The living embodiment and locale of God's word that is protected and watched over, but has to go through

death and suffering so that God shows that he watches over his word to vindicate it and raise it up.

Yeah.

That God, there's an almond branch over the grave.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's right.

That's what we're saying is that there's an almond branch over the grave, that even when it seems like the word of God dies, there's an almond branch over the grave.

He will raise it up again. Welcome to the Spoken Gospel podcast. Spoken Gospel is a ministry that's dedicated to speaking the gospel out of every corner of Scripture.

In Luke 24, Jesus told his disciples that every part of the Bible is about him.

In each episode, hosts David and Seth work through a passage of scripture to see how it's all about Jesus and his good news. Let's jump in. Well, welcome, everyone to the spoken gospel podcast. Thank you so much for joining us. We are

continuing our look at the book of Jeremiah. Last episode, we introduced the book. We looked at what

is prophetic literature, what is the message and the ministry of a prophet

in Israel, and what was Jeremiah's message.

And basically what we looked at was the message of an inevitable and impending exile at the

hands of the Babylonians that Israel could do nothing to thwart and therefore

they had to throw themselves upon the grace of God to trust him that one day he would bring

them back into the land resurrected. Yeah. There we go, Seth. Great job, man. Did I do it?

Perfect. Today, what we want to do is just look at Jeremiah chapter one. Okay.

Jeremiah chapter one functions as a prologue for the whole book.

It sets up a lot of the main themes.

Several of like repeated ideas and themes happen throughout here and gives us some new ways to think about Jeremiah,

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