The Greater Jeremiah

Jeremiah chapter one. We're just singing that song about Christ being greater than Moses. I believe it's Hebrews that says that a greater one than Moses has come. Well, I heard him passing a preacher this week, preaching about something and he was talking about how Christ is exemplified or typified by all the prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah. And so I got to thinking about that, and especially Jeremiah, that Christ is greater than Moses, but he's also the greater Jeremiah. If Jeremiah is a type of Christ, then that means Christ is a greater Jeremiah. If Christ is, or Isaiah is a type of Christ, then Christ is a greater Isaiah.

So whenever we have a type, the substance is always going to be greater than the type, right? The shadow is never going to be as strong or as solidified, if you would, as the substance. So we see that Christ and all the types and the foreshadows in the Old Testament, these are all weak in the fact that they are not the complete fulfillment of it, okay? They vary. Whenever we look at the types, we can't take every single iota of everything that that type does and say, well, every bit of that is Christ, okay?

Because we also know that these men who typified Christ, let's just take David, for example. He was a type of Christ But we can't say that David and Christ are just alike because David was a sinner. He lusted after Bathsheba. He laid with Bathsheba. He killed her husband to hide his sin. A lot of things that David did that we can't say, take everything that David did and apply everything that David did since he's attached to Jesus, right? But in Jeremiah, we see that there is actually quite a lot of things that compare Jeremiah with Jesus. Of course, we talk about it here all the time about Jesus being seen in the Old Testament over and over and over again.

So I thought we might look at a few things today about Jeremiah and see how they pertain to the Lord Jesus. Number one, as we look here in Jeremiah chapter one, verse one, It says, the words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah of the priests that were in Anahoth in the land of Benjamin. So this prophet, Jeremiah was a prophet that the Lord had called and the word Jeremiah, his name, I was surprised to find this out whenever I looked at this this week, his name means whom the Lord has appointed. So Jeremiah is the one whom the Lord has appointed.

Now, we look at Jesus and we see the Lord Jesus, you shall call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins. He was appointed under that, right? And of course, we'll see, hopefully see that as we go through. But we also see the term whenever it's used with Jesus is Christ. And the word Christ means the anointed one of God. So Jesus is the anointed savior of God, the one that God has called and anointed to be the savior of his people. So we will see that there is a lot of similarities here between Jeremiah that point to our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, If you put something in Jeremiah, we're gonna keep going back to Jeremiah and everything, but we got a lot of verses that I'd like to look at this morning in comparing these and everything. And if you wanna write them down, you can write them down. If you wanna try to keep up with me, go ahead and try to keep up with me and everything, because I'd like you really to see them in the scriptures and not take my word for it and everything. But because of the amount of verses that I'd like to share with you this morning, I will be turning quite quickly and trying to find these pretty fast. But in Jeremiah, the first thing that we see, not only was the name similar as far as the fact that he was appointed of God and Jesus himself was appointed of God to be the savior of his people. But look with me at verse five.

The Bible says this about Jeremiah. It says, before I formed thee in the womb, Before I formed thee in the womb, that means before he was conceived, I knew thee. And before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, or set him apart, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. So before Jeremiah ever was conceived or brought forth, God had already not only had a intimate relationship with him he knew him but he had already as it says here ordained him sanctified him set him apart for his use and ordained him to be the prophet under the nations now some people would say well Jeremiah became the prophet because you know he was a studious man that you know studied the Torah and came up and knew God and had a deep inner relationship with God and had a lot of knowledge and wisdom and everything, so God called on him to be a prophet.

Well, no, brethren, that ain't how it is. It's like today, men don't become great gospel preachers by going to seminary and having somebody teach them something. No, they're called by God, gifted by God, they're given to preach and to give and to know and to have that knowledge. Every one of us, matter of fact, not just the preacher, but every one of us are taught of God, okay?

