The Call Of Jeremiah. Jeremiah 1:1-19
The Prophet of Judah’s Downfall and Restoration
I.DENUNCIATION OF JUDAH, Jeremiah 1-33
- The Prophet’s Call and Commission, Jer_1:1-19
1. What commission was entrusted to Jeremiah? How was he encouraged to fulfill it?
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, [one] of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
to whom the word of the LORD came during the thirteenth year (627 B.C.) of the reign of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
It came [to Jeremiah] also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, [continuing] until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, [and continuing] until the exile of [the people of] Jerusalem in the fifth month (July-August, 586 B.C.). [2Ki_25:8-11]
THE CALL OF JEREMIAH
Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you [and approved of you as My chosen instrument], And before you were born I consecrated you [to Myself as My own]; I have appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” [Exo_33:12; Isa_49:1, Isa_49:5; Rom_8:29]
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, For I am [only] a young man.” [Exo_4:10; Exo_6:12, Exo_6:30; 1Ki_3:7]
But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am [only] a young man,’ Because everywhere I send you, you shall go, And whatever I command you, you shall speak.
“Do not be afraid of them [or their hostile faces], For I am with you [always] to protect you and deliver you,” says the LORD.
Then the LORD stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me, “Behold (hear Me), I have put My words in your mouth.
“See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, To uproot and break down, To destroy and to overthrow, To build and to plant.”
The word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see the branch of an almond tree.”
Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am [actively] watching over My word to fulfill it.”
The word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, tilting away from the north [its mouth about to pour out on the south, on Judea].”
Then the LORD said to me, “Out of the north the evil [which the prophets foretold as the result of national sin] will reveal itself and spill out on all the people of the land.
“For, behold, I will call all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north,” says the LORD; “and they will come and each one will set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its surrounding walls, and against all the cities of Judah [as My judicial act, the consequence of Judah’s deliberate disobedience].
“I will speak My judgments against them for all the wickedness of those who have abandoned (rejected) Me, offered sacrifices or burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the [idolatrous] works of their own hands.
“But you [Jeremiah], gird up your loins [in preparation]! Get up and tell them all which I command you. Do not be distraught and break down at the sight of their [hostile] faces, or I will bewilder you before them and allow you to be overcome.
“Now behold, I have made you today like a fortified city and like an iron pillar and like bronze walls against the whole land–against the [successive] kings of Judah, against its leaders, against its priests, and against the people of the land [giving you divine strength which no hostile power can overcome]. [Isa_50:7; Isa_54:17; Jer_6:27; Jer_15:20; Luk_21:15; Act_6:10]
“They will fight against you, but they will not [ultimately] prevail over you, for I am with you [always] to protect you and deliver you,” says the LORD.
1. What commission was entrusted to Jeremiah? How was he encouraged to fulfill it?
COURAGE PROMISED TO A FEARFUL MESSENGER
God has a distinct purpose for each life, and our one aim should be to discover and work out His plan. See Psa_139:16; Gal_1:15. The sanctification here referred to applies to office rather than to character, and means set apart. See Joh_17:19. Jeremiah was very young, and shrank from the responsibility of the great mission entrusted to him. Thus it has been with the noblest, Exo_4:10. But that is godly fear indeed which casts us back on God. He never gives a commission without assuming the responsibility of its execution in, and with, or through, us. Powers of utterance are specially His gift, Isa_6:7; Act_6:10; 1Co_1:5. The almond tree in Hebrew is the wakeful tree. It awakes from the winter sleep earlier than others, flowering in January and fruiting in March. It indicated the swiftness of God’s movement. The boiling pot is the symbol of war. The promises of Jer_1:18-19 are very precious to all who are called to stand in the breach and charge men with their sins.
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