What do we do when we experience opposition when we are obeying God? In today’s episode, Emma Dotter and Watermark member, Andrew Templeton, discuss Jeremiah 38 and God’s faithfulness even in persecution. Andrew reminds us that faithfulness to the call of God is more important than successfulness.
Additional Scripture:
Jeremiah
2:13 – “for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.”
Lamentations 3:53-55 – “they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me; water closed over my head; I said, ‘I am lost.’ “I called on your name, O Lord, from the depths of the pit.”
Jeremiah
1:18 – “And I, behold, I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.”
Matthew
5:12 – “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
Matthew 28:19-20 – “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
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