So Jeremiah didn't get this. We were all in the same place as Jeremiah, but let's look here. Jeremiah was, before he was formed in the belly, he was set apart. He was ordained to be a prophet to the nations. Well, turn with me, if you would, back to 1 Peter, chapter one. And if you look at verse 20, it says this about the Lord Jesus. It says, who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifested in these last times for you. So here we see that the Lord Jesus Christ was foreordained before the foundation of the world.

Just like Jeremiah, right? Revelation chapter 13. And verse eight says this. It says, and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. So we see that Jesus was foreordained before the foundation of the world and he was foreordained to the office that he was to be, that he was to hold.

He was going to be the sacrifice, the prophet, the priest, and the king for his people. So we see that there is this relation between Jeremiah and Jesus as a type and a substance here. Look with me back in Jeremiah. Jeremiah chapter one, look down at verse seven. what it says about Jeremiah here.

It says, but the Lord said unto me, say not I am a child for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Now, here we see that God has told him that he's gonna send him to his people and he's gonna speak everything that God has told him to speak. Look also if you would at Jeremiah 25, Starting in verse four, it says, and the Lord has sent unto you all his servants, the prophets, rising early and sending them, but ye have not hearkened nor inclined your ear to hear. They said, turn ye again now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your doings and dwell in the land that the Lord hath given unto you and to your fathers forever and ever." So here we see that Jeremiah was called to God and he was sent, but he was sent to a people that would be rebellious, right? Well, is that not what we also see about the Lord Jesus Christ?

Look with me in John chapter five. John chapter five, thank you. Looking at verse 36, it says, Jesus speaking here, it says, but I have a greater witness than that of John for the works which the father had given me to finish. The same works that I do bear witness of me that the Father hath sent me. So here we see that Christ was sent, just like Jeremiah. And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me.

Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. And ye would not his word abiding in you. For whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. So Jesus too. Here, Jeremiah. typifying or foreshadowing the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, who came being sent by God, being sent by God to a rebellious people.

Look with me again at John chapter 17. John chapter 17, verse three, Jesus says this in his prayer to the Father. He says, if this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus whom thou hast sent." Again in John chapter 20 and verse 21. Then said Jesus to them again, peace be unto you as my father hath sent me, even so send I you. So we see in the prophet Jeremiah, he typifies Jesus Christ in the fact that Christ was sent by the father to a wicked and rebellious people. Now, back in Jeremiah again. Turn with me, if you would, to Jeremiah chapter 11. And look at verse 21.

It says, therefore, thus saith the Lord of the men of Anahoth, that seek thy life, saying, prophesy not in the name of the Lord, that thou die not by our hand. So we see here that he was rejected by his own people. You remember there, the Anathoth people, back in the first chapter of Jeremiah, the words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. So these were the priests and the religious leaders in Anathoth that were rejecting what Jeremiah said. Matter of fact, they said that if he keeps prophesying in that, they're gonna kill him.

We also see this in Jeremiah 18, verse 18. "'Then said they, come and let us devise devices "'against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish "'from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, "'nor the word from the prophet. "'Come and let us smite him with the tongue, "'and let us not give heed to any of his words.'" Did not the Pharisees also come against Jesus? did their backdoor planning, scheming, conniving. Look at Jeremiah 20, verses one and two.

Now Pashur, the son of Emer, the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. Then Pashur smoked Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord." So brethren, Jeremiah, no wonder Jeremiah was a lamenting prophet.

I mean, he didn't, give respect, he didn't get acceptance. Nobody was wanting to listen to him. The religious leaders of the time, the national leaders of the time as well, they're trying to kill him for what he was testifying. Well, brother, that's the same as we see in the Lord Jesus Christ. Look at John chapter one. Very familiar verses to us here. John chapter one and verse 11. I'll start in verse 10.

