Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 42-44
SERMON NOTES
LESSONS FROM HISTORY?
Jeremiah 42-44
– this takes place after Jerusalem was destroyed in 587 B.C. George Santaya: ‘Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it’; G. W. F. Hegel: ‘The only thing that history teaches is that men have never learned anything from history, never acted on principles derived from it.’
1. Faith must be courageous and obedient.
– 42:1-6 sounds promising, but it is not.
– they were told to stay in Jerusalem and not go to Egypt (42:11, 15-16, 19-22); but when God spoke, they showed that they already had made their minds up (43:1-7).
– 1 Sam. 15:23; 2 Cor.2:17
2. The sovereign God judges all.
– 42:10; see 43:8-13; 44:12-14, 29-30
– Nebuchadnezzar was God’s unwitting servant (43:10); see Matt.23:37
3. The unregenerate misread reality.
– 44:15-19 versus 44:21-23
– Rom.1:18; John 3:36