth contained in
the Word of God, God will prosper.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
It and he will use it to.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Accomplish the call that is upon our lives to reach
others with the good news. God has promised. We just
read this recently. His word will not return void. We
just have to proclaim it.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Father, thank you for your word.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
And Lord, I'm excited as we move into the Book
of Jeremiah, Lord, another one of your tremendous prophets, Lord,
who faced great opposition, but he was faithful.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
And so Father, I pray that we through the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Leading us through this journey, bringing to mind that the
truths and the principles of the Scripture and how we
are to apply them to our lives. Today. Lord, may
we glean much from this book. We thank you for it,
Thank You for the Holy Spirit. We pray this in
Jesus name. Amen.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
All right, thanks for joining me this morning.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Great book, and by the way, we do have a
resource available. We have a study guide for Jeremiah in
addition to the journal, and if you'd like to find
out more about that, go to FRC dot org slash
Bible and you'll find it there among the resources.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Until next time, keep standing on the word. Today's steady
comes from the stand on the word. Bible Reading Plan
available for free at FRC dot org slash Bible. By
following along in just a few minutes a day, you
can read through the entire Bible in just two years.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Learn more and request the free reading guide at FRC
dot org slash Bible.
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