It says, he was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not. He came unto his own and his own received him not. Jesus' own people did not receive him. This was actually foretold of that he would be this way in Isaiah 53, one of my favorite chapters in the Bible. Isaiah 53 and verse three, the Bible prophesies about Christ. He says, he is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised and we esteem him not. We see in Matthew chapter 21, In verse 42, Jesus saith unto them, did ye never read the scriptures?

The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of the corner. This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. Now there are other scriptures that speak of the head of the cornerstone being Christ, and they rejecting him or becoming a stumbling and being a stumbling stone to those men. But we see here that Jesus was the complete fulfillment of the type and foreshadow that Isaiah represented as a man who was as a prophet of God who was rejected and despised and persecuted by his own people. Look with me if you would back to Jeremiah again. Let's go to Jeremiah chapter 12. We'll see another likeness between the two. Isaiah chapter 12. Look with me if you would at verse six. Isaiah chapter 12, verse six.

For even thy brethren "'and the house of thy father, "'even they have dealt treacherously with thee. "'Yea, they have called a multitude after thee. "'Believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.'" So here we've seen that Jeremiah was not only rejected by his own people, his own government, but he was also rejected by his own brethren there. Did not the same thing happen to Jesus? In John chapter seven and verse five, scripture says, well, I'll go back. It says, now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand.

His brethren therefore said unto him, depart thence and go into Judea that thy disciples may see the works that thou doest. For there is no man that doeth anything in secret and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, show thyself to the world.

For neither did his brethren believe in him. So here we see that Jesus' own brethren didn't believe in him. We see the same thing in Mark, Mark, Mark chapter three, verse 21. And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him, for they said he is beside himself.

Now, brethren, it's one thing to be rejected of society and your government, But can you imagine the sorrow that comes whenever your own brethren reject you? And those who are closest to you, your family, your close friends, reject you. I know every one of us kind of are in that spot. All of us have loved ones, brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, moms, dads, who reject the doctrine of Christ, who reject sovereign grace. and how our hearts go out for them, but how bad it feels whenever, you know, whenever they reject the things that we try to share with them and things like that. Well, Jeremiah, he was rejected by his close friends and Jesus himself was rejected by his close friends. Judas betrayed him. Peter denied him. All the disciples dispersed and left him. at his crucifixion, except for John and the women.

So how we see the fulfillment of Jeremiah's type and foreshadow. And what's amazing, brethren, whenever I look at these things and read through these things, I know this is more informational type message today than it is anything else, but it's beautiful to see the overarching predestinative work of God, and here is a man that was a real man, and I know I've mentioned this many times, all these instances in the Old Testament that ended up being types and foreshadows, these were real people, real life instances, people just like me and you, going about their life, doing their thing.

We just think we're just putting around here, you know, I went to work this week and did this and that and this and that, had to go here, had to go there, back here and, you know, doing all the things that we're doing. Well, these people are just like that. There are people going about their business, just doing what they thought was the normal thing to do and everything.

But every bit of it, God was orchestrating by his sovereign decree in every little instance and iota so that whatever they did, whoever they were, whoever they were encountered by, he has said our habitation, Right? Who we know, who we live with, who we live by, who we're associated with. He has set our habitation. Well, he has set all those habitations and man devises his ways, but the Lord directs the steps.

And the Lord has directed the steps of a whole generation of people, a whole nation of people, an individual prophet to be who he was, just he was who he was. but yet everything in his life pointed and directed and shadowed the Lord Jesus Christ. All those types of shadows, how Israel came out of Egypt and was delivered into the promised land and how that whole entire thing was a picture of our redemption. I mean, that was just instances of life that went on.

They went into Egypt to be saved from the famine. And while there, They began to grow in number, but thankfully, Joshua, his brothers were wicked and threw him in a pit. He grew up in the courts of Pharaoh, became leader there to save those people. So whenever they went into Egypt and became so numerous, then they were delivered out of Egypt by God.

