Jeremiah 45

September 3, 2022

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Jeremiah 45 (NIV)

A Message to Baruch
1 When Baruch son of Neriah wrote on a scroll the words Jeremiah the prophet dictated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, Jeremiah said this to Baruch: 2“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch: 3 You said, ‘Woe to me! The Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am worn out with groaning and find no rest.’ 4 But the Lord has told me to say to you, ‘This is what the Lord says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the earth..........Continue Reading

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  1. “This is what the Lord says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the earth.”
    What the Lord gives He can also take away.

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  4. In spite of what God does to those who are not faithful, He can always protect and preserve those who are faithful. What a great promise for Baruch to hear! How great that God affirms that to him!

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  6. God tells Baruch in his grief that He will preserve his life. I can only imagine, as Baruch writes all this, how it makes him feel to know what the people have done and how they will suffer the consequences. He is grieved because, unlike the Israelites, he believes what Jeremiah is telling him. He believes God.

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