WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.925 --> 00:00:02.225 Dear Christian, friends. 2 00:00:05.025 --> 00:00:06.825 Sometimes it's hard to Hope. 3 00:00:08.225 --> 00:00:11.125 If we don't have our head stuck in the sand, or if we haven't built 4 00:00:11.125 --> 00:00:13.525 some sort of bubble around ourselves. 5 00:00:13.525 --> 00:00:16.325 If we're paying attention to the world around us 6 00:00:16.325 --> 00:00:20.925 our world can be full of doom and gloom. 7 00:00:23.025 --> 00:00:26.525 It can distract us, drag us down. 8 00:00:27.625 --> 00:00:32.925 You can suck out of us all joy, and hope if we let it. 9 00:00:34.625 --> 00:00:38.225 Listen to the news or just read the news feed on your phone or 10 00:00:38.225 --> 00:00:40.025 whatever device you have. 11 00:00:40.025 --> 00:00:43.125 We here have crime and violence right here in St. 12 00:00:43.125 --> 00:00:45.025 Louis whether it's north St. 13 00:00:45.025 --> 00:00:52.025 Louis, South City, downtown, metro west across the river in the county. 14 00:00:54.025 --> 00:00:56.525 And rather than just hearing about it or reading about it 15 00:00:56.525 --> 00:01:00.525 some people actually live it every single day. 16 00:01:01.525 --> 00:01:02.425 It's not just here 17 00:01:02.425 --> 00:01:03.525 it's it's everywhere. 18 00:01:03.525 --> 00:01:04.425 It's in our nation. 19 00:01:04.425 --> 00:01:09.225 It's all across the world, violence and crime, oppression 20 00:01:09.625 --> 00:01:10.825 mistreatment. 21 00:01:13.325 --> 00:01:14.025 And covid 22 00:01:15.325 --> 00:01:20.025 it's still here as much as we'd like to ignore it or pretend that it's 23 00:01:20.025 --> 00:01:21.725 no longer a problem. 24 00:01:21.825 --> 00:01:27.825 Our own seminary community has experienced and as even lost one of our 25 00:01:27.825 --> 00:01:29.225 members recently. 26 00:01:30.825 --> 00:01:31.825 We haven't experienced it 27 00:01:31.825 --> 00:01:34.225 like many places in the nation. 28 00:01:35.925 --> 00:01:39.125 If you're familiar with the University of Michigan and the big house, 29 00:01:39.125 --> 00:01:42.925 there, fill it seven times 30 00:01:43.825 --> 00:01:47.425 and you've reached about the number of people who have died in our 31 00:01:47.425 --> 00:01:48.225 nation. 32 00:01:49.425 --> 00:01:54.525 Even though we're one of the richest and most advanced nations on 33 00:01:54.525 --> 00:01:55.025 Earth. 34 00:01:56.325 --> 00:02:01.525 We're probably never going to know the real cost in human lives across 35 00:02:01.525 --> 00:02:02.425 the globe. 36 00:02:04.225 --> 00:02:09.225 Rancor in politics and in general, seem to be at an all-time high at 37 00:02:09.225 --> 00:02:11.725 least in my lifetime of paying attention. 38 00:02:12.825 --> 00:02:16.425 The nation feels like it's at a point where it could just be rent 39 00:02:16.525 --> 00:02:21.325 apart and they're there seems to be no such thing as moderation or 40 00:02:21.325 --> 00:02:24.425 cooperation in just about anything. 41 00:02:26.225 --> 00:02:28.825 China is flexing her muscles. 42 00:02:29.325 --> 00:02:31.025 Making people write headlines 43 00:02:31.025 --> 00:02:34.925 wondering if we're headed toward the next cold war, or maybe even an 44 00:02:34.925 --> 00:02:41.425 actual physical war. And there's Afghanistan and the mess that we've 45 00:02:41.425 --> 00:02:43.625 left behind there. 46 00:02:46.425 --> 00:02:48.425 Immigration issues. 47 00:02:49.625 --> 00:02:55.125 Missionaries taken hostage, and held for ransom. Flags, on our own 48 00:02:55.125 --> 00:02:57.625 campus, flying at half-mast 49 00:02:58.025 --> 00:03:04.225 and we wonder why again today, doom and gloom all around us. 50 00:03:04.525 --> 00:03:05.725 It's so easy 51 00:03:05.725 --> 00:03:09.125 if we're paying attention to lose hope. 52 00:03:11.425 --> 00:03:15.525 And yet the Lord our God speaks words of Hope to us today through the 53 00:03:15.525 --> 00:03:16.025 Prophet 54 00:03:16.025 --> 00:03:17.025 Jeremiah. 