That was all symbols and signs and showing of the work of Christ in delivering us. But what was all that? It was real life. But yet, before Moses even was born, God told Abraham that your seed is going to go into Egypt for 400 years and be slaves. But they will be delivered. It was always God's plan. It was always God's purpose.

And how the everyday mundane things of life, maybe not so mundane things of life, point to cross Jesus as he has directed them. And this same thing in the life of Jeremiah, to see that everything that Jeremiah experienced was a perfect mirrored illustration of the greater fulfillment, which was Jesus Christ. I mean, even down to some minute things.

Look, if you would, with me at Jeremiah 9. See what it says about Jeremiah here, before we look at Christ. Jeremiah nine, verse one says, oh, that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slaying of the daughter of my people. Turn over to chapter 13. And look at verse 17. But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride and mine eyes shall weep sore and run down with tears because the Lord's flock is carried away captive. Then we also read of Jeremiah, if you want to turn over to Lamentations.

Lamentations is right after Jeremiah. Lamentations chapter one, verse 16. It says, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me. My children are desolate because the enemy Prevailed. Now that's Jeremiah's look, and there again is where the shadow doesn't meet up with the substance as far as perfection. Jeremiah's seen it all as, oh my, oh me, the enemy has overtaken us, the enemy has prevailed.

But yet we see in Christ Jesus the same man of sorrows. Again, in Isaiah 53, we can kind of hit that maybe. on our way to the New Testament. But in Isaiah chapter 53, we just read it on the wrong direction. The Bible says of Jesus that he was despised and rejected a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. It says over in John chapter 11 about the Lord. John chapter 11, look through it down to verse 35. Shortest verse in all the Bible.

Y'all know what it is? Y'all know what it is? There you go. Jesus wept, two words. Here we see that the Lord Jesus wept. Now, here we see that he wept over the death of Lazarus, right? Whenever he came, everyone was weeping. Everyone was sorrowful. If he would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died.

All of this stuff, when in actuality, Jesus intentionally let Lazarus die. Jesus intentionally let Lazarus sit in that tomb for How many days was it, four days? And intentionally waited until that exact time to come to raise Lazarus from the dead. We know that to be true because the Bible says because it was for the glory of God that all that had taken place. But here we've seen that even though in all that, even though that was God's plan, God's purpose, Jesus specifically waited to go specifically allowed for Lazarus to die, came and knew the hearts of all men because he's God.

The Bible here says that he wept. Now brethren, I'll just be honest with you. This passage right here and the passage of Jesus in Gethsemane where he's weeping and where he is sorrowful and verse that we're fixing to look at here in a minute, These passages are ones that I'm just bewildered by, confused by somewhat. I don't have all the full answers of these things, but the only thing that I can say is whenever we see in scripture where Jesus wept, where Jesus was sorrowful, where Jesus felt like in the garden, He felt all the agony that was about to come and the weight that he was about to bear with the sins of all his people.

And he said, you know, if there be any way, let this cup pass from me. Well, we knew Jesus knew all things for him to say, if there be any other way. for him to sit and to condemn those religious leaders and then to say, you know, oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how I oft would have covered you like a hen does with her wings. Those things bewilder me, brethren, because I see that Jesus is fully God, knows all things, has determined all things.

He, as God, is the one who had made everything. And by him is nothing made that was made. And that in making everything, he made that by himself, for himself, and has decreed all things that will be, the end from the beginning, all things not yet done. He is the one that has done that. Therefore, he knows the purpose for which he is there. Therefore, he knows the end outcome of everything that will transpire. He is not waiting for somebody to accept him. He is not hoping that somebody will become a Christian. He is not offering salvation to anybody.

So whenever he's weeping here over these people, whenever he's whenever he's saying, oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how I would have done this. He's not saying that something has happened that it would have happened this way if you would have done this. I know those things, but yet I know Jesus did them. Jesus did this.

