Speaker: Martin Shadwick

Series: Jeremiah (Wintercon 23)

Talk Number: 1/6

Passage: Jeremiah 1

Talk Outline:

1. Why read Jeremiah?

2. The words of Jeremiah & the word of the LORD (1:1—3)

a) one of the priests at Anathoth

b) Josiah, Jehoiakim, Zedekiah: 626-586 BC

c) dramatic arrangement (not chronological)

d) one terrible event hovers over the whole (ch. 25, 39, 52)

1. A prophet to the nations (1:4—10)

a) appointed (v4—5)

b) an objection (v6)

c) commanded (v7)

d) reassured (v8)

e) equipped (v9)

f) nations and kingdoms (v10a)

g) uproot and tear down, destroy and overthrow, build and plant (v10b)

1. Jeremiah’s first messages

a) almond tree (1:11—12)

b) boiling pot (1:13—16)

c) fortified city, iron pillar, bronze wall (1:17—19)

1. Unbreakable message, unbreakable messenger