Brixham Community Church Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgjzt9sU_II Today we are looking at Jeremiah 32 where Jeremiah is imprisoned in a city that is already being besieged.   You could say that he is doubly in isolation.   It’s 586BC The Babylonian army is surrounding Jerusalem Jeremiah is in prison for prophesying that because of their sins the Lord will hand Jerusalem over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon One day, God tells Jeremiah that his cousin will come and ask him to buy his field at Anathoth.   And, sure enough, his cousin comes and Jeremiah buys the field. He pays 17 shekels of silver, signs and seals the deed, has it witnessed and weighs out the silver on the scales He tells Baruch, his scribe: Take both the sealed and and unsealed copies of the deed of purchase and put them in a clay jar so that they will last a long time because the Lord almighty says that houses fields and vineyards will again be bought in the land   Then he prays: 17 "Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your gre