55 00:03:18.225 --> 00:03:22.025 Now, if you've read Jeremiah, especially if you read, Jeremiah 56 00:03:22.025 --> 00:03:24.025 recently, you're probably wondering what? 57 00:03:24.125 --> 00:03:24.725 Jeremiah 58 00:03:24.725 --> 00:03:30.325 he's not the prophet of hope. Jeremiah traditionally understood to be 59 00:03:30.725 --> 00:03:33.925 the author of Lamentations. Jeremiah 60 00:03:33.925 --> 00:03:34.625 Mr. 61 00:03:34.625 --> 00:03:40.325 Doom and Gloom among the prophets 52 chapters with more words than 62 00:03:40.325 --> 00:03:41.225 Isaiah's. 63 00:03:41.225 --> 00:03:47.825 66. 52 chapters with so many words that are predominantly doom 64 00:03:48.025 --> 00:03:51.125 and gloom thus says the Lord. 65 00:03:54.125 --> 00:03:58.325 Last year, one of my colleagues was reading through Jeremiah as part 66 00:03:58.325 --> 00:04:01.325 of his devotional plan and four weeks 67 00:04:01.325 --> 00:04:03.725 he lamented each time 68 00:04:03.725 --> 00:04:05.525 I saw him, it seemed. 69 00:04:07.425 --> 00:04:12.625 He lamented at how miserable it was to read the word of the Lord 70 00:04:12.625 --> 00:04:13.725 through the Prophet 71 00:04:13.725 --> 00:04:19.325 Jeremiah. If he could have, I think he would have removed Jeremiah 72 00:04:19.525 --> 00:04:20.425 from the cannon. 73 00:04:22.625 --> 00:04:23.225 And it's true 74 00:04:23.225 --> 00:04:29.125 Jeremiah is full of doom and gloom because that's the word that the 75 00:04:29.125 --> 00:04:34.725 Lord gave to him to speak into the situation into which he was called 76 00:04:34.825 --> 00:04:36.525 as prophet. 77 00:04:38.125 --> 00:04:41.325 Jeremiah's call was not an easy one. 78 00:04:41.325 --> 00:04:44.625 He was called to be God's prophet in the days 79 00:04:44.725 --> 00:04:49.425 when the southern Kingdom when Judah was on its last leg. 80 00:04:50.325 --> 00:04:55.325 Israel, long gone into captivity, taken by the Assyrians, and now 81 00:04:55.325 --> 00:05:03.125 Jeremiah God's mouthpiece, but both in word and in deed is to proclaim 82 00:05:03.125 --> 00:05:06.025 doom and gloom to Judah. 83 00:05:07.425 --> 00:05:08.925 Because of her sins. 84 00:05:11.025 --> 00:05:16.625 If you're reading Jeremiah page after page, after page, we read the 85 00:05:16.625 --> 00:05:23.925 sins of Judah and her Kings and her people. Page after page 86 00:05:24.025 --> 00:05:28.425 we read about the coming destruction and the coming deportation 87 00:05:28.425 --> 00:05:29.625 that Babylon 88 00:05:30.025 --> 00:05:31.925 God's chosen 89 00:05:32.025 --> 00:05:38.125 instrument of judgment that Babylon has already begun and will carry 90 00:05:38.125 --> 00:05:40.625 out to its bitter end. 91 00:05:42.625 --> 00:05:47.625 Page after page, we listen to Jeremiah tell of the mistreatment that 92 00:05:47.625 --> 00:05:53.125 he as Prophet receives for faithfully bringing the word of God to 93 00:05:53.125 --> 00:05:54.225 God's people. 94 00:05:54.325 --> 00:05:57.425 While, false prophets are proclaiming, peace. 95 00:05:57.725 --> 00:05:58.525 Peace. 96 00:05:59.525 --> 00:06:00.325 Where there is no 97 00:06:00.325 --> 00:06:01.125 peace. 98 00:06:02.725 --> 00:06:06.725 Speaking words that their itching ears wanted to hear. 99 00:06:08.325 --> 00:06:10.925 Speaking to please, the people. 