The Bible says that he was a man of sorrow. And the only reconciliation that I can make in all of that, so that it's consistent with the rest of scripture, is that the Bible says that Jesus came and was made like unto his brethren, except for sin. So in every way, he was made like unto us, except for sin. He had no sin nature, He never sinned, he never did anything out of a sinful directive. But yet the Bible says he was made like unto his brethren.

He took on that nature that was just like us and he felt all the infirmities just like we do. He hungered, he thirst, he got sleepy, he got tired. He was sad, he was sorrowful. He felt all the expressions that we feel. He felt all the things that we go through. And the Bible says that he does that because he is our great high priest who can, what does the Bible say? So that he can know how we have been tempted, how he knows what we go through so that he can be our sympathizing high priest. And so we see that Christ, in his humanity, in his flesh, took on everything that we take on. So yes, he became sad. He became sorrowful. He became mournful.

Listen, remember, a lot of these people, not only did he create these people, not only, and here's the big thing, a lot of people don't even think about this at all. Remember, Christ Jesus has been with these people clear back from Abraham. Well, even before Abraham, because he was with Job, he was with Adam. But we look all through the Old Testament that Jesus Christ was always with his people.

The children of Israel and all of his appearances with the children of Israel, whenever they were being brought out from Egypt, He was with them in the cloud. He was with them in the pillar of fire. He was with them as the angel of the Lord. He was with them in all their battles. He was with them in all their triumphs. I mean, this is a people that Christ has been intimately with all throughout the Old Testament. And coming into this time period, into his redemptive time, is manifesting himself as the Messiah. Here he is, this people that he has been their God all this time and had this relationship with them, even in its veiled form.

This man now, fills the weight of what is about to happen. Here we see he fills the weight and the sadness of his friend who has died and their relatives who were sad that he has died. He also feels the sadness and the sorrow over the fact that they, even though they know who Jesus is, don't know he is the resurrection and the life. They've seen him heal people. They've seen him raise people from the dead. They've seen him do all these things, but yet they did not believe.

So Jesus in his manhood experienced this grief, this sorrow because of the circumstances. Whenever he was in the garden and he felt all that in the garden, he felt that as a man who was about to take on all the sins of his people. He was about to feel the full wrath of God upon him in that body. And just like us, he experienced all the feelings and the emotions that we go through. Now never once did Jesus, I know for a fact that Jesus never doubted what he was about to do. He never had any inclination of turning around and going back.

The Bible says that he had set his face like a flint And he was headed to that cross. He was headed to that redemptive work. And the Bible says that he did it for the joy that was in him. The Bible says that he is not going to turn away, that he was there for a reason, and he was going to accomplish the reason for why he was there. So I know that what Christ prayed in there is not being contradictory to what the Bible also says that he is experiencing in his Messiahship. He's there for his purpose. But the man feels the weight of what is about to happen. Number one, God was manifested in the flesh and God who is the infinite God who knows all things had yet to experience what it was like being in the body of a man.

That's why we see the scriptures say that Jesus learned these things by obedience, right? Well, if God is omniscient, how did Jesus learn anything? Well, there's another way that that word learn is used. That word learn is to understand. He began to understand these things through the things that he suffered. He began to understand that. Not that he doesn't know all things, but that he has never yet experienced these things to understand how that feels as a man. And brethren, he was made like unto his brethren, therefore he felt all the weight like we would feel, as if we would feel it. He felt that weight upon his shoulders. And then whenever he came to those religious leaders, matter of fact, is it in, now we'll get to it eventually. Let's go to Matthew 21, is that it? Matthew 21 and 42. Thank you. No, I'm sorry, it's Hebrews chapter five that I wanna go to. Hebrews chapter five. Look at verse seven.

This is speaking of Jesus, who is the priest forever after the order of Melchizedek, who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications, and listen, man, this breaks my heart right here. when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death and was heard and that he feared." Not that he was fearful, brethren. He wasn't fearful, okay? He had reverence for who God was. The word feared as it pertains to us, to Christians, is a reverential fear. But notice what he said there.

