Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.

Today we are on a journey through Scripture.

We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.

Have you ever been given a job that seemed absolutely impossible? Well, the man we're about to meet

today was given such a task. As a matter of fact, his name means Jehovah Appoints. And literally,

this man was appointed to one of the hardest, most challenging missions I've ever heard in my life.

He's known to us now as the weeping prophet. Some people have referred to him as the prophet of the broken heart. He was a lonely

man. As a matter of fact, he's the only man in the Bible who was specifically told not to marry.

He saw no lasting reform. He did not see huge crowds of people responding to his

message of repentance. And yet, this man had a very special call of God on his life. He did exactly

what God told him to do. By now, of course, you know, we're talking about the prophet Jeremiah.

And on our journey through the scriptures, we've come now to the book

that bears his name. He writes about a hundred years after the prophet Isaiah. The period that he

ministered in was known as Judah's midnight hour. Literally, it was the dark moment. Judah was caught

between Egypt on one hand and Assyria on the other. But her problem wasn't

military, her problem wasn't political, her great problem was spiritual. It sounds a lot like our

own nation, doesn't it? The great need of our land is not political, it's not economic, it's not

military. The greatest need, the deepest need, is always the spiritual need.

And the darkest hour is the hour when any nation turns away from the truth that God has given.

Now the book of Jeremiah is a book of warning.

It was written to warn God's people.

As a matter of fact, Jeremiah is going to be given a message not only for the chosen people,

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