Strangers in a Strange Land: Jeremiah 29.1-14
[NB: On the Sunday evening after the 2012 election,I preached this sermon. I am posting the audio link HERE . for you to listen to while reviewing these notes.I hope you find this encouraging, helpful, and re-orienting] -------- Something that we as Christians need to remember is that we are dual-citizens, & that creates for us a weirdness that we want resolved. But to resolve this weirdness by going too far in either direction places us in a perilous situation. The reality is voiced in the words of Moses Exodus 2.22, “I have been a stranger in a strange land.” This idea of being aliens, outlanders, foreigners became a motif in Scripture for God’s Church, in both the Old Testament & the New. Let us look at the direction God gives to His strangers in a strange land. Strangers—V.1. Background-Chapter 24 (5-7). They are strangers [exiles] for their own good. A Strange Land—V.4-14. ….how should they respond? 1. V.5-6: Build, develop, be fruitful & multiply...