He said, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death. The Bible said that whenever Jesus prayed that night before his crucifixion, the Bible said that as he prayed that he sweat great drops of blood. Just the grief and the sorrow and the intensity of what he was experiencing was so great that he began to sweat drops of blood. There's probably some medical terminology for all that. I don't know what it is, but the fact remains is our Jesus is sympathetic to our needs. He experienced these things so that he might be our great high priest who can sympathize with us in our times of need and hurt and trial.

A lot of times I know it's easy, and I say that because I know how I preach a lot of times. I preach a lot of doctrinal things, cut and dry things, black and white things. I know that I preach a lot of to what some may look at would be cold doctrine. You know, cold, hard doctrine. Just the facts, man. Give me just the facts.

And we don't deal a lot of times with emotional things. And sometimes we probably, a lot of us preachers do that because we know that there's this far extreme that people can go where all they do is manipulate people with emotional things. And God forbid that I would ever try to manipulate anybody using emotional things because you can't manipulate anybody into heaven. We know that. But a lot of times, sovereign grace preachers, a lot of times we can forget that there is a true emotional side to this thing that our Lord sympathizes with us.

He felt what we felt. He experienced what we experienced. And he knows your hurts. He knows your temptations. He knows your trials. Not just because he's decreed them for you, but he's went through them in your place. And he knows how you feel. I mean, just like in the first few things, and we're probably not going to get through with all of them today that I wanted to get to. But just in the few that we've looked at today, I mean, look how he's gone through. He's experienced rejection. He's experienced persecution. He's experienced strong persecution and the fact of physical hurt. He's experienced his own brethren not believing him, rejecting him, conspiring against him. And in all of that, brethren, for those that are his, he loved them to the very end, the Bible says. He loved them to the end.

Jeremiah was about ready to give up on all of them. Wasn't it Jeremiah that sat there and said, Lord, I'm the only one that's here, nobody else here. I'm the only one left. You've abandoned me, you left me. Is that Jeremiah that did that? Elijah, okay, I'm sorry, that's Elijah.

But God has felt what we have felt. He is the man of sorrows. And he's not just the man of sorrows out there somewhere that says he's the man of sorrows, who is, you know, removed from our feelings, removed from our experiences. He is the man of sorrows who walked in our place.

Jeremiah was a picture of that. The Lord sent Jeremiah into this habitation, give him the ordination of this prophet office so that Jeremiah would experience all the things that Jeremiah would experience. And he experienced a lot of things, brethren. He's seen a lot of things happen. He's seen God do a lot of things. And he saw his people do a lot of things that affected Jeremiah.

But brethren, we see that God did all those to give a perfect, beautiful type of our Lord Jesus Christ and what he would come and do for us. If you would back to Jeremiah chapter one, we'll look at a few more of these things. Maybe we'll pick up this again next time. Jeremiah chapter one, again, look at verse nine.

Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. See, I have this day sent thee over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out and to pull down and to destroy and to throw down and to build and to plant.

Now, brother, I don't even think I need to go into a lot of verses and read, but I can see Christ in that. Who is the word of the Lord? Jesus Christ. If there is anything said by God, it is Christ who does the saying of it. Thy words are the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said, behold, I put my words in thy mouth. The words of God have been put in the mouth of Jesus Christ. He says, I have set this day, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdom. It is not Christ the king over all things. He has been given power over all principalities and powers.

But as it were in his office as Christ, as Messiah, in his time to come, during his redemptive period, what was he sent to do? He was sent to root out. Who was he rooting out? Well, for one, he was rooting out those religious leaders. And the mess that they had created, the mess that they were passing to generation after generation, he was rooting that out. this arrogance, this pride, this self-righteousness. He was rooting all that out. And he was there to pull down all that religious order. He was there to destroy the Old Covenant, to bring it to its end, to bring judgment upon the people. and he was there to build and to plant his kingdom. Let's look at a few things in the New Testament. John chapter 12. John chapter 12. And look, if you would, verse 49 and 50.

