is anything too hard for jehovah?
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Jeremiah is in prison, in a doomed city besieged by an army, and Jehovah tells him to buy a field. It doesn’t make sense, but Jeremiah obeys. Then asks God why. Jehovah’s answer reveals the reason that Jeremiah (and the people) should have hope. We can learn from this why we too should live as a people of hope.TRANSCRIPT
Jehovah?
IsAnything
tooHardfor
Jeremiah 32, CB OT p. 1259
“For whatever was written in former days was written for our
instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the
Scriptures we might have hope.”Romans 15.4,CB NT p. 285
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Jerusalem
Nebuchadnezzar
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Jerusalem
Nebuchadnezzar
City will be captured,
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Jerusalem
Nebuchadnezzar
Zedekiah taken to Babylon
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Jerusalem
Nebuchadnezzar
Fight, but not succeed.
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Jerusalem
Nebuchadnezzar
Jeremiah
Buy a field
Hanamel
Jeremiah
Jeremiah
Put them in an earthenware vessel
that they may last for a long
time.
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???
Jeremiah
Nothing is too hard for You.
Jeremiah
Made a name for Yourself.
Jeremiah
Gave them this land, which You swore
to their fathers
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They did nothing of all you
commanded them to do.
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What You spoke has come to pass, and behold,
You see it.
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Yet You, O Lord Jehovah, have said to me, “Buy the field for money and get witnesses”
Jeremiah
Is anything too hard for me?
Jeremiah
Have done nothing but evil
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They will be my people and
I will be their God.
Jehovah sees what is happening.
“We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces
endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to
shame.”Romans 5.3-5,CB NT p. 270
Nothing is too hard for Jehovah.
“In hope, he believed against hope... fully convinced that God was able to
do what He promised.”Romans 4.18-21,
CB NT p. 269-270
Jehovah isfaithful.
“But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.”
Romans 8.23-25,CB NT p. 275
Jehovah’s people
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you
may abound in hope.”Romans 15.13,CB NT p. 285
Will today be the day you decide to
live in hope of eternal life?
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Is Anything Too Hard for Jehovah?Jeremiah 32
Compiled and Presented by:
Dave Stewart24 October, 2010Las Cruces, NM
www.churchofchristmiranda.com
Synopsis: Jeremiah is in prison, in a doomed city besieged by an army, and Jehovah tells him to buy a field. It doesn’t make sense, but Jeremiah obeys. Then asks God why. Jehovah’s answer reveals the reason that Jeremiah (and the people) should have hope. We can learn from this why we too should live as a people of hope.
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