Jeremiah // Pastor Gene Pensiero

God illustrates His everlasting love by showing how He continually draws you to Himself (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Despite the impending and inevitable destruction of Jerusalem Jeremiah shows the Jews it wasn’t all doom and gloom by giving them a glimpse of their future prosperity in the land (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The Lord encourages His chosen people to set their minds on seeking Him during their seventy year captivity in Babylon (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

When Hananiah breaks Jeremiah’s wooden yoke he replaces it with one made of iron (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah tells Judah and the surrounding Gentile nations that The Lord will preserve and bless them if they wear the yoke of submission to Babylon (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah is told to stand in the Temple and deliver God’s Word (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah pours-out wine to represent the coming pouring-out of the wrath of God against sin (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah is shown two baskets of figs, one ripe, one rotten, that illustrate the people of Judah (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

God tells Jeremiah that the prophets and the priests are profane men who have have profaned His house, the Temple of the Lord (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

God promises Judah that in the future He will regather them as a Shepherd leads sheep to their pasture (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah comments on the awful administrations of the last four kings to rule Judah before the Babylonian captivity (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah is consulted as the Babylonian armies begin their final siege of Jerusalem (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah tried to quit delivering God’s prophecies only to find that God’s word was a fire in his bones (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah is told to take a jar from the potter’s house and break it in the presence of the elders and the priests of Judah as a sign of the destruction prophesied against the nation (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah is so overwhelmed by the news his life is in danger that he starts praying against the people of Judah (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

God likens His relationship with the nation of Israel to that of a potter working with hardened clay (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The Jews are exhorted by Jeremiah to quit saying “No” to God with regards to His command that they keep the Sabbath (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

God tells Jeremiah we all have a deceitful heart and that we therefore tend to con ourselves into departing from the Lord (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

God spells-out the righteous lifestyle He had chosen for His prophet (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Like many prophets before and after him, Jeremiah complains to God that he was being persecuted as a bearer of bad news (Pastor Gene Pensiero)