Jeremiah finds his work hard because he’s called to speak for the Lord to Judah about her unfaithfulness and the terrible repercussions it will bring to her.
Marital pain
Prophet to the nations
Jeremiah comes from a disgraced line of priests who had once temporarily lost the ark of the covenant. But…
Who are the prophets?
This sermon is the first on Jeremiah and introduces the series with a general description of Old Testament prophets.
Not quite Jesus
Jonah is a rebel against God’s call. But God uses the horror of what happens to the prophet to testify to Himself
He can run, but he can’t hide
God sends Jonah east to Nineveh, but the prophets runs off in the other direction, to the sea.
Human empires
Jonah was a prophet whose life was his message