The Good That I Have Promised
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11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
42 “For thus says the Lord: ‘Just as I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.
Have you ever felt out of place in this world?
Have you ever felt out of place in this world?
The World Says
++It’s all good
++Don’t sweat the small stuff
++Don’t worry…Be Happy
To many people this is not as easy as it seems.
To many people this is not as easy as it seems.
There are legitimate concerns
++Magnification of Inequity an injustice
++Information Security
++Rising authoritarianism
++Rampant Misinformation
++Mental health challenges
Experts in a Pew research study shared that the pandemic and quick pivot to the use of
Experts in a Pew research study shared that the pandemic and quick pivot to the use of
Digitally driven systems to expand the ranks of
++The unemployed
++The uninsured
++The disenfranchised
The Promise of America
The Promise of America
Our text is anchored in a promise
++Not the promise of a man
++Not the promise of a nation
++In How God sees His people
++His promised redemption
God’s Covenant People - Israel
++Are under siege
++Their young men are loosing the fight
++The temple is destroyed
++The people are being displaced
Jeremiah Prophesies
++The City will be destroyed
++The people will be captured
++There peace would be connected to the where they are
5 Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.
6 Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters—that you may be increased there, and not diminished.
7 And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace.
God has not forgotten them
God has not forgotten them
Even in Captivity
++He will give them peace
++He will remember them
++He will remember the promise
They are not in this place by accident
They are not in this place by accident
19 because they have not heeded My words, says the Lord, which I sent to them by My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; neither would you heed, says the Lord.
30 because the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only evil before Me from their youth. For the children of Israel have provoked Me only to anger with the work of their hands,’ says the Lord.
Sin Will Do You In
Sin Will Do You In
They
++Did not listen to the Lord
++Did evil before the Lord
++Provoked God to Anger
20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,
There is still hope
There is still hope
10 For thus says the Lord: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.
A time is coming that I will
++Visit You
++Perform my good word toward you
++Cause you to return to this place
Have you ever tried to go home?
Have you ever tried to go home?
We go back looking
++For our old school
++For old friends
++For a connection
There is a nostalgia about what was
There is a nostalgia about what was
The place God was bringing them
++Was not just a location
++Was not to be where they were
++Was back to the covenant
33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
I will
++Put my law in their minds
++Write in on their hearts
++Be their God
++Forgive their iniquity
++Will not remember their sin
They will
++Be the God’s people
++Will know the Lord
3 The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.
The Love of the Lord
++Is everlasting
++Is loving and kind
The Lord will not leave you broken
4 Again I will build you, and you shall be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! You shall again be adorned with your tambourines, And shall go forth in the dances of those who rejoice.
The Lord will
++Build you again
++Make you a praise again
++Cause you to rejoice again
Restoration has finally come.
Restoration has finally come.
I have
++Been redeemed
++Been restored to a better place
5 For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.
11 For I am with you,’ says the Lord, ‘to save you; Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, Yet I will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in justice, And will not let you go altogether unpunished.’
You have seen
++The judgment of God
++The justice of God
++His punishment for sin
42 “For thus says the Lord: ‘Just as I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.
The Lord brought
++This great calamity
++This on this people
I will bring
++All the good
++The benefit of the promise
Jesus Christ Is the Promise
Jesus Christ Is the Promise
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
4 who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,
Surely I will
Surely I will
28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