It says, for I have not spoken of myself, But the father which sent me, he gave me a command what I should say. What did it say back in Jeremiah? It says, behold, I put my words in thy mouth. He has gave me a command what I should say and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. Whatsoever I speak, therefore, even as the father said unto me, so I speak." So he speaks the words of the father.

There's a lot to be said about that, but let's go on to John chapter eight, verse 28. "'Then said Jesus unto them, "'When ye have lifted up the Son of Man, "'then shall ye know that I am he, "'and that I do nothing of myself, "'but as my Father hath taught me, "'I speak these things, "'and he that sent me is with me. "'The Father hath not left me alone, "'for I do always those things that please him.'" So we see here that Jesus, the greater fulfillment of Jeremiah was one who the Lord had put the words into his mouth and sent him out to root out, to pull down, to destroy, to throw down, to build, and to plant.

Look if you would in Jeremiah 38. I'm gonna skip a few of these things that I wrote down here because some of them are a little redundant. But I want us to look at Jeremiah 38. You know, I see there's some verses that I saw here where Jeremiah was actually persecuted physically, how the rulers were trying to kill him. I had some verses for that, but we've already kind of touched that with some of the other verses.

But in Jeremiah chapter 38, look with me at verse six. Then took they Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah, the son of that was in the court of the prison. And they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon, there was no water but mire." So Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

Now, if you'll look at Psalms 69, you'll see that there is a prophecy, a Messianic Psalm, written about Jesus Christ that speaks of this very thing. Jeremiah being let down into the mire. Psalms 69, look with me at the first couple of verses there. David here is writing this psalm, and as I said, this psalm is a messianic, prophetic psalm about the Lord. He says, save me, O God, for the waters are come into my soul. I sink in deep mire where there is no standing. I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me. I am weary of my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs in my head. They that would destroy me being mine enemies wrongfully or mighty, then I restored that which I took not away. O God, thou knowest my foolishness, and my sins are not hid from me. Let not then that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake. Let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel, because for thy sake I have borne reproach, Shame hath covered my face.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother's children. For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me. When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. I made sackcloth Also my garment, and I became a proverb to them. They that sit in the gates speak against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.

But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord. In the acceptable time, O God, in the multitude of thy mercy, hear me in the truth of thy salvation. Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink. Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. Let not the water flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. Hear me, O Lord, for thy lovingkindness is good. Turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, and hide not thy face from my servant, for I am in trouble. Hear me speedily. Draw nigh unto my soul and redeem it. Deliver me because of mine enemies. Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before thee. Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none."

I'll just stop right there. Here we see exactly probably what Christ was praying in the garden. Now, brethren, let me just say in passing, though, When we look at these Psalms that David is writing from his own heart about his own experience, again, like I said, the types and the foreshadows, you can't take every detail and make it fit the substance. The shadow and the substance ain't gonna be exactly the same in every detail.

However, we see here, whenever he's crying out about his sinfulness, about his reproach, about his shame, Remember, the Lord Jesus Christ took that on himself, but it was ours. So whenever he speaks of his sinfulness, shame, his badness, he speaks of that which he has taken on for his people, because Jesus himself didn't ever do anything wrong. But here's how he felt during that experience of taking on his people's sins. In Matthew 27. Verse 27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall and gathered unto them the whole band of soldiers.

And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. I don't think that ever really hits people whenever they put on him the scarlet robe. There's a couple of things. First of all, the mockery, OK? They threw on him a scarlet robe and handed him a um a staff or a reed they threw on him a crown of thorns shoved the crown of thorns on his head and brethren i think all girls probably heard this before we're not talking about the little thorns that we experience in our rose bushes the thorns that we're talking about there were about that long and they wove those into a crown and shoved it down on his head the mockery that was there is they were making him to be portrayed as a king, and they were falsely, mockingly worshiping him as the king. Not for who he really was as the king, but as what they thought was a fake, false king. So the mockery was bad enough, but think about the physicalness of this when they threw that robe on him.