100 00:06:12.325 --> 00:06:17.125 Rather than words truly given by God so that they could stand before 101 00:06:17.125 --> 00:06:21.325 God's people and truly say, thus says the Lord. 102 00:06:25.425 --> 00:06:26.825 Thus says the Lord. 103 00:06:28.625 --> 00:06:32.225 If you read through Jeremiah, you're going to see that phrase over and 104 00:06:32.225 --> 00:06:35.325 over and over again more than any other prophet 105 00:06:35.325 --> 00:06:36.825 any other book of the Bible. 106 00:06:37.125 --> 00:06:41.425 Thus says the Lord here is what God has said to me 107 00:06:41.425 --> 00:06:46.125 and now, as his Prophet, I speak to you on his behalf. 108 00:06:46.125 --> 00:06:47.325 That's what he's saying. 109 00:06:47.425 --> 00:06:51.525 And time and time again, to the Prophet Jeremiah throughout the book, 110 00:06:51.725 --> 00:06:56.025 the word of God through this prophet is a word of doom 111 00:06:57.325 --> 00:06:58.225 and gloom. 112 00:07:01.525 --> 00:07:06.425 But thus says, the Lord is not only used as God speaks doom and gloom 113 00:07:06.425 --> 00:07:07.825 through his Prophet. 114 00:07:08.025 --> 00:07:10.325 Yes, the people have been rebellious. 115 00:07:10.525 --> 00:07:10.925 Yes, 116 00:07:10.925 --> 00:07:12.125 it is a sure thing 117 00:07:12.125 --> 00:07:18.225 they will go into Exile because of their sins just as Israel had years 118 00:07:18.225 --> 00:07:22.225 before and yet thus says the Lord. 119 00:07:24.625 --> 00:07:26.525 God has a message of comfort. 120 00:07:27.725 --> 00:07:31.625 The message of hope to be given through his mouthpiece, 121 00:07:31.625 --> 00:07:32.625 Jeremiah. 122 00:07:34.325 --> 00:07:35.925 Yes, it's sprinkled 123 00:07:36.025 --> 00:07:41.325 rather sparsely throughout this long prophetic book. 124 00:07:43.025 --> 00:07:46.625 But then all of the sudden, unexpected, it comes to us in this 125 00:07:46.625 --> 00:07:48.625 big large chunk. 126 00:07:48.625 --> 00:07:54.525 One, big and powerful dose of good news of wonderful goodness as we 127 00:07:54.525 --> 00:07:58.225 reach chapters, 30- 33, and so people have called it for years 128 00:07:58.225 --> 00:08:03.825 the book of consolation, the book of comfort, and our text today is 129 00:08:03.825 --> 00:08:06.025 just three short versus. One 130 00:08:06.025 --> 00:08:12.125 small sliver of one of the chapters of this larger glorious book. 131 00:08:13.225 --> 00:08:18.925 In these chapters amidst to doom and the gloom, the Lord speaks 132 00:08:18.925 --> 00:08:24.425 through his Prophet Jeremiah to give comfort and hope to his people. 133 00:08:26.225 --> 00:08:31.025 Comfort and hope to his people who some of whom have already gone into 134 00:08:31.025 --> 00:08:31.825 exile. 135 00:08:33.425 --> 00:08:39.525 Comfort and hope to his people who see Exile as the next step, if not 136 00:08:39.525 --> 00:08:41.025 death and destruction. 137 00:08:42.725 --> 00:08:48.825 Comfort and hope to a people who will take these words with them. 138 00:08:50.125 --> 00:08:55.125 As they go off into Exile and hopefully, hold onto them throughout 139 00:08:55.125 --> 00:08:56.525 that time away. 140 00:08:59.125 --> 00:09:03.725 This book of comfort beginning in Chapter 30 verse 3 says for behold 141 00:09:03.725 --> 00:09:05.625 days are coming declares the Lord 142 00:09:05.625 --> 00:09:09.225 when I will restore the fortunes of my people 143 00:09:10.225 --> 00:09:12.625 Israel and Judah. 144 00:09:13.925 --> 00:09:17.225 And I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers 145 00:09:17.225 --> 00:09:19.125 and they shall take possession of it. 146 00:09:21.725 --> 00:09:28.125 Imagine it's the kingdom crumbles around them. As they see themselves 147 00:09:28.125 --> 00:09:32.525 headed into Exile, the Lord calls them, his people. 