Many scholars think that the book of the New Testament we begin studying, just maybe the most important of all the letter of Paul! The words we study today in chapter one can honestly change someone’s life as they read and internalize them. Words are important in your marriage, in your family, and in your relationships. They are words that can impact your life and mine today in 2020!

People usually won’t admit to jealousy, but it is a common “malady” in our lives today in 2020. Jealousy exists in marital relationships, friendships, work, school, and neighborhood interactions. Rarely do people talk about the jealousy of the Lord God Almighty! That will be the running theme in this last message of the Jeremiah series. God was provoked to jealousy by the idolatry of people who claimed to know the Lord!

Obedience is a touchy subject in most families. Some children are naturally obedient; others seem naturally disobedient. Which one were you? This week, we study about God’s people in the southern Kingdom called Judah who promised God total obedience. Unfortunately, they did the very thing the Lord told them not to do! They paid a dear price for what Jeremiah says they did: “They entered into Egypt in disobedience to the Lord.” Can you and I relate?

Do you remember being asked by a parent, a teacher, a spouse, a child to pay attention to what I am saying to you? We all can. God asks the same thing of you and me! In one of the final messages from this book of the Bible, Jeremiah says the Lord God Almighty wants your attention to what He says! Have you ever not listened to what God was trying to impress upon your heart or spirit? If we are honest we all have.

This is the most unusual story in the entire Bible! A man named Recab ordered his existing family and all their future descendants to do two things. They must never ever drink wine; and they must always live in tents, never in houses. The remarkable thing is this: they obeyed his edict for 250-300 years! The Lord uses this as an object lesson for His people, about obedience!

Most people pray in a crisis or emergency situation, but not much more than that. Others pray as a matter of “religious behavior or obligation”. Still there are those who pray because of their relationship with our heavenly Father. For them, prayer comes naturally and from the heart. Where are you on that spectrum? This week we look at Jeremiahs prayer to the Lord and what it means for us in 2020!

If you are believer in Jesus Christ, you are in a covenant relationship with God the Father through God the Son! It’s His covenant, and we step into that covenant for the rest of our lives. People end or even break covenants today in 2020. (Including a covenant called marriage) Breaking covenant with the Heavenly Father is the most serious of all. Jeremiah talks about the “old covenant” God made with Moses. He then refers to the “new covenant” in a prophetic way. You and I live under that covenant!

Would it surprise you to know that God has a plan for your life? He does, if you believe Jeremiah in the 29th chapter of “his” book of the Bible. Although some would say that this passage does not “apply” to us, it does reflect the heart and character of God! God is a God concerned for His people. He always has been, and He is today in 2020!

We are known by whom we love and who loves us. It’s a bigger issue in our lives than we may think. Your life has been impacted not only by the people that love you; we are impacted by the people that should love us, but don’t! Jeremiah says that we are loved by God with an everlasting love. No one in your life or mine loves us like that. His love and kindness actually draw us to Him!

Jeremiah is the most self-revealing author in the Bible! The prophet who said that the Lord knew him in the womb, and had a plan for his life before birth tells us he wishes he had never been born! How do you get that way? I think from bitterness and depression. He reveals his depression in this passage. Thankfully, he reveals much more than that!