June 15, 2025: Contract and Covenant — Worth the Risk
Jeremiah 32: 6-15

Rev. Dr. LaTaunya Bynum, preaching

Retired Disciples pastor Douglas Skinner says about this text:

"Jeremiah is known as"the weeping prophet." "Oh, that my eyes were a fountain of tears; I would weep forever," he said, "I would sob day and night for... my people!" (9:1) Jeremiah's prophetic ministry was one of doom and gloom. He was God's prophet in the days of the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple, and the beginning of the long years of exile for the people of God. These were as dark and as difficult as any days God's first covenant people ever faced, and Jeremiah was their divine narrator. It was his job to tell God's people what was happening, and what it all meant. It wasn't an easy assignment that God gave Jeremiah.

“And then, out of nowhere, in chapter 32 in the book of his prophecies, God told Jeremiah to do a strange thing. God told Jeremiah to invest in some real estate, to buy a field from his cousin in a place called Anathoth, a wide spot in the road just about 3 miles north of Jerusalem. Jeremiah bought this field when the armies of Babylon were at Jerusalem's gates. Jeremiah bought the field in Anathoth knowing full well that he would probably never live on it, or ever get to work it, or even actually see it! God told Jeremiah to buy this field in Anathoth as a tangible way of showing God's beleaguered people that as difficult as things had become for them, God was not finished with them yet."

Music this week:

• There’s a Light

• Here I Am to Worship

• I Could Sing of Your Love, Forever

• Show Me Your Ways

• Home

• Bread for the Journey