148 00:09:34.625 --> 00:09:39.825 And both Israel and Judah are included in Israel's been gone for a 149 00:09:39.825 --> 00:09:42.625 long time, and he promises to bring them back. 150 00:09:42.625 --> 00:09:46.725 These are the words of comfort and hope and he continues in chapter 31 151 00:09:46.725 --> 00:09:48.925 at that time, declares the Lord. 152 00:09:48.925 --> 00:09:54.125 I will be the God of all the clans of Israel and they shall be my 153 00:09:54.125 --> 00:09:54.825 people. 154 00:09:56.025 --> 00:10:01.525 He takes them back to Exodus chapter 6 where he had promised long ago. 155 00:10:01.825 --> 00:10:06.025 I will be your God and you will be my people in the midst of this 156 00:10:06.025 --> 00:10:07.625 crumbling Kingdom. 157 00:10:08.925 --> 00:10:14.325 God takes them back to promises that he's made long long ago. 158 00:10:17.925 --> 00:10:21.825 Thus says the Lord, he continues in chapter 31. 159 00:10:23.725 --> 00:10:30.325 What follows are words of wonderful Grace and Mercy words of comfort 160 00:10:30.525 --> 00:10:34.425 and Hope. Gospel sentences that begin with the subject 161 00:10:34.425 --> 00:10:36.525 I and that I is Yahweh 162 00:10:36.525 --> 00:10:37.925 God himself. 163 00:10:37.925 --> 00:10:41.525 I have loved you with an everlasting love. 164 00:10:41.525 --> 00:10:42.225 Therefore, 165 00:10:42.225 --> 00:10:45.625 I will continue my faithfulness to you. 166 00:10:46.925 --> 00:10:49.425 I will again, build you up. 167 00:10:50.825 --> 00:10:55.025 In the sentences that follow the subject switches to you, but it's not 168 00:10:55.025 --> 00:10:56.525 a demand or a command. 169 00:10:56.525 --> 00:11:00.825 Here's what you will do because of what I have done, you will sing and 170 00:11:00.825 --> 00:11:01.925 you will dance. 171 00:11:02.325 --> 00:11:05.625 You will plant vineyards and get to eat their fruit. 172 00:11:05.625 --> 00:11:09.225 You will exhort one another to go up to Zion, 173 00:11:10.825 --> 00:11:12.325 the mountain of the Lord. 174 00:11:13.725 --> 00:11:16.725 And that's where our text for today comes in. 175 00:11:18.125 --> 00:11:23.725 Thus says the Lord actually, it's a, it's a for thus, says the Lord, 176 00:11:23.725 --> 00:11:24.825 the our text today. 177 00:11:24.825 --> 00:11:29.225 Really gives the reason for the grounds the basis for what we 178 00:11:29.225 --> 00:11:33.425 just spoke about and what follows is more 179 00:11:33.525 --> 00:11:36.125 Good news about what God will do. 180 00:11:36.225 --> 00:11:40.625 He will bring the remnant of Israel from wherever they have been 181 00:11:40.625 --> 00:11:41.425 exiled. 182 00:11:42.825 --> 00:11:45.625 And they will be a great assembly. 183 00:11:46.525 --> 00:11:51.025 A great people that he himself will gather and it won't be just the 184 00:11:51.025 --> 00:11:52.025 strong. 185 00:11:53.525 --> 00:11:59.525 No, it'll be the weakest members and the strong together and he 186 00:11:59.525 --> 00:12:05.625 himself will lead them back on well-watered straighten up right paths 187 00:12:06.425 --> 00:12:08.725 and again reminiscent of The Exodus. 188 00:12:09.925 --> 00:12:13.325 Lord reiterates that he is their Father. 189 00:12:14.825 --> 00:12:15.525 And Ephraim 190 00:12:15.525 --> 00:12:18.225 Israel is his first born. 191 00:12:19.925 --> 00:12:24.325 Now, our text ends there, but chapter 31, just keeps rolling with 192 00:12:24.325 --> 00:12:27.225 grace and mercy, you should read it later today. 193 00:12:27.625 --> 00:12:29.625 Amidst their doom and gloom. 194 00:12:29.625 --> 00:12:33.925 Amidst, this Babylonian threat. Amidst, the impending Exile. 195 00:12:34.025 --> 00:12:38.125 The Lord speaks through his prophet of doom and gloom, but this time, 196 00:12:38.125 --> 00:12:41.625 he speaks words of hope and comfort. 