We're going through Jeremiah, book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse.

Jeremiah is a book. We're going through the Bible, book by book, chapter by. We're off to a great start.

Tell what kind of week I'm having. Oh, well. Chapter 13 tonight. So just one chapter again.

So much here. Don't want to rush through it. So let's just

get to it. Why don't we pray? We'll ask God to bless our time together if you would join

with me. Father in heaven, thank you so much. Lord, we humble ourselves before you tonight, and we commit ourselves to you tonight,

Lord. Lord, you need to settle our hearts and help us by the Holy Spirit. That's why we're here, Lord, we're hungry

and we're thirsty for you, and only you can satiate that hunger and that thirst that we have.

Lord, we need and are so thankful for your word and for what we have before us

here in your word tonight. But we desperately need the Holy Spirit to be our teacher and be our

guide, especially with this chapter that we have open before us, Lord.

Lord, thank you for Jeremiah.

Thank you for this book.

Thank you for this chapter.

Lord, we thank you in advance for what you're going to do in our time together

in your word tonight we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. And amen. All right. So, this is actually

one of the reasons why I didn't want to take two chapters tonight and rush through chapter

13 because the chapter that we have before is tonight. It's very powerful, actually. It's kind

of graphic in some places, as we'll see. But Jeremiah is told to do something analogous, for lack

of a better word, concerning God's people,

rejecting Him in their pride, namely that of humbly clinging to the Lord, instead of refusing to hear the word of the Lord because of their pride

before the Lord. I know you know nothing of this. This is a theoretical Bible study for us tonight.

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