1.THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH!

THE MAN AND HIS MINISTRY.

Jeremiah’s ministry was well over forty years, during the reign of Judah’s last five Kings.

Chapter 1: 1-3.

During his ministry, things were rushing toward the final catastrophe of Judah. He witnessed the destruction of the people he loved so dearly to their utter ruin.

Jeremiah was the prophet of doom at Judah’s midnight hour. He was tender and sensitive, yet possessed the strength to endure the happenings of his time.

It has been said of him. “I know of no man who revealed a truer heart-likeness to Jesus Himself, than that of Jeremiah.”

He bore a deep concern for his fellow countrymen. His guileless motive, his humility, his willingness for self-sacrifice and his utter faithfulness even to the denunciation of sin.

He was disappointed and wept many tears of grief and sorrow over Israel. He was cruelly disregarded, misunderstood, misrepresented and harshly persecuted.

Those of you who are in ministry today should take heart that God Himself understands your pain and persecution and He will come through for you.

Please don’t give up! Remain faithful. I have some first-hand experience. It was during a church split when my husband suddenly died. I know some of the grief and pain that Jeremiah must have suffered. The best healing remedy was… “FORGIVENESS” for myself and others to be able to move forward into a new future and hope. Read Jeremiah 29:11.

Jeremiah’s heart was full of grief and pain, but as the Apostle, Paul…

“HE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT,” and FINISHED THE BATTLE. (Kept the faith)

He possessed a love and sympathy which he lived and preached in his messages.

We cannot study the book apart from studying the man himself. The man and the message were one! God specially chose him for the times in which he lived.

See Chapter 1:5-continuing.

“BEFORE I FORMED YOU I KNEW YOU AND BEFORE YOU WERE BORN. I SET YOU APART AND ORDAINED YOU AS A PROPHET TO THE NATIONS.”

So Jeremiah was specially fitted for his noble task.

First, let us look at his…

SUFFERING SOUL. His emotional battle was tearing at his heart, for sympathy for God and an inner grieving for his people, which made him suffer with them.

He identified with Jesus, “In all his afflictions He was AFFLICTED.” Jeremiah not only felt for God, but he spoke for God. He did not merely speak for the people, he felt with them.

Jeremiah spends his Nobel love and his pleadings in vain upon a rebellious People.

He suffered from, mockery, and plots against his own life and was embarrassed by the shameful and humiliating punishments, that they inflicted upon him. He is gradually forced to identify with God’s judgement- not at all out of revenge, but out of justice and kindness.

See Jer 11:19,20.

And Jer 23:18-24.

PATIENT PERSEVERANCE.

Only out of love and goodness did this man persevere. Other prophets seemed to have produced some kind of reform. He was like a voice crying in the wilderness. But through the forty years, Jeremiah did not see any grateful response. What an amazing, persevering man of God!

He stood alone as God’s spokesman. Unheeded, humiliated, yet bravely persistent!

Only love can keep us persevering amongst the stubborn and rebellious!

“LOVE NEVER STOPS LOVING. LOVE IS GENTLE AND KIND. LOVE REFUSES TO BE JEALOUS. LOVE BELIEVES ALL THINGS. Especially for others. “LOVE NEVER TAKES FAILURE AS DEFEAT, FOR IT NEVER GIVES UP!”

Remember the persevering LOVE OF GOD is working through this lovely, lonely man. He has become so Sympathetically “One” with God and “With” his message, he becomes the MESSAGE!

My message for you in this day and this hour is… You may feel that you are unproductive, or too old, weak, sick and no one cares about what you decide to do.

DO not! leave, your calling. As your ministry in your church or whatever He has called you to do is not over!

IT WILL TAKE ROOT AND GROW AND SPREAD!

This next verse is of great comfort. BECAUSE GOD IS IN IT. AND HE LOVES YOU DEARLY!

1 Corinthians 15:58. “Be you steadfast and immovable always abounding in the work of the Lord. For inasmuch you know that your labour is not in vain (wasted) in the Lord.

The Lord is preoccupied with faithful, righteous servants. He wants to bless and encourage  you with supernatural power and authority… to do His will,

FOR HIS HONOUR AND GLORY.

AMEN.

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