197 00:12:43.325 --> 00:12:47.825 The Lord, their God will bring them back both Israel and Judah and 198 00:12:47.825 --> 00:12:49.025 will restore him. 199 00:12:51.125 --> 00:12:54.125 And if you know your scriptures 200 00:12:55.425 --> 00:12:57.625 you know, that he carries through on his plan. 201 00:13:00.225 --> 00:13:01.325 Well, kind of 202 00:13:02.725 --> 00:13:04.225 or so, it seems to us. 203 00:13:04.225 --> 00:13:08.125 And and so it must have seemed to them. 204 00:13:08.225 --> 00:13:10.025 No kind of. 205 00:13:12.125 --> 00:13:15.025 He said, in Isaiah 44 & 5, that he would raise up, Cyrus. 206 00:13:15.025 --> 00:13:19.225 And he did, and Cyrus, and the Persians release them and let them go. 207 00:13:20.125 --> 00:13:22.725 They got to come back to the land. 208 00:13:24.825 --> 00:13:28.225 But when you read about what it was like, in the land. 209 00:13:29.525 --> 00:13:34.025 This is not the glorious hype that we find in the book of comfort, 210 00:13:34.025 --> 00:13:40.925 Jeremiah 32, 33 no that that province, Persian province of Yahūdī 211 00:13:42.025 --> 00:13:43.925 it's a pretty dismal place. 212 00:13:45.325 --> 00:13:47.625 The temple when they finally finished it. 213 00:13:49.125 --> 00:13:50.725 Nothing special to look at. 214 00:13:51.825 --> 00:13:53.625 The walls that Nehemiah made 215 00:13:53.625 --> 00:13:54.525 sure got built. 216 00:13:54.525 --> 00:13:58.125 Well, they encircled a pretty small city. 217 00:13:59.625 --> 00:14:01.025 There's no davidic King. 218 00:14:02.525 --> 00:14:04.125 They're not really their own people. 219 00:14:05.725 --> 00:14:09.525 They confess in the long prayer of Nehemiah 9, that they're actually 220 00:14:09.525 --> 00:14:13.825 slaves in the land that Yahweh had once given to them but no longer 221 00:14:13.825 --> 00:14:15.025 belongs to them. 222 00:14:19.525 --> 00:14:20.625 There must be more. 223 00:14:22.625 --> 00:14:24.225 That must be what they were thinking. 224 00:14:24.225 --> 00:14:30.025 There must be more. This promise was to Israel and Judah, only Judah 225 00:14:30.025 --> 00:14:30.925 returned. 226 00:14:32.725 --> 00:14:35.525 And only a small portion of those who had been taken. 227 00:14:35.825 --> 00:14:37.825 Israel didn't come back at all. 228 00:14:38.925 --> 00:14:43.425 This couldn't possibly be the glorious thing that God had spoken of 229 00:14:43.425 --> 00:14:44.525 through the Prophet 230 00:14:44.525 --> 00:14:49.125 Jeremiah. There must be more. 231 00:14:51.725 --> 00:14:52.825 And they were right. 232 00:14:54.325 --> 00:14:57.725 There must be more and his name is Jesus. 233 00:14:59.225 --> 00:15:04.225 Jesus about whom we often speak referring to him as Israel reduced to 234 00:15:04.225 --> 00:15:05.125 one or Israel 235 00:15:05.125 --> 00:15:06.925 condensed to one. 236 00:15:08.725 --> 00:15:11.125 For thus, says the Lord. 237 00:15:13.225 --> 00:15:17.125 All of this, all of this thus says the Lord promise and hope of 238 00:15:17.125 --> 00:15:20.525 Jeremiah 31, seems like it must have been a lie. 239 00:15:21.525 --> 00:15:23.925 A false hope until 240 00:15:25.125 --> 00:15:29.625 until one puts ones Jesus glasses on. 241 00:15:31.525 --> 00:15:34.125 And sees and reads the word of God 242 00:15:34.125 --> 00:15:41.625 the way Jesus teaches us to see and read the word of God. Because of 243 00:15:41.625 --> 00:15:42.125 their sin 244 00:15:42.125 --> 00:15:46.825 and rebellion Israel was sent into Exile, never to return and yet 245 00:15:46.825 --> 00:15:51.225 Jesus, Israel reduced to 1. 246 00:15:53.025 --> 00:15:57.825 On account of sins that he himself had never committed, but which he 247 00:15:57.825 --> 00:15:59.625 took upon himself. 248 00:16:00.925 --> 00:16:05.625 This Jesus, Israel reduced to one was exiled 249 00:16:06.825 --> 00:16:07.925 to a cross 250 00:16:09.325 --> 00:16:10.325 and to a tomb. 251 00:16:12.125 --> 00:16:16.925 Away from the love and the mercy and the presence of his Father. 