They had already beat him half to death. The Bible says that he was marred beyond recognition. He was beat so bad that they couldn't tell who he was. If one of his disciples would have came up and seen him, they wouldn't have known that it was him because he was beat so bad. The Bible says that his visage was marred so bad that they couldn't tell.

They ripped out his beard with their hands. They beat him with their fists. They whipped him with a cat of nine tails, which exposed all of his flesh, ripped his flesh off of him. So we had all that, and then they threw that scarlet robe right over all that. Can you imagine having that thrown over you when all of the meat in your back and your guts inside is exposed, and then to leave that there and it's soaked in and then to rip it off? I mean, we really don't realize the depth of what Christ went through for us.

Look at Jeremiah 20, verse nine, we'll end with this. We may look at some more of these next week, Lord willing. Jeremiah 20, verse nine. Jeremiah here, it says, then I said, I will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in my heart, as a burning fire, shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay." Despite all the opposition that Jeremiah experienced, all the persecution, all the torture, everything that Jeremiah went through, he could not keep from declaring the word of the Lord. He says here, it was like a fire, shut up in my bones, We see the same thing about our Lord John chapter 4 Verse 34 Jesus said unto him my meat This is whenever the disciples were trying to get him to eat something Jesus said, you know, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work. That's why I know that when Jesus prayed in the garden, he wasn't about to back out or thinking about backing out.

Because he said, my meat, my sustenance, what I feed on is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish the work that he sent me to do. Philippians chapter two and verse eight. I alluded to this verse earlier. Philippians 2.8. Starting verse six says, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. So despite all the opposition, Despite all the rejection, despite all of what he was about to go through in that crucifixion, Christ Jesus continued to be faithful, clear until death. All right, we'll stop right there, brethren. There's a lot more that Jeremiah shadows our Lord and Savior.

If the Lord gives me to do it some more next week, we might do it some more. Anybody got any questions or comments? Anybody got anything you'd like to share? All right, great. Lord, thank you for the day, and we thank you for your grace that you've given us in Christ.

Thank you for these beautiful pictures that we see throughout the Old Testament of Christ and his salvation. Father, we thank you also for the fulfillment of all these things in Christ. Thank you, Father, that he is the perfect prophet, the perfect, perfect priest, the perfect king. Father, we just pray that as we study the scriptures, as we go through these things, that we might always be given to have an eye for Christ.

Lord, that you might bless our heart through the work and the ministry that you have done among your people as our mediator. Lord, I just am grateful today to be able to stand and proclaim these great truths if they be true. Father, and I pray that you might bless and minister to the hearts of your people. Lord, that you might teach us, that you might grow us in the grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Father, that you might help us to see that all things are by him and for him and to him, and that everything that is made has been made and is following your perfect will, your perfect decree. This world is not in chaos, that this world is not going out of order, but everything is precisely directed coming to its ends for which you have purposed it. And so Father, Lord, may you comfort our hearts and our minds because we see much chaos in this world today. We see much disturbance and discouragement within our country, within our government, within the world. Lord, many times we look at those things and we lose sight of the fact that you are sovereign and that you have predestined all things that are to be, and that by your hand, all things are coming to pass that you have willed to be, and it is all for your glory, and it is for our good.

And Lord, we just thank you for that. May you help us in the times of unbelief, in the times of doubt, Lord, to see you in those things. And Lord, thank you again for this time together. Thank you for these brethren. Thank you for keeping us safe in the storms last night. May you be with all those who are without power and that are in need this morning. Through it, Lord, we don't know the reasons why you send these things completely, but Lord, we know that you do have a purpose in them. And so we pray, Lord, that you glorify yourself through it all. For it's in Christ's name that we pray, amen.

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