Tonight, Jeremiah chapters 20 and 21, two chapters.

I know I say this all the time, but whatever.

I'm just really looking forward to what the Lord has for us tonight.

Two very interesting chapters as we're going to see.

So why don't we pray and we'll ask

god to bless our time together in his word if you would join with me father in heaven thank you

so much lord we are so grateful to you so thankful lord we're so thankful to you for this time that we have together on

a Thursday night and to be able to have those all over the world literally joining us

online as well. And Lord, literally, joining us online as well.

And Lord, this represents for us that night where we can just put aside all the stress and all

the cares and the affairs of our busy lives, and come to this beautiful place and just

open up our Bibles and open up our hearts and open up our eyes and open up our ears

and just receive from you.

So Lord, we're just going to posture ourselves before you tonight as a needy

people who are hungry and thirsty for you, knowing that only you can satiate that hunger

and that thirst that we have. So, Lord, fill us afresh, we pray.

Baptize us anew. Pour out your Holy Spirit upon us. Minister to us, Lord. Especially those

who are hurting and discouraged and weary. Lord, strengthen and encourage. Lord, we ask you for this in Jesus' name.

Amen and amen. All right. So, again, these two chapters are very interesting, and this for a number of reasons, not the least of which, is Jeremiah's

raw emotions. And namely that of not thinking he would survive, the torment and the torture all because of the call that God had on his life

to speak this unpopular truth. That's actually an understatement. And he couldn't get out of it because

this was God's call on his life. Now, as we're about to see, he's going to have a couple

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