252 00:16:18.825 --> 00:16:23.725 But from that tomb, this father called him forth and raised him up and 253 00:16:23.725 --> 00:16:27.925 brought him back and restored him. 254 00:16:28.525 --> 00:16:37.825 This Israel reduced to one. This Jesus who is God's true firstborn son 255 00:16:38.025 --> 00:16:42.825 raised and now living and reigning with his Father. And you and I we 256 00:16:42.825 --> 00:16:48.225 look to the day when he will come and he will gather his remnant from 257 00:16:48.425 --> 00:16:54.725 farthest parts of the earth that remnant that includes you and me. 258 00:16:56.725 --> 00:16:57.525 His people. 259 00:16:58.825 --> 00:17:05.125 His Israel. His new Israel into an everlasting Kingdom and then we can 260 00:17:05.125 --> 00:17:09.625 speak in terms of our texts again with much singing and shouts of joy 261 00:17:09.625 --> 00:17:14.725 with tambourines and dancing, a great assembly which will include both 262 00:17:14.725 --> 00:17:21.725 the weak and the strong all by God's incredible Mercy in Christ. 263 00:17:24.425 --> 00:17:27.825 Through Jeremiah, the prophet of doom and gloom 264 00:17:27.825 --> 00:17:32.125 the lord gave to his people of old, a message, not of doom and gloom, 265 00:17:32.125 --> 00:17:37.225 but of hope and restoration. A message to cling to in the midst of 266 00:17:37.225 --> 00:17:39.925 their doom and the gloom and their exile. 267 00:17:42.225 --> 00:17:44.325 And this is now a message of hope for you. 268 00:17:45.625 --> 00:17:50.925 For me, in the midst of our doom and our gloom, the Lord continues to 269 00:17:50.925 --> 00:17:54.625 speak this message of hope and restoration. 270 00:17:54.725 --> 00:17:57.925 And in ways that the original hearers probably could never have 271 00:17:57.925 --> 00:17:58.825 imagined. 272 00:18:01.125 --> 00:18:05.225 In the midst of our doom and gloom, we know that the Lord has restored 273 00:18:05.225 --> 00:18:10.825 his Israel and that we this new Israel, await the final and ultimate 274 00:18:10.825 --> 00:18:11.925 restoration. 275 00:18:14.525 --> 00:18:15.525 And in the meantime. 276 00:18:18.925 --> 00:18:24.325 In the meantime, we continue living in the doom and the gloom. 277 00:18:26.425 --> 00:18:29.225 But our Lord has not left us to ourselves. 278 00:18:31.625 --> 00:18:34.225 He provides for us along a safe way. 279 00:18:36.225 --> 00:18:39.625 When you continue reading, Jeremiah 31 later today, you're going to 280 00:18:39.625 --> 00:18:42.725 run into the New Covenant. 281 00:18:44.025 --> 00:18:46.925 A New Covenant, which has come in Christ. 282 00:18:47.325 --> 00:18:50.725 And now today as you approach his alter a New Covenant that will be 283 00:18:50.725 --> 00:18:51.525 given to you 284 00:18:51.525 --> 00:18:56.525 as you eat his body and drink his covenantal blood. 285 00:18:58.625 --> 00:19:01.825 The doom of our everyday world 286 00:19:01.825 --> 00:19:03.725 there is hope. 287 00:19:06.225 --> 00:19:07.625 Hope in Jesus. 288 00:19:10.325 --> 00:19:12.225 He has not made all things new yet 289 00:19:12.225 --> 00:19:15.325 but restoration is on its way. 290 00:19:17.525 --> 00:19:18.325 Today 291 00:19:19.625 --> 00:19:25.425 the Lord is using Jeremiah the prophet of doom and gloom to bring 292 00:19:25.425 --> 00:19:25.925 that 293 00:19:25.925 --> 00:19:27.425 hope to you. 294 00:19:29.925 --> 00:19:30.725 Rest in that 295 00:19:30.725 --> 00:19:32.525 hope. Cling to that 296 00:19:32.525 --> 00:19:35.225 hope. Live in that hope. 297 00:19:36.925 --> 00:19:38.125 And share that hope. 298 00:19:39.925 --> 00:19:41.225 In the name of Jesus. 299 00:19:42.325 --> 00:19:42.825 Amen.