WEEK 04 — INVEST –
“Buy the field.” — Jeremiah 32 + Jeremiah 31
Teaching Text: Jeremiah 31:33“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
At the end of my life, despite celebration or persecution, I served the Lord for His glory and not my own.
Jeremiah 31:23-25,”23 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “When I bring them back from captivity,[c] the people in the land of Judah and in its towns will once again use these words: ‘The Lord bless you, you prosperous city, you sacred mountain.’ 24 People will live together in Judah and all its towns—farmers and those who move about with their flocks. 25 I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.”
Jeremiah 31:26,”26 At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been pleasant to me.”
- Joy isn’t based in circumstance but in God’s promise.
Jeremiah 31:33“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
- God promises His spirit within all believers.
Jeremiah 32:8-10,”8 “Then, just as the Lord had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and said, ‘Buy my field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. Since it is your right to redeem it and possess it, buy it for yourself.’ “I knew that this was the word of the Lord; 9 so I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel and weighed out for him seventeen shekels of silver. 10 I signed and sealed the deed, had it witnessed, and weighed out the silver on the scales.”
- Faith in God is not belief alone but will always be partnered with action.
Jeremiah 32:42-44 “This is what the Lord says: As I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised them. 43 Once more fields will be bought in this land of which you say, ‘It is a desolate waste, without people or animals, for it has been given into the hands of the Babylonians.’ 44 Fields will be bought for silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed and witnessed in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, because I will restore their fortunes,[c] declares the Lord.”
“Do not be ones who speak with their mouth but also enact belief with your body.”
- Hope is not a word we say but a promise from God we invest our life in.
“Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One Who is leading.”
— Oswald Chambers
- Jeremiahs faith wasnt determined by current circumstances but instead of future promise. Where is your faith?
The promise of God is not a life of ease but a life joined with the God of love for a future filled with hope.
We are not people of circumstance we are people of faith in the One who reigns above it all.
- Stir up your faith with action.
James 1:2-25,”22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.”
- Action is partnered with redemption.
Romans 8:28-30,”28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[i] have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.”
““The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.”
- Oswald Chambers.
- Redemption is for now and forever.
We should be living like the resurrection life Jesus gave us is actually true.