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🗓️ 12 August 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.2 | Today God sends Jeremiah on a little field trip. |
0:16.5 | He has him stop in where a potter is making jars. |
0:19.5 | As the potter is shaping one of them, things get a little wonky with it, and he reshapes |
0:23.4 | it into something new. |
0:25.0 | Same lump of clay, different outcome. |
0:27.8 | Then God tells Jeremiah, |
0:29.2 | Here's the message I want you to take away from this. |
0:31.7 | I'm the potter, the people are clay. |
0:34.0 | I can do whatever I want with them. |
0:37.2 | Let Jerusalem know that because of their evil, my plan for them involves disaster. |
0:42.3 | Then call them to repent. |
0:44.5 | But just to remind her before you do all this, they're not going to repent. |
0:48.1 | They're going to keep doing whatever they want, making their own plans and following |
0:51.3 | their own hearts. |
0:52.3 | They've forgotten me. |
0:54.8 | I can almost hear the heartache in God's voice when he says the last part. |
0:58.7 | My people have forgotten me. |
1:01.2 | What's also interesting about this metaphor is how obviously engaged the potter is with the clay. |
1:07.0 | This isn't a computerized assembly line. |
1:09.3 | This is hands-on creative work. |
1:11.9 | It's fitting because according to Genesis 2.7, God formed man out of